Johan Cruyff has died at the age of 68 after a battle with cancer …

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Interview: Johan Cruyff

 

“And now I have a question for you,” says Cruyff. “What has happened to Rangers?” We are talking in advance of this week’s Alfred Dunhill Links championship at St Andrews, Carnoustie and Kingsbarns, an event that Cruyff is playing in once more. What is happening at Rangers? You tell him that to hear the full story he would need to cancel the golf and spend the week in a darkened room instead of on the links.

 

“I have read things. I can’t say I know the full story but the news travelled around the world, for sure. I spend time in Mexico [he is a consultant with the club Chivas de Guadalajara] and the news was in Mexico. This is so, so sad. People for their whole lives support this club and then some sort of idiot, whoever it is, ruins the whole thing. They had great financial problems and they’re out of the top league. I know there is more to it, but it’s incredible. Who was in charge? Not sports people, for sure. Not football people. It was business people.

 

“This is the great crisis in football now. It’s not just Rangers, it’s a lot of clubs. Big clubs always create more debt despite the huge income they have. It’s almost an achievement, isn’t it? They make so much money and yet still their debts rise and rise and rise. How does that happen? It’s absurd. Totally absurd. You hurt a lot of people. You see it at Rangers. One year ago they were up there battling to win things. A few years before they were in a European final. Great supporters defending their club, but what is there to defend? There’s nothing left. So sad.

 

“The mistakes made by the people who were in charge of Rangers are mistakes repeated all over football. We had the same thing with Ajax. We had to clean up the whole thing and start all over again. Ajax was spending too much money, they were buying players that were too expensive. If you get 100 per cent you can’t spend 120 per cent. It’s quite easy. It hurt me, but not just me. Like Rangers, many, many people were hurt by what happened at Ajax. We are now together with Dennis Bergkamp, Wim Jonk, Marc Overmars and myself and other former sports people that are all good at something. We all have strengths and where we are weak we bring in expertise. But at its heart, the football club is run and understood by football people who won’t let anything bad happen to it again.”

 

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[ian1964 10,761]

he was my first best player in the world.

[RANGERRAB 3,743]

Cruyff was non-religious.

He once famously stated ' in Spain before a game all players make the sign of the cross, if it worked every game would be a tie'

In Scotland 2016 he'd be arrested and charged under the Offensive Behaviour at Football Act and classed as a bigot.

[ian1964 10,761]

Cruyff was non-religious.

He once famously stated ' in Spain before a game all players make the sign of the cross, if it worked every game would be a tie'

In Scotland 2016 he'd be arrested and charged under the Offensive Behaviour at Football Act and classed as a bigot.

 

Ha!,and the truth is BEAST fans are not religious!,it is all a kid on and they get away with it!

[pete 2,499]

Probably the greatest player ever to walk on the famous Ibrox turf. RIP