Rangers set for Ibrox return soon ‘from what I’m hearing’ – Wyness

Aberdeen’s former chief Keith Wyness has revealed he is “hearing” that Rangers could return to Ibrox Stadium sooner than planned.

Speaking on the new edition of Football Insider’s Inside Track podcast, the 66-year-old – who served as CEO at Aberdeen between 2000 and 2004, had lengthy spells as the chief of Everton and Aston Villa and now runs a football consultancy advising elite clubs – also revealed that playing at Hampden is having a “big financial effect” on the Scottish giants.

Rangers have spent the start of the season playing at Hampden Park due to their home stadium not being ready as ongoing work takes place on the Copland Stand.

Rangers are set to return to Ibrox Stadium soon

The Scottish giants initially predicted a late-September return to their traditional home stadium, and Wyness believes the club have handled it well from a PR perspective.

Wyness told Football Insider‘s Insider Track podcast: “It’s a big financial effect because there’s also a cost, of course, in playing at Hampden that they’re going to have to pay as well.

The fanbase has been disillusioned with the moves off the pitch in terms of the squad, they’ve showed their dissatisfaction by not turning up at Hampden.

“There’s been a lot of anti-feeling from the local residents from around Hampden about having Rangers there so often.

The good news for Rangers, I’m hearing the board believe it could be as soon as the next couple of weeks before they can actually say they’re returning to Ibrox.

“If that was the case that would be a much shorter visit to Hampden than expected, and very good news for Rangers to get back into Ibrox and see if that fan factor can really rally what the squad is left and to really get them going.

“Certainly for European nights, it would be very important to get that Ibrox feeling going again for Rangers.

“It will all be in the hands of those who are running that stadium project, it does seem to be going better than expected and it would seem that Rangers have finally handled it in a PR system better than normal by saying it was a longer extended period.