Desperate Green spins the record one last time
While Stewart Regan and Neil Doncaster attempt to sweeten up and bully SFL clubs into providing a First Division place the Yorkshireman is attempting to find seven SPL clubs to throw Sevco a lifeline.
Since winning favour with Duff and Phelps newcomer Green has been warning anyone who would listen that Scottish football is about to implode without the presence of Rangers generating finance and goodwill in equal measure.
Without the presence of a Govan club everyone would suffer irrecoverable damage as broadcasters and sponsors pull out of Scottish football left, right and centre.
Seven clubs have gone public to announce that they will vote no to newco with only Kilmarnock hinting that they will vote yes with chairman Michael Johnston attracting the anger of fans with his Rangers at any cost stance.
Hearts, Motherwell, Dundee United and St Mirren have all announced rises in season ticket sales since declaring their opposition to newco.
This morning in a final desperate throw of the dice Green has been leaking details of his hush-hush secret meetings with clubs in a desperate attempt to get Sevco included in the SPL.
In order to turn the vote Sevco’s way Green has offered:
- To back SPL voting reform
- Agree to a new split in SPL revenue
- Accept the SFA transfer embargo he went to court to overturn
- Pay the footballing debts of the liquidated Rangers
- Accept a points deduction
- Issue an apology for Rangers wrong doing
Green’s plan is certain to be given the thumbs down by chairmen who have given their word to supporters and season ticket holders on their voting intentions.
A Rangers youth team XI plus Lee McCulloch, Lee Wallace and Kirk Broadfoot with a 20 point penalty would struggle to avoid relegation. If Green’s plan is given any consideration it becomes obvious that the SPL is simply a business and not a sport.
With no sign of sponsors, season ticket money down to a trickle and no European football to look forward to there are genuine concerns that Sevco could run out of money within months.
The last thing that the SPL needs after the events of last season is another high profile embarssment with a financially crippled Sevco going into administration.
Former Rangers defender John Brown has challenged Green to prove that he has ownership of Ibrox and Murray Park with the Sevco boss failing to respond to that request.
Brown has also issued a plea to supporters not to buy season tickets.
With only four senior players from last season’s squad agreeing to switch to Sevco the Ibrox playing staff have already voted with their feet on Green’s credentials.
SFL clubs will meet at Hampden to discuss proposals to parachute Sevco into the First Division with the majority of that division going public with their opposition to the deal.
News that Green is still trying to hatch a deal with the SPL is likely to ensure that Sevco will have to start life at the bottom of the SFL if they ever get around to applying for membership.
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