What on earth is Graeme Park up to with Rangers’ CEO search? | OneFootball

Rangers fans are (again) getting itchy feet over the club’s struggles to find a new CEO and/or permanent chairman.

Rangers as a unit have been without the most important figure for day-to-day running of the club for approaching five months, with former executive James Bisgrove resigning with immediate effect at the start of the summer.

And fans are more definitely wondering what on earth interim chairman John Gilligan, advisor George Letham and director Graeme Park are actually doing.

It has been reported that Rangers’ board hired a recruitment agency to help with the search, but this means fundamentally that the search probably goes outside Scottish football and maybe even beyond British as well.

It cannot be underestimated how important a CEO or Managing Director as Stewart Robertson was called is.

It is the literal chief of all operations, the overlord for everything that happens, and all activities, all progress, all procedures and plans either stall, or end up becoming a messy vote with the board of directors if there isn’t one in place.

Otherwise this stuff ends up on the CEO’s desk who makes a decision and is paid big money to make the right ones.

So we do beg the question; what is Park up to?

With the exits of John Bennett and Bisgrove, it does feel like the Park family’s representative has now taken up bigger responsibilities, whether the support endorse it or not.

Park isn’t tremendously popular with supporters, it being believed strongly that the Park era at Rangers should have ended with his father, and we don’t exactly disagree with that.

We don’t know Park, we’ve never met him, but he’s not viewed with a lot of credibility or respect in the wider circles of the support, not that we’re going to character-assassinate him.

But he does seem heavily involved with finding a CEO and so far all we’re getting is tumbleweed.

The only club communication of note in the past while was the interview with Director of Football Recruitment Nils Koppen, but obviously that was nothing to do with the CEO search.

The search goes on, and we couldn’t even guess where it’ll end up.