Rangers under former chairman Dave King. As part of an explosive series of exclusive interviews with Record Sport , the Ibrox legend tells for the first time how he was wined and dined by King at a high end restaurant in London’s affluent Mayfair and asked to take on a role at a time when the club was struggling to re-establish itself as a top flight force.
But, suspecting he was being lined up to be used as little more than a high profile human shield for the men inside the Rangers boardroom, Souness rejected the chance of going back to the club he revolutionised as player-manager in the late 1980s.
The 68-year-old said: “This was before Steven Gerrard had been appointed as manager and at a time when things were not going great on or off.
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