Two days after completing ‘The Journey’ The Daily Record has questioned whether Dave King will honour his promise to provide Mark Warburton with a £15m plus transfer warchest.
In a hard-hitting opinion piece award winning Keith Jackson calls Mr King out on the promises he made before the regime change that swept the South African based criminal into power at the top of the marble staircase of dignity.
The article doesn’t question the source of the IOU’s needed to complete the season, the failure to find a NOMAD, the lack of a share trading facility or the failure to provide a share issue but does question the strength of Mr Kiung’s promises to invest in the team.
Tellingly the article raises the prospect of the Magic Hat walking away using the phrase that the former Brentford supremo isn’t ‘the sort of man who takes a knife to a gun fight’.
Calling Mr King to account has been something of a rarity Paul Murray stating in March last year that: “I would personally like to take the opportunity to thank the Daily Record for its courageous journalism over the past four years.
In today’s edition Jackson asks: “Since making his push for power he has been full of contradictions and some of his inconsistences have been glaring.
“The concern here is that, in King, Rangers have a chairman who can make his own promises disappear before the eyes of his club’s supporters.
“Remember the £30m of his children’s inheritance that he had already set aside for this project when he was standing on Edmiston Drive throwing stones at the windows?
“King would probably prefer that his quotes from the time would vanish into thin air too but they were recorded for posterity not just in a Q&A with this paper but also in several similar interviews he granted to our rivals.
“In each one, the total sum seemed to rise. In fact, on the same afternoon, he told the Daily Mail he was willing to plough £50m into restoring Rangers to the top of the Scottish game.”
He adds: “In fact, King has a nasty habit of saying the wrong things at the wrong time and although he enjoys the absolute trust of the vast majority of the Rangers support, these fans have learned the hard way when it comes to misinformation from the top of the old staircase.”
After last week’s Scottish Cup semi-final win over Celtic Mr King can be assured of selling over 40,000 season tickets- delivering the transfer warchest expected by the people may prove harder with no mainstream bank prepared to touch a toxic brand with a criminal chairman.