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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.

Butland dropped I see. 

 

Seriously?

Any other club gets fined for. Bet they are not and their blatant sectarianism isn’t even discussed by the media. 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cqj7gj2w0k5o
 

£20m? That’s fuck all, they must spend most of that sacking managers. 

2 hours ago, Kowalski said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cqj7gj2w0k5o
 

£20m? That’s fuck all, they must spend most of that sacking managers. 

When you factor in Celtic will pay maybe 10m for a player and rangers need multiple signings, 20m is not a lot. With wise spending I think we’d be competitive with them next season.

2 hours ago, Kowalski said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cqj7gj2w0k5o
 

£20m? That’s fuck all, they must spend most of that sacking managers. 

 

19 minutes ago, OrlandoDon said:

When you factor in Celtic will pay maybe 10m for a player and rangers need multiple signings, 20m is not a lot. With wise spending I think we’d be competitive with them next season.

That's £20m additional investment though.

Add around £14m from season ticket sales, the £11m in prize money from the Europa League last season (which doesn't include ticket sales from five games which would be another £5m - £6m), and although I don't think they'll make it there is always the small chance they might get through the Champions League qualifiers and into the group stage.

That doesn't guarantee anything, but it's a lot more than they had last summer.

So do we expect them to pay for Barron now ? Or are we still going to wait.

1 hour ago, Panda said:

 

That's £20m additional investment though.

Add around £14m from season ticket sales, the £11m in prize money from the Europa League last season (which doesn't include ticket sales from five games which would be another £5m - £6m), and although I don't think they'll make it there is always the small chance they might get through the Champions League qualifiers and into the group stage.

That doesn't guarantee anything, but it's a lot more than they had last summer.

Agreed, a lot more, but they have no manager and a pretty poor squad. They’ve also spunked a fair amount of money on players in recent years that I don’t think are in a healthy financial state. This change doesn’t buy them success and, putting my red specs on, we at least have a manager and a squad to build on, plus plenty of momentum. Still think we could give them a challenge next year.

50 minutes ago, OrlandoDon said:

Agreed, a lot more, but they have no manager and a pretty poor squad. They’ve also spunked a fair amount of money on players in recent years that I don’t think are in a healthy financial state. This change doesn’t buy them success and, putting my red specs on, we at least have a manager and a squad to build on, plus plenty of momentum. Still think we could give them a challenge next year.

I think it's fanciful. For a poor squad, they were still 17 points ahead of third and Europa League quarter-finalists.

I think our target for now is Hibs and Hearts - we're still early into our own rebuild.

I'll settle for beating them in next season's Scottish Cup final though.

1 hour ago, Panda said:

I think it's fanciful. For a poor squad, they were still 17 points ahead of third and Europa League quarter-finalists.

I think our target for now is Hibs and Hearts - we're still early into our own rebuild.

I'll settle for beating them in next season's Scottish Cup final though.

You think they’ll make it to the cup final??

20 hours ago, Kowalski said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cqj7gj2w0k5o
 

£20m? That’s fuck all, they must spend most of that sacking managers. 

might be enough for them to break even this year though

On 30/05/2025 at 19:55, Panda said:

I think it's fanciful. For a poor squad, they were still 17 points ahead of third and Europa League quarter-finalists.

I think our target for now is Hibs and Hearts - we're still early into our own rebuild.

I'll settle for beating them in next season's Scottish Cup final though.

A lot will depend on how well we recruit.  Hearts have been busy already and without Europe and with Mcinnes in charge I can understand why jambos would be optimistic about taking third.  I read earlier that 12 players have left the club so it's going to be a very busy window for us. To be competitive in the the league in the first half of the season whilst we are in Europe is the biggest challenge we face next season.  Herts have tried twice and ourselves once...... it's not worked out brilliantly for either. That said, I doubt Thelin will do a Robson and only use 15-16 players so, again, we come back to how well we recruit.  I would say to stay in the hunt for 3rd whilst being competitive in Europe we will need a 75-80% hit rate. (by that I mean signings that come in a basically hit the ground running) with our transfer business this summer.  We need most of it done before the end of pre season as well. 

 

Apparently there are Huns wanting Russell Martin sacked immediately with the rational for it being he doesn't understand what it means to be a Rangers manager and attended his press conference not wearing brown brogues 😂

Fuck me the social media comments are brilliant. Poor guy, he’s not a bad manager who is an intelligent chap based on his recent interview on the Rest is Football but he’ll (hopefully) be sacked quickly if they don’t start well. Some of them are foaming at the mouth. 
 

““I’d rather guide my dad into my mum than have this appointment” PMSL 😂😂😂
 

  

 

“A vegan? We all let it slide with the Catholics but this is a step too far”. Brilliant.

Huns drawn against Panathinaikos in European qualifier

Cracking draw, fair chance of them getting skelped on and off the park 😉

1 hour ago, BigAl said:

Huns drawn against Panathinaikos in European qualifier

Cracking draw, fair chance of them getting skelped on and off the park 😉

Also means that if they do get beat they fall in to Europa League as an unseeded team so good chance of another difficult tie and dropping into conference league play off round. 

Lost Martin's first game in charge 1-0 against The New Saints (TNS) 😂

Quite stunning the amount of abuse Martin is already getting. They are a mess and need a complete squad overhaul, not unlike us, but we appear to have stability and are willing to give JT time. I also think our fans are certainly more realistic and patient.

their next 5 games are st mirren and brugge away, then home to Celtic Hearts and hibs, that’s a tough stretch. Will be enjoyable watching the drama/chaos unfold.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c78my7nerpdo
 

Mutiny in the ranks already. 
Fingers crossed Martin is here for a while yet!

Got to love AI for the quick way to create meme's now.. 

I did see this on social media…

 

“The Titanic was more successful than Russell Martin was after leaving Southampton” 

Interesting fact, if Dundee beat livi at home and we take 4 points or more from our next two league games, rangers will be bottom of the league when they play their next league game.

to be fair, they were unlucky to lose to hearts, but enjoying every minute of their season to date.

Edited September 15, 2025Sep 15 by OrlandoDon

4 hours ago, OrlandoDon said:

Interesting fact, if Dundee beat livi at home and we take 4 points or more from our next two league games, rangers will be bottom of the league when they play their next league game.

to be fair, they were unlucky to lose to hearts, but enjoying every minute of their season to date.

Funny as that would be, unfortunately I can see the obvious flaw in that plan 🙄

17 minutes ago, BigAl said:

Funny as that would be, unfortunately I can see the obvious flaw in that plan 🙄

True. It’s actually 3 points we need and a good few goals. Both outcomes for us are highly unlikely. We can hope.