Report reveals that £23m has been spent on Ibrox in areas that fans might not see!

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.