Rangers could earn £25million-plus ahead of Champions League developments

Rangers could earn up to £25.7million if they qualify for the Champions League this season, according to Dan Plumley.

 

The football finance expert shared the updated higher windfall on offer to clubs as the new 36-team league format begins this season in the competition.

Rangers play Dynamo Kyiv in their third-round qualifying tie with the winners taking on FC Twente or RB Salzburg for a place in the Champions League.

 

“The new numbers are suggesting a slight uplift in participation fee,” he exclusively told Ibrox News.

 

“Looking at the group stage, the big 36-team league, that is slightly up with the initial payment at £15.8million for getting to that group stage.

“Then you have got £1.7m for a win in that stage so you can top it up with performance-related bonuses. There are little payments available for where you finish in that league, so if you get into that and win a couple of games to finish halfway up the table, that’s conservatively going to be worth up to £18.8m.

 

“You have then got the TV pot on top, which we don’t know as that will be based on Scotland’s share of that pot in relation to the other countries and another ranking-based pot.

“Rolling all of that together if you look at Rangers and the context of Scottish football, you can still conservatively get that number to £25.7m pretty quickly and that’s for the group stage, that’s a realistic ballpark and a significant amount of money.”

Rangers need big windfall at Ibrox

Philippe Clement and Nils Koppen will be desperate for windfall like this ahead of the 30 August transfer deadline, with players currently needing to be sold.

A new striker is on the top of many fans’ wishlists, but that won’t be possible for big money unless Cyriel Dessers leaves the club first [Chris Jack].

 

The Bears will need to be much better than they were against Hearts against Dynamo Kyiv, and anything can happen in these qualifiers, so bring it on.

 

In other Rangers news, Neil McCann gave his view on the controversial Connor Barron handball incident at Tynecastle on Saturday.

 

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