Ibrox chief Bennett hits out over celebrity Sporting Director as Souness waits for his phone call

John Bennett made what could be a dig at Graeme Souness by saying that the Ibrox Tribute Act won’t be appointing a celebrity Sporting Director.

Ross Wilson left for Nottingham Forest back in April which left the summer recruitment in the hands of Micky Beale.

After celebrating every big name arrival brought in by Beale bears are now furious at the process which has left Philippe Clement with some expensive long term duds and drained the transfer war-chest.

Since the summer Graeme Souness has been on the look out for a new salary, holding talks with James Bisgrove but unable to come to any agreement.

After The Brains Behind Gerrard was sacked Souness got involved in the process to appoint his successor, unfortunately he preferred Frank Lampard to Philippe Clement and went public with that on TalkSPORT.

Covering today’s AGM the Daily Record at 11.32 reports:

Bennett on why it took so long to find Ross Wilson replacement – James Bisgrove and I led exhaustive process. It has to be right for both parties.

“It’s lost on no one that its recruitment we have to get right – not sporadically, but systematically. Some people want to be a celebrity sporting director. We don’t need that, we don’t want that. It’s recruitment we need to fix.”

Souness hasn’t had a direct job in football since the publication of the Stevens Report in 2007.