Rangers Rumours Archive May 26 2012

 

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26 May 2012 22:57:45
Well that is Naismith away going to everton 4 year contract

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"I would like to think there is a team there for the 50,000 who turn up every two weeks and the 100,000 who travelled with the team to a Uefa Cup final,"

Steven Naismith

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The guy is a professional with a family. If his paymasters at Ibrox were professional l have no doubt he would have stayed. Many more will follow. Can't really blame them. Thank you DM hope your proud of the way you have killed a once proud club.

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Thought he said 2 weeks ago he would be playing for RFC next season.

Was he fibbing?

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If that is true, haven't Everton signed some great players from Rangers through the years.

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So thats naismith walking away...whos next...roll up roll up..."we dont do walking away"..roll up roll up..

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And where has this been announced? Any links to prove it?

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Very good. I think it was ally who said 'we don't do walking away' not naismith. And ally is still here.

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Source? cant find the Story, anyone point me in the right direction?

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I dont see it anywhere on the internet u got a source

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Thats why this is a rumors page ya muppet

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Its on football now

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Havent rangers signed some good players from everton over the years

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The source is 'Twitter' so it must be true.

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Aue, the story must be in the celtic view.

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We can't afford the wages of the top players at the moment - we need to get used to our players going to reduce the wage bill so we can pay off some of our debts
Good luck Naisy if it's true

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Your reight Ally is still there, but thats only because no one else will EVER employ him, he must surely be the most overrated manager ever to sit in a dugout!!!

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Don't think this has any truth in it, I cant find it anywhere, and unless he is going for nothing cant see Everton taking the risk on his fitness, I think he will stay until January and a few teams will monitor his recovery.
DB77

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If you want to get pedantic, "We don't do walking away" as said by Ally is a collective we meaning the clubs as a whole otherwise he would have said "I don't do walking away".
Al

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In my opinion ally has been great this season just unfortunately both his hands are tied behind his back

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Ally has done great, i wouldn't want to be the manager in the changing room having to talk to a squad who have just had there wages massive cut and the ongoing saga rangers face. true legend all mcoist and a true rangers great. think he will one day get a statue outside or something similar if he keeps up the great professionalism he has done and wins some trophies when this saga is over

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Can u blame him everton are a great club and we are not anymore. david moyes hasnt destroyed us we did it to ourselves.

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When ally was describing we don't do walking away wasn't he describing the fans n not the players

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Statue outside where? Tesco new supermarket in Govan? Might get a job in there, not a statue outside

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26 May 2012 22:46:35
Naismith has walked away and will join everton next week.

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Good luck it'd be a good move. Name me one SPL player who wouldn't leave for Everton. Best of the rest in epl.

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I honestly think if he were to leave it would be january, he has just recovered from a second cruciate injury and hasn't played a game yet, his medical would be very stringent giving his 2 cruciate injuries, January most likely after some game time

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Hardly walking away. Young guy who is a rangers man but he's went from £18k a week to £4.5k. And there is no concrete plan for his future. Two bad injuries. Of course he has got to look after himself. Good luck Naisy if he goes. He's a decent guy too.

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If he left it to January would the cut price deal still be in place?

If it is time limited then Everton may take a flyer rather than pay £6-8M - Jaxie

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The cut price release clauses will stay in the players contracts until the contract runs out naismith could stay at rangers for the whole season and still leave next year for a reduced rate.....

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26 May 2012 19:01:01
As a Rangers Fan i would like to make this statement on behalf of me and only me lets get this straight i dont speak on behalf of anyone else except me.

i think its about time we locked the door at ibrox and threw the towel in. my club is dying from the wounds of a thousand cuts.if it was your dog you would not allow it to suffer like this. regardless of what we do the righteous brothers across the city will never let us forget this part of our history yet if anyone brings up their unscrupulousness past they are banned or lambasted. everyone thinks Scottish football will be better of without us well they better hope they are right i for one say dont give the SFA or The SPL the satisfaction of booting us out i say we resign sit back and watch Scottish football implode.

no matter what they say they cant take away our history and the fact we are the most successful team in the world. the halfwits across the city might overtake our 54 titles if the league lasts that long but they will have won each and everyone from this point on without any real opposition.

if the chairman from these other SPL clubs think they will pick up rangers supporters in any great numbers well i doubt that as the old saying goes
RANGERS TILL I DIE

Lochaber Bear

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Kind of agree m8 I for one will never set foot in another Scottish ground will be asking sky for an English only football package or cancelling it all together if Rangers do fold am quit sure if the vast majority of their subscribers did the same they would oblige rather than lose all our custom

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You want to make up your mind ! On one hand you want to shut up shop because nobody will ever let you forget this piece of your history! But you still want to keep your history as allegedly being the most successful team in the world! Well guess what they now go hand in hand and as the old saying goes your only as good as your last game or in this case your last "shame"

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Agree with u except for me ah would resign with immediate affect an apply to sfl3. wot oor righteous brothers seem to be missing is most fans want this as well, not a newco or spl football with restrictions. the other teams want us fur the tv deal an money but at the same time want us punished. well ah say pick 1? let us in with no further punishment or sfl3 it is :)

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During rangers great trophy haul there really wasn,t much competition in the league due to teams buying players they could afford transfer fee and wages alike.now we discover the reason how rangers managed to attract the world class players during that particular era .if you really need to have a pop at someone or something have a stiff drink sit down and have a look at the charge sheet you have been presented with nothing to do with the righteous brothers across the city or the chairmen or supporters of other clubs. my god you,s get more embarrassing by the day.

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That attitude stinks, it is your own fault you are in the state you are in by spending money you's never had. Why blame everyone else.

If Rangers were to hold there hands up and admit that you made mistakes, take respond resposibility for you actions then and only then will you be allowed to move forward.

I feel sorry for the genuine Rangers fans, they did not ask for any of this, and as the boy said at the end of the program on BBC on Wednesday night, "We are watching the death of a giant".

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I presume you're having a wee drink tonight and thats affecting your senses. celtic and their fans have done nothing to rangers, other than collapse into mirth whenever your so called football club is mentioned.
all of the foul deeds which have bankrupted rangers and brought them to the brink of destruction were committed by rangers men, at times backed up by the deranged element and their threats, attempted boycotts and the rest.
celtic fc have made very few statements and have only retorted to the likes of hately and his mad ramblings playing to the deluded rump of rangers fans. your spiteful wishes against the rest of scottish football are pathetic and will only be met with derision. its statements like this that make us all of look forward to the great day when your club descends back into the pits it came from. maybe a new sane version will be born but i doubt it, the rangers fans who are able to think for themselves seem vastly outnumbered by the idiots.

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You still dont see that the spl/sfa dont want to boot yous, there was a chance of that by the way you broke the rules and they decided to hand you a transfer band instead, also if that was the case then the spl/sfa would have acted alot sooner and say your out but they are dragging thier heals in hope that someone else does it for them,which it seems your club is doing it all by themselves.
and you say that Celtic will win titles knowing it was against no real opposition, well for alot of your titles you cheated and had players and a team you shouldnt have so you have to live with that and the fact that your club was scared because they had to cheat in order to win for they could not play on a level playing field as those clubs you say are no real oposition. so since it seems you dont care of how your club was runned because you would take and still count your trophies then you can take pride in knowing you had to cheat to beat clubs like Dundee, Killie,Hearts, st Jhon, and yes the best Celtic. Cause you tried to get the best trophy and tried to be like Celtic but you could never be,you even tried to cheat to be like us but where you went wrong and what you dont understaand is Celtic runs and wins the right way within the rules and by playing beautifull football the Celtic way.

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I agree with some points. I'd go with the route that would scrap debt and start in third division and build up. Maybe by time we get back there might not be a league. Basically my point is. Take everyc@@t down with us. And when sky n other sponsors pool the plug maybe they will realise that trying to impose all these sanctions when rangers go down was a bad idea as they never had these ideas with Dundee livi Motherwell or any other clubs

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When you assess the QUANTUM of scandal that has surfaced since Murray sold the club. There is absolutely no justification anyone can make for allowing this club to remain in the SPL.
The footballing scandal, the tax scandal, the banking scandal, the Whyte scandal, the lies, 273 financial victims, all UK society are tax victims. £140m and increasing. There's no way in a clean honest nation this can remain in the top league. It will be the end of football as a clean sport if Rangers remain, might as well allow partisan referees, match fixing and performance enhancing drugs.

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To be honest if this is what you really believe then the spl would be better without fans like you. I support a different team in the spl but the state rangers are in Is because of themselves. why blame anyone else? You CHEATED for almost 10 years - fact! I do not blame genuine fans and personally would like to see the perpetrators locked up - but what about everyone else? Every club in the spl nearly is in serious debt - do we all follow the same path?? Accept the punishment and go from there - tough on fans but not half as tough who have lost jobs etc... Through this debacle

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I think its really sad when rangers fans come on this site, act all rightous at first saying yes we did wrong , yes we deserve to be punished BUT lets see how scottish football survives without us....... i find this somewhat perverse....... its like ... were hurting lets hurt everbody else ...... i dont get that attitude....... if your house was burning because someone in YOUR house set it on fire would you want the whole street to burn down? bad karma man !!!!!!

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It's the hypocrisy in saying the spl needs rangers and won't survive when RFC has been actively seeking to get out of the spl leaves me with no sympathy for RFC. Hell mend you.

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The only way to come out of this with any dignity, is for Rangers to be expelled from Scottish Football, and us, the fans, to start a brand new club owned by us, and for us, and join SFL3, and build up from scratch. Anything else is going to be tainted by this shameful chapter in our history, and does anyone, really really think Charles Green (or any other business man who invests in us) cares about anything other than making a profit from people who love Rangers, don't tell me this guys in it for his love of Rangers, any more than Whyte or Murray were. It's time to take back our club, by the fans, for the fans. And no I don't mean the sectarian bigots in the various supporters associations who claim to speak for us, I mean the silent(ish) majority of decent upstanding Rangers fans who feel ashamed at what the club has become.

We are an embarrassment, and I'm ashamed to tell people I was a Rangers fan thanks to the behaviour of the idiots who have run it into the ground, I used to be proud of our great club.

And if those criminals at D&P realise they don't own our club to sell to the highest mercanary bidder, but we, the oeople do, then things might be different.

We Are The People, but D&P aren't, Craig Whyte isn't, David Murray isn't, and Charles Green isn't either.

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The worrying thing is, you actually believe what you are saying. No concept of culpability in the shoddy dealings of the organisation you dearly love. You may very well be Rangers Till You Die, but your suffering will be at an end come Friday. For every 50 reasonable well balanced bears of which friends and family are included, there are complete fan dans like yourself that will not be missed in Scottish Football. (whatever that looks like next season )

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If you resign from the SFA you cannot play in the SFL or any other league in Scotland, so please go ahead

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No team in European football has cheated like Rangers have, never mind Scottish clubs that have been in admin. Remember Rangers attitude towards Airdrie. Now I have changed my mind and hope Rangers die, through the WATP mob and D&P. Won't even mention the bampot who has brought Scottish football to its knees.

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If Rangers do survive Scottish football is dead. FACT.

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Love it when they put "FACT" at the end of a sentance. Must be real then. FACT

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I'm a proud Jambo and think that Rangers history since Murray took over should be erased, their 9 in a row etc was won illegally, they cheated the SPL the SFA, the Scottish public and also sadly their own fans. I don't like Celtic but at least their 9 in a row was won fairly. I think Rangers should be punished severely for cheating and be booted out the SPL. Scottish football may suffer but will survive rather that than let cheats get away with it and make our game a mockery. HMFC Scottish Cup winners 2012.

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Rangers need all the help from other fans they can get. And what happens ? A person like you from the WATP bribade blow any chance of help right out the water. Yeas , all the spivs , venture caprtalists, con men are dragging the club down but people like you will help sink the club forever

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No European team has cheated worse so payin off referees is okay in your eyes get a life what rangers did with the ebt was not illeagal morally wrong yes and I agree we should be punished accordinly what Murray did with the bank is.between his mih group and the.bank that was outwith rangers control i believe he Shood be charged with that but remember Celtic all other fans would love to see you lot go aswel

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This is a reply to all the posters on here...we are Rangers, We are in Debt big time, We are on the brink and also we are accused of cheating not proven....accused and it doesnt matter how you wanna paint it or draw it all of the carp you lot are on about is unproven in the eyes of the law so please until then go away and please try and enjoy your league win celtic fans and hearts fans enjoy your cup win it doesnt happen that often for your lot...and finally as it stands we are 55m in debt not 140+ as a previous post had us...

Tam-Sir 1873 is loving the weather

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Ive been a Rangers fan for 25 years, ive enjoyed the good times and hurt during the bad like most decent supporters. The revelations (for want of a better word) of the last few weeks and months have been nothing short of shameful and frankly im embarassed that any other Rangers "supporter" can even begin to think about blaming anyone else for this mess the club has got itself in. Have some dignity in these tough times people, the club has done wrong, nobody else, and to suggest otherwise is just nonsense. The real supporters have been let down by the men at the top. Lets deal with it and move on if possible.

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So if they won't let you play you are bursting the ball so npbody else can?
fact is rangers are not as indispensible as you seem to believe

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Thought the saying was rangers til july lol

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For the daft Jambo and any others who believe everything that magic box with the moving pictures in their living rooms says! 9 in a row was won fairly! EBT's came into existence at Rangers after that! Honestly some folk are just so desperate to see Rangers die and be hung, drawn and quartered on the way! As football fans you really should concentrate on your own teams! I only care about Rangers...couldn't give a flying fart for the rest of the teams in the Scottish league! So behave yourself, learn the actual facts of a situation before you comment and stop listening to media propoganda!

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Lochaber. not your first moronic post on here but certainly your worst! What does Celtic have to do with what is going on with your club, apart from you owe us money?
What about our past? You have existed for 140 years, almost 120 of those with a sectarian policy of not signing Catholics and the last 20 years cheating. Cheating other clubs, cheating Her majesty's tax and cheating yourselves! And you call that a proud history?
I feel for the true Rangers fan, the ones who came to Celtic to pay their respects when Tommy died, and I dont want to see the end of Rangers.....but clowns like you make me wish the end will come soon....which it looks like it will.
You should be ashamed!

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To the poster who suggests that fans get together and start a brand new team from scratch ,to me this seems a good idea. No other outcome from the sorry mess you are in will lift the stigma of "cheats". This will be with Rangers for all time. Even if they don't roar it at you in their hundreds,or thousands or tens of thousands (and that crowd most certainly will) you will KNOW that is what they think and what they say about you behind your back. This stain will be passed down to children. Yours will be mocked cruelly for something that they have not done. Some of you may be like the poster who calls another a "daft Jambo" (I support East Fife) and not care but I suspect many in red,white and blue are not. One word of advice. Ditch the WATP. Keeping that would be like the youth in Germany trying to get their good name back in the forties and fifties with the swastika as their emblem.
To the non carer can I point out that the procedure is hanging,then drawing,then quartering and then comes the dying. It is rather pointless the other way.

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Why do ppl like you have to bring celtic into this? This is your mess "celtic know all about their troubles" deal with your own mate, as celtic do with theirs, don't have a go at celtic for no reason, it is not celtics fault!

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Did you see SoS yesterday. It is Fergus's fault because he built a new Celtic as a reliable Ford type football machine which RFC could only compete with by trying to buy the parts for a Bugati.

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When the breakers ball starts smashing down the weed overgrown big house then the person who can't donate his superfluous internal gases might face reality. Talk about King Canute!! It is not media propoganda. To use an analogy you might understand --- Rangers are up sh*t creek without a paddle.

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Think you will find I said hung, drawn and quartered on the way to dying! Read properly before you comment!

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Not sure many clubs would welcome supporters of the calibre of Lochaber bear.

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26 May 2012 17:37:40
anybody ever stopped to think about the Ticketus thing
on the surface nobody could be that stupid - not 27 million of stupid. nobody
and there's the story right there
staring us in the face
maybe ticketus stepped into this whole scenario with their eyes wide open
a celebratory dinner with craig whyte and a partner of duff and phelps
something tells me they have not lost a single penny
quite the contrary.....

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I'm surprised Green and his mate with two names wasn't at the table as well.

Ticketus and Whyte own the assets.

I'm sure SDM had a place in Monaco years ago. All it would take is a waiter in Monaco to say he served SDM and Whyte at the same table, with security footage.

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You coildn't write the script for what has happened to this team.
It would make a good film.
There have been some prima donnas and some oscar winning acting performances.

The truth is out there.

Liquidation seems more likely by the day.
Only hope the guilty parties in all this are indeed fully exposed and punished.

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I think if Green and his consortium was the real deal, they would have offered more than the paltry £8.5 million, remember Duff and Dufffers payment comes from that pot too, so its even less than that.

Liquidation I fear is a couple of weeks away, or just after the EBT case findings have been made public.

RANGERS TILL I DIE
RIP SCOTTISH FOOTBALL THANKS TO DAVID MURRAY AND CRAIG WHYTE.

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Rangers till i die...... why rip scottish football , be honest you dont care about scottish football , if rangers die you WANT scottish football to die.... pathetic attitude ........ from a SCOTTISH celtic fan

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Yes Thanks to David Murray and Craig Whyte for making Scotland a better place. Something about clouds and silver linings or is it Road to Hell and good intentions. Maybe it was just pure luck.

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Totally agree with the last comment,i think they would hav offered more,i think its a bad corrupt lot as there will be nothing left in the cva pot after the duffers get there money.

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From a standpoint of total ignorance I would hazard a guess that people who put big money into advance sales of sporting events are taking big risks for big money. I surmise they aint likely to be insurance companies but maybe they want the money to come out cleaner than it went in --- if you get my drift. If so I would not relish being in debt to them and saying "see that 23 million ou gave me -- well its worth a semi in Lochgelly now."

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D&P were put in place for one purpose, to work for the creditors. Seems that is not the case. Wonder if the cloud gets even darker and they are working for DM and CW. They certainly ain't working for the best interests of the creditors. Airdrie until you lot made us die. PS forget a newco as an Airdrie fan l know. When your club dies its a full stop. Thank you Mr. Murray, noticed he is not so smug now!!!!!!!!!!!

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I don't think so. Ticketus are slick city boys and Whyte is a provincial maverick. If you are suggesting that Whyte can get his hands on at least £27m of liquidated assets through this "floating charge" to pay back Ticketus then you may have a case. But it's a risky strategy because he may get nothing.

I think Ticketus have probably looked after themselves somehow, and Whyte likewise but not necessarily in tandem.

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Maybe aliens came down and brainwashed craig whyte maybe they got special probes that can brainwash everyone and control their actions ?? if your a rangers fan that would be more believable but if your not you would just think david murray drove the club into the ground and sold it to whyte to be liquidated because that was the only way forward

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Business is business. Sounds even better than £10 for every £5...................

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Has green not already bought the 82% shares owned by whyte in a £2 deal. sure that was in either record, sun or the star. cva could be agreed in the next 2 weeks so will see if green is the real deal then. need to give the guy a chance to prove himself. but he does have to come out and state his intentions to the fans

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26 May 2012 15:01:18
why doesnt green just shut his geggy..."deal been done wi hmrc" he says....heavens above ...shut up and get things done then blow your horn...i just hate this boasting prior to official signing off...it just reeks of na na na na na......deecee

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Yeh but the same report goes on to say "an informal agreement" Its just more waffle to keep the fans quiet

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Green claims HMRC have given him the nod for a CVA - why would HMRC give the nod to someone who has only made a proposal to buy the club.

And do HMRC really give the nod unofficially?

Just not credible Mr Green.

BB

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Hmrc turning down cva's in England for 75p in the pound, so how he can get agreement for 2p in the pound is stunning.......

Hmrc never comment ahead of a vote....

Spin!

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Can the other creditors not cry foul if Rangers are talking to HMRC about acceptable levels of repayment prior to a formal offer being made.

Administrator has to look out for the needs of ALL creditors not a select few

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Agree with OP

The time for mouthing off is NOT
NOW!
We've had so many promises and knock backs- next week!, next week!, next week!, - Don' t really want to judge him just now, as he IS the ONLY game in town it would appear? - however I think most bears would rather hear nothing for a week, and then something a bit more definite, rather than drip, drip drip hopeful stuff.

bil72

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I'm pretty sure that HMRC are precluded by law from discussing detailed matters of a company not in ownership. Even though Mr G has a agreement of intent to purchase, that gives him a waiver to data protection rules for Rangers financials only. Basically I can't go to Centre One and ask a tax official for details of anyone on here's tax dealings or fir that matter Kwik-Fit or Tesco just because I've bought four tyres and have a Tesco Clubcard. I agree. He should shut his geggie ASAP and stump up the cash of GTF.

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HMRC agreed a CVA with Darlington for 0.74% in 2005 then 0.009% IN 2009 debt was £404736 HMRC received a payment of £3.64 HMRC deal on individual cases and what funds are available not set pence in the pound

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HMRC are definitely precluded by law from discussing detailed matters of a company not in ownership.

Either Green has been seriously misqouted by the Daily Record or the man is telling a very large porkie.

Also, Duff & Phelps, if they were halfway competent and not hoping to see Rangers liquidated, should have corrected the false statement, especially as the proposed CVA is apparently set to arrive in the letterboxes of creditors shortly.

BB

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Geggy,no heard it for yonks deecee...magic......fae a tim

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HMRC did NOT agree a deal with Darlington.Due to other debts and the football Creditors Rule(which does not apply in Scotland)HMRC held less than 25% of the debt and were therefore forced into accepting the CVA.
I'm fed up posting this but I'll try again:
HMRC will NOT accept a CVA when there has been deliberate withholding of tax.That's it,accept it,move on.

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26 May 2012 12:55:57
Gonna get stick for this one but here goes

Why dont celtic and rangers fans combine to buy the rangers brand then try to merge both rangers and celtic into one club, one super club with viewing figures through the roof for every match shown on tv for strips sold worldwide for sheer pulling power from a potential fanbase of 1 million local fans. We would win the league at a canter every year and if we get our coeffecient back up to a level where winning the league gets you into europe i think we could make this super club a power in europe. Prove to the english we are not a small minded bigot polluted backwater and we may actually get better than their clubs. But really thats what we are and why this would never happen.

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Dont be daft...jsm

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Sounds like LloydsTSB taking onboard HBOS..... Disastrous....HBOS should have been left to rot.

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GK McGregor
LB Izaguirre
CB Boca
CB Mulgrew
RB Whitts
LCM Commons
CM Kayal
RCM Davis
CAM Aluko
ST Naismith
ST Hooper

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Why would Celtic want to be associated with this whole sordid affair. Celtic have one of the largest fan bases in the world have just won the league and are trying to build a successful young team. If any sort of merger is needed maybe Rangers and one of the morally corrupt teams who view finance above sporting integrity would be an option. The trouble is this country is a bigot polluted backwater with incompetent governing bodies but its the one we are stuck with for the time being and instead of digging a deeper hole by dragging this farce at rangers out it should be dealt with by UEFA and take any impropriety out of the equation. Then we can work on weeding out the social parasites that have attached themselves to the game and build for the future.
I want whats best for the game and believe that Scotland needs as many big teams as possible not one super team as OP suggested but I also believe in integrity and if the current situation at Rangers is not dealt with properly the country will look worse than it already dose.
I don't know what a perfect resolution would be but the longer this goes on the worse it is for us.
DB77

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It may seem a daft idea but scottish society as a whole would benefit....a joint old firm team would have a better chance of being accepted into the english premier league

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Don't think there will be "viewing figures through the roof" if there is no competition and one team will "win the league at a canter every year". If there was an Atlantic League it might work.
Al

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Why would Celtic want to buy rangers who are facing new lows on top of everything they have had.... there will be no rangers soon enough and shortly after no new club. two words spring to mind overtime I hear the name rangers and they are

Third Lanark

remember that club well say hello when you meet them.

hail hail

Marco1888

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Yes and we could play imagine by John Lennon every home game peace man lol

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Well done, six rangers players to five Celtic players in your (team). Remind me who have just won the league by 20 points. Whittaker better than Matthews, no place for Ledly, Forrest, Davis centre mid now i know your having a laugh. If i didn't know better i would think you want to be the next Scotland manager considering they always overlook the top Celtic players to (accommodate) players from Rangers.

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You were correct in saying that you would get stick. Just no chance what so ever of this ever happening, even allowing for RFC situation - it would be a no go. Better solution for the bigotry would be to be consistant and that would then get the message home - still too many folk getting away with things.

Diamond Geezer

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Cos we are rangers. Why do you think rangers fans are so keen on keeping our history? To give it up and join forces with another club. To be honest if itwasnt for old firm rivalry there would be no SPL. That's like saying united and city join forces or arsenal and spurs. Liverpool and Everton. Ridiculous.

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Fantastic thought ,,BUT WILL NEVER HAPPEN

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Worrying about scotland manager overlooking celtic players to select Rangers players. dont most of your fans want your players to play for the Irish Republic if they can

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Good idea. lets merge all the SPL teams into one big SUPERTEAM with the best from Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and erm.. Paisley. Watch out Real Madrid and Barcelona!

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Would somebody please get this man out the sun . His brain is frazled.

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I suppose in theory your post is a good idea, would never happen in a million years tho. as for the clown playing the paranoia card about top celtic players being overlooked by the scotland manager to please Rangers, stop talking utter Colin Nish. Brown,Commons,forrest and many more regulars in the squad.

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Well done, six rangers players to five Celtic players in your (team). Remind me who have just won the league by 20 points. Whittaker better than Matthews, no place for Ledly, Forrest, Davis centre mid now i know your having a laugh. If i didn't know better i would think you want to be the next Scotland manager considering they always overlook the top Celtic players to (accommodate) players from Rangers.

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Celtic dont cut it with the big games, this is common knowledge, hence why there are 6 players from Rangers.

HAW

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Please, Matthews has been pedestrian in the important games this season, the reason Davis instead of Ledley is because he is more attacking minded than Ledley, they would be interchangeable though...

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Celtic have one of the largest fan bases in the world
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not even in the top twenty best supported clubs

37th in football brands.

why do you think lawwell had to come back to duke street for a joint deal?

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We may be in dire straits but we cant stoop to that level. Merge with Celtic-FIND ME SOME ROPE AND A BRIDGE.

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Best post i've seen on here...man after my own heart....walk into a party..decide it's crap ,so drop a wee gem as in your post...walk out of party with eveyone fighting with each other...love it

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37th biggest brand in the world is ok by me. all of the clubs above are there because of massive tv deals.
there are 771 professional clubs in europe alone. celtic are the 11th best supported club in europe so there are 760 below us including.... rangers.
we are also the 3rd best supported club in britain.

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Your off your head. Couple reasons why! Why would Celtic save rangers. N if they decided yes how do you merge two of the biggest rivals in the world n even if you put asides the obvious differences and make a super Glasgow team. How can you even suggest that Whittaker would get a game especially at right back.

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If your rival conned you and everyone in the card school. You don't join up with them you beat the sh/t out them and get them to Feck. Rule of your average Scottish guy. Good bye cheating bams. Apologise to the decent Rangers fans but you are far out numbered by the clowns that embarass your club.

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80 unbelievables must be a new record. Op here cheers for your views fellas highly entertaining.

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The only attraction that Rangers/Celtic have to the outside world is that fascination watching two wild animals tearing at each other with only illogical mutual hatred driving them on. Getting the mongoose and the cobra to live together will not work. Better get rid of them both.

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26 May 2012 11:21:02
I might be wrong here but is our situation not completely different from Sion?

They took FIFA to court not there League! In doing so FIFA demanded they be deducted the points or face expulsion from FIFA.

Why would FIFA expel Scotland for Rangers taking SPL to court?


GDog
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Hector fan look at the facts first before post nonsense......Sion where banned by Eufa from signing players, which was being enforced by the country federation... The country federation had no bal#s, and allowed them to play them in the league.... hence the penalities towards the Swiss FA..... Eufa banned them as soon as the played the same players in the europa league....

Rangers have been issued with a suitable penalty for breach of SFA rules.... The sfa won't standby and let Rangers run amoke over this penalty....If the court rules in your favour, and orders another hearing, the only option the court actually has, then you can expect the maximum penalty at any re arranged hearing. The withdrawl or suspension of your membership...... Rangers FC committed the offence....Rangers FC run by its owner CW.....Rangers will have to pay the penality....

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They threatened to chuck the Swiss out if they did not take action against Sion. The Swiss FA deducted 36 points for games where illegal players were playing.
The same threat could be given to the SFA if they are seen not to be taking action against Rangers.
Al

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Rangers are not questioning the conviction but the sentence which is against the labour laws of this country {Ed014's Note - For the final time. The EU has a special distinction with regards sporting laws.}

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Also sion's is slightly different as they illegally signed a player who was still under contract to another club. so hardly the same

keep trying boys, the only interest you've got is in winning the SPL every year, the only team in scotland with a chance of stopping you are Rangers. the english fa dont want you, we are stuck with you and your bigotry. so cut out the rubbish about sporting integrity, because if that was your team's mantra they would have apologised for some of your fans behaviour over the years.

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For what?

Cases still pending I believe - rule changes on the hoof - exceeding any other sanction imposed on ANY club previously

There are 2 sides to this ( at least !!)

bil72

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It's not against any law. As the panel noted, rangers have 40 pros on their books. They can renew those contracts with the money they save. This looks like an attempted suicide. Well done the rff. Rangers have become a farce now.

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You are wrong in every meaningful sense. Sion took UEFA to court then FIFA intervened and threatened the Swiss FA. The SFA is federated to FIFA and as such sign up to their articles. Article 64 is important here stating national bodies must stipulate that members cannot appeal through civil courts with the sanction relegation or expulsion. In addition European law accepts sporting bodies are entitled to implement processes to govern the game and are free to impose sanctions. In short this appeal has no chance and is likely to provoke further sanction. Perhaps this is D&P's plan

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The Sion saga is closer to Rangers than you may think

Sion got a transfer embargo for signing the player registered to the other team for which they received a transfer embargo as punishment from Uefa/Fifa

They subsequently went to court and eventually a court overruled the decision and they signed players.

Once those players played in Europe Uefa kicked them out of the competition, allowing Celtic back in, and eventually they and FIFA put pressure on the Swiss FA to remove Sion's league victories from the season and record 3-0 defeats, which they did.

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What has it got to do with the EU it is UN employment laws we will be appealing on the grounds of Ageism the sentence is legally flawed and discriminates against people over 18 discrimination is a big no no and UN will come down hard {Ed014's Note - You are kidding aren't you?I've never read so much rubbish on here before!I take it the sun is shining up in Scotland as well.Maybe Bono will take up the fight and help out.

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The UN? are you confused,ivr never laughed so much in my life!

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Ed014, judging by your "I take it the sun is shining up in Scotland" it appears you are not even based in Scotland but still wish to pontificate on Scotish football, seems a bit rich! {Ed001's Note - sense of humour bypass by any chance?}

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So it's ageism, well there is a simple solution extend the ban to all players over or under 18. Problem solved!

Now would you like to shoot yourself in the other foot as well? ....Randolph

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Rangers case is COMPLETELY different to that of FC Sions.

FC sion were given a transfer embargo over the signing of Essam El Hadary. They IGNORED this embargo after being denied TWICE in court and signed SIX players whilst under the embargo, that is why they got hammered.

Again....COMPLETELY different. {Ed014's Note - It's not different.It is about breaking the laws of the game by taking legal action against any association or governing body.

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