Everton legend Duncan Ferguson AXED as Inverness manager just hours after crisis club plunged into administration

DUNCAN FERGUSON has been axed arsenic Inverness manager.

Administrator James Stephen pulled the trigger connected the Everton legend, fig 2 Gary Bollan and goalie manager Stuart Garden this afternoon.

Ferguson had been moving without wages successful a bid to assistance the nine during their currency situation - but the BDO accountancy squad inactive shunted him retired the door.

Stephen was drafted successful arsenic Caley crashed nether the value of a £3 cardinal debt, with £1.6 cardinal estimated to beryllium what they request to get done to the extremity of the season.

Ferguson took implicit past play but it became instantly wide the occupation wasn’t what he’d been sold connected his instrumentality to Scottish football.

The 52-year-old inherited a messiness astatine the Caley Stadium and past play paid retired of his ain pouch for the players to person overnight stays during their conflict against relegation from the Championship.

Ferguson and Bollan stayed contempt dropping into League One, but things got progressively worse arsenic the afloat horrors of Caley’s fiscal woes mounted up.

They spent weeks without a physio truthful couldn’t bid the squad astatine acceptable times, with the gaffer besides stepping successful to wage for players’ breakfasts successful a bid to clasp immoderate professionalism.

Caley advisor Alan Savage took implicit successful August and instantly axed arguable main enforcement Scot Gardiner, portion admitting that medication was a existent possibility.

Despite talks with funny parties past week, including section businessman David Anderson, Caley were officially enactment nether the power of administrators BDO connected Tuesday.

Stephen, who was portion of the squad which coiled up Rangers successful 2012, has wasted nary clip successful dismissing the coaching team.

And helium volition present crook his attraction to different nine unit and players successful a bid to equilibrium the books.

Caley fable Charlie Christie is understood to person addressed the squad this greeting and has made it wide helium is consenting to enactment connected and oversee the shot broadside if Stephen asks him to.

It appears apt helium volition play a relation successful squad matters arsenic they bid to flooded the 15-point deduction which has near them adrift astatine the bottommost of the league.

The head volition proceed his cost-cutting implicit the adjacent 24 hours earlier hosting a property league connected Thursday wherever he’ll spell retired his presumption connected the club’s semipermanent endurance hopes.

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