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Dave King accuses Rangers board of botching Ibrox work and blames 'soulless' Hampden for UCL failure
Dave King has accused the Rangers boardroom of botching the Ibrox stands work and costing the club their spot in the Champions League.
The former chairman has watched from afar as the hierarchy made a mess of the summer renovations to the Copland Road stand with the materials being delayed in delivery which forced the club to play their 'home' games at Hampden Park. The Light Blues lost their UCL qualifier with Dynamo Kyiv at the national stadium and King believes that comes down to the "soulless" atmosphere inside the stadium.
King - who last night revealed he'd be open to a stunning return as chairman to replace the outgoing John Bennett - believes the club should not have started the work until they had a guaranteed return date and plan as well as the materials in place. And it's that sort of mismanagement that has cost the club dearly.
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“I find it astonishing, I mean on a scale of one to a hundred I'm going to zero, that we could possibly have started a project if we did not have all of the equipment,” he said.
“Just from a management point of view, I don't care if you're managing a Kentucky Fried Chicken, fish and chip shop or you're managing British Petroleum, there are certain management principles in place. We should never have started the renovations.
“The management from the board to the operations manager and there should have been supervision of this, there should be compliance, control environment around it.
“You don't start a project like that unless, when we finished the first game of last season, mid-May whenever it was at home, within a minute or the next morning that team should have been in. Because being at home at Ibrox with our atmosphere, where we are formidable, even against the biggest teams, we are formidable at Ibrox.
"We needed the Champions League money, we needed to be playing at Ibrox. Hampden Park is soulless, I'm sorry, it's our national stadium, but it's soulless. And if that material wasn't there, the chairman of the board or whoever should have turned around to the poor and said we're sorry, it doesn’t happen if the stuff is not here. We cannot start this project knowing the key steel is still in China. We've scored these own goals, we've got so much wrong and what this club has got to do right now is get back to basics.”
