RANGERS have blasted back in their ongoing row with the SPFL – and say NO negotiations took place over a possible stadium sponsorship deal with cinch.
The Ibrox club insist it was the league’s new title sponsors who approached them “to discuss commercial opportunities” earlier this year.
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Rangers say no 'negotiations' took place about renaming Ibrox
The Scottish champions are refusing to display cinch branding on team shirts, advertising boards or other media board.
Rangers chairman Douglas Park believes that the £8m deal struck by the SPFL breaches a commercial agreement between his company, Parks of Hamilton, and the club.
The matter is being dealt with at the Court of Session where Advocate Lord Keen of Elie QC said earlier today that the club had spoken to cinch about renaming the club’s stadium.
Acting for the SPFL, Lord Keen spoke during a hearing in which the SFA succeeded in a bid to gain permission to appeal against an interim interdict which had been granted against it earlier this year.
Douglas Park had won the court order which forces the SFA to comply with its own guidelines on arbitration.
The businessman instructed lawyers to go to Scotland’s highest civil court to seek a resolution.
Rangers, though, have hit back to say that isn’t the case.
They told the
BBC: “Cinch approached Rangers to discuss commercial opportunities in early 2021.
“Rangers provided information on what opportunities might be available.
“This is common practice for our commercial team.
“At no point did cinch offer any terms to Rangers.
"Contrary to the SPFL’s claims, no ‘negotiations’ took place.”
Rangers believe they don’t need to display cinch branding because clubs are “not obliged to comply with this rule if to do so would result in that club being in breach of a contractual obligation entered into prior to the commercial contract concerned”.