13 Jan 2024 09:54:29
Not sure if my mate is on the wind-up (hope so and assume so) .

Is anyone else hearing bisgrove has allowed quite a number of hospitality clients to pay “x” (unconfirmed amount) to join the team all inclusive in the hotel they’re staying at in Spain? Apparently Clement raging as drunk fans are cutting about?

Sounds like a load of rubbish to me - have asked him for his source as I can’t see anything online about it.

Just wondering if anyone else had heard similar?

1.) 13 Jan 2024
13 Jan 2024 10:58:38
This has been circulating on twitter/ x.

2.) 13 Jan 2024
13 Jan 2024 11:08:10
I think if that was happening it would be all over social media.
For a start the fans would be posting photos.
Just can’t see it.

3.) 13 Jan 2024
13 Jan 2024 11:14:44
Sometimes Corporate Hospitality or Sponsors get invited to friendlies etc and the trios abroad are so the club can ensure exclusive use of the hotel or facility.
I don't know if this has happened on this occasion but I have done this previously with a lower league club where my friends company was a major sponsor.

4.) 13 Jan 2024
13 Jan 2024 11:15:20
God I hope not. Can’t imagine the figure we’d set to allow any possible disruption to the team as well as removing the privacy of the players.

5.) 13 Jan 2024
13 Jan 2024 11:24:10
Seen it in twitter.
Everyone rubbishd it.
The guy with account was adamant though.

Apparently fans were charged £7.5k a head to stay at same hotel have meals with team and a Q and a session.
The problem being they’re drunk when around the hotel at same time as players. Clement not happy about this.

Tbf, I did see a video of a fan videoing the team raining session n sum1 shouts n Scottish accent right stop fuc’*** videon that.

Other than that a can’t see this being a true story as quite simply clement would just put a stop to it if he wasn’t happy.

6.) 13 Jan 2024
13 Jan 2024 11:28:38
Made up rubbish by the sounds of it.

7.) 13 Jan 2024
13 Jan 2024 11:33:09
Cheers for the insight guys. Very concerning lapse in judgement if it is true - the revenue generated not worth unsettling the players/ gaffer during their first prolonged period to train together and spend time together.

8.) 13 Jan 2024
13 Jan 2024 11:42:19
Fans new where they were going so I don’t know if you can book up and just go anyway I don’t think it would have been anything to do with rangers.

9.) 13 Jan 2024
13 Jan 2024 11:44:09
Corporate sponsors were allowed to travel with the team and stay at the same hotel. £7000 per person. Fans are being turned away from the training ground as the corporate guests have exclusive access and this is causing an issue for security staff at the resort.

10.) 13 Jan 2024
13 Jan 2024 11:44:29
It came from a twitter user (Empire), who is also one of the eds on Follow Follow. If anyone knows him, must know he's one of the most ITK Rangers punters out there, and doesn't do BS!

11.) 13 Jan 2024
13 Jan 2024 12:01:43
I really hope this is not true, if not it speaks volumes of Bisgrove and co!

12.) 13 Jan 2024
13 Jan 2024 12:02:24
Just my thoughts on Ridvan.
Has he started playing well and does he look like he might be a semi decent player - yes to both but, if it’s true that he’s not happy then does it not make sense that if we loan him to Verona and he continues on his upward trajectory that we are more likely to benefit as average players from the top 5 leagues always command a far better premium than good players from Scotland. Surely that has to be our thinking behind it ??‍♂️.

13.) 13 Jan 2024
13 Jan 2024 12:10:39
Access was possible in Gerrard and Beale's days. Saw with my own eyes and I didn't pay anything.

Quite a few holidaymakers there not all bears.

14.) 13 Jan 2024
13 Jan 2024 12:30:52
I know someone who works for a club sponsor and they posted pics on socials with Cantwell and Butland this week in Spain.

15.) 13 Jan 2024
13 Jan 2024 13:26:25
It is not unusual for top teams, (even for lower league sides in England), for the Clubs to provide Sponsor packages for Away Trips, (I have sponsored a lower league side in England in the past and there was something similar as part of the package) . What I would say is that as a Sponsor I would expect the Club to have set hard and fast rules regarding standards for anyone attending that would limit the risk of disruption to team activity. (For example, anyone attending in my day were well aware that they were representing the Company and 'loutish behaviour would have been gross misconduct) .
Unfortunately there will be Brits on holiday in Spain, (and not all football fans), and it is less easy to police them and unfortunately this comes down to how effective the Resort Security is. Best is for the Resort to increase the level of drunk and disorderly. Security and have a good relationship with the local Authorities so that anyone in the vicinity of the resort that is not a resident is kept well away.

16.) 13 Jan 2024
13 Jan 2024 14:56:56
Definitely true seen the package email they were offered as I’ve got friends with cooperate season tickets, 7k they get to travel with the team get to have Q/ A with the manager and captain etc. definitely legit.

17.) 13 Jan 2024
13 Jan 2024 15:57:29
Nothing would suprise me when bisgroves involved guy is a snake.

18.) 13 Jan 2024
13 Jan 2024 17:36:54
Good to see a few fans in the stadium, including durrant etc.

19.) 13 Jan 2024
13 jan 2024 18:43:52
bisgroves a snake, hows that?

20.) 13 Jan 2024
13 Jan 2024 20:15:25
Bisgrove is a top quality Businessman. He has generated more deals for us than we have ever had previously and it is those dels that have helped us bring in new players. It's not his fault that most of the players signed have been poor quality.

As for the folks reputedly causing issues due to inebriation, were they categorically Sponsor Guests or were they, more likely, just tourists, perhaps not even rangers fans.

I doubt that players would be concerned about posing for photographs with Rangers supporting guests at the hotel. Back in the Souness era it was standard practice and I am delighted to say that I still have photographs of my two sones with players not to mention them happily having their photographs taken holding Trophies in the Trophy Room, something that I for one would dearly like to be able to do again on a regular basis.