Are Rangers paying for the funeral?

That Evening Times article is based on an interview with Stan Gordon, who organises many of the Legends matches.

He was PeeDee on the old board I think but doesn’t appear to have moved over to the new board, unless he’s incognito.
 
Don’t think paying for it is any big deal, I’m sure Fernando will have left his family well set financially.

The big thing for me is the gesture that the club want to be there for them and look after them.

I think the funeral will be quite overwhelming.
 
Don’t think paying for it is any big deal, I’m sure Fernando will have left his family well set financially.

The big thing for me is the gesture that the club want to be there for them and look after them.

I think the funeral will be quite overwhelming.

Don't think they are that well off tbh. Read a post that his family were living off his pension of 1300 euros a month
 
Don’t think paying for it is any big deal, I’m sure Fernando will have left his family well set financially.

The big thing for me is the gesture that the club want to be there for them and look after them.

I think the funeral will be quite overwhelming.
I don't know the reasons behind it (and it's none of my business) but I think his Mrs is actually struggling for cash. There was an article in the Guardian I read which said she had a pension of €1,300 a month coming in and that was it.

There's also a fundraising page set up earlier in the year to help his Mrs with travelling expenses and it's still active: https://uk.gofundme.com/f/veronika-ricksen.

I stuck a tenner in just as a wee thank you.
 
I don't know the reasons behind it (and it's none of my business) but I think his Mrs is actually struggling for cash. There was an article in the Guardian I read which said she had a pension of €1,300 a month coming in and that was it.

There's also a fundraising page set up earlier in the year to help his Mrs with travelling expenses and it's still active: https://uk.gofundme.com/f/veronika-ricksen.

I stuck a tenner in just as a wee thank you.

Didn’t realise that, just thought successful footballing career usually means pretty well off and it’s not like he was a big drinker or gambler.

Anyway, glad that they are getting sorted. It’s a big enough sickener for them without needing to worry about money.
 
Didn’t realise that, just thought successful footballing career usually means pretty well off and it’s not like he was a big drinker or gambler.

Anyway, glad that they are getting sorted. It’s a big enough sickener for them without needing to worry about money.
Yeah I’m pretty sure his ex wife cleaned him out in their divorce. There was long running legal battles about the rest of his cash with her which is a real shame. It left his current wife and daughter with very little.
 
I heard Alex Rae saying at the start of his illness he was going back and fro to Russia for treatment which was costing a fortune and that treat ment prolonged his life that bit more..Apparently he was given only 18 months when diagnosed?
 
Pedantic I know but it’s the former players benevolent club

Doing a dinner next month on Aberdeen for it
Gough Hateley Andrews and Dave Smith
Few tickets left - PM if interested
 
I don't know the reasons behind it (and it's none of my business) but I think his Mrs is actually struggling for cash. There was an article in the Guardian I read which said she had a pension of €1,300 a month coming in and that was it.

There's also a fundraising page set up earlier in the year to help his Mrs with travelling expenses and it's still active: https://uk.gofundme.com/f/veronika-ricksen.

I stuck a tenner in just as a wee thank you.

Did his ex not refuse to pay him what she owed or something?
 
Didn’t realise that, just thought successful footballing career usually means pretty well off and it’s not like he was a big drinker or gambler.

Anyway, glad that they are getting sorted. It’s a big enough sickener for them without needing to worry about money.
Fernando lost a lot of his money in a recent enough, dragged out, divorce. He also had issues similar to those you deny in your above post. He also was receiving end of life specialist medical care and ferrying family over to/from Europe for six year/paying for two households from a hospice bed. His family's current financial trouble is well known. This isn't the thread to have a go at each other, or to talk pish.
 
Pedantic I know but it’s the former players benevolent club

Doing a dinner next month on Aberdeen for it
Gough Hateley Andrews and Dave Smith
Few tickets left - PM if interested

It’s not pedantic at all.

It’s been positioned that the club are paying for the funeral and are taking kudos for it. The Benevolent Fund may have received a club contribution at some point but the fans put into it too.

The Rangers family are paying for this, not the club.
 
She dragged the divorce out for as long as possible due to the diagnosis and then took him for his retirement pot and half his assets whilst he was in the midst of it.

I read that ongoing EBT issue is a factor too in this - the ex didn’t want the UK taxman to take away the inheritance money for his daughter so is not passing it on.

Maybe not the right thread to discuss it but if true it’s sad that this continues to cause ex players and their families problems, most of which signed up to it in good faith.
 
Fernando lost a lot of his money in a recent enough, dragged out, divorce. He also had issues similar to those you deny in your above post. He also was receiving end of life specialist medical care and ferrying family over to/from Europe for six year/paying for two households from a hospice bed. His family's current financial trouble is well known. This isn't the thread to have a go at each other, or to talk pish.


Sorry mate, you'll need to tell me who I'm having a go at. If anyone's having a go I'd say it's you.
 
Don’t think paying for it is any big deal, I’m sure Fernando will have left his family well set financially.

The big thing for me is the gesture that the club want to be there for them and look after them.

I think the funeral will be quite overwhelming.
It’s ex players that are paying by the looks of it.
 
Yeah I’m pretty sure his ex wife cleaned him out in their divorce. There was long running legal battles about the rest of his cash with her which is a real shame. It left his current wife and daughter with very little.
He took his ex wife to court think he was still due over 300 000 from her.
 
Indeed. I was reminding myself not to have a go at you for talking pish.

Yeah, you'll need to elaborate on that too.

All I did was make a, now obviously uninformed, remark and was happy to acknowledge that when corrected. Not quite sure why that is 'talking pish'. However as you're clearly an expert on the matter I'll accept your criticism and apologise from the heart of my bottom.
 
Yeah, you'll need to elaborate on that too.

All I did was make a, now obviously uninformed, remark and was happy to acknowledge that when corrected. Not quite sure why that is 'talking pish'. However as you're clearly an expert on the matter I'll accept your criticism and apologise from the heart of my bottom.

Implying Fernando has money - on a Rangers forum when we are in the middle of collecting for his family's future - isn't helpful. It's extremely unhelpful. That was my point. Someone could read that, believe it, and not bother donating.
 
Implying Fernando has money - on a Rangers forum when we are in the middle of collecting for his family's future - isn't helpful. It's extremely unhelpful. That was my point. Someone could read that, believe it, and not bother donating.

OK. But that’ll only happen if somebody reads only my original remark and nobody else’s. Apart from on here it’s also all over the papers now about the financial issues arising from his first marriage.

I made an error and have accepted that and I’ll acknowledge it again. I don’t think I need to be pilloried for it over and over.

However you seem very upset about this and for that I offer you a genuine apology.

I don’t live in Scotland and the only news I’ve heard about Fernando over the past few years has been his battle with MND and his fund raising efforts.

I sincerely hope the fund raising for his family is extremely well supported.
 
OK. But that’ll only happen if somebody reads only my original remark and nobody else’s. Apart from on here it’s also all over the papers now about the financial issues arising from his first marriage.

I made an error and have accepted that and I’ll acknowledge it again. I don’t think I need to be pilloried for it over and over.

However you seem very upset about this and for that I offer you a genuine apology.

I don’t live in Scotland and the only news I’ve heard about Fernando over the past few years has been his battle with MND and his fund raising efforts.

I sincerely hope the fund raising for his family is extremely well supported.

I was only concerned as someone made an incorrect statement about FR's finances during a period of fundraising for him, on a platform where many of those intending on contributing engage. I would have challenged that statement no matter who made it so it is of course not a personal attack and I hope we can put this behind us moving forward. We share the same goals re. financial security for FR's family/what is best for Rangers. No pillorying intended and apologies if it seemed that way. It has been a tough week.
 
I was only concerned as someone made an incorrect statement about FR's finances during a period of fundraising for him, on a platform where many of those intending on contributing engage. I would have challenged that statement no matter who made it so it is of course not a personal attack and I hope we can put this behind us moving forward. We share the same goals re. financial security for FR's family/what is best for Rangers. No pillorying intended and apologies if it seemed that way. It has been a tough week.

Deal :)
 
Apologies again if I came across as a dick. I certainly could've responded in a more productive manner and will aim to do so in the future. We are all on the same team here and sometimes issues or discussions can be a bit raw, especially in regards to our much loved, recently departed, captain. Best wishes to you, and thanks for your understanding.
 
I really, really hope we can do something for his wife and child after this to make them secure. Fernando had still to receive around £400,000 from his former wife. He had been awarded the cash but the ex kept appealing in court to stop it going back to him
 
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