Even Kris Boyd is starting to question the suitability of Dave King to be in charge of Sevco.
The South African based criminal is only the chairman of the company but is effectively acting as a shadow director the football club and determining policy.
Last week he was reluctantly dragged back to the UK to sign and front up a new deal with Sports Direct that allows the sportswear company to disassociate themselves with King before the impact of the Takeover Appeal board actions kick in.
Having been given the chance to present that as a personal victory King couldn’t hold himself back as he was given the opportunity to discuss his favourite subject- Celtic.
The predictable insults followed as outsiders read the script to sell season tickets but the creator of #goingfor55 really lost the plot when he claimed that because King’s club got pumped 6-1 by Motherwell the SPFL title that Celtic won in 2015/16 shouldn’t really count.
While the tribute act were romping to The Championship against Alloa, Dumbarton and Raith Ronny Deila’s Celtic were in the top flight holding off the challenge of FFP compliant Hearts and Aberdeen.
Kings departing moonbeam was too much for Boyd who wrote in The Sun: “When is Dave King going to start acting like chairman of Rangers Football Club, and not some fan dragged out of the Broomloan Road stand?
“He’s supposed to be the captain of the ship but right now all he’s doing is saying what he thinks the supporters want to hear, playing to the galleries for all he’s worth.
“He’s got season tickets to sell of course and I wouldn’t be surprised if the deadline for renewing them is fast approaching. He’ll be hoping the fans jump on the bandwagon of saying: ‘Dave King is one of us’.
“But I can’t believe any reasonable-thinking Rangers supporter will buy into his latest nonsense about how Celtic are only on two-in-a-row.
“A lot of them won’t like me being this critical of King but deep down I reckon the silent, and vast, majority will agree with me and wonder what he’s playing at.
“They’ll be asking why he wants to behave like this and create the headlines that he has.
“It’s been a good few weeks for Rangers. They’ve signed players, brought in a new director of football and got rid of Mike Ashley.
“On the face of it, things are looking a lot better off the park but King can’t help himself, can he?”
Boyd added: “As an owner of a club and organisation the size of Rangers, King has a responsibility to act in a certain way. But he’s let himself down. AGAIN.
“I just don’t know how he can think coming out with these types of statements is helpful ahead of the new season. Sure, Rangers have signed a few players but a lot of them are untested in Scotland.
“If I was Dave King I’d be very, very careful about what I was saying right now.
“He should be concentrating on getting a team on the park to challenge Celtic, not coming out with ludicrous statements having a go at them.
“At the end of the day it’s not Celtic’s fault Rangers weren’t in the top league. They can only beat what’s in front of them and they’ve done that.”
Despite completing deals to sign players from Mexico, Portugal and Finland Sevco are still negotiating deals with Norwich and Hearts to sign true blue duo Graham Dorrans and Jamie Walker.
