Daily Record’s Double Dose of Rangers Takeover Reality
- BY LIAM CARRIGAN
- May 7
- 3 min read
Shifting narratives are the order of the day in the Scottish Mainstream Media this afternoon.
As Scotland’s Shame continue to avoid any serious scrutiny for their disgraceful actions on Sunday, The Daily Record is also using this time to quietly drip-feed a few doses of reality to their Ibrox-worshipping readership.
Rangers Takeover Realities Laid Bare in Two Daily Record Stories
Ironically, the two stories published today will probably be glossed over within the next 48 hours by more guff about “off the radar wealth” and “transformational investment”.
It’s a shame because they may well be the two most honest pieces of journalism I’ve seen in the Record for quite some time.
Firstly, there’s an interview with Dave King, someone who, as much as we may mock him is genuinely wealthy and probably has a reasonable idea of what’s going on within the Rangers boardroom today.
He claims that Saudis were at one point looking at Rangers.
Though apparently, once their attitudes to women, minorities and human rights became known, The Saudis decided investing in Rangers wasn’t worth the damage to their image!
Jokes aside it is interesting to note that any notion of Saudi interest was very quickly dismissed. King doesn’t elaborate, but I would guess we can probably thank the Rangers support and their attitudes towards foreigners and Muslims in general for that one.
King said the deal is 90% done, but won’t be completed until at least mid-June.
If indeed a deal is in the offing then that would be a realistic timeline. Though personally I still have my doubts.
As I’ve said before, it’s a toxic brand, and one that no-one with any business sense would touch, unless they had ulterior motives.
The Record’s second story, reporting on comments made by Leeds United Paraag Marathe is probably the more important of the two.
It may shed some light into the possible ulterior motives of any investor in Rangers, like his associate Andrew Cavenagh.
Marathe said that any signings Leeds United make in the summer, as they build for a return to the EPL, will be dependent on outgoings.
In other words, they aren’t just going to throw money at the problem to make it go away.
Rangers fans will not be happy to hear that. Marathe’s comments tie-in with what I speculated earlier today regarding this takeover.
If it goes ahead, and even the man who is probably more desperate to see it happen than most, Dave King said there’s still 10% of the way to go, it’s not going to be the financial free-for-all that the Ibrox fans demand.
They may, finally, be forced to live within their means.
However, those means are meagre compared to Celtic. The only way this takeover can work for those investing is if Rangers fans continue to buy the merch, the match tickets and the other revenue generators, whilst accepting that they are second best to Celtic.
Because that is the reality, no matter how much they want to deny it. Since David Murray came into Ibrox in the mid 80’s Rangers have consistently lived beyond their means.
Those particular chickens came home to roost with liquidation in 2012.
Since 1994 Celtic have been run responsibly. We haven’t spent money we don’t have. In fact, we have at times, maybe been a little too conservative, looking back on things. However, the one sure thing about any Ibrox takeover is that it will spur further spending at Celtic.
Rangers fans should be careful what they wish for. If today’s Daily Record reports are to be believed, this takeover may prove to be the ultimate in pyric victories for their entitled, ignorant, fascist fanbase.
A world of pain is heading their way, and as usual, it is entirely self-inflicted.
