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Originally Posted by Derek
The milking of Rangers started a long time ago, the whole saga stinks, and I very much doubt the current batch of arrests and court cases will be the last.
If they don't get promoted this season, and I personally think they won't, it'll be interesting to see if the most incompetent football administrators in the world redesign the leagues to bring them up.
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I read that they couldn't actually afford to pay Ally off. Pretty dire situation to be in that's got Ashley licking his lips. Ashley will bail rangers out just like he did to Newcastle, problem being it's much cheaper to balance Rangers and from a personal experience his intentions are far from pleasing or winning over fans. Once he has control of the club you've pretty much surrendered it. I mean if Ashley ran Rangers like Newcastle and turned profit then there's little to stop Rangers becoming the equal dominant force in Scottish football again but they'll be tagging a giant sports direct billboard beside them at all times. Ashley is looking for a club that can 1) be had easily. 2) Win silverware without huge investment, 3) can guarantee European football and thus European advertising.
Newcastle can't offer that given the money in England is massively different to that in the SPL. Rangers could win the league with the money he's given Newcastle.
That's my guess on the whole matter.