Walkaway Ranger slams Green

Former Rangers striker Steven Naismith has slammed Charles Green and claimed that he was right to walk away.

Green went to the SFA to claim the registrations of Naismith and others after they refused to TUPE across to Sevco following the liquidation of Rangers.

Naismith was almost tearful when he staged a media conference to explain his decision to quit Ibrox. Following that announcement Ally McCoist and others criticised the midfielder for walking out while Lee McCulloch, Lee Wallace and Neil Alexander transferred their contracts.

“I had a legal right to do what I did, and that right is a central feature of European employment law which protects the worker in situations like Mr Green engineered last year,” Naismith told The Sun.

“When Mr Green sent a lawyer’s letter telling me to TUPE over to Sevco, as Charles Green called it, I had never met him.

“To this day I have still never met him and I have no wish to do so. Mr Green appeared from nowhere and claimed Whyte had just accepted he had no other option than to let Green have his way.

“It seemed strange and unclear then and still does to today. This was the proposition we were offered to turn our football careers and futures over to.

“I had the option of choosing to be employed by a man and owners who I didn’t know and had little reason, if any, to trust.

“I made a decision that most people thinking matters through rationally would come to in the interests of their family and career.”