Sevco woke up this morning to the consequences of a nightmare transfer window from Mark Allen.
The former Manchester City youth coach moved to Ibrox in July after Pedro Caixinha had been given a £10m warchest to storm into the group phase of the Champions League and lift the Premiership title.
Those ambitions have been ditched leaving Allen to try and balance the books and bring in emerging talent that can be sold for a profit.
On both counts he has failed disastrously.
Most Ibrox fans could point to a dozen players that wouldn’t be missed if they moved on but after a month of negotiations Allen failed to shift on a single player!
As Graeme Murty explained Danny Wilson negotiated his way to Colorado Rapids off his own back while super agent Pedro Mendes picked up another wedge by re-uniting Carlos Pena with Caixinha.
With the transfer window closed Sevco find themselves committed to paying Bruno Alves, Eduardo Herrera, Joe Dodoo, Dalcio, Nico Kranjcar and multiple others until June at the earliest.
Alves, Herrera and Kranjcar are responsible for close to £400,000 a month in wages with little prospect of a worthwhile contribution in the battle to beat Aberdeen into second place.
Equally horrific is Allen’s recruitment programme. There is little sign of a legacy or grand plan being laid out.
Last week Brendan Rodgers admitted that he could have brought in 20 players just for the sake of it as agents, chief executives and Director’s of Football try to offload the dross that their club has aquired.
Allen was trying to do exactly that job.
Fortunately for Norwich, QPR, Nottingham Forest and Brighton there was a club keen to pick up the wages for their unwanted goods.
The only arrival that will be back at Murray Park for pre-season training is Greg Docherty. Without the influence of Douglas Park that deal would have gone the same way as the ‘bids’ for Jordan Jones, Kenny McLean and Jamie Walker.
While falling for the sales pitch for Sean Goss, Jamie Murphy, Russell Martin and Jason Cummings, Allen failed to bring in any of the glowing young talents that he identified.
Tyler Roberts joined Leeds from West Brom, Devante Cole signed for Wigan Athletic and Swansea opted to allow Oli McBurnie to go to Barnsley rather than trust the terms on offer at Ibrox.
To top it all off Allen and Murty now need to deal with the Morelos moonbeam with the chunky striker waiting for the follow up interest from China where the transfer window stays open until the end of February.
During January Development Squad coach Stuart Taylor quit after a week and hasn’t been replaced.
