Dave King’s latest comments are so ridiculous even Tom English can see through them.

Every now and again, I get some genuine inside information. And when I do, it’s usually rock solid. This isn’t “I know a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy” stuff. Several years ago, I got a piece of intelligence on the Steven Gerrard departure from Ibrox, and the source was about as solid as you’ll get.

What I was told was that Gerrard made the decision to jump at the first serious offer from a Premier League club that came along because he wasn’t loving life at Ibrox. In fact, I was told that his interest had already started to wane the previous season—yes, the season when they won the title.

He had decided that if he won that championship, he’d have done enough to justify leaving and making the next move in his career. And the person who told me that was in a position to know the thinking of Gerrard and those around him.

Yesterday, Dave King made his latest intervention into the Ibrox situation, and it was one of the dumbest that even he has ever made—an absolute travesty of an interview, so bad that it is currently being slagged online by Tom English, who has made so many bold predictions that the Ibrox club was just about to “turn the corner” that his own credibility is pretty much cooked in the eyes of most people.

As English pointed out, here’s a guy trying to tell the Americans who to appoint and how to spend their own money.

This is the same guy who also demanded proof of funds, so that he could convince himself these people are serious—King, who is deeply unserious. Not a single word that man says can be trusted or relied upon or taken with anything other than a grain of salt. And in the case of this interview? A whole cement mixer full of it.

His comments about Gerrard astounded me.

Gerrard “never wanted to leave Ibrox in the first place”? If he hadn’t wanted to leave, he’d still be there. Not only is it contradicted by the fact that he did leave, and in one almighty hurry, but it contradicts what I know happened there and how he was feeling about life at the club at the time.

So, I’ve no idea where King thinks he’s getting his information—if he’s getting it at all, or just making it up off the top of his head. I suspect it’s King doing what King always does: lying reflexively. But I do know this—what he said is manifestly untrue.

And I find it amusing that it comes in the same 24-hour period where the Record is now reporting that Gerrard is set to turn down any return to Ibrox because he wants to lie on the beach for another year. Which is hardly the act of someone who left the club very reluctantly and can’t wait to get back.

Whether there are tax issues or family issues is largely beside the point. He has other priorities, and a return to Ibrox appears to be way down the list.

That so many outlets couldn’t wait to get King’s comments on the record and repeat them verbatim shows how little these people have learned about the man. It’s a lesson they should have learned a hundred times over by now.

King does nothing unless it serves his own interests. This whole idea that he wanted to put the club in the hands of people who would nurture it and care for it? I don’t think you can rely on that for one second.

What is clear is that if he thinks he’s going to have some remaining shred of influence, he’s already been proved wrong. These people aren’t listening to King. They don’t care what he thinks. He’s a means to an end for them—the guy with the shares they need to get the ball rolling. The idea that men such as these would take that backstreet pickpocket seriously is laughable.

He talks about his legacy.

His legacy is the shattered state that club is in right now. What he’ll be remembered for is being one of the guys who inadvertently forced them into the position where the Americans look like the only way out.

And this is precisely the sort of scenario I’ve long suspected would befall them over there. Having scared away the people who actually cared about the club and sunk their own cash into it, no questions asked, they’re about to be put in the hands of people whose motivation is profit—and that might not be as nice a place as they think.

In many ways, I’m disappointed that it won’t be Gerrard.

I’ve written about this several times.

Gerrard does not impress me as a manager. Gerrard does not impress me as a person. He lacks scruples. He’s unprincipled. He has poor judgement and terrible taste in friends. He’s a panderer, a lickspittle to people you wouldn’t trust to keep your wallet safe while you went to the bathroom in a bar.

Yeah, he’s a terrible football manager. I wouldn’t mind us going toe to toe with him and ending this stupid reputation of his at a stroke.

But the fact that King bigs him up as some Ibrox uber-superfan loyalist who never wanted to leave in the first place just 24 hours before we find out that he’s turning the job down—that’s funny even by the standards of King’s usual clown act.

And when someone as dense as Tom English can see this clearly, then you know everyone can see it—even those who couldn’t wait to get King’s daft comments into print. Hell mend them for being so gullible.