Philippe Clement has been speaking to the media ahead of Rangers' meeting with Nice in the Europa League. Here's everything he had to say.

If you could start by clarifying what you know of any board discussions that took place after the Dundee United game and what's been said to you in that period?

Nothing, no board discussions. I had a meeting with the new CEO, that was a really good talk and that's it.

Okay, are you under the impression then that your position is under threat if results don't improve? 

No, I'm not busy with that. I'm busy with the team, I'm busy with getting results. I was disappointed, like I said, about the first-half [against Dundee United] that we didn't show enough quality, what we can do, what the team showed the second-half and it's a game that you need to win and that you win nine out of 10 or 99 out of 100 if you create that amount of chances and you get one chance against it is the goal and then you need to take the right conclusions out of that what you did with the team and we look forward now towards this game in Europe.

I think when you were appointed just over a year ago, most people accepted that Rangers needed a period of stability. A year down the line, people will accept that that's still the case but also we'd look to see some signs of progress within that period. Can you point to some signs of progress in that year that people can refer to? 

But everybody's talking about one year and it's not a reality. It's four months now that there's been a rebuild. A lot of things changed in the club so going back to that again, chairman who's not there anymore, CEO not there anymore, director of operations not there anymore, academy director not there anymore and a lot of other people also in the club. So referring to one year, it's not correct. It's about the last four or five months, a lot of changes have been made, 16 players in the squad, building a new squad and adapting the players towards what Rangers is about. There were good moments, there were good games, there were good results, there were bad moments, losing points that we didn't want to lose, that we cannot lose. We know the standards that Rangers are about but we are working all together really hard to get this consistency more because it's more about consistency also. 

Just lastly for me, I think most of your good performances this season have come in Europe. Why do you think that that might be?

It has to do with the kind of games also maybe but also domestically we need to do better and we had a few good ones domestically but not enough for the standards of Rangers so we're working hard on that. For me the second-half was good in the weekend but if you play 90 minutes like that then even with one goal against you, you scored four or five . We could have scored four or five also. No, it was our game that we had the most shots this season on target in the league. The most times that we came into the box of the opponent in the league this season so a lot of things went good but you get one chance against one ball on target and we make a big mistake there and we get the goal against and then you need to change the game and we didn't we didn't make the second goal or the third goal or the fourth goal what was possible because another really good goalkeeper was on the other side. Now we need to take the right conclusions and focus on this game again and then on Sunday being there again for the domestic also not only in Europe getting good results or in the cup because we're also in the final there. 

Philippe, just going back to the news about the CEO being appointed, how positive is that for the club and does it bring the stability that is needed going forwards? 

Yeah, it's a very important thing because the last couple of months there was a big vacuum in the club and a lot of things could not be decided at that moment because there was nobody to decide those kind of things so I'm really happy that Patrick is here now. We had a really good talk about everything about the past year. My experience is he's doing that with all the people in the club to make a good analysis and that he can start in a good way. He's going to start halfway this season I think so that we can make a step forward again because of course for any club in the world it's not good to be in that kind of vacuum situation. Just the vacuum you're talking about and previously you were saying that it's only really four months you should be judged on in terms of the rebuild that you were talking about in the club.

How much has the turbulent season you've had been down to that vacuum above you? 

No, I don't want to use excuses. Never. I don't want the players to use excuses. Never. So whatever is going on in the club, yes or no, we need to perform together. We need to win together. We know what Rangers is about. That's why we want to be here with all the players. Everybody who came knew already, knew also the story from my side before that it's all about winning and we are busy with creating that culture in the dressing room on the pitch with the new players, with the old players to gel it together and in the football also to get this automatism, to get the right kind of timings every time, to get the right reflexes in every situation of the game and there are a lot of young players where they don't have yet that experience to in every moment to do the right things together but I see evolution in that way. Not in the results that we have now but if you see I think the second half, the way the team played, that's the way I want to see them to strangle opponents and we didn't do that enough this season so I want to see more of that the next week, the next month. I know I don't want to see that, I demand to see that and we're working hard on that with them, with videos, with trainings, with all those things. 

Can you tell us about your talks with Patrick?

I cannot go into detail about that, it's about my experience, about what this year was in the club and what are the things that were good and what are the things to improve.

How is the squad for this game? 

In that way, positive also. We spoke about that last season, we had big periods with 12 players out, long periods like that so Oscar did his first part of the training today so he will need still a few more weeks to be really ready to play games but it's a positive thing. Tom Lawrence is also close, it's in the next couple of weeks he will be back, Rabbi Matondo the same and we want to keep it in that way. I think John is a good example in that way also for the past year and he has problems in the past and the way he's performing in the last couple of months, regularly playing all these minutes, it's the first time in his career that he plays so many minutes and we have a few other examples in that way also. So that's a positive and we want to keep it that way and we're a lot of times busy with prevention, with the power, with the training, doing the right things and now you start to see the fruits of all the things we've been working on the last couple of months, it's not the work of a few weeks to do that and he's also one proof of that. 

What does it mean to you to be back in this part of the world? 

It's special to be back, I had a really good time here, I enjoyed living here, I met some really nice people, so a lot of friends will come to watch this game also, so this feels like a place where you were in a really good way, so I'm happy to be back in that way but I'm not here for a talk with a lot of people, I'm here to work, I'm here to win together with the guys or to do everything to win this game because it's a massive game for Nice even more than for us, they have to win this one clearly, we're going go like always against every opponent, we will try to go for the win, we never play for a draw, so if you can win here I think we make a really big step in the qualification or you're almost certain of that and taking a point can also be a really important point at the end but we will go for the three points against a really good team.

Does it feel like this is a squad that is well suited to European game, that it's more perhaps a counter-attacking style, that's where you can be your most effective? 

I want to add a little bit to that because I don't agree with the story that the style of play, what we want to do, suits Europe but doesn't suit domestic football. I think we had also with Ianis Hagi not being available for a long time, injury of Tom Lawrence, injury of Oscar Cortes, injury of Rabbi Matondo, we lost a lot of creativity in that way and we had to find for other solutions. Nedim has been playing a lot, on the left side he can play there but he can play also in the midfield and Nedim and Vaclav had to play all the games also with the national team, so those are things that are taken into account, so getting all these players back will raise also our freshness in our offensive part and will raise our creativity also.