Rebuilding Rangers from the ground up was always going to be a costly business.
Unfortunately for Gio van Bronckhorst, his appointment as manager has coincided with a time when the men who were writing the cheques for those expensive renovations were looking for some payback. Big money sales and qualification for the Champions League have finally put the club back in the black, as last week’s annual results showed.
But most of those lucrative profits have been handed over to the Ibrox investors who ponied up sums totalling £80million to keep the lights on in the time since the club was wrestled away from Mike Ashley in 2015. Unfortunately now for Van Bronckhorst, the price for recompensing those who provided that financial lifeline appears destined to be his own job. Patience is running thin on the back of another damaging draw with St Mirren that has put Celtic firmly on course for their 11th Premiership crown in the past 12 years. While his predecessor Steven Gerrard was given time and £30million to end Celtic’s domination of Scottish football, the Dutchman has been denied most of the riches he’s brought into the club.
