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Kris Boyd blasts Rangers’ decision to promote Nils Koppen as he insists he’s done NOTHING to earn it
KRIS BOYD has it hit out at Rangers’ decision to hand director Nils Koppen a promotion – insisting he has done NOTHING to earn it.
The Belgian has been appointed to the new role of technical director at Ibrox.
Kris Boyd has hit out at Rangers’ latest major appointment[/caption] Nils Koppen has a new role at Rangers[/caption] Koppen has been working closely with manager Philippe Clement[/caption]Koppen, 39, was appointed Rangers‘ director of football recruitment back in December 2023.
But the club confirmed this morning that he’d been bumped up to the role of technical director.
In simple terms, it will see Koppen perform a wider role that more closely resembles the duties performed by Ross Wilson during his time as the Gers’ sporting director.
As well as heading up Rangers’ transfer activity, Koppen will now take responsibility over the wider football department, including the academy, medical and performance areas.
He has highlighted a focus on bringing through more academy players and young Scottish talent as part of his new remit.
Koppen has been in place now for two transfer windows, with a major overhaul of the Rangers squad taking place across the past year.
Many of the club’s big signings have, so far at least, not quite hit the heights that may have been expected, with Rangers languishing nine points behind Celtic and Aberdeen in the Premiership.
Speaking exclusively to SunSport’s Roger Hannah on this week’s Go Ballistic programme, former Rangers striker Kris Boyd blasted the club’s decision to give Koppen a promotion.
SunSport columnist Boyd has been left asking who has made the decision – given the fact the Gers are currently running without a chief executive or a permanent chairman.
Boyd also reckons Koppen has done NOTHING to deserve the new role – and has questioned why the club isn’t ALREADY focusing on the areas he has now promised to put attention on.
He said: “I don’t know where to start. Who made the decision?
“There’s no CEO. I just don’t know – who’s making the decisions? There’s nobody above him.
“Why would you give someone a promotion when you don’t have someone above them?
“What happens if you appoint a CEO and there are problems with Koppen and the CEO? I’m not saying that’ll happen, but what if it does?”
“They are important (bringing through more academy players and Scottish players). The other thing he touched on as well was getting more ex-players involved as well.
“I’ve got to be honest, I just feel as if it’s what the fans are saying. I just feel it’s what the fans are saying and it seems the right thing to say for Koppen.
“You only need to look on social media, this is not an appointment the fans are enamoured with. They’re not looking at it saying ‘we’re absolutely delighted.
“You’ve got to earn the right to that promotion. There’s nothing to suggest that Nils Koppen has earned this.
“He might be a good guy, you’re telling me he’s highly thought of behind the scenes. Right now the fans only see what has come through the door and its not been good enough. It’s not been good enough.
“The recruitment is a million miles away from where it should be.
“You’ve got to remember as well, the things that were said in the remit back in the summer or even when Nils Koppen came in, they should be a guarantee.
“There should be a guarantee there are more Scots in that team, there should be players coming through the academy.
“That’s not something that’s new, because you’re now in this role, you need to be seen saying the right things?
“That should just be a remit right from the football club. You’re spending absolute bombs, fortunes on the youth academy. “
Boyd pointed to a general lack of youngsters coming through, particularly at Glasgow’s big two clubs.
And he pointed to an example of Lennon Miller’s current rise to stardom at Motherwell – and one of his former youth team-mates who made the move to Rangers.
Boyd also reckons the route being blocked to the first team is NOT what it was previously many years ago.
Boyd added: “There might only be a chance of one or two, especially at Rangers or Celtic, make it into a first team. you need to move them on up.
“Look at Lennon Miller right now, if he’s at Rangers… look at Bailey Rice. There wasn’t much between them at Motherwell.
“Rangers decided to take Rice and the pathway has been blocked for him.
“Whether hes good enough remains to be seen because he’s never really been in that first team environment.
“Lennon Miller now has more than a handful of first team games.
“He’s in that environment, he’s tested, he’s not the best player every week, but guess what, you’ve got opposition that need to stop you, because they’ve got mortgages to pay, they need their bonuses, they need to be in the team.
“You don’t get that with youth team football, you need to move them up.
“It’s maybe a revamp of the youth department that’s needed because something needs to change.
“There might be talented kids in there but as soon as they get to an age, its stifled. they cant make that breakthrough.
“They might be good kids but making that next step isn’t easy.
“if you look at history, you have to be exceptional.”
He continued: “Going back to Rangers thinking about Dobie, MacLean, McCormack – young strikers that came through.
“They went on to have a very good career elsewhere. they were trying to nudge five or six international players out of that starting XI, it was virtually impossible.
“That’s not the case anymore. If I’m a youngster right now, especially as a striker at the training centre, I’m looking at it thinking I’ve got an opportunity there, go and give every single thing to your game.
“I go back to it, Nils Koppen in terms of the whole youth thing, that should’ve been a given anyway.
“Not because you’ve got a job now. He’s looking at it saying I want to give youth a chance, I want to sign more Scottish players.
“The best managers in Rangers’ history – that’s what they’ve done. You’re not reinventing the wheel.
“Get ex-players in? Because the fans are saying they want ex-players in the building with the DNA, who know what it takes to be successful, it looks to me as if you’re appeasing the fans.
“To sum it up right now, you just look at it and think to yourself, potentially, you’re just moving the deckchairs on a sinking ship. That’s what it looks like to me.”
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Harrowing moment stepdad repeatedly begs ‘come on Charlie’ in 999 call after he ‘shook baby to death in abuse campaign’
THIS is the harrowing moment a stepdad begged “come on Charlie” in a 999 call after shaking a baby to death, a court heard.
Charlie Roberts was allegedly attacked with such “devastating” force that his brain moved in his skull – causing “irreparable damage”.
Charlie Roberts was allegedly shaken to death by his stepdad[/caption] Mum Paula Roberts is accused of neglecting her son[/caption]The one-year-old was in the sole care of stepdad Christopher Stockton at the time of the horror, Teesside Crown Court heard.
But in the seven months leading to his death, little Charlie was allegedly subjected to a campaign of abuse at the hands of Stockton and his mum Paula Roberts.
In audio footage released by prosecutors today, Stockton was heard begging the baby to wake up in a haunting 999 call.
The stepdad tells the operator Charlie is “barely” breathing and is “really floppy”.
He then pleads “come on” three times to the injured baby, before adding one final time: “Ok come on, Charlie”.
Jurors heard Stockton was so “incredibly calm” during the call that a senior medic at first thought it was a false alarm.
Air ambulance doctor Michael Davison said: “Normally when a call comes through like that there’s almost an element of anguish… primeval.
“There’s just this kind of power that comes out of the voice and it just wasn’t like that.”
On January 12, a “sleep-deprived” Stockton, 38, was left to look after Charlie by Roberts at their home in Darlington.
This was despite the mum being so “concerned” about her baby and partner that she installed a spy camera in a plant pot above his cot, it was said.
Shortly after the pair were left alone, Stockton called 999 to report Charlie claiming the youngster had choked on a chocolate biscuit – although nothing was found in his airways.
Nicholas Lumley KC, prosecuting, said: “Christopher Stockton was alone in the house with Charlie.
“In a very short time – for that is all it takes to lose one’s temper – he must have assaulted Charlie by shaking or throwing him with considerable force.
“What happened to Charlie once his mother had closed the door on him was no accident. Much as it may have been quickly and bitterly regretted, it was no accident.”
The court was told Charlie’s horrific injuries were so “devastating” he likely would have collapsed “almost immediately”.
He tragically couldn’t be saved and died in hospital the following day.
Medics could find no underlying health conditions, which led them to believe his cause of death was the “application of severe force” that caused “his head to rotate or be thrown about”, it was said.
Jurors heard previously that staff at his nursery had raised concerns when they noticed bruising on the tot.
Social services were called after Charlie was rushed to hospital with marks to his ear, eye and head but no action was taken, it was said.
Jurors heard the baby had injuries to his genitals that were likely to have been caused by a “violent pulling force”.
Roberts’ brother also noticed marks on both of his ears but Roberts, 41, claimed he had been sleep-walking.
Mr Lumley said: “The prosecution case is that there are simply too many incidents of bruising for it not to have been the result of neglect.
“Anyone living with Charlie and caring for Charlie in those circumstances bears responsibility for that neglect.”
Stockton denies murder and child neglect, while Roberts has pleaded not guilty to a charge of neglect.
Stockton has denied murdering the baby[/caption] Charlie was found to have suffered horror injuries[/caption] He was also found with bruising in the months before his death, jurors heard[/caption]