UEFA<\/a> headquarters in Switzerland for talks over a deal to save their Euro ticket – but Selhurst Park chiefs are far from confident they will get the green light.<\/p>\nStewart, though, is certain Rangers will face no such hurdles should Leeds end up booking a continental trip next season.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cI think firstly that this isn’t a multi-club ownership model. It just simply isn’t.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is no common parent club. There is a limited amount of overlap.<\/p>\n
\u201cParaag Marathe is the chairman of Leeds and the vice-chair of Rangers.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have a couple of other individuals that have interests or roles in both clubs.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere’s commonality, but there’s not any control from one club to the other.<\/p>\n
“I see it as there could be opportunities, but the directors of Rangers are always going to operate in the best interests of Rangers.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Scottish FA is part of that process. They made it very clear, for example – which we are grateful for – that Rangers’ participation in UEFA competitions cannot be harmed by any of this overlap.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just see opportunity, and now having experienced working with Parag and 49ers, I think that opportunity is real.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rangers fans have faced taunts from the opposite side of Glasgow since last week\u2019s takeover, with mischievous claims their team might end up as a feeder club for Leeds.<\/p>\n
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Paraag Marathe has a plan for Rangers<\/p>\n
But Stewart is adamant the loose tie-up with the Peacocks and their Gridiron counterparts in California will only benefit the Light Blues.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cWhat the 49ers have got is a high degree of expertise in a number of different sports, including football obviously at Leeds and obviously in the NFL.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat we tap into is a network of expertise where we can grow together. I’ve had several discussions with counterparts at Leeds, at 49ers Enterprises, just sharing information but also really importantly networks and those networks can be helpful from a technical perspective or from a commercial perspective.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe very much see 49ers role in the consortium as providing that level of expertise that will help fill in some of the gaps we’ve got, complement what we’ve got as well but the strategic significance they can have shouldn’t be underestimated.\u201d<\/p>\n
Stewart has proved to be a divisive figure at Ibrox since taking up his post last December.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s taken a new hard-line stance on the behaviour of fans – including a scathing statement aimed at the Union Bears and their tifo depicting a gun-toting Graeme Souness ahead of last month\u2019s Old Firm clash at Inbox.<\/p>\n
But he is confident he remains on good terms with the club\u2019s supporters.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had a really good meeting with the Fan Advisory Board after what you’re referring to, predominantly the tifo that we made a comment on as a club,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s lots of aspects about Rangers which are a cause for celebration. There’s some aspects that we think standards are important all across the club in every aspect.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think the Union Bears did a really interesting statement last week where they talked about standards and their tifos being befitting of the standards of Ibrox.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think all aspects of the club, supporters, employees, management, ownership, we all want to drive the best standards and that can mean different things to different people. I thought it was a really interesting statement from the UB and actually a really positive statement.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rangers squad 2021 Patrick Stewart has shot down fears Rangers\u2019 links with Leeds could threaten their European involvement.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[24753,748,1614,393,1811,26603,4884,1860,24464,1946,34285,22140,33534,6536,16,37765,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-163715","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-andrew-cavenagh","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-champions-league","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-europa-league","13":"tag-graeme-souness","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-leeds","16":"tag-leeds-united-fc","17":"tag-rangers-fc","18":"tag-rangers-takeover","19":"tag-san-francisco-49ers","20":"tag-scottish-football-association","21":"tag-uefa","22":"tag-uk","23":"tag-union-bears","24":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114638051491608629","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Rangers squad 2021<\/p>\n