Ah well.
Last night Pedro Mendes had a meeting with the Sevco High Command regarding his client in the Ibrox hot seat.
The good news is that Pedro Miguel Faria Caixinha is still on the payroll at the time of writing.
My understanding is that a Super Salary type agreement is in place.
This deals with the problem of the Sevco High Command having to find a large lump sum to pay off their manager and hisbackroomm staff.
The chaps in the Blue Room immediately contacted Lord Walter of Cardigan to come in and steady HMS Sevco.
He wisely refused when he was doorstepped.
Indeed he was emphatic in his refusal.
Pedro Mendes clearly oversold the abilities of his client to the Sevco High Command.
Consequently, this was never going to end well.
One of the selling points for Pedro at the interview was that there was a putative ability to access promising players from non-traditional markets.
Moreover, it was also claimed that the Portuguese manager and his agent could source alternative sources of finance for said emerging stars.
In the end, the Sevco High Command bet the farm on a dud.
Pedro, his backroom team and many of the players he recruited will prove to be a hugely expensive error for the five-year-old club.
I’m told that all of this will have to be included in the year-end accounts apropos liabilities in the twelve months ahead.
Pray for Sevco’s auditors.
Have a great day!
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it really matter he’s gone rip pedro hail hail B.R.
I say give Strachan the Sevco job so that when it all goes tits up for him too he has the ready made excuse that all Sevco players are not only ‘genetically disadvantaged’ but are also inherently backward and thick by signing for such a joke of a comedy club in the first place.
I’m sure the Sevco hordes will accept this with the same grace and polite decorum offered the little shite when he said the same about all Scotland’s peoples being genetically inferior to every other race on earth …
I wonder if he included the Irish born Scots in this insulting assessment of his or was he restricting it solely to the ‘traditional Scots’, ie, the Protestants in his squad ..?
Dave King, Paul Murray, Alistair Johnson………the gang has all turned up at the scene of the crime.
All we are missing is a wise man from the east riding on a white charger, waving a WATP banner and shouting ‘ for every £5 Celtic spend I will’……… You know the rest.
Got a way with words Alistair has.
Perhaps he could explain the corporate malfeasance carried out under his watch?
This is the man who when questioned on the DOS/EBT tax scams that allowed the recruitment of players Oldco would otherwise not have been able to afford, responded by saying that if the tax schemes had not been in place they would have just gone to HBOS for the money and signed the players anyway!
That’s the Rangers way, or rather was, the bank within a bank is no more.
Is it sociopaths or psychopaths that always return to the scene of the crime ..?
I only ask because I can’t make my mind up which of these two the RRM/Sevco guys are.
Of course, they might just be yer typical Masonic narcissists with short hands and long pockets but I wouldn’t want to insult any genuine narcissists out there lest I’m wrong …
Scene of the crime and the cops still standing around scratching their heads wondering whodunnit while the actual killers walk freely among them …
You couldn’t make this shit up.
Dear Gramey, Souness you realise that YOU, David Murray, Walter the Myth et al plunged this former football club into the merde the better.
The replacement “football club”, trading illegally, are nothing but a laughing stock. Your threats about the demise of Scottish Football are nothing but masonic guff.
Where are your ideas to make them viable again?
You’ve got none.
Their temporary team led by the Tumbling Tit Murty should appoint Mr. Custard too. Just go the whole hog. Make it a resl circus.
Mmmmm? Och it already is.
At medical school, first years do an exercise where a jobbing actor presents as a patient with common symptoms. The wet-behind-the-ears students with a dangerous level of learning must diagnose and treat. My eldest “killed” his actor by mis-diagnosis and administering lethal treatment. It’s a family joke that his heal\kill rate in on the up from -100%.
The purpose of the exercise? Diagnosis really, really matters. Take it seriouisly. Slap-dash diagnosis kills.
And so it is in buisness and sport turnaround situations. A quick, careless diiagnosis will kill the project dead – no matter how diligently the wrong treatment is administered.
It makes me hold my head in disbelief when I hear Alastair Johnston diagnose that Rangers have a manager problem. All they need is a Brendan clone to whip Los Amigos and the WhatsApp Old Boys into Celtic challengers.
Let me suggest an alternative diagnosis Alastair. The board of you club is suffering from stage four cancerous incompetence and duysfunction with complications of arrogant self-delusion. The problems of the manager are a minor secondary symptom. The only life-saving treatment is extreme and unpleasant. Even then, the prognosis is no better than evens. To be precise Alastair, you don’t need a Brendan. You need a Desmond, a Peter, a Bunnet and a decade of patience. You’ve mis-diagnosed the problem and the patient is dying a long, painful death for lack of appropriate care.
Alastair, your personal heal\kill rate for football clubs is -100%. Will it improve or will you kill again and reinforce the football family joke?
Who is the new company incorporated on the 13th of October called Glasgow Rangers Football Club Limited, company number SC578878?
And why is the only officer a Mechanical Engineer?
I am sure it’s not serious, but there must be some kind of funny story there…
The fast approaching cloud of 10 IAR is driving all thinking at Ibrox.
Pedro’s appointment was a bolt from the blue and only dug a bigger hole for those who hired him.
Super has thrown his hat in the ring for a position, any position.
With him and King being mates who knows.
The thought of King, Alistair Johnston and Super running the show must have Peter jumping with joy.
Park Junior will be relegated to the subs bench for his part in the Pedro debacle, for Newco’s sake lets hope that doesn’t upset Park Senior.
So end of the week, no sign yet of the audited accounts. Is there a dialog going on between the auditors and King, going concern note and all that or have one or more of the concert party decided that throwing good money after bad is not a very smart move ?
From Gary Ralston in the Daily Radar – “King will pay compensation, if required, to land the new boss and he will also be handed a sizeable transfer kitty to bolster the squad in the January transfer window”.
It’s exactly what the Bears want to read but “penniless” King will seek to get a jobless manager so no compensation will be required and the sizeable transfer kitty money is coming from where? Remember Pedro had to trim the squad he inherited from The Hat before he could bring in his own players.
It is this sort of “journalism” that keeps the Bears in a state of delusion.
Sevco are a new club.
Sevco are not Celtic’s rivals. Aberdeen, Hibs and maybe Motherwell are.
Sevco do not have a “back to where we belong” entitlement. As a new club it has not been anywhere to go back to.
Sevco is suffering now because it started life in 2012 by adopting a big club / same club facade despite being in the lower leagues and paying Sally, a trainee manager, circa £800,000 a year to take them on “The Journey”.
For a new club like Sevco not to win 3 games in a row is hardly catastrophic but it would have been for EBT Rangers 1872 – 2012.
Thank you SDM, SFA, SMSM, Billionaire Whyte, Sally, Big Hands, The Hat and Pedro.
Special thanks to SDM but strangely exempt from media scrutiny……begs the question why?
and so the exceptionally, very excellent mr graeme Stuart Murty gets his second chance
Souness punting his book interviews.
Seems to think that Rangers were put down a couple of divisions, though he had no idea why?
Sky interviewer should have asked him!
He can’t see things changing quickly unless someone turns up at Ibrox with a blank cheque. Perhaps the guys that are already in for £14m should have been praised for their commitment, considering the chances of getting their investment back is between slim and none.
And of course Scotland needs a strong Rangers, Celtic need a strong Rangers…… Our performance at Pittodrie renders that assertion useless.
Why doesn’t Souness and some of his rich contacts put up the big cheque?
Alistair Johnston just can’t help himself. Part of SDM’s failed board but thinks that the right manager will get much more from the current crop of players just as Brendan did at Celtic.
Really Ally, really? Wait till those Portuguese and Mexican players experience a Scottish winter, thats going to bring the best out of them?
The addition of Walker, Moult and McLean to the wage bill in January is being widely touted to help turn around their season.
Don’t they realise that to topple Celtic they need to sign superior players, not ones that wouldn’t make the Celtic bench.
I know we are well served in midfield but I wonder if Brendan will move some of them on and bring in the only player in Scotland who could add something to the mix…….John McGinn at Hibs?
Respect, Phil. HH.
Well done Mike Bhoyle, you were right about the board meeting, just stop the unfunny jokes please!!!
LOL, no hard feelings
You mean ye didnae like ma John Lambie story either Gerry….??
Aw naw…..:0(
Ah was gonny offer ye a complimentary for my stand up in Liverpool next month as well…
Ach well…canny win them aw….:0)
Thanks for comment Gerry….
Nae hard feelings here either.
Hail hail
Your welcome Mike.
I did give a wee chuckle, a wee one mind you!!!
Hail Hail bud
You’re now on to my back-stage pass list…:0)
Cheers mate
Hail hail
Good man!!!
Cheers
Hail hail
Big Sam being touted by the Bears as he would be a perfect fit!
That little issue he had when he was the one match England manager is brushed over and only became public because Sam had put trust in the wrong person……presumably the one who blew the whistle on Sam ‘ s moonlighting activities.
At first glance the removal of the Poundshop Morinho appeared to be a severe blow to the Pedro Mendes agency which has enjoyed the fruits falling from the employment of the Portoguese manager but hey look on the bright side he can now double his money by finding new clubs for them.
bon voyage, pedro
Sorry, should say vai con Deus.
Thanks for the memories!
Via con Deus Pedro.
Forget about Sevco and all the nonsense surrounding them. Did you see that MAGNIFICENT performance from BRENDANS CELTIC-WOW!!! How Proud are You
Exactly and no doubt helped Petrol to get pumped
Celtic were sensational last night, well impressed for the first time this season may I add!!!
To be fair sevco won 3-0 at pittodrie as well.Aberdeen are shit
Thanks for the comedy gold Brother Pedro , personally I thought you were doing a grand job well I take it you’ll be going back to your old job , bullfighting instead of Bullshitting HAIL HAIL
I’m hearing Pedro was given a no hard feelings Timmy Bear as he left Ibrox. The farewell gift was later spotted lying on a kerbside.
Surprise, surprise, everyone and his granny now asking why Pedro was appointed in the first place.
Oh they forget so soon!
Will the PR guru be urging King to publish the annual results in the morning, hoping that all the headlines will be around the manager’s sacking?
Once again the fans are being told that the club will take it’s time over the next appointment as it’s crucial that they get it right…….exactly what was said when Pedro was hired.
Stand by for another churning of the squad in the January window which will cost money…..coming from where?
If a British manager is hired will an interpreter have to be added to the wage bill?
The truth of the matter is that whilst Brendan is ruling the roost the best that can be expected of a new incumbent is second place……..with their sense of entitlement I doubt if that will be sufficient for the masses.
By the by, Celtic’s first hour last night was sublime and fair play to Derek McInnes for his frank and honest appraisal of the game.
A tack however he will be minded to avoid if he picks up the Ibrox baton.
With money in short supply I doubt if Pedro and his staff had their 3 years contract paid up today. Would it be a surprise to anyone if there was a clause in the contract to cover their early departure?
He would have been sacked bfor fore now had there been such a clause in his contract
There are only two options:
Win or win …
… or lose, then draw.
Pure comedy. Farewell my friend.
Who is funding Pedro and his staff’s severance packages?
He was apparently on a 3 year contract so maybe not a cheap exit for Sevco.
Sevco’s big risk in Pedro’s appointment backfired spectacularly but no surprise there. Note the GASL had no part in his appointment – no surprise there.
So 2 poisoned chalices available in Scotland now – the Scotland manager’s job and the Sevco job. For the former, candidates must be able to select tall players only and for the latter, must be multi-lingual and good at reading PR scripts.
No shoving at the back.
If you read my short piece carefully then you will have the answer
So are the people keeping the lights on at Sevco now also to pay the Super Salary deal for Pedro and his staff?
After Ashley sells Newcastle he would be free to return to sevco like a hero… as an owner ..if he wanted to… getting rid of King would be no bother to someone who actually has the cash. Then he could make Sevco into the second best team in Scotland fairly easily I think…… OK i’m paranoid …and I know it. Let’s hope it’s a real bluenose that gets the job.
Unfit and improper keeps popping into my mind with this toxic club. After a century of fraud, being caught, sent down and even buried, they still claim they are the living embodiment of a football club. I’m grateful to you for the updates and your specific talent at bugging the meetings and reporting with accuracy the ins and outs of the out and out corrupt Phoenix team, Sevco. Had Sevco entered the lower league with their boys teams, they would be emerging about now as a well drilled Anglophile community. The hilarity of Pedro’s claim of his teams being bullied has me viewing the Kung Fu editions of Bruno Alves career incessantly. only for Sevco could have avoid three red cards in one match. Primrose Pledged eternally.
Well done Kenny and the whatsapp clique. Since the Latinos started arriving the whole project was being undermined.
There’s a bunch of previous Ibrox twats who eternally believe the manager’s job (gravy train) belongs to a bluenose and no one from outside should be supported. The media appears complicit in this.
The problem with this is the fact RRM make utterly shite Managers; McCoist, Barry Ferguson, Bombed out Brown, …..
The cheap option is to give the whole Shambles to Miller and say there you go… your mess. He’s already on a salary.
It wouldn’t surprise me if Pedro is on his monthly wages to season end rather than a lump sum severance. This keeps him gagged.
Sneaky, any manager when leaving a club/company is banned from releasing any info re. severance payment. HH
And so the cycle started in 2012 continues apace. The decision to appoint McCoist then and place him on a massive salary now smacks of cowardice and incompetance in equal measure. An aspiring young European coach could have been appointed to oversee the building of a proper infrastructure to develop young talent and help build a progressive club. Then by the time they reached the SPFL money would be banked and a squad of gifted young players would be 23/24 years old and ready to take on the big league. But no, Charles Green needed money and didn’t want to lose season ticket holders who realised this wasn’t really Rangers they were watching. Now every new manager has the spectre of that decision looming over them. Instant success is required, stopping Timmy is a must even if it is to the long term detriment of the club.
And let it be noted that there is no more delicate matter to take in hand, nor more dangerous to conduct, nor more doubtful in its success, than to set up as a leader in the introduction of changes. For he who innovates will have for his enemies all those who are well off under the existing order of things, and only lukewarm supporters in those who might be better off under the new. This lukewarm temper arises partly from the fear of adversaries who have the laws on their side and partly from the incredulity of mankind, who will never admit the merit of anything new, until they have seen it proved by the event.
The Prince, Niocolo Machiavelli, 1532
Only a fool of supreme arrogance will take Pedro’s place with anything other than money-in-the-bank and short-term survival on his mind. But the usual candidates are on manourvers.
I feel some sympathy for Brother Pedro and his Undisclosed. His departure surely signals that the good ship Sevco is totally rudderless, and haemorrhaging money to boot. I felt the same with LeGuen’s departure, that hasty judgements in dire circumstances were made which reflected issues within the squad and the club rather than the ability or experience of the manager. There are some talents in the current team, Morelos, Dorrans and Jack perhaps. Whatever Bro Pedro was playing at, it was alien to the old guard at Ibrox and he paid the price for that. Perhaps Graeme Souness will leave off promoting his book and have a bash at it again? Now, that would be fun.
Obrigado Senhor Pedro Miguel Faria Caixinha!
I wonder if there are any barking dogs inside the caravan as it is driven back to Portugal lol……
Hail brother Pedro,he came and infiltrated the brotherhood,made them a laughing stock ,or should I say more of a laughing stock ,spent what ever money they could borrow,left them with a team full of Catholics,he is a hero in my eyes right up there with James Connolly ,and all the while making us cheery with his amazing team talks and interviews…god bless you Pedro
“A Super Salary type agreement” Does this mean he’s on gardening leave and will see out his contract on full pay?
I smell an insolvency event….real soon.
Whatever the Sevco future holds, we know one thing for sure: It will be comedy gold.
Just when you think that the Newco fans have plumbed the depths another zoomer turns up praising the job that King has done.
The poster comments that the only debt on the books is soft loans, not real ones!
Is it any wonder that they are a soft touch.
I think now is an ideal time to congratulate David Murray because without his efforts we efforts we would not have enjoyed the hilarity of the last 5 years, thanks Dave.
For a team only five years old, 4th in the league and a cup semi final is good going. Given time and more money, his team could have closed the gap on Aberdeen. Give Ferguson the job I say!(That’s the Barry yin no Alex hahaha)
Its almost as if you enjoy this Phil ??
Be interesting to see how many of Perdo’s signings make the squad for their humping at Murrayfield. The dressing room split will continue, only now the Brits will be in and the Latino’s oot!
The hilarity continues.
2-0 to the Jambos.
It seems just weeks since the scribes informed us of the vast improvement in the team during international week……hey ho.
Is Ryan Jack going for The Guinness Book of Records.
Some Karma there with Broadfoot on the receiving end.
Some would say Jack ended up with egg on his face taking on big Clubfoot and big Clubfoot knows a bit about eggs
The man could have secured us 10 in a row, to that end I will miss him. He did more for Celtic than he ever did for Sevco. I salute his dogs !