MURTY: KING WILL TELL ME HIS VISION
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GRAEME MURTY has revealed he will meet Dave King tonight to thrash out their vision for Rangers’ future. The Ibrox manager is planning to sit down for a dinner date with his chairman and plot the club’s next moves. King was in the Main Stand at Dingwall to see Murty lead his team back into second spot in the Premiership with victory over Ross County. Tonight the pair will reconvene to mark a strategy for the immediate period ahead. Murty said: “He’s going to tell me his vision for the club, how he sees us going forward. “I know where we want to go. I’m interested to see if we have a timescale, interested to see what, if any, business dealings will be done. The same things all the fans are interested in. “It will be a good opportunity for us away from the hurly-burly
of the game to sit down and get to know each other – a lovely dinner, probably a nice glass of wine.”
But Murty reiterated his own future won’t be high on the agenda as he added: “I’m a part of it until the end of the season.
“I’m sure if I do a really good job of it we’ll have another discussion.
“Until then I’m really relaxed. I’m thrilled to have the prospect of managing this group of players.
“If I can be a part of it going forward I would love to. But that’s dependent on me doing a really good job.
“It’s the same with any manager. I have to do my business properly to make that decision for them.
“If I do that, fine. If not, the chairman, as has been shown before, has to safeguard the club and make sure we move forward.
“I’m all for that because this football club is on the right path to where we want it to be. I want to be a part of that.”
Murty is set to address immediate transfer business before the close of the window on Wednesday.
The Ibrox boss is eyeing more additions having signed five in January.
But there is also interest in players such as James Tavernier and Josh Windass going back to England with suitors keen.
Danny Wilson is close to joining Colorado Rapids in the MLS and Murty said: “There will possibly be movement both ways but you never know.
“We have to be fluid enough to react to any situations because I know people are looking at our players. People want our players.
“That’s a good situation for us to be in because it means we’re doing something right at the club.
“People are coming and looking at our players, wanting to take them and enhance their own squads and I think that’s fantastic for us.
“But we have to make sure we safeguard the club first and foremost.
“In today’s market it will take a lot of money to get people out.
“Until you are prepared to satisfy our director of football and our chairman, they won’t be going anywhere because what we’re trying to do is build something.
“We’re not trying to get them in and ship them on. We’re trying to maintain a challenge in the competitions we’re in.
“If we can do that we’ve got a really good second half of the season to come.”
Murty will be able to enter his meeting in good heart after the latest success in the Highlands.
Rangers were value for victory after a sizzling first-half show and the manager said: “We created opportunities, we cut them open, some of the way we moved the ball were great.
“We just had to be more clinical and ruthless. I said to the midfield players we need a better structure behind our attack.
“If we have a better structure the forwards will receive the ball again and get another attack and we will build some pressure.
“We need to sustain pressure better than we did here.
“But we could have scored two or three in the first half and that wouldn’t have been an unfair reflection.”