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Peter Lawwell has sent a formal letter to Stewart Regan questioning the decision to take the Scotland international side to Mexico and Peru during the close season.

Without an international manager and without explanation the SFA announced the matches last Sunday with Regan later claiming that the trip could be the start of something special.

Brendan Rodgers has already spoken out about the matches which come two weeks after the Scottish Cup Final and five weeks before Celtic’s opening Champions League qualifier.

The hoops face eight matches to get through to the group phase of the Champions League with all of those games coming before Scotland’s next competitive game.

According to the report in the Daily Record Regan arranged the matches without consulting the SFA’s Professional Game Board.

The report suggests that the matches were arranged unilaterally by Regan and will earn the SFA the sum of £250,000 with the flight from Lima to Mexico City taking five hours before a match at high altitude.

Each Premiership club will collect £365,000 in August from Celtic reaching the group stage of this season’s Champions League.

Five months after referring the issue of Rangers (IL) being given a UEFA licence for season 2011/12 to their Compliance Officer the SFA have still to publish their findings. It is not a complex issue.

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