Soccer Football - Champions League Qualifying - Play-off First Leg - Rangers v PSV Eindhoven - Ibrox Stadium, Glasgow, Scotland, Britain - August 16, 2022 Rangers fans outside the stadium before the match Action Images via Reuters/Lee Smith
Ibrox has had £23m spent on it over the last seven years yet still resembles a 1980’s style shopping mall that looks shoddily well past it’s best days.
On the back of three successive hammerings and in advance of the 2022 accounts Stewart Robertson and John Bennett have been on a charm offensive to explain to bears why their club appears to be a bit of a disaster zone.
A disjointed transfer policy has resulted in the heralded summer signings getting ditched with the side against Napoli effectively the 2018 team put together by Steven Gerrard with the additions of James Sands and John Lundstram.
Social media is forever highlighting issues at the club from poor quality merchandising and cold hot dog catering through to toilets that are displaying adverts that are 15 years old.
Ah but we spent £3m on a roof seven years ago has been served up to the gullible to justify recent results through nodding dogs like former Daily Record digital chief Jonny McFarlane.
In an interview with Robertson, the Newsquest owned Rangers Review explains:
“We have spent £3m on the roof and it’s still not finished,” he admitted. “If you are at the game next week you will see the cladding on the Govan stand that is going in. We have still to do the Broomloan. So there has been capital expenditure we have had to do otherwise we’d have nowhere to play football. And that’s a direct result of a lack of investment over a long period of time.”
It’s amid this backdrop that vice-chairman John Bennett revealed £23m has been spent on projects to improve the assets of the club. A lot of this money has been spent on areas fans might not necessarily directly think about. Places like the pitch (an eye-watering £1.5m), state-of-the-art lighting rigs to ensure the good condition of the grass, LED advertising boards and bringing the training ground up to Steven Gerrard’s exacting standards aren’t exactly imbued with tabloid snap and sizzle, but they are incredibly important.
Murray Park has been described as a ‘state-of-the-art training facility’ since it was opened in 2000, seems like that was just another comforting porky to reassure the bears.
?? Prioritising revenue-generating projects
?? Edmiston House projected to make £1m profit p/a
?? £3m on Ibrox roof that nearly saw stadium closed£23m Rangers capital expenditure explained as revenue generation key to long term plan | @jonnyrmcfarlane https://t.co/43Xgx02iJC
— The Rangers Review (@RangersReview55) September 21, 2022
Jumped on FF there for a laugh o wasn’t disappointed one of the klan has said Celtic are treated better by the refs and that they let our players away with more than any other club in the league.
Imagine a mad BENNY making a statement like that about refs favouring another club,with sevco not having any players sent off in 3 years and no penalties given against them at the BIGOT dome.
The filth are thick simple!!!!
It’s been confirmed and verified by the Rangers hierarchy,that the Ibrox roof ,which is defective , and presumably highly dangerous ,and needs extensive remedial work ,has not had the work completed to do so !That’s right ,while the roof overhead remains unfit for purpose ,there are football games allowed to take place under it ! Now I’m no expert on health and safety situations ,but would you like be present at a place where the roof on top is an ongoing building site ? Me neither ,Mr Plod !
Ibrox spending going through the roof ?
bigot dome was neglected for years It will need millions spent on for years to come .also when is celtic going to build the hotel complex it has planning for or was that just pie in the sky by liewell.