Manager of Rangers Chairman Dave King before the Betfred Cup Semi Final at Hampden Park on October 22, 2017 in Glasgow, Scotland.Photo by Steve Welsh/Getty Images
Dave King is on Rangers board warpath but fails to hit the target witth £50m funding claim
Rangers aren’t quite a club in turmoil, but they could do with everyone who has the club’s best interests at heart pulling in the same direction.
Off the field, it is a mess, there is no denying that with communication from the board to the fans almost non-existent.
It didn’t take Dave King long to throw his hat into the ring for the vacant chairman role after John Bennett resigned due to ill health.
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Dave King is on Rangers board warpath again
King has never been shy and retiring, however, his latest media release might just be his most explosive yet.
And it does Rangers no favours at all.
Other than Bennett, King doesn’t miss as he fires a volley of criticism at the current Ibrox custodians.
Speaking to The Rangers Review, King has called out the current directors as he fears that the gap to Celtic is only going to get bigger:
“We need to find the right CEO and construct an executive team that will take the Club forward.
“Using a recruitment agency will be counter-productive and expensive. This decision again reinforces the disconnection of this board from reality and its inability to get recruitment right.
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“I completely understand why some influential board members don’t want me back. They know from past experience that I would not tolerate board members who are only in it for the ‘jacket and tie’ and don’t actually want to do any real work. If the board can, for once, set aside self-interest and put the supporters first, then I offer a challenge.
“Urgently call an Extraordinary General Meeting (as I did to get Mike Ashley out) and put yourselves up for re-election. I will in turn put up my nominations, including myself. None of the existing board members (who presently protect each other) can vote and neither will I. John Bennett and George Letham would also be excluded from voting for obvious reasons. In that way we can leave it to supporters (for once) to decide who they want to run their Club.
“Yet, those same faceless people want the chance to do it all again,” King said.
“When John Bennett took over he tried to turns things around – but had no human or financial resources to support him.
“It is amazing that the same people who got us into this trouble want to continue control by placing, as a professional Chairman, their own puppet – who will have no knowledge of the Club or financial interest in its future. We are sleepwalking Celtic towards title 55, 56 and 57 instead of trying to stop them. This board will go down as an infamy in the Club’s history.
“I estimate that the Club needs a minimum of £50million to achieve our short to medium term objectives but that could never be raised under the present board structure. The funds we need must come from a far wider and wealthier base and from parties that will be willing to invest more (over time) to take the Club forward and to become a modern age football club.”
King doing himself and Rangers no favours
Where do you start?
As Rangers biggest shareholder, King has every right to be annoyed at the current state of the boardroom and executive level management.
There is only one person who gains from this sort of outburst though.
Those who would look to stir trouble.
King had a lot of good will when he spoke earlier about the mismanagement of the Ibrox redevelopment.
He was positive and spoke with passion about how the club can move forward.
Now, he just comes across as a jilted ex after it emerged that he wouldn’t be offered the job as chairman.
There are clearly personality clashes within the boardroom, this shouldn’t have any bearing on how the club is run though.
One way or another, the main powerbrokers at Rangers need to work together.
They are successful business men but currently arguing about whose ball it is.
Rangers need to restructure and reorganise quickly and this isn’t the way to do it.
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