Rangers investor Stuart Gibson knows they have to close the gap on Celtic - as he claims to have met Boris Johnson over combining English and Scottish football.
The Light Blues are nine points off the pace in the Premiership and lost the League Cup final to Celtic last month. It came after boss Michael Beale caused debate when he said the champions were fortunate to be able to spend large sums with regards the money they have in their coffers, having won 10 of the last 11 titles. The club's third largest shareholder insists it was something Rangers would have built up too had they had their shoes on opposite feet.
But Gibson is aware there's a gap to close, saying to This is Ibrox : "We’re second in the league. We’re nine points behind Celtic and that’s just not acceptable. That’s something we need to fix. As our new manager said recently and he got into a bit of trouble: ‘The Celtic manager has been lucky he had such vast sums at his disposal’.
