Danny Rohl's Rangers future confirmed as Andrew Cavenagh breaks silence on head coach
Chairman convinced German head coach can drive Ibrox club to success
Rangers have confirmed that they will stand by head coach Danny Rohl for next season.
Chairman Andrew Cavenagh revealed in a media briefing on Sunday morning that Rohl retains the faith of the Ibrox hierarchy despite the 2025/26 campaign ending a disappointing third-place finish in the Premiership. It resulted in another trophyless year for Rangers.
Rohl, 37, took over from Russell Martin as Rangers head coach last October and cajoled the team back into the title race. However, after the league split, the team lost four of its five matches and finished ten points behind eventual champions Celtic.
Such an underwhelming end to the season has led to some Rangers fans questioning whether Rohl is the right man for the club. Included in a series of poor results were defeats by title rivals Celtic and Hearts despite leading in both games.
Nevertheless, Rohl - who has been linked with Wolfsburg back in his homeland of Germany - will be backed this summer, with Cavenagh convinced that he is the right man to lead the club back to success.
Cavenagh said: "It has been a rough season. We're incredibly disappointed with the results, as I'm sure you would expect and responsibility for that is with no one other than ownership, the board, me and, Paraag [Marathe, 49ers chief].
"In a good organisation, a strong organisation, the blame goes up, not down when we look at where we're going from here, it's crystal clear to us.
"At this club, success is winning titles. You don't win a title, you haven't succeeded. And it can't be any simpler than that. And we will not stop until we have succeeded.
“As we look to next year, Danny is our coach. We believe that Danny gives us the best chance to win the league next year. We believe that there are two key elements that he needs to succeed, and that would be a revamped squad, which is probably the most important and a preseason.
"He obviously came in mid-season. In terms of revamping the squad, we look at our squad and say we have a bunch of good players. We have a good squad, and we've proven that in fits and spurts throughout the season.
"But we don't yet have a good team. And that is our focus this summer, is I'm building a winning team. "And so, our focus will be less about sort of raw talent and more about things like chemistry and leadership, and steel, and footballing IQ, if that's a phrase that translates.
"And so we are excited to make those adjustments to the squad.
"When we think about the club itself, we have talked about Rangers DNA, we have talked about people who will get their fingernails dirty. We've made a lot of changes inside the club that are probably both visible and invisible.
"A great example of visible would be the person to my right, that Jim [Gillespie] is now our CEO, and I think we are making good strides inside the club, to get it to where it can create the infrastructure for the success for the men's first team.
"But I am not going to sit here and sort of rattle through a bunch of little things that we did this year that we think were positive that help in the future, because that might confuse someone to think that we think that aggregating a bunch of these little things together can somehow be mistaken for success.
"Again, success is winning titles. We didn't succeed. We intend to succeed. And our job is to take the club forward and find that success."
Why Rangers are sticking with Rohl
Asked further as to why Rangers are sticking with Rohl, Cavenagh continued: "We think Danny is a really good coach - and we've seen that throughout the year.
"He's not perfect. But when you think about what it takes to win, we think the most important change that we need to make is the squad. And with an improved squad, we think Danny will bring titles.
"We recognise that supporting any club, but certainly Rangers is an emotional roller coaster. And a month ago, they were singing Danny's name, and a month later, they're frustrated with Danny.
"And so we completely understand that view on a personal level. We go through that same roller coaster. But our job, as those who run this club, is to not let the club go on that roller coaster ride.
"That we need to be even-keeled, and make sure that we are step by step, and it's not always a straight line, but step by step moving this club towards success. And again, we believe that Danny is part of that.
“I think every manager needs to be given enough time with the right squad to develop, both individually and to develop the team. He hasn’t had this. So the two things we want Danny to have are a changed or revamped squad and a pre-season.
“Coming straight into this is not easy and I think he needs time to get it right.”
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