Arthur Numan believes that Sevco should turn to Alex McLeish to solve their management crisis.
For six weeks the former Rangers (IL) manager has been waiting for a phone call from Ibrox, or South Africa to end his three year exile from UK management.
Dave King’s speech at the club AGM slammed the quality of out of work managers but as the South African judiciary will conform his comments change from day to day to suit his own circumstances.
Numan quit Ibrox in 2003 when there was no new EBT to top up his contract but still believes in the big club delusion that would allow McLeish free reign in the transfer market to challenge Celtic for honours.
“My own choice would be Alex McLeish and there are many reasons why, and he does tick many boxes,” the Dutchman told the Sunday Post appreciating that Frank de Boer and Gio van Bronckhorst wouldn’t go near the tribute act. “He knows what it takes to bring success to the club.
“He has been there and done it, and has the hunger and desire to succeed. He has both the mentality and the knowledge.
“He knows the Scottish media and how it operates, and that is also vital. He knows the demands of the Rangers supporters and exactly what is required.
“And he has a fine eye for a player, and operates well in the transfer market. Apart from all of that, he is available. So, there would be no need to go through a process of trying to sort out compensation with another club.
“Listen, I haven’t spoken to him recently about this, so I can’t say for definite he would accept any offer but I think he would.
“However, why not ask the question? The people at Rangers should make a call to him.”
TEN-IN-A-ROW
Numan believes that stopping Celtic is strangling Sevco’s hopes of progress.
Five years into their journey it’s easy to make a case that they are further away from Celtic than when Kirk Broadfoot retrieved the ball from a hedge in Brechin to take a throw in.
Fault lines run throughout the club with the failed attempt to recruit Derek McInnes the latest example of a board of directors badly out of their depth.
The recently published accounts confirm that there will be no more transfer market war-chests with the current squad likely to be as good as it gets for whoever follows Pedro Caixinha into the managers job.
“I hear many people talk about the need to stop Celtic from doing 10-in-a-row, and I understand where that comes from,” Numan said.
“However, it can’t be the sole focus at the moment. You will not stop this overnight.
“There is no magic wand so you have to make a three-year plan, with the priority of getting it right in year one.
“If you don’t get it right in year one, then years two and three will just disappear and also fail.
“Small steps towards progress must be taken, and the Rangers Board must put them in place and believe in them going forward.
“To be honest, we have been talking about Rangers making progress for the past four or five years.
“There was the plan of putting the small pieces in place so that the big jigsaw can be completed but I think they are probably not on schedule for where they would have wanted to be at this stage.”