The latest entry into the Rangers management race is one Francesco Farioli, who we’re sure at Ibrox Noise you’re about as familiar with as we are.

The guy is around about 35, which is the same age as David Ancelotti, and we’re about as much in favour of him as you might imagine.

Farioli is, as we say, Italian, former manager of Dutch giants Ajax, and while he had a 65% win ratio there, which isn’t bad in the Dutch Eredivisie, it is still not a known winner.

With Stevie G pulling out yesterday which came to the chagrin of many Rangers fans to say the least, and the fact that the remaining candidates are hardly of the highest calibre such as Russell Martin, Ancelotti, and now Farioli, Rangers’ management Hunt is looking about as farcical as it ever has.

So where does this leave us? The honest truth is, we don’t really know. It seems now to be down to Martin, Ancelotti, or indeed Farioli, and none of these options fills us with any joy whatsoever. We’re not inspired by any of them. Yes, we got Clement wrong, we thought he was the right guy, we’d overlooked a number of things.

And we’re not going to pretend that we have the right judgement here on Ibrox Noise more than anybody else. However, the fact is, the choices that we have made, that the board have made, have almost always been wrong in recent times. And that’s the recurring pattern. The only option that we’ve seen in the press and heard information on, that we actually had any kind of admiration at all for, was Brian Priske, formerly of course, of Feyenoord and successful at Sparta Prague. There was of course also Marco Rose, decent record in the Bundesliga, but he wasn’t exactly a massive serial winner. So at the end of the day, those two seem to have gone, and now we’re left, with basically three subpar options. It is not inspiring.

So who’s it going to be? Your guess is as good as ours. It’s dragging on, it’s dragging on, and it’s dragging on, and the curious thing is now that we have confirmation that the consortium who intend apparently to take us over have been speaking with Ancelotti shows that they are very much taking part in this management hunt even although earlier information suggested that the board currently of present ilk would be the ones to do the majority of the groundwork.

It turns out that the takeover crew, if indeed it does happen and we believe it should, they will nevertheless be taking a heavy hand in searching for the right manager and whoever gets appointed will be doing so with their endorsement. This is why we at Ibrox Noise did not assume that the takeover automatically meant everything was going to be so much better from now on because it doesn’t necessarily mean that it will be especially if they’re endorsing either Russell Martin, Ancelotti, or this Farioli chap. It is hardly inspired, not any more inspired than any previous regime if we’re honest.

And as we said, the only one guy that we actually liked, perhaps two, including Rose, Brian Priske, has been abandoned entirely. We don’t know if that was a lack of agreement, or what, but that was the only one that even looked remotely half-decent, and that one’s gone by the wayside. So, this American consortium, the 49ers, they don’t appear to be any more the answer than what we currently have. Because as we’ve always said on Ibrox Noise, American consortiums are all about profit and money, for themselves, not the club. Yeah, looks positive, doesn’t it folks?