{"id":841787,"date":"2025-04-18T13:11:45","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T18:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/18\/ferguson-wants-rangers-clarity-after-europa-league-exit\/"},"modified":"2025-04-18T13:11:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T18:11:45","slug":"ferguson-wants-rangers-clarity-after-europa-league-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/18\/ferguson-wants-rangers-clarity-after-europa-league-exit\/","title":{"rendered":"Ferguson wants Rangers clarity after Europa League exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer <\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mmwebhandler.aff-online.com\/C\/35442?sr=155474&#038;anid=\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.soccernews.com\/wp-content\/themes\/SN\/images\/300x250_HR.gif\"><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Barry Ferguson wants clarity on the managerial situation at Rangers as soon as possible after they were knocked out of the Europa League quarter-finals by Athletic Bilbao.<\/p>\n<p>Having secured a goalless draw in the first leg, the Gers were undone by Oihan Sancet\u2019s penalty and Nico Williams\u2019 thumping header in a 2-0 defeat at San Mames.<\/p>\n<p>Gers legend Ferguson has been in interim charge since Philippe Clement was sacked at the start of March.<\/p>\n<p>With their season essentially done, Ferguson wants to try and restore some pride and to see the Ibrox outfit competing once again after a dismal Scottish Premiership campaign.<\/p>\n<p>In quotes reported by BBC Sport, Ferguson said: \u201cWhere this leaves me now is that I\u2019m going to finish the season as strongly as possible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve not sat down and talked about [my future] \u2013 but it needs to get sorted soon because, as a club, we need to do a lot of work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe club needs to get back challenging. I just want my club to get back to where it should be, whether it\u2019s me or someone else.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was enjoying myself, but I got an opportunity not many people get. I would have been crazy to knock it back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll I was focused on was making sure the three months were as enjoyable as possible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy main objective is to make sure we get the club back to a strong position because this season has been way off what is required.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Barry Ferguson spoke to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RangersTV?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\"> @RangersTV <\/a> after tonight\u2019s match against Athletic Club. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5muiXBc6rT\"> pic.twitter.com\/5muiXBc6rT <\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rangers Football Club (@RangersFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RangersFC\/status\/1912985984339259631?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\"> April 17, 2025 <\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Rangers are 15 points adrift of Celtic with only five games left to play in the league, having also lost the Scottish League Cup final to their rivals.<\/p>\n<p>A dismal defeat to Queen\u2019s Park in the Scottish Cup was one of the final nails in Clement\u2019s coffin and the loss to Athletic means their season is ending with a whimper.<\/p>\n<p>Ferguson added: \u201c(I\u2019m) obviously disappointed. The work rate was there but the quality wasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s going to hurt. We need to go away and reflect a bit before finishing the season as strongly as possible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe players are disappointed because they know the qualities we\u2019ve got. It\u2019s the quality in the middle third and final third we didn\u2019t quite get right.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want them to hurt because I\u2019m hurting. The main thing for me is they need to come in on Monday and finish the season as strongly as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.soccernews.com\/ferguson-wants-rangers-clarity-after-europa-league-exit\/384375\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>SoccerNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer Barry Ferguson wants clarity on the managerial situation at Rangers as soon as possible after they were knocked out of the Europa League quarter-finals by Athletic Bilbao. Having secured a goalless draw in the first leg, the Gers were undone by Oihan Sancet\u2019s penalty and Nico Williams\u2019 thumping header in a 2-0 defeat at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":841788,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24199,2005,91],"tags":[46599,5583],"class_list":{"0":"post-841787","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ferguson","8":"category-soccer","9":"category-wants","10":"tag-ferguson","11":"tag-wants"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=841787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/841788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}