The Dalai Lama in Delaware

Well, that’s that then.

Russell Martin is the FNG at Sevco!

My compliments to the scriptwriters at Ibrox.

Not only have they already wrapped up the Close Season Cup, but they’ve also laid their quintessentially British mitts on the Most Incongruous Head Coach Cup.

I suspect that a vegan Green Party member who is a practising Buddhist ticks the box marked “woke foreign ideologies”.

The new Sevco supremo is one of around 535 million adherents of this most fascinatingly enigmatic belief system.

Founded by Siddhartha Gautama, meditation and peace are central to Buddhism.

The Lord Buddha’s first ever sermon seems appropriate for the Ibrox klanbase:

1. All worldly is unsatisfactory and contains suffering.
2. Suffering is caused by attachment or desire, which stems from ignorance.

Unlike for most of the 20^th century at Ibrox, Russell  Martin was not selected on the basis of his religious affiliations.

The vegan thing might explain the absence of brogues at his presser.

Controversial!

My take is this is a thoroughly decent guy in the wrong movie.

Here he uses the S word.

“To help the club be sustainable”( 06.40)

Sustainable.

That’s a key objective for this new regime.

In the joint letter to the fans, Messrs Cavenagh and Marathe used the word “sustainability” twice.

As I have often stated here, a financially sustainable Sevco is Simply The Second Best in the SPFL.

Is that good enough for the new owners?

Well, in a couple of weeks, the corporate structure of the basket of assets disappears into the Delaware darkness.

 

Consequently, all that will be discernible is the public data, and recruitment will be a significant part of that evidence.

That will be a key identifier of what the new owners are about.

However, let’s take a couple of things off the table from the get-go.

These guys have no emotional connection to Rainjurrz.

Consequently, the soft investment that kept HMS Sevco afloat after the Off Licence Putsch is now a thing of the past.

Neither is this an exercise in sportswashing (e.g. Manchester City, Newcastle United or PSG).

What we’re left with are some private equity investors from across the Pond who want to increase the size of the initial investment.

Consequently, what the local media SHOULD be asking is this:

How does the Cavenagh consortium make money from the Ibrox business?

Recently, Rugger Guy reminded me of an abortive attempt to raise finance in early 2014, when Graham Wallace and Philip Nash travelled to the Square Mile.

One of the things they wanted to do was a sale and leaseback on the stadium and training ground.

However, at the time, Craig Whyte’s Sevco 5088 had a putative claim on those prime bits of dignified real estate.

Consequently, it was, at that time, encumbered.

Therefore, it didn’t progress past that stage.

I recall at the time that the Ibrox klanbase was incensed that the stadium Mr Bomber played for could be part of something so tacky and, well, undignified.

The thing is, if such a deal happens after June 23rd, only a few people will know about it, and they don’t reside in Fair Caledonia.

Of course, the intrepid chaps in the Stenography Corps will facilitate their wish to remain private.

The last thing the succulent ones want is to uncover a genuine story at Ibrox.

I have already posed some questions apropos the new regime at Svco that should be asked by the local media.