Five weeks into their new Revolution! Ibrox fans are calling out Andrew Cavenagh and the motives of their new owners.
From mid-February onwards all was happy and glorious for the loyal bears as they hung on to Keith Jackson’s Daily Record WORLD EXCLUSIVE that their club was about to be bought by the San Francisco 49ers and bank rolled into the richest club in world football.
At half-time away to Club Brugge on Wednesday the fans made their views crystal clear about Russell Martin with their side trailing 5-0 to the second best team in Belgium.
Three wins, including one against Alloa, in 10 matches proved to be tipping point, all of their fears about a WOKE manager had been realised with no-one at the club appearing to care.
This is the club where the online support forced out Giovanni van Bronckhorst, Micky Beale and Phil Clement as they played up to the calendar of managerial appointments and sackings.
Those fans also hailed Beale and van Bronckhorst as absolutely the right men for the job, back in February they were quickly won over by the sheer staunchness of Barry Ferguson’s management team even if Neil McCann’s Sportscene appearances was about all that they brought to the job.
There was no support for the appointment of Russell Martin, there was outright hostility.
When he turned up for the job wearing yesterday’s t-shirt and jeans without a pair of brown brogues in his wardrobe the alarm bells went off, this was the cultural mismatch of the century. Those fears have been realised.
On Thursday the Rangers Supporters Associated and the in-house Fan Advisory Board both called for Martin to be sacked.
With those pleas being ignored anger has switched towards CEO Paddy Stewart and his Director of Football Kev Thelwell. Above them sits Cavenagh and his mystical consortium, the main man Cavenagh hasn’t been near Ibrox since his coronation at the July 23 home match against Panathinaikos.
According to the Record he is either a tycoon or a billionaire, some might suggest neither.
Following the lead of the Daily Record other legacy media outlets and every fan media cheerleader was on board as they drooled over how quickly their club could get their hands on the Champions League.
Luka Modric, Ronaldo, Jamie Vardy and Josh Windass would lead the Revolution with Cavenagh profiled as the supreme professional with a ruthless desire to succeed.
True he would want to turn a profit but that would only come with success as he realised the power of the blue pound with millions of fans worldwide subscribing to watch the Revolution led by Souttar, Tav and Butland while kitted out in their top of the range Nike kit.
No dissenting voices were allowed, when Celtic fans highlighted that Cavenagh wasn’t actually the San Francisco 49ers they were mocked. Celtic fans helpfully pointed out that Jed York, the multi-billionaire Catholic owner of the real 49ers knew nothing of the Ibrox soccer club they were laughed at over their fear of the upcoming revolution.
As ever Celtic are the biggest threat to Celtic with the influence of the club Chairman keeping a firm handbrake on progress into a credible European force.
Martin was grudgingly accepted by some fans because the 49GERS knew what they were doing. Serious, hard nosed businessmen don’t get duped by a smooth talking car salesmen after seven rounds of interviewing. Or do they?
High profile recruitment never got off the ground, Jamie Vardy and Connor Coady never went near the club, both knew that Martin was a fantasist, someone more interested in his appearance and profile than the substance of delivering results.
Footballers are cynical, they can see straight through the fakes. When Martin talks to the media about holding strong conversations they are laughing behind his back and leaking team news to their agents.
Martin has recruited a job lot of lower league English flops to Ibrox that are unsuited to the demands and expectations as Tom Lawrence, Ben Davies and Rabbi Matondo.
Championship specialist Joe Rothwell has the appearance of a bin-man (refuge executor in Martin’s touchy feely world) that has just returned from a fortnight in Benidorm.
Max Aarons looks petrified, after failing miserably at Bournemouth and Valencia he isn’t finding the Farmers League any easier. He has become the best thing to ever happen to James Tavernier.
Motherwell and Kilmarnock would think twice about playing Manny Fernandez or Nasser Djiga, one cost £3.5m from Peterborough with the other being paid EPL wages,
Martin is totally inflexible in his style of play. Whoever the opponents, whatever the circumstances it has to be full-on Pep as he grafts together his new signings and a rump of inherited players conditioned to years of Chaos-ball.
Fortunately Michael Nicholson has left the door open by an accelerated decline at Celtic but not even the prospect of beating the SPFL champions is lightening the mood of the loyal bears, realising that they have been duped again.
The deal to bring in Cavenagh and his mystical backers was set up by True Blues Paul Murray and Dave King who both thoroughly checked out the credentials of the new owners.
King and Murray have been noticeably absent from the pages of the Daily Record looking for reflected glory for their game-changing move to hand ownership to Cavenagh and Co.
It won’t be too long before the call goes up for Real Rangers men to take charge, some high net-worth Bluenoses to bring the club back to more traditional values and a golden age of success. The one that ended in 2012 with liquidation and 276 creditors.
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