Rangers owner Dave King has slammed Pedro Caixinha for selling Barrie McKay to Nottingham Forest over the summer as “bad management”.
The Ibrox chairman admitted at the club’s AGM on Thursday morning, as quoted by the Scottish Sun’s live blog, that Caixinha got it badly wrong over the Ibrox academy product.
King says selling Barrie McKay for £500,00o was “bad management” and vows it will never happen again
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McKay left Rangers to join Nottingham Forest in the summer for £500,000 after falling out with ex-manager Caixinha and then being offloaded in a deal that left supporters mystified.
King said at the AGM: “The sale of Barrie McKay for £500,000 was bad management by ourselves. It isn’t helpful to make him play for the Under-19s, we’ve discussed that with a view to the future.”
McKay has made a big impact for Championship side Forest under ex-Gers boss Mark Warburton, scoring four goals and supplying seven assists from 17 league matches this season.
OPINION
As the inquest into Caixinha’s reign went into overdrive at the AGM, it is clear that the Portugese did not have the man-management skills needed to control players and get the best out of them. His approach was to always use the stick, rather than ever consider that the carrot might work better. His modus operandi was to freeze out players who displeased him, with Kenny Miller, Michael O’Halloran and McKay among the many who were given the cold shoulder and ordered to train with the youth team. It was like management straight out of the 1980s and 1990s. King insisted the club will learn from the McKay sale and offloading such a valuable resource so cheaply won’t happen again. But, who can trust the chairman and his sidekicks to get such decisions right? They put enormous faith in Caixinha and it failed miserably.