RIFC plc accounts to June 30 released. AGM December 22 at Ibrox

[der Berliner 3,834]

Spanish teams generally don't need to use cash as an incentive to encourage players to play in their league, their league is incentive in itself.

 

Quite a number of their 46m population live and breath football though.

[trublusince1982 243]

Quite a number of their 46m population live and breath football though.

 

If Rangers and a low level Spanish/French/Italian (and so on) team go for the same player and both offer the same wage 99 times out of a hundred they will pick the Spanish side, that's why we have to offer larger wages than the average Spanish sides. Same goes for any of the decent euro leagues. If you want players to come to Scotland you have to pay higher than the other leagues offer, that or stick to Scottish players and other players not wanted by teams in professional European leagues. if you do that our season ticket prices will need to drop in line with the standard of player and along with those of lower European standing and in line with the wage budget on show, exasperating the problem till we are at a standard that is no longer attractive to 30-40000 fans. If we do not spend on wage bills that attract European standard players then we cannot charge as if we do. Whats the point in having 100 odd staff and a stadium that seats 50,000 and Murray park when you are putting nothing better out than what on the world stage would amount to an amatuer side ? You will not get 50,000 people every other week to watch the talent Scotland produces paying £400-£500 on average for the privilege of doing so.

 

The only way to do so on the cheap as we are attempting is to put the savings into scouting and rival the rest of Europe that way.Unfortunately that would take near on a decade to produce a name for ourselves that would attract young European players away from their home countries or those neighboring them. We do not have the luxury of time, our infrastructure does not allow it. Something has to give and right now it seems to be our quality of product and in doing so I am afraid we are signing our own death warrant.