Sir David Murray: Why I am still worried about Rangers … and whether American owners Russell Martin can give the money he needs

Sir David Murray has raised doubts about 49 people who give companies Rangers The fast investment they need – and says he is ‘worried’ about the club that does not follow that they will reach next season Champions League.

The former Rangers -owner told E -mail Sport that he doubts whether the entire £ 20 million expenses that are promoted by the new owners of the club will be available to players and said that he would not see any evidence of daring work to give new manager Russell Martin the ‘tools’ he needs.

He said: ‘In the short term I would judge them on the first three sales and the first three financial signing sessions they make, because that gives you an indication of the travel direction. So, who have they signed so far? A loan player of Bournemouth (Max Aarons), who did not play much football, but those who knew Russell Martin from Norwich.

“I hope they give Martin the tools. I’m not sure if they have paid all the players they have. Because you do not buy a player for £ 6 million and pay it immediately – it is more than three years or something. So do they still have debts to pay? Instead of £ 20 million, is that going for new players or is that just going in the books? ‘

Rangers do not yet have to cash in players in this window and have so far limited their business to the 25-year-old right-wing back-back Aarons, who only started two games on loan Valencia After his move there last January.

He only had 14 Premier League starts for Bournemouth since August 2023. Rangers also look at Leicester City32-year-old Conor coady.

Sir David Murray doubts the entire £ 20 million editions to be recommended by the American owners of Rangers will be available for players

Ian Herbert van Mail Sport in conversation with former Rangers -Wangers Sir David Murray

Murray during the glory years of his Ibrox regime in the 1980s with manager Graeme Souness

Murray said he welcomed the arrival of new American owners. “I don’t think it will be an overnight change,” he said. ‘They are real business people who take a look and take time. They have a good business plan. This is not a plan of three months. It will be a five -year plan. The way I ran a football club, you couldn’t run that way today. ‘

The club’s business model is always built around the income of Champions League and Murray expressed his concern about the difficult Tie that Martin handed over against Panathinaikos in the second qualifying round, including playing the second stage in Greece.

“I’m afraid they don’t have the best draw in the Champions League against Panathinaikos with the first game at home,” he said. ‘You always want the second game at home, if you know what to do. I think it’s a very tough task. ‘

Murray, 73, said that Rangers missed a part of the Scottish talent that he always wanted to help the team, referring to Motherwell’s 18-year-old midfielder Lennon Miller, who is now on the Radar of Sunderland.

‘I am not trying to be arrogant, but in my day we would have bought it now. But Rangers did not bought him, “said Murray. He also mentioned Lewis Ferguson, who was a youth player at Rangers.

“They let him go to Hamilton and then to Aberdeen,” said Murray. “Why didn’t they bought him when he went to Italy? A young, energetic player with a release value and they did not buy it. I don’t understand that. ‘