Thankfully, the likes of Craig Whyte and Charles Green have been consigned to the history books at Rangers, who knows what mess we would have been in had they still been around.
Their behaviour in their time at the club means that they will never be welcome at Ibrox, however, this doesn’t stop them from trying to remain relevant, now that we are back on top and standing on our own two feet.
For some bizarre reason, they are still given a platform to share their nonsense with the world and, this time, it is Green who has been afforded that luxury on Talksport, as reported by The Scottish Sun.
The former Rangers chief executive claiming that he tried to sign Steven Gerrard as a player in 2013, yes, really:
“When I was at Rangers, one day I had a meeting in the Mayfair Hotel in London. It was full. Mayfair Hotel prior to Covid is always packed.
“It was Steven Gerrard’s wife. I gave her my business card as chief executive of Rangers and said ‘I’d like to have a chat with your husband’.
“Now, It never went anywhere but I had a plan and that plan was instead of Gerrard going to America – his agent pushed him that way – it was for him to come to Rangers as a player because he could still play at that point. He could probably still play now to be fair.
“That was in 2013 – these are the things that no-one knows.
“If you speak to Steven Gerrard’s wife and at least 150 other people in the Mayfair Hotel that would have seen that. It is on cameras.
“And of course you have met today [Jim White] some of my friends here. These are people with incredible wealth and this is what stage two of the Charles Green plan for Rangers would have been.”
Ahh, the old, “give the wife of a player your business card” method of signing players, no wonder we had such a bad squad in the lower leagues if that’s the approach that Green was taking, honestly, what a load of rubbish.
Does he honestly expect us to believe that this is how he tried to sign Gerrard? Why not phone his agent, surely that would have been a better approach or have I been playing too much Football Manager?
There seems to be a lot of things that “no-one knows” from the time Green was in charge, one in particular would be where all the money went that fans were putting into the club and why the training ground and Ibrox were neglected or why we continued to make a loss despite having no debts, a small squad and a full stadium?
Judging by his attempts to sign Gerrard, it’s little wonder he left us in a shambles.