Chris Sutton has slammed delusional Mark Warburton and branded Dave King an absentee landlord.
Like most sane people Sutton had to have a double take as he read Warbo’s Q and A published on Friday.
Most folk immediately thought of the comparison between their auntie and uncle when the former city trader tried to cut down Celtic’s title advantage to 10 points.
In the Record Sutton stated: “Then there is the stuff Warburton came away with in Record Sport yesterday – if Celtic lost four games and Rangers won one Old Firm game there would be 10 points in it?
“Do me a favour. That’s delusional. If Celtic lost nine and Rangers won three more there would be a title race. Football is played in the real world.
“The blame game is in full swing and fans seem to occupy two camps. It’s either King’s fault for failing to back his manager or it’s the manager’s fault for failing to use what he had wisely enough.
“The simple fact is they are both in the wrong.
“King to me just doesn’t look interested. He doesn’t go to games, he pops over now and again and has little to say about the situation.
“He’s like the Venkys at Blackburn – an absentee landlord either unable or unwilling to get involved.
“Supporters are right to question his involvement just as they are correct to criticise the manager.
“The team he put out the other night was an admission of guilt. He was basically saying his entire recruitment drive last summer was a total waste of time.
“He brought in 11 players for the start of the season and overall they have been a complete disaster. There are real questions to be asked about Frank McParland’s role as director of recruitment as the players who have been unearthed have not been up to scratch.
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Sutton added: “It’s time the entire club started showing a bit of honesty because at the moment the vision is clear as mud. That’s if there is a vision.
“I sure as heck can’t see what the strategy is. Forget about all that rubbish at the start of the season about challenging Celtic. That didn’t last long and this campaign is done.”
Wednesday’s defeat at Hearts seems to have acted as the ultimate wake up call for the majority of Ibrox fans.
The excitement of the journey through the divisions to ‘reclaim their rightful place’ has come to a shuddering halt as Celtic disappear over the horizon.
Scraping it out with Aberdeen and Hearts for consolation prizes isn’t much fun as opposition fans laugh at their team stuffed with players that would go unnoticed elsewhere in the SPFL.
Despite learning lessons from every defeat this season Wednesday’s defeat at Hearts was a catalogue of errors against a team turned over by Celtic four days earlier.
Ian Cathro has had his non city trader credentials taken apart since replacing Robbie Neilson but mastered the magic hat with ease.
“I had to laugh the other night,” Sutton added about the defeat at Hearts. “There was Ian Cathro, the supposed laptop nerd, the idealist and fantasist, and yet it was the Hearts head coach who went back to basics.
“There were a few things early on with high pressing but it was mostly a good old-fashioned 4-4-2 that won him the game.
“Cathro played the conditions – and got the rewards. Warburton stuck with his plan and even his substitutions were all like for like.
“That’s why he keeps losing in the big games away from home. Warburton can say he’s not under pressure all he likes but he knows that couldn’t be further from the case.
“Warburton can hang on to second all he likes but finishing 30-40 points behind is unacceptable and should be embarrassing.
“He can’t play the money card when it comes to Celtic when his club have five times the budget of Aberdeen and Hearts.
“Warburton can talk all he likes about development but when you add it all together the only conclusion to come to is he won’t be around Ibrox to see it.”
