If Graham Potter wants to end his managerial career, then a move to Ibrox is just the ticket. He will be owned by Brendan Rodgers and Celtic

So, let me get this straight…Graham Potter has turned down jobs offers from prestigious clubs like Ajax and Nice?

He’s “unconvinced” by Leicester City’s attempts to bring him in.

But the idea of managing the Ibrox side “would get his juices flowing”??

I could definitely think of better ways to get the juices flowing, but hey, that’s just me.

Mark Pirie is selling crazy in the Record again today, with his article on Potter’s managerial ambitions.

The article in question start’s with a lot of waffle from Potter about his managerial ambitions.

Well, what he’d like to do when returns to management one day.

Funnily enough, at no point in this narrative does he even mention the Ibrox side.

Not once.

So, Pirie manages to publish a load of waffle from Potter, which has no reference to the Ibrox side at all.

He starts the article with this statement:

Out of work Graham Potter is planning a “continual process” of improvement as he eyes a return to management – just weeks after it was claimed a move to R*****s would get his juices flowing.

Just weeks after IT was claimed, or HE claimed it would get his juices flowing??

Now, it appears to me that Pirie is getting a bit economical with the truth to begin with.

A bit of sleight of hand, where I’m sure he’s relying on the fact that his chosen readership would overlook his little bit of deception completely.

It’s not until we get past all of the irrelevant waffle from Graham Potter about his managerial aspirations that we discover how he even created this story.

So here it is:

The comments come after former England international Robinson claimed to know for a fact that Potter would be interested in becoming Rangers manager. The former Leeds, Tottenham, Blackburn and Burnley goalkeeper: “Rangers Football Club is a massive attraction for a manager to take over.

Ok, a few questions….

Which comments, and who did they come from?

Because Graham Potter says nothing about the Ibrox side in his comments.

And who is Robinson?

Robinson Cruesoe?

Ok, for those of a slightly older generation, it’s former England goalkeeper Paul Robinson.

And apparently he knows for a fact that Potter would be interested in becoming the Ibrox manager.

Well ok, we’ll take his word for it.

Mark Pirie does anyway.

“R*****s football club is a massive attraction for a manager to take over”?

Is it?

Is it really?

Well, I suppose it is, if you’re attracted to career suicide.

I somehow get the feeling that Graham Potter doesn’t harbour that kind of attraction.

Well, at least you’d think he wouldn’t if he had a brain in his head.

Especially when the likes of Ajax, Nice and Leicester are after your services.

Pirie gamely tries to convince his readership through Robinson’s comments that Potter would absolutely love to take the job:

Managers don’t pick up jobs while teams are doing well. Going into R*****s now with the task to turn them around wouldn’t take a lot. There’s absolutely no doubt they can attract a big name like Potter, and he would be attracted by such a huge job. I know that for a fact.

Now there’s teams that aren’t doing well, and there are teams that are crashing and burning.

I think it’s fair to say that the Ibrox side currently fall into the crashing and burning category.

Robinson is being a tad ambitious to suggest there’s absolutely no doubt that the Ibrox side could attract the likes of Graham Potter.

Even if he did move to Ibrox, and that’s a big IF, Brendan Rodgers and Celtic would own him.

It’s clear Robinson doesn’t follow the Scottish game closely either when he says it wouldn’t take a lot to turn them around.

But he knows for a FACT that Graham Potter would be attracted to such a HUGE job.

So who I am to question Paul Robinson?

Oh, don’t get me wrong, I’ve no doubt the Ibrox side would love to have someone like Graham Potter, but there’s just that pesky question of finances when you want to attract an ex-EPL manager.

They just haven’t got that kind of cash lying around at Ibrox.

But nonetheless, Pirie finishes his article full of optimism:

So, could the project at Rangers tempt Potter with the club in the midst of a massive overhaul and fan fury rising at Philippe Clement? Incoming CEO Patrick Stewart might have to convince the board to spend big if they were to attempt the ambitious appointment.

Project?

That’s a polite term I suppose.

Literal translation is this, “So, could the absolute shitshow at Ibrox tempt Potter, with the club in the midst of a financial crisis and fans baying for Philippe Clement’s head?”

Yes, indeed.

I’m sure that’s exactly the kind of “project” Graham Potter is searching for.

Believe me, there are easier projects out there.

And that final comment in relation to the kind of convincing new CEO Patrick Stewart might have to do to get the Ibrox board to spend big to attempt the ambitious appointment?

In order to spend, one requires dosh.

It doesn’t grow on trees, I’m afraid.

There’s ambition and fantasy.

I’m afraid this article by Mark Pirie falls into the fiction/fantasy category.

Dream on.