Keith Jackson has warned Dave King and Pedro Caixinha that they are on borrowed time at Ibrox.
Sunday’s Betfred Cup defeat from Motherwell exposed Sevco’s on field problems with the South African based criminal jetting in to watch the humiliation.
As well as the footballing loss over £1m would have been raised from a final appearance against Celtic even though a trophy success would have been highly unlikely.
King kept a safe distance from the appointment of the fifth best coach in Qatar but convinced his board-room colleague to bank roll a summer spending spree that reached £10m and bloated the company wage bill.
In 2015 following regime change Paul Murray highlighted the courageous journalism of the Daily Record in exposing the previous directors.
Jackson was at the front of that campaign but with no sign of any progress on the park and King’s legal representative declaring his criminal client as penniless tough times are ahead with the onset of a winter of discontent looming.
“King must be a man with much on his mind right now, not least his own long-term position at the top end of the boardroom table and the glaring lack of progress being made down there where it matters most, on the pitch,” Jackson explained.
“His surprise appearance in the main stand yesterday was both ironic and timely because this arrival back on home soil has come at a time when his own status as the man who saved Rangers is rapidly reaching a crossroads.
“The goodwill which greeted his first coming – when he rescued the club from the clutches of a seemingly limitless succession of incompetents and charlatans – is no longer in such plentiful supply. More and more questions are being asked of his leadership or lack thereof.
“This coupled with so much cloud and confusion around the actual state of his financial wherewithal, leaves King’s legacy in a pretty precarious position.
“He should be remembered as the man who rode to the rescue of Rangers at a moment when the club’s future was in serious doubt due to the actions of those at its helm. The well-meaning fan who saved his club from potential extinction.
“Instead, there is a danger that he is viewed as the man who dragged the club back into a sustained period of sustained lifelessness not seen since the great Ibrox depression of the early 1980s.
“In fact, his time in charge has been littered with glaring contradictions and serious lapses of judgement.”
Jackson added: “It was perfectly fitting that he should be back in town to see the latest black mark being drawn against the name of a manager who has been so hopelessly out of his depth since he was first plucked from the obscurity of a Qatari desert by King’s three wise men.
“Caixinha’s lack of self control yesterday, as his team was being roughed up and
ultimately taken down by Louis Moult’s double, should be the final straw for them.
“This is a man full of big promises and an even bigger ego but a manager who cannot win three matches on the bounce.
“Yesterday, when he had to come up with an answer to Motherwell’s uncomplicated tactical approach, he threw yet another tantrum and talked himself out of his technical area.”
Caixinha signed a three year contract with Sevco in March after being appointed largely on the say so of Graham Park from the Park’s Motor Group.
