I HAVE been saying for weeks, the best option for anyone with real financial clout who is looking at purchasing Rangers would be to await liquidation, buy the rump of what's left, then buy a struggling English club, re-locate that club to Ibrox and start afresh in the Football League, with the intention of getting into the English Premiership as quickly as possible.
Actually, that's the second-best option; the best option would be - go for counselling, at the end of which you walk away with your fortune intact. Because, as we all know, the quickest way to make a small fortune out of modern-day football is to start with a large one.
I always had my doubts about the Blue Knights. I will admit, I wrongly deduced they could get their hands on the requisite funds - their failure to find £500,000 when required by Duff and Phelps showed their plans lacked the real financial backing it will take to sort out the mess at Ibrox. My doubts/objections to the Blue Knights were based on two issues - I always felt their management style would be the same-old same-old; they would follow the discredited "spend,spend, spend" style of Sir David Murray. That's what got Rangers into bother in the first place, it was never going to get them out of the shit.
Then, there was their insistence on Rangers remaining in Scottish football - that busted flush which is going backwards whilst the rest of the (football) world moves forward. To spend £100 million putting Rangers right, and then be left with a busiess worth, at best £40 million, playing in Scotland, makes no sense at all.
Liquidate, then, if you're not going to go down my suggested route of moving into England, start in Division Three of the Scottish Football League, with the best of the Murray Park kids forming the basis of the squad, perhaps reinforced by one or two of the true Rangers' fans in the current first team squad.
Such a squad will not be playing in Europe for three seasons any way, so, spend those three seasons winning SFL Divisions Three, Two and One and arrive in the SPL with a squad ready to compete.
Three seasons without Rangers will allow the other ten clubs to force Celtic to accept a fairer distribution of the cash - eight-four or nine-three voting would be in place. The SPL would be a fairer league, sure, it would be a poorer league without Rangers, but, it would force the other clubs to cut their cloth accordingly and concentrate on nourishing Scottish players.
Three years without Rangers would be good for the other ten, although it might be bad for Celtic.
Also, a three year stretch in purgatory might just get rid of the WATP attitude of yer average Rangers fan - win, win all round perhaps.
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