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Sunderland manager: Rangers hero Ally McCoist a contender - key relationship could help ALLY MCCOIST is in the running for the Sunderland job. By BRUCE ARCHER 09:23, Thu, Nov 2, 2017 | UPDATED: 09:32, Thu, Nov 2, 2017 Ally McCoist is in the running for the Sunderland job McCoist, out of work since leaving Rangers in 2014, is on the shortlist to replace Simon Grayson who was given the boot on Tuesday night, according to the Daily Star. Grayson’s tenure was ended after the 3-3 draw with Bolton having only been appointed in the summer. And now the club could turn to Rangers legend McCoist, although Aitor Karanka remains the bookies’ favourite. McCoist is close friends with Martin Bain and that relationship could pave the way for the former Scotland star to take the reins. Sunderland are third bottom after 15 games and have failed to win a home game in 2017.

Have just seen in another place that there is no date as of yet for an AGM and won’t be until the club itself announces it.

Is there a definite date for the GM ?

Why don’t the lenders just convert their loans to equity today,the unissued shares around 40 million of them could be divied on a pro rata of loan value, If someone has provided say 30% of total loan input they would receive 12 million shares, someone who provided 10% would receive 4 million shares and so on. There is nothing to prevent this happening today and eradicating debt at a stroke,that it hasn’t already happened is less than puzzling.

Fortunately your suspicions have no impact in my circles much like your views,have a good day both yoj and your friend.

I was always taught two wrongs don’t make a right,however some don’t see it that way,me I will stick with Presbyterian ethics.

Unfortunately the truth is often hard to face, you are of course entitled to your opinion about everything ad homien slurs included.

Can’t see anyone riding to our rescue imho, factions have made us toxic to the extent we have no normal business banking facility or overdraft,even after all the promises from this board.

He doesn’t own anything to buy out,at least according to his QC in court.

Miller is a mercenary whose only allegiance is to money, at this moment he is once again our mercenary.

Not if the alleged pervasive poison against authority still prevails in the dressing room, particularly if we appoint another foreign coach/manager.

Imho if the player rebellion is true, they have spat in the eye of the club the manager and much more importantly we fans,if they couldn’t/wouldn’t accept authority they sbhould have done the honourable thing and resigned their lucrative contracts. As long as boards surrender to player power fans will be irrelevant, cash cows apart.

apologies, never noticed it .

If this is in any way true from the herald it is a very poor show. PEDRO Caixinha knew his days at Rangers were numbered from early on in his reign. Keen to establish a new, progressive, European-style culture at the club, the Portuguese coach, who was sacked on Thursday, met with resistance almost from the start, with his decision to truncate the summer holiday period treated with disdain. It brought echoes of the Paul Le Guen era which ended in similarly ignominious circumstances in 2007, the French coach lasting even less time in the manager’s job than Caixinha. Where a sour relationship with his captain Barry Ferguson was the undoing of Le Guen, a three-time Le Championnat winner as head coach of Lyon, Caixinha’s dealings with Kenny Miller were equally acrimonious. With his “Scottish” players, led by Miller, refusing to adapt to his training methods or accept the demands the Portuguese coach was making on his players, Caixinha found himself trying to coach a squad that was riven down the middle. When he was forced to confront Miller about his alleged leaking of dressing-room information, it was the final straw. Yet, while Miller might have been banished from the kingdom, there remained a number of subjects who were loyal to the most senior player in the squad, rather than their manager. Such was the level of mutual distrust between the feuding sides, it is believed those in Caixinha’s camp were openly questioning whether there was an ulterior motive behind the circumstances which led to Ryan Jack’s three red cards in 13 games. But this was about more than one man’s shortcomings. There was a clear failure in leadership at the top. Stewart Robertson, the managing director, Andrew Dickson, head of football administration, and director Graeme Park, are all believed to have been in favour of Caixinha’s appointment, but there was a split with others, such as Paul Murray and John Gilligan, against it. In the early days of the Caixinha tenure, he was under the impression that he would be in charge of coaching but it soon became clear, as the club struggled to find a director of football to match their budget, that he would be responsible for player recruitment, too. It is the “institutional failure” that Rangers director Alastair Johnston was referring to in the aftermath of Caixinha’s departure. Tellingly, though, Johnston said he believed the squad was “better than people think and perhaps a new management team will get more out of them”. “The decision was obviously something that was under consideration for a while, we are not deaf and blind,” Johnston said. “I think the events of the last couple of weeks demonstrated institutional failure, if you will. It was a systemic problem and not just one we thought could be corrected easily with the current personnel.” That squad was, in large part, assembled by Caixinha. There is no denying he was deserving of a significant portion of blame, too. His increasingly bizarre public pronouncements – whether talking about the omerta of trips to Vegas or caravans and dogs – owed much to a solid yet flawed grasp of the English language and a failure to gauge properly how the press, his employers, his players and the Rangers supporters construed his comments. With half a squad weighted against him, his position was untenable. His removal leaves a sizeable tranche of players at Rangers who are now questioning their own futures. Those who were at Murray Park on Friday noted a lighter mood around the place and Miller has been welcomed back into the fold. But not everyone will be happy with that decision, certainly not those who feel Caixinha was failed by players who showed little or no enthusiasm to adapt to his methods. Caixinha’s exit again raises the hoary argument about the attitudes of Scottish players and their ability to change, to embrace new ideas and cultures. Player power is part and parcel of the modern game and it can take many different forms. There is outright dissent, as displayed at Rangers, which infects all who are exposed to it and there is the insidious variety – where gradual decline comes when players stop short of mutiny but nevertheless stop responding to instruction, as appeared to happen at celtic under Ronny Deila. The Norwegian, though, still managed to secure two league titles and so celtic persisted with their experiment before ushering in the Brendan Rodgers era. That move now looks inspired and has merely compounded Rangers’ failure to improve on the failed Mark Warburton appointment with a more dubious dabble with the chemistry set in appointing Caixinha. No doubt Caixinha will, in the days ahead, reflect on the aforementioned institutional failures expressed by Johnston. In that respect, he shares a similarity with his predecessor Warburton who was similarly hung out to dry by his employers. The Rangers board must hold up a collective hand and say “we chose this man because he was the outstanding candidate as decided by the strictures we placed on the position”. The next appointment is crucial and carries some caveats; they do not make for great reading. Will Derek McInnes really help Rangers to close the gap on celtic? He recorded par with Aberdeen on a sizeable budget in the league. The best he can hope for is to do the same with Rangers. And will the board, with all their delusions of a former grandeur, be prepared to accept second best or will the next man find himself battling the kind of unrealistic expectations that have claimed the past two coaches?

Very much so whatever you think,even secret dossiers won’t save his silence while murray destroyed us and robbed us.

Johnston knows all about institutional failure, he supported it long enough as a murray sycophant.

Perhaps as the ruling from the court of session is imminent he may wait for it also,take immediate action so to speak.

In a word, debt.

Avsilable board members had a discussion after last nights game, only to be expected I would suggest.

No.

Where are the funds coming from for a new manager, no harm in window shopping though.

The irony of barton being seen as a liability now has some perspective.

Absolute nonsense op, dm is a bottler as his teams results constantly prove,even without mentioning Bristol.

Sorry, don’t do the twitter thing.

king and traynor appeared to be deep in conversion after full time, could we be about to receive news of some sort any sort ?