The Ron Around
Rangers were in The Financial Times this week, the last time they mentioned us was because we’d gone into administration.
Yes the Lotto kit deal has really made waves and, at the risk of repeating myself every bloody week, isn’t it great to see us getting nothing but good press at the moment.
Briatore only seems to have to open his mouth and the media flock to him. Can you remember the last kit deal that was covered every half an hour on Sky Sports? Their twenty four hour rolling news thingy bellowed out that this was the biggest kit deal in Championship history, which probably isn’t so impressive considering The Championship is only three years old and not many teams have changed kit supplier in that time but still…
The figures quoted just sound crazy, twenty million over five years is a fantastic sound bite and, whilst it might not quite work out to that considering it’s performance related, it just goes to show how seriously this club can be taken with the right people in charge.
Flavio has been quick to shoot down any mega spending rumours though, and any chances of “doing a Chelsea” have been given short shrift by Briatore and De Canio this week.
As exciting as it is having all this wealth at Loftus Road I am really pleased with the level headed, baby steps approach our new owners seem to be taking.
Taking the steady and sensible route might not be the most pulse racing approach to running a club but surely it bodes much better for the future that we are keen to build slowly and surely rather than go for boom and possible bust.