Green wants to quit Scotland
The threat to quit Scotland flies in the face of James Traynor’s statement yesterday that: “Rangers will take a seat at the head of the table where, despite the latest insult of being shut out of reconstruction talks, we will act with the good of Scottish football in mind.”
The Yorkshireman’s honeymoon with the Scottish Football League seems to be over with plans afoot to bring in a 12-12-18 league set up for next season.
Having spent much of his time in Glasgow criticising the SFA and SPL the new look league set up proposal hasn’t gone down well with the Scotland’s newest club.
“I haven’t read anything other than what is in the press and if that is what we have sat here eagerly awaiting to transform Scottish football, my advice to the board of Rangers is the quicker we can leave Scottish football the better,” Green told the clubs’ in house television station.
“I can’t see anything that is going to transform the finances, the status or the excitement.
“If this does happen what is the point of us finishing the season? Why should we send players out to get broken noses – like Ross Perry last week – or have players getting surgery when no-one can get promoted and no-one can get relegated.
“We might as well have a winter break now til next August. I can’t see any point in carrying on with meaningless matches.
“In what league do you win a division and then end up playing the same teams again the following season? There is no meaning to it, in reality.”
Any move out of Scotland would require the agreement of the SFA and UEFA providing another association willing to accept a club that has still to produce any audited accounts.
Green admitted: “On first glance, of course, there is nowhere for us to go because FIFA have made their feelings known on cross-border leagues.
“However, we have noted the comments of Standard Liege recently and what Peter Lawwell said at his AGM a few weeks ago when he discussed the changes in Europe.
“Hand on heart today there isn’t an option but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t start looking for an option.
“If all we have to look forward to over the next four years is more madness then we would be failing as directors not to explore the alternatives.”
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