{"id":551505,"date":"2025-11-05T21:23:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T21:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/551505\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T21:23:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T21:23:17","slug":"danny-rohl-finds-rangers-a-sanctuary-after-fleeing-hillsborough-chaos-as-he-lifts-lid-on-cavenagh-relationship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/551505\/","title":{"rendered":"Danny Rohl finds Rangers a sanctuary after fleeing Hillsborough chaos as he lifts lid on Cavenagh relationship"},"content":{"rendered":"

The German’s chairman is over from American and took in Sunday’s game at Hampden and training ahead of Roma<\/p>\n

15:50, 05 Nov 2025Updated 19:35, 05 Nov 2025<\/p>\n

Rangers manager Danny Rohl<\/p>\n

Danny Rohl is far too well-mannered a chap to say what he really thinks about the man he used to call boss at Hillsborough.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s also clear he\u2019s not just being polite for the sake of it when singing the praises of the chairman he\u2019s now reporting to at Ibrox.<\/p>\n

To say the German had it tough with his former gig at Sheffield Wednesday is a bit like saying Dermot Desmond<\/a> and Brendan Rodgers have had a bit of a falling out.<\/p>\n

Under the now-ousted Dejphon Chansiri, Rohl found himself working for one of the few clubs in British football that could realistically be described as being worse run than Rangers.<\/p>\n

From transfer embargoes to missed wage payments and even stand closures, Chansiri oversaw a chaotic regime that was only turfed out when the Yorkshire outfit was thrust into administration last month.<\/p>\n

In what was his first job in front-line management at the age of just 34, former Bayern Munich<\/a> coach Rohl found himself tasked with trying to hold a broken club together.<\/p>\n

It all proved too much for him in the summer as Wednesday lurched another couple of steps closer to the brink of disaster, with Rohl opting to walk away for the sake of his own career.<\/p>\n

A lack of dialogue with Chansiri was the main reason for his departure but the same can\u2019t be said for his relationship with the man in charge at Ibrox.<\/p>\n

Rangers chairman Andrew Cavenagh watches on<\/p>\n

Andrew Cavenagh was in Glasgow to watch his new head coach<\/a> take training but even when the club\u2019s US-based chairman is back Stateside at his home in Pennsylvania, the pair have kept in daily contact while they plot the next step in yet another Rangers rebuild.<\/p>\n

But Rohl is hoping that tight bond they\u2019ve formed already will allow them to move forward as a united front when he gives his initial findings on the squad he has inherited from Russell Martin later this month.<\/p>\n

\u201cI must say, so far, we have a great connection and relationship,\u201d said Rohl. \u201cWe always talk after games and this is good. I must say, I missed this type of relationship for the last two years.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll in all, all the people around me are trying to support me and they help mean different parts of this job. It allows me to focus on the aspects that are my responsibility.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn my last job it was a different environment. At that time, it was just the owner and me. From recruitment, to match prep, to looking for pre-season camps, these were things I had to look at by myself.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere were a lot of good people at the club, people who are still at the club. But now I have more people around me and this is important.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rohl could do with having a few more quality recruits by his side but he will reserve passing judgement on the players he currently has at his disposal until the international break.<\/p>\n

Only then will he spell out to Cavenagh the brutal truth of the situation left behind after Martin\u2019s disastrous 122-day reign.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cAfter the first two or three weeks, I have my all my notes together and during the international break we will talk about what were my first impressions.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will give my feedback got some topics and to carry on this is very important. I will need more than three weeks to know more and more.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven now, some players haven\u2019t been able to show that they can do maybe. And I think it is important that I try to give everyone a chance.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome players have had more chances than others at the moment and others have had to wait. But I am sure we will make good decisions for the future.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rohl\u2019s side have been left to live with the regrets of the missed chances and officiating decisions that cost them against Celtic in Sunday\u2019s Premier Sports Cup semi.<\/p>\n

But the Ibrox gaffer accepts there\u2019s no point looking back when there\u2019s so much work to be done going forward.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cI agree we are disappointed after this game. In the second half we tried to be on the front foot, of course they had a couple of chances against us but we also had some good moments.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou saw a team that for 90 minutes tried to come back and the equaliser was I think deserved because we invested a lot of things.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the end, the goal to make it 2-1 came too early in extra time and left us with disappointment.<\/p>\n

\u201cOverall, we lost the game so I think it makes no sense now to be too positive. There are things we need to improve. We spoke this morning about some of those things and now we need to move on.\u201d<\/p>\n

Next up are Serie A<\/a> cracks Roma and Gers don\u2019t have a second to sulk if they are to rescue a Europe League campaign that is in danger of falling flat after three straight defeats.<\/p>\n

Rohl said: \u201cThe next one is always the most important one and of course in this competition right now we have zero points.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo we need to start picking some up as soon as possible. But of course we are facing an opponent who is strong in their league.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve also seen, though, parts of the game that we have to better if we\u2019re to hurt them and it\u2019s important to understand the need to be brave and thinking forward.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere will be moments tomorrow that are 50-50, if you win duels, if you attack in the right spaces then we have a chance.` If not it could go in the other direction. This is the balance we have to understand.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The German’s chairman is over from American and took in Sunday’s game at Hampden and training ahead of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[24753,2628,76431,1811,94,21839,1946,79,6536,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-551505","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-andrew-cavenagh","9":"tag-celtic-fc","10":"tag-danny-rohl","11":"tag-europa-league","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-premier-sports-cup","14":"tag-rangers-fc","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-uefa","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115499199230842642","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}