Barry Ferguson fears that the Sevco board are chucking away a title challenge.
It’s now two months since Pedro Caixinha was sacked leaving Graeme Murty in charge after the embarrassing failure to recruit Derek McInnes.
Last week’s defeat from St Johnstone piled the pressure on the Ibrox board as they hoped to wing it through with Murty in charge.
A visit to Celtic in eight days time followed by the opening of the transfer window puts the pressure on the Ibrox board as their club lunges between a title challenge and slipping off into mid-table.
Ferguson, who collected £2.5m in EBT payments from the old Ibrox club, has watched the season develop in agony and fears that another opportunity is about to pass by.
Writing in the Daily Record he warned: “They are heading into the January sales with no manager and no sense of direction. Can they allow Murty to make signings or do they tell Mark Allen to call the shots as the director of football?
“And then run the risk of bringing in another bunch of players that the next permanent boss might not fancy, when they’ve already got a mixture of Mark Warburton’s players as well as Caixinha’s?
“From the outside looking in it’s an absolute mess which is why I just want someone to grab the bull by the horns and start making important decisions about where Rangers are going from here.
“If they don’t have a new manager in mind already after failing to get Derek McInnes then why not take positive action by announcing that Murty is the man until the end of the season?
“If they don’t want to take a risk with signing more players on long-term contracts then at least allow him to dabble in the loan market and bolster the squad for the rest of this campaign. It’s not fair to keep him hanging around on a game by game basis when there is so much uncertainty at the club.”
Ferguson added: “You just need to look at the way they blew it last week at home to St Johnstone to see the damage this is causing. I don’t blame Murty for that. I feel sorry for him that he’s been left in such an impossible position.
“If they at least give him the job until the end of the campaign then everyone inside the dressing room will know where they stand.
“And then they can get on with trying to make a decent challenge for the title for the first time in years – which would give the fans something to get excited about. The Rangers fans aren’t daft.
“Like me, they know the chances are they won’t actually win it this season but they deserve to see that the club is doing everything in its power to make it happen. That requires a bit of joined-up thinking and clear, strong leadership.
“Right now it looks as if they are doing nothing more than crossing their fingers and hoping that the situation they are in somehow fixes itself. It’s not good enough.”
With the Ibrox board effectively in hiding and the in-house supporter.shareholder group scared to rock the boat it looks like being another painful frstive period for Ferguson as the tribute act crumbles under the pressure.
