PEDRO CAIXINHA says Rangers are the 'biggest club in Scotland' and hopes to bring the Ibrox side back to the top while in charge.
The Portuguese coach was in the stands to watch his new club secure a 1-1 draw away to Celtic on Sunday in Graeme Murty's last game in charge on an interim basis.
In an interview for Rangers TV, the former Nacional, Santos Laguna and Al-Gharafa boss underlined that everyone will have a key role to play to bring the Gers back to the top of Scottish football.
“We are talking about a worldwide club," he said.
"It’s a massive club – the biggest club in Scotland. It’s one club that is fighting to get on top again, and we know we are going to get on the top.
"That is what we are here for, and the challenge is to help the club, to rebuild that path, the history and the glory – it’s the main reason that brought us to this challenge.
“It’s not a question of one person doing the job. It needs to be from top to bottom – I believe that the board and the management is going to have an important role, the technical staff are going to have an important role, the players are going to have an important role, all the staff who work with the team on a daily basis are going to have an important role, and of course, the fans are going to have an important role.
“My first step is going to get one united front with the identity the club is having and it is quite easy to get it in a club with this history and tradition, and this way of seeing things. It leads it to being an easier job with regards to that. But the identity is not just about the identity of the club, it’s about some identity I want to implement on the club.
“I’m not coming here just to be “another one” – I am coming here to help, but I am having my own ideas on the way we get it.”
Caixinha arrives in Glasgow after spells in charge of Al-Gharafa, Santos Laguna, Nacional and Uniao Leiria and believes his previous experience will help him adapt to the new challenge he faces at Ibrox.
“They will help me a lot to arrive here in a totally different preparation, and in order to say that this is a challenge I am totally ready to face," he explained.
"Along the way, I am trying to build my own, and I think if you think in a positive way, and the way you always want to be better today than you were yesterday, then you always try to think in a dynamic way.
“My idea of the game and methodology about the approach and to prepare the players to play in one specific direction is always changing for the better, and always changing your mentality in order to add something else.
“That means the experience I have before I arrived here helped me a lot in order to get here and to implement my ideas. Of course, we need to have a clear idea about all the needs, and identifying the processes in order to keep them running and match what the good things that have been done at the club and good things you want to implement as well.”
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