Keith Jackson has laid out the scenario that will see Graeme Murty in charge of first team training at Murray Park on Monday.
Thursday’s announcement that Mister Gerrard had bolted to Aston Villa contained no mention of a caretaker as the company searches for a successor to the Liverpool legend.
Murty was hands-on as soon as Mark Warburton and Pedro Caixinha moved on but was notably absent from Thursday’s announcement.
It seems that the next manager will be decided by one of two men. Douglas Park favouring a True Blue like Derek McInnes prepared to do as he is told or someone like Giovanni van Bronckhorst who is preferred by Sporting Director Ross Wilson.
With Gerrard taking five coaches with him to Villa Park some quick decisions will have to be made against the terrifying prospect of Murty fronting things up from Monday morning.
The former Reading full-back arrived with Warburton in 2015. In two stints as a caretaker he will be remembered for chewing on his anorak, a handstand after a missed chance away to Dundee and 5-0 and 4-0 capitulations to Celtic.
Warning Daily Record readers of the doomsday scenario if the hierarchy can’t get a new man through the door, Jackson writes:
They could have a new man tied up and ready to start work at Auchenhowie by Monday morning. The list of candidates is already impressive. Some obvious. Others outstanding. One or two are both at the same time.
But given that the likes of Giovanni van Bronckhorst, McInnes, Rino Gattuso and Frank Lampard are all out of work and at the end of a phone, there seems little reason for any delay. Unless, of course, Wilson’s next move is causing confusion behind the scenes and becomes the subject of lengthy internal debate.
And if that’s the case then the prospect of Murty being rushed back out of the youth team’s dressing room on Monday morning and ushered back towards the serious end of the training ground, could become a reality.
And that really would represent a spine shuddering flashback to a time that most Rangers supporters would prefer to forget.
Let’s not forget, Rangers have a Premier Sports Cup semi final at Hampden in one week’s time. And not a first team coach in sight.
The only man truly qualified to step into the breach, former midfielder Kevin Thomson, left the scene at the start of the season when, frustrated at being left on the fringes of someone else’s little empire, he chose to go it alone in the fourth tier of Scottish football at Kelty Hearts.
That Thomson is already proving such a success at that level suggests he was being seriously underutilised while inside the Rangers academy.
If Rangers don’t have a plan let alone a new man by the start of next week then they could do worse than beg for him to come back to assist in a time of need. Because the thought of Murty holding the fort will not just strike fear into the hearts of the club’s supporters, it will also go down like a lead balloon inside the first team dressing room, where Gerrard’s assembled group will be hoping for a man of similar substance to step into the manager’s void.
Of course, it needn’t come to that. Wilson might already have his ducks in a row. The board might be ready and waiting to press the button on his succession plan. And professionalism may not have left the building after all.
The next few days will go a long way to demonstrating how much has been learned during these last three and half years of Gerrard’s expertise.
Murts has been coaching the u-18 side since Gerrard took over as manager.
The media ard like The Rangers fans: they have no concept, and don’t care, how this will be funded.
No club from Ibrox has lived within its means since the early 80’s.
When they did they weren’t even the second best team in Scotland, they were fourth or fifth.
The media pretend that losses of this nature are sustainable when clearly they are not.
They are addicted to debt and that is the only way that they can challenge the team across the city.
It’s insanity.
A club that found that cheating works and all done with the blessing of the SFA and SPFL. The governing bodies in Scotland have to be gutted from top to bottom they’ve helped perpetuate the same club lie, the 55 lie, just because people keep perpetuating a lie doesn’t make it any less of a lie. When a club is liquidated it’s no longer a going concern, it’s dead, deceased, bought the farm, defunct, no longer exists, only in Scotland could that fail to be the case. Despite what sevco supporters think they died in law, that’s not just me making it up that’s 100% fact. The new entity that replaced Rangers 1872-2012 is now following the same road but the still the cheating and financial doping goes on, and all for what, to stop Celtic winning the ten in a row. They’re conservatively £100 million in debt just to win one trophy, it has to beg the question was winning one trophy worth cheating for and probably killing TRIFC 2012? If there supporters are honest then probably not. I hope that every Celtic supporter at the agm push the board to instigate FFP regulations in Scottish football because it’s robbing every club and supporter of a fair product. If the governing bodies are condoning one club’s cheating then it proves they’ve no regard for the game or the clubs or the supporters who pay their hard earned money into their clubs year on year. There has to be a changing of the guard at the most corrupt domestic footballing organisations in world football and that can’t be allowed to continue.
‘It’s insanity’ aye, but it’s the Peepul’s way. Entitlement, we want, we expect, as befitting our status etc. They never see themselves as the rest of the world sees them.
All the kowtowing by the media and authorities just reinforces their beliefs and hey presto George Sq gets a doing. It’s why they can’t understand the treatment they get when they go abroad. The SMSM, SFA, civic authorities are shitscared to censure or sanction them because the Peepul exist in a state of perpetual rage always ready to be offended.
They should never have been allowed to inherit the mantle of the Old Club.
They are worse now than the Old Club ever was.
Our Board and their O** F*** business model are complicit, up to their ears in culpability. It’s not just Football that’s paying the price but wider Society as well. A hateful poisonous bile that bubbles beneath the surface.