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  1. Yes They had to report on it and pick a candidate to make the headlines - clickbait if you will. The articles beyond the headlines contained little more than words with no direct quotes from anyone and he said she said pish If I was going to speculate to make me look like I knew something then Beale would probably be my go to guess. The alternative would be to print the truth - ie I don't know anything and it could be x,y or z. Not as effective as a headline or clickbait None of them know anything official
  2. The reality is that no cunt in the media has any idea exactly what's going on - as should be the case Have we officially asked for permission to speak to Beale? Not that I'm definitively aware off. We'd be talking to him unofficially and get agreements in principal before approaching QPR (I know that's tapping up but its what happens in the real world either directly or via agents) Dyche or Seoame are free agents and could be getting talked with too - I'd be surprised if we're not talking to more than 1 candidate The papers know hee-haw at this stage
  3. To be fair none of this is on the current commercial dept and it all goes back 10 years to Green, Stockbridge and Ahmad and the various onerous contracts they entered that were designed to benefit them and others rather than Rangers One of these was our retail deal which had to feed many mouths such as the 3 cunts above, Ashley and the "Rangers fan" from Dumbarton who introduced Ashley and has benefitted very tidily ever since. The last consideration was creating revenue for the club, hence we made two pencils and a balloon from retail. They signed this off on a 7 year rolling contract btw Essentially the club was financially and corporately raped for 4 years before King and the 3 bears got control. What they inherited was an absolute shitshow and it has taken the past 6 years and £10s of millions of personal investment to get to where we are now. I for one will always be grateful for what they have done, it chills me to think where we might be without them. Are they perfect? Far from it. Could we have better visionaries and (critically) communicators? Absolutely Can they take us to the next stage/level? Debatable but anyone new coming in (the Americans for example) come with the risk of being charlatans who asset strip and take us right back to square one For me the next move needs to be a freshen up of our executive board, principally Robertson who, for me is weak and lacks presence and Wilson who, despite the record fees, is not performing to the level we need Anyway, on the retail stuff, hindsight is a wonderful thing but if we'd served notice as per the contract we would be free of Ashley soon and would probably have been better or no worse off. King did what he does and ignored a contract and created a proper mess. Someone on Twitter who forecast what was to come 3 years ago posted this summary... I'm sure King was doing what he thought was best, but I'm equally sure he either ignored legal advice or, worse, didn't seek proper advice
  4. Thought that was the case May not necessarily be good news, depending on how solid a case the administrators think they have. At £9.5m we'll probably be one of biggest debtors, if not the biggest.
  5. I believe King worked with James Blair our Company Secretary (formerly Andersen Strathearn) when they messed this up
  6. I believe King worked with James Blair our Company Secretary (formerly Andersen Strathearn) when they messed this up
  7. Bisgrove? He joined the year after this was agreed so no I don't blame him oddly enough. Don't particularly like him but not going to blame him for something he wasn't involved in
  8. I wonder if Dave King will have a lot to say about this? His belief that he is above contractural law has cost us £10s millions He's running his mouth off today about how he would have bankrolled Gerrard when we were maxxed out on UEFA FFP and needed to sell to buy and landed on the UEFA watchlist despite not spending G His handling of our merchandise deals has been absolutely shambolic
  9. I see a parallel between Walter/Souness and Gerrard/Beale Time will tell but my gut tells me that Gerrard will fade out of management and into media even quicker than Souness did. Big name players don't always make great managers. Most people were surprised when Walter got promoted when Souness left and the rest is history. Souness has since lauded Walter as the brains and the man manager. Like Gerrard, Souness attracted some players through his status (Souness moreso as we were shopping in the top end back then) Like players in our price range, none of the managers come without risk He knows the players, they know and like him (unlike Gio?) he knows the club, he knows the league and he obviously loves the club enough to come here having turned down a EPL club in recent weeks We have good players, what we need is a manager who can get the best out of them and get us playing as a team with a recognisable style
  10. The second included a league title awarded on a zoom call as opposed to actually won
  11. 2 and 3 definitely Gio Injuries to Hagi, Helander, Souttar, Davies, Lawrence, Roofe, Jack, Ridvan, Goldson, Lowry etc - not sure how Gio gets the blame for these?
  12. Not reading back so apologies if already discussed I'm of the opinion that we have the players with more than enough to win in Scotland but 3 things have killed us and Gio Injuries have been horrific but not withstanding that..,, Our playing style under Gio was dreadful, predictable and, therefor, easy to play against Our fitness and stamina has fallen off a cliff which is incredible considering where both were at last season Point one will hopefully start to ease, point 3 is needing addressed urgently and that then allows point 2 to be addressed With better players back available and everyone with improved stamina and fitness, I'd personally love to see us adopt a high tempo, high energy attacking game as that would win almost every time in domestic football. We truly are in a two horse race and give them an advantage due to our style of play. Dyche would solve 1 and 3 but I'm not convinced he'd solve the playing style I'd love to see Bielsa if we could sort the money side of things.
  13. He's won the Dutch 2nd division in 20+ years managing No idea why he gets the jobs he's been getting
  14. Time will tell Less than two years ago, at the time of the Covid breech in Feb 21, I was laughed at for saying Bassey was "potentially" our biggest asset and should be playing ahead of Borna and that Patterson was "potentially" worth millions (many wanted to show them both the door) This time last year the out of form Borna was still playing and Bassey had played limited football. Injuries gave him his chance and he never looked back. When he turned 21 Bassey had played 12 senior games (9 starts) He had pace, strength, power and decent skills but most of all he had a great attitude and determination to be the best he could be. Lowry has outstanding natural ability and skills, he'll never have Bassey's physical attributes but that's not his game. If he has Bassey's attitude he has the world at his feet Personally I see a fair bit of a young Durrant in him, including the gallus style and natural ability Whether he fulfils his potential is largely down to him and partly down to Gio (or another manager) giving him a stage That's my view, you might think it's mental but I couldn't care less
  15. 18 months playing to the level he's capable of and Lowry becomes our biggest asset, possibly even surpassing Bassey's fee He needs to focus 100% on his career and in return we need to give him the stage to perform Most gifted young talent since Ian Durrant
  16. Gerrard, like the board a couple of years previously, inherited a mess that was a long distance behind a club who had a free ride to league titles and subsequent access to CL money (it's almost as if it was manufactured and facilitated ) They had time and space to build a successful player trading model which still allows them a financial advantage to this day. The gap however is small and success can and will swing back and forth again to the pattern we saw in the first 12 years of the millennium
  17. From 00 to 11 League - Rangers 6 Scum 6 SC - Rangers 5 Scum 5 LC - Rangers 6 Scum 4 Rangers 17 Scum 15 The next 7/8 years are where they won their tainted titles and trebles Only the past 2/3 years have we managed to draw back to a pretty level pegging/ fair fight
  18. You can add England and Belgium to that. Then there's Turkey and Portugal (and Russia pre war) I'm sure we were highly interested in Veerman, Simmons, Doekhi and Skov Olsen but they chose PSV x2, Union Berlin and Brugge.
  19. That's probably the most logical explanation I still have real doubts that we've seen the last of Ashley tbh and I wonder if structure of the arrangement is influenced by this
  20. This looks to be the case In terms of the new UEFA Financial Sustainability rules it would make more sense to include the total sales figure, unless I'm missing something (very possible) Maybe the structure of our deal doesn't allow for this but if we have a poor Euro season it could be important The new regulations will see clubs subject to squad cost controls for the first time. The cost control rule restricts spending on player and coach wages, transfers, and agent fees to 70% of club revenues. (The gradual implementation will see the percentage at 90% in 2023/2024, 80% in 2024/2025, and 70% in 2025/2026). This requirement provides a direct measure between squad costs and income to encourage more performance-related costs and to limit the market inflation of wages and transfer costs of players
  21. I'd think a pigeon or dog or fox or whatever would be covered by "outside agent" and the game would be stopped if the ball hit them
  22. The only consideration is if they are 2m away and standing that's not realistically open to any further interpretation
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