It wasn’t supposed to be this way. Craig Whyte would not have expected Champions League football when he worked on the deal to buy Rangers last spring, but, by his own admission, income from the Europa League group stage was in the budget.
Winning the league came as a surprise late in the process and may have fuelled some summer transfer bids but income was about to fall well below expectations. Ally McCoist won only one game in four cup competitions, against Arbroath, season ticket sales didn’t bounce and with no serious income streams open, Rangers were set for a seriously low income season.
In addition, the injury to Steven Naismith robbed Rangers of what I understand would have been a £5m sale in January.
People have tried to assert that Whyte’s plan for Rangers was to liquidate the company all along, this is clearly not the case. Rangers were moribund while the First Tier Tribunal (FTT) was yet to report but Whyte planned to run the company, without reverting to administration until and perhaps beyond then.
As well as having to deal with the income shocks resulting from multiple on-field failures, Rangers were hit with an expenditure shock. The FTT was delayed from November to January. If it had proceeded as planned in November it would have reported in January. The delay was crucial, Rangers were going to spend a lot more money before the verdict was announced.
If the verdict arrived as expected in January, and Rangers won, it was game on. They would have been in a position to borrow like any other club and could have raised fresh share capital. There would have been no administration. This was the preferred outcome, Whyte would have emerged with his reputation intact and with a valuable football franchise for the outlay of exactly £1.
If they lost, Whyte could have presented a fait-accompli to the world.
He could have explained to the Rangers support that the total tax liability was “likely to be around £75m” and that there was no point putting fresh investment into a black hole, which was inevitably going to lead to liquidation – all for misdemeanours that occurred before his time. The support would have been distressed at the death of their history, but, crucially, they would not have blamed Whyte, whose reputation would still be intact.
He would immediately have applied for the 10 day grace period to consider appointing an administrator and used that time to tell the SPL and SFA that he could re-emerge with Newco FC within days and allow the league programme to complete as normal. He had security over the stadium, would be in a position to re-employ the players and would be able to honour financial commitments to other clubs, while securing the television and sponsorship contracts.
Public sympathy would have been behind him, Sir David Murray would have carried the blame (perhaps correctly) and I believe only Celtic would have voted against him. Newco would have been back in the SPL and, if the Daily Record’s reporting of Whyte’s thoughts on penalties are anything to go by, he expected to be docked a comfortable 25 points.
HMRC forcing Rangers into administration this month created enormous problems. Administrators Duff and Phelps are now in control and opened the club’s finances up to scrutiny.
As soon as it became evident that he securitised season ticket money from future years, three days after buying the club, placing the money into his own bank account, not that of the football club, Craig Whyte’s methods were subject to derision and outright disgust from many angles, most importantly from the Rangers support.
As things stand, Whyte cannot slip away. He has to stand with Ticketus, who will hold a security on Ibrox through one of Whyte’s companies, and he stands to gain an enormous amount of money for a year’s hard work. Ticketus are also in for the long haul, they have coughed up over £20m and will need a sizeable commercial return.
Many observers have noted that this has not progressed as a normal administration. It’s not a normal administration. The secured creditors (Craig Whyte and Ticketus) need to sell a lot of tickets beyond administration, either as Rangers, if they are successful in the FTT, or as Newco, if they lose the FTT. Selling a lot of tickets is a really tough challenge right now and will be made considerably more difficult if there are swingeing cuts made to the club staff and infrastructure now. Their interests are considerably best served by keeping Rangers as buoyant as possible.
Even if they manage to feed enough cash to the administrators to keep Rangers playing football until the verdict is delivered, the opportunity to present the league with a fait-accompli has gone. Everyone expects Rangers to fold and will have been busy working on a contingency plan.
Any goodwill that Whyte hoped to harvest has also gone, he is seen as a pariah, without friends within the game, in the political world, the media or the Rangers support. When he looks to build a consensus, there will be no advocates for his position. Quite the opposite, people want rid of him.
The on-going police enquiry and his interesting relationships with the Insolvency Service and HMRC will only cloud matters further. For all the bluster on these subjects, no one has been able to explain to me any illegal activities, in fact, most of the illegal activity he has been accused of are either perfectly legal or simply did not take place as described, but there is enough potential in this mix for many years of civil legal challenge, if not more serious issues.
Whyte and Ticketus now have decisions to make on how much extra skin to invest. Ticketus are in the game for a lot of money already and will be keen to protect their cash. It remains to be seen how much cash Whyte has in the client account at Collyer Bristow, but it’s clear that between them, Ticketus and Whyte were prepared to guarantee the administrators full wages and costs for the club for February.
The fact that the tap has been turned on 100% for the last two weeks suggests they have enough cash to run at a lower percentage for a while yet. Duff and Phelps will know how much money is available and will have an expected date for the verdict. It would be enormously bad judgement if they exhausted cash reserves before the verdict arrived.
As long as Ticketus investors hold their nerve, and the police don’t spike the process, Rangers will survive until the verdict. If they lose the verdict, and all expectations are that they will, what are we looking at?
As I said above, Whyte’s chance of presenting a fait-accompli has gone. He would need to go for a prepack liquidation but there are likely to be legal challenges to him making off with the assets of Rangers. At best, this would delay him for anything between weeks and years. Any police involvement would make matters even more difficult. If a negative verdict is delivered anytime soon, Rangers will cease.
Even if this happens, Whyte will still owe Ticketus a lot of money and will try to phoenix as a Newco. He will have the stadium and will be in pole position to apply for membership to the SPL or Scottish Football League.
A route back into the SPL in these circumstances would be difficult to achieve. The SPL board have the authority to accept a club into the league but I hear it is likely that, due to the importance of the matter, they would refer the decision to a vote of the entire league. Back in October I thought the fait-accompli was certain to be voted into the SPL, now I can’t see a Newco being voted in.
You would expect an application into the Scottish Football League to be accepted but there may be a rival bid. The ‘Blue Knights’ bid would not include Ibrox but have a number of options. They could ask to rent Hampden or Firhill, or could adopt a struggling lower league club, like Clyde. These notions are likely to be progressed but establishing a new club, without players or a stadium, would be an enormous challenge.
All of this would play out against a great deal of uncertainty. Whyte’s ability to sell tickets to Rangers fans must be in doubt. If a rival club wanted back into Ibrox in the future they would need to give the ultimate floating charge holder – Ticketus – the same kind of return Whyte has committed to. There is also the possibility of a lot more to come out about the old regime at Rangers, some of whom are behind the Blue Knights bid.
Even if someone gets a phoenix off the ground at Ibrox, keeping it alive will be difficult. The cost of running football games there every second week is considerable. Doing so, while repaying Ticketus, and competing against lower league (or SPL) opposition, will cut any football budget to levels not known in 30 years.
For now, everyone connected with Rangers needs to make confident noises but even if they die, their ghost is already in enormous peril.
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Imatim and so is Neil Lennon on 2 March, 2012 at 09:00 said:
thanks for sharing,
Dont get me wrong im overjoyed at his comments in the mail, but im unclear as to why its now coming out,
He challenges murrays leadership in the 02 piece but theres no mention of his concerns over tax avoidance and possible illegalities, which clearly from his recent piece he was at best wary of at that time.
Charlie Adam’s Sisters Pants – a fine man…
http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/sport/spl/4166353/Ive-no-interest-in-Gers-Im-only-worried-about-my-wee-brother.html
QuadBhoy on 2 March, 2012 at 08:59 said:
The power of words…
Brilliant!
Liquidation date = 17th March? St Patrick’s day! God is definitely a Celtic supporter.
The sequel never quite lives up to the heights of the original, but Liquidation (the final chapter) , the follow up to Admin 1, will certainly buck the trend. It’s a blockbuster, and although I hear there will be no premier, it will be available in a 3rd division cinema near you soon.
twists n turns on 2 March, 2012 at 09:12 said:
and the birthday of a certain donald findlay
irony or karma?
DontPatmadug on 2 March, 2012 at 08:54 said
Wee Johnny Lennon had Nixon figured out pre-Watergate.
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=gimme+some+truth+john+lennon&oq=gimme+some+truth&aq=0&aqi=g10&aql=&gs_sm=1&gs_upl=4217l10089l0l12642l16l16l0l7l7l0l239l1914l0.1.8l9l0
Tell all the huns you know that they never won nine in a row! Their contracts were wrong, they knew all along, they never won nine in a row.
:D
lol
Hail hail
Mea culpa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Vs_NLGekhY&feature=fvsr
Che
definitely Karma.
Don’t forget yer 3d glasses
Done, Dusted, Dead.
Was gonna be 4d, but alas I hear – no Deliverance
Radio 4 here in London this morning had Roddy Forsythe cover the imminent redundancy story.
His add-on piece when asked the question was interesting: ” Does the SPL need Rangers? “. No hesitation, no moral judgement, no qualms just a straight simple response th the BBC listening public ” the SPL needs Rangers”.
James Forrest sorry I,m a bit late singing your praises but that post last night was superb. 100% spot on, in recognition of this I have decided that you are a worthy receipiant of the Stornoway Black Pudding award for services to truth and literature. I willbe happy to hand it over in person on the w/e 1st April before the St Johnstone game. Send me your contact details or get mine from CQN. More power to your keyboard. Hail Hail Hebcelt.
Im going to stick my neck out and say I believe that EBTs were introduced to Rankers at the same time that Graeme Souness became manager.
‘The Beast’ had vast experience of playing in Europe and would be accustomed to their player payment mechanisms. It is widespread knowledge now, as it was then, that countries like Italy, where the beast played, used tax avoidance schemes. It was and is widespread in these countries and has led to the current crisis in the Eurozone, affecting Spain, Portugal, Italy and Greece.
The reason I mention the beast in relation to EBTs is that the most high profile player signed by him (Judas) gave us the first inkling of dodgy deals in an interview he gave a few years ago related to him signing for thems over us. It went a little like this: –
Interviewer: – You signed for your boyhood heroes one day but were paraded by Rankers the next day, what happened?
Judas: – Thats correct (long boring spiel)
(Int): – Was it money, did thems offer more than Celtic?
Judas: – No, I was offered the same by Rankers and Celtic
(Int): – If you dont mind me asking, how much?
Judas: – 5000 a week!
(int): – You were offered the same money by both clubs yet opted to sign for Rangers, why?
Judas: – THEY TOOK CARE OF MY TAX ISSUES…
and there we have it!
Everyone thought it related to some outsatnding tax issue between him and the French branch of HMRC but could it relate to an EBT???
Think about it, if you were offered 5k a week at a tax rate of 50% you take home 2500 a week. With the EBT you take home 5000 a week!
Its a no brainer.
Other evidence?
Graeme Souness played in Italy for Sampdoria it was widely known that footballers did not pay tax and were payed NETTO! Tax was never taxing.
When Ruud Gullit came over from Italy to England his agent asked what he was getting a week he gave a sum and Gullit asked “Netto?” to which the response came “No, Grosso!”
Who was it said “Only idiots and poor people pay taxes”
Doesnt sound too far fetched does it???
Morning CQNer’s
Re: Hugh Adam
I have lost count of the amount of times that Terry O’Neill has raised the, Hugh Adam concerns on Snyde only to be batted away by the, uncomfortable panellists ?mmm
Hugh Adam – CSC :¬)
Hail! Hail!
new article posted.
In my opinion what this has done is virtually guarantee liquidation. If somebody did somehow step in and prevent them from being liquidated, then when all of this stuff is proven, they better have VERY deep pockets as they will be sued into oblivion for loss of earnings.
Remember we won’t just be talking about Celtic or other Scottish teams here. They have been playing incorrectly registered players in European competition.
This is about as bad as it can get.
what worries me about the ugly bunch and reading the bile they come out with is…
will the police and authorities keep them in check???
we know what they are like when a tele doesnt work.
id say keep them alive, in a coma mind, to save them
spilling onto our streets. because, if not its gonna be carnage.
reading the posts on FUNbag FUNbag that people
post on here, they really think that it is
someone elses doing.
they really are thick as…(fill in your own)
the silver lining????
none whatsoever. after the latest revelations (to them, not us)
scotland will be cast from all uefa and fifa competitions. guaranteed.
just ask our man on here with links inside uefa.
Kaye Adams on your call on Shortbread.
How much do WE need to save….she said it not once, not twice but three times.
.
Twists & Turns..
I Have been told..The Judges decision on their Tax Case will be 16th March..
So St Paddy’s Day Liquid looks Guid..
Summa
A sign of the times
Published on Saturday 4 July 2009 19:29
IT was only 20 years ago, but the public reaction to Rangers’ capture of Maurice Johnston seems astonishing in our more enlightened age, reflects Andrew Smith
SOMETIMES AN event from 20 years ago can seem to belong to an entirely different age. When it comes to Maurice Johnston signing for Rangers on 10 July, 1989, elements appear straight from the most ancient, primitive times.
The backdrop to the move retains a power to take the breath away that the passing years will never dim. But the bone-shuddering shock is no longer provided by the boldness of those at Ibrox in making Johnston their first high-profile Catholic of the modern era. Nor the fact that this never-to-be-topped transfer came only eight weeks after the striker had appeared to rejoin his former club Celtic.
What causes eyes to pop now in reading contemporary reports surrounding the most sensational signing in the history of the Scottish game is the reaction to Rangers manager Graeme Souness and owner David Murray ending the club’s discriminatory player policy. Or institutionalised bigotry, to be more accurate.
On the do-you-remember-where-you-were day to dwarf all others for Scottish football followers, burning Rangers scarves and burning season books outside the stadium were the visual snapshots of burning religious hatred stoked by Johnston’s arrival. Yet, the sectarian sentiments expressed freely on the player’s 1.5 million switch from Nantes now seem altogether more inflammatory than any minor fire raising.
“Why him above all?” said David Miller, general secretary of the Rangers Supporters’ Association. “It’s a sad day for Rangers. There will be a lot of people handing back their season tickets. I don’t want to see a Roman Catholic at Ibrox. Rangers have always stood for one thing and the majority of the support have been brought up with the idea of a true-blue Rangers team.”
It was supposed to be only a lunatic fringe of the Rangers faithful that indulged in such bile. But it was a fringe with a real force of numbers, comprising punters from as far apart as Larkhall (“It is a kick in the teeth to Larkhall” said one member of the Loyalist Supporters’ Club) and Dalkeith. In a pub in that town, the poison spewed forth. “I’ve been a Rangers supporter all my life but that’s me finished with them. I am never going back, never ever. Rangers have no right signing Catholics,” said John Potter. His friend James Smith claimed Rangers had been “sly because they made sure the season-ticket holders had paid and then they signed him”, while another of their group Frank McKay presented an odd defence of the club’s religious apartheid. “It’s wrong if you are a Catholic or anyone else, but it’s not wrong if you are a Rangers (fan] . It’s part of the magic of supporting Rangers.”
From the distance of 2009, what is remarkable is not that people held such views in 1989, but that they felt at liberty to air them in public forums. In the years since, the Rangers owner has talked about the need to remove a “stain” on a club he had been running only seven months before breaking with a tradition that dated back to the 1910s. Today, though, Murray is reluctant to overplay the significance of a transfer that undoubtedly did chip away at sectarian divisions.
“I can tell you that, first and foremost, it was a football decision,” he says. “To partner Johnston with Alistair McCoist gave us the best possible strike partnership. We signed the player because he was the best Scottish player around, and that is what mattered. Of course, it removed a cloud that hung over Rangers and with the passing of time you can see from our record that there is no consideration of colour, race or creed in who we sign.”
Murray isn’t interested in being presented as some noble crusader. Neither, however, will he have any truck with the notion that he was an opportunist, who jumped on the Johnston trail when it emerged the player was complaining about contractual difficulties within days of being paraded at Celtic Park on 12 May.
“The transfer wasn’t courageous, brave or bold, it was just the right thing to do. Anyone who knows me, or knows Graeme, would know how offensive it is to suggest, almost, that we were willing to forego the religious side only to get one over on Celtic. It wasn’t about one-upmanship. Of course, we always want to beat our opponents, but that wasn’t what was behind this. I made the decision based on business sense.”
Just weeks before he was unveiled at Ibrox, Celtic paraded Johnston in front of the press as a 1.2m record Scottish signing – signalling his return from Nantes, the club he had left Parkhead for in the summer of 1987. The first signs that the deal was in trouble came when Celtic refused to meet tax payments. Johnston began to harbour doubts about a move he himself had initiated – crucially, without the help of his agent Bill McMurdo, then persona non grata at Celtic. After overtures by Souness to McMurdo, initially only days after he had been pictured in a Celtic strip, Johnston decided to “break down religious divisions” and earn the “Judas” tag from a spurned Celtic support. There are, though, problems with this version of events. It overlooks the fact that twice during the saga, FIFA, having seen the papers signed by Johnston – who inked two separate documents days apart – and the SFA both ruled that the player’s contract with Celtic was legally binding. Indeed, two weeks after he joined Rangers, FIFA fined Johnston 3,000 for “unsportsmanlike behaviour”; and said they “deplored” Johnston’s activities.
Yet the perception of the Celtic board as bunglers was cemented. That remains a bitter post-script to the episode for then Celtic chairman Jack McGinn. “In what sense could we have been said to bungle, I always ask myself?” he says. “There are a couple of indisputable facts in this case……
We agreed a fee with Nantes, and signed a contract with the player that both our own governing body and the world governing body verified was legal and binding.
We are laughed at for following the rules while the player is lauded for cheating. I’ve never understood that.”
Johnston seems to have taken cold feet on the Celtic deal almost the instant he signed a letter of intent: what we now call a pre-contract agreement. And this despite his gushing about his “homecoming” in the boardroom of Celtic Park with some immortal lines.
“When I joined Nantes it had always been my intention to return to Celtic one day, although that seemed unlikely at one stage given the circumstances surrounding my departure,” Johnston said. “No one can accuse me of being two-faced because I’ve always maintained that stance since then. I didn’t want to leave Celtic and I don’t intend to now. There was some rubbish about me wanting to join Manchester United. But it never entered my head to play for any other club. In fact there is no other British club I could play for apart from Celtic.”
That afternoon there was also a memorable nod to his future – by a matter of weeks – employers. “I enjoyed playing against Rangers, but when I left I was unhappy about the fact that in games I’d played against them, Rangers were winning four matches to three. That’s something I intend to remedy next season,” he said.
Johnston did remedy his success rate in Old Firm games – by scoring three times against Celtic. He did so because McGinn and his board elected not to pay the 800,000 balance on the transfer of a player who “had no desire to play for the club”. Two years ago, the Celtic manager of the time Billy McNeill said he felt let down by his board because he had implored them to see through the deal.
“There have been a lot of red herrings thrown out about this affair,” says McGinn.”When it came to making the player ours from the July, all that we could have done was put him out of the game. No doubt, after a lengthy legal case. What would have been the point in that? We would have been dead in the water if we had sold him on to Rangers for more money. That would have been our 30 pieces of silver and we would have been the ‘J’-word our supporters called him.”
By that McGinn means Judas. In recent years Jesus’ betrayer has been somewhat rehabilitated, forgiven for his actions. It has only taken 2,000 years. Will it be as long before Johnston can expect the same for his part in a religious epic?
Neil lennon @9:21
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I seem to remember that when Judas Johnstone signed for the huns that, in one of the many interviews he gave, I think this one I refer to was on Scotsport by, Jim White I think when Judas said ” I had a tax-bill of, £150,000 and Celtic couldn’t pay it so, Rankers did .”
I’m absolutely sure Judas said that. Hopefully somenoe could help with that as, it would take the ‘dodgy’ tax issue back to 1989!!!
I desperately hope that’s right.
“Cheerio, 9 in a row!”
Neil Lennon is (and always will be) a Celtforlife (*O*) on 2 March, 2012 at 09:21 said:
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The Maurice Johnston tax issues were made clear by some papers at the time. Essentially what happened was as follows:
At that time if you were wotking abroad, to avoid having to pay tax to UK’s HMIT you had to remain out of the country for 3 years. You were allowed up to 90 days visiting rights to UK each year. You were then only liable to pay taxes to the country you worked in. In Judas’ case, France.
Mojo, however, wanted to return to Scotland after two years as his partner was homesick. Agent Orange, Bill McMurdo, advised him against this because he was still liable to pay taxes to HMIT. However, Iscariot insisted on returning to Scotland.
He agreed to return to Celtic but during the negotiations, when Celtic were asked to pay £300,000 to HMIT to pay for tax, Celtic refused and told him that all individuals were responsible for their own Income Tax. Rangers FC, on the other hand, were only too willing to pay the extra £300,000 to secure his signature. It served the purpose of satisfying EUFA who were about to ban Rangers FC from Europe due to their discriminatory employment policy and it also served as a GIRUY to Celtic – something that both Souness and Murray found it difficult to refrain from. Reports at the time stated that Celtic were to sign Johnston in a £1 million deal. When he signed for RFC it was reported as a £1.3million deal.
Che on 2 March, 2012 at 09:10 said:
Imatim and so is Neil Lennon on 2 March, 2012 at 09:00 said:
thanks for sharing,
Dont get me wrong im overjoyed at his comments in the mail, but im unclear as to why its now coming out,
He challenges murrays leadership in the 02 piece but theres no mention of his concerns over tax avoidance and possible illegalities, which clearly from his recent piece he was at best wary of at that time.
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2010 Never Again
When Murray treated Adam with contempt and got shot of him he made a mistake and an enemy. (every man has his day)
He disrespected and belittled a man who had raised many, many millions of pounds for Rangers over a significant period of time.
Adam spoke up 10 years or so ago about where the huns were headed and no one really listened.
What better time than now for him to pay back Murray in spades and reclaim his credibility and his dignity.
I’m sure Adam knew the furore this article would cause and I am of the mind he has more to say about things should the need arise.
Don’t you find it interesting how information is coming to light at precisely the right time to cause the huns and their sycophants maximum damage?
It’s almost as if it’s being orchestrated
The inquiry needed here needs to be independent with international participation.
The scale is similar to the Bloody Sunday Inquiry, by Lord Saville.
The above is not intended to trivialise the families of those murdered on that day.
Árd Macha
TheOriginalSadiesBhoy on 2 March, 2012 at 09:37 said:
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Perfectly put :¬)))
Hail! Hail!
*trivialise the events of that day*
Tá brón mór orm.
Árd Macha
I wonder if this guy is a Rangers fan.
jimmci on 2 March, 2012 at 09:30 said:
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Shortbread….always accompanied by, blue ribbon biscuits :¬))
Hail! Hail!
Tom McLaughlin on 2 March, 2012 at 09:45 said:
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Certainly ‘bears’ all the hallmarks :¬)))
Hail! Hail!
I am no fan of the old-boys network that dominates Scottish life—Lord Elgin when Grand Master Mason of Scotland once said “The Craft is part of the warp and weft of Scottish public life”, but I have to say I feel a bit sorry for old William Austin Nimmo-Smith.
As a member of the small elite but very powerful Speculative Society he probably took this gig as a fraternal favour for fellow member Angus Grossart whose pal SDM was having a bad press.
Nimmo-Smith probably thought that a two week inquiry with a report some months down the line would give him some welcome good publicity.
The eventual report of several dozen pages would probably blame MBB or prisoner number 56789 as he will then be.
No way did he see the shit-storm that is heading his way, which could be the biggest football scandal in the history of the game.
I bet our stout leader didn’t see it coming either when he made his remarks about the Rangers being part of the fabric of Scot’s society.
Oh dear!
This just gets better and better.
The seige mentality will kick in again tomorrow at Ibrox, well for 90 minutes anyway. We’ll get the full repertoire, with the ‘we dont do walking away’ brigade displaying a defiant love for their club. Its all fine and well to ‘love’ your club and stand by it to the hilt, especially in its darkest hour.
The three main things I love my club for are its ethos, its worldwide reputation (brilliantly promoted by its fans) and being the first non-Latin team to win the European cup.
I would suggest that the three biggest headlines connected to RFC in their entire history are all negative.
1. Being forced to end a 100 year open sectarian policy in 1989.
2. The Manchester riots 2008.
3. Worst of all, the latest debacle, call it what you will, cheating, fraud etc.
….and there’s plenty more, like barca 72 etc.
These three stories have made headlines worldwide from Beijing to Buenes Aries,
hh
Have they flogged off half the team yet?
Heard Mark Hateley saying that:
”Rangers getting rid of eleven players on Friday will be like a new signing”
T’is a rare day when you see ‘Accountancy Age’ on the pages of NewsNow Rangers. :D
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