BBC Scotland has gone overboard on the Ibrox takeover today, sharing a story that claims paperwork has been filed to buy up 51% of the troubled club.
The story comes from the highly unreliable TeamTalk website and is the fiction of Fraser Fletcher, someone without a credible contact in football with a ‘career’ built on lifting far fetched stories from elsewhere on the internet and passing them off as exclusives. Or publishing what he would like to see happen.
Fletcher was too far fetched for Football Insider to take on with a classic EXCLUSIVE from 2023 based on a wind up from a Celtic fan on the back of interest in Jota from the Saudi Pro-League.
Surely you’ve no been baited by someone with 10 followers?
— Stuart Winton (@stuartwintonrfc) July 4, 2023
The Scott Wright story was a throwaway tweet by a Celtic fan that quickly got off and running, all the way to scoop Fletch.
That is the sort of credible source that BBC Scotland pick up on for their Gossip page which consists of constant feel good stories for suffering bears needing an escape from the grim reality of Celtic’s domination.
Four weeks on from Keith Jackson’s WORLD EXCLUSIVE in the Daily Record there has been very little progress. The original story of the 49ers was quickly downgraded through Leeds United to a consortium headed by the mysterious Andrew Cavenagh.
Putting the jigsaw pieces together it seems that Dave King has matched up with Cavenagh to sell on his shares with the remainder of the story an exercise in kite flying.
With BBC Scotland and the other Ibrox messengers afraid of look into the detail of the WORLD EXCLUSIVE it has been wall-to-wall moonbeams since the story broke, after losing at home to Motherwell Sky Sports were brought in to claim that due diligence was underway to buy 51% of the shares in the club.
To achieve that the top five shareholders will have to be bought out, securing five different deals across Europe, South Africa, USA and Asia will be quite an achievement with a Board of Directors that have never met up in the same building.
The TEAMtalk story gushes with:
Rangers are set to be taken over by the 49ers Enterprises in what will be a huge day for the club and for Scottish football, with sources telling TEAMtalk that some of the plans they have will put the Gers in an extremely strong position going forward.
TEAMtalk understands that relevant paperwork for the takeover to go through has been filed, with the 49ers Enterprises now set to become the majority shareholders at the club. This will allow the American consortium to be in charge of the decision-making at Rangers and steer the club in a better and more prosperous direction.
The 49ers Enterprises are not the type of group that will just throw money at the wall and hope for the best outcome.
Led by Paraag Marathe, who is the Leeds chairman and president of 49ers Enterprises, the group has shown that it is methodical in its approach and builds its vision slowly but steadily.
Sources have told TEAMtalk that the 49ers Enterprises will back Rangers with a strong transfer budget that will help them compete on the pitch.
However, any talks of unprecedented amounts can be put to bed. While Rangers will be backed with funds, the Scottish club have to navigate the PSR rules.
The 49ers Enterprises’ recruitment plan will also be methodical and thought out. One can expect around £25 million per season instead of extravagant amounts.
We have been told by sources that following the takeover, Rangers could make Vaclav Cerny’s loan deal from VfL Wolfsburg permanent.
TEAMtalk understands that the 49ers Enterprises are already looking at the situation of the management team.
Teamtalk understands exactly what they want to understand.
Teamtalk has no details on the price being paid per share or which of the five major shareholders are selling up to give 48ers enterprises 51% of the club.
Teamtalk daren’t approach Douglas Park for his thoughts on a takeover designed from SouthAfrica.
Teamtalk doesn’t explain how £25m a year can be spent under PSR rules by a club which lost £17.3m in season 23/24 and is expected to lose over £25m in the current season.
Fletcher and the lads at BBC Scotland are already bracing themselves for bad news over the coming months as they cover the Most Successful Club in World Football and the inevitable collapse of the ‘takeover’.
There is no mention of three UEFA charges against the Ibrox club in any of the stories selected for the BBC Gossip page.
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