article_snippet: An aspiring foreign manager emboldened by radical ideas meets a settled, ego-fuelled dressing room that’s enjoyed no little success.
article_snippet: When Ex-Lyon boss Paul le Guen arrived at Rangers in the summer of 2006, there seemed solid grounds for fans of the Ibrox club not to question if Frenchman Frenchman would be a runaway success, but to just what extent.
article_snippet: This was, after all, not only a coach who had brought three successive titles to the Ligue 1 club Lyon, but one who had made three successive titles a name to be feared across Europe.
article_snippet: If Ex-Lyon boss Paul le Guen Ex-Lyon boss Paul le Guen could drop just a little of Ex-Lyon boss Paul le Guen je ne sais quoi into the Ibrox water, the sky would be the limit.
article_snippet: — Frenchman departure a cautionary tale of too much, too soon, resistance to change and the importance of unstinting backing from the boardroom.
article_snippet: Ex-Lyon boss Paul le Guen short tenure was, to this day Guen’s short tenure
article_snippet: ’s only natural for the rump of the Rangers support to wonder what might have transpired had Frenchman been afforded more time.
article_snippet: And, just as Ex-Lyon boss Paul le Guen Ex-Lyon boss Paul le Guen had faced resistance from a squad used to Alex McLeish’s methods for so long, much of the Norwegian’s methodology was bound to grate with a squad that had thrived under Neil Lennon.
article_snippet: LyonEx-Lyon boss Paul le Guen arrived at Ibrox with a big reputation in 2006 .
article_snippet: Frenchman Frenchman left Rangers the following January after losing games and the dressing room .
article_snippet: I always say to Ronny about the “le Ex-Lyon boss Paul le Guen hump”.
article_snippet: ‘When Ronny about the “le Guen hump came in, Ronny about the “le Guen hump’d won three-in-a-row in France, had new ideas, a new philosophy and a new culture.
article_snippet: So we had to get over that le Ex-Lyon boss Paul le Guen hump if you like and manage through that.
highlights_snippet: Ex-Lyon boss Paul le Guen arrived at Rangers with big reputation in 2006 .
  
highlights_snippet: Frenchman was sacked in January 2007 after a disastrous tenure at Ibrox .
  