King makes 'astonishing' Rangers claim and slams Ibrox own goal
09/16/2024 07:30 AM
Dave King has never been one to pull any punches and the former Rangers chairman is back in the limelight.
After criticising Donald Park’s tenure as chairman, the man who led regime change in 2015 was content that the club were in safe hands with John Bennett guiding the board.
Unfortunately, things haven't quite gone to plan with Rangers a shambles off the park once again.
Dave King slams Rangers management of Ibrox farce
King, as reported by The Scottish Sun, is keen to get involved once again and get the club he loves back on the straight and narrow.
As the biggest shareholder, he still has more than just affection holding his attention.
Despite not naming names, King was particularly scathing in his criticism of the farce that saw Rangers play home games away from Ibrox as delays with materials saw panic in the boardroom:
"I find it truly astonishing. I mean, on a scale of one to a hundred I'm going to zero, that we could possibly have started such a project if we did not have all of the equipment.
"Just from a management point of view, I don't care if you're managing a Kentucky Fried Chicken or a fish and chip shop or you're managing British Petroleum, there are certain management principles in place.
"We should never have started the renovations.
"The management goes from the board to the operations manager.
There should have been supervision of this, there should be compliance and control of the environment around it.
"You don't start a project like that unless, after the final home game of last season was played, a team should have been ready to go in the very next morning.
"Being at home at Ibrox with our atmosphere, where we are formidable even against the biggest teams, is so important to the club.
"We needed the Champions League money, we needed to be playing at Ibrox.
"Hampden Park is soulless. I'm sorry, I know it's Scotland's national stadium, but it's still soulless.
"And if that material wasn't there, the chairman of the board or whoever should have turned around and said, 'We're sorry, it can't happen, the stuff is not here.' The project should never start when the key steel is still in China.
"We've scored these own goals, we've got so much wrong and what this club has got to do right now is get back to basics."
Can King make the changes that Rangers need?
Dave King is right, Rangers current structure only makes Philippe Clement's job on a daily basis harder, not being able to play at Ibrox only exacerbated that.
No CEO, no chairman, no academy director, three key positions, all of which currently sit empty.
Rangers, as Bennett pointed out, were given assurances by contractors that the renovations to Ibrox would be completed on time, however, with no experienced CEO or operations director, this was accepted at face value.
It has also left the club out of pocket.
Creag Robertson was promoted internally to director of football operations with King obviously not impressed with his part in the shambles.
With King suggesting that he could make a dramatic return to Rangers, Robertson, along with several others, will have to get their act together.
