MANCHESTER, ENGLAND - MARCH 3: Patrick Stewart, Interim Chief Executive Officer and Chief Legal Officer / General Counsel and Director of Manchester United during the Premier League match between Manchester City and Manchester United at Etihad Stadium on March 3, 2024 in Manchester, England. (Photo by Robbie Jay Barratt - AMA/Getty Images)
The Daily Mail is reporting that Patrick Stewart has already been networking with key figures inside Scottish football.
Earlier this week it was announced that the former Manchester United legal chief was taking over as CEO at Ibrox with a dubious start date of December 16.
That will allow Stewart to bodyswerve the club AGM and the double-header against Spurs ans Celtic before he officially takes on responsibility.
Stewart can be assured of the usual fawning media coverage that James Bisgrove, Craig Mather and the legendary Dave Murray enjoyed.
Putting down a marker Mail Confidential reports:
New Rangers CEO Patrick Stewart won’t have to work too hard to develop relationships with senior figures in Scottish football. He already knows most of them.
After leaving Manchester United in April, the Aberdonian travelled to Euro 2024 in Germany where he broke bread with members of the SFA and SPFL boards.
Friendly with Hearts CEO Andrew McKinlay — another name mentioned for the Ibrox hot seat — Stewart made a positive impression on senior figures on Hampden’s sixth floor.
Rangers are also expected to announce Greenock-born Conservative peer Malcolm Offord as their new chairman in the coming weeks.
The two new appointments look likely to continue the recent improvement in relations between Rangers and the SPFL after a series of challenges and queries over corporate governance at the league.
Perhaps the ‘improvement in relations’ explains why the Ibrox club are the only Premiership club not to have the William Hill logo showing on their sleeve.
They don’t have the William Hill logo on their sleeve as there is no space to put on anywhere due to other shite being promoted.
On another matter now that was a good result for them last night we can’t deny them that,we would only look stupid and sound bitter to critise it,and we don’t want to be looking like them.
It was a good result but, feck me, Nice were terrible!
Michael Gannon at the daily sevco with his headline article he has supposedly penned,Celtic In On Field Crisis.
Is that the best he can come up with,we scored an goal and all of a sudden we have a crisis.
Just where is this fud every other game when sevco limp from one crisis to another,no doubt on a sponsored silence.
Please tell me Joker that ya seen that headline in a shop and didn’t financially aid them in any way !
Read it free on my phone,wouldn’t even waste that paper by putting it on the fire as shite doesn’t burn.
Good man Joker – Not read it since ah was on the night shift and that was ma wee Hibernian granny’s cast off back then…
And she’s at rest for just over 30 years in September there !
Even if he hadn’t already “broke bread” with these parasites in blazers, he could start his “networking” and meet with pretty much anyone he needs to in Scottish football officialdom all in one go, just by joining his local lodge and learning the funny handshake. As CEO of their favourite club, they’d probably even let him have first go on the lodge goat.
They still play the stereotypical Scottish long ball game in Europe, I think that’s why they get the success they do, its alien to most other clubs they meet.
Will he ask if they can keep postponing the fee for wee hayfever eyes Barron.
Networking ! Also known in Scotland as ‘ the grip ‘ …..how’s your badge collection size doing ? That type of ‘ networking ‘ ?
How long before the SMSM start ‘speculating’ that the new CEO could
be a link to bringing in loans from ManU?!
“Casemiro desperate to come to ibrox!” 🙂
The guy was out of work, no notice period, and undoubtedly already ‘unofficially’
dealing with sevco stuff.
Can’t blame him though: who would want to take the flak at
the AGM for someone else’s mess?
Nothing to worry about, United usually only loan their absolute dross to Scottish clubs – Saidy Janko (us) and Phil Beardsley (them) being typical examples – Diallo has since come on to a bit of game but wasn’t leaving a trail of burning heather behind him at iBrox….
‘Broke bread’ – Yep the perfect description for anything iBROKEs as they are fuckin truly stony BROKE !!!
The words ‘corporate governance’ and ‘Rangers’ look incongruous in the same sentence……
Paddy’s Workin’ For The Sevco!