Dave King has resumed the campaign to unsettle Aberdeen and Derek McInnes.
During yesterday’s AGM the shameless South African based crook made little mention of the companies search for a manager and settled for telling the gullible that he hoped to announce something shortly.
The warm glow of a 3-0 win over Aberdeen had worked wonders on the shareholders who seemed more interested in King’s schooling than the impeding doom that the Court of Session is about to deliver over King’s underhand charge to power in March 2015.
Unsurprisingly there was no unrest from the floor as they were told that negotiations over a new retail deal will begin today and that talks have started with Glasgow City Council to transform the area surrounding Ibrox.
As the moonbeams continued and King talked of investors looking for dividends the board smuggled through a motion that will dilute all shareholdings while the three bears and King are given an increased shareholding of stock that is effectively worthless.
Inside the Blue Room King spoke to the club’s television station and delivered the sort of moonbeams that have characterised his regime.
The reality of the club’s finances has prevented the appointment of a new manager but that didn’t prevent the company chairman from speculating close to home about who’ll follow Pedro Caixinha into the dug-out of dignity.
“After Pedro’s departure, our timescale for a new boss was not to name him as soon as possible, but to be thorough in the recruitment process,” he said with a straight face.
“If a manager had popped up quite quickly in terms of our evaluations, and we felt he was absolutely the right person, we would have sealed it as soon as possible.
“However, we were not going to make an appointment just for the sake of being speedy. We looked at what was available at this stage of the season and just didn’t feel there was an outstanding candidate in whom we were willing to invest the next three years.
“As a result, it focused us to look outside of what is available to managers who are currently under contract and as soon as you move into that area it’s a different type of negotiation.
“You’ve got to talk to clubs, you’ve got to talk about compensation and so it has taken longer than we would have liked, but no longer than is necessary.
“It’s such a key appointment, whether we take another week or so should not be a factor in deciding on an appointment we’re going to make for the next three years.”
In July 2016 Mark Warburton signed a three year contract, in March 2017 Caixinha signed a three year contract.