Ally McCoist blames transfer ban
Despite owing money for outstanding transfer fees going back to 2010 when Nikica Jelavic was signed from Rapid Vienna McCoist has claimed that the transfer ban is a punishment too far.
Apart from Celtic transfer fees are virtually a thing of the past in the SPL with clubs scraping around the free transfer market to fill out their squads.
Despite selling David Goodwillie for £3m to Blackburn Rovers Peter Houston was unable to spend a penny of the transfer fee despite losing four top team regulars last summer.
When Rangers announced that they were going into administration Duff and Phelps attempted to register Daniel Cousin on a wage reported to be in the region of £5,000 per week. January signing Mervan Celik was released from his contract without a kroner of a development fee paid to GAIS with clubs in France, Italy and Sweden amongst those named on the creditors list.
Responding to the transfer ban, which is already in place due to being in administration, McCoist claimed: “This decision could kill our football club. Make no mistake about it.
“This panel is not totally to blame for the death of our football club — if it happens. But this particular decision could kill our football club.
“You would hope there would be sympathetic ears within the SFA over an appeals process, but you just don’t know what is coming next.
“Plain and simply, I think it is an absolutely shocking decision.
“I found out the decision last night and I was shocked and absolutely appalled by the way this supposedly independent judicial panel was coming down on us in this form.
“Who are these people? I want to know who these people are.
“I’m a Rangers supporter and the Rangers supporters and the Scottish public deserve to know who these people are, people who are working for the SFA.
“Make no mistake about it, this is an SFA decision. They have appointed the panel so therefore they are working for the SFA, but who are they?
“I think we have a right to know who is handing out this punishment to us, I really do.
“In terms of our supporters, again they have received another kicking and we just feel it’s time to start fighting back.
“You can guarantee we will be fighting back. There are already one or two nails in our coffin, through no fault of this judicial panel and indeed the SFA, but this might be the final one.”
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