Killie chairman confirms Dyer to be permanent boss
Kilmarnock chairman Billy Bowie has confirmed that Alex Dyer will be the club’s permanent boss.
The Englishman took over until the end of the season when Angelo Alessio was fired just before Christmas.
Although Killie only won three Premiership matches out of 12, Bowie is happy for Dyer to take charge when football restarts.
He said: “There’s nothing signed yet, but we’re working away and Alex is quite relaxed about it.
“When he came in, it was an awkward time, just before December, then the season was stopped short.
“The thing I like about Alex is that he understands the club.
“We’re a fair-sized club, but we want to bring through youth players and use the academy more.
“Ideally, we don’t want to have as many loan players – but we have to do what we have to do to fill the squad. “Alex understands how we operate.” The 54-year-old was Steve Clarke’s right-hand man during his successful spell at Rugby Park, and continues to assist him with the national side.
Killie only have 11 signed first-team players at present but plans are underway to add new recruits. Bowie went on: “We have James Fowler on board, and he is more or less focusing on that all the time.
“There are a lot of options out there, albeit things won’t likely happen until the week before we come back.
“There’s talk about maybe extending the transfer window.
“It’s difficult. There are players in our sights, names are coming to us. We’re looking as best we can to fill the spaces we have.
“There’s a team there at the moment, although it’s very sparse, but we’re confident we can bring other players in.”
Bowie went on to dismiss the 200page dossier put together by Rangers as they tried to persuade clubs to vote for an inquiry into the SPFL board’s conduct.
He said: “To be honest, I thought Rangers would have had – the way it was all put to us – other information that things weren’t done the way they should be.
“I thought they’d have come with more information. But they never really came with anything different.
“We were given their evidence, but personally I thought: ‘There’s nothing there that would say the board had done anything wrong’.”