Rangers chairman Dave King has announced he is to step down from his position in the new year as reported by BBC Sport, King said:
“I would not step down if the club continued to need my services and support. But it doesn’t”.
“Despite the personal trials and tribulations, I want to state that being the chairman of Rangers has been, by far, the greatest privilege of my business life and I will continue to use my shareholding influence to support the club and its board.”
King’s chairmanship has seen a series of courtroom battles against Mike Ashley’s Sports Direct and the Takeover Panel as well as an under performing side on the pitch until the recruitment of Steven Gerrard in the summer of 2018.
In his speech he confirmed that he will stay on until the resolution of his battle with Sports Direct and will continue to support the club and board where required, so, despite stepping down as chairman he will still have an influence in the running of the club.
Prior to King’s involvement and significant investment in the club, Rangers were a laughing stock both on and off the park, he has been responsible for restoring both Ibrox and the Hummel Training Centre to the highest standard on top of £30m being spent on the playing squad to bring it up to scratch.
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Rangers are grateful for the work that King has put in to the club during his tenure and took to Twitter to think him for restoring a sense of pride to their team.
Very grateful to Mr King for what hes done for us in 4 years bringing back big european nights at Ibrox & getting Steven Gerrard as our manager & built a very squad that we all can say thats a Rangers team thank you so much Dave King
— ???????????????????? ???? ???????? (@PedroMSVO) November 26, 2019
Thanks saving my club Dave king ????⚪️????????????
— Carlisle McVeigh (@carlisle1690) November 26, 2019
If anyone has ever doubted Dave King, just remember he came in to help us when nobody else would
He knew when he was putting £millions in to us that he was never seeing it again and said he’d keep doing so until we got back challenging again
Not many people would do what he has
— ???????????????????????????? – ???????????????????????????? (@RangersSparess) November 26, 2019
Job well done Dave King @RangersFC thankyou for everything
— James Fraser (@stroopdogg) November 26, 2019
Dave King is owed a tremendous debt of gratitude from the Rangers support – I say that as someone who was a sceptic back in 2015. Together with Park & Paul Murray he rescued the club from permanent ignominy. The benefit of hindsight eh?
— Paulo Dee (@PauloDee17) November 26, 2019
Dave King deserves a lot of thanks from Rangers fans, we were at our lowest n he’s came in, brought us European Football, we have a massive name in Steven Gerrard as manager. Got us back to where we should be
Let’s win 55 for him
Thank you Dave King!! pic.twitter.com/JCC90mtnJo
— Kevin Geddes (@Geddes1989) November 26, 2019
Some fans may have been dubious about King when he first took control but the dissident voices have long since hushed with the club in pole position to qualify from the group stages of the Europa League, challenge for the league title and contest their first cup final since 2016.