McInnes: Slams Pedro Caixinha 'Your job is to finish above Celtic'

[lenny3k 500]

The Hibees boss said: “He shouldn’t talk about players who are still at a club.“A lot of clubs like ourselves would be interested in Ryan Jack but you don’t talk about it publicly ”

 

 

Anybody else see the irony in this comment.....

Edited May 17, 2017 by lenny3k

[Uilleam 5,409]

He is foreign - he doesn't understand Scottish fitba'.

He is an intellectual - he doesn't understand Scottish fitba'.

 

He is inclined to state his views candidly, and to explain his reasoning - he (certainly) doesn't understand Scottish fitba'.

 

I am disinclined to rush to judgement on Caixinha, whose greatest transgression (oxymoron alert!) in the minds of the Scottish fitba' intelligentsia, is that he is Manager/Head Coach of Rangers.

The time to form an opinion will be up to a year hence: only then, ie this time next year, and barring disaster, will we be able to take a measured view on his recruitment, training, coaching, discipline, and all the associated and ancillary stuff that go to make up a modern management regime, at a modern football club.

[JFK-1 1,666]

McInnes and Lennon too may as well complain about the media speculating on players perhaps moving to other clubs. Pedro is asked about Ryan Jack and gives a reply. Lennon is asked about Pedro speaking of Ryan Jack and gives almost the same reply Pedro did while claiming it shouldn't be talked about by Pedro.

[ian1964 10,409]

The Scottish gutter press are simply an utter embarrassment with an agenda.

[scotjo 19]

Derek McInnes slams Rangers boss Pedro Caixinha over Aberdeen jibes and says: 'Your job is to finish above Celtic'

 

McInnes hit back angrily after Caixinha claimed Aberdeen's period of being second best was coming to an end.

 

Aberdeen manager Derek McInnes has hit back at Pedro Caixinha after the Rangers gaffer cranked up the mind games ahead of tomorrow's meeting at Ibrox.

 

Caixinha struck out with a series of jibes against the Dons last night - claiming their position as second best in the country was coming to an end and insisting McInnes was facing a major summer rebuild.

 

The Portuguese coach then stuck the knife in when he admitted he fancies pinching Dons skipper Ryan Jack in the summer with the 25-year-old set to leave Pittodrie.

 

Jack is out injured for tomorrow's meeting and faces a race against time to be fit for the Scottish Cup Final against Celtic a week on Saturday.

 

But his manager was in no mood for mind games when he spoke to the media this afternoon.

 

McInnes said: "I find it strange that the Rangers manager feels the need to talk about other clubs so much."If he thinks that doing brilliant at Rangers is by finishing ahead of Aberdeen then he is clearly mistaken.

 

"His job as Rangers manager is to finish above Celtic and he should be more concerned by that challenge. He shouldn't be talking about our players but each to their own."Any team that finishes above Rangers in the league, with the budget they have, is doing their work well.

 

"They should probably be embarrassed that they've not finished second. "I think any Premiership manager, with the budget Rangers have, would finish second in the league.

 

"I think he likes to do a lot of talking. I think the Rangers fans over the last few years have been used to owners, managers, players saying what they want to hear."But the reality is his job as Rangers manager is to finish above Celtic and if he thinks he is doing well by finishing above Aberdeen and the rest then he'll soon find out that's not enough."

 

Caixinha claimed Aberdeen are coming to the end of their cycle when he spoke to the media yesterday.

 

The war of words is sure to add to the already intense atmosphere between Rangers and Aberdeen ahead of tomorrow's meeting in Govan.

 

The Dons are six points clear of Rangers in second with two games left but with a vastly inferior goal difference won't be caught.

 

Caixinha already has one over McInnes though as Gers ran out 3-0 winners in the sides' last meeting at Pittodrie just over a month ago.

 

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/derek-mcinnes-slams-rangers-boss-10433252

Kinda difficult when you consider Celtic were 40 pts ahead when he arrived. Maybe Del is admitting his team ain't serious challengers for the title.

[scotjo 19]

 

Right enough Derek it is pretty embarrassing to finish behind you're lot.

[JFK-1 1,666]

Kinda difficult when you consider Celtic were 40 pts ahead when he arrived. Maybe Del is admitting his team ain't serious challengers for the title.

 

Pedro has collected more points over his 8 league games in charge than McInnes has during the same 8 game period and that with a misfiring team he inherited and is set to overhaul. I suspect McInnes knows their days of running second which in reality was always pretty hollow while we weren't there are over. But he has to deal with an empty headed support who apparently don't grasp that there is no way they are ever going to be a real long term second force as long as we're in it.

 

Rangers average attendance: 48,981

Sheep average: 12,806

 

Both of the Edinburgh teams have a comfortably higher average than they do.

 

Heart of Midlothian FC: 16,419

Hibernian FC: 15,394

 

They're going to be struggling to be top 4 far less top 2.

[JohnMc 2,463]

Just me that thinks McInnes was correct then? McInnes understands what managing Rangers really means, I'm not sure Caixinha does yet. Finishing second will eventually get you the sack at Rangers, McInnes knows this because he's an ex-player and a fan.

 

I personally think Caixinha talks too much and would be better advised to keep his counsel more. He should have avoided speaking about the Aberdeen captain, he should have seen that fishing attempt a mile off and batted it away. Instead he riles up the Aberdeen manager and quite possibly the Aberdeen side before we play them. This follows him naming his team early before Kilmarnock and his tactical masterclass against Celtic at Ibrox.

 

I know as Rangers fans it's in our DNA to stick up for our own, particularly if the criticism is coming from the Aberdeen manager, but I couldn't even find fault in what Lennon said on this occasion. What people see in Caixinha is baffling me. Sure he speaks well, but you know what so do I, really I do, but you wouldn't want me managing Rangers.

 

The only positive I can take is we've managed to win games we really shouldn't have. Thistle outplayed us for 80 minutes and even a dire 10 man Hearts deserved more than they got. But we took full points despite watching us being painful at times.

 

I think McInnes was an under-rated player who never let us down and has done a pretty decent job at Aberdeen. He's built a team made up of home grown players, loan signings, players picked up from the depths of the English leagues and frees from Inverness and St Mirren.

 

Anyway, all that being said I hope Caixinha makes me eat my words and we thrash Aberdeen tonight.

[ian1964 10,409]

Brend's backing Celtic boss Brendan Rodgers insists Derek McInnes would be a brilliant appointment for Sunderland

 

The Aberdeen boss is one of the leading fancies to take over from David Moyes at the Stadium of Light

 

BRENDAN RODGERS reckons Aberdeen boss Derek McInnes is PERFECT for the Sunderland job.

 

McInnes is one of the leading fancies to take over from David Moyes at the Stadium of Light.

 

Rodgers insists it would be a brilliant appointment for the Black Cats if they were able to lure McInnes from Pittodrie.

 

He said: “Derek would be a really, really good fit.“It’s a big club that has had a change and now needs someone to go in there and organise them, someone who has been at a big club — and Derek has been at big clubs.“He played at Rangers, he’s been down in England and he understands it.

 

“He has done a great job with Aberdeen, which is a big job, and, when I saw his name this week, I really thought that he would be perfect for it.“He knows the game, he can engage with players, he can motivate players and the Championship is a tough league.“I got promoted there with Swansea and it is 46 games of graft and work.

“But I think it would be brilliant for him.

 

“Sunderland’s a big club, with 50,000 supporters and a great stadium.“So he may look at it as a possibility to get to the Premier League.”

 

https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/sport/football/1065678/celtic-boss-brendan-rodgers-insists-derek-mcinnes-would-be-a-brilliant-appointment-for-sunderland/

 

 

Now then Del, all this about you and your club just before the cup final, will you be slamming Brenda?.........................