The Sun - Football ‏@TheSunFootball Exclusive: Rangers in shock plan to buy Bury and play in English League One http://bit.ly/LDgolo #Rangers #BuryFC http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepag...-buy-Bury-and-play-in-English-League-One.html
They've been bought out and would rather buy another team in the english league then start in the lowest scottish league meaning Bury fans would have to travel to scotland to watch 'Bury' play in Glasgow...
I know this is probably all Sun started bollocks, but after the situation with Franchise Dons, would there actually be anything to stop them doing this? Like the article says; Berwick, Cardiff and Swansea set the precedent that you don't have to be within the borders, and following the MK Dons, clubs can change cities... It will be all bollocks though.
I think a new rule was brought into the football league rules to stop it happening again, meaning if rangers or whoever want to join the football league, they have to start in the bottom division.
they d probably have to pass the FAs fit and proper test, so I reckon its a shoe-in they ll be playing in England before you know it
IT WONT HAPPEN. Charles Green was on SSN this morning saying that they have big long term plans for Rangers but did not go into anything specific. Its just the media(SUN) dragging up an old story. It wont be allowed to happen by the FL. IMO, its just posturing so that the SPL vote them back in. I think that the SPL clubs should send out a message and send the new Rangers down to league 3. It will take Rangers 3 years at least to get back to the SPL and at least most scottish clubs will benefit from the increased gate revenues. (ie. Stirling Albion v. Rangers Twice.)
I know there are precedents like Milton Keynes buying Wimbledon or Swansea and Cardiff playing in the English leagues, but as far as I know if this happened it would be the first case of an English club being bought by a foreign one. Rangers plan is obviously to play Bury's games in Glasgow so effectively we would see an English club erased in order to further the ambitions of a Scottish one. This would surely create a dangerous precedent because then any of our clubs would be vulnerable to take-over from foreign clubs. What would then stop the likes of Marseille buying Peterborough and playing their fixtures in France? I don't think Uefa would be happy to see a free-for-all where the wealthiest clubs basically up sticks and abandon their national leagues to increase profit.
I don't know if I am missing something here? Rangers cannot buy anything as they are in administration and will soon be liquidated and will cease to exist. Green has purchased the assets (including arguably the Rangers name), which now belong to a new company called Sevco 5088 Ltd or something. Sevco will not be allowed to use the Rangers name unless the liquidators grant permission, but even then the Registrar of Companies may not allow it. So if Sevco bought Bury then wouldn't 2 football clubs be under the control of Green? If so, I'm sure there are rules to say that a person cannot have controlling interest in 2 clubs at the same time (there was some argument about Abramovich a while back I seem to recall?). Craig, if this did go ahead then I'm not sure that it would set a precedent as these are fairly unusual circumstances in that a "big" club like Rangers is less likely to go bust than a club like, say, Halifax who wouldn't be able to buy another club. Would an existing club like Marseille would get permission to join a foreign league by buying Peterborough (and would they want to)?
I haven't got a clue TBH. I'm just really asking the question, however I would have thought the size of the club would be irrelevant when considering whether a precedent is set. The fact is one club will be taking the place of another in a different country. My example of Marsaille and Peterborough might not be the best one but (as we are constantly reminded) clubs are 'nowadays run like businesses and if there is an opportunity for a foreign club (making average profits) to use the likes of Peterborough as a springboard to the riches of the Premiership then I'm sure a few would consider it.
The new company has now been registered as The Rangers Football Club Ltd and the club is now called Rangers FC(having dropped the Glasgow bit). All of the above is slightly academic now, as both Bury and Rangers have said the story in the Sun is a load of made up bollocks.
Has it? I was reading something at lunch that said that they may not be able to use the name unless BDO gave permission, but even then the Registrar of Companies may not allow it? Unless what I was reading was as much bollocks as the Sun story??!!
why don't they take a leaf out of this board and re-name themselves.. not Glasgow Rangers FC ?? boom boom
You can own as many clubs as you want, provided they don't enter into competition with each other. The problem with Abramovich was Chelsea were playing a Russian club that were heavily sponsored by Abramovich's company. Hearts though have been owned for years by the same person as Kaunas (Lithuania)
