Chairman Andrew Cavenagh defends the decision to appoint head coach Danny Rohl, but admits that the process appeared “clunky” from the outside.
Before agreeing to a deal with Rohl, who himself withdrew from the process before eventually taking the role, the Ibrox club was on the verge of appointing both Steven Gerrard and Kevin Muscat.
Rangers fans have criticized both the club’s sporting director Kevin Thelwell and its chief executive Patrick Stewart for their alleged roles in the campaign’s poor start, but Cavenagh defended their efforts in finding Russell Martin’s replacement.
According to Cavenagh, “I think the myth that’s out there that I’d like to just clarify around the names you mentioned is that somehow Thelwell and Stewart screwed it up.”
I spent every minute with both Gerald and Muscat, and I remember every phone call, every meeting.
And I don’t think they came because they disliked Patrick or opposed a sports director.
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However, while that was happening, it was obvious that Danny and I had reconnected behind the scenes.
While I’m happy to discuss this, Danny Rohl, the head coach of Rangers Football Club, and I’m delighted to see that our focus will be on who did come.
According to Cavenagh, some of the managerial hunt’s reporting was inaccurate, which gave the impression that things didn’t go according to plan.
He claimed that there is a disparity between what is reported in the media and what is actually happening.
Why did Gerrard or Muscat not reach a deal?
Cavenagh denies that Rohl was the third choice behind Gerrard and Muscat and claims Rangers never had a leading candidate.
There were discussions with a number of coaches in London, including Gerrard, Muscat, and Cavenagh, who Cavenagh said would have been delighted to move forward with five names.
He claimed that we had interviews with a number of excellent candidates. We spoke with a number of potential candidates, which you haven’t heard of.
We recently left London, having gone through a lot of meetings, and I told our group how happy we had five candidates, not the three that had been discussed, that I felt very at ease with, and that I would be great Rangers’ coaches.
When asked why Rangers were unable to close a deal with Gerrard or Muscat, Cavenagh characterized both situations as “complex.”
He said, “We didn’t rank people one, two, and three.” We pursued all five simultaneously because we had ten days, tops, to get a coach into the building.
“The job was offered by anyone,” asked the question. That is not how it operates. When you send someone a letter with a bow on it, you don’t have a big ceremony.
The American made the implication that Gerrard and Muscat were not actually hired because they were looking for different candidates at once.
He continued, “You’re working on a lot of different details at once.” You mentioned two people who are “complicated.”
They are traveling in the middle of the winter, have families, and must relocate.
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- 18 June 2023
