25 Jul 2016 08:52:33
Just a thought regarding the kit situation. Surely Puma would be more than happy to renegotiate a deal with Rangers directly, they can't be happy that they have paid money to sponsor a team, only for the kits not to be sold. I get that it's not that simple with Mike Ashley involved but maybe there is an incentive for them to help Rangers in this battle?

1.) 25 Jul 2016
25 Jul 2016 09:17:43
The fat man is under a lot of pressure and I think he'll renegotiate eventually. He may be the hamburgler in a suit but he is also a successful businessman and the current situation doesn't help him much either!

2.) 25 Jul 2016
25 Jul 2016 11:18:07
As things stand Ashley's deal with Rangers is as follows:

Duration: 7 year rolling contract. We handed in notice to terminate this contract in February 2016, so the contract still has 6.5 years to run.

Terms of Contract: Sports Direct given sole rights to sell Rangers merchandise, which means no one else can sell it unless Sports Direct allow it. On top of that, Sports Direct are guaranteed 4 million a year from the deal. Therefore, if less than 4 million worth of merchandise is sold, we need to make up the shortfall. By not playing ball with Ashley we are actually hurting ourselves as we are going to have an unnecessary bill for 4 million and that is not even factoring in the lawyers fees, which will also be significant.

Obviously the deal is bollocks for Rangers and mainly benefits Ashely. However, unless we win a court battle to have the contract ripped up we have two options:

1. Prevent Sports Direct from selling any of our merchandise and in doing so cost ourselves 4M each year, not to mention the fact that we are probably violating the terms with Puma and Red 32.

2. Allow Sports Direct to sell the merchandise for the next 6.5 seasons.

3.) 25 Jul 2016
25 Jul 2016 11:40:26
Put RRL into liquidation as it has no products to sell, I think this is the line we will go down. Not sure how this will happen and the implications but surely it must now be a loss making company with no hope of making a profit so the directors are duty bound to do what's in the best interests of creditors and that would be liquidation. Not sure what happens then but just my thoughts.

4.) 25 Jul 2016
25 Jul 2016 11:55:30
Disagree if you want but these are the facts of the deal. The crap we see in the Daily Record is just spin, no doubt placed there by James Traynor's PR company at our behest.

5.) 25 Jul 2016
25 Jul 2016 12:05:00
Gaxliverpool the only incetive puma will have is to sell jerseys for money, at the moment they are selling none of our shirts, but i don't think mr king would be happy torenegotiat the deal now, he will only do so as a last option, imo. due to mr. ashley being so greedy.

6.) 25 Jul 2016
25 Jul 2016 12:11:45
Think he may well have a personality problem, I believe he hates Rangers now because Dave King has done him up like a loch fyne kipper! Dave has fought long and hard to get our club back from the thieves who tried to end us and Imo there is no doubt that was their ultimate aim.

I believe that to be the case, the problem now may be fatty's hatred of King 👑 and his greedy, grasping personality, he could hang on for some time, causing Rangers real financial difficulties in the coming years, hopefully Dave and the board have plans to take him out of the equation.

whatever happens, Dave King should go down in history as a far bigger hero than David Murray, whose silence is deafening?

7.) 25 Jul 2016
25 Jul 2016 13:59:07
I think Ashley has shares in Puma. Been
Reading up on him, he has been fighting
With Adidas about kit contracts since 2007.
makes interesting reading about the way he
operates manipulating the system.
Also read that West Brom and Sunderland
produced their own shirts to sell to fans.
Ashley is devious as they come so unless
DK's lawyers can find a loophole and going to
court where the judge sides with Rangers
we're stuck with Ashley for a long time.

8.) 25 Jul 2016
25 Jul 2016 14:08:07
The problem is is that it is only a minority that are refusing to buy any goods, there are plenty of people wearing last seasons tops and people who bought merchandise from the megastore in match days.