I hear that the triumphalist reportage of the new retail deal at Ibrox had some consequences for the other business dealings of Sports Direct.
A League One club recently approached the Shirebrook folk and wanted a similar wonderful Sevco type arrangement with Sports Direct.
Big Mike’s guy told them not to believe what they were reading.
However, the League One chap was adamant; he had read that the Ibrox club had a great new contract with Ashley.
The Shirebrook chap quietly and confidently put him right on that one.
I’m told that the conversation went something like this:
“It didn’t happen the way it is being portrayed in the Scottish media. We’re not a charity case!”
Despite this, the League One chap wasn’t convinced.
So Big Mike’s guy continued:
“It didn’t happen like that for them and won’t happen like that for you!”
Around the same time of this communication I’m told that the following was overheard in Argyle House:
“If the full reasons for why this deal was done and what was in it became public then the supporters wouldn’t be happy.”
Of course, if this is not the case then, in the interests of transparency I’m sure that The People would be intrigued to see the fine print of this great commercial victory for Sevco.
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Surely the people are not that thick as to believe that king got one opver on ashley, ashley didn’t get where he is today by giving his money to charity cases
I think you will find the Peepul ARE ‘That Thick’… and more!
Would any club beaten by sevco (unlikely) not be able to raise a complaint with uefa regarding the FFP rules being broken at Ibrox?
I think that a player with Barrie MacKay’s latent talent would floursh if he had a manager like Brendan.
The announcement regarding the new MEGA retail deal is not entirely without detail. For any Rangers* fan who can read, the most important detail is there is black and white…
“Net profits”.
“Bull”, was the only truthful word in that story. I use the word “story” deliberately because that’s what it was. A fairy tale.
Meanwhile STV reports tonight that TRFC player Barrie MacKay has been ordered to play with the youth squad.
Barrie clearly doesn’t cut the mustard in Pedro’s opinion.
Keith Jackson wrote this in January, stating Barrie was switching to Leipzig in a £6m move before February:
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-transfer-news/rangers-star-barrie-mckay-6m-9656224
“Record Sport can reveal the Bundesliga shocktroops have held preliminary talks about a £6million January move for the 22-year-old winger after he impressed during Sunday’s friendly between the two sides at the Red Bull Arena.
A number of English Premier League clubs are also monitoring the attacker.”
No one believed it. The lad cannot even get in the first squad of a bargain basement club (TRFC) now. Did this football journo actually win an award for this reporting last season?
Almost as bad as when Keith Jackson in the Daily Record described the new Rangers owner Craig Whyte as a venture capitalist billionaire with wealth off the radar.
His work is always pointed at a certain season ticket buying Gullible consumer.
They consume Keith’s deliberate fiction then consume things for sale by RFC then TRFC.
And his use of the word ‘shocktroops’ in connection with the Bundesliga borders on deliberate, or possibly lazy, racism.
In fact, ‘shocktroops’ should be two words, so we can add illiteracy to the accusation.