Well this talked up "dream manager" did end up at Rangers. Rangers: Mark Warburton signs three-year deal as manager please log in to view this image Former Brentford boss Mark Warburton has signed a three-year deal with Rangers to become the Scottish Championship club's new manager. The 52-year-old Englishman will be assisted by Rangers' former captain, David Weir, who has also signed a three-year contract, the pair having worked together at Griffin Park. Rangers will present the duo at a media conference on Monday at 14:00 BST. Despite speculation, there is no role for former Valencia coach Ian Cathro. Warburton told BBC Scotland earlier this month he was confident he and Weir had the right attributes for the job. He said then that the Rangers role was more than about merely "steadying" the club. "Whoever comes in must appreciate the size of the task in terms of the history of the club and where they have to be," the former Watford youth coach said. "This is about making significant progress in a designated period of time." The rise of Warburton's Brentford Last week, Rangers chairman Dave King said there were five in the running for the position. Cathro, 28, left his role assisting Valencia manager Nuno Espirito Santo last week for family reasons and had been linked with the Ibrox job after returning to Scotland. Stuart McCall, part of the Scotland management team, had taken over the Rangers manager's role in March on a temporary basis when Kenny McDowall resigned. He led the club to the Scottish Premiership play-off final but lost to his former club, Motherwell. Warburton became Brentford manager following Uwe Rosler's departure in December 2013, two years after joining them as first-team coach. Weir became Warburton's assistant at the west London club a week after his managerial appointment. In his two years as a coach at Brentford, Warburton oversaw the opening of their new academy and was the co-founder of the NextGen series, a European club competition for under-19s that ran for two seasons between 2011 and 2013. As manager, he took the Bees from League One to the Championship in 2013-14 - their first time in English football's second tier since 1992-93 - and last season his team were beaten in the play-off semi-final by Middlesbrough. The club announced in February that Warburton, a former City trader,would leave this summer. http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/33125007
Ach he should get them up alright but there's some rebuilding job to be done to get them back to where they were. Its a basket case of a Club. What do you expect when Mike Ashley is involved?
Profit, solvency and cheap, well scouted players. Ashley really isn't the monster people like to make out. Clubs are slammed for spending beyond their means. He runs a tight ship to ensure a profit, which he doesn't pretend to not, and still gets pilloried for it. It's not what fans want but it's more sustainable than being at the whim of a wealthy chairman.
