Paul Murray predicts Dave King won’t take major financial risks at Rangers

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Rangers are looking to bring the Scottish Premiership title back to Ibrox in the next two years.

Former Rangers director Paul Murray has told The Scottish Sun that he doesn’t think Dave King will put the club back in financial trouble in order to chase down Celtic.

The Gers have backed Steven Gerrard over the last year, enabling him to bring in 20 signings, with a mixture of loan and permanent arrivals at Ibrox.

Gerrard has lost just five league games in his first year as a manager, whilst he also guided Rangers back into the Europa League group stages in what has been a promising season for the Gers.

However, Rangers remain nine points behind Celtic in the Scottish Premiership, and have lost twice to the Bhoys this season. Celtic are all set to make it eight titles in a row this season, and the magic number 10 is drawing ever closer.

Rangers need real investment to get closer to Celtic, and that may well come this summer, but some are worried about the club’s finances, as they desperately attempt to stop Celtic winning ten titles in a row.

The Gers went into financial meltdown back in 2012, and big spending on fees and wages over the last year has left some worried – especially as even more is needed in order to get closer to Celtic.

Now, former Rangers director Paul Murray – who aided King at Rangers from 2015 to 2018 – has predicted that the Rangers board won’t be taking wild risks with the club’s livelihood just to chase Celtic.

Murray believes Rangers are looking at the bigger picture of just getting back to their former position in the title race, and if they do end up breaking Celtic’s dominance, then so be it – but the club won’t be haemorrhaging money to do it.

“I was around when Rangers won nine in a row and I think it works both ways,” said Murray. “It pressures the team who are chasing but it also pressures the team who are leading — in the sense that you feel the expectation the closer it gets. For us, as fans, I think we have to focus on ourselves. We can’t control what other teams do. We’ve got to get Rangers to the best level we can get them at.”

“And I don’t think anyone on the board is going to be taking undue risks to do that financially after everything that has happened to the club over the years. I would think it’s a question of focusing on Rangers and trying to get them to be the best they can be. If that leads to stopping Celtic, then it is a consequence of that. But we can’t really control what Celtic do, or indeed any other team,” he added.