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Signing of the summer (maybe)

The cost of building a 'new' Ibrox is worth investigating, the Copland, Broomloan and Govan are over 40 years old now even if there have been changes to each over that time. Everton have estimated £500 million for their proposed new stadium. Spurs apparently spent around £1 billion on their ground. Brentford built a new stadium for £71 million. Some fairly big differences in costs there. I suspect we'd want to keep the Main Stand, so it's a 3 sided bowl or similar we'd be looking at. We wouldn't need to buy land, unlike Spurs and Everton, so that's a saving right away. We'd clearly need to borrow the money for the project, and if we assume the 'new' Ibrox would have a higher capacity and more corporate boxes to pay for the build. If we needed £250 million then in simple terms we'd be looking for £10million a season plus interest over 25 years. Not impossible if we add another 10,000 seats plus more hospitality. The danger is that the initial cost grows. That happened when we rebuilt back in the late 70s and it had a huge effect on the quality of the team on the park. Match day revenue continues to be our most important source of income, so investigating how to increase that makes a lot of sense.

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If our signing of the summer is a doctor then we are in dire straits We need at least 4 or f more players in pronto Jeezo I feel like I am turning into Gisabeer

Roofe will be in a panic if he’s got to work for his wages. 😆

I'm thinking Tom English's article about the rat returning might've prompted this ban. They're a touchy* bunch at the Piggery. *touchy feely if you're a young boy

Danke schön, Herr Berliner. Oh wait. I see what you meant. Absolutely. Arfield confounded my judgement all right. A really good signing. He leaves owing us nothing.

No idea

@BEARGER - We want the club to get the clicks and views, so don't copy the whole text from the Rangers website. Only post links, and maybe the first paragraph or two. The Tweet announcement is better.

Not forgetting PIF who own Newcastle and the whole of the Saudi league.

One of the better efforts, hopefully combined with nice shorts/socks and as others have said, as long as we sell them by the bucketload and earn lots of cash from it, that is the primary aim. I may consider buying it next spring when it comes down to about £25 which is about the right price for it.

I don't understand why we're bothering with Dessers.

I don't think there's anything 'bad' about them, they're simply getting older and as buildings get older they incur increasing maintenance costs. I imagine they'll be fine for another 20 years albeit the money required to maintain them will take up a larger percentage of our costs. They're too small, demand outstrips supply currently, we'd sell another 10,000 or so seats based on season ticket demand. That of course could change in the future. I wasn't comparing our finances with those English sides, simply the reported costs of their new stadiums. They seemed more relevant than Danish or German stadium costs. I don't think I need to point out that the club haven't actually asked me to explore this, I was just a little bored while having a cup of tea earlier.

Yup, we will never get money back on him

I love stats, so you'll not get an eye roll from me. I'll meet you in the middle: He's been very good in the Netherlands, but nowhere else. I've made that point about the front two before. He might be the goalscorer we need, but at 28, I think it's a waste of money.

The shorts are blue and socks are white, with red trim. Apparently the 3rd shirt will be navy and orange stripes, like the '94 away top.

Should sell in big numbers, which is pretty much all that matters.

Since time immemorial. But of course, you’re right. Extraordinary factors currently have skewed everything.

Ever seen a major works contract where variations don’t put the price up by up to 20% or more? Having said that, Emirates was done on time and budget.

It would take us until the last week of next season to see that

You aren't. There's just a high percentage of pomposity on forums that doesn't represent reality.

Nope, I never was. In fact most people never were.

I think he's played in a different role for the Belgians?

I agree with that although my experience of it relates back to a game V Airdrie during "the journey". My son and I had tickets for the game at Airdrie and on finding our seats discovered we were in midst of young team who were creating all sorts of mayhem---letting off pyro,fighting with stewards etc.. We left our seats and tried to find somewhere else to sit but to no avail,so we left within ten minutes and missed a 6-1 win.We were ashamed and embarassed to be Rangers supporters that night. Hence in many of my replies to posts about moving singing section I give no support to the idea especially if long term ST holders are moved to accomodate.

What's going on with hair at Rangers?

Which club can buy Rangers?

Just read that Chelsea owners have bought Strasbourg for 65 million. Modern football sucks.

I think as time goes by the young suppers in Scotland will lose interest with the SPFL and lean more towards supporting EFL clubs. I think this is being engineered by things purposefully blacking out our games from TV while games like Watford v Huddersfield is available on Sky for just £100 per month. I hope I am wrong but when I was younger kids wore shirts of other teams like Barca/Real, Milan clubs and Juve. But I've never seen the volume of young kids wearing EPL club shirts like I do these days.