chilledbear 16 Posted August 17, 2014 Share Posted August 17, 2014 Taken from FF "It has come to our attention that the Rangers board are considering a move which could see Mike Ashley underwrite the £4m share issue they previously announced. This has been necessary due to understandably poor take up from existing investors. We believe the SFA have been approached to find out what would be required to give clearance for this, due to Mr Ashley’s ownership of Newcastle United. We would question the wisdom of approaching someone who, despite his obvious wealth, cannot significantly invest in the club without removing himself from his ownership position at Newcastle. Why are the board persisting with these short term, desperate measures? The club needs urgent, substantial investment - not a short term fix which will be lucky to see us past Christmas. Even if they are successful in raising the £4m, almost half the money will immediately have to be used to repay overdue loans. The board indicated to us that they could raise this money "at the push of a button". Sandy Easdale also indicated that investors were lined up. Clearly neither of these statements have turned out to be true. Also, the vast bulk of this money could have been raised by greatly increased season ticket sales if the board had been prepared to properly safeguard the club’s assets. If the SFA give special dispensation to Mr Ashley to up his stake in Rangers will it be irreversible and without any possible future sanction? Will the board get an unequivocal assurance that the SFA will not use this issue as a stick to beat the club with further down the line? The SFA have a track record of attempting to impose draconian sanctions on Rangers using tenuous methods. It would be extremely unwise of this board to unnecessarily put the club into a situation that allowed the SFA to act in this manner again. We are also concerned that, under UEFA regulations on dual ownership of clubs, Mr Ashley cannot have a “decisive influence over decision making” at Rangers without it leading to the possibility of us not being able to compete in European competition. He could find himself holding around 20% of the shares in our club, having control of all club merchandise and being the largest single shareholder if he underwrites this share issue. Will the board clear this unequivocally, and in advance, with UEFA to ensure that Rangers will not miss out on European football in the future because of Mr Ashley’s ownership of Newcastle? It would be negligent of the board not to gain the above assurances from the relevant football authorities. We would ask them to publicly confirm that they will have full written clearance for Mr Ashley from both UEFA and the SFA before moving ahead with any plans for him to underwrite this share issue. We would also ask them to confirm that any such clearance is free from any caveat which could negatively affect Rangers in the future. Finally, Mr Ashley’s initial purchase of shares in Rangers appears to have been linked to his Sports Direct merchandise deal. The only man inside Rangers who liked that deal at the time it was put in place was Charles Green. We hope that any possible assistance given to the board by Mr Ashley at this time will not see him clinch another favourable deal, perhaps to rename Ibrox at a knock down price. Can the board confirm that renaming of Ibrox will not be part of any underwriting deal with Mr Ashley and that we will not be seeing garish Sports Direct signage defacing our iconic Main Stand?" 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
simplythebest 0 Posted August 17, 2014 Share Posted August 17, 2014 Why is there never any statements from them about our inept football management? 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilledbear 16 Posted August 17, 2014 Author Share Posted August 17, 2014 Why is there never any statements from them about our inept football management? Mike Ashley is worse news than Ally McCoist. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RANGERRAB 3,653 Posted August 17, 2014 Share Posted August 17, 2014 Mike Ashley is worse news than Ally McCoist. In what way? If he took overall control at Rangers he'd bring much-needed financial stability. I want that. Perhaps you dont. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilledbear 16 Posted August 17, 2014 Author Share Posted August 17, 2014 In what way? If he took overall control at Rangers he'd bring much-needed financial stability. I want that. Perhaps you dont. History mate. If we had listened to Sheffield Fans about Green. Listen to Newcastle Fans about Ashley. Why do we not learn ? 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmu 0 Posted August 17, 2014 Share Posted August 17, 2014 Mike Ashley is worse news than Ally McCoist. Is he? Just watched newcastle today. Entertaining they were! 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
forlanssister 3,114 Posted August 17, 2014 Share Posted August 17, 2014 In what way? If he took overall control at Rangers he'd bring much-needed financial stability. I want that. Perhaps you dont. http://nufc-ashlies.blogspot.co.uk/ 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilledbear 16 Posted August 17, 2014 Author Share Posted August 17, 2014 It's like we live in a parallel world, we don't listen and we don't learn. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zappa 0 Posted August 17, 2014 Share Posted August 17, 2014 Why is there never any statements from them about our inept football management? Now that you mention it stb, there is actually a severe shortage of RFC related statements. Maybe we need a new fan group whose sole purpose is to harangue the manager and release weekly statements about him? 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
simplythebest 0 Posted August 17, 2014 Share Posted August 17, 2014 They can comment on Ashley if they wish of course, but this is an almost immediate response to newspaper speculation while there wasn't a peep when we lost an important opening league game. If they want to ask questions ask questions about on the park as well as off it 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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