Dave King insists that new American investors in Rangers will lead the club to the Scottish football summit.
The former president was the main number that started talks with American health insurance man Andrew Cavinagh and 49ers institutions, before selling his entire shares to The consortium, which took control of Abrox on Friday.
Reveal Sky Sports News He was also in discussions with a group of Saudi Arabia – but he was keen to get the deal with Cavenag and its partners.
The American Federation now has a 51 percent stake in the club and announced plans to plowing an additional 20 million pounds in the club, as Rangers asked to arrest Celtic, who ended 17 clear points last season and won the fourth consecutive consecutive title.
Rangers is also looking for a new president, who must be appointed in the coming days, with confident King that the new owners will get this decision.
Here is what the former IBrox manager and the largest shareholder told him Sky Sports News…
Why Cavinagh and 49ers?
“This group of investors I think 100 percent is suitable for the club and I say that now as a supporter.
“I am optimistic about the future, I think it is a person that the supporters can be left behind.
“I will not say this otherwise for supporters, and I really think the club is in the right hands.
“I think this decision was the right decision, otherwise I will definitely have its support and support for myself, and I think we will now return to the football top in Scotland.
“How long will it take? I’m not sure, but I don’t think long.
“It will not be immediate, but I think it will be done in a sustainable way even when we go back, we will stay again, and this is not what happened after 55 years, we went back, but we did not stay there.
“This time we have to return and stay, and I think this new investor group will offer it, I am really confident of that.”
Are there other options?
“I was in discussions with a Saudi group. At a somewhat early stage, I was satisfied with myself that they got the money.
“But the question, then, would they be the right owners of the Rangers Football Club? Will they be accepted for supporters, in my opinion, and did they have, let’s say, knowledge and experiences to move forward in the football club forward?
“They had the money. But what they did not have was the record of investing in football clubs. So I was still involved with them in the early stages of what the financial deal conditions might seem and how it would succeed.
“When I received a phone call from (former director) Paul Murray, he said:” Dave, I know you are talking to people at the moment, but I have someone I think you should talk to. “
“After a conversation or two with Paul, I got to know Andrew Cavinagh and where it was especially good, I ended up with a mixture of both the two things that I felt.
“If you look at any successful football club, there are already three main columns.
“One of them is your support and the only thing in the Rangers Football Club is that you have always got your supporters in good times and bad times.
“It was your second commercial football plan, how you’ll have already run the club, because supporters of the chairs and even selling the symmetrical groups are not enough to finance the main football club. You need a strong soccer plan about your transfer policies and excellent materials.
And then, of course, you need a financial plan to support it. You cannot do all of this without financing behind it. So you have to collect them.
“I liked my initial conversation with Andrew and then my subsequent conversation when Parage (Marath) and 49ers became more involved as part of the consortium, this type of mixed option, where I felt they understood sport. They understood the commercial aspects. They have done a great job.
“So I felt that I had this type of perfect formula. They had the financial muscles that we need now and in the coming years, because things are not always fine and need to be able to lead from time to time.
“They had football, general sports commercial knowledge and experiences. So my main focus of that point was to work with the group but trying to keep the Saudis in the background, only if this deal did not appear for any reason.”
How do you feel about administrative research?
“When you bring a new manager, I would like to refer to the Glasgow environment.
“Some people believe that this is somewhat fair, but certainly in my experience from Mark Warurton and others who believed that they got something Glasgow – until you reach Glasgow, do not get something Glasgow. Even a person like Stephen (Gerard) who came from Liverpool, where you think it is closer to something Glasgow.
“You can try to think you understand it, and you can talk to the people who were there before, but until you already get there, don’t really get it.
“So I think this is the factor that I will be careful. I think the consortium will consider bringing a European manager, may not have experience in Scottish football at all, this will go from the Champions League qualifiers to northern Scotland in a terrible, sports and terrible evening, and tries to motivate your players and get out of their results.
“I think this is a factor for me, but it is not something that 49ers realize.”
What is the following for Rangers men?
“There will be some cleaning of the public budget and debts and ensure that the public budget is more stable.
“Then I hope – and what I expect – to see it is a commitment to a funding plan that will witness a major investment in improving the team in this window, but it will also keep some of the money available to the coming windows.
“I hope and I expect the union to continue the discussions we conducted, which understands that there must be a continuous investment on a number of windows.
“If the idea is not only winning, but to win constantly, which I think is the plan, we will need the consistency of investment as well.
“So I think we have the right people, we have the right work experience.
“I think it’s a good opportunity for the club it is not a painting led by supporters.
“But against that, there is almost a supportive mentality when one is arrested in a series of bad results, it” launches the council, fire on the manager. “
“You are dealing with 100 percent of supporters, but they tend to be two or three percent dominate the media, and one tends to respond to two or three percent of the loud section of this spectrum of supporters.
“So I think that there are people who do not suffer from depression if you lose at home for a team that exceeds the table, does not change their view of the world, and I think it is a good thing for the club to move forward in terms of stability.
“Certainly, what I think is necessary for the new owners to move forward in this new world of modern football.”
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