The papers tell me that the Rangers administrators might be shipping out 11 of their 28-man squad. Anyone know anything about their players? Any rich pickings for us? (Need to be cheap, of course!).
Only member of the Rangers set up we'd be likely to get would be McCoist to play up front, he's got all the credentials for the type of player we seem to be bringing in!
Depends what he does for them for the rest of this season. If Rangers release the players now they can't sign for a club in most European leagues until the summer because they weren't free agents at the end of the last window. The Russian window shut last week (they have January and February, and then a short one in summer), not sure about MLS or the Arab leagues. They could join Conference (or lower) clubs.
The wage won't matter. They're talking about a 75% pay cut for remaining rangers players. I think they'll be damn glad to just get a paying job any where. Maybe bates approach to wages isn't all that mad looking at rangers Portsmouth and port vale today eh?
Reading rangers accounts would make far more interesting reading. Mistakes made in the past at Leeds pale into insignificance compared to the running of Rangers over the years. An absolute disgrace. Hope we don't sign anyone from there to be honest, as looking at them this season, they've had nothing worth signing
Looking at Rangers and their wonderful chairman we're quite lucky! Where's that £9million gone? Our chairman is it at least bleeding us dry slowly!
With you it's more a case of being interesting to see where the extra income has gone compared to other clubs in the same division. Whether it's just making you break even and capital investments are being funded by other sources, or whether there's significant movement of profit into capital investments . Trying to decipher them once Bates has had his people put them together probably requires someone with more experiance than someone who's still doing their accounting qualifications though. With Rangers it's fairly straight forward. They were paying out too much money to players and for other expenses which meant their bank acccount was empty (well, at a ridiculously overdrawn level) when the taxman came to collect all the Income Tax and National Insurance contributions Rangers had taken from their staffs wages as PAYE. The taxman didn't like that. The potential £75M tax bill is entirely seperate, and isn't a case of any suggestion of money disappearing from their accounts, it's just claiming something shouldn't be taxed when it should be and them having to correct it.
