Exclusive. Inside Donald Trump’s audacious plan to buy Rangers and restore them to former glory.

Rangers and Scottish football’s history may have been quite different today if Donald Trump had pursued his interest in the Ibrox club during the financial difficulties of 2012.

Donald Trump contemplated buying Rangers, but backed out due to the club’s financial difficulties.

Rangers were looking for a buyer in 2012, following their financial collapse, which included administration, liquidation, and relegation to the fourth division. Several well-known people were linked to rescue the struggling Ibrox club.

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Trump’s Scottish heritage is well known, thanks to his mother, Mary Anne MacLeod, who was born in Ross-shire. In 2012, he was aiming to develop his own Scottish golf course near Aberdeen. Trump had some experience with sports organisations after briefly operating the New Jersey Generals, an American football team that competed in the short-lived US Football League in the mid-1980s.

He took a “serious” look at Rangers’ circumstances with the intention of bailing out the team. Given his predilection for linking his surname to his enterprises, it’s hardly impossible that Rangers’ mansion was renamed. Trump Ibrox, anyone?

However, despite his enormous fortune and fabricated (pun intended) links to the country, the Gers’ poor financial situation proved to be a huge deterrent. A Trump insider told the Press & Journal at the time: “We appeared serious and went away.

“It just didn’t make sense to us, even if they’re a fantastic club. We hope someone will come in and rebuild the squad.”

In 2015, while campaigning for his first term as president of the United States, Trump was connected to purchasing Colombian giants Atletico Nacional, a club with an infamous past due to its ties to drug lord Pablo Escobar. Again, the attention dwindled as he concentrated on his contentious political career.

Trump, apparently, isn’t paying too much attention to Rangers’ present troubles, which include the club’s lack of a permanent chairman, chief executive, and director of football operations, as well as the revelation last week that they lost £17.2 million last season.

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