Mike Ashley is certainly not a popular person amongst Glasgow Rangers fans after his last spell at Ibrox.
As Brazil notes in The Sunday Post, there is plenty of speculation right now that Ashley could be on his way out of St James’ Park amid talk that a takeover bid is in the offing.
And Brazil has suggested if he ends up selling the Premier League side, he would really not be surprised to see Ashley return to Ibrox in some capacity, despite only selling his shares in the Scottish Premiership club earlier this year, due to the fact that turning Rangers into a force once again should be significantly cheaper than doing the same with Newcastle.
“The potential is there. Anybody can see that. The amount of money Celtic are raking in these days is proof of that,” he went on to add.
“And the good thing for somebody like Ashley – who understands the crazy expense of running a club in the English Premier League – is that Scottish football is a much cheaper environment.
“Rangers don’t need hundreds of millions ploughed in up front. The club just needs to be run sensibly on and off the park and allowed to grow after their problems of recent years.”
Ashley is arguably one of the more unpopular names in British football. While it is generally accepted that he has done a good job for Newcastle from a business perspective, his tenure will not be remembered particularly fondly with the side failing to capture the imagination on the pitch.
Similarly, his time at Rangers is not remembered particularly fondly either, so it seems unlikely that Brazil’s suggestion will go down well at all amongst the Gers faithful.
Luckily for the Rangers fans who have no desire to see Ashley back at their club, it appears that several significant events would need to take place before Brazil’s suggestion even becomes a possibility – starting with Ashley selling Newcastle.
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