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‘Rohl jumps from Wednesday frying pan into Rangers furnace’Image source,Getty ImagesImage caption,Danny Rohl has signed a two-and-a-half-year contract at IbroxByTom EnglishBBC Scotland’s chief sports writerPublished20 October 2025In the business of crisis management Danny Rohl served his apprenticeship at Sheffield Wednesday.As wacky a place as Wednesday was – and is – under the ownership of Thai tuna tycoon Dejphon Chansiri, the German’s time there can be seen as an 89-game warm-up routine.From frying pan to furnace, Rohl is the new Rangers head coach.He becomes the eighth permanent manager/head coach of the Ibrox club in little over a decade and the 16th when you factor in all those interim guys who have drifted across their landscape.Only one of the previous seven Rangers managers has lasted 100 games – Steven Gerrard – with plenty of them considerably fewer than that.Russell Martin lasted 17, Pedro Caixinha was around for 26, Michael Beale survived for 43, Giovanni van Bronckhorst didn’t get beyond 70 and Philippe Clement fell short of 90.Having withdrawn his interest in the job only last week- we wait to hear his explanation of what changed in the meantime – Rohl has now decided to join a club with rancour and uncertainty at every level, a third-choice candidate (that we know of) in a place that is under siege from angry fans.Rangers end head coach search by appointing RohlPublished20 OctoberIs Rohl answer for Rangers? Or ‘rinse and repeat’?Published20 OctoberWhat awaits new Rangers manager Rohl?Published20 October’Rangers board about as popular at Ibrox as a late Celtic winner’For the longest time, boardroom chaos was as much a part of Rangers as mascot Broxi Bear – a revolving door of owners, chairmen, chief executives, sporting directors and recruitment specialists.And, of course failed players, financial waste and precious few trophies.The new ownership was supposed to bring an end to the pandemonium, but it hasn’t. There was supposed to be stability but instead there’s wholesale unrest. And almost unprecedented amounts of fury.Chairman Andrew Cavenagh, vice-chairman Paraag Marathe, chief executive Patrick Stewart and sporting director Kevin Thelwell have pulled off the most extraordinary feat of taking a really poor team, investing £30m-£40m in it and making it worse.With their appointment of Martin, their failed pursuit of Gerrard and their slapstick move for Kevin Muscat, Stewart and Thelwell have been portrayed, on social media and elsewhere, as Laurel and Hardy, Dumb and Dumber and two ends of a pantomime horse.They are about as popular at Ibrox as a late Celtic winner.’Rohl has accepted one of toughest gigs in world football’So, welcome to Glasgow, Danny. Hopefully you are arriving with your eyes wide open.You are now in charge of a team that many Rangers fans are saying is the worst in their lifetime and you have people at the top of the club – Stewart, Thelwell and Thelwell’s son, Robbie – who the fans desperately want rid of. It…
Published: 2025-10-20T19:19:31
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