Official Rangers FC Thread

Brazilian attacking midfielder Andre Moritz joins Rangers on trial.

RANGERS have settled all debts due to Scottish football clubs. The debts were outstanding from the time the Club went into administration.

Heart of Midlothian Football Club is due a further payment from Rangers in July next year and this will be paid when it falls due.
Charles Green, Rangers Chief Executive, said: “As of now, Rangers do not owe other Scottish clubs a penny. These debts were incurred prior to the Club going into administration and there was no obligation on the consortium buying the Club to pick them up.
"From the outset, I have made it clear that I firmly believe the correct thing for the Club to do is settle these football debts as a priority and we kept our word.
“That is what we have done and substantial funds were lodged with the SFA 10 days ago to be discharged to settle the outstanding debts.
"Furthermore, the Club was given a written commitment from the SPL in May that it would settle an outstanding debt to Dundee Utd.
“It was frustrating to be informed by the SFA several days after they received the funds that they did not wish to be a ‘clearing house’ and in fact wanted us to settle the debts directly. Arrangements were then put in place by the Club.”

Jelavić7|EFC wrote:

Weather130 wrote:I was expecting a 36-0-0 season, I am highly disappointed.

That isn't even possible, we're going to be playing games every 2-3 days during the season. We've got the Ramsdens Cup, The Scottish Cup & The League Cup. No 3rd division stadiums apart from Ibrox & Hampden have undersoil-heating, therefore there are postponements for weeks of fixtures during the winter. Plus, you do realise we lost 23 players during the summer & possibly losing up to 5 more, this isn't a majority SPL team you're looking at, although there are a number. In our first two games of the season, we've played a 16 & a 17 year old, a lot of the younger lads are being given a chance. Another point, we've played no Pre-Season, most teams have played over 5 pre-season games, so most of our players are unfit. A couple we've signed were without teams and haven't trained at all for 4 months. We annihilated East Fife 4-0 at Ibrox (current 3rd division champions), could have been 10-0 but we took our foot off the gas to avoid embarrassing them. The players were just fatigued for the Peterhead game. Although, we still completely dominated them, we only had 1 fit striker (make shift striker, actually a CDM. i.e. Lee McCulloch. He's 34, so playing 3 times in 2 weeks for somebody like him isn't exactly going to be easy, not to mention his dodgy knee. It was our first league game of the season and with the team, we were fantastic. Our 2 new strikers managed to come off the bench, but they're still nowhere near match fit. Beating the Champions with ease, 4-0 & then drawing 2-2 to the league favourites (before we joined), isn't realistically possible. i.e. there's a reason for it, fatigue. We'll get the match fitness up etc and begin to trounce teams. It's evident when you watch us the gulf in class apart, the passing from us is just something else. Really excited about the future & watching some of the younger lads McKay & McLeod in particular thrive and then be stars when we're back in the top league (I say that with a hint of laughter, SPL ... big league). That's what's good about all this, the academy will start to produce even more stars than it already has done over the past few years. As the SPL struggle without our income, the smaller teams will be making a possible £500,000 from Cup Games vs us which will last them seasons and when the SPL teams start to tumble down the leagues, they'll be able to spend and push up. It's the bigger leagues that are in trouble, not us. And it feels great after the past while of such negativity.

As Bill Struth once famously said:

No matter the days of anxiety that come our way, we shall emerge stronger because of the trials to be overcome. That has been the philosophy of the Rangers since the days of the gallant pioneers.

Full quote:

Spoiler:

Yes, for The Most Successful Football Club In World History to be like this for the first time in their history is difficult, but it won't last long, We Are The People.

The fans certainly believe in the club, we're expected to sell 40,000 Season Tickets in the countries bottom tier, no other club could every dream of this. With the best fans in the world, we'll be back there in no time. And I can't wait.

We'll also hopefully boycott some away grounds i.e. the teams who said no to us going back into the top flight (even though we rejected the chance to fight for it anyway). You say no to us, well we'll watch you suffer rather than give you millions a season.

Look at this for example:



We're going to have attendances of upwards 40,000 at Ibrox every fortnight, when SPL teams are currently struggling to fill even half of their stadium.

There were more fans at our cup game in Brechin (amateur team, we took like 4000) then there were at the Inverness vs Kilmarnock game.

Ben 10 wrote:

Jelavić7|EFC wrote:

That isn't even possible, we're going to be playing games every 2-3 days during the season. We've got the Ramsdens Cup, The Scottish Cup & The League Cup. No 3rd division stadiums apart from Ibrox & Hampden have undersoil-heating, therefore there are postponements for weeks of fixtures during the winter. Plus, you do realise we lost 23 players during the summer & possibly losing up to 5 more, this isn't a majority SPL team you're looking at, although there are a number. In our first two games of the season, we've played a 16 & a 17 year old, a lot of the younger lads are being given a chance. Another point, we've played no Pre-Season, most teams have played over 5 pre-season games, so most of our players are unfit. A couple we've signed were without teams and haven't trained at all for 4 months. We annihilated East Fife 4-0 at Ibrox (current 3rd division champions), could have been 10-0 but we took our foot off the gas to avoid embarrassing them. The players were just fatigued for the Peterhead game. Although, we still completely dominated them, we only had 1 fit striker (make shift striker, actually a CDM. i.e. Lee McCulloch. He's 34, so playing 3 times in 2 weeks for somebody like him isn't exactly going to be easy, not to mention his dodgy knee. It was our first league game of the season and with the team, we were fantastic. Our 2 new strikers managed to come off the bench, but they're still nowhere near match fit. Beating the Champions with ease, 4-0 & then drawing 2-2 to the league favourites (before we joined), isn't realistically possible. i.e. there's a reason for it, fatigue. We'll get the match fitness up etc and begin to trounce teams. It's evident when you watch us the gulf in class apart, the passing from us is just something else. Really excited about the future & watching some of the younger lads McKay & McLeod in particular thrive and then be stars when we're back in the top league (I say that with a hint of laughter, SPL ... big league). That's what's good about all this, the academy will start to produce even more stars than it already has done over the past few years. As the SPL struggle without our income, the smaller teams will be making a possible £500,000 from Cup Games vs us which will last them seasons and when the SPL teams start to tumble down the leagues, they'll be able to spend and push up. It's the bigger leagues that are in trouble, not us. And it feels great after the past while of such negativity.

As Bill Struth once famously said:



Full quote:

Spoiler:

Yes, for The Most Successful Football Club In World History to be like this for the first time in their history is difficult, but it won't last long, We Are The People.

The fans certainly believe in the club, we're expected to sell 40,000 Season Tickets in the countries bottom tier, no other club could every dream of this. With the best fans in the world, we'll be back there in no time. And I can't wait.

We'll also hopefully boycott some away grounds i.e. the teams who said no to us going back into the top flight (even though we rejected the chance to fight for it anyway). You say no to us, well we'll watch you suffer rather than give you millions a season.

Look at this for example:



We're going to have attendances of upwards 40,000 at Ibrox every fortnight, when SPL teams are currently struggling to fill even half of their stadium.

There were more fans at our cup game in Brechin (amateur team, we took like 4000) then there were at the Inverness vs Kilmarnock game.

Good post

That isn't even possible, we're going to be playing games every 2-3 days during the season. We've got the Ramsdens Cup, The Scottish Cup & The League Cup.

Plus, you do realise we lost 23 players during the summer & possibly losing up to 5 more, this isn't a majority SPL team you're looking at, although there are a number.

We annihilated East Fife 4-0 at Ibrox (current 3rd division champions), could have been 10-0 but we took our foot off the gas to avoid embarrassing them.

The players were just fatigued for the Peterhead game. Although, we still completely dominated them, we only had 1 fit striker (make shift striker, actually a CDM. i.e. Lee McCulloch. He's 34, so playing 3 times in 2 weeks for somebody like him isn't exactly going to be easy, not to mention his dodgy knee. It was our first league game of the season and with the team, we were fantastic. Our 2 new strikers managed to come off the bench, but they're still nowhere near match fit.

Beating the Champions with ease, 4-0 & then drawing 2-2 to the league favourites (before we joined), isn't realistically possible.

Yes, for The Most Successful Football Club In World History to be like this for the first time in their history is difficult, but it won't last long, We Are The People.

The fans certainly believe in the club, we're expected to sell 40,000 Season Tickets in the countries bottom tier, no other club could every dream of this.

With the best fans in the world, we'll be back there in no time. And I can't wait.

We'll also hopefully boycott some away grounds i.e. the teams who said no to us going back into the top flight (even though we rejected the chance to fight for it anyway). You say no to us, well we'll watch you suffer rather than give you millions a season.

We're going to have attendances of upwards 40,000 at Ibrox every fortnight, when SPL teams are currently struggling to fill even half of their stadium.

Total SPL Capacity:55,779
Total SPL Attendance: 27,496
Empty seats 28,283
49.29% attendance.

Jelavić7|EFC wrote:McLeod & McKay were playing in the U19's last season, they're not first team players.

Jelavić7|EFC wrote:this isn't a majority SPL team you're looking at

Jelavić7|EFC wrote:Scotzine is run by celtic fans and you know it, every article they publish is bile and completely biased.

Jelavić7|EFC wrote:PS. Rangers have sold over 25,000 Season Tickets & public sale isn't opened till tomorrow

Jelavić7|EFC wrote:Rangers sold over 38,000 tickets before the game and an unofficial attendance was given as over 51,000. Everyone admitted that it was pretty evidently over 38,000.

The Maestro wrote:

Jelavić7|EFC wrote:McLeod & McKay were playing in the U19's last season, they're not first team players.

I never said McLeod was an SPL player as I wasn't sure, but I did say McKay was because he played for you in the SPL against St Johnstone.

Anyway, 11-2 =8

so if you've done the maths that means the majority of your team were still SPL players

Jelavić7|EFC wrote:this isn't a majority SPL team you're looking at

In response to me asking you where you got 40,000 season tickets being sold from, and posting a link to a Scotzine article which said 25,000 had been sold .. you said this...

Jelavić7|EFC wrote:Scotzine is run by celtic fans and you know it, every article they publish is bile and completely biased.

Okay so here you are discrediting Scotzine claiming 25,000 season tickets had been sold as lies because of course, they are completely biased an aw' that. But then...

Jelavić7|EFC wrote:PS. Rangers have sold over 25,000 Season Tickets & public sale isn't opened till tomorrow

Wait a minute!!?!?

Think you need a lie down Jela

Harrold wrote:

The Maestro wrote:

I never said McLeod was an SPL player as I wasn't sure, but I did say McKay was because he played for you in the SPL against St Johnstone.

Anyway, 11-2 =8

so if you've done the maths that means the majority of your team were still SPL players





In response to me asking you where you got 40,000 season tickets being sold from, and posting a link to a Scotzine article which said 25,000 had been sold .. you said this...



Okay so here you are discrediting Scotzine claiming 25,000 season tickets had been sold as lies because of course, they are completely biased an aw' that. But then...



Wait a minute!!?!?

Think you need a lie down Jela

11-2=9 not 8.

Harrold wrote:Dunno why you are laughing Jela, it makes his point more valid.

Harrold wrote:Dunno why you are laughing Jela, it makes his point more valid.

Charles Green has accused Scottish football's authorities of pursuing an agenda against Rangers.

The chief executive, addressing fans queuing to buy their season tickets on Tuesday, said he intended to continue to defend his club, even if it meant incurring the wrath of the Scottish FA.

Green is already facing a charge for claiming the decision to place Rangers in the Third Division was partly driven by “bigotry” but says he won't stop speaking his mind.

“We're not having, excuse my French, people taking the pee out of us anymore,” said Green. “It's finished.

“I will give you an example. This morning, I had a phone call from the SPL telling us we can't put our old games on the website because we don't own the archive rights.

“'And by the way, Charles, don't get angry. You shouldn't think we are being vindictive, it's just what the agreement says".

“Tell me how I took that? I was walking on the ceiling. I think there is an agenda.

“There's still battles to be won. I shan't let you down. I said to someone earlier that when everyone was against us, we stayed. People are now warming to us and we are staying.

“But if we leave fans to one side for a moment, while ever that lot are against us, I'm not leaving. There's no-one spoke for this club for three or four years. It's not had anyone standing up.

“I am going to get fined every week, I suspect, or I will get banned.”

Rangers were issued a Notice of Complaint by the Scottish FA late last week regarding Green's comments, having been accused of bringing the game into disrepute for his remarks.

He said before his side's Challenge Cup tie with Brechin City: "Some of it has been driven by bigotry, some of its been driven by jealousy and some of its been driven by all the wrong motives."

The Scottish Premier League was unavailable for comment at the time of publication over Green's claims regarding archive footage.

Jelavić7|EFC wrote:Well seen I've not answered any of the PM's that you've sent me, apparently "apologising". Probably pics of Scott Brown, so childish.

The Maestro wrote:

Jelavić7|EFC wrote:Well seen I've not answered any of the PM's that you've sent me, apparently "apologising". Probably pics of Scott Brown, so childish.

You bang on about wanting peace, i send you a pm to offer a truce and you don't accept it. Shows you do enjoy the attention despite crying over it

Jelavić7|EFC wrote:

The Maestro wrote:

You bang on about wanting peace, i send you a pm to offer a truce and you don't accept it. Shows you do enjoy the attention despite crying over it

Accept it? Don't post in here and I won't post in the celtic thread. Just don't talk to me, and I won't talk to you, simples.

ShakerMatty wrote:Standing with the cringe bears... Jesus.

Jelavić7|EFC wrote:People saying that over 5000 ST's were bought today (new season ticket sales started at 10am, renewals now finished), ticket office had to turn people away because of the queue size. Phone lines & the ticket website's server went down. That's over 30,000 sold now, sales are expected to be around 40,000 in total.