Crimson Dynamo 128 Posted November 27, 2016 Share Posted November 27, 2016 Ultimately surely they want to make money. None to be earned from us at the moment. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JFK-1 1,677 Posted November 27, 2016 Share Posted November 27, 2016 Publicity with an established club. I think we might also consider that if in just 7 years they can take Leipzig from nothing to competing with Bayern Munich at the top of the Bundesliga they could certainly help make an already established giant competitive against anybody in the relatively small Scottish pond. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JFK-1 1,677 Posted November 27, 2016 Share Posted November 27, 2016 Ultimately surely they want to make money. None to be earned from us at the moment. This isn't an investment of the kind your thinking of. Publicity is money to such an entity. Rangers have an estimated minimum fan base of over a million in the UK alone and 8 million globally. How much money is that if 8 million people buy even just a few Red Bull drinks a year? It's tens of millions in sales and that's not even mentioning the actual publicity involved in being linked to such a club. I have no idea if this will happen or it's just tattle but it would appear to me to be a good match for all concerned. Even our colours are already suitable for their brand. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveC 150 Posted November 27, 2016 Share Posted November 27, 2016 (edited) The publicity via Rangers is indeed worth a fortune. Anyone who follows the "news Now" feed can see how every bit of news re our club goes worldwide. Out name is mentioned an enormous amount of times every day. That amount of global advertising would seem to be an attractive lure. not that there's anything concrete in this story, is there? It was just a jape-tweet, was it not? Maybe if we keep talking about it, it will happen though. Works for a certain other fanbase. Edited November 27, 2016 by SteveC 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JFK-1 1,677 Posted November 27, 2016 Share Posted November 27, 2016 The publicity via Rangers is indeed worth a fortune. Anyone who follows the "news Now" feed can see how every bit of news re our club goes worldwide. Out name is mentioned an enormous amount of times every day. That amount of global advertising would seem to be an attractive lure. not that there's anything concrete in this story, is there? It was just a jape-tweet, was it not? Maybe if we keep talking about it, it will happen though. Works for a certain other fanbase. Broxy bear could get a makeover to become Broxy bull 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
der Berliner 3,290 Posted November 27, 2016 Share Posted November 27, 2016 I don't doubt Red Bull would have the financial clout to invest in Rangers and get us to overhaul Celtic. But I don't see what would be in it for them. They could throw 50m our way and it would not dent their turnover one bit. "In for them"? what was in for them with Red Bull Salzburg? They turned a mid-table team in Austria (of all people) into one that plays CL football (if not that successfull so far). Re the Guardian article: As for RB Leipzig themselves, they took over the 5th tier licence of SSV Markranstädt along with the first football team of said club. The SSV club itself works on as an affiliated team with the 2nd and 3rd team, still being SSV Markranstädt -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSV_Markranst%C3%A4dt They work on a rather small budget compared to the big guns Bayern and Dortmund, and if not for their big buys this season, Keita and Burke, their squad would be valued even less than Hamburg's http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/rasenballsport-leipzig/startseite/verein/23826 Anyway ... at this moment in time, do not get over-excited by this. We play a friendly (!!!) against RB Leipzig. So too do others. The rest is utter speculation incited by some twitter banter. Maybe, once the RB folk note the amount of Bluenoses crossing the Channel for a mere friendly, they might give the idea of investment some thought. Meanwhile, the sale of tickets for the game will start online on December 5th, 10 am (German, 9 am British time): http://www.dierotenbullen.com/eintrittskarten.html (click on Testspiel) 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete 2,499 Posted November 27, 2016 Share Posted November 27, 2016 Broxy bear could get a makeover to become Broxy bull Ted Bull. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooponthewing 1,139 Posted December 2, 2016 Share Posted December 2, 2016 McColloch and Gudi were all over a bear when he mentioned this on snyde! "No chance" they said "don't pay attention" they said? There was genuine fear in their voices! 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
the gunslinger 3,366 Posted December 2, 2016 Share Posted December 2, 2016 They are no doubt right. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrahimHemdani 1 Posted December 2, 2016 Share Posted December 2, 2016 I have no idea if the story is true or not but one has to wonder how this friendly came about. However, if there's one iota of truth in the story and even if there isn't; a large contingent of well behaved bears in Leipzig will do wonders for our cause.. If RB see 4,000/5,000 fans travelling from Scotland to Germany for a meaningless friendly in January it might make them stop to think. Equally of course, any sign of trouble, will have the opposite impact. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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