Wow. Just wow.
What did I say yesterday about Dave King being the cause of instability and chaos at Ibrox?
What better demonstration of that could you get than the announcement he’s literally just made, and which is splattered all over their website? He picks this week, the week of a Scottish Cup semi-final, to finally talk about the manager’s future.
He didn’t wait until the game was done. He didn’t wait until the dust on it had settled. No, he picked now. This moment. This week. He picked it because it enabled him to fire a rocket at the stand-in boss, prior to the match; win or clear out your desk, son.
Actually, read between the lines and it’s an instruction to clear his desk out regardless. King, it seems, has been hoovering up the opinions on the fan forums and he knows that Murty is a dead man walking. He’s taken the decision already and the hunt is on for manager number five of the Dave King tenure. Which has lasted only two and a half years.
This guy thrives on the fringes of mayhem. Really, where was the need for an announcement like this, today of all days? The club has kept quiet all this time, all the way up until now, and he drops this like a hand grenade as if the manager wasn’t already under enough pressure. You have to marvel at King, and the way he does business.
I said Sevco fans and the manager need clarity. Incredibly, this doesn’t even bring that. It’s a veiled threat, but it’s not a clear-cut message either way. King praises Murty on one hand and then reminds him that the club “demands immediate success”.
Right there is everything wrong with Sevco, everything wrong with the Ibrox job, in one simple phrase.
Demands.
Immediate.
Success.
Arrogance of the worst sort. Delusional rubbish. Say that to a prospective manager, any prospective manager, and watch him run a mile. On top of that, no incoming boss can be under the slightest illusion that King might not mean it, that he might actually have time to build something and gel a team and get things right; managers have fallen at Ibrox like tenpins since King was appointed. There’s no doubt that he means every word.
Who in God’s name would want to work there, for this guy, for this board, under those sort of circumstances? On top of it, King has pledged that the club will spend whatever it has to. Where’s the money for that coming from? Everyone over there is encased in a wee bubble that cannot be penetrated by the real world. How do they sustain their belief in fairy-tales like this? How do they manage to keep on going?
With the resources open to them, with the constant ratcheting up of the pressure, and with the grotesque ego and over-expectation over there, the job is poisonous. There is no other word for it, and based on today’s exhortation to the season ticket holders, who face having to renew without knowing what it is they are getting, neither he nor the club has the first clue how to detoxify it or their tainted brand.
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