Over the next 24 hours the extent of the rift between Mark Warburton and the Ibrox board will become clearer.
Twenty seven days after watching his side lose the Scottish Cup Final to Hibs the former city trader hasn’t said a word to his club website.
Tomorrow Sevco return for pre-season training with Warbo set to be underwhelmed by the squad facing him.
Despite going public with his request to bring in five new faces for the first day of pre-season training the former Brentford supremo will find NO new faces clocking into the state-of-the-art Murray Park training complex.
Accrington aces Josh Windass and Dean Crooks are under contract to the Lancashire club until July 1, Joe Barton is lost in France with Jordan Rossiter on duty with the England youth side.
Since watching Hibs win the Scottish Cup Warbo has waved good-bye to Billy King, Dom Ball, David Templeton, Dean Shiels, Nicholas Law, Nicholas Clark and Guidam Zelalem.
The possible arrival of Championship veteran Clint Hill is unlikely to have the creator of the Next Gen seies jumping up and down for joy.
With banging the drum for season ticket sales critical at Ibrox it seems incredible that the Magic Hat hasn’t been in the front line rallying support to stop Celtic from winning 6-in-a-row.
Every club installs contractual requirements of players to work reasonably with in-house PR channels- failure to do so would be a fairly serious breach of contract unless Warbo felt that some terms of his own deal had already been broken.
Davie Weir was wheeled out to ‘welcome’ Joey Barton to Ibrox with the former convict then committing his time to Euro 16 which will see him miss a week of pre-season training plus the glamour trip to the US which includes a high profile match against Charleston Battery.
Since the Scottish Cup Final defeat Warbo has looked on from afar as Derby, Reading, Leeds, Rotherham, Blackburn, Aston Villa and Cardiff have appointed new managers.