I was messaged today from a good source who stated to me that Alex McLeish would be the next manager of the Engine Room Subsidiary.
If that is true then it would make sense.
Since he was sacked by Zamalek in Egypt he has been out of work.
Therefore, there would be no compensation package to pay.
I’m told that a few members of the Sevco High Command were feeling the heat at Ibrox yesterday.
Apparently, they will let almost anyone into the Blue Room these days.
Consequently, post-match opinions are often expressed through the medium of unsurpassed dignity.
Just like Murty’s players in front of goal yesterday, when you’re under severe pressure you often make bad decisions.
It is entirely possible the Sevco High Command might well be about to react in a panicked way to merely placate The People.
My understanding is that Mr McLeish would demand a salary that is greater than what both Pedro and the Admirable Warburton were pulling down at the five-year-old club.
I understand that the ex-Aberdeen stopper recent had dinner with a senior functionary within The Sevco High Command.
During that meal, Big Eck was left in no doubt about the parlous state of the Ibrox finances.
However, he still might go for it.
To the untrained eye, this could appear to be an utter shambles.
Developing car crash…
A wee addendum to my previous post.
I had been sitting reading all the recent blogs, including this one, when all of a sudden Judy Collins came into my brain and she was singing “Send In The Clowns” one of my favourite party piece songs. So, I joined her in a wee duet.
When we reached the last line everything fell into place.
“Don’t bother, they’re here.”
Synchronicity, Eh. Ah felt that I wanted to share that
Apologies to Stephen Sondheim. Hh
Apropos the last breaths of this rancid ,honking carcass and it’s hoped soon demise, my youngest brother always says, “ It’s not over until the fat lady sings, unless it’s a fat lady singing competition.”
How true.
Thank you sir.
It seems that a lot of old RRM have loyalty that is only EBT deep. The SMSM are rattling through the candidates at one hell of a pace and the bookies are laughing all the way to the bank as the gullibles create a new odds-on favorite every day. I can’t see a change of manager any time soon, simply because there is no money and there is no-one better than Murty who wants it.
Today, I’ll mostly be singing “People, Help The People” by Cherry Ghost
Sevco need a Manager that will turn out 13,000 just to say hello on his first day.
I will just leave that here.
Alex McLeish was previously sacked from RFC for delivering poor results with a much much more expensive squad. Whilst social tax cheating and never repaid massive bank loans.
Celtic now have a much much better and more expensive squad.
If McLeish EBT takes it then he’s clearly desperate for a poorly paid job. I reckon he really is the next loser mug. But is he sufficiently self deluded? That with zero cash he can win stuff in a highly competitive environment?
After all, we are told the Board takes no remuneration whatsoever for their efforts. How does Bouffant pay his hairdresser?
Was it Waddell told us a few weeks before the accounts that finances are not a problem ? Perception peddling chunt.
This chilly weather is discernibly slowing the Latinos Chico’s by a second or two. Like snakes they need their blood heated right up to perform. Not possible until late May 2018.
It’s an ongoing disastrous shambles and they can’t buy their way out of it and no-one is demented enough to extend credit.
If they fold then creditors won’t get their hands on next year’s season ticket money which is owed for this year’s operation. Which is spent.
Somebody offer them a million for Murray Park and see if they grab it. But beware, there’s loadsa guys claiming ownership.
It is interesting that Sears Roebuck, one of the world’s biggest businesses at one point is now being kept afloat by soft hedge fund loans by its CEO. Experts do not expect Sears to last beyond the Christmas season because the loans are unsustainable.
Sears will be liquidated. Closed. Shut down. The name added to the history books.
Rangers II will be headed for the same fate.
Whoever comes in – hope to God they ask for the salary upfront, as they aint gonna get it later !
If I was to sit down and try to make a cunning plan to destroy a football club and then another one I’m actually not clever enough to make one as nasty as this up.
I would have had to stop at make them skint and all their players leave because they were sold off……simple really.
But this, this really is two slow painful bloody deaths by a thousand cuts. What is more remarkable is that every single one of them is self inflicted.
This story is truly unbelievable and it continues surprise even amaze me to this day.
Just a random thought that I felt I had to get out there as the carnage continues. Maybe it’s the time of year but no one can argue it’s mind boggling stuff.
HH
Hear hear & Hail Hail, Zeddy.
And all that without even getting to the media lies or the cash heist …
It would be upholding Sevconian dignity to pay well over the odds for someone for whom there is zero demand.
Big Eck to stop the bluenoses greetin, they must have found a new way of cheatin
I presume the gameplan is to try to survive until February/March, which is near enough the end of the season that a liquidation event could be held off until the close season – allowing another re-boot experience with a new club. Going to the wall mid-season would make it very difficult to sustain the continuity myth.
The difference this time is that the football part (TRFC) is set up as a separate company to the holding company (RIFC), unlike last time when it was a single entity. So this time, providing they find a buyer (rather big if) , RIFC simply sell TRFC which they own 100% as a job lot and then liquidate RIFC. The football entity would remains as it is now, just with a different parent company. Somebody, somewhere will come in to buy it from the administrators, even with the operating losses and get rid of the loans and pesky shareholders. Institute a bit of fiscal management, get lucky on the pitch and then go for yet another share offering…. This time though the administrators might just need to sell it for a bit more than the break up value.
The dividing lines between the two companies are rather blurred, but the key assets ( players, Ibrox, training ground etc etc) are believed to reside officially with TRFC. All RIFC own is TRFC.
If you have a look at some of their websites it seems the Sevconuts have the answer to everything from the Disastrous Accounts to Not having a Manager and no Money . They want to go back to having an all Protestant club .They say get rid of the kafflicks and not just from ibrox but Scotland . These People are beyond help
Their plan will be to steady the ship until the summer but their toughest games are in December so that wont be easy. They bankrupted themselves going for 10 in a row now they are doing the same trying to stop 10 in a row. I call it the blue pound paradox.
The blue pound paradox that my friend is genius ???
It’s not game over until they get caught. The pantomine at this point is still on for Christmas, please, please, bring in McLeish lets see what he does when he cannot write the cheques he admitted were needed to compete. They do not get it the game has moved on old hat will not cut it, players are a different breed, you have to be abover their level, teach them things, improve their game and trade and impotrantly get results, if you do this this earns respect. Not one Celtic player shows their disappointment when not playing, they get it, you will not be overlooked you will be part of the setup no more, a cog in the wheel and you cannot argue if you look at what the teamwork is producing. You have to be respected, you have to earn it like your players have to earn yours.
Aye, ‘Fuck the finances, jist gie me the money!’ proving to all & sundry that Big Eck is, indeed, a Real Rangers Man indeed, right down to beyond the point where his arse meets his elbow.
The thing that gets me though is, how can the guy who was ‘let go’ from Zamalek in Egypt, who has NO obvious ‘financial bonus’ connections whatsoever, unlike ‘Friend of The Qataris’ Pedro or ‘Ex City Trader’ Warburton, and who uniquely delivered a Third Placed Finish in a Two Horse Race (with the help of multiple EBTs) ever even ATTEMPT to ask for more money than the two mental gents named above?
Oh, wait, I know why now:
It’s because, around Ibrox, they just love ‘swinging the (Mc) Leash’ …
Right ..? 😉
McLeish needed EBT payments by Mr Murray the cheat to compete how will he cope with a minimal ear chest
How many players will need to be offloaded to fund his salary?
How many more players will need offloaded to slash running costs?
Then there’s the roof repairs ,Pedros payoff and the imminent 12m bond needed for the concert party takeover.
If that doesn’t occur the cold shoulder treatment will have a massive effect.
Looks very like it’s game over (again)
It isn’t “game over” if someone continues to write cheques.
“If someone continues to write the cheques.” That hits the nail squarely on the head. The reality of the situation is that the guys who have been writing the cheques so far, all have finite resources. There must eventually come a day when they say, either individually or collectively, enough is enough, this is unsustainable in the long term. It must eventually start to impinge on their other business interests and that is when they will come under serious pressure from family and associates in those other businesses to call a halt. Pouring money into an unsustainable business model, which sevco is, is financial suicide.
The only way I can see them surviving is if a real billionaire with wealth off the radar were to step in. This would require one of two types of such billionaires.
1. A billionaire who is a RRM. If such a billionaire was out there he would have surfaced already.
2. A billionaire who sees a good business opportunity. This billionaire would have to be prepared to sink serious money, tens of millions, AT LEAST, before he started to see any return on his investment. These guys are a bit thin on the ground as well. Oh aye, he would also have to fool the peepel into believing that he was a RRM so they would buy into it. Ach, I don’t suppose that’s much of a problem. Just tell them what they want to hear and they’ll be right in there.
Na…… Sevco are fecked it’s just a matter of when, not if.
But why would they Phil? Anyone with a triple digit IQ knows that any money given (I refuse to use the word invested) simply goes into a black hole with no hope of repayment. Keeping the lights on for the sake of it is utterly nonsensical no matter how staunch you might be. My takeaway from the annual accounts statement was that DK is now an island and the sole source of funding via NOAL.
Prospects of him ponying up £2.4m ???
Their problem is that the cheques are big enough to keep them ticking over and no more.
Aye….and that’s where the flaw is.
According to reports over the years…they should be gone by now .
So….
Why are they still here…?
Something stinks…and doesn’t add up.
So….
Who is writing the cheques….?
And just to clarify….IT ISNAE ME !!
Maybe there’s a secret Tim billionaire out there just drip-feeding them enough to bounce from crisis to crisis until he gets fed up watching their misery and puts them out of it by calling back in his bawbees. Nah! He’d NEVER get fed up of watching them suffer!
Charger, you say Desmond, I say Murray 😉
(David Murray, not Paul. Or Malcolm.)
Ol’ Moonbeams publicly promised at the death of the oldco that he would ‘always be connected’ to he Newco in some way and here he is, using his ‘connections’ to steal yet again, this time some hitherto protected Green Belt land in Gogarburn to build rich folks a housing scheme while funnelling all his stolen millions through the Newco’s New Club’s books.
Ironside, unlike Elvis, never left the building, he just went for a spin round his bank accounts to see what needed cleansing..
I never mentioned any names Mister Green, I was simply indulging in some playful speculation. But now you’ve got me wondering what a good forensic accountant might find if he were let loose. Hector should have many such people.
Only one of the four Bears consortium concert party (King, Park, Taylor and Leatham) has promised to write the cheques.
Honest I really will he says.
If one bear walks away as rumoured and one is advised to walk by his boss, then Project Sevco is defunct just like original Rangers.
The gift that keeps giving.
It remains the greatest football swindle ever .
Considering Murray’s £168.8 million theft I’d add that it’s the biggest open air swindle, some might say, heist, of taxpayers’ cash ever.
They got away with more money than The a Great Train Robbery, ffs, and I’m sure it wasn’t just football that list out when the NHS, the schools, the teachers, the nurses and their own beloved British Military lost out on so much cash.
Squaddies dying in the desert due to inadequate equipment and all because David Murray needed a new midfielder just to compete with Celtic …
No wonder they’re jumping off the roofs.
Sorry, not ‘compete with’, I meant to CHEAT Celtic, to cheat them out of trophies, titles, Champions League places and all the tens of millions of riches associated with it.
But that’s alright, eh, Peter Lawwell, no problem there at all, now let’s just keep on funding Sevco through the Park’s Bus Hire fun route and we can all pretend that Celtic knew nothing about it, right ..?
Aye, right.
Celtic are above all that.
Aye, GA, and he got away with that one too.
How not even one Celtic shareholder takes them to task re their financial losses down the years at the AGM is beyond me, it’s like the Bhoys are as hypnotised by Peter’s bullish bullshit as the gullibillies.
Which kinda makes them gullibhillies themselves.
Do you think what he actually means is that Celtic ‘PLC’ really are ‘above all that’ in the same way that David Murray, DaveKing et al are ‘above’ all the things that they’ve done too?
Or am I just being unnecessarily ‘paranoid’ again ..?
Not paranoid.
Just silly.
Or a troll…
No, Phil, it’s always been my way to consider all the possibilities and I don’t do it for fun, as it can be totally debilitating at times.
As for being a troll, I don’t even know what that word truly means:
If it means someone who deliberately annoys folk, then you’ve got the wrong guy.
But, if you mean someone who, like yourself, tries to make folk see beyond the barricade of lies erected by guys like Jabba and the media at large, then I’ll happily cop a Guilty plea to that and hope that others would stand beside me in the dock to show them that, by our strength in numbers, we’re no longer falling for their nonsense, as most of your readers do.
Also, I’ve spent a lot of words on here showing my appreciation for your work, and the thoughts of your readers, so if you think I’ve anything to do with other things going on today then you DEFINITELY have the wrong guy.
Take it easy.
And keep up the fine work.
I so hope this is true another clueless and inept manager awaiting to take up the reins at the 5 year old club….looking forward to more laughs along the way will he achieve the magic 3 in a row?
Will Sevco put three stars above the crest on their shirts if they do manage to win three games in a row?
😀 😀 😀
Add 3 to the 5 ..?
That would be a not so excellent choice
Aye right said TED,we ALL have your number,the “they” when it should’ve been “we” if you were a true faithless loyalist.
Michael,Big Eck is Alex McLeish,a previous rfc manager.
It is also very refreshing to see that even the perilous state of sevco finances atm hasn’t lightened Big Ecks wage demands;a rrm in action for all to see.
Bravo Phil☮️
How about Manager Of The Month for November?
Exactly. They have an exceptionally excellent guy in charge who will stop 7 in a row, win manager of the month by bringing maximum points from figures against Hamilt…..no wait ……?!!!
A rather benign appointment who would deliver a steady third place.
Strange if he can still demand a large salary though – considering Coyle is of a similar calibre and no doubt on less than 100k in Dingwall
Coyle at Govan….??
Aye right.
As for Big Eck…
Please give him the job Sevco….PLEASE !!
I heard from a reliable source Steve Clarke at Killie was on around £4K a week just to get back into managing again !
The Ibrox finances were allegedly needing an immediate injection of funds this month , pay day this week will likely be a stretch & Pedro & Co. will be needing paid !
They will have less walk up and pay coming in with recent performances & a few difficult games coming up that they may struggle to get any points for the rest of this year !
The Grinch is hovering over their festive season !