Rangers Banter Archive July 30 2018

30 Jul 2018 22:31:05
Mike Ashley owns the rangers mega store.

31 Jul 2018 07:19:07
I think rangers own the megastore but sd have sole distributer rights, which means no matter where you buy it sd make money.

31 Jul 2018 07:56:45
No he doesn’t he has the distribution rights.

30 Jul 2018 19:55:23
Why is everyone moaning about this Ashley deal. Bottom line is that there are plenty of outlets to buy the strips which have no connection to him so just buy them there. That way he gets nothing. Simples!

30 Jul 2018 22:15:41
I agree its a kick in the baws we have to pay for Ashleys legal costs so don't buy strips from his paddies market shops buy them from the mega store and now this is over we might be able to buy the strips in the near future. Maybe if no one buys from him then maybe he will have a lot of stock he can't shift that would really get on his fat tits. 😅.

30 Jul 2018 22:29:28
Legally or they fake ones from Turkey.

30 Jul 2018 23:08:00
Yea I think so too unless we are wrong . king has probablly played a blinder again even with the 500k court expenses and this is the only way we could finally get rid .
People are slow to remember it was king and conthat saved us from the grasp of that hood . I wish they would consider that fact before they start slautering the board.
I for one will never forget. No one else remotely stood up to the mark. Patience bears patience.

30 Jul 2018 23:38:23
I have to say from a business perspective and protecting his revenue then fair play to Ashley. He is obviously a shrewd operated and has ran circles around our entire corporate executives at the club many times.

From a club point of view it is of course damning but it says a lot about our commercial and legal dealings. Embarrassing.

30 Jul 2018 20:22:56
Nobody knows there are other outlets new contract not agreed yet.

30 Jul 2018 21:36:46
I may be wrong but I'm pretty sure the deal will mean that SD will have exclusive rights to sell the strips.

30 Jul 2018 21:58:38
And how many strips do we have to sell to recoup the half a million that could have been avoided if the proper care and attention was given?

Or you think we are in a position we can just chuck that money away?

31 Jul 2018 05:59:02
Maybe need statement from the club,
They can tell us where we can buy from, would have bought each of the new Hummel tops, but I will not be giving the fat man of sport direct a penny of my money.

31 Jul 2018 07:53:10
We need to remember that Dave King has thought well to keep the money grabber at bay

Mike Ashley beat it before you really screw up you reputation

I really wish people would actually see sense even if it were adults cascading to their kids not to go in his shops

I mean the way he treats his own staff was ridiculous like "slaves" and zero contract hours aswell

It must be said He's a terrible individual!

31 Jul 2018 09:54:14
I ain't buying no top till i no none of my cash is going to a fat greedy rat who has done a job on my club.

31 Jul 2018 10:09:30
Greaves of Glasgow supported us a couple of years back, I will be purchasing my replica strips for the kids there.

31 Jul 2018 18:07:33
Defo bankie this is where I will be going if he I see allowed to sell.

30 Jul 2018 17:55:34
If any other regime had triumphantly proclaimed they had got rid of Ashley and took the bows for it, only for us to find out later,

A) They spent £3m to get themselves out of a legal hole.

B) Ashley is far from gone. They signed a new one year deal albeit on supposedly better terms.

C) They signed up to a new deal with JD Sports

D) Their deal with Ashley includes the perpetual right to keep the deal going if they match the terms anyone else offers, and they must see details of those offers.

E) That C happened with no regard for D

They would have been lynched.  however many believe king is the messiah and ashley is the one in the wrong.

wake up guys ints not outsiders doing us harm but the guys running the club.

30 Jul 2018 18:14:12
Nobody is forcing ANY Rangers fan to buy from Ashley I'll be buying my 4 from the mega-store at Ibrox so all the money goes to us. But feel free to buy from Jd sports if you prefer and even aqnyone buying from S. D. we get a fare share of the money.

30 Jul 2018 18:53:31
Mike Ashley kind of cut and ran, I suppose, when the going got tough. He’s disappeared, we don’t deal with Mike Ashley at all.

Dave King in 2016 after 'ripping up the contract'.

Thankfully as I've said on here before I take everything he says with a pinch of salt.

PS What was the £3M to Ashley for exactly? Serious question in light of today.

30 Jul 2018 19:31:22
The £3m got us out of the previous arrangement with sports direct. From reading the documents from court released a few weeks back, it honestly looks like all the terms of the deal were not carefully looked over by our board. Despite this the new deal that sports direct offered has to have matched JD's offer which significantly improves the money the club receives from the sales of the strip etc. It is extremely frustrating that the c**t Ashley is still around like a bad smell in spite of King proclaiming he would be gone by this point, what looks to be a poor mistake by whoever deals with the legal terms unfortunately means we have to put up with SD for the time being albeit on improved terms.

30 Jul 2018 22:31:40
Again though like others have said, don't buy from somewhere Mike Ashley owns, buy from the superstore, surely that would take care of any apprehensions people have of giving him money, no?

30 Jul 2018 23:12:48
It was the only way he would move . do you think Ashley was going to go so easy for 3 mil? I think dave has played a blinder again. Do you want him to come out in the press and explain his strategy? Ashley is nearly gone whereas at one time he had a stranglehold on our club that no one I repeat no one could see a way out. let alone a few years later practically rid . Let’s just buy our strips from anyone but him . simple.

30 Jul 2018 20:53:37
Bluepete according to reports online sports direct still get 30 % of sales from our megastore. What did the 3m to Ashley actually pay for?

31 Jul 2018 04:22:24
i believe the £3m was to stop legal action vs king and murray from sports direct ultimately and also to renegotiate the deal so that we could sell last seasons strips that had been building up.

31 Jul 2018 04:29:49
@molsgoals could you explain how king has played a blinder please. he has cost the club in the region of £3.5m BEFORE we actually see any profits and on top of that we now have a rolling 1 year contract which means SD will be our supplier until ashley decides otherwise.

on top of that how many other suppliers will negotiate with us knowing their biggest rival will gain full access to all the deals? on top of that has it been confirmed yet whether JD spsrts can or will sue for loss of earnings etc?

look at it this way to recoup the £3.5 million wasted by king we would need to sell 175k tops providing we get £20 profit a top ( man utd earn £23 with the best deal in world football )

doesnt sound much until u realsie man city only sold 325k tops between 2013-2017.

31 Jul 2018 06:21:49
Man city have a shocking support. We will easily sell double that in 4 seasons no bother.

31 Jul 2018 08:47:22
Rab . king has manag d to negotiate out of a deal that saw
Ashley rake in 99.6 % of a strip sake over five years. Which was sanctioned by his own hoods that he managed to worm into our board room ( of which king managed to rid of too I may add) . Ashleys deal was totally corrupt and unethical but the courts would not hold him in account. My god the government can’t even hold him in account for the way he treats his staff. Did you watch him at the SD inquiry
He almost stuck his two fingers up at them.
Ps who says it’s a year rolling contract?
A statement from club would help at this time to clear the air. but it always seemed a tad too easy . the guy stood to make tens of millions ( nowt to do with king ) and some folk expected him to walk with 3? It’s ashley we are talkin about . a bit to go yet with this I think.

31 Jul 2018 10:12:19
7p in the pound is 93% not 99.6 unless Ivery forgot everything I learned in school. P. s he's not played a blinder he's made a c*%the of it again.

31 Jul 2018 10:41:38
Mike Ashley owns nearly 20% of JD sports.

31 Jul 2018 11:01:01
Ok frustrated. I kn your fustrated and I exaggerated by 6.6% but go To the thread on the other rumours section and read DK17 he says it and the facts a lot better than moi. A lot of people have so short selective memories .

Dave King had wrestled everything from the badge to the car park from that scumbag and still people moan. He cane in to save us from that rat as there was no one . no one else. My biggest fear is that he is hounded out by the neighsayers and we go on the slide once again. Short selective memories for sure.

31 Jul 2018 15:43:37
Close bros own car park if we're being pedantic. Until we pay them back.

31 Jul 2018 21:40:46
Yea but we got it back from fatty.

01 Aug 2018 13:21:40
molsgoals

The Retail deal was one of Kings opportunities to beat Ashley with, so he fed the hordes, SOS, Houston, Graham, etc. a load of pish, created instability at our club, encouraged and supported boycotts of our home games and SD shops, starving us of thousands of ££’s at a time when the club was precariously close to becoming insolvent again.

He then took the moral high ground, professing to have got rid of Ashley, SOS posting on their Facebook page “Stand down troops”, when infact, he’d only renegotiated a slightly better deal with him, gave him the right to match any other contractual offers, and paid him £3m for the pleasure of having Ashley **** him over.

Then we have this fiasco where King once again thinks he’s got the know how and the lawyers to rip the piss out of Ashley, until he realises st the last minute, Ashley’s lawyers have turned him over again. Admittedly, it only cost him half a mil this time.

Add this to the cash we’ll have paid Cardoso to leave, and it’s been a bad day for King, and Rangers, not tae mention the fans.

Now we’re kept waiting again for god knows how many weeks till we see what Ashley’s next move is - he’s holding all the aces again - and it could be weeks before we actually get to buying a top, and that’s if SOS say it’s okay!

Its a joke, but I’m not laughing, and neither will King be. Hopefully he’s learned his lesson today, and he has better luck on the 16th of August.

30 Jul 2018 17:29:07
What is it with Mike Ashley can he just not admit defeat!? How was he hoping to get some sort of deal from Rangers when he'd robbed us for years!

Why doesn't he just feck off and let the club move on!

30 Jul 2018 17:52:23
probably because king gave him the opportunity to continue with the kit deal. no fault of ashley, he's only out to make money. want to point the finger start with king and no one else.

30 Jul 2018 18:00:29
As I say he got greedy

If he were in a position where he didn't just look at his own financial gain and actually cared and had passion for the the football club then he could've done so much more at a club like Rangers with Global branding and also put lots less money into the club for new players than he would have to at Newcastle Utd (Not that he has done anything at Newcastle Utd mind you)

It seems to be the same revolving door with the Magpies, apt as it sounds as he is the only Magpie in this, they get relegated they get promoted

Newcastle are too big a club to be where they are and their not even a consistent top 10 side those days!

I want you to sit and think of those last words I've just said has it sunk it

Frightening if you ask me

Maybe if things had of went better he would've had better fit with Rangers, after all the colours of his company marry well with the colour of our club

Anyway damage is done and no thanks

Cashley would have to do a lot for the Rangers family to forgive him.

30 Jul 2018 18:23:10
Kaz what a load of nonsense.

30 Jul 2018 18:55:19
Why is it a load nonsense then?

30 Jul 2018 23:05:34
Why would he admit defeat? He's clearly not been defeated.

31 Jul 2018 08:57:42
Rabc you certainly don’t like Dave King

So I assume you were happy with the fact that Ashley installed his own crooks on our board to sanction all his crooked deals withbour club before DK managed to take over.
And you don’t or can’t or won’t give dave king one ounce of credit for coming in and taking the scumbag on . and by playing him at his own game eventually getting rid.
Ashely remember at one time was a major share holder with all his cronies on board . Dave sorted that so for gods sake man show some honesty at least and recognise and appreciate that fact. Without dave our club would be dead. FACT FACT.

31 Jul 2018 10:15:25
No it wouldn't. He owns 14%of shares that's it so explain how club would be dead without him? There were others interested our own fans drove them away by believing kings lies and blindly following even though he was a part of board that took us into oblivion in first place.

31 Jul 2018 13:25:53
Who was that fustrated the boy from America &?
Please inform me . it was Ashley’s men that sanctioned all the deals that mr king has had to unravel. way back to green. it’s no been easy or perfect . but hey you select your own version. and I will beleive what I lived through.

31 Jul 2018 19:37:12
Aye mate an actual billionaire with expertise on running huge sports franchises not a penniless conman from sa who can't lie straight in bed and was involved in the demise of our club in the first place. U get all the ones on here don't want all the players back who didn't move contracts newco and can't forgive them but forgethey at Dave King was a part of board that almost buried our club for good. Some of the same supporter groups who refuse to vote out king as chairmannow are the ones who drove proper investment away, bit of a coincidence?

31 Jul 2018 21:48:20
Ha how can you seriously think the supporters made a difference to stop a billionaire buying a football club. If anything he saw the negative side that's coming out against dave king the now but seriously the guy had pulled out before dave kings involvement. If the guy had been serious he would have made a move or joined forces.

The guy got mega free publicity and mevseriously thinks that was his game plan

But hey each to his own but if you think there’s people wanting to buy our club your are indeed deluded.
Did Murray no sell for a pound. brilliants.

30 Jul 2018 16:59:26
I despise the guy and haven't spent a penny since the boycott even though it was decent for cheap golf gear lol however if the deal is one the board is happy with I will swallow my pride and give the club I love the much needed income to challenge them in stevie g we have a manager who just gets what we are all about what it means to the fans and what type of character u need to be to play for us who giving the funds and a bit of time will win us the league I am actually relieved it's over with now worse case senario was another ban on selling strips that lasted half the season we have been through some rubbish last six years so we now have a manager who will go right to the top we have a good team who are only going to improve so let's look forward to the season.

30 Jul 2018 18:01:59
Mike Ashley is only damaging his own reputation!

30 Jul 2018 18:04:42
Just make sure you buy from the megastore at Ibrox or from the new web store as we get more money that way! Only 50/ 50 from standard sports direct stores!

30 Jul 2018 18:52:58
Ashley has never cared about his reputation. If you sell stuff cheaply enough, most people will buy from anybody and he knows that.

30 Jul 2018 19:56:25
Kazmania, People like Ashley don’t care about reputations or what you think about them. They only think about CASH! 🇬🇧.

31 Jul 2018 01:47:59
Sports Direct is packed full of sh*t gear I wouldn’t have for free, let the manky mob shop there till they drop we can all buy direct from the club, our merchandise is the only thing in there worth buying but if we don’t buy it he’ll lose interest in our club and hopefully p*ss off.

31 Jul 2018 10:06:21
Great post keep believing. well said 👍.

30 Jul 2018 16:48:32
Nicklas Bendtner 6ft 4in reckon he's worth punt. what's he's worth?

30 Jul 2018 17:49:23
Nothing.

30 Jul 2018 20:02:41
The guy is woeful. Next.

30 Jul 2018 15:22:21
Mike ashley is a shameful human being after taking 3 million not long ago he now still has the rights to sell the rangers jerseys and it cost us 500k legal costs according to the papers.

30 Jul 2018 15:43:58
Can't blame him he's always been about the money, what about our own chairman whof signed the deal and broke yet another promise? "we're rid of Ashley and sports direct" aye OK mate.

30 Jul 2018 15:48:08
He's a horrible person. Treats his staff like slaves. At least he has had to match the offer that we had in place and it's not the outrageously one-sided deal he had before.

30 Jul 2018 16:08:14
Well I'll not be buying a strip from Sports Direct of they are still abke to sell them. I wonder how many fans will continue to boycott this man and his company.

30 Jul 2018 16:12:33
Am seriously hoping nobody boycotts this will only harm the club. SD have matched the offer by JD. So the club still gets same cash. Anybody who now boycotts is harming the club in my eyes. We need all the cash we can get.

30 Jul 2018 16:18:45
I can't stand him ill be getting mine and the wee mans elsewhere i'm not giving him the money after all the rubbish he's caused us we could have had our new tops already.

30 Jul 2018 16:19:20
I’m hoping SD don’t have the sole rights to sell because I wouldn’t give the fat man a single penny regardless of the implications on Rangers. I would rather just donate the price of a kit to club 1872 or something like that.

30 Jul 2018 16:29:34
Seariously Dave King has cocked up here big time! 😭😡.

30 Jul 2018 16:33:06
If the club knew this deal was still in place why do the club bother taking it to court. We have now wasted 500k that would have bought a player or added to SG coffers. How much money have we wasted over the years on court battles? Ashley is a clever business man with a very clever team behind him. King seems to hate being second fiddle to him in terms of business and insists on going to war with him on every occasion. Well on this occasion DK you have cost the club money. I accept in the past you have stood up to my won with the club benefitting. The last deal costing 3m was statemented as the end of any sportsdirect involvement. How can DK state a blatant lie to the thousands of fans who he is supposedly being transparent to. I hate my as much as the next bear for what he has done to our club but at the end of the day if buying the strips etc helps our club now then I will buy one.

30 Jul 2018 16:35:46
No point in boycotting now. Ashley had record profits last year so were not hurting him at all and were getting same cash.

30 Jul 2018 16:57:01
If we buy from our megastore does that not mean the fat man will lose out and all profits go to our club.
I think megastore is under rangers full control but clarification would be good.

30 Jul 2018 17:11:32
Is that club 1872 who won’t vote against the chairman.

30 Jul 2018 17:44:23
More importantly, does anyone know how long the new deal with SD runs for, hopefully only 12 months,

30 Jul 2018 18:39:06
so if Dave King or the board knew about it then why go to court. and why is everyone saying Dave King is a liar. if he didn't know about it then he isn't a liar. i'm not a king lover but he is only a spokesman. he can't make decisions for rangers without the backing of the board. so that makes them all liars then. as for boycotting Ashley do you think he even cares. he made more money last year without rangers strips. he is doing what he is doing now because he can, he doesn't need the few million rangers tops might bring him. however rangers does need the money and if there is no other avenue to get strips and money to rangers then a boycott damages the club you are trying to support. cut off your nose so to speak.

30 Jul 2018 14:56:43
Not a rumour as such but there was some interest near the end of last season with Youssouf Mulumbu from Killlie - can play and add a bit of steel in the middle of the park. I know we have a number of midfielders but we really need someone who is going to dominate and not take any nonsense when certain players come to Ibrox abd prance around as if they own the place. I look at some of those games last season and can’t even imagine a Souness, Butcher or Roberts taking any of that. Any thoughts from the rest of the Ibrox Faithful?

30 Jul 2018 15:34:38
Coulibaly takes no nonsense.

30 Jul 2018 12:56:11
Cardoso paid aff! One of the worst center halfs ever and simply dreadful!

30 Jul 2018 13:15:08
Broadfoot was the worst. cardoso is young foreign and the manager that bought him is gone. shame for the lad if u ask me.

30 Jul 2018 13:25:57
Cardoso made Broadfoot look like Baresi.

30 Jul 2018 13:28:24
Cardozo no pay off free to sign for other club.

30 Jul 2018 14:43:30
didn't get a chance didn't have a manager worth listening to and confidence was shot. wasn't give time to settle or even get the language. and working with Russel Martin and alves pair of has beens. should have been loaned out for free to lower league in Scotland not released.

30 Jul 2018 15:22:16
He had enough chances. He was a marshmallow defender who celebrated with fist pumps when he won a tackle. What good would lending him out to the likes of Cowdenbeath have done?

30 Jul 2018 15:36:50
Cardoso was never given a chance, he got injured against Motherwell and then rest is history. So short memories you all have. Take Alves and Bruno partnership record against Bates and Wilson and they conceded less goals fact 10% less against games played. That been said I’m happy with our new partnership at the back, just don’t like people slating a fellow player when he always gave 100% whether you thought it was good enough or not.

30 Jul 2018 16:39:54
I would like to point out that Broadfoot was part of a defense that got us to the UEFA cup final, why are some on here so quick to turn on our own?

30 Jul 2018 19:44:46
Agreed I know big kirk and he'd have ran through a brick wall for us. Wasn't the best but gave everything r us proper bluenose.

31 Jul 2018 10:33:20
Cardoso was not great but not that bad really.

30 Jul 2018 12:27:34
So that's Fabio Cardoso away as well. "Mutually agreed termination of contract"
I thought he looked okay before he broke his bugle against Motherwell. but he looked a bomb scare when he came back.

30 Jul 2018 10:08:06
Does anyone actually know what that lad from Man City failed his medical on exactly?

30 Jul 2018 10:27:50
Don't think medical was the problem.

30 Jul 2018 10:45:20
keeping his options open, obviously did not fancy playing for us or coming to scotland.

30 Jul 2018 11:02:58
Didn't fail the medical, he changed his mind and decided he didn't want to play for us.

30 Jul 2018 11:57:10
That's how I read it with SG comments on it think the medical was an excuse.

30 Jul 2018 12:19:19
No one said he failed his medical. That's just what the s*n reported.

30 Jul 2018 12:30:32
Either an excuse or we didn"t want to scupper any future move for him through a failed medical.

30 Jul 2018 12:41:39
It certainly wouldn't be because he didn't want t play for us. Probably more that he didn't want to move up to scotland.

30 Jul 2018 07:17:01
{Ed's Note - Ed001 has posted a new article entitled, Review Of The Day 30th July 2018

29 Jul 2018 22:51:37
One thing I noticed that has changed for the best. At half time the players warm up with a purpose and are being watched by two coaches . Night and day from the last three managers and it looks very healthy and pleasing.

30 Jul 2018 00:32:51
I like that we have some strength and depth in the squad now, there's no need to panic or force someone out of position if a first teamer gets injured or suspended, we have a main team that can challenge for the title and a 2nd squad who would probably finish in the top 6.

So much better than it has been for many years.

29 Jul 2018 21:49:36
Just heard about the supporters clashing after the game anybody hear anything.

30 Jul 2018 02:21:50
I'm told by a police officer it was one skirmish, no arrests and not even clear it was Rangers fans.

30 Jul 2018 09:47:24
I've seen a video of it which happened on Hope St and it certainly looked more than a "skirmish". More of a running battle in the street with some guy being hit by something and lying sparkled on the ground. Nothing to suggest it was gers fans as there was no colours but there was a guy who was a Liam Gallagher wannabe so probably Wigan fans probably involved.