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Sale of Rangers FC 'will go ahead by mid-January'

 

Published Date: 05 December 2010

By Tom English

 

A DEAL to sell Rangers Football Club to Scots venture capitalist Craig Whyte will go though by the middle of January, according to senior sources at the club.

Whyte, 39, met with Ibrox chairman Alastair Johnston in Glasgow to discuss the purchase of Sir David Murray's shareholding in the club.

 

The proposed £33 million deal will wipe out the existing debt that has stymied Rangers in the transfer market for two years.

 

Yesterday, sources at Rangers said the deal, barring any late hitches, could be completed before Christmas but it is more likely that it will be done by the middle of January. "We can't say with 100 per cent certainty, but Whyte has the money and is very convincing. We think the deal will happen," said the source.

 

Murray has presided over Rangers for 22 years but has been keen to sell his stake for some time.

 

Hopefully the debt thing is not true as that is what is holding them back at the moment.

No celebrations from me until they are confirmed as having to apply to division 3.

Surely, if the SPL clubs have voted no then the situation now has absolutely NOTHING to do with Doncaster now. He can get to fuck out of any position in Scottish Football.

Genuinely was expecting the vote to be delayed.  Doncaster GIRFUY!

FANSTASTIC....

 

Get in there

never in doubt.....

Nail 1, now for the rest. Glad the SPL chairmen, septic aside have been true to their word.

Surely, if the SPL clubs have voted no then the situation now has absolutely NOTHING to do with Doncaster now. He can get to fuck out of any position in Scottish Football.

 

yes, he now has to receive his jotters with immediate effect. he has utterly fucked this situation up and lied to everyone. he has to go.

1 vote Yes

10 votes No

1 Abstention

 

 

Surely to fuck Celtic weren't the abstention, but who else could it have been!?  Possibly Ross County on account of them being new.

1 vote Yes

10 votes No

1 Abstention

 

Abstention.........Killie or Septic 

Right, will celebrate more fully later, but better get on with some work now

 

Hun baiting time

yes, he now has to receive his jotters with immediate effect. he has utterly fucked this situation up and lied to everyone. he has to go.

 

Yep his miserable little tour of radio studios this morning telling us the vote was to be delayed, that there was a motion to allow them in this sanctions is now proven to be bulshit.

Either he was deliberately lying and spreading false rumours in which case he must go.

Or he is operating against the wishes of the majority of the SPL clubs in which case he must go.

 

I trust the SFL chairmen will all realise what this charlatan is about and ignore his prophecy of doom when they vote next week

Where's TF? Someone tell him the ROFLOCOPTER is taking off without him.

1 vote Yes

10 votes No

1 Abstention

 

Elsewhere:

 

Killie and Rangers voted Yes.

 

The other 9 clubs voted No.

 

Celtic abstained

Chris McLaughlin [!]8207;@BBCchrismclaug

#SPL 10 votes no to Newco. Celtic abstain, Green yes

What's the point in abstaining?

Wanted to vote YES but couldn't be seen to do so due to the strength of feeling within their support.

I hope there will be a boycott of the Tattie dome next season.

I hope there will be a boycott of the Tattie dome next season.

 

i've boycotted them for a while now anyway because their stewards are scummy arseholes.

 

i just hope to fuck someone remembers to punish them for juninho's ebt!

It was Killie that abstained.  Good luck to them attracting decent away crowds next season.

Charles Green statement:

 

"We are deeply disappointed that our application to rejoin the SPL has been rejected overwhelmingly by the member clubs.

 

"This time last week, all of us at Rangers were resigned to the fact that we would not be admitted, due mainly to the public declarations of clubs indicating they would not support our application.

 

"At the weekend, we were approached by representatives from the SPL suggesting our application still stood a chance of success and we should discuss this further with clubs. This we did in good faith but with the knowledge of the hurdles that lay ahead of us."

 

"We had asked the SPL whether it would be more appropriate for us to withdraw our application but were advised against this.

 

"We made a presentation to the SPL clubs this morning, detailing our proposals in support of our application and this included what we believed to be penalties and sanctions that would have dealt fairly with the difficulties caused by events at Rangers prior to our acquisition of the club on June 14.

 

"Sadly this was rejected by the other clubs and we regret that our club and our supporters were given false hope by this initiative.

 

"We will now proceed as we had planned from late June to apply for membership of the SFL.

 

"It is entirely a matter for them whether our application will be accepted or rejected and we will make no representation to any member club prior to that application being considered. We also recognise that the SPL has been placed in a difficult position because of the way events have unfolded.

 

"If our application were to be accepted, Rangers will play in whichever division the SFL sees fit and we will move forward from there.

 

"The club hopes that the supporters, who have been absolutely tremendous since the club went into administration on February 14, will continue to support the club and make Rangers a success once again."

Charles Green statement:

 

That almost sounds dignified.

 

Marks deducted for use of the word "Rangers".

Charles Green statement:

 

That is probably the first reasoned statement I have seen come from within rangers/rangers (ia)/rangers (deceased)/seveco since the started. Better late than never, well done that man.

Sounds like cockwomble and ?killie/celtic went scurrying off to try and turn the vote around when everyone else was against it and seveco were willing to speed the process up by withdrawing their application

another reason for cockwomble to go

Almost, gd, apart from the underlying

"We had asked the SPL whether it would be more appropriate for us to withdraw our application but were advised against this

which, to me anyway, translates as "cockwomble telt us we'd get in nae borra"

To be fair mbt, that doesn't show the huns in a bad light, it shows the spl as a bunch of urchins.