Warburton’s Glasgow Rangers side have endured a tough start to life in the Scottish Premiership.
Rangers manager Mark Warburton
Aberdeen defender Shay Logan has suggested that Rangers boss Mark Warburton does not deserve to be under the kind of pressure that appears to have been growing on him in recent weeks, the Daily Record reports.
Despite leading the Light Blues to the Scottish Championship title and an Old Firm victory last season, the club’s mixed start to the new campaign, as well as the handling of the situation surrounding Joey Barton has seen Warburton come in for intense criticism (via Daily Record).
Joey Barton
But Logan – who played under Warburton while the pair were at Brentford – has suggested that his achievements since moving to Ibrox have been forgotten too quickly by some.
He told the Daily Record: “How many games did Rangers go last season unbeaten? They scored how many?
“They came up and Mark had a bad outing against Celtic who are playing really well.
“That’s what managers get. If the team isn’t performing in one or two games it falls back on the manager.”
“Up in Scotland Rangers are a very big club. If they’re not getting the results then it’s maybe seen as the end of the world. Maybe he wouldn’t be getting this pressure down south. We’re only six games in,” he would later add.
Though the Dons defender has leapt to his old manager’s defence, it is fair to say that the Gers will need to turn things around quickly if they do not want the pressure on Warburton to develop further.
The side have not won any of their last three games – which, of course, included the 5-1 defeat to Celtic – and it is unlikely that supporters would have been particularly pleased when they heard Warburton describe their goalless draw with Ross County as their best performance of the season (via Daily Record), no matter how well the side played.
But if the team are able to put a difficult few weeks behind them and rediscover the form that made them so ruthless in the second tier, then it may not be too long before the positivity begins to return and Warburton begins to look like a man who can take the club back towards the summit of the domestic game.
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