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Rangers 1 - 2 Lyon FGS Dessers

Rangers 3 - 0 Hibernian FGS Lawrence Edited 11.19

"Voodoo no worky", as the Copland Ladies banner said in 2008 😂

My guess is that they would be under the right circumstances. There's been over £60m put into the club over the past 7 years so it doesn't make sense for them relinquish control for someone coming along and investing, say, another £30m. They also be reluctant to give control to some American venture capitalist who would look to maximise their own return over the performance on the pitch.

Thanks. I can never get my head around all the restrictions (and will continue to refer to it as FFP). Given additional investment isn't going to increase income per se, and we're limited to transfers/wages being 70% of turnover then receiving £100m won't vastly increase our spending power.

It's interesting that you use the term "required investment". We need more money for the team but any money that we get as investment won't be available for the team, as I understand FFP. It seems to me that any additional investment would be nice but it's not going to improve things on the park, and it also makes it more difficult to attract investors as they'll know their money won't make a massive difference. Yeah, seems like they've had to start from scratch again and it'll take time for candidates to be identified and interviewed and then notice given. May take a while.

Malmo 2 - 1 Rangers FGS Dessers

Dessers and Barron played well, but I thought Jefte was the best player on the park.

I was also told that they hadn't given Celtic the authorisation to do the work agreed for the old firm games, hence why Celtic wouldn't give us tickets, but put the blame on us due to us having issues.

I'm sure Clement would love someone better than Dessers but given we don't have the cash for that then he's going to continue to play him as his number one striker.

3-0 Dessers

Official fan media (H&H). If it's said on there then presumably it's come from the club. We don't have proof or verification but they're hardly likely to lie about it.

I have a recollection that there had been a previous meeting with the fans, prior to the "lie" meeting you refer to, and the CEO was asked about a contingency plan and the fan was told that such a plan wasn't required as everything would be on time. Does anyone else recall hearing that, or was what I heard a misquote from the documented meeting?

I wonder whose recent appointment could have prompted King to say that?

I can't see it myself, John, but let's hope you're correct.

It's never going to happen in the near future. It could have happened in the early 90s when Sky had so much power and they could have forced the EPL to accept us, but now the EPL has grown exponentially and they don't need Sky and don't need us. UEFA will prevent things like the Atlantic league from happening with moves similar to the new (dreadful) CL and Europa League format. The only way that it could happen would be for a club to win a EU case on something like restraint of trade, but even then we would presumably still be reliant on the EPL voting to accept us, and why would they? We need to accept that we're here in Scotland and plan to improve our situation here.

Because we can't get promoted to the EPL?

Fan media are certainly suggesting that he was and it was him that pulled out.

Gilligan? 🫣

Dundee Utd 1 - 2 Rangers FGS Dessers

I'm not sure how any of us can assess whether Gillespie would have made a good or bad CEO for us.

I don't think you cam blame the keeper for Scotland's goal.

Clarke is generally OK in games like last night where we are playing defensively against a much better team. He doesn't have a clue when in comes to us playing against a team of similar quality where we need to play a more attacking style, as was shown by our inadequate showing in the Euros.

Hitc? I'm surprised that you even have to question whether it's reputable.

Not when we couldn't afford it and had to finance it by selling part of the club's footprint that is now lost forever.