Ibrox fans have been warned not to expect a new manager this week.
Last night the usual suspects all informed their readers that John Bennett and James Bisgrove were in London this week to interview candidates for the job created by the sacking of Micky Beale.
Apparently four candidates are in contention for the job led by Kevin Muscat, Philippe Clement, Scott Parker and Pascal Jansen.
Since losing to Celtic on September 3 Beale has been a dead man walking but five weeks later it seems that the Ibrox board are struggling for a replacement with Frank Lampard opting out last week after meeting with Bisgrove and Graeme Souness.
Today, Sky Sports reported:
Rangers have been whittling down an extensive shortlist that has been in place for months, as part of the club’s succession planning process.
While a new manager could be named later this week, there is every chance the process may extend into next week with the club’s focus on making the correct long-term appointment rather than rushing the process.
The majority of Rangers’ players will return to training next week ahead of facing Hibernian at Ibrox on October 21.
John Souttar and Jose Cifuentes are the only players from yesterday’s side that are away on international duty, this week will be holiday time for the squad that got Beale sacked.
With the four named candidates likely to ask some awkward questions it seems unlikely that a replacement will be named this week.
In that case the decision will be to continue with Steve Davis and Alex Rae or turn to Billy Davies, David Martindale or Derek McInnes.
Hahaha! “Rangers have been whittling down an extensive shortlist that has been in place for months, as part of the club’s succession planning process.” What a load of absolute p1$h! For a start, if you’re ‘shortlist’ is ‘extensive’, you’ve misunderstood the concept…. what you have is just a list, or maybe a long list….
And they must have stumbled across the term ‘succession planning’ in a book and liked the sound of it – what they’ve done is in fact antithetical to succession planning: they panicked, sacked the manager they’d just financed and plugged the gap with a couple of braying donkeys as caretakers while they scratch around desperately looking for a ‘big name’ they can convince to take the gig, before giving up and turning to McInnes, Neilson, Eck McLeish or Billy Davies .
Oh man, I’m running out of popcorn, this pantomime is just brilliant!
They were getting excited about it earlier on Clyde Superscoreboard but it’s that clown miller on in his hopeless drawl talking in riddles as usual…
Enough to normally switch off but definitely have now – The Motherwell guy has just repeated ad nauseam “0^d Fi#m this O#d F#rm to do with some teaser quiz…
I just switched off – Hopefully they’ll be an improvement the next time…
The other guy somebody called Rodger ? seemed to talk the most sense whoever he is !
hey went to london to to interviews through a video link !!! HAW !!! twould make the jelly spogs jump outta the bag with laughter !! chortle
Surely the media would be hanging about where allegedly these meeting are taking place to capture any candidates or even directors coming and goings???? Why London to do video links? Have they not got the best internet access at ibrokes?
I think their WiFi bill is still unpaid and subject to one of their many ongoing court cases. Maybe their 3G club Nokia’s were struggling to get a signal too.
This site for comments is deplorable, raskin stop talking out u,r arse gives u a tan around that big hole in u,r ugly mush , you,s will remain trophyless again