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Ally McCoist hopes Rangers supporters can be spared further heartache as the latest row over the club's ownership heads for court. Craig Whyte, who owned oldco Rangers until last year's administration and subsequent liquidation, is demanding a cut of the current club from chief executive Charles Green and is threatening legal action. Whyte claims Green was acting as his frontman when he bought the remnants of oldco Rangers before transferring them to a new company and establishing the reformed club in Division Three this season. Green has admitted sweet-talking Whyte during negotiations but, in an interview with the Scottish Sun, warned his predecessor any demand for shares or regular payments now is "not going to happen". In the meantime, McCoist has again been left to face questions about boardroom wrangling, and the manager said: "I'll definitely be meeting Charles and having a chat. "But without doubt again the main people I feel sorry for are the supporters who have kept this club going in the last 18 months. "I definitely feel for them because just when we seem to be getting a bit of clarity something else comes from left field. "I've got no doubts the press and media will be asking questions, as they rightly do, so I'd be very hopeful that once again our supporters can get answers they deserve."

Ally on ssn demanding a meeting with CG , he says he knew nothing about this till this morning.

As usual the headline paints a very different picture to the actual "story".....I don't even see why it is a story! Green and Ahmed kept whyte sweet because they needed his shares (as Kennedy tried to do) but when the CVA was rejected they didn't need him anymore and that was that! I know the green haters and the obsessed ones from across the city will lap this up but I just don't see the big deal....things like this happen in business constantly why are we making headline news? It's a bit embarrassing for our country with all the problems in the world the press up here choose to print this nonsense!

Rangers hit with SFA legal bill over player dispute By Chris McLaughlinSenior Football Reporter, BBC Scotland Rangers are facing a legal bill after a Scottish FA panel judged they should pay the expenses of five former players they were in contract disputes with. Sone Aluko, Kyle Lafferty, Steven Naismith, Jamie Ness and Allan McGregor all quit the club when it was placed into liquidation last year. The players refused to transfer their contracts from the old company to the new one, which the club challenged. The SFA insists Rangers should pay all legal bills relating to the dispute.

An absolute joke i think Rangers are appealing it today.

Maybe Sandaza goes with McCoists blessing mate.

If Sandaza had scored 20 + goals this season and played as well as jig and little he wouldn't have been sacked.

Chucks mate Warnock parted company tonight with Leeds, could he be coming to Ibrox

I'm more inclined to be angry at the other SPL chairmen for being weak than those in the SFL. Liewell,Thomson,Petrie I can understand cos they have an agenda. But surely some of the others could grow a pair of and say enough of this shite. I'm maybe expecting too much tho. After all that's the same chairmen that were happy to waste so much time and money to strip Rangers of their titles when only one team was going to get an advantage. It's also the same chairman that are happy that the majority of this 'bribe' is being mostly financed by the team that finishes second thereby again only benefiting one team. Makes you wonder who is really working who up the back.

The way Doncaster and his cohorts are trying to force this through via threats and bullying is as sinister as it is appalling. Is there anybody at all within the game prepared to stand up to him and ask directly: why? Why now or never? Why the almighty rush? The dishonestly and strong arm tactics are disgusting. Maybe someone in the media could grew a set and make an issue of this?

No one knows why NM has been suspended unless you are close to the action, having known Neil i would find it hard to believe he has been under hand as you would say . Untill it comes out from Rangers official as to what he has been suspended for i would take it with a pinch of salt.

IAN DURRANT says Rangers are â??exploring every avenueâ?? as they look to piece together a squad for next season. The first-team coach has confirmed assistant manager Kenny McDowall was in San Pedro Sula last Friday to see Honduras and Mexico draw 2-2 in a World Cup qualifier. Gers boss Ally McCoist has also been away this week and only returned to Murray Park for training this afternoon after going to watch players himself. In addition to that, chief scout Neil Murray has been deployed in the last few games to look at potential signing targets. Durrant himself stayed closer to home as he took in the Scotland under-21 sideâ??s 3-0 win over Luxembourg at St Mirren Park on Monday night. Uncertainty over which league the Light Blues will be in next season remains as the wait for a final decision over reconstruction goes on. That will have a bearing on who the likely Third Division champions are able to recruit to come in as free agents when their transfer embargo ends on September 1. In the meantime, the clubâ??s coaching staff are trying to ensure they have all bases covered as they bid to ensure they get the right faces in later in the year. Durrant said: â??Kenny was at the Honduras-Mexico game because there were a couple of players there who have come up as being recommended. â??Neil is away and the manager has been away as well. In the last two or three weeks, weâ??ve just been looking at more people. â??Weâ??ve got our dossiers of the players we want. Getting them in is another thing but itâ??s not for the want of trying. â??From now to the end of the season, weâ??ll be out doing our recces and seeing who is out there for us. â??I was at the Scotland under-21 game on Monday and they put on a really good show. Weâ??re exploring every avenue in terms of getting players in. â??We are getting there, slowly but surely, and hopefully weâ??ve have a far stronger and better-equipped squad for next season. â??We had to scramble a team together last summer with the transfer embargo coming and that was hard. â??We made decision which, when you sat back with a bit of hindsight, we maybe wouldnâ??t have made. â??Thatâ??s how it went though and thatâ??s what we were dealt with. We know that come September, we can bring in players and theyâ??ll be coming in. â??We donâ??t know how big the squad will be but it will make us a stronger and far better team than what we are just now.â?

Terry Butcher has rebuilt his team within last 2 years they are doing well in SPL and pumped us at Ibrox , WHY ? because on paper that night our team should have matched them or beat them on the back of us beating Motherwell at Ibrox. Whats ICT wage bill a year ? QOS is another example what have they spent and whats there wage bill ?

The worry is, if we knew last summer was to be a short term fix, then why the hell did we hand out 4 and 5 year deals to Cribari, Faure, Shiels, Black etc? If we didn't expect them to be with us in the SPL, then why didn't we just save our money (signing fees, wages and pay offs) for this summer's real rebuilding? Were we really that scared that our own kids, alongside Little, Templeton, Wallace, Hutton, Little, Perry, Jig and Alexander couldn't win SFL3? If so, that is more frightening and says more than anything else.

From todays evening times Matthew Lindsay.......Yeah really bad journalism

The above statements are worrying, Ally can't build / mould a team together so we will go out and buy a new team to win Div 2 pay 4-7k a week for out of contract SPL players to win Div 2, we should be getting the best crop of SFL players for peanuts and make something of them and sell them on for future profit. QOS have a 23 man squad and won Div 2 with ease no SPL players and paying thousands of pounds in wages, its the way to do it.

AS Rangers have stumbled towards the Irn-Bru Third Division title in the last few weeks, manager Ally McCoist has appealed for time to strengthen his threadbare squad. "We just have to get over the line," he stressed after his much-depleted team had slumped to a 0-0 draw with Stirling Albion at Ibrox last weekend. "Once we have done that, we will have to put together a team again which will win the next title. We are in desperate need of bodies." Having had just a matter of weeks to build a side for the 2012/13 campaign, it is understandable that he is counting the days until the summer. McCoist had no option but to go with the youth players and smattering of senior professionals who remained in Glasgow last year after their financial difficulties. On top of that, he brought in four of the free agents – Ian Black, Kevin Kyle, Frandcisco Sandaza and Dean Shiels – who were available in Scotland at that time. No member of that quartet, though, has excelled consistently in the last eight months in any of the competitions Rangers have been involved in. The foreign imports who arrived, Anestis Argyriou, Emilson Cribari, Sebastien Faure and Francesco Stella, were hardly household names either. It is not going too far to suggest that David Templeton, signed from Hearts on the final day of the transfer business, was the only significant bit of business the manager carried out. Even the acquisition of the winger, though, was tinged with bitter disappointment. McCoist had wanted to get six players in. He managed to get just one. He failed in his attempt to land Australian international Ryan McGowan. In addition, he lost captain Carlos Bocanegra to Racing Santander in Spain for a year on loan. With Black, Kyle, Andy Little, Lewis Macleod, Ross Perry, Sandaza, Shiels and Templeton all missing in recent weeks, Gers have toiled badly home and away. So, no matter who comes and goes in the close season – and there will be a few outgoing as well as incoming – the chances are high there will be a stark improvement in standards next term. The Rangers manager, aided and abetted by his chief scout and former team-mate Neil Murray, has spent several months scouring the country and the continent and identifying potential targets. The Glasgow club is, of course, prohibited from paying money for players until January 2014 due to a punishment imposed by the SFA for non-payment of millions of pounds of taxes during the Craig Whyte regime. They are, though, able to bring in players who are out of contract on September 1 and it is their intention to do so. Cammy Bell (Kilmarnock), Andre Bikey (Middlesbrough), Jon Daly (Dundee United) and Motherwell's Nicky Law are among those being tracked. However, to what extent will bringing in free agents actually improve Rangers for the next campaign? They will certainly be better than they have been in recent weeks. Having lost to part-time Annan at home, and deservedly so, it would be hard to be any worse. But will they able to challenge in the Scottish Communities League Cup and the William Hill Scottish Cup, as many of their fans will expect them to? Will they even be able to compete for promotion to the top flight if a move to a 12-12-18 set-up gets the go-ahead and they are fast-tracked into the second tier? It is debatable. The Ibrox club tried to go down the route of bringing in Bosman transfers before. The results were disastrous. In 2005, when they started to experience the off-field difficulties that came to a head last year, they attempted to bolster their pool on the cheap. The likes of Olivier Bernard and José-Karl Pierre-Fanfan failed spectacularly. After Paul Le Guen took over in 2006 he brought in Lionel Letizi, Makhtar N'Diaye, Antoine Ponroy, Libor Sionko and William Stanger for free. He lasted until January. The club was admittedly playing at a different level – in the SPL and in Europe – at that time. And there were several exceptions who flourished. Jean-Alain Boumsong, Brahim Hemdani, Dado Prso and Alex Rae, to name just four, cost not a single penny. They made a tidy £8million profit on the Frenchman, who played less than 20 first-team games, and got many years of sterling service from the others. But the fact remains that securing the services of a top player on a free transfer these days, despite the financial climate, is a huge accomplishment. McCoist, too, has admitted publicly of the difficulty he has in persuading potential signings to drop down the divisions. "It's far from an ideal situation," he confessed. "I've spoken to a number of players who have been put off due to the overall situation. "The only way I can sell it to players is the size of the club and the fans. There are a lot of negatives, but I can use the training facilities and the fact we're getting 47,000 at Ibrox every second week." The wages Rangers can pay will also go a long way towards luring reinforcements. But their supporters should not expect an overnight transformation. Only when McCoist gets to dip into the £10m which has been earmarked for new players will Rangers return to anywhere near the levels they once scaled.

I see Ally in the gig next season to turn it around with a product on the park, the board are not happy and made there feelings known to Ally. If he doesn't get it right by Xmas he will be pushed out.

We will never know if PLG with time would have turned us around , he wasn't given it and the dressing room was gone due to Barry.

Durrant coming out with pish like this is insulting, you are the first team coach have a look in the mirror and ask yourself are you coaching these guys with effect. I would also like to know what your input is to Ally.

I intended to begin this article by saying I don't find this easy to write. However, the more I think about it then the opposite is true. Ally, thank you for everything you've done but for the sake of the club you claim to love so much then it's time to step aside. Rangers fans can ill afford sentiment to cloud our judgement when it comes to the running of our club both on and off the park. Ally was a rock for the club during the administration period and being perfectly honest he's performed better in the role of spokesman than he has ever done as a manager. Even before administration set in, McCoist's team was beginning to unravel in front of our eyes. Some fans might want to blame behind the scenes issues but personally, and for many others like me, the team weren't cutting it. Then, when things did go wrong the manager seemed unable to halt the slump. There's a section of the Rangers support who believe he needs another chance because he stood by us, money to spend and time to build a team after so many first team regulars left. I personally don't buy any of that. Why doesn't he deserve another chance? This season was his second chance after the capitulation in the league and the embarrassment we suffered last year both domestically and abroad in the cups. This season is like déjà vu. We had no real pre-season and the team hadn't a chance to gel so we started off not too great but the youngsters were showing promise. Yet, as the season has progressed, we've shown no sign of improvement or learning from our mistakes. I would argue that with the exception of Andy Little every single player's form has suffered as the season has gone on. They also look a lot less fit now than they did at the start of the season. I think this is reflected by the apparent lack of hunger, desire and overall work-rate of the players individually and as a team. Should we give him more money to spend? Quite simply no, because despite McCoist recently trying to lay the failings of this team at the feet of the youngsters, it's his big money SPL standard players that have really let him down this season. Now, some might argue this is all down to the players but when these players are being played out of position or with no apparent game plan or shape to the team is this really their fault? Shiels, Black and Sandaza were the pick of the bunch from their respective clubs and standouts in the SPL. Yet under McCoist all three have fallen to performances that are more befitting of Sunday morning pub games than that of a Rangers player. I think the least said about the defenders he signed the better but I don't think it's any coincidence we don't have anyone on our backroom staff that played at the back. This defence is abysmal and if at this stage in the season we can't have them playing as a unit then we never will. You could drive a bus through our two centre half's during a game. One is always 10-15 yards deeper than the other. Now, to my uneducated football brain this is surely a basic failing that any defensive coach would be drumming out of them. We also have some of the most powder puff central defenders I've ever seen in a Rangers jersey when everyone knows we needed an experienced pro to marshal the defence and cope with the roughhouse tactics in SFL3. McCoist, on the other hand, spent serious cash on forward after forward. Now, we have so many that we've been playing them as wingers and midfielders to accommodate them into the team. So why should we trust him with serious money? What must be even more galling for the youngsters McCoist is blaming is that no matter how badly the senior pro's played, they were never dropped unless they were injured. On the other hand, youngsters were in and out like the Hokey-Cokey regardless of how well they performed. When you look at the above is it any wonder that rumours of bust ups with senior players or that he's lost the respect of the dressing room are always surfacing? The latter of the two is very easy to believe because he can't spark a reaction from his players as the embarrassing performances mount up and become more frequent. The body language of the players recently has told you everything you need to know. They don't enjoy playing for this team under this manager. What can you expect though, when the manager's standards are that last week's performance at Elgin was just the reaction we needed after the Annan embarrassment. Add this to the fact that during the week he stated that we won't make a good start to next season because he might have to play the youngsters? What sort of nonsense is that coming from the very person who is supposed to encourage and coach these guys to be better players? Don't even suggest it was mind games; it was a manager who has lost the plot getting his excuses in early. McCoist was fantastic during the last year OFF the park, so much so that I would happily have him kept on at Ibrox but that doesn't mean he will ever be a good manager ON the park. Davie Cooper was my hero when I was younger, McCoist was just a bit behind him. I take no pleasure in writing this but I feel that strongly that I feel needs must. I will point out I've watched Rangers for over 30 years, hold a season ticket and travel all over Scotland and Europe to watch us so I feel I know a decent Rangers side and manager when I see them. If I said this was a poor side led by a poor manager then I'm being kind. As it stands whether I renew my season ticket is in serious doubt as I can't continue to watch what is being served up under the current manager. Sadly, I know it's not just hundreds but thousands of Rangers fans who feel the same. From the members of this board, to my own friends, to those on buses I travel on and everyone you meet in the nearest boozer to Ibrox because they can't bear to watch the drivel served up, the opinion is the same�. It's time he did walking away.

I have a feeling Sandaza will get repremanded and wont be sacked.

Ally has certainly split the fans patience this season regarding performances on the park, it seems he has set out at start of season just to go out and hope for the best.

Wouldn't be surprised to see Neil Warnock being offered the job Charlie rates him highly and has worked with him.