Stefan Borson: Jim Gillespie has 'very serious change' to navigate at Rangers

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It could have a dramatic impact on Rangers’ financial situation moving forwards due to how much they rely on European revenue. 💰 Rangers Finance Update 💰 Inside the transfer budget, player wages, new kits, stadium news, and the latest boardroom developments at Ibrox. VISIT THE RANGERS FINANCE HUB MORE FOOTBALL INSIDER STORIES How Rangers can mitigate European blowRangers have been criticised for their player trading in recent years after failing to turn a profit on several players.

Financial YearRangersCeltic2023-24£5.6m£6.6m2024-25-£600,000£31.5mRangers and Celtic’s profit on player sales for the past two seasonsSpeaking exclusively to Football Insider, Borson discussed Gillespie’s priorities after starting work as the new Ibrox CEO last week, having joined from St Mirren to replace Patrick Stewart. One is making more money from player trading and two now is dealing with mitigating this change in the European competition situation, which I consider to be a very serious change to the financial viability of the biggest Scottish clubs.

Everybody’s trying to do it.” Why Scottish clubs are set to generate less European revenueBorson expects Scottish clubs to generate less revenue from Europe, placing more emphasis on them making money from player sales. “That seems to me to be the way they’re going to have to fill this hole that’s going to be left by the change in Uefa competition rules,” said Borson.