Tonight, one door opened … and then swiftly closed.
A few hours ago, another “big name” target for Sevco’s vacant managerial electric chair was named; it was Giovanni Van Bronckhorst.
Who, last I heard, was at Feynoord and doing just fine.
The idea that he would walk out of a club which last year won the Dutch league to line up at Ibrox and take on Pedro’s Barmy Army was frankly ridiculous.
Within hours that rumour and several others were scotched.
This is a farce now, in danger of collapsing under the sheer weight of fantasy.
The names who have been linked with this job in the last week … Sevco fans are drooling. But then that’s not an uncommon thing for them. They need to get a grip of themselves, because this fairytale doesn’t have a happy ending any more than the Whyte one did.
Tonight, Sky Sports is reporting that Mark Allen has a candidates list on which no big names appear; the club’s “number one target” is still the Aberdeen boss. The problem there is that he might not want it and the club might not be able to afford him anyway.
Their club is not going to appoint someone from the top drawer. Nor someone from the middle drawer. They will go where they went the last time, trawling in the bottom one.
In case the fans have missed this, amidst the fancy names in the press the Graeme Murty and Derek McInnes bandwagons are already rolling, full tilt.
The leaks continue, however, from somewhere and all have but one purpose; to make the club look purposeful.
To make it look as if there’s something real going on here, something big.
To make it seem as if they are serious about bringing a real name in whilst they sift through a list of the dreck, the desperados they could afford and who would want it.
Murty will be on both lists, of course.
Tonight’s news on Sky, that the managerial search is likely to run into next week, is no surprise whatsoever to anyone who’s been watching closely.
They haven’t even approached McInnes yet; in the meantime, a long line of players runs to the press to talk up the virtues of their stand in boss and his new consul Kenny Miller.
Because as I said last week, that’s the preference for many on their board, that’s the “dream team” right there, especially for those directors who are tired putting their hands in their own pockets to continue funding this circus. You can’t blame them, can you?