I suppose this is what happens when your executive search is run by people with little real knowledge of professional football.
This morning I was told by an impeccable source of the identity of the key person within the Sevco High Command who has been tasked with landing the new head coach and director of fantasy.
I had to do a double-take as I couldn’t see what skill set this person could bring to such an important mission.
However, the vantage point and integrity of this particular source is such that I had no choice but to believe him.
Regular readers here will not have been surprised at the decision of Ross Wilson to turn down the opportunity to become the inaugural Director of Fantasy at Ibrox.
When he had a sat down with the Sevco High Command he asked about the size of his budget.
I’m told that he didn’t get an answer that included a number.
Another well-placed source told me that what attracted the Blue Room chaps to young Wilson in the first place was the potential of getting a scouting network on the cheap.
However, I’m told that there is such a thing as a “non-compete” clause in a lot of these dealings.
I had not heard the term before so I asked for an explanation.
Essentially, if a highly placed employee goes from one company to a competitor company, then they are not allowed to utilise the network they built up with their original employer.
I’m told this is par for the course in financial services and it has crept into professional football.
Whether or not young Wilson could have brought in his dossier of potential stars within the orbit of Planet Sevco is now academic.
What is undeniable is that today the post of Director of Fantasy remains unfilled.
Meanwhile, it is only the small matter of cash which seems to be stalling the arrival of Pedro Miguel Faria Caixinha.
I’m sure it will all be sorted out.
After all, there are no money worries at Sevco.
I’m sure I read that in a newspaper.
The Holding Company Vehicle is fortunate indeed to be benefiting from the over investment of Mr David Cunningham King.
Therefore, it is little wonder that The People hold him in such high regard.
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Looks like the fans will get their wish and the Sevconians will have to revert to a real “dyed in the wool” ranjurs bear to fill the DOF role!!
Maybe sevco are waiting for easter to pass …I can see the pictures now of the new catholic sevco boss leaving chaple on easter Sunday….
Napoleon Dynamite wants Ranjurz to “Vote For Pedro”.
I must admit that I am starting to wonder if Sevco are not entirely on top of their plans to recruit a new manager. But bless them, the papers are trying REALLY hard to keep some momentum in the story… As I explain here (if I may, thanks). Keep up the good work!
https://theclumpany.wordpress.com/2017/03/08/sevco-news-huge-if-true/
possibly your finest masterpiece to date . . sombrero !
Phil – unless your source tells you otherwise, the Portuguese gentleman will not be arriving at Imbroke any time soon. Who in their right mind would give up a gig worth northwards of £2 million per annum to take over a train wreck of a football club/engine-room subsidiary/holding company vehicle where the salary will be (and I’ll be benevolent here) half of his current earnings? An outfit with a history of getting out of add-on clauses such as paying a selling club a bonus based upon the number of appearances/goals whilst in the employ of sevco. And, unless Mike Ashley’s newly acquired Agent Provocateur lingerie shop outfits both Carol Kirkwood and Kawser Quamer in the finest silk and satin undergarments, then offers both ladies up as part of the deal, I don’t see him arriving with the intention of enjoying our Scottish weather either!!
But … but … Keith Jackson said … and Chris Jack said …
Surely, you mean Jabba said it via his Level 5 company?
Anyone other than Stewart Robertson would seem to be a very poor choice – no doubt dictated by the mendacious witness who seems to show Robertson little respect – how undignified.
Rumour has it that the bullfighter will pony up £200K-£300k to buy himself out of his tax-free job in the land of camels. One can only assume that an extension to that job is not on offer. So the idea that he is a red hot property takes a horn up the arse. Has the bullfighter been told that the money he is kindly saving the bears is in fact the entire amount of his transfer budget for the summer? Or maybe that is the elephant in the departure lounge of these holistic negotiations.
I like the sound of John Bomber Brown as DOF,
Alex McLeish ( EBT ) as manager and Craig Whyte as Chief Scout.
More generally known as a “Restrictive Covenant “, Phil. Appropriate, really, given their restricted finances with no credit line from a bank and the harking back to the myths of the XVI Century.
1690 was the 17th century (XVII)
Don’t think they had much going on in the 1500s, although it was The Dark Ages, so I suppose The Peepil would fit right in.
In fact, they could have assisted your 16th century namesake, who was wreaking absolutely bloody havoc back then, he was always looking for bloodthirsty maniacs who would happily help him destroy the odd culture and nation or two for a few baubles of silver & gold.
‘Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro Altamirano, Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca (n, 1485 – December 2, 1547) was a Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of mainland Mexico under the rule of the King of Castile in the early 16th century. Cortés was part of the generation of Spanish colonizers who began the first phase of the Spanish colonization of the Americas.’
If you know the history…
John Knox the murderer was the XVI Century and the acquisition of church property by aristos in Scotland led to the forelock tugging characteristic of the peepul to this day.
As for Cortés, well how very dare he and the boys conquer the cuddly Aztecs? (Do a wee compare and contrast exercise between the survival of indigenous peoples in countries that formed part of the Spanish Empire and those in the USA, Canada and Australia).
PS the huns died 2012.
You know what Phil,I am actually at the stage where I really couldn’t give a flying one for this mob. Do they really expect us, and the greatest donater’s to a pile of pish, that someone would leave a team like Southampton with a great system in place to attract the best players in football, to move to rifc with not a penny extra to spend on transfer and every month have to organise a chip in to pay the wages due to players ,ground staff and every other tom DICK or Harry who bleeds them dry, and that’s before the courts rule on any one of the many cases on a regular basis.
The new manager is willing, according to the press, spend £3000.00 of his own money to fly over and take up the reins, first class of course and he would need to spend another large chunk of his money to buy their next player as they are skint. and do not have a credit line to a bank, or even a biscuit tin
Ah Remember the war is over Real Rangers* men have won tweet! Or the exclusive interview with Dave king by an award winning journalist. Where he tweeted afterwards about the money Dave King was willing to put in on top of all the money he had already lost was eye watering!
Now what sort of news organization would actually pay their Journalist for that kind of tripe! Unless of course that news organization has a ready made deal with a nice steady money income from another level that pays for said journalists annual wage!
Yet ra people lap it up without question.
The award winning journalist never argues his case when it’s thrown back in his face but in fact has now joined other liquidation denial fantasist in publicly attacking bloggers! And of course again ra people will lap it up no hard questions asked!
It’s a funny old world. People trampled on talked down to and treated like sh1t. Yet they can’t see the wood from the trees!
Chris Jack’s tweet is one of the greatest things ever written.
Welcome back Wee Stevie, the computer guy! They must have bought him CM 2017 and told him to get on with it.
Phil does any one with an I.Q. of over 50 belive that sevco will have a new manager or a director of fantasy before the end of the season ???.
it seems Pedro or the “Portuguese James Bond” was exactly gone on the idea of been asked to pay the €300k compensation to his own Club from his own pocket….and then having to wait till season ticket renewal time to get it back (if get it back at all)…seems young Pedro Miguel isn’t that stupid after all.
Pedro being asked to buy his own Sevco blazer, tie and brogues led to a cessation in negotiations. it was a real deal breaker.