Rangers have yet to face a transfer army but Steven Gerrard won't care amid £40m battle

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Rangers ’ jubilant title party back in May. “If anyone wants to take them away from me, they best bring an army with them,” warned the Ibrox gaffer as he made it clear he did not want his squad of unbeaten league soldiers broken up.

But in making his point so firmly, Gerrard was setting himself up for a battle of wills with the Ibrox board. The men at the top of the marble staircase are intent on cashing in on their prized assets as they look to put a cork in the club’s leaky coffers.The annual shortfalls will not be allowed to go on for ever as chairman Douglas Park and the rest of the Ibrox money men look to unhook Rangers from the financial lifeline provided by the investors.