I think it is fair to say that The People are revolting.
The cup final defeat inflicted more pain on the Ibrox klanbase than I had initially thought.
They’re really hurting, and in their anguish, they want the sugar daddies in the Blue Room to splash the cash.
This was a particularly hilarious offering from Mr Barry Ferguson EBT today.
Essentially, a rich person is required to pour liquidity into the Ibrox money pit.
It was ever thus.
However, the Sevco High Command know that they are between an aggregate of minerals and a particularly difficult situation.
This suboptimal placement is way beyond the understanding of their entitled and emotionally fragile klanbase.
After several dignified conclaves, I’m told that the chaps in the Blue Room are finally with the programme, and they realise that UEFA’s FSR is a new reality for Sevco.
So that it is the naturally occurring solid mass.
Then there is the financial reality that the Ibrox business does not produce a surplus.
Indeed, it is perennially loss-making.
Since the Off License Putsch, the current regime has covered this shortfall with a mixture of share confetti and director loans.
Neither of those two sources of external finance can be categorised as football income as per the FSR ordinances.
Rock and a hard place.
The problem that is pressing the Sevco High Command from both sides could be summed up in two words:
Season tickets.
In the coming weeks, all of the club-approved churnalism in the mainstream will have one objective, and that is to create a feel-good narrative about the future.
A reasonable scenario is that something, soon, will have to give.
Either some senior functionary at Sevco will have to go or, as previously reported, an ethnic assistant is brought in for that nice Mr Beale.
The contract situation with the first-team squad is well known.
If they are ALL allowed to leave the building on July 1st, then that reduction in the wage bill is good news apropos the UEFA surveillance.
Clearly, Mr Beale, if he is still there, will require replacements.
What the folk in Nyon will be looking at is how the wage bill measures up to the club’s football income.
If the Ibrox klanbase gets its way and Messrs Robertson and Wilson are removed, then that will not alter the financial fundamentals.
Follow Follow the money.
Always.
I do have a fear that they could be “looked at” by seriously wealthy speculators….and I don’t think that their current financial mess would necessarily be a stumbling block…given some of the takeovers we have witnessed recently….(Newcastle for example.)
You also have to hold your hands up and say that 50,000 season tickets, sponsorships and kit sales make for a very decent income…and that would be guaranteed under new ownership.
Also…its a two horse race in Scotland…so the “possibility” of CL qualification ( one way or another ) would be another attractive incentive.
Finally…they are the “Establishment’s” club of choice with all the corruption and help that goes with it.
Could be a an interesting wee package for someone.
Obviously hope not…
Just putting it out there.
But, on the down side…. a large percentage of global population is Christian/Catholic. You’re hardly going to get them onside when they hear their songs of hate against Roman Catholicism, and their faux sense of entitlement will forever be their downfall too – as is screwing people over, financially. More recently, we’ve had them mired in litigious claims against just about anybody that isn’t on the same wavelength as them. Their mentality over there is that bad publicity is still publicity. They have yet to understand that good publicity is more beneficial to them in the longer term.
Have you noticed how many of their players bless themselves…??…Disnae seem to put them off….So they obviously don’t have a problem with the hatred….Strange indeed.
Beale’s east end barrow boy drivel will eventually come back to haunt him.
With the league gone and the league cup in the Parkhead trophy room, Rangers season is now down to winning the Scottish Cup.
Failure to do so will not be acceptable to the Ibrox board nor the fan base and may impact on the next season ticket uptake.
Would Beale survive a season without a trophy or will he slip away to take the England national coach job as reported in the Scottish media.🤢
1. You can’t hide from $ their abundance, lack of consequences.
2. A player trading model is life blood adjacent to being in Europe. In or out an openness regards player trading is required.
3. 55 v 52/53,, , I’m 61, , bring on retirement 😂
4. Awards 117 v 113/115
5. Roll on 2025/2026, , “Simply second best” , at best
The futures bright, ,
Green white and orange.
Hail hail from down under👍
Ach well, we’ve had a good run of fun these past 11 years and indeed the 11 before that but all good things come to an end.
How on earth are we meant to compete when hundreds of millions are poured into the Ibrox coffers
That “Sugar Daddy” best arrive very soon going by today’s Scottish Football Gossip section on BBC Website.One headline stands out above all others.
– Beale believes he can return Rangers to the top with one more transfer window. (Herald – subscription required) Seriously is this stuff for real?
It won’t be long until we start hearing the feel good drivel about the big names that Beale is pressing for and that some millionaire with wealth off the radar is looking to invest. It’s the same year in and year out but there isn’t a snowball’s chance in Hell that they will be able to compete next season again. HH
Poor Micky.
Has the penny dropped that THIS squad of players is probably going to be the ‘best’ bunch of players
that he will ever manage, whilst he remains at Ibrox?
To keep the bears onside – and for ST sales purposes – Wilson could be punted in the short-term?
Other than that, Beale must keep winning: a SC defeat might not be tolerated.
🙂
One thing I’m surprised their board hasn’t done to get out in front of this issue is actually publish their FSR ratio. They are well over the 70% they’ll eventually have to be under, and they’re probably close to or over even the higher ratio allowed for this year. Explicitly stating where they’re at would really drive the point home that even if they had the money to pump into the team (which they don’t, but whatever), UEFA won’t allow them to without serious repercussions.
Start a klan war with UEFA? I don’t know that even they would sink to that.
Or do you mean that would cause an outbreak of logic amongst the herrenvolk? If anything, it would make them less likely to renew season tickets. The same peepul barely put a penny up to save the original klub.
I think your second point there nails it. Having the financial reality laid out in terms that even the brains of a bear could understand, would destroy any possible feel-good factor they were trying to generate.
Then again, I should know better than to attempt to think in Bear logic. It might instill a siege mentality that would have them flocking to renew. “We’ll show they fuckin Fenian bastarts at UEFA! They’ll no tell us whit tae dae! We arra peepul !!”
This is absolutely spot on