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Miller or Caixinha will leave Rangers – journalist

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One of Pedro Caixinha or Kenny Miller will soon be heading for the Rangers exit door, according to a reliable journalist.

Daily Record correspondent Keith Jackson has claimed that Ibrox manager Caixinha or talismanic striker Miller will pay with their job as a consequence of the row that has rocked Scottish football.

The Portugese omitted Miller from the matchday squad for Friday night’s league win at Hamilton and ordered him to play in the youth team against Brentford last Saturday.

This prompted speculation that the veteran striker had been leaking information to the media.

Jackson denied that was the case but stressed that Caixinha and Miller are no longer compatible at Ibrox and that one will soon depart.

“Miller is neither a rat nor a snitch,” Jackson wrote his weekly Record column. “He is a victim of an inexperienced, egotistical manager who is struggling to command the respect of his dressing room and who thinks, by taking out the talisman, he will bring the rest of them into line. And of a Machiavellian attempt at character assassination.

“He’ll have to ride this one out now because Caixinha doesn’t appear to be a man of compromise. There is unlikely to be sufficient space inside the same dressing room for both men from here on in so it looks likely that one of them will soon have to make way.”

OPINION

Give Miller’s public demotion to the youth team, it is difficult to see him reclaiming favour while Caixinha remains manager. The striker is 37, out of contract next summer and showed in the early months of the campaign that he is not as influential as he was. Caixinha’s job security is fairly low but it is a big claim to state he could imminently depart. The Portugese will ultimately stay or go dependent upon results. If he is still at the helm by January, it is impossible to see any outcome other than Miller agreeing a move in the winter window.

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