Rangers midfielder Dujon Sterling is seething at Philippe Clement | OneFootball

Of all Rangers players right now, midfielder/defender/utility man Dujon Sterling must be the angriest, after signing a shiny new deal and being told the club was going to be built around him, he hasn’t started a single match and has only been used as a sub.

After the much-heralded news of his (admittedly slightly unnecessary) new contract, the much-admired ex-Chelsea man has found himself completely on the outside looking in as his hapless team mates struggled all over the place.

Sterling is a big boy, he is strong, and while he clearly needs a leader or two in midfield around him, he still does a ‘sterling’ job when he plays.

And yet since getting the new deal, after being praised to the rafters for his contribution by a manager ‘who couldn’t understand why I wasn’t playing’, Sterling then gets axed in what continues to be the most incompetent and farcical management by Philippe Clement.

Signing a new deal then being dumped to the bench?

It’s a clear sign that Clement both doesn’t know what he is doing, and is doing everything he can to undermine the board where he can, by dropping the player they just extended.

His own extension was a really bad call, unfortunately, and has trapped Rangers into a £6M prison with the Belgian, and Sterling’s extension wasn’t much more necessary.

And now Sterling sits idly by as Mohamed Diomande takes his place, in what is turning out yet another bad Clement and club decision as the Ivorian continues to have no impact on this team.

Sterling has only ever done right by Rangers, but is being treated like Lee Wallace.

It feels like the more you give, the better you are, the more you conduct yourself well, the more this version of Rangers punish you for it and hang you out to try.

Under Philippe Clement, we doubt we’ll see much of Dujon Sterling again.