Barry Ferguson being hired by Rangers is the best thing that has happened to Celtic since Philippe Clement got the job.
Ferguson is best known for his idiotic punditry comments and his failures at top jobs like Kielty Hearts, Alloa and Clyde so when he landed the Ibrox job after Rangers sacked Clement, he must have thought he had won the lottery.
Celtic fans are loving what they are watching as Ferguson assembled the EBT Amigo’s to help him take charge of Rangers as they look to close the gap to Brendan Rodgers before the end of the season.
However, not fooled by this appointment, Simon Jordan, and to be fair to Martin Keown who also filleted Ferguson’s appointment, the talkSPORT pundit was quick to critically analyse the move as he made a claim about Rangers Celtic fans will love.
Celtic fans will love Simon Jordan’s superb ‘rebooted’ Rangers rant
Jordan told talkSPORT, “With respect to him, he doesn’t know what this club’s about. He hasn’t been there for 16 years and the club that he represented has gone back down to several divisions, been rebooted, reimagined and put back into existence.
“So it’s not the Rangers that Barry Ferguson once represented. There was a dominant force in Scottish football and was seated in a different dynamic. It’s still got the fan base and all the luster, but it’s not the same club.
It’s got the same fans, not got the same owners. It doesn’t have the same perspective. It doesn’t have the same focus that it had before.”
Simon Jordan said Barry Ferguson being hired to take on Celtic looks strange ‘from the outside looking in’
Jordan didn’t stop there though. The former Crystal Palace owner went on to say that the decision to hire Ferguson considering his managerial record is very strange.
“Now, if this is the way that they think they’ve got to go, then it’s up to them to make that decision,” continued Jordan, “But looking from the outside in, which is what we’re doing, it doesn’t manage very well. He hasn’t managed for two years and you’ve got European games coming up.
“You’ve got your chief executive saying we want to do nothing to derail the European competition. So basically, the players are going to decide how they play from next three months.”
Isn’t it strange that all the critique of Ferguson’s appointment has come from south of the border whilst the succulent lamb fraternity in Scotland lap this up? They are an embarrassment to journalism but to be honest, their silence is all the better for Celtic because in all likelihood, the former Rangers captain will be binned before the end of the season and the Ibrox club will need to start again.
