Rangers Rumours

12 Oct 2024 00:22:43
Is anyone else picking up or hearing that investment coming via joint parties of The Easdales and Kyle Fox looking to partner and buy major shares of 51%.

12 Oct 2024 08:12:33
The Easdales! Too funny.

12 Oct 2024 08:57:01
Those two crooks should never be allowed to set foot in Ibrox Stadium.

12 Oct 2024 08:59:01
Touchy subject, but where are you seeing this, nothing online anywhere.

12 Oct 2024 09:31:15
Absolute rubbish.

12 Oct 2024 10:10:27
They can’t force the shareholders to sell 🤣.

12 Oct 2024 10:45:30
Spyder does your source say it is investment as in more money coming to the club or just purchasing shares from current holders. if latter then not much benefit to us initially at least.
However like Fork not seeing anything online and would like to know the type of source if you are willing to share.

12 Oct 2024 10:48:33
🤣🤣🤣🤣 Naw, but my spidy senses are tingling, spyder, and that means only one thing. Hmmmmmmm!

12 Oct 2024 11:47:13
Buying shares of someone is not investment in the club! And, I might be wrong but because of FFP, they can't just plough money in either?

12 Oct 2024 11:55:29
You haven't shaved Ss😉😇.

12 Oct 2024 12:00:46
Tbh are the easdales the villians they were made to look?

12 Oct 2024 12:27:30
Rangers56,they partnered up with Ashley and the rest of the charlatans to let them asset strip and nearly destroy out club, so I would say yes.
A rumour partnering them up with Fox who was rejected by the board a few months ago sounds like somebody just trying to wind up our support with nonsense.

12 Oct 2024 13:23:06
Not quite, Fork, but I could be doing with a Chas.
No, my spidy senses tingle when we have an infiltrator on here posting sensationalist, scaremongering, tripe like this.

12 Oct 2024 13:35:30
Anno mate just a wee bit of riske humour to wash away the green 👍.

12 Oct 2024 20:48:48
maybe someone in the know can tell you how much an investor can invest before breaching FFP but it is right that noone can just walk in and say oh hear is 100M to spend on a couple of players. so we need other ways to generate revenue, whether its tv deals, sponsorship or player trading that's the only way to do it. Ofcourse getting into CL would be great as well.

13 Oct 2024 07:07:45
I think, but may be wrong, you can use 70% of the income that the club can generate, through revenue streams generated by investment. Others with a better grasp may know, Angus this may be one for you to get your teeth into bud👍👍.

13 Oct 2024 07:50:26
The financial sustainability regulations only counts for Europe Fork. From the end of season 2025/ 26, a club must ensure that their ‘squad cost ratio’ – the amount they accumulatively spend on transfer fees, wages, player amortisation, agent fees and manager fees – must be equal to or less than 70 percent of their turnover.

13 Oct 2024 08:14:09
sorry Fork should also have said any money invested doesn't count as revenue, soft loans can at moment but Man City case recently said that down south they couldn't any more. sponsorship I think is already looked at to see if it is value for money, e. g. you can't give £10 for match day ball sponsorship.

13 Oct 2024 08:51:04
Aye so wasnt far out with the 70%, but can investment lead to generated revenue income that can then be used?

13 Oct 2024 12:36:27
By no means an expert on this but yes if, as someone else has previously said, you put it into infrastructure and other projects which leads to a source of revenue' i. e. you have a larger income of which 70% would then be more. as recent examples the new seating in the Copeland Road Stand and Edmonton House.
and I meant to say £10 million for match ball sponsorship as it would be deemed excessive if it came form an associated source of the club.

13 Oct 2024 13:41:38
They tried to muscle in on Morton with big plans and were told to eff off by a right thinking, clean and honest board of directors .

Walt Disney couldn't have come up with anything as ridiculous as those 2, no even Dick Dastardley, but 'Dick' would have suited the idiot brother who is brainless.

13 Oct 2024 14:23:37
Or the "Ant Hill Mob" sorry that's our board😉😇, OK I'm only kidding😁.

13 Oct 2024 15:23:44
i hope this helps but fox is partnering up with no one. they are a legitimate front company for deals, unlike ellis, run out of a condominium building in new york. one partner provides financing for deals another has a husband who is a sports lawyer with a lot of contacts in Europe. fox herself, runs the company and probably has limited knowledge of footballw and rangers specifically. i think rangers sued in florida as she is mostly based here in the winter. can't imagine she would want to be involved again. notoriety is not their business model. successful purchase flows are.

14 Oct 2024 08:14:54
Surely the few previous posts snd the name spyder hints at someone from the dark side setting a trap?

14 Oct 2024 09:13:13
A "Trapdoor Spyder' 😉😁.

14 Oct 2024 12:59:42
think you are right baz. my version was being more polite than total p. i wanted to post lol.

14 Oct 2024 16:56:33
Fork, you are encouragable 🤣.

14 Oct 2024 17:44:30
Anno it's like tourettes👍😉.

11 Oct 2024 12:25:02
Anyone hearing anything about Jordan Henderson being linked with a loan move?
Apparently on similar terms to when we got Jermain Defoe being muted.
Only reading this on line not something I've heard from anyone in the know.

11 Oct 2024 13:54:53
Would certainly be a good head in the middle of the park. Don’t k ow about his mobility against celtics mf though we need to match them for fitness mobility etc and would he do that? Still a good addition though.


I said all summer and part of last season we need Lennon miller and so far this season he’s setting everything he’s involved in alight.

Well regrt that come the summer as we won’t afford him.

11 Oct 2024 14:14:54
Seen that, 34 and steep wages, not for me.

11 Oct 2024 14:29:09
100% StevieG2 Lennon Miller might have cost us £4m but he is absolutely worth it for me and I do think we will regret it. I’d try again in January window and hope we haven’t left it too late. The spine of the team is crucial to get right. First choice CB, Number 6 and Centre Forward.

11 Oct 2024 14:43:08
Just hope he goes back to Sunderland, they have a very good chance of getting out that division, young lad Chris Rigg will go far in the game.

11 Oct 2024 15:15:36
We lack experience in central midfield I would be happy to get him if 1 on the right terms and 2 if he makes a difference and if he does come i'd give him the captain's band.

11 Oct 2024 16:27:15
64blue. I think the rumour started as Henderson isn't playing regularly for Ajax this season 93 games so far) . so putting 2 and 2 together a bookie has surmised he will want to move and created a book on it with Sunderland as favourites with Rangers at 5/ 2. BTW Celtic are also listed at 6/ 1.

so I suspect that there is no truth in any of it.

11 Oct 2024 16:37:03
sorry I meant 3 games so far and not 93.

11 Oct 2024 17:01:40
We couldn’t afford him in the summer there Stevie and he has no interest in coming to rangers. We had a lot of folk on here telling us he was signing and from day one I told you all it wasn’t happening.

The Henderson one is click bait nonsense.

12 Oct 2024 12:32:21
This is another " wouldn`t it be a good idea " story by a clickbait Rangers site that others latch on to and then it becomes and actual story when it never was . I know we need an experienced player in there but he`s 34, is paid a fortune and will almost certainly have EPL clubs after him if he does indeed return to the UK . A large tax bill might make that unlikely . He`ll probably head off to the states .

12 Oct 2024 19:17:00
Storm we bought Bajrami for £3.4m mate.
That would have got miller in the summer and left us maybe with wee bit extra to pay but we could have got him if we wanted .

He’s already a better player than diomande at £4.5m
Cortez doesn’t look worth £4m

But we won’t papyrus say £4m for miller who walks into that team every day of the week.

Madness.

14 Oct 2024 13:10:26
Wont be long till Miller is at Rangers, right place for him with his fathers blessing. Down the road a ways he will make us a load of cash.

10 Oct 2024 21:15:21
If its true Park Jr is taking more control then we may as well fold.

That useless mess of a man can't even button his own shirt, nevermind run our club.

Dark times ahead.

10 Oct 2024 22:01:15
Oh god i hope you're info regarding that useless man graeme park is wrong mate otherwise we're in the biggest trouble in our history 🤔 He's an absolute imposter hanging onto his daddy's appron strings who is out his depth 😡.

10 Oct 2024 22:23:06
that is about cryptic 79. can't see anything on web so where are you getting this from?

10 Oct 2024 22:33:02
He's also leading the pursuit of a CEO. Guys a walloper.

11 Oct 2024 01:24:52
A load of baloney, Park jr is is charge of nothing and is leading no charge for anyone. Some of the posters on here need to have a long lie down.

11 Oct 2024 06:56:07
Like Dad's Army on here, "were doomed, doomed ah tell you" followed by the customary, "don't panic" nuts in here at times, nothing mentioned in this regard any where.

11 Oct 2024 09:44:32
I agree Fork. not saying posters need to give names but coming on and saying something is happening will lead to people saying it is rubbish. My post was meant to read bit cryptic and asking where the OP saw it as I can't find anything. In another post it says he is part of a group of 3 including Gilligan and that would be less worrying as most boards will not leave the decision making to one man.

11 Oct 2024 09:52:55
Angus it’s a rumours site you suggesting people don’t post rumours they have heard?

11 Oct 2024 11:19:10
Thankfully for me Angus, I put "if" at the start as it is a rumour. So just simmer down.

11 Oct 2024 11:41:54
I know it is a rumours site Storm and i'm not upset so don't need to simmer down. luckily enough someone put it in the site name so that people as stupid as I am can realise that. I have no issue with that. rumours come from different sources though. all I am asking is for the direction the rumour came from. I understand that this would be acceptable as well or is the only response allowed to be one adding to the doom and gloom of the original post. BTW still not had an answer to that so will assume the rumour is crap.

11 Oct 2024 13:07:36
thanks to One Walter Smith in another thread I can now see where the rumour came from. Rangers Review run an article where there is mention of the collective running Rangers other than 1 voice. The only line which Park is mentioned says:

"Gilligan and George Letham are now the main figures at Ibrox, with RIFC plc director Graeme Park also contributing more closely to the running of the business. "

so contributing to the collective not having more control. different slant when you read the whole article.

11 Oct 2024 13:38:33
Angus iv already posted Chris jack on rangers review said about park helping milligan and Letham also 4 lads commented on it last night as well.

11 Oct 2024 16:23:39
OWS in both this thread and the other which you started to say Park was leading the recruitment of CEO I have credited you with giving your source.
My point in both of them was that we shouldn't overstate the part Park is playing from the 1 sentence in which he was mentioned. the RR story has 1 line on contributing to the running of the business.

I was posting the information on Park in the RR article so others could make their own mind up as to whether the article allows the interpretation that Park was taking more control or leading in the recruitment of CEO.

The RIFC board (who set the clubs strategy and have nothing to do with day to day running of club) and the football board (who oversee and implement the club's football strategy on a day to day basis) have different memberships. Only John Gilligan as acting Chairman is already on both boards, Letham on neither and Park on the RIFC Board. So at best since we have lost 2 of the football board, Jacobs and Robertson then the additional 2 will be taking up some of the slack I suggest.
about accuracy which is why I like to know where the source is so I can make ups. my own mind with all the facts.

11 Oct 2024 17:04:16
Angus I never told you to simmer down so have no idea what you are talking about 👍.

11 Oct 2024 18:02:17
Angus let me rephrase park is leading the chase for a ceo alongside Gilligan and Letham I can only print what iv saw and read my reason for the post is park has little credibility with many fans and if he's even in the same room as those hiring I'd be concerned.

11 Oct 2024 18:05:37
Goodness iv contributed to this site for years and post few rumours iv heard or read so Angus if a mate down the pub tells me he's heard we re signing a player do you want me to post the mates name and name of the pub.

11 Oct 2024 18:22:05
no ows I don't but I do think it isn't wrong of me to ask the source and for you to say a mate down the pub told me. I then know that the rumour is highly unlikely to be true unless you drink in the same pub as Mr Gilligan. as you have been a contributor for years you will know re the forums concerns re our health and that there are those who will jump on any bad news and believe it.
BTW all I was asking for and pointing out was for you to do exactly as you suggest, i. e. to print exactly what you read; it was just one sentence.
not falling out about this. but again as you say Park has little credibility but in this case I think he has little influence on the process being discussed.

11 Oct 2024 18:27:29
Was it Mr Noel One and was it in the Mirage pub whilst drinking Scotch Mist👍😉😇.

11 Oct 2024 19:11:34
cheers Fork trying humour to take the sting out of our handbags at dawn 😁 (hopefully comes out as an emoji and not a? )

11 Oct 2024 19:28:02
Does anyone actually have concrete info that Park jr is not leading the hunt for a new CEO?

11 Oct 2024 19:50:17
Better than your attempt earlier (grease) fgs, a bit slippy, boom🤣🤣.

11 Oct 2024 21:52:23
Superally no and nor does anyone have concrete evidence he isn't.

11 Oct 2024 22:22:22
Storm. just to clarify I didn't mean you who told me to simmer down, someone else did. made sense in my head when I wrote it.

12 Oct 2024 09:20:08
Angus you don’t have to react to every post pal and try not to take it too personally.
I don’t always agree about your take on the current team and players but you make valid points about the club.

12 Oct 2024 10:19:32
I'd be amazed if that "stupid boy" Park was heavily involved Fork.

12 Oct 2024 11:22:08
Lol SB aka Private Pike 👍😁.

12 Oct 2024 12:17:23
Rosevale sorry for reacting to your post but Storm asks question I answer it. Is that permissible? I don't take any of it personally tbh as it is a forum where everyone has opinions with mine just one of those opinions. I don't need people to have the same opinions as me and in fact some times I am just putting a different interpretation.
Still new to forum and struggling at times to understand the unwritten rules :)

12 Oct 2024 13:22:18
So your admitting you're a kind of an opinion plagiariser 😉🤣, sorry Angus can't help it lol👍👍 and we all know your Mrs tells you what to say.

12 Oct 2024 13:42:36
Thanks Fork. no just that I can see both sides of an argument and will put forward the opposite more positive one to stimulate debate, mostly I agree with that opinion anyway. .
Do most not have their values already set and then they read a story which fits in with that so they put it forward as their opinion.
as I've said in the past I don't post to change people's opinions, just feel we all need to see both sides.
anyway too high brow and i'm away back to music discussion not the other pages, less contentious.

12 Oct 2024 15:26:56
There is no rules Angus, would like to see some other opinions though.

12 Oct 2024 16:04:14
Lol no worries bud👍🤣.

12 Oct 2024 16:50:26
My bad Rosevale. as my opinion is somehow blocking others from having one I will try not to post as much.

13 Oct 2024 13:45:25
Park jr is a clown who's been handed his lifestyle and wealth for no effort on his part.

09 Oct 2024 14:24:29
John 2561, do you think a takeover is imminent or do you think the club is in a bigger mess than we know? I'd be interested in everyone's opinion too. Any time in my line of work it means takeover or shutting down.

09 Oct 2024 15:38:13
Just my opinion, with no inside info. Something has been festering away for over a year at least.

We had an outside chance of the league at the turn of the year and for whatever reason blew it. Elling a squad of players at that point they were free to move on didn't help. Since then it has been an exodus of players and board members and others.

I don't think it's a takeover ( again my opinion), but I do think we need to brace ourselves for possible downgrading of ambitions, primarily through lack of funds.
Just my opinion mind, hope I'm proved wrong!

09 Oct 2024 16:43:37
Welll its either a takeover, or an absolute shambles and knowin us I reckon a shambles
Woudnt be surprised if we are gunna end up how we were pre-Souness.

09 Oct 2024 16:57:07
I think if fans start voting with their feet they will soon need to rethink downgrading their ambitions. Its massive change at board level and ambition upgraded that's needed.

09 Oct 2024 17:57:09
Murder to have a takeover u need willing sellers, only king falls into that category

Don’t know what u mean by a bigger mess, but be consoled by park wolthardt halstead Gibson Scott Bennett will not allow their money to disappear.

09 Oct 2024 18:46:11
Fans won't accept a downgrading of ambition from our club and if this board can't take the club forward we are in serious bother.

09 Oct 2024 19:01:53
If we were in a healthy financial position I’d agree with you big dado but unfortunately a boycott would probably force the boards hand to downgrade on ambition. I like many others are getting bored with ploughing my hard earned money into all things rangers without seeing it spent wisely but I’m afraid it’s our hard earned money that keeps the club going these days .

Still kills me that we didn’t spend a few quid on a striker or any decent upgrade last year because we would’ve probably won the league last season and probably would’ve pumped dortmund again ;)

09 Oct 2024 19:05:12
could it be as simple as we were spending money well above our actual income so to remedy that we needed to cut spending. Bennett said we had to get rid of a £10.5 million loss pre-player trading and reach a sustainable self-funding business model which didn't rely on directors loans. together with changing FFP rules change was needed.

To do that a change in the way we recruited was necessary and to also aim for a profitable player trading model. that started last close season when several players were at end of contract and we either didn't want them or they could get more money elsewhere. we replaced them with younger and/ or cheaper players wage wise. PC when asked in May if he may have to sell some of his key men to finance his rebuild, he said it depends and you can only sell players if you are sure you can get better for a lower price. You can then use the extra money that you have for different positions.

so he didn't tell the players they were for sale nor did he say in the press (until July) that everyone had a price except Butland. don't let the truth spoil a good story though.

09 Oct 2024 19:56:25
Were is this false narrative that the club are in a mess coming from rangers have a board and sometimes people leave for whatever reason and will be replaced and round and round we go.

09 Oct 2024 20:18:56
You post a huge amount of sense, Angus.

09 Oct 2024 20:41:33
It's a magnificent opportunity for someone, the people in charge right now are not up to it . However to protect themselves and their position they would probably block any approach and muddle on .

We are bigger than Newcastle and much bigger than the original Man City or Chelsea, it's a potential for a constant place at the highest level if the right company and people were running the club.

09 Oct 2024 22:26:56
Angus I'm glad to see another supporter with common sense and that is grounded in reality.

10 Oct 2024 00:20:36
Angus 1 of our regular posters who's right more often than not said PC did inform players they weren't required moving forward but you make good points.

10 Oct 2024 00:20:46
'Downgrading of ambition'! My God, I've heard it all now.

10 Oct 2024 00:33:48
There will be no takeover.

The way our shares work doesn't allow it.

The board have to agree for a shareholder to sell their shares and agree on whom they sell their shares too.

10 Oct 2024 08:11:05
79 I think John mentioned this before. This is from 2022 AGM and not sure if it still relevant and not saying this means there is a takeover. However resolution 7 and 8 at the AGM were passed which meant that the board could sell new shares to investors of there choosing, that is without offering these shares to existing shareholders. now that is the best way for investment to come in as the cash goes straight to the club whereas existing shareholders selling theirs money goes to them obviously. So have no knowledge of takeover other than the same story happens every year so eventually it might be right. for investment this is the better option for the club but the worst for current shareholders as it dilutes their holding. however no-one invests in Rangers to make a profit, they do it for love of the club.

10 Oct 2024 08:36:36
Moffat: no idea why you think we are far bigger than the clubs you mentioned, they could outspend us many times over and no mater who took us over we could never reach their heights, the teams who finish in the bottom four or five all earn close to £100 mill our TV deal is a small fraction of that and even if we had more money no top class player wants to play in our league it’s a very poor league and it’s getting harder to reach the Champions League, I’m sure their may be people looking but looking and investing are two different thing and FFP rules stops sugar daddy’s stepping in.

10 Oct 2024 09:29:07
Angus if investors did it for love of the club why are they getting 3/ 6% interest on the money put in. Fans are the only ones who invest for the love of the club through season tickets and merchandise.

10 Oct 2024 10:45:41
OWS they down get profit on their shareholding, possibly dividends. what you are talking about is the soft loans which have been paid into the club since 2012. some of these have been converted to sales. They sometimes take interest for that correctly. if we had to borrow from a bank do you not think we would pay interest, and at a higher rate most likely. These soft loans have allowed us to spend outside our means for years. it gets around the FFP criteria but that may change given the outcome of the recent Man City case.
when you buy season tickets and merchandise you get those in return. you are not giving the money for nothing which is what you are asking the board to do.

10 Oct 2024 12:25:38
Angus very good post, I stand by players were taken in and told in March they could go, not all have left yet.

10 Oct 2024 12:27:17
Angus u r correct re resolution 7-8. Have been there last few years.

10 Oct 2024 14:20:14
Tj. The board do not have to approve who a shareholder sells his shares to.

10 Oct 2024 17:12:51
cheers John. not in know re players just going by trawl of media and it doesn't say that but you seem to be more in the know so happy to take your word. I take it though by your post, it wasn't all the players who were told; just those who didn't have a future with us?

10 Oct 2024 20:43:14
There is still a lot of chat around a take over at the club - but this could just be due to the various changes in and around the senior levels of the club.

Most common chat is around American money with Souness playing a prominent role.

11 Oct 2024 18:32:21
EHL we are a big draw for investment I would imagine and Souness' name and history with the club brings with it a degree of almost automatic acceptance with a large swathe of the support so I could understand why any investor would want him on board.

13 Oct 2024 13:48:33
twacoos gwt somebody to read the comment to you, I said the original Man City and Chelsea not their current state .