Keith Jackson has claimed that the Daily Record played a key role in forcing Mike Ashley out of Sevco!
While the Record were able to obtain some great stories relating to the relationship between the club and the retailer that source came to a halt after Sports Direct took legal action against the club.
The detail of the Termination Deal won’t be made public but anyone that knows Ashley will be amazed if he has lost out on the deal.
Some informed observers have claimed that Wednesday’s announcement was forced through by Sports Direct on the Ibrox board with King drafted in at the last minute to front the announcement.
Despite that Jackson claimed: “This newspaper led the way in exposing a litany of secret deals which Ashley had struck with Green and which highlighted the grotesquely one-sided nature of his relationship with Rangers.
“When he bought the naming rights of Ibrox Stadium for £1 we uncovered the detail and splashed it all over our back page.
“We further infuriated Ashley’s camp when we revealed to Rangers supporters that the retail deal he had hatched with Craig Whyte – a contract weighted in the favour of Sports Direct to eye-watering levels – also included a huge seven-year notice period. But he was only just getting started.
“By the time he had shoehorned his own people into the Ibrox boardroom in an attempt to stay in control of the club, Ashley was pretty much running riot behind the scenes – plundering everything he could get his hands on from the club’s badges and crests to ownership of the pitch and even Broxi the Bear.
“Ashley claimed it all as his own in return for a bunch of emergency handouts, some of which had to be forced through by a compliant board – in favour of alternative bailouts from far more friendly figures including Douglas Park and the Three Bears – in the final days and hours leading up to King’s successful coup.”
After being awarded a blazer following King’s regime change in March 2015 Paul Murray praised the courageous journalism of the Daily Record.
Following Wednesday’s announcement last season’s Sevco kit was quickly sold out at the club megastore with a massive movement of stock over the weekend set to refill the shelves.
