Rangers

[VegasII]

They look pretty fucked...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...r-Dave-King-clubs-liquidation-inevitable.html

 

[hughy]

That two-team league is soon to become a one-team league.

 

[OneHotspur1988]

Can't say im overly bothered, I feel bad for all the people that will lose their jobs though.

 

[Spurger King]

I'm geuinely worried my old housemate will top himself if the club goes under. He's an insane Rangers fan...covered in tattoos from head to toe, and used to go to all their games for about 25 years before moving South.

His room was essentially a shrine to the club. Rangers winning or losing was the difference between him being happy and him being suicidal. If they no longer existed I dread to think what he'd be like.

 

[riggi]

Support Celtic :shrug:

 

[hughy]

Support Celtic :shrug:

:lol:

 

[donny1013]

This is a massive blow for Scottish football which is already struggling. Wasn't so long ago they spent a staggering £12mill on Tore Andre Flo as well as massive wages for the de Boer's, Amoruso etc.

 

[Spurger King]

Support Celtic :shrug:

I'll suggest it to him :lol:

Incidentally if I was a multi-billionaire Celtic fan I'd be very tempted to buy Rangers.

Not sure quite sure of all the things I'd do to the club, but it would certainly involve changing their badge to a picture of the pope's face.

 

[nidge]

This is a massive blow for Scottish football which is already struggling. Wasn't so long ago they spent a staggering £12mill on Tore Andre Flo as well as massive wages for the de Boer's, Amoruso etc.

That's exactly what is causing Rangers so much trouble is the ridiculous spending during there run on 9 championship in a row.

 

[donny1013]

That's exactly what is causing Rangers so much trouble is the ridiculous spending during there run on 9 championship in a row.

Was it David Murray who was chairman then? Craig Whyte is obviously to blame for it all coming to a head but that spending of the old regime as you say is also why they are now up shit creek.

 

[ethanedwards]

Was it David Murray who was chairman then? Craig Whyte is obviously to blame for it all coming to a head but that spending of the old regime as you say is also why they are now up shit creek.

A certain Joe Lewis's name was mentioned today, amongst all the rumours, not sure but he might be one of the creditors. Ouch.

 

[steventhfc]

Dave King is suing Murray for giving him misleading information when he invested. To the tidy sum of wait for it....20 million. OOPSIE DAYSIE.

 

[Pleat_Out]

Anyone worth taking off them on a free?

 

[OmarsComing]

 

[OmarsComing]

also not only are they in bed with Chelsea, they are with Arsenal!

CRAIG WHYTE has flogged 102 years of Rangers history by selling the club’s shares in Arsenal.


The latest revelation, which will sicken the club’s supporters, has come to light as part of Record Sport’s explosive investigation into Whyte and the £1 deal he struck to buy Rangers after selling off £24.4 million worth of season tickets to finance his takeover.


Fresh information in our possession now shows how Whyte struck a deal worth more than £230,000 with a consortium called Red and White to sell off the 16 shares and cash in on a historic link between the clubs dating back to 1910.


And brazenly, Whyte then blocked a move for the cash to be paid into the Rangers bank account, demanding instead it stayed lodged in one of his own companies, Pritchard Stockbrokers in Bournemouth.


Pritchard’s assets have now been frozen on the orders of the Financial Services Authority. The FSA moved in on Friday after ruling that Pritchard, who listed Whyte as board *secretary, had used client money to cover its own costs.


The increasingly *embattled Whyte then resigned from his position at Pritchard’s before standing down from two further directors’ posts with related companies, Merchant Corporate Recovery and Merchant Strategic Renewal.


Now Rangers’ *administrators, Duff and Phelps, may attempt to recover the missing money as they fight to clean up the financial carnage which Whyte has created during his disastrous nine months at the Ibrox helm.


The close friendship forged between Rangers and Arsenal spans back to the turn of the last century when the Londoners were experiencing financial trouble of their own.


It’s believed Rangers attempted to help out by buying two shares in *Woolwich Arsenal because their manager, George Morrell, had previously worked for the Ibrox club.


Around 20 years later, a much stronger and vibrant Arsenal gifted Rangers with a further 14 shares in return for their support during troubled times.


This cemented what was already a rock solid *relationship between the then managers, Bill Struth and Herbert Chapman.Struth and Chapman are today revered by fans all over the world as the greatest servants in the history of their clubs.


But Whyte ignored these historic links when he seized control of Struth’s old side and saw a chance to make a killing on the link.

 

[StartingPrice]

I'll suggest it to him :lol:

Incidentally if I was a multi-billionaire Celtic fan I'd be very tempted to buy Rangers.

Not sure quite sure of all the things I'd do to the club, but it would certainly involve changing their badge to a picture of the pope's face.

No like Papist badge mg:

also not only are they in bed with Chelsea, they are with Arsenal!

CRAIG WHYTE has flogged 102 years of Rangers history by selling the club’s shares in Arsenal.


The latest revelation, which will sicken the club’s supporters, has come to light as part of Record Sport’s explosive investigation into Whyte and the £1 deal he struck to buy Rangers after selling off £24.4 million worth of season tickets to finance his takeover.


Fresh information in our possession now shows how Whyte struck a deal worth more than £230,000 with a consortium called Red and White to sell off the 16 shares and cash in on a historic link between the clubs dating back to 1910.


And brazenly, Whyte then blocked a move for the cash to be paid into the Rangers bank account, demanding instead it stayed lodged in one of his own companies, Pritchard Stockbrokers in Bournemouth.


Pritchard’s assets have now been frozen on the orders of the Financial Services Authority. The FSA moved in on Friday after ruling that Pritchard, who listed Whyte as board *secretary, had used client money to cover its own costs.


The increasingly *embattled Whyte then resigned from his position at Pritchard’s before standing down from two further directors’ posts with related companies, Merchant Corporate Recovery and Merchant Strategic Renewal.


Now Rangers’ *administrators, Duff and Phelps, may attempt to recover the missing money as they fight to clean up the financial carnage which Whyte has created during his disastrous nine months at the Ibrox helm.


The close friendship forged between Rangers and Arsenal spans back to the turn of the last century when the Londoners were experiencing financial trouble of their own.


It’s believed Rangers attempted to help out by buying two shares in *Woolwich Arsenal because their manager, George Morrell, had previously worked for the Ibrox club.


Around 20 years later, a much stronger and vibrant Arsenal gifted Rangers with a further 14 shares in return for their support during troubled times.


This cemented what was already a rock solid *relationship between the then managers, Bill Struth and Herbert Chapman.Struth and Chapman are today revered by fans all over the world as the greatest servants in the history of their clubs.


But Whyte ignored these historic links when he seized control of Struth’s old side and saw a chance to make a killing on the link.

I was amazed to discover they had shares in the Goons...I didn't even think it was legal for one club to have shares of another club.

 

[OmarsComing]

 

[kazzah9]

I guess they werent ready after all

 

[StartingPrice]

I guess they werent ready after all

:rofl:

 

[Locotoro]

On a serious note although I feel bad for the employees at rangers I think their demise can only be good for Scottish football. Celtic will continue to dominate for the near future but it will give other clubs like Hearts, Hibs and Dundee chances to play in Europe increasing additional revenue streams, more opportunity to sign good youth players and possibly pick off a few rangers players themselves. Aside from Celtic the league should be fairly competitive