Rangers investor Stuart Gibson claims James Bisgrove 'played a blinder' over Sydney Super Cup as he backs board

Rangers investor Stuart Gibson has launched a passionate defence of the under-fire Ibrox hierarchy, insisting “We have senior management at the club who are very much undervalued and under appreciated.”

Lifelong fan Gibson, a property funding expert who is based in the Far East, pumped £5million into the club in October 2020 and reportedly purchased an additional £1m of shares earlier this year to make him the third largest shareholder at Ibrox.

And the powerful Paisley businessman has backed managing director Stewart Robertson, sporting director Ross Wilson and commercial chief James Bisgrove as he claimed the trio get "a lot of undeserved flak”. There is growing unrest among the fans who are looking for change in some senior positions, with a banner spotted during the win over Kilmarnock on Saturday targeting Robertson and Wilson. But, in an interview with podcast This Is Ibrox, he said Wilson is “doing an excellent job and continues to do so" given the lack of "ample resources" he has to work with. He highlighted the record sale of Calvin Bassey to Ajax and fellow Nigeria international Joe Aribo’s transfer to Southampton as "massive home runs" for the club.

Bisgrove found himself at the centre of a storm last season when signing the club up to the Sydney Super Cup with fans raging that they had agreed to take on rivals Celtic in a friendly in the home country of Hoops boss Ange Postecoglou.

It was a lucrative contract but they withdrew after arguing organisers had breached terms of the agreement. But Gibson defended the move and said: “If we won the league, if we didn’t relinquish the league, I would have been happy to go to Sydney and be happy to take £3million for the pleasure of going out there. We never went