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Will we ever learn about signing 30-something players looking to top up their pension pot ?

Do they really care if they're playing or not as long as they're getting paid ?

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Why the need to wait til january ? If he wants away & Rangers agree to release him he can go anytime

Obviously UEFA aren't interested in a 'deid club' then ?

I am not DB but i can confirm it.

There are excptions though aren't there ?

Leverkusen are owned by a pharmaceutical company & Wolfsburg owned by VW.

No idea how RB Leipzig got round that ruling

Most likely. And they managed to buy themselves out of the 5th tier up to the first, outspending most other clubs, even though there were some familiar faces along the way, e.g. Kaiserslautern. They do sell out their 42k stadium, play some attractive football and are not exactly littered with any big names. As opposed to e.g. Bayern in the German basketball league, who whipped up a team buying the best of all the (at the time) current best players and have set the tone since. It does help when you have a Hoeneß guy liking basketball and being one of the high-ups at the football section.

Hoffenheim is a similar case, backed by a millionaire but are essentially a suburb club with no following worth mentioning. They marched through the leagues too, had a fine season in the BL and then the big clubs circled and snatched their best players. Now they are mid-table stuff living on the good-will of their owner.

 

Obviously, Leipzig (despite being rather young) is some light for the East German* football world, as the rest lingers on in BL 2, 3 or below that, with a determined following but next to no money or financial backing. Understandably, they do not exactly like the newcomers, but on the whole they put a new East German city on the BL map.

 

*Hertha Berlin essentially is a "West-Berlin" i.e. "West-German" team, even though the last couple of generations of fans obviously hail from this region of Germany too.

After German unification 26 years ago how many East German clubs got into the new unified german leagues?

I seem to remember Hansa Rostock being one

I don't believe some of the transfer fees they claim to have received. Did anyone seriously believe Van Dijk's value quadrupled after two years in the top division without Rangers? And after several hammerings in Europe?

Boyd would have done what he always did and got himself offside a dozen times.

McCoist was at fault for much, but don't blame him for Boyds laziness.

Pretty soon Boyd is going to realise that he wasted a career.

Lazy, idle bassa.

McCoist signing Boyd & Miller two years ago was a major contributing factor to costing him his job IMO

Stupid trolls.

 

And that aside, you read that article once and then again and ... it is still "blackmail". For it clearly reads: "Either you pay for OldCo's sins or you don't get membership!" And for some reason, articles like these omit the heinous attempts of stealing trophies by these same people.

Newco had to pay oldco's fines. The board were correct to do this whether we like it or not.

No trophies or titles were stripped. They couldn't be after LNS declared we had 'no sporting advantage'

If McClean hates the UK so much why is he living & working in it ? why doesn't he just do us all a favour & leave. He won't be missed. Go & live in the EU-controlled 22 county state. And please take some of the pseudo-Irish from Glasgow's east end with you. We won't miss them either.

And what's WBA's view on this ? Do they think this acceptable ?

DoesKenny Miller maybe fancy a comeback for the England game too?

So the club were liable for the fines but not the prize money/ transfer fees?

I think this is a very valid point. I'd like to think the current Rangers board have been pursuing this.

Unfortunately I think as a consequence of the club being allowed to continue I.e. membership being transferred from oldco to newco this had to be forfeited

This is the base of the debate I often have with the manks. The company went burst. The club lived on.

The club owed the debt, not the company.

Not quite. The oldco was put into a liquidation process after the CVA got rejected. That liquidation process is ongoing and will be for years to come.

In football terms the SFA membership/licence got transferred from oldco to newco so the club continued. Any football fines and debts from oldco has to be paid by newco such as this EBT fine. Rangers board had no choice but to pay it

Or is their jerry-built stadium now causing them some concern ?? Wee whispers I'm hearing.

Do you know the San Giro costs nearly £1m p.a. maintenance ? Rather a lot ?

Anyway let's put out a wee anti-Rangers story. Keep them masses happy eh ?

The football authorities have clearly stated that Rangers are the same club today since 1872.

If oldco broke football rules newco has to pay.

The Rangers board had to pay this fine. Let's move on.

Oh dear big bad Rangers are now second in the league and the usual suspects aren't happy.

The difference between us & them is we have people who put money into the club.

It is clear we are getting better after making one or two changes. I just wish these changes had been made a few weeks ago & we'd be in a better position than we are now.

Yep would appear LW is the second player to have scored in all four divisions of Scottish football for one club

Is Lee Wallace the first player to have scored in all four divisions of Scottish football for the one club ?

Anyone know?

Excellent performance. Only gripe was the subs made little impact

Quite funny to read the OP calling the SFA a 'footballing watchdog' or whatever.

Don't understand why Ashley is still involved in football. All it brings him is bad publicity

There are tmes in life when you have to move on.

FWIW after watching Wednesday night I think a MF of Barton, Halliday & Holt (with Barton the sitting MF) would be a more than decent MF. It would allow Halliday & Holt to push forward in their more natural roles rather thn constantly chasing back like they had to do on wednesday night

His request should be turned down by the SFA.

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My take

MW doesn't want him back but Rangers don't think they've enough grounds to dismiss him