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I'm happy to see the back of Tillman and his confusing contract. It seemed clear to me he had little intention of returning to Rangers anyway. It's £5m to spend on someone else.

Without seeing the T&Cs we'll never know. It's more likely that Bayern have moved the goalposts. Anyhow, Wilson has gone, it appears Tillman isn't signing, it's time to move on from both. Onwards and upwards.

So quite clearly we did NOT have an option to buy at £5M. You would have thought this is a fairly simple situation. If we believed we had such an agreement then either a Wilson or the lawyers have messed up. If we didn’t have this agreement then we were lied to. If we DO have such a clause then invoke it or sue Bayern for substantial compo. Just days after our new CEO says it will all be about transparency, let’s hear it.

Look, old chap, you may be suffering biscuit deficiency but there’s no need for that.

I did some digging and finally found out the law firm we employ for contracts.

Or, nobody knows anything are we're all just wildly speculating? Don't like Bayern? Nazi b*stards have moved the goalposts. Don't like Tillman? The wee pr*ck thinks he's too good for us. Don't like DoF? Incompetent f*ck negotiating terrible contracts.

If you want to get loan players from clubs in the big leagues, you probably have to take a hit on certain aspects of the deal. I don't think Rangers are in much of a position to dictate terms to the likes of Bayern Munich. I'm not sure Tillman is keen to move to Scotland permanently and even less sure about whether I'd want us to spend £5m on him.

Well, the winning federation gets about £10m from UEFA. It's more than a friendly.

Similar to the Lewis Ferguson stuff. It's not happening, let's just get on with it.

Agreed, but on the upside he's got the baggage of the way that he left last time and IF he starts badly then he will hopefully get less leeway than other mangers would and it won't take much for the fanbase to turn. Plus he's an arrogant, egoistical, tranny-loving arsehole, so there's a lot of hope for us.

I'm sure I remember when we signed him that the buy option was subject to Bayern having the final say (or something along those lines)

FAIL! A pity, because Here's what you could have won.....

I see Graeme Souness completed his swim

It wasn't the worst 0-0 draw ever but didn't live up to expectations either.

And he was coming back from an ACL (or similar) injury.

There was lots of positive chat from Wilson about how it was an "innovative" deal... I seem to recall that if we were to buy him, it would be at Bayern's discretion whether it would go ahead, and they had some exclusive buy back built into it too. In other words, the innovation seem to be that we significantly de- risk the Bayern side of the deal just to get him on loan with an option to buy.

Read about it back then and it was written, that Rangers made a loan-deal with a fixed buy sum after that. The buy-back thing is not that common, but I thought that this was Bayern's back-door to get him Back if he becomes famous. That there was another clause between loan and the buy option is indeed strange. But I see that Rangers have bought good players since.

What happened to that theory last season?

Was it not that Bayern retained an exclusive buy-back option?

So the option to buy we had for Tillman was the same option we have to buy on Haaland, Mason Mount or indeed any other player in professional football. Make an offer and see if they accept. Sounds like some top notch negotiating skills our end. Wouldn't want to haggle with that guy.

If this story is true, it's a bit strange. From what was said by Beale previously, the ball was in Tillman's court and he would decide where he wanted to be. If we have now offered to buy him, Tillman must have agreed to move. If Bayern are playing hardball, maybe Tillman will down tools until they let him go - as if.

Great opportunity for us.

If he was an excellent manager, he most definitely wouldn't be back with that lot. Brendan still thinks he should be managing in the EPL ,but had no offers, he is on the slide .

Perhaps it’s £5M cash down and Rangers offered instalments.

Not good for us. As well as being an excellent manager, he knows what he is coming into to and we won't get the potential benefit of a newbie struggling to find his feet.

Nope, if they sell 250 they pay for 250, and we need to take the hit for the other 550 unsold tickets as police wont allow us to make the visiting fans area any smaller in that corner area. I have always been of the mindset that away fans should be in the highest corner of the club deck, out of sight of the tv cameras, and then you can make the area to suit the ticket sales, have a few rows for segregation and be able to sell a few hundred more to our own fans, and having our own fans in that corner (UB perhaps?) Having travelled a lot abroad with our team, the highest ugliest corner of the stadium is almost always where you end up, (including at the piggery of course) so dont know why we provide a lovely wee corner stand area for our opponents.

Just applied it now. Only took a minute. If it persists try clear your cache and cookies. But they did acknowledge an issue which that out of band patch should fix hopefully. Bf