It is a very different football club- Graeme Souness truth bomb won’t go down well at Ibrox

Graeme Souness has admitted that the club playing out of Ibrox is a #very different football club’ to the one that he left in 1991 for Liverpool.

There is a very obvious answer to that claim, they are indeed a different club.

Decades of living beyond their means caught up with Dave Murray in May 2011 when he accepted a pound coin from Craig Whyte, 13 months later liquidation was underway after administration failed to find a buyer. As Murray had discovered.

Charles Green, Mike Ashley and Ally McCoist launched a Tribute Act in the summer of 2012, it took four years to reach the top flight but three trophies in 13 years hasn’t satisfied the demands of the support.

Failing managers struggle to last a year, Steven Gerrard during Lockdown was the last manager to complete a full season in charge while losses increase with current shareholders having to provide interest paying loans to keep the club afloat.

Last summer a programme of austerity was brought in, a week before being sacked Phil Clenent discussed the need to cut 25-30% off the wage bill but most media outlets let that comment slip by.

Souness is just a fan, he wants nothing other than to see an end to Celtic’s domination with the only solution being to thrown more money down the drain.

Graeme Souness reacts to Rangers losing 2-1 to Motherwell and is quizzed on the appointment of Barry Ferguson pic.twitter.com/1iWkhjoNkr

— Scottish Sun Sport (@scotsunsport) March 2, 2025

It’s a very different story now. It’s a very different football club to the one I worked at. We had lots of funds to work with. Rangers haven’t had that in their recent history. Hopefully that’s about to change.

I obviously want to see Rangers be successful and I think if someone came in and had the financial capability to go out and buy better players, that can only be good news. It doesn’t guarantee anything, but it would be good news.

Over the last two seasons Souness has been a laughing stock on TalkSPORT as he constantly tells Simon Jordan that the gap between the two Glasgow clubs isn’t that big- while Celtic close in on their sixth treble in nine seasons.

In season 2022/23 the Tribute Act had a higher wage bill than Celtic, despite that Ange Postecoglou’s side won the treble.

During that season Ben Davies, Rabbi Matondo, Ridvan Yilmaz, James Tavernier and Connor Goldson signed lucrative new contracts.

The madness continued in the summer of 2023 with incredible long term deals handed out to Jack Butland, Sam Lammers, Danilo, Cyriel Dessers, Kieran Dowell and Jose Cifuentes, earlier this season Dujon Sterling had his contract extended.