Rangers fans think there’s a takeover coming to Ibrox | OneFootball

With the exit of Creag Robertson from Rangers being more or less confirmed by all sources, a lot of fans are beginning to panic a little, or even wonder if a takeover is bound.

We have seen a tonne of exits since May, both personnel and management, and the club is, to say the least, a bit unsettled at best.

We have, however, covered on Ibrox Noise many times why a takeover is unlikely, if not completely impossible. For the full guide, check this out.

But in shorter form, because there’s no single owner, and that no one group or individual even comes close to 20% shareholding, anyone who wants to take the club over is having to persuade as many parties as possible to sell their shares, to secure a 51% stake and controlling majority.

And that means consulting each group individually to try to persuade them to sell. And they’re not going to sell unless they are going to heavily profit, and that means spending a lot of cash that the club probably isn’t worth to secure their shares.

Anyway, we won’t babble on further, the basics are out there.

But the talk is too – and therefore the rumours about Middle Eastern oil-rich Arabs or American billionaires etc.

As we say, while there may well be an individual or a group out there who want to seize control of the club, they can’t do it without persuading several groups to sell, and we can’t see too many who would give the profit (aka waste their money) that the current stakeholders would want.

Or, and here’s the bigger kicker, regardless of profit or others, few of these groups actually want to sell their shares.

Ibrox Noise ourselves are only a minor stakeholder, but like so many groups and individuals, and we have no intention of selling ours, despite the fact for us there would be big profit in it.

Because we’re Rangers fans and don’t want to sell, much like ST holders wouldn’t just sell their briefs either.

So persuading these much bigger groups isn’t easy, to say the least.

Which is why although we completely understand the takeover chat, we’d need a miracle for it to happen.

And we’ve probably just repeated ourselves in this one yet again.