Apparently Smiffy knocked them back.
Derek is the bookies favourite but there is an elephant in the room now at sevco. They now have a director of football who wasnt there when pedro was appointed. He is going to have a big say on the new manager unlike before when it was a committee set up by the board.
There are many managers who don't like that set up.
I’m not just talking about last night he has had a good squad here for a couple of years and even when they were a bit naff they still finished 15-20 points ahead of us.
They maybe spent 10 million in the summer but are they any better than us?
There wouldn’t be much in it so I can’t see him being able to get much closer to Celtic there than he has with us.
King has no money. His lawyer stated that only the other day. Even this so called £10m they spent in the summer… I guarantee it was nothing even close to that. It was all just paper and media talk.
The reality is that Sevco fans see their club one way. They see it as an institution, a club steeped in history, a club that wasn’t put into liquidation, the most successful club in the world… 54 titles blah blah blah. The real world doesn’t see them like that, hence why no one with any real money has ever tried to buy them.
Because Sevco fans see their club that way, they feel they have a divine right to be challenging for the title. The likes of McInnes as manager scares them because they feel they should be attracting someone of Brendan Rogers calibre. The talk of Pulis, Pardew, et al is all part of that train of thought. They of course are nowhere as attractive a club as Celtic and they cant stand that !!
Time for them to live in the real world.
Sevco have a DoF, remember; cannot see DM working under one of them