Richard Gough has warned Ally McCoist that his team building plans for next season are in ruins.
During the early days of David Murray’s Ibrox reign Gough and McCoist were at the heart of the action celebrating the good times under Graeme Souness and Walter Smith.
Fourteen years ago they left Ibrox with legendary status but the liquidation of their old club has changed the footballing landscape forever.
Sone Aluko and Rhys McCabe would have struggled to get a game for the reserves when the club were at the peak of their powers but yesterday’s news that both players were on the move triggered a wave of criticism led by McCoist.
“If players want to leave and play somewhere else then they should be honest with the Rangers supporters,” McCoist said.
“I don’t want Rangers fans to be reading over the next few days how devastated players are about having to go. The fans deserve better than that. They are not daft.”
No-one could ever question Gough’s commitment to Rangers but the former club captain admits that if he was in the same position as McCabe or Aluko he’d be heading for the exit door as well.
“When I came up to Rangers from England, the attraction was playing European football every year,” he told The Sun.
“How are you going to improve as a player if you are not going to be playing in Europe for three years and starting in the Third Division?
“Someone like McCabe has got a bright future in the game and playing in the Third Division for a year is not going to help his game.
“If PFA Scotland are saying they can leave for free because once there is a newco then the contract doesn’t automatically get transferred over, then I would imagine they are right, so now I expect a domino-effect and that players who can leave will do so!
“They will get good contracts with the vultures down south in the Premiership and in the Championship waiting to swoop.
“So why would guys like Allan McGregor and Steven Davis stay and play in the Scottish Third Division when they could easily go and play for a club like Wigan.
“If I was there, I know where I would be playing, no matter how much affection I have for Glasgow Rangers.”
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Oh the pain!!!!
Yet more scaremongering and bully boy tactics from Ibrox.
The more things change the more they stay the same.
Hail Hail.
“The Rangers fans are not daft”. Yes they are Ally but no as daft as you that you think they should be loyal (after already taking 75% pay cut) & stay to fight for titles with Annan Athletic, Elgin etc. There’s no guarantees yeez wid even get promoted Ally ya fat waste ae space.
Isn’t is sad and funny Ally thinks he still has a job! The “Greyfriars Bobby” of Scottish football, unaware his master has died, loyally waiting in vain for new instructions! What a fanny!
Aaaaaahahaha
That made me laugh. I will be stealing that one.
Poor Ally.Maybe he can get a job in greggs making pies.
Ah ha ha.
Har dee har har ha.
or tasting them
Thought he already did.
To avoid a criminal offence taking place, Mr Green, The Scottish Media, The SFA and SPL should be aware of the following:
The law prohibits the re-use of a name of a company previously gone into liquidation, (section 216 of the Insolvency Act 1986). A prohibited name is a name by which the liquidated company was known at any time in the 12 months immediately before liquidation: whether this is a registered name at Companies House, or its trading name, or any name so similar to its registered or trading name as to suggest an association with the liquidated company. It is a criminal offence to contravene section 216 of the Insolvency Act. Anyone contravening the Act may be prosecuted by the Department of Business Innovation and Skills and could go to prison if convicted. In addition, under section 217 of the Act, you could be made personally liable for the debts incurred during the time that you were involved in managing a business using a prohibited name, even if it was a limited company. This could happen whether you are prosecuted under section 216 of the Act or not.
Ally McCoist should be aware of the following:
Even if you are not contravening Section 216 of the Act, you will be personally responsible for the debts of the company if you are involved in managing a business and you act on instructions from someone you know who is contravening Section 216. This is because you are helping someone to commit a criminal offence by contravening Section 216.
Reference: http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/+/http://www.insolvency.gov.uk/pdfs/guidanceleafletspdf/reuseofcompanyname.pdf
There are 3 major exceptions to this Davybhoy.One being acquisition of whole or part of co from Insolvency experts (experts is a bit of a laugh I admit!)TD
Sorry Thai Tim. Had previously inserted you as author of this (To avoid a criminal offence taking place, Mr Green, The Scottish Media, The SFA and SPL should be aware of the following:)piece which didn’t show above. Great piece of work and again apologies.
Well looks like gough actually realizes what deep sh#t the manky mob are really in, he’s the only ex or present orc thats told any sort ov truth, wee fat swally at it again, his rousing speeches a pathetic, trying tae bully the young squad players intae standing by him, he’l be begging for the sack anytime soon just so he can say he didn’t do ” walking away” ur a joke ally, as a manager but more importantly as a person.. be gone.. hail hail, GOD BLESS IE CELTIC+
I’m not knocking Wigan…(Well I am actually)…but…
“When they can go a play for a Club like…Wigan..?”
WOW…
Oh and is there one footballer honest enough to say,
“European football would be a bonus…but I’m only here for the money on offer”
Mr. Gough – I will be respectful but I never wish to be on first name terms – makes a couple of contentious comments in his ‘advice’ to his pally ally. Biggest among these, and I do wish management, players, ex-players, journalists and Mr. Tom Cobbly and all that are pro-the club that was, now is not and still hopes to be, is that employment law does not state that an employer “can leave for free because once there is a newco then the contract doesn’t automatically get transferred over”.
Contracts actually are automatically transferred. HOWEVER, IT IS THE RIGHT OF THE EMPLOYEE TO REFUSE TO CONTINUE AND THUS TERMINATE HIS CONTRACT WITH THE NEW EMPLOYER WITHOUT PENALTY FROM THAT NEW EMPLOYER BUT WITHOUT CLAIM ON OR PENALTY FOR THE NEW EMPLOYER EITHER. My God, how often do these guys have to be told? Perhaps it is akin to the referee’s whistle, heard only when in their favour!
Secondly, I do wonder if a European Trust enticed Mr. Gough as much as European football did. And finally, Mr, Gough, then I will let you go back to diddydozyland, what great secret do you know that we do not that the ‘hoping-to-be-a-football-club-in-Scotland newco company will be offered a footballing place in the “Third Division”? Hampden secrets may be inadvertently leaking much more than we realise.
H H
At the rate that Sevco / Tesco f.c are losing their players it will only be a matter of time before they are playing in the Third Division regardless of where the ‘brotherhood’ place them.
This train wreck has still a long way to go before it’s properly re-railed and cut up for scrap. Oh, and nice man management skills there Ally. How to get the best from your product eh!
Bully and threaten them with shame and ridicule and open the flood gates of death threats from the brain-dead knuckle-dragger’s. Wow, what a manager this man is!
Even the one’s who had it in their mind to stay must now be giving it second thoughts after this outburst. Put’s the wee sneaky whisper into Neil Lennon’s ear into context now eh!