Mexico’s Club America have been held aloft as competition to Rangers for the recruitment of Pedro Caixinha. The Portuguese manager was meant to have arrived in Glasgow and taken over at Ibrox by now, but things are dragging out longer than Rangers had hoped they would.
Over the weekend claims emerged in the Scottish media that Rangers faced competition from Club America for Caixinha, but that’s certainly not something prevalent in the Mexican press.
Club America are an absolutely huge club and the Mexican football press is fervent, but there’s been mention of Caixinha since mid February, and even then it wasn’t in direct relation to taking over at America.
Right now there’s quite literally nothing in Mexico to suggest Rangers have serious competition, or any at all, from Club America for Caixinha. The Glasgow job offer seems the only one in town, and either Caixinha stays where he is or takes the Ibrox post.
There’s every possibility Club America could be interested at some point in the future, but that isn’t being covered either, and perhaps the club’s name is being used to extract a little more effort from Rangers… or to flush other interest out.
