Out of touch Lorenzo Amoruso has joined the clamour to have a ‘Real Rangers Man’ in charge of Sevco.
The coded message from the Italian shows how out of touch he is with the Scottish football landscape of 2017.
It’ll take much much more than a John Brown or Walter Smith type figure screaming at players to make the tribute act credible.
Amoruso enjoyed the high life under Dave Murray with a £639,000 ‘tax-free’ EBT, confirmed by a side letter, helping him make the decision to leave Fiorentina for Ibrox.
Backed initially by the generosity of the Bank of Scotland followed by a tax scam that robbed the Inland Revenue and HMRC of millions of pounds Amoruso was surrounded by team-mates topping up their wages with enormous sums.
Those days are gone as a phone call to Mark Warburton or Graeme Murty would confirm.
Into the breach has stepped the Three Bears who must be having second thoughts about their £8m/year soft loans propping up the mediocrity that sees the tribute act being beaten back-to-back by Dundee and Inverness Caley Thistle.
Failing to grasp the new order Ammo believes that a RRM is all that is needed to stop Celtic marching on to seven-in-a-row.
“I am convinced they should look to bring in what you might call Rangers men at this point,” he told The Sunday Post.
“By that I mean people who come with experience of having been with the club before in times of strength. I say that because I believe the club has to restore its spirit. This credential should not only refer to the manager, either but to all the people around him.
“Because in this age, to do well you need a top-level staff, all of whom are competent and trained AND able to adapt to the environment.
“Only when people with all of those qualities are in place, can you achieve the kind of results which are required.
“Rangers is a club which deserves to be at the top, fighting for the title every year.
“To get to that level, though, and to sustain it, you need a community working with common purpose.
“Once you have everyone rowing in the same direction – club, team, coaches and supporters, then you have the spirit of Rangers.”
Perhaps Amoruso and his community could put their EBT loans into a central fund that could be used to invest in the new club that he cares so dearly about.
Despite the ruling of Bill Nimmo Smith that EBT’s offered no sporting advantage everyone within the game knows that the more money available the more likely the chances of success.
Amoruso admitted: “Certainly, Celtic has a much bigger budget at their disposal right now than Rangers.
“This is as a result of their having qualified for the Champions League and also due to the fact Rangers has spent several seasons in the lower divisions.
“It is not so easy to attract players to your club when this is the case because top players want to perform at the top level. So you need to make the right choices, bring in the right type of players.”
