In the grand sweep of Scottish football history, Rangers are quite the newbie, having been established only as recently as 2012. They call Ibrox Stadium their home turf, a venue presumably free of dodgy loos and questionable pie quality, unlike so many of their brethren across Scotland.
Currency aficionados may be intrigued that their squad's market value hovers around a cool £98m, according to Transfermarkt. Quite the tidy sum, wouldn't you agree? Not quite in the Greek shipping magnate or Russian oligarch space yet, but a solid start.
They field, thirty, yes, you read that right, thirty players in their squad. Indeed, it's becoming increasingly clear that someone at Ibrox has an unhealthy obsession with the number 30. The average age of the squad, for instance, is rather fittingly, 24. So, young without being downright prepubescent.
This season, Rangers have been avoiding the pub and instead toying around in not one, not two, but three competitions. In the Premiership, they find themselves nestled in 6th place - perhaps not cause for street parties, but it's a clear effort to avoid the unpleasantness of the bottom places. The League Cup saw them bounce out in the second round. A disappointment, no doubt, but such is the rough and tumble of knockout competitions, eh? Then there's the Champions League Qualifiers where they reached the giddy heights of the Play-Offs. A brave swing at the biggest club prize in Europe, even if they didn't exactly land with aplomb.
