I see that Poor Pedro continues to impress from the dugout with a very creditable draw against Kilmarnock.
The criteria for his appointment must have been exhaustive.
If I didn’t know any better I would suspect that perhaps non-footballing matters into play.
Did some in the Sevco High Command believe that the likeable Portuguese chap could be a bit of a rain maker?
Was the possibility of Persian Gulf investment one of the things that made the ex-Al-Gharafa chap so attractive to the Holding Company Vehicle?
Did Poor Pedro fail to disabuse them of this belief?
Meanwhile, Mr Wesley Andrew Foderingham will need to rapidly master the lexicon of Portuguese goalkeeping gestures at Murray Park before he travels to Pittodrie.
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Eberdeen is nice at this time of year lets hope Derek keeps it that way and tells his charges to give the visitors nothing. 2-0 ;). I also hope the good folk of Perth have a good weekend as well lets hope a country man of Henry The Navigator gets lost in those northern waters and gives you a chance of exclaiming Land Ahoy.
Apparently Pedro is being put up in the local Premier Inn next to the former Murray Park. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t mind a Premier Inn for a couple of nights stay when away on business but is this really where the manager of world class club should be holed up?
I thought Paperwork Pedro was recruited after the most exhaustive recruitment process in the entire history of the universe? He is clearly the best man for the job and we should give him a chance. On which note (if I may)…
https://theclumpany.wordpress.com/2017/04/06/give-ped-a-chance/
Room for a new YouTube channel methinks: Ped Talks, with the slogan: Manure worth spreading.
This has the making of a farce.
From Robertson’s list of outstanding candidates they have hired, alleged
ly on a 3 year contract, an unknown Portuguese manager and his backroom staff.
Apparently there are communications difficulties, some of the Ibrox players have little or no Portuguese as a language.
Double training sessions 6 days a week has not gone down well with the inhabitants of the training establishment that was once named after the knighted one but whose name has never to be mentioned again.
A pumping at Aberdeen, a cup exit and a final league defeat by Celtic will have the hordes climbing the walls……Pedro won’t see out the season if there are ST’s to sell.
There will be carefully crafted stories about family not settling, the Glasgow diet, the weather but hee haw mention of the promised warchest.
Again the hiring of a local number 3 and DOF seems the least of their worries with St J moving within a possible 3 points at the weekend.
King doesn’t have his problems to seek, perhaps he’s just unlucky in life?
Two drab draws against lower-half opponents. Second place slipping out of reach and third place under threat. When the crowd start shouting “he’s behind you!” to the bullfighhter, you know the laughs could end in life changing injuries at any moment.
Warburton must have cried tears of laughter into his sub-standard NFFC breakfast this morning.
It has been my settled view for some time that simple cash flow will finally does for new Rangers, because no Scottish body would want to or dare to deliver the coup de gras. There is an Uzi magazine of cash flow bullets in the air as we speak and ALL must be dodged to survive.
For the avoidance of doubt, if Rangers are granted a UEFA licnese and get to play in the qualifiers, it will do little to fix the tottering Jenga tower of a business that dignity dictates. I vaguely recall a previous chairman relying on an over-hyped new manager for revenue from an improbably long Euro run.
So relax – take the long view – follow the cash – enjoy the journey.