Adrian Bevington reveals exactly why he wants to be Rangers supremo and addresses role in failed £60m Ibrox investment

Former English FA high flyer Adrian Bevington has revealed why he wants to land the vacant CEO role at Rangers.

In an exclusive interview with Hotline Live - Record Sport’s agenda setting online show - Bevington broke his silence on his long running links with the Ibrox club. And - on the day St Mirren’s Jim Gillespie dramatically dropped out of the race to replace James Bisgrove - the former Managing Director of Club England publicly threw his hat into the ring as a candidate for the role of spearheading the club’s beleaguered regime.

The vastly experienced 53-year-old said: “They are a huge club - a football institution - with a global fan base so of course I would always be happy to have a conversation, if they wanted to have a conversation with me. If that takes us anywhere? That’s a different set of circumstances and it’s important for myself to be extremely respectful to the people in office in Ibrox as well. I’m not trying to pull anything on with them but would I be willing to have a conversation with them? Of course I would,”

And Bevington went on to reveal has already reached out to the club’s crisis hit hierarchy. He said: “I do know one or two people in and around Rangers. I made some initial contact quite some time ago now but I have not had any dialogue with Rangers with regard to this position.”

It’s understood Rangers chairman John Bennett could be reluctant to turn to Bevington because the Englishman played an introductory role in a failed £60m American cash injection led by businesswoman Kyle Fox. Those negotiations ended in bad blood with former chairman Douglas Park launching legal action in a Florida court - a move which was later dropped - and Fox withdrawing her offer to buy a controlling interest