Come 2022, we will have a World Cup on in the middle of winter and Rangers will be back at the summit of Scottish football. At least that's what they envisage in an interim report carried out by interim chairman Paul Murray.
The report follows the banishment from the board of Mike Ashley's acolytes Derek Llambias and Barry Leach. Murray himself is a recent appointment to the board alongside John Gilligan, Douglas Park and John Bennett. The quartet were appointed following South African based Scottish businessman Dave King's assumption of control at the club.
Murray castigated the Ashley clique for their 'mismanagement' and said in a few short weeks, the directors have already repaired some of the damage.
The mismanagement of the club in recent years has been simply staggering.
The new directors have been in place only a matter of weeks but have already started to repair the damage caused through recent years of neglect and disrespect for this club, its people and its history.
He also detailed that Rangers will have to pay £500,000 to Newcastle United should Rangers get promoted this season, owing to the presence of several loan players from that club. Rather damningly, it also documented that £50,000 was paid to a PR company of which 'Derek Llambias was also a director.'
The year 2022 has been plucked out of the year as it will mark both the 150th anniversary of the club and the 50th anniversary of the club's Fairs Cup triumph in Barcelona.
The vision I mentioned earlier is to focus on the next seven years so that by 2022, the club's 150th anniversary and the 50th anniversary of Barcelona (Rangers defeated Dynamo Moscow in Barcelona to win the 1972 European Cup Winners' Cup Final) we, Rangers, will be back at the very top.
This means that over the next few years the finance we are putting in place now will provide the infrastructure and personnel at Murray Park to make sure Rangers are competing and winning in Scotland's top flight as well as stepping back into the European arenas again.
Seven years is giving themselves plenty of time. But given the evidence of this season they need every minute of it. With the new owners on board, are things looking up for Rangers?
