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The Herald Scotland
39 minutes ago
- Business
- The Herald Scotland
Seven key Rangers figures appointed to Scottish FA & SPFL committees
Chief executive Patrick Stewart will also stand for election to the board of the SPFL on June 24, the club confirmed. Director Fraser Thornton has been named on the SPFL Remuneration and Appointments Committee. James Taylor, the club's chief financial officer, will serve on the SPFL Audit Committee. Sporting director Kevin Thelwell will be involved in the Compensation Tribunal Working Group and the SPFL Competitions Working Group. Donald Gillies, managing director of women's and girls' football at Rangers, has been appointed to the Scottish FA Congress for a two-year term as an SPFL representative. Head of safety, security and resilience Darren Faulds will represent Rangers on the SPFL Policing Working Group. Rangers' company secretary and legal director Graham Horsman has been appointed to three groups: SOFL Rules and Regulations Review Working Group, the Scottish FA Rules Revision Group, and the JPP (Judicial Panel Protocol) Working Group. And chief communications and marketing officer Greig Mailer will represent Rangers on the Scottish Football Marketing Commerical Advisory Board. Read more: A Rangers statement read: "Rangers will be well represented across a number of Scottish football committees and working groups during the 2025/26 season, with several members of the club's leadership team contributing to key areas of the game's governance and development. "Fraser Thornton, Board Director, has been named to the SPFL Remuneration and Appointments Committee, where he will support decisions around executive appointments and compensation policy across the SPFL. "James Taylor, Rangers' Chief Finance Officer, has been appointed to the SPFL Audit Committee, where he will support the oversight of financial governance of the league. "Sporting Director Kevin Thelwell will contribute to two important areas, having been appointed to both the Compensation Tribunal Working Group and the SPFL Competitions Working Group, which is responsible for reviewing the competitive structure of the SPFL. "Donald Gillies, Rangers' Managing Director of Women's and Girls' Football, has been appointed as an SPFL representative to the Scottish FA Congress for a two-year term, contributing to the strategic discussions relating to the national association. Gillies also remains on the board of the SWPL. "Head of Safety, Security & Resilience, Darren Faulds will represent the club on the SPFL Policing Working Group, alongside other clubs and authorities on matchday safety and public order matters. "Rangers' Company Secretary & Legal Director, Graham Horsman, will take on a broad remit with appointments to three separate groups: the SPFL Rules and Regulations Review Working Group, the Scottish FA Rules Revision Group, and the JPP (Judicial Panel Protocol) Working Group. These bodies are tasked with advising on the regulatory framework that underpins professional football in Scotland. "Chief Communications & Marketing Officer Greig Mailer will represent Rangers on the Scottish Football Marketing Commercial Advisory Board, helping to shape the marketing strategy for the game alongside peers from across the league. "Meanwhile, Patrick Stewart will stand for election onto the board of the SPFL on 24 June." Stewart commented: "Rangers is committed to being a force for good in Scottish football. "That means not only contributing ideas and energy to help the game grow but also playing our part in asking the right questions and helping raise standards across the board. "These appointments and nomination collectively demonstrate the club's determination to play a full and constructive part in Scottish football's decision-making and to ensure that Rangers' voice is heard on matters of importance."
The National
41 minutes ago
- Business
- The National
Seven key Rangers figures appointed to Scottish FA & SPFL committees
The Ibrox club have announced a number of influential members of the leadership team will contribute to working groups in Scottish football. Chief executive Patrick Stewart will also stand for election to the board of the SPFL on June 24, the club confirmed. Director Fraser Thornton has been named on the SPFL Remuneration and Appointments Committee. James Taylor, the club's chief financial officer, will serve on the SPFL Audit Committee. Sporting director Kevin Thelwell will be involved in the Compensation Tribunal Working Group and the SPFL Competitions Working Group. Donald Gillies, managing director of women's and girls' football at Rangers, has been appointed to the Scottish FA Congress for a two-year term as an SPFL representative. Head of safety, security and resilience Darren Faulds will represent Rangers on the SPFL Policing Working Group. Rangers' company secretary and legal director Graham Horsman has been appointed to three groups: SOFL Rules and Regulations Review Working Group, the Scottish FA Rules Revision Group, and the JPP (Judicial Panel Protocol) Working Group. And chief communications and marketing officer Greig Mailer will represent Rangers on the Scottish Football Marketing Commerical Advisory Board. Read more: A Rangers statement read: "Rangers will be well represented across a number of Scottish football committees and working groups during the 2025/26 season, with several members of the club's leadership team contributing to key areas of the game's governance and development. "Fraser Thornton, Board Director, has been named to the SPFL Remuneration and Appointments Committee, where he will support decisions around executive appointments and compensation policy across the SPFL. "James Taylor, Rangers' Chief Finance Officer, has been appointed to the SPFL Audit Committee, where he will support the oversight of financial governance of the league. "Sporting Director Kevin Thelwell will contribute to two important areas, having been appointed to both the Compensation Tribunal Working Group and the SPFL Competitions Working Group, which is responsible for reviewing the competitive structure of the SPFL. "Donald Gillies, Rangers' Managing Director of Women's and Girls' Football, has been appointed as an SPFL representative to the Scottish FA Congress for a two-year term, contributing to the strategic discussions relating to the national association. Gillies also remains on the board of the SWPL. "Head of Safety, Security & Resilience, Darren Faulds will represent the club on the SPFL Policing Working Group, alongside other clubs and authorities on matchday safety and public order matters. "Rangers' Company Secretary & Legal Director, Graham Horsman, will take on a broad remit with appointments to three separate groups: the SPFL Rules and Regulations Review Working Group, the Scottish FA Rules Revision Group, and the JPP (Judicial Panel Protocol) Working Group. These bodies are tasked with advising on the regulatory framework that underpins professional football in Scotland. "Chief Communications & Marketing Officer Greig Mailer will represent Rangers on the Scottish Football Marketing Commercial Advisory Board, helping to shape the marketing strategy for the game alongside peers from across the league. "Meanwhile, Patrick Stewart will stand for election onto the board of the SPFL on 24 June." Stewart commented: "Rangers is committed to being a force for good in Scottish football. "That means not only contributing ideas and energy to help the game grow but also playing our part in asking the right questions and helping raise standards across the board. "These appointments and nomination collectively demonstrate the club's determination to play a full and constructive part in Scottish football's decision-making and to ensure that Rangers' voice is heard on matters of importance."
Daily Record
12 hours ago
- Business
- Daily Record
Dave King makes one thing about new Rangers owners crystal clear as he has word of 'caution' for expectant fans
King expects rapid improvement but warned fans the spending will be disciplined and patience will be required Dave King believes Rangers' new owners are intent on establishing a fresh era of Ibrox dominance - but warned fans they will have to be patient as Andrew Cavenagh gets down to work. The former chairman handed over his 14 per cent stake in the club to US health insurance tycoon Cavenagh and his partners from the San Francisco 49ers last week. The American consortium now hold a majority stake in the club after completing their £75million takeover and have already announced plans to plough an additional £20million into the club to kick off an overhaul of the Gers squad. That cash injection will go a long way to upgrading a team that finished a whopping 17 points behind Celtic last season. And King is convinced this is the beginning what will eventually become a golden age for the Light Blues. He said: 'I've said it before and I'm going to say it again so there's absolute clarity — I would not be introducing Andrew and the 49ers if I did not believe they were the right people to take the club forward. 'I really do believe they're the right people. 'Where I would caution is, they're going to do it in a disciplined, stable manner. So if supporters have got a sense that all of a sudden they're going to come in and spend vast amounts of money and have a team that runs away with the league next year and qualifies for Europe, I think that's over-ambitious. 'What we should start seeing is a coherent plan, to see better communication with supporters. 'And they are coming in with a commitment not just to win a league title, but to make Rangers the dominant force in Scotland. 'That is what this project is about. It's not about winning one or two titles. 'It's about the next 10, 20 years and I think that's why I'm excited about it, because I think they are the right people. 'We know they've got the resources to do it. They will not waste the resources. They're smart, clever business people. 'They've done a great job with Leeds, if you look at the numbers. Things like the commercial revenue, I think they've quadrupled it over four or five years. 'They understand football. They understand all of the other things, the gaming side, the media side, all of the things that are important if you're going to be a modern football club. 'And if we're going to continue to have to operate in the markets that we want to operate in and be successful in Europe we need that. That's why I'm excited.' There's plenty of work to be getting on with at Ibrox and not a second to waste. There's only 50 days remaining until Gers kick off the new campaign with a vital Champions League qualifier and the club have yet to announce Philippe Clement's replacement as boss. Davide Ancelotti remains the frontrunner and could be confirmed as early as today if final talks progress swiftly. And King is optimistic for the future. He said: 'I think we're going to see a fairly quick improvement. I think it's going to be a steady, ongoing improvement. But what we shouldn't be expecting is everything to turn around in one transfer window. 'I'm just hoping that the supporters understand that. I think we'll all expect to see a far better quality of player coming in than is going out. 'Part of my frustration is we've brought guys in and all of a sudden he's not fit yet or he needs more time. 'The league is a third gone and we're still waiting for players to put their shirt on for the first time. You can't be doing that. 'You can't be giving away points while you're waiting for people to get fit or waiting to get ready. We need to bring people in who are ready to go.'
Scottish Sun
13 hours ago
- Business
- Scottish Sun
Delivering trophies is one thing but changing Rangers' culture might be tougher fix for new owners, reckons Bill Leckie
TWENTY million quid might make you or I happy for the rest of our lives. But in football terms it doesn't even touch the sides. 3 Rangers' new owners, including Andrew Cavenagh, might want to shake things up 3 And guys like Paraag Marathe will want to echo the American sports experience It gets you one-fifth of Bruno Fernandes. Or a year's wages for Mo Salah. If new European champions PSG are feeling generous, it might just about buy you one of their unused subs from Munich on Saturday night. So if any Rangers fans believe this summer's war chest promised by their new owners is enough to get them 'back where they belong' — to quote chairman Andrew Cavenagh's open letter from America — they are kidding themselves. Fact is, it won't. It might get them closer to Celtic next season, it might help them win a trophy. It's only a gesture, though. A down payment. A taste of what might be on tap if everyone knuckles down and gets their act together. Most of all, it appears to be a sign from the 49ers that bringing in new players, much like finding a new manager, is only part of what they have signed up to do. Or, at least, that's how it should be. Because for me, while revitalising the dugout and the dressing room has to be the short-term aim after a dismal campaign, what matters way more is a long-term plan that changes the culture of a club broken from top to bottom. The business culture. The corporate culture. The communications culture. And, maybe most of all, the FAN culture. Sure, if Donald Trump had bought them he wouldn't have changed a thing. Rangers fans react as 49ers takeover completed He'd already be wearing a No One Likes Us We Don't Care baseball cap. He'd be serenading Vladimir Putin with a chorus of No Surrender. Cavenagh and sidekick Paraag Marathe are cut from a different cloth, though. They built the foundations of their sporting empire on the family-friendly, tailgate-BBQ vibe of NFL game days. I can't see them being comfortable with the kind of atmosphere that generations of Ibrox boardrooms accepted not only as normal, but somehow as the look they wanted for their brand. It's an angry place. It's a place that distrusts outsiders, a place that screams abuse about the faith of half its own country. Surely that isn't the image Cavenagh and Co want for their investment? One of snarling faces, of religious hatred, of visiting supporters staring down the double barrels of a shotgun. Not to mention a world of potential sponsors recoiling in shock at the sight? If I was part of this consortium, that banner before the last Old Firm game would have sealed the deal for me as far as the need for cultural upheaval was concerned. It might even have made me think more than twice about whether this was the club for me and my dosh after all. It's clear chief executive Patrick Stewart isn't having the Union Bears thing, at least not in its present trouble-making form. You'd think he'd be telling the 49ers this, though you'd hope they would not only already be aware of it, but also would see it as a no-brainer that it cannot be allowed to go on. After all, if a clean slate applies to the dugout and the dressing room, then surely it should also apply to the stands. As in, if you're not prepared to buy into a new way of thinking, a new attitude, then off you pop and we'll fill your seat with someone who is. At which point, I'm well aware that the emails will start flying in about why the same isn't being written about THEYM across the city, about THEIR intolerances and THEIR anger. But this isn't about 'theym'. 3 Chief executive Patrick Stewart is already trying to make his influence felt Credit: Getty They are not the ones beating themselves up about serial failure on and off the pitch. This is about Rangers. And one of the first things the new people running Rangers have to do if this takeover is to work — genuinely work long-term, not just deliver the punter-appeasing quick fix of some silverware — is to stop worrying about what Celtic are doing, and start getting their own messy house in order. If they are properly serious about the job in front of them, they will set about rebuilding from top to bottom, and succeeding will mean as much as delivering titles and making an impact in Europe. If they are properly serious, they will look ahead to the day when they themselves ride off into the sunset, and promise the club they put up for sale won't trade on sectarianism and loathing its neighbours. That it will be one where mums and dads and kids can sit together and enjoy something as healthy as it is successful. Rangers have had this chance before. When the version run on tick by David Murray hit financial and footballing rock bottom in 2012, they could easily have come back up as a better club — but they blew it. Instead of finding the humility to set a wage structure that would let them rebuild from the ground up, they chucked more money at individual players than the rest of League Two spent among them in a week. Instead of reflecting on the boastful, wasteful, self-entitled mindset that had caused their humiliating fall from grace, they chose instead to blame it all on a world that they believed was out to get them. They either couldn't see — or chose to ignore — the bigger picture that the whole No One Likes Us schtick was dragging them down, and that they needed to re-market themselves as an outward-looking, progressive organisation where everyone was welcome. Today, and for very different reasons, Rangers have that same chance again. It's one they simply MUST grab, and run with like a 49ers wide-receiver in full flight. Keep up to date with ALL the latest news and transfers at the Scottish Sun football page
Scottish Sun
18 hours ago
- Sport
- Scottish Sun
Ridvan Yilmaz ‘reaches agreement' to leave Ibrox with another Rangers star eyed as takeover rebuild begins
WITH Rangers' long awaited American takeover finally complete, the wheels of change are already in motion. Just days after it was officially confirmed the 49ers had bought into the club, technical director Nils Koppen looks set to become the first casualty of the new regime. 4 Rangers' Ridvan Yilmaz could be set for a Besiktas return Credit: Getty 4 He and teammate Robin Propper, centre left, are reportedly both eyed for exits Credit: Willie Vass 4 He's contracted for another two years at Ibrox Credit: Willie Vass But an on-field rebuild seems likely as well as the US investors inject a financial boost into the team after a season of struggle which saw the Gers comfortably second best to rivals Celtic. And the first dominoes looking likely to fall in the squad are both defenders, according to reports. Vaclav Cerny has already waved goodbye as the pricey loan star is valued at around £9 million by parent club Wolfsburg. But the contracted Ibrox aces potentially looking at being offloaded are Robin Propper and Ridvan Yilmaz. The Dutch centre back was named by the technical director of FC Twente - whom he moved to Glasgow from - as someone who would fit the bill for them. They are looking at new central defenders as Celtic loanee Gustaf Lagerbielke does not look to be extending his stay. Speaking to the podcast De Ballen Verstand Arnold Bruggink said: 'Lagerbielke will most likely go back (to Celtic) too. That's what it looks like at the moment. '(We need) two central defenders, one of whom has to be a real leader, as far as I'm concerned. The profile you're looking at is that of Robin Pröpper. 'You need a leader from the back, which will give you a lot more stability.' The Dutchman has made more than 40 appearances since joining at the beginning of last season and is still signed up until next year. Rangers fans react as 49ers takeover completed 4 Propper to FC Twente would also be a return to a former club Credit: Getty Left-back Yilmaz is on the books until 2027 but is said to be destined for a return to his homeland Turkey. Aspor reports that the 24-year-old has agreed terms to re-join Besiktas who the Gers acquired him from three years ago. It also says the full back who has struggled with injury had 'requested facilitation' for the transfer to happen. Meanwhile in the dugout, the club are still without manager following interim boss Barry Ferguson's departure. Former player Russell Martin and David Ancelotti are still head-to-head according to the bookies as favourites to become the next manager. Keep up to date with ALL the latest news and transfers at the Scottish Sun football page
