Rangers’ management saga set to go on
Rangers have today cast doubt on
when a new manager will actually be appointed by admitting ‘hope’ rather than ‘expectation’
on the announcement being within the seven-day window Dave King expressed on
Monday.
Speaking at the Club’s EGM, chair
in King’s absence Paul Murray could only say:
“We hope to appoint a new manager in
the early part of next week.”
This pours serious cold water
over any certainty of a new manager being put in place on Monday, suggesting
instead Rangers might not be a great deal further along in terms of
negotiations with any one party.
With Ian Cathro suspiciously quitting
his assistant manager role at Spanish giants Valencia yesterday, the former
Dundee Utd youth coach’s odds tumbled amidst rumours he was being lined up for
the job at Ibrox, but while Mark Warburton’s bid to be new manager did appear
to lose some momentum at the same time, today it appears to have tailed back
out and the general water surrounding the job is getting murkier.
Troubling rumours have surfaced
that Alex McLeish and Alex Rae are being lined up for the position in light of
murmurs that Warburton’s wages are a problem, and of course fellow rival Derek
McInnes would both require compensation to present club Aberdeen, as well
supposedly making a claim off the record that he is going nowhere.
The other two rivals left were Portugal’s
Vitor Pereira, but he has been snapped up by Turkish side Fenerbahce, and of
course Stuart McCall, who may end up with the position by default.
With two weeks passed since
failure in the playoffs, it had been hoped a new manager would have been well
in place by now. But the saga goes on.