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Rangers chairman confirms Ibrox work is ongoing

Rangers chairman confirms Ibrox work is ongoing

Rangers chairman Dave King has said that renovation work at the Scottish Premiership football club’s Ibrox Stadium is ongoing and will continue to be carried out through to 2022.

Speaking to RangersTV following the club’s recent annual governors meeting, King said that Ibrox is getting the attention it needs.

Work is expected to continue until 2022, the club's 150th anniversary year, by which point King hopes the stadium will "look and feel completely different".

“There’s a lot of work, it’s going on all the time,” King said. “I don’t attend many matches so I can’t see what is happening on a week to week basis, but what I can say is that from an expenditure point of view I see the reports coming in and the board see the reports coming in.

“So it is something that is getting ongoing attention both in terms of effort, direction and financial resources.”

Ibrox has served as Rangers’ home since 1899. King admitted that the ground has become run-down in recent years, and said that more small-scale improvements would be needed first and foremost.

“There is a lot of short-term stuff that we have to do in which relates more to the dilapidation of the stadium over the past couple of years," King said.

“But then there is some other more significant structural changes that we want to make and that is all part of really more of a five-year plan that we have for the stadium to make it look and feel completely different by 2022.”

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