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For MW's sake I hope McCoist is wrong. I don't think hertz or aberdeen are good sides. Second should be achievable but a EL place is a must.

However at least we're at the top end of the table. If McCoist were still in charge we'd probably still be stuck in the Championship

Truly amazed anyone finds the OP offensive

Genuinely saddened to hear about the death of Prodan. He was the player who 'might have been ' for us. When he signed for us in 1998 he was one of the top CB's in Europe and the world too probably.

When O'Neil took over at the east end he put out a more physical presence up front signing Mutton & Hartson. We struggled with that at times but Prodan would have thrived on that IMO. A tough CB who was as hard as nails I genuinely believe O'Neil may well not have lasted had a fully fit Prodan played for us. But sadly we'll never know

We will need to get closer to them in this respect if we want to compete.

 

But we need to be able to afford it.

To a certain extent I agree but it's who we bring in which will determine whether or nor we'll compete with them.

What you don't do is bring in ten or eleven players in the summer & only two or three seem to get into the starting eleven.

Rather than the land I'd say it was the ultra soft loans from the basketcase Co-op bank which need investigated. Put simply it's not commercially viable for banks to offer loans to businesses at such low rates.

So who arranged these loans ? Reid ? Wilson ? Others ? Did they use their political influence here ?

Great entertainment watching these crackpots though isn't it ?

Who's Liam Henderson ?

The whole of Scottish football & media have been so focussed/obsessed with trying to kill Rangers off that nobody really cared about Scottish football,now it's a problem?

We're now beginning to see the consequences of that. Scottish clubs are cannon fodder in europe & the national team struggles to finish third in qualifying groups

Well done the Israelis.. �

Replacing Marvin Andrews with Karl Svensson was PLG's worst decision

Is this the first time a Rangers player has admitted publicly that they were against Le Guen?

 

 

"I was at Rangers when Paul le Guen was manager and in all honesty, as players, we weren’t open enough to the things he wanted to do.

 

He had bold ideas and it seemed so far removed from the norm that it was frowned upon.

 

Now a few years down the line, I think players are more receptive to different ideas."

Le Guen's signings cost him job more than anything

It should be remembered too that it was the SFL clubs who put Rangers in the bottom division.

I've never understood why the SFA let them do it

No chance Liewell's man Rhegan will go

The only downside I can see ( if you can call it that) is a that Wallace was one of the better Scotland players last night. He would do well in the EPL or Championship. He's been linked with English clubs before. I wouldn't be surprised if they rekindled their interest after last night.

What happened to us is almost identical to what happen d to Middlesborough 30 years ago when Steve GIbson bought a company called Blackplay, renamed it Middlesborough 1986.( or whatever) and transferred the assets to it. The FA transferred the membership & licence and the club continued.

The English fully understand this. The social underclass which inhabits our country can't ( or won't) accept this.

Anyway thanks Bearger for this.

Ticketus thought the deal meant they owned the seats.

 

In England they would have.

But we're not in England. What sort of legal advice did they get?

It seems such a basic error but I'm no legal expert

So did Ticketus.

Until Lord Hodge(?) decided otherwise

In all honesty the whole ticketus thing is a mystery. I remember at the time listening to Darrell King on SSB stating that he couldn't understand why anyone would put any money into a club facing financial ruination over a £76m EBT bill which ticketus must have known about

He needed to own the club before he could use it as security for a loan to Ticketus - if the club had cost 18 million say as debt free, then he'd have to raise that to buy it, and then borrow from ticketus afterwards. As it cost a pound it was easy.

Thought the ST's were security ?

Ah, I see the problem is the sale of £1. If the actual sale was the millions then it seems he would have had more trouble.

Howcome? Can u explain?

Don't know, but not sure it's overly relevant.

 

If you buy a house, the cash from the mortgage company doesn't go into your bank account, for example.

No but it has to be proven the money came from a legitimate source.

In this case the money to cover he bank debt was supposed to come from Wavetower but apparently didn't

Which brings us to our chums LBG at which point I'll exit this conversation as my views on them are well known

"Wavetower is purchasing MHL's 85% shareholding in the Club for £1 and the Club's indebtedness with LBG is to be assigned to Wavetower." - circular to shareholders 06/06/11.

 

This obviously didn't happen. Whyte arranged for the LBG debt to be settled by getting oldco to take out the advance from Ticketus.

D&P claimed that the ticketus money never touched oldco's account didn't they?

Whyte could arrange it prior to the takeover and then after he pays his £1, he gets appointed as a director and signs the Ticketus agreement on behalf of oldco, all within 2 minutes of paying his £1.

 

That sort of thing is standard when companies are being bought/sold. What is unusual here is the fact that Whyte himself was meant to be funding the repayment of the loan and not the company itself.

Whyte was refunding payment of the loan and not oldco ? How could he do that if oldco took out the loan ?

Ticketus are listed as an oldco creditor plus they chased Whyte personally for their cash.

Does that not mean t

hey could potentially recover their money twice ?

Interesting dB...

 

I'm not starting rumours/predictions, but Michael Essien at £680,000 jumps out.

He's 34 next month. Have we learned nothing about signing players only interested in topping up their pension fund ?

Again, being linked with a free agent from the English market. Our scouting has been almost exclusively to cast-offs from the English lower leagues and we wonder why we are struggling.

 

This lad has been without a club for 3 months, tells you everything you need to know. No thanks.

If our management think he's any good offer him a trial & if he impresses give him a short term deal to see how he does. We can then decide if he's worth a much longer term contract.

Like we did with Aluko a few years back