Russell Martin: Rangers appointed the former Southampton, Swansea & MK Dons, a new head coach in a three -year deal | Football news

Rangers, Russell Martin, appointed as a new coach of the club.

The 39 -year -old saw a competition such as former IBROX coach Stephen Gerrard, Ibn David Carlo Ancelotti, who was an assistant in Bayern Munich, Naples, Everton and Real Madrid.

Martin is the permanent successor to Philip Clement, Which was sacked in FebruaryWith a former captain Barry Ferguson takes the team for the last months of last season.

A three -year deal signed Rangers, who are subject to a new property after the United States was acquired by Andrew Cavinag and 49ers Enterprises.

Martin returns to the club where he spent five months on loan as a player in 2018. He was previously head of MK Dons and Swansea and recently Southtpton, Where he was dismissed last December.

The former Scotland International team in Ejerus will be Matt Jill, who worked during the Martin era in Swansea and Southampton.

The 44 -year -old has a 17 -year -old playing profession that extends more than 500 clubs for clubs, including Peterpuro, Exeter and Bristol Rovers, as well as Norwich, as he and Martin were his teammates between 2009 and 2011.

RYS Owen also joined Rangers as part of the Martin Backroom team, where he took the role of the performance coach, as the couple worked together in Southampton.

Martin: I know what this club requires

Speaking after his appointment, Martin said: “It is an honor for me to be appointed as a coach at the Rangers Football Club at the beginning of this exciting new chapter.

“I know what this club requires. Since my time here, I have been tasting how privacy of this club, expectations, passion and history. Now, when I return, I am determined to re -succeed, for supporters, players and everyone within this club.

“I am here to set standards and work hard and do my best to gain the respect of Rangers fans.

“There is a lot to do, but the goal is clear: winning matches, winning prizes, giving Rangers fans a team that they can be proud of. We want to play courageously, take the ball, be aggressive, and stand in big moments.

“Pre -season preparations are taking place. I look forward to meeting players and build a team that our fans can believe in.”

“Martin was the prominent candidate”

Martin was “the prominent candidate” and that “this date is about building a winning team and a strong culture.”

Meanwhile, Thieluel said: “Russell comes to the experienced Rangers who have gained hard -people. His time in the Premier League is tactically and personally.

“The dominant football team plays, controls the ball, tires the rhythm and imposes themselves physically. They press strongly and work unabated on the ball. These are all characteristics that we believe are required to be successful at home, and outside.”

Andrew Cavinagh, Newman Rangers’ Board of Directors, added that it is a “comprehensive and strict operation” and embodies the appointment of Martin, “the club’s goal of attracting the best talents, empowering them and supporting them.

What can Rangers fans expect from Martin?

Removing toilets before school, turns the night in a supermarket, becomes a student in Buddhism and that being a vegetarian are not things that you expect to write about a “ordinary” football principal. However, to understand Russell Martin, the coach who needs to know Russell Martin.

He did not hide a complicated relationship with his Scottish father. He said that there was “a lot of violence” from his father towards his mother Kerry and I said The Times In 2023, “the whole world is around it proven that it was a mistake and made it proud.”

Buddhist practice helped him throughout his career “in terms of perception, appearances and targets” while he was “strict vegetarian for five or six years” to help fight ulcerative colitis, although he now goes inside and outside.

It was clear that Martin had a teenage training aspiration, because he struggled to make him a professional player.

And he told Sky Sports Earlier this year.

“I didn’t think I was going to face a profession. I did not sign a professional club, and I was playing a non -league role and playing with my college, and I was walking in a scholarship for America to study.

“I still dream of becoming a professional, but I liked to watch football and transform it, and I had a real idea of ​​what I wanted to do with a team. So I thought this would be my way, then fortunately I got a break in Wycombe.”

While Martin admits to take something from all the managers who played below, he wanted to be his “person” as “to persuade someone to do something, you have to really believe in him.”

“Most of my career that I spent writing things in notebooks, and I do my groans on the bus, and the boys are riding when I take out the laptop. I tried to take as much as possible from each one.”

What came from that was a very possessing playing style, while refusing to change his beliefs.

“We were sometimes criticized to play from behind (in MK Dons), but I had to show them all the good things they were doing and that the danger and reward were in our favor,” he said.

“The goalkeeper is a large part of that and creates a reserve man. It is always related to creating a pre -farewell man at an early concept and then taking lands and playing forward, but always with a goal.”

During the Martin era, they scored a British record with a score of 56 passes in March 2021.

That was the same in Swansea, and a lot of praise for the regime, but while they made steps, he won less than 38 percent of his matches in both clubs.

After the initial success in Southampton, Martin said that “the biggest challenge” is to persuade the players that they “can do so regularly in the Premier League.”

His philosophy eventually cost him his job in the saints, but it is a method that Rangers fans can expect to adhere to him.

Click here to read more about Martin’s football journey, the style that his team plays and more.

“Martin knows most of the boxes for the men of Rangers.”

Former Rangers striker Stephen Naismith, who has played more than 50 times alongside Martin in Norwich and Scotland, believes that the appointment is the right choice.

He said Sky Sports News: “The development of the players, the employment side and the attack of football (all issues) has been classified on the team for a long time. I think it is all the strengths of Russell.

“I think in every name mentioned and linked to the job, and I think it might be a sign of most of the boxes for what is required in the club at this moment.

“The most common thing I imagined was the leadership side. That was very clear from the first time I played with it.

“I know that he talked about his skills in his people and things like that. He knows how to get the best of players, employees and those behind the scenes in Norwich. It was a large part of what their success was, Kenned.

“His knowledge and intelligence in the game are really good. I think even at the time when we were in our mid -twenties, he had hunger to get to know the game.

“He had a bold style he believed in. As players, sitting and thinking, how realistic it is? He showed him from MK Dons to Swansea to Southtpton. He was clear with her.

“He produced the offers and the results that got a highway to the Premier League as a manager, which is very impressive.

“It’s a great communication. I think this was the clearest thing in every club very quickly. This method, you can recognize it, you can see it. It’s smart. It’s someone learning from mistakes. He did it as a player.

“You are listening to any player who works under him, all this is very positive because of this communication. He is demanding, but he coincides with time, in the right way, whether he puts his arm around a player or being more aggressive with what he wants.

“I think communication skills are very important because I think Rangers fans and Scottish fans in general, no cups. They talk about a topic, they want directly to this point.

“I think a few fans in Rangers will remember him as a player, and perhaps this is not his best picture. As a coach, he is the opposite of what he was as a player. He was a defender, someone clearly tried to wander in the next game until the end of his career.

“But as a coach, he is an imagined coach. He is a coach of thinking. This, for me, is the biggest benefit and perhaps the biggest thing that gives you hope to go to a club where you play against the majority of low time.

“Being a player here will help. He was really in the club at a difficult time and he will know what will happen if things do not succeed.

“He sent a strong and strong character. I think he is never hiding. He never retracted the challenge.”

Main dates for Rangers men

Martin and Rangers Squad will return to the pre -season training on June 23 before the new campaign.

Then his first taste comes in the IBrox hideout on July 6 when BRUGGE, which ranked second in the Belgian Professional League, is hosting the first friendly before the season.

Then the team leaves a training camp from July 7 in St. George Park.

After that, Rangers faces their first qualifiers in the Champions League, as the first stage was achieved on July 22 and a tie on July 29.

Middlesebrough – which ranked tenth in the Sky Bet championship – then visit IBrox on July 26.

The Scottish Premier League campaign begins on August 2 – with fixtures for the new season on June 20 – nest Sky Sports News.