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00:00Rangers, obviously very much out of the title race. They've got the Europa League left to

00:05try and salvage some silverware from this season. In terms of Rangers, they're at Dundee

00:11this weekend, but obviously bigger matters going on behind the scenes is where we're

00:15all very much aware of. The latest surrounding the San Francisco 49ers takeover deal with

00:23the club. As things stand, that's obviously been a process that's ongoing for the last

00:29couple of weeks. What can you update us on, Ben, around that at this moment in time?

00:37By the looks of it, it seems as if we're heading towards a point where it's near and done.

00:43We've seen Andrew Kavanagh at the Games in recent times. Just recently, just as we've

00:52come on to record this, Les Allen, who's one of the key figures behind the deal, he's

01:01explained his role in terms of the takeover with Andrew Kavanagh and the 49ers. He's teamed

01:08up with him and it changes the game a little bit. We're starting to work with an organisation

01:13that's quite established and at the very top of the sports world, top sports in commercial

01:20relationships. It looks as if, as well as that, there's going to be an upgrade of the

01:26training base at Ockenhowey. There's already been Zurab Amiran has left his role as Rangers

01:33Head of Academy amid a review of the club that was stated before the news that 49ers

01:41were going to be coming in happened. That's ongoing and that seemingly has happened as

01:46part of that process. Last week as well, we had informed that Rangers were also in

01:51Germany for a transfer summit as part of the Transfer Room Forum. They joined a host of

01:58clubs across the world. For Scotland, I believe it was Hibs and Aberdeen who were there alongside

02:04Rangers and Celtic. Plenty going on behind the scenes at Rangers. Weirdly, probably if

02:13you're comparing it with Celtic, the league is done for both teams but they've both got

02:19different objectives. The Europa League is Rangers' primary objective, for Celtic it's

02:24the Scottish Cup. In the league, I suppose now, if you're the 49ers looking over it and you're

02:30the football people behind that coming in, you're really looking at the squad over this next two

02:34months to assess who's going to be there next season, who do we want to make permanent moves

02:40for, a.k.a. Vaclav Cerny. I suppose for Barry Ferguson, he's got two months left now to try

02:46and build on two statement victories that he's achieved and to try and put himself in the best

02:51frame possible for the manager's job that you would have to assume he would want and would

02:55take if offered. Since we last recorded it, I think it's important to touch on that, that those

03:00two victories for Barry Ferguson, he'd been written off, hadn't he, as soon as that interim

03:05announcement was made that he'd be taken charge until the end of the season. Realistically, Ben,

03:11do you think he will be under serious consideration if, for example, they were to beat Celtic in the

03:16final Old Firm after the split and say if they were to get to the Europa League semi-finals,

03:23do you think he'll be under serious consideration or do you see them going,

03:27giving the money that these are serious businessmen that Rangers are looking to forge a

03:33partnership with here, do you think they'll go for a kind of a real kind of statement big name?

03:38See, it's hard to, obviously people say, oh well, he's beat Celtic, he's progressed in Europe, but

03:45Philippe Clement also got victories over Celtic, he also progressed in Europe. I mean, he's the one

03:51that got Rangers into the top eight, so the thing Philippe Clement didn't do was games like Saturday,

03:58half five, Dundee away, they're the ones that they slipped up in, you know,

04:03Hibbs at Ibrox, they're the type of games, you know, they drew with Hibbs last time out,

04:08dropped points to Aberdeen, so their next three league games are against teams they have dropped

04:12points to and I think arguably for this squad, and I imagine this squad will look different in 12

04:18months time, but I think just getting back to winning the games you should be winning

04:22probably doesn't as much sort of fortune as those statement results. I don't think the

04:28Europa League ones factor into it too much, I think he's kind of checked that box in terms

04:33of beating Fenerbahce, I don't think people are exactly expecting Barry Ferguson to bring

04:38home that trophy, to be going back to Bilbao by the time the summer comes, so I don't think

04:44necessarily if he gets beat off athletical Bilbao, then it's like, right, he's not going to be the

04:48permanent Rangers manager, I think if he wins out domestically and wins, say there's 10 games left

04:55overall, if he wins eight, nine of them, then I think he puts himself in the reckoning,

05:01but I think outside of that, then I think it's still a big ask, I do wonder as well from his

05:05perspective whether, and obviously if you get offered the Rangers job, great, but he was at

05:11a point where it looked like he was quite happy doing punditry and doing some columns, you wonder

05:16if he manages to get Rangers into a point where there seems to be a level of progress made,

05:20whether it's a good chance for him to step away and maybe go and take a job at

05:27Scots Championship level, whether he goes back down, he had a short stint at Blackpool

05:32about a decade ago now, but does that give him the opportunity to then step back down south to

05:36sort of League 1, League 2 level, if that was the route he wanted to go down, so I think for Barry

05:42Ferguson he can't really lose, if he manages to get, if it all ends terribly from here, then

05:48he can shrug his shoulders and say, well it was already a mess before I got there, I tried to,

05:52I did the best I can, but he'll be the one who'll take all the credit if they manage to

05:57get another win against Celtic, show some level of sign that they're not going to be inconsistent

06:03in the league, and if he manages to have any sort of further progress in Europe,

06:07then he takes all the credit.

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