GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - SEPTEMBER 01: Former Rangers player Barry Ferguson during a William Hill Premiership match between Celtic and Rangers at Celtic Park, on September 01, 2024, in Glasgow, Scotland. (Photo by Alan Harvey/SNS Group via Getty Images)
Barry Ferguson has been teasing bears with a timeline on when they can expect to have a functioning football club.
Soon after Celtic won the Scottish Cup Final at Hampden in May James Bisgrove walked away from the job of CEO, since then Chairman John Bennett has did likewise with Creag Robertson expected to resign as Director of Football Operations.
The club is also without an Academy Director but they do have Ferguson as an Ambassador, sharing his wisdom with listeners to Go Radio and readers of the Daily Record.
Listening to his appearance on Go Radio, Ibrox News reports Ferguson saying:
Listen, I just think it’s one of those things in football. I think Rangers need to get a CEO in as soon as possible.
I think John Gilligan has been clear he is not just going to bring anybody in, they are going to have to go through a clear process. That is what they are doing. I think in the next number of weeks you will see a CEO through the door and after that, it will be the chairman.
With no one in charge at Ibrox it is difficult to imagine Ferguson getting the inside track although the phrase ‘as soon as possible’ could easily stretch into 2025. Like Kris Boyd he likes to start sentences with the word Listen.
The Annual Report to 30 June 2024 has still to be published, anyone taking on the job of CEO will be expected to put their name to accounts expected to report losses of around £20m with the possibility of the Report carrying a Going Concern warning to shareholders.
St Mirren vice Chairman Jim Gillespie was heavily linked with the job before taking cold feet, in August former Chairman Gilligan claimed that the appointment of a CEO was imminent.
Whoever gets the salary can count on Ferguson for support as he explains how beating Selik meant the world to him, send him on a high for weeks or heading down to the supermarket in his club shellsuit after a defeat to demonstrate how staunch a Rainjurz man he is who is pure hurting inside for the next Glasgow Derby.
Ferguson has been out of football management since February 2022 after mutually consenting from Alloa.
The FUD has speaked…Told us absolutely nothing…Got well paid for it..All Hail the FUD.
We should have signed his nephew. Firstly because he’s a decent player with scope for improvement under a decent coach and secondly just to watch wee Barry armband’s staunchness rating take a pounding as he ties himself in verbal knots with his limited vocabulary and even more limited cognitive bandwidth…..
Good shout about his nephew…But I wonder if his staunchness got in the way…Did we speak to him…??…Guess we’ll never know.