Rangers sponsor row baffles Barry Ferguson after ‘humiliating’ SPFL defeat
Rangers have finally got their satisfactory ending to the sponsorship row with the SPFL as they will still get the prize money they are due.
League title sponsors cinch is a car firm which directly competes with Bears chairman Douglas Park’s own company so the Gers objected to the deal and refused to promote them anywhere.
The new agreement now states that Rangers will still receive any prize or sponsorship money they are owed for the 2021-22 campaign and they will keep receiving it for as long as the deal lasts.
Barry Ferguson was baffled by the SPFL’s prolonged stance before they backtracked to make this agreement come to fruition and sees this as an embarrassing defeat for the league.
“It’s in the rules that the league cannot force one of its members to comply with a sponsorship package if it would threaten that club’s existing agreements with its own backers,” Ferguson wrote in his weekly Daily Record column.
“Quite why they decided to press on when Rangers had made their opposition to this deal clear on the basis they already had an existing tie-up with the chairman Douglas Park’s car business I’ll never know.
“They’ve now got the result they wanted all along, which is they will continue to get the prize money share they are due without ever having to iron on a cinch badge to their jerseys or display a picture of Rylan round Ibrox.
“To me, it looks like a humiliating defeat for the league and Doncaster, even if they’re trying to spin it the other way. You can bet the board at Ibrox are not going to let up on this.”
Messy
This whole debacle has been more messy than Lionel and it appears like our board might not put this behind them just yet to drag it out even further.
They will understandably feel justified to be proven right after all this time but that isn’t enough for them to be satisfied either.
The SPFL is now in their sights good and proper and they aren’t going to stop until they pay the club back for all the legal trouble they’ve had to go through.
It’s a bit like the book that is just far too big to read all the way through so can we just do what everyone else does and skip to the last few pages and find out the ending.
We’re all drained of this battle and now is the time to bury it once and for all so we can look ahead to the future with the new season fast approaching and signings needed.
In other Rangers news, one of Giovanni van Bronckhorst’s Ibrox stalwarts has been offered a huge payday to switch Glasgow for the Middle East.