Kieran Maguire: Rangers may have held secret Club 1872 talks as statement issued
The Rangers board and Club 1872 may have met privately and been unable to resolve their issues.
That is the view of finance guru Kieran Maguire, speaking exclusively to Football Insider about the differences between the club and the share-owning supporters’ trust.
Club 1872 currently own 4.7 per cent of the club and have an agreement in place to buy all of former Rangers chairman Dave King’s remaining equity.
The group have been dissatisfied with the current regime’s running of the club and their trajectory on the pitch.
In a statement on Tuesday (25 October), Club 1872 claimed that the Rangers board “continues to refuse to engage as it has done since the moment King departed as Chairman over two and a half years ago.”
But Maguire suggests that the two parties may have met on an informal basis only for talks to have proved unconstructive.
“The Rangers board and its relationship towards individual shareholder groups has always tended to be quite complex,” he told Football Insider’s Adam Williams.
“I think that is just the way it is at this football club. There are a lot of significant voices in that boardroom who all want a say.
“There are still outstanding rumblings with regard to Dave King and his historic involvement. He, of course, promised to sell his shares to Club 1872.
“It could be that there have been discussions on an informal basis that haven’t made progress and therefore the board is taking a firmer stance with this supporters’ group until those can be resolved.“
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