Who The Hell Is Running The “Transfer Strategy” Over At Ibrox?
You cannot have read the papers this week without falling over an Ibrox transfer story. All of this is highly unorthodox when you consider that the club has not got a manager confirmed yet. It begs the question; who is really running transfer strategy at Ibrox?
Mark Allen appears to be doing it at the moment, but there is no sign that he is working with scouts unless they are sitting in front of the telly. This guy is literally going through a list of players available on freedom of contract and approaching those with a Scottish connection.
That is not scouting by any stretch of the imagination.
And what if the next manager doesn’t fancy these guys?
They will be on big wages; when you bring an EPL player to Scotland on a free he’s not getting paid in chocolate buttons. These guys will be amongst the highest paid players in the country … and it is lunacy to sign them before a new manager has signed off on them.
This assumes that any incoming manager will be able to choose his signings in the first place, but who but a lunatic would work under those conditions?
It’s either one of these; it is signing a player an incoming boss might not want or it is signing players because the incoming boss has no say whatsoever in who makes up his team. Regardless of which it is, this is the dumbest way to run a football club I have ever heard of.
The need to look as if they are busy whilst those season tickets are being sold … it is an expensive sticking plaster.
It is another example of a policy which will almost certainly dissuade any half decent candidate from wanting the job. You may well get someone like Gerrard, with no experience of management, wanting it but it will end in tears. That’s inevitable.