DAVE KING is ready to make a sensational return to Rangers.
Following John Bennett’s shock resignation, the Castlemilk-born tycoon is willing to come back as chairman — almost ten years after he first rescued the club.
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Gers are operating without a chairman and chief executive and last night King outlined his two-year plan to haul them back on track.
The 69-year-old believes he can offer leadership and stability -— insisting Rangers MUST attract outside investment.
It’s understood the current board are poised to hire a headhunter as they begin the search for Bennett’s successor.
King insists that would be catastrophic — offering himself as a solution to the mounting crisis.
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He told SunSport: “I think I might be the best person to do it for two years. I don’t want to do it for four or five years.
“But I know the club well enough and I do think it’s a two-year job.
“I wouldn’t be looking to invest more money in the club.
“I don’t think that’s the way forward for the club.
“I think there’s investor fatigue within existing board members. So I think the way forward is in fact for us to attract additional investment.
“There is some interest in the club at the moment, but I think we’ve got to get away from the model where we just rely on supporters writing out cheques.
“There is money out there, but that money is not going to come from Rangers.
“We need to go and find other investors and bring them into the club.
“And I think that’s what we plan for the next two years.
“I’d be willing to do it. I understand what’s involved. I’ll come in, stabilise it, get the right people in place, get the club working properly, at least give it direction, give it a plan.
“But part of that will be for me to find new investors who will come in and make a significant investment in the club.
“I believe in chats that I’ve had there’s enough of an investor interest in those areas who are investing. Saudi, obviously, where Steven Gerrard is at the moment.
“There’s a lot of interest in football there. There’s a lot of interest in America still where they see football, sports generally, as being good.
“Rangers are a far more attractive opposition, a far more attractive opportunity than, say, Sunderland or Brighton.
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“We’re going to be in Europe and with the right amount of money, we really should be able to march on and actually dominate in Scotland.
“We need people at this stage that understand the club, understand the operations, are willing to take it on.
“My thoughts have always been not to do it, as I felt I’d done nothing and I’d done my crisis.
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“Quite frankly, I didn’t expect a crisis to happen again in my lifetime.
“But a stranger can’t come in. There’s no point in getting a guy from London and paying him £200,000 a year to be the chairman of the club. So I’ve rethought it.”
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