Summary
RANGERS' willingness to sell Kris Boyd will doubtless trigger a clamour of protest among supporters already feverish over the prospect of a fourth successive season without the league championship. Such a reaction will merely confirm that, in terms of economic foreboding, Sir David Murray has become what may be called football's approximation to the boy who cried wolf.
Having been so insistent in his imperious flaunting of the club's financial superiority in the trophy-laden past, the Ibrox chairman's pleas of poverty in the present tend to go largely unheeded. Hardly a point is dropped in the SPL without a heated demand from some supporters for Murray to "put his hand in his pocket".See the full content of this document
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Readiness to Sell Boyd Is Sign of Financial Plight
The readiness to endorse Boyd's departure may change that to a certain extent, at least among those of the angry brigade with the sense to recognise, finally, that the projected transfer is conclusive evidence of the club's precarious position. Unloading a player who has already scored around 40 per cent of the team's 48 league goals this se...
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