chilledbear

Folk who have made a few bob and built a business, common sense tells you they look after their money {£1m invested in a football club in the SPL} As you say mate, very strange.

It's a puzzle why someone like this would put money into a Football Club in Scotland. He might see a profit down the line, but more than investing in other projects?

That's what worries me.

Any idea what Whyte gets out of this agreement he has with Green?

The Rangers Supporter bit bothers me, because it was a lie. As the 20 investors was. If someone tells you a lie from the off, don't you have suspicions about them?

Because there is nothing else, is no guarantee for something to work. Green has lied to us, Admins have lied about this consortium [where are the Rangers Supporters we were going to be excited about?]. I would take someone with not a lot of money, but would tell us the harsh facts, and had the future of Rangers as his priority.

This is part of the minutes, copied from FF 5. Investor information. Mr Green was looking into the purchase from 18th February. His idea is to have investors owning from 1% to 15%. All 26,000 current fan share holders will be invited to invest and given 2 or 3 years to fund their investment. The press have found out about Kevin McDonald and Freddie Shepherd and approached them. Both have declared an interest in investing but as yet, have not done so. Mr Green has 5 or 6 people who have already committed to invest and who have paid money to be part of the dream. Some are from the Middle East and some are from the Far East. None are Rangers fans but are football fans. Their dream is to fund soccer academies in the Far East and to see Rangers progress in Europe, where the creation of a European League is seen as a reality. The company will be listed and everyone will be able to see all who invest. At the moment they have asked for privacy. Never read so much waffle in my life. Just what are they expecting to gain?

Does Green and his 20/6/5 member consortium convince you that they are genuine? We were told there were 20, individuals, families, Rangers Supporters from all over the world. Now there are 5/6, I think. Can we trust people who tell us lies, have we not been shafted enough.

The speculation has swirled around his head, the transfer bids have been made and the back pages have roared in anticipation. So where is Steven Naismith planning to spend his long-term future? Stewarton, Ayrshire, since you ask. The Rangers forward has been placed at the centre of a club in turmoil, but he retains a certainty that testifies strongly to the strength he has drawn from the trials of a once debilitating shyness and from enduring and surviving two serious knee injuries. The damage to his cruciate ligaments was traumatic, but has been repaired. His first steps into the football world were faltering. The lessons stay with him. Naismith's career as a top-class sportsman was almost stunted by a silence that confused and disturbed him. "When I went away with the Scotland under-17s, I did not know anybody. It was the worst trip I ever had. I could not talk to anybody. I came home and said, 'That's it. I never want to go back'." His first stint at Rangers was similarly uneasy. "It was when I was at 10 or 11 and I was the only boy at the club from Ayrshire, I felt like an outcast," recalls the 25-year old. There is little silent about Naismith's world now. He now can chat to Sir Sean Connery and Sir Jackie Stewart with the same facility with which he deals with the apprentices at Murray Park. The most pressing question asked of him from every side is whether he will be at Rangers next season. He answers this with a gentle assurance. "I do not agree with statements about me being in a state of uncertainty," he says. "I have certainty. I have a three-year contract. That's it. I know there is stuff happening all around me but I have no say in that and I have a contract." Naismith has come a long way from the lad who delivered the newspapers in his home town of Stewarton and then raced off to play football. He is now an internationalist, a substantial presence at Rangers and a personality who has added his time and prominence to good causes, most notably Dyslexia Scotland. However, in many ways he has not strayed too far from his roots and has no intention of doing so. "Now, I am not daft and things can change and I may have decisions to make, but I will always come back to where I grew up," he says. "I have a house at the moment I can not see myself selling. My football career might keep me at Rangers or I might be moved on, but that would only be for a period of time. But at the end of everything I would always come back to Stewarton." This attachment to home brings Naismith back to a discussion about his shyness and how he has overcome it. The first experience of Rangers was followed by the welcoming embrace of Kilmarnock and that eventually made him stronger when he stepped up to Scotland under-18s. "When I joined that squad I was a first-team player, so I was then one of the so-called bigger players and I decided to speak to everybody. From then on I have made a point of starting a conversation with anyone who comes to the club, or into an international squad. I know a lot of the young boys at Rangers and I chat to them about how they are doing. They might have been released, they might be about to be released, they might be on the step of breaking though, but they all need that bit of advice to help them." Naismith concedes this outgoing nature did not come naturally to him. "It is something I have had to work on, but if there is somebody new in the changing room then I will think of something to say to him, something to welcome him. It is the worst thing ever to be sitting there not enjoying it." He added: "It is good to hear that people think I have good social skills, but it is not something that came naturally." The footballer now speaks to knights of the realm. The story disclosing his dyslexia was brought to the attention of Sir Sean Connery by Sir David Murray, thus beginning a chain of events that brings a smile to Naismith. "Unbelievable. When I had the voicemail from Sir Sean I was thinking, 'Is this true?"' Naismith, wary of the humour of the dressing room, ignored the threat of a 'wind-up' to phone back. He then spoke to Connery and later to Sir Jackie Stewart, president of Dyslexia Scotland. "Sir Sean just asked how I was doing with my injury. He still watches games in Scotland and he just chatted away about football, life. He then talked about dyslexia and passed on Sir Jackie's number; he just reeled it off. "I gave Sir Jackie a call and chatted away with him for an hour-and-a-half. He asked how badly dyslexia affected me growing up and how it was now. But it became very clear we had different things in common." People with dyslexia have an enhanced peripheral vision, a heightened awareness of what might happen next. Both attributes have served Naismith well in a career that has drawn more than admiring glances from the Barclays Premier League. But it is Naismith's unrelenting drive that marks him as a competitor and singles him out for both praise and abuse. "I do not pang for the fame or the compliments," he says of playing football. "I know it will all come to an end and I am not a fan of all the hype that surrounds the game. It is nice when someone comes up and shakes your hand, but I know that some footballers from the past still strive for fame. That will not be me. It just doesn't appeal to me. I will be happy to go home and live my life with the mates I grew up with and to be near my family." The footballer confirmed that he and his partner, a dentist, plan to keep their roots in Ayrshire even though both careers have some way to run. Naismith, though, is happy where he is, both geographically and emotionally. "I only play football to win. I do not care if everybody hates me if I am winning. If I am winning some people are going to be happy and supporters of other teams are not, but that is just the way it is," he says. "I have grown up, lived my life in a world where you can not please everybody. People might see me on a park and they can hate me, but I can't worry about it. But if I came home to the mates I have grown up with since I was four and they suddenly didn't like me, then I have a problem. I would have to address that." This a home truth that will anchor him to Stewarton and reality, wherever his career takes him.

Hong Kong this week ??

Speaking to United fans yesterday, I have family living there. Not as bad as some make out, he didn't do too much wrong.

"We will sit down and I will get a feel for what his plans are for the club," Regan told Herald Sport. "I do want him to be up front with us on who is in the consortium. I think there's an obligation on him to share that with us. I am keen to understand how he plans to run the club, not just the board but the day-to-day management. It's about giving him the chance to share his vision for the club. What about us, f--k the SFA tell the fans.

Any that stays should be awarded hero status.

One at 54s and second 1m26s.

But he's a Rangers Supporter!!

Who pays? D&P? Green Consortium?

My worry is, if you had these kind of investors why have the wrong kind in the public eye.

Cheers. On a ladder paintbrush in one hand phone in other. Difficult !

Just by naming one investor who would give the support confidence, would go a long way in getting the fans on board.

No idea. What was the gist?

Frankie Any feedback from the meeting fans reps had with Green?

What are the SFA going to do anyway? SFA.

Some folk will lap this up as well.

When do we hear from the fans reps? Only when they want our support or money?

I posted this on another thread, might be rubbish, but then. When there is no CVA, all the 'Rangers Supporters' will leave the consortium. I actually think we are getting taken for a ride here. I think the Admins have been stringing the bidders along until the end of the season. First the £500,000 to be a PB, when was that dropped. The Millar bid which was favourite for a while, then Kennedy, it was on, then off, Kennedy was that sure he flew over from New York. Now there are no more fixtures, no more 50,000 at Ibrox to protest, so Green buys the Club with no £500,000 up front. Abid which was that far down the line, there was no need for diligence. Hope I'm wrong but to my mind we are not out of the woods by a long chalk