No direction and no Director

It has become a role which has slowly crept its way into the footballing vocabulary over the past couple of years - Director of Football.

The definition states it is a term describing a senior management figure at a football club.

Having been used across Europe for quite some time now, clubs south of the border started to employ these figureheads in recent years.

If you hadn’t heard about the role, after Mark Warburton’s departure from Ibrox two weeks ago you certainly wouldn’t have missed it.

Rangers managing director Stewart Robertson said that in the aftermath of Warburton’s messy Ibrox exit that the club were keen on bringing in a Director of Football.

The aim would then be to have the director playing a part in who the next manager was at Ibrox.

Yesterday (Tuesday), Rangers said they would not be rushing into any managerial appointment but they have drawn up a shortlist.

The reason being, most likely, is that the Director of Football is the number one priority. And so it should be.

There will be plenty of punters rolling their eyes and wanting this man or that in the dugout and won’t care about who the Director of Football is.

At the end of the day, when do you ever see a DoF give a post-match interview?

Why would you care who the pen-pusher is who is suggesting which players the manager brings in?

And the biggest worry of all - is he deciding the team and is the manager being undermined? All these things are associated with the DoF role and people automatically assume the worst.

They would choose to look at the clubs where it has failed rather than the continental clubs which have thrived under this.

Recruitment for Rangers is quite clearly something which has been a failure in the past 12 months.

The team they have assembled is not capable of winning this league even if Celtic had 30 points deducted.

As it stands, the team is not capable of finishing second.

Rangers don’t have to look down south or across Europe to see why this would work out for them.

Director of football must be a priority