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Rangers claim they warned the SPFL of their concerns over an £8million sponsorship agreement with cinch before the deal was signed.
The Ibrox club are in legal dispute with league chiefs after refusing to promote the £1.6million a year central tie-up on their jerseys or within the stadium during Saturday’s 3-0 win over Livingston.
SPFL Chairman Murdoch MacLennan described the actions of the champions as ‘very disappointing’. And with clubs now fearful of the deal being torn up, the league board will update clubs after emergency talks this week.
Rangers have hit back at the SPFL by claiming they told them about their concerns over the £8m cinch sponsorship deal before it was signed
Rangers insist that rule I7 of the SPFL states that clubs are ‘not obliged to comply with this rule if to do so would result in that club being in breach of a contractural obligation entered into prior to the commercial contract concerned.’
And in an email to clubs sent on Tuesday morning, Ibrox Managing Director Stewart Robertson – a member of the SPFL Board – claims league CEO Neil Doncaster was warned of their concerns before the deal was signed.
Dismissing any suggestion of breaking the rules Robertson insists the league were informed that Rangers ‘would be unable to provide the new sponsor with many of their rights due to a pre-existing contractual obligation’ and accused the central body of blowing £500,000 of club cash on agency fees.
Rangers chairman Douglas Park owns one of the biggest car dealerships in Scotland. And SPFL sources have told Sportsmail
