Listen, loses 3-1 on 5-1 to a Rangers team that needs badly at the end of the season, probably has done more than whatever to bring loose ruminations about Jose Mourinho who stood in Glasgow in Glasgow in the future.
62 -at the age of ages and stuck in a competition that, as he says, nobody outside of Turkey watches, the special starts to look more like the decreasing someone immediately.
Yes, he gave everyone what they wanted when answering a beautifully placed question about possible moving to Scotland prior to the Europa League Last-16 collision from last Thursday in Glorious Istanbul and has dropped more than a few hints in the last seven months that life in Fenerbahce has not been all he had hoped.
However, the idea that he is placed on the old company everywhere in the next Wen, while it is almost as unthinkable as the planned American acquisition of Ibrox that does not take place.
Being outfoxed and having his team taken apart at home by Barry Ferguson, whose only high place as a manager was involved until last Thursday evening to get Kelty Hearts from the Lowland League, was about such a big pointer that this is a great career that was now clearly at the appointment if you can imagine.
Also to Ferguson to Ferguson. Many people – including the author of this page, to be honest – shake their heads in bewilderment about his appointment as an interim manager of Rangers.
It still feels completely crazy. Perhaps the perfect end of an era, note that the same type of discipline, has brought calmness and order to the boardroom as you would find at a five -year birthday party with unlimited sweeties.
The unexpected switch from Ferguson to a rear three, however, worked a treat and injected fresh life in a season that was very much for livelihood.
Of course he still cannot get the role of head coach on a permanent basis, although more results such as that victory in the Sukru Saracoglu can give the potential new owners a headache that they could do without.
But the suspicion of the past days about whether a Mourinho-Type figure can be the answer to the problems of Rangers is instructive. Perhaps not so much in terms of whom the Ibrox club really needs the management, but certainly in terms of what they don't need.
The suggestion of Mourinho that ends in one way or another at Celtic seems to be Anathema. Their beloved former manager Martin O'Neill could burn spontaneously, start with.
He never forgiven the Portuguese for the time division at the end of Porto's 3-2 victory on the Parkhead side in the UEFA Cup final of 2003 in Seville. Most supporters of the club have not forgiven him either.
If you take his playing style into account, you should place Mourinho behind John 'Bomber' Brown, Benjamin Netanyahu and the spirit of King Billy in the market for 'Next Celtic Manager'.
That only leaves the old teddy bears, and the truth is that a figurehead of its peers is almost the last thing the Ibrox club needs if they prepare for the large reset under the American consortium now at the stage of going through the legality prior to power.
Given all the mistakes made since the major collapse of 2012 at Ibrox, it is clear that this newest bid to rebuild Rangers from the bottom need a number of important basis.
Rangers must be a well-merged club behind the scenes, where everyone who works on erasing Remits within a coherent structure that will send the endless internal reviews of recent years-as they will currently send history. They need someone who will buy for a well -considered long -term strategy and adapt to appropriate.
They have to restore a kind of powerbase within Scottish football and recruit strong allies. That needs a lot of backstage politics.
To be honest, a bit of progress has been made in that regard since the days of Dave King who stood at the front door on Edmiston Drive in his dressing gown and underpants and the Blunderbuss in all directions. However, there is still a way to go.
Rangers must set up a super -tight transfer policy that is set up around no waste, high profits and emerging players that will build up market value. They also need a head coach who is interested in creating and using a stream of talent of academic level.
Mourinho looks like an unsuitable choice on almost all those counts. During his career he has developed a reputation for constructing intense, paranoid atmosphere in changing rooms, based on observed enemies, observed minds and a 'us against the world' mentality.
That can certainly result in short -term successes, but ultimately proved untenable. And whatever Rangers need more than whatever after the losses and disasters from the recent past is constant sustainability.
Yet this recurring madness of Mourinho has been particularly clear during his short time at Fenerbahce. He is currently involved in a Farcical Tit-for-Tat legal exchange with Galatasaray.
He has branded the super lig as 'the most poisonous competition I have ever worked' and insisted that he would never have taken the role if he knew how bad the standard is. Aim on referees – not for the first time, must be said – has become an important part of his repertoire.
In a tirade about how nobody abroad pays attention to the Turkish league, he continued how it 'smells bad' and has a 'system dominancy' in favor of Rivals Galatasaray.
Even after the defeat against Rangers, he slaughtered his players, insisted that it was not his fault when they took their Scottish opponents light and pretended to fall asleep during the press conference after the game during a long -winded question from a Turkish reporter. He is the type with a history of distributing changing rooms and calling those above him in the pecking order too.
He spent around £ 40 million on new players last summer. How you can commit that kind of money and turn a team so horrible as the one who was taken apart by a Rangers side fresh of home losses at Queen's Park, Tart St Mirren and Motherwell Believe.
It is full of aging boys whose best years are behind them. Edin Dzeko is 38. Dusan Tadic is 36. Filip Kostic is 32. Fred, back from the suspension for the return bone on Thursday, is 32.
Above all, Mourinho has of course stopped winning. Four points behind Galatasaray in the Super Lig, he has not won a league title since Chelsea in 2015. He has lifted the Europa League with Manchester United and Europe Conference League with Roma, but, despite being loved by Giallorossi fans, he did not really improve the club in Serie A in Serie A in Serie A in Serie A in Series A, despite the fact that he had the third highest wage account in the competition in the competition.
It says that he was fired in his previous four jobs before the end of the season. In addition to the level of wages that he would undoubtedly still demand, Rangers really have a character as he needed when building a solid foundation for the future is just as important as becoming competitive again at home?
Mourinho is still showbiz. He is still a cash register. But come across him in the neighborhood, just let you realize why so many opinions are expressed elsewhere about him who feel a return to a gone era.
And that kind of man is simply not what Rangers need if they prepare for a period of fresh ownership for which unity, new ideas and the kind of positive energy requires that has been missing far too long.
Gray touches the right nuts … but hearts too
There have been two major points of discussion to come from Hibs in the course of the past week. One of them has been or David Gray, coupled with Swansea City, really moved from a dead man who walks to a live contender for manager of the year in November.
Listen, if he can keep his team third in the Premiership, you better believe that he did that. Or Brendan Rodgers a Treble on tilt at Celtic or not, he will earn the mood.
It is impossible not to admire how Rookie Gray fought through setbacks, that team held together and got it on the right and narrow.
He looked in November when his side lost 4-1 in Dundee. His players shot themselves in the foot almost every week and left him without a leg to get up. It was well established that there were problems behind the scenes between the Black Knight Group from Bill Foley. Everything was conspiracy against him.
Nevertheless, the 36-year-old has portrayed himself admirably and, more importantly, has a team in an unbeaten run of 15 games with 7,000 supporters traveling to Celtic Park today for a Scottish Cup quarte final.
Who knows? Perhaps there is a representation of Sunshine on Leith after those great scenes after victories over Celtic and Hearts recently.
That is of course the other major debate point. The Hibees have been clear about their socials, placing images of that singing song after winning the derby, the 'the largest national anthem in football'.
The only problem is that this is not the case. It is not even the best song in Scotland. Yes, it is exciting and brilliant and it attracts the heart. It is great to hear it out of edges. However, it is not a football number. It does not wear history as a classic.
My own choice? Hearts, of course. Without Saturday closely followed by Rangers Anthem, who, for reasons that are best known to the local population, nowadays rarely seem to earn a mention at Ibrox in what the biggest scandal should be since the Craig Whyte regime that sold old shares in Arsenal for a few hundred Grand.
Var review is essential to view
Another edition of the 'VAR review' of the Scottish FA. Another reason for all kinds of people to look through the cracks in their fingers from behind the couch.
Listen, let's not take the well-affected path to point out that SFA head of referee Willie Collum should put more emphasis on discussing solutions while combing the last party inappropriate, unacceptable decisions of his officials of his officials.
That collum makes this show a blessing. Staying for transparency is vital.
It is of course no surprise that he agreed that the goal of Dundee United Sam Dalby should have been against Hibs, the goal of Daizzen Maeda on Easter Road should not have been allowed and that St. Mirren should have had a penalty against Celtic.
However, it makes you wonder whether there is a frightening to bring itself so fiercely for this monthly Mea Culpa. You might even think that he works on the basis of that if he uncovers some of these toiling officials often enough, it could have to make them to remove. Or at least, get their act together.
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