Comfort can come from the unlikeliest of sources.

Few at Ibrox would expect to find solace from a Celtic manager romping his way into the Scottish football history books but not for the first time Graeme Murty has felt the weight of a metaphorical arm around his shoulder from Brendan Rodgers.

This week has seen the circus at Rangers descend into full-on carnival mode with Murty caught as something akin to cannon fodder in the middle.

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There will be little to line the clouds of the Englishman’s mind at the minute as he attempts to navigate his way through the remaining five league fixtures, but Rodgers has told Murty that he has banked a decade’s worth of managerial experience into the last few months.

Murty was appointed caretaker manager of the club following the ill-fated reign of Pedro Caixinha earlier in the season but it has been a turbulent and chaotic experience for the man who went to Rangers as an under-20 coach.

The ripple effect of last weekend’s Scottish Cup semi-final defeat to Celtic at Hampden has resulted in the suspensions of striker Kenny Miller and club captain Lee Wallace following a dressing room altercation, and it appears inevitable that Murty will leave the club at the end of the season.

Rodgers, though, believes that however harrowing these weeks have been for Murty that the experience will benefit him should he continue to pursue a managerial career.

“I have empathy for him, of course, because up until last summer he was a guy that was a budding young coach who was building his career really well,” said Rodgers.

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“He will have gained so much. He will have gained however it goes for him at the end of the season. He has gained, in that period, this period through to the end of the season, seven or eight months, he’s done about ten years learning in that and that’s going to set him up for the rest of his career.

“Things will have happened on and off the field, management and coaching, you never learn unless you’re in there.

“There is a huge professional pressure and an expectancy. I think what he will have learned as a manager and leading, it is about managing expectations; of supporters, of boards, of players, staff. He is doing it at a big club.

“However it is at the end of the season it will be better for him. It won’t feel like that now. It doesn’t because the spotlight is shining right on you but he will be better for it whatever happens. He will see that at the right time.

“If it is all hunky dory and it is all nice, there’s no learning. It is like us – we lost 7-1, we lost 7-0. You have to then manage that to ensure your players can go again and they are not going to have the ill effects of it. That is management.”

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The lack of respect for Murty’s authority underlined the fragility of his position. this week. And having such a precarious foundation at the club given the depth of issues that have beseeched the club on and off the park meant, that to Rodgers eyes, there was always going to be an issue for any manager who took charge of the Ibrox side.

Stressing the requirement for a stable and organised club in order for the football side to thrive, Rodgers maintained that Murty was thrown into an impossible situation. Rangers chairman Dave King seemed to unsettle things further last week with an ill-timed statement and that instability was always going to be problematic.

“You have to have authority,” said the Celtic manager. “No matter what your position is, that is one of things. The team has to know who is in control. Where it is different from Graeme’s situation is that he is only temporary until the end of the season and of course that is difficult. “It is difficult for the group and it is difficult for the players because they are unsure.

“Any of us in a line of work will know that if you are working where it is not stable then it is a lot more challenging than if there is stability.

“There is no doubt as a leader whether you are a head coach or a manager you need to have authority. Authority comes from how you work, from your role, your behaviour but also through stability within your club.”

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In all likelihood Murty will find himself on the hunt for a new position at the end of the season – or possible before – but Rodgers has reiterated that the drama of these weeks will make him more prepared for the demands of management.

“When I think of my time at Watford I had a great time there, decided to leave when I was offered the Reading job and very quickly I was out of work,” recalled the Celtic manager. “I had a period of reflection and there were a couple of key items within that. I knew I could work how I work but I learned things in that period that made me better going into the Swansea job.

“Then you go into Liverpool and it is a different stratosphere in relation to the management of such a huge club. The experience there then helped me coming here how you cope and manage all of that. It is experience, it is going through it and it is having those adverse moments as well. Otherwise there is no learning.”