ALLY McCOIST has accused Charles Green of treating Rangers and its fans with contempt and believes he has no interest in the club.
The manager was furious to waken up this morning to comments from the former Light Blues chief executive – appointed as a consultant to the club yesterday - in a national newspaper.
In the interview, he insisted McCoist had to win the league and a cup this season or he would ‘have a problem’.
Green also reiterated his belief last season’s team was the worst in the club’s history and described events at Ibrox as ‘a circus’.
And he maintained he’d have raised season ticket prices this term and wouldn’t have given McCoist the volume of players Craig Mather has allowed him to recruit.
The manager was furious in particular with the timing of Green dismissing the same squad from 2012/13 he was working with at today’s League Cup tie against Forfar.
Gers lost 2-1 after extra-time and McCoist feels the Yorkshireman’s words played a part. He said: “They were a terrible distraction and I found his comments appalling, I really did.
“Once again, he was reminding our boys who had a serious cup tie in four hours that he thinks they were the worst Rangers team in history.
“What kind of team talk is that from somebody who is supposed to have the club’s best interests at heart?
“He’s fooling nobody. He’s trying to kid the fans on that he’s this, that and the next thing but he’s not interested in Rangers Football Club, not at all.
“I think it’s plain to see his contempt and total lack of respect for my players, the staff at the club, the supporters and Scottish football in general. It’s totally unacceptable.”
McCoist went into this afternoon’s match at Station Park minus the eight new players he has recruited over the last few weeks.
The difference in play without them was evident as Rangers struggled to break down their fellow League One opponents for large spells.
Fraser Aird did cancel out Gavin Swankie’s early opener to force an additional half hour of play and there were chances for the Light Blues to edge it.
Instead they fell to a second Swankie strike in windy conditions and McCoist knows his players didn’t perform the way they could have.
He said: “I’m very disappointed. The team shooting with the wind obviously had a very strong advantage and conditions weren’t ideal. Forfar adapted better than us.
“With that said, once we did get the equaliser I thought we had chances to win the game and we should have done. It was a moment of slackness that cost us and we just switched off.
“Let’s put things into perspective though. It was last year’s team playing – which did well for us last year – and we had eight lads in the stand who couldn’t play but who’ll feature.
“For long periods of the game, we had the ball and we had great chances to score but we couldn’t convert and we’ll congratulate Dick Campbell and his team on their win.
“Now we look ahead to the Newcastle game, which will give us an opportunity to play lads our new chief executive has stood by and allowed to bring into the club.
“We have to remember we’ve brought in good players, people who have played in the Premier League, and I’ve no doubt they will make us better.”