Rangers’ new chairman update shared as appointment timeline laid out

Rangers intend to appoint a new chairman before their Annual General Meeting on December 5, according to Chris Jack.

Speaking on the Rangers Review (13 November), Jack stated that the club’s current priority is to appoint a new chairman before filling the vacancy left by James Bisgrove as CEO.

John Gilligan has served as interim chairman since John Bennett’s resignation in September, but the club is still without a CEO and chief of football operations as the AGM approaches.

Jack said, “If we’re going through it chronologically it will be chairman before chief executive.

“The accounts were out a couple of weeks to go, the AGM – we’re counting down days to that – I believe there will be a chairman in before that, I think that’s certainly the ambition to have a chairman appointed before the AGM.

“CEO then comes after that, and it’s only once you have the chairman in, the CEO in, you can then start saying ‘can we look at sporting director or a director of football’ – another football figure within the club.”

Rangers are finally starting to reverse their boardroom decline at Ibrox.

Following Gilligan’s appointment as Bennett’s interim replacement to steer the ship at Ibrox, the club’s priority appeared to be finding a CEO to finally fill the void left by Bisgrove’s departure in May [Chris Jack, 17 September].

However, progress on that front has slowed – or at least not accelerated – in recent weeks, with additional vacancies emerging following Creag Robertson’s departure as director of football operations.

Gilligan’s permanent replacement in the top job, however, is unquestionably the club’s most pressing issue, with a new chairman more likely than any other to steer the Light Blues in a new direction.

A new direction is exactly what is required at Ibrox, following a season that has left Philippe Clement’s side nine points behind the leaders in the Premiership and under increasing pressure.

Clement’s job security has been all but assured given the lack of real authority above him, but if a new chairman is appointed before December 5, this could all change.

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