Star defender walks away from Warbo’s revolution

Darren McGregor has walked out on the Warbo revolution.

The shock news emerged yesterday with a brief statement on the Sevco website thanking the defender for his services.

Last season the former Cowdenbeath and St Mirren ace was voted supporters Player of the Year and also picked up the players award after an outstanding season steering the newly promoted club to third place in the Championship behind Hearts and Hibs.

With Warbo, who used to work from 6am to 11pm six days a week as a city trader, attracting starlets from Arsenal and Spurs to his revolution the future seemed assured for McGregor who was chosen to lead the advertising for the club’s fetching new purple change kit.

The signing of three new defenders put a question mark over his future with a brief statement yesterday confirming that he had agreed a pay off to quit.

A club statement said: “Rangers can today confirm that Darren McGregor has left the club by mutual consent.

“The central defender spent a year with the Light Blues and earned the club’s Player of the Year and Players’ Player of the Year awards for 2014/15.

“McGregor made 50 appearances in total in his single season at Ibrox, scoring five times. Darren leaves with the club’s best wishes for a successful future.”

With Dave King failing to invest a penny despite storming to power five months ago the finances of the club remain in intensive care.

Despite an extensive campaign to rope in gullible fools season ticket sales are 10,000 down on projections with other players expected to follow McGregor out the door.

Former starlets Fraser Aird, Andy Murdoch and Robbie Crawford have yet to feature this season with the club keen to move them on.

Canadian international star Aird is on a long term contract and like £9,000 a week defender Mariusz Zaliuska is unlikely to be offered similar terms elsewhere.

Ally McCoist and Kenny McDowall remain on gardening leave while Mr Ashley’s £5m loan that kept the club afloat last season remains unpaid.

UPDATE: McGregor signed a two year contract with his boyhood heroes, Hibs, to join Alan Stubbs promotion bid.