Murdoch MacLennan has written to all 42 SPFL member clubs branding the accusations from Ibrox as wholly unnecessary and inappropriate.
On Monday the SPFL board announced that Hearts and Stranraer supported the resolution calling for an independent investigation into the SPFL which appears not to have any parameters.
The EGM is scheduled for May 12 but could be kicked into touch if more than 25% of the clubs in the Premiership, Championship or Leagues One and Two combined reject the request.
On April 11 Douglas Park called for the suspensions of Neil Doncaster and Rod McKenzie without presenting any evidence. Further correspondence obtained by the Daily Record claimed that MacLennan has some sort of agenda against the Ibrox club.
Today the SPFL Chairman sent a letter to all 42 SPFL clubs, again the Daily Record managed to obtain a copy of the letter.
Hearts, Rangers and Stranraer, as more than 5 per cent of the membership, are together entitled to call for an EGM to consider their resolution. That is their right under SPFLÂ articles and company law.
Accordingly, on Monday evening, the SPFL issued notice of an EGM, which will be held at 11am on Tuesday 12 May by Zoom video conference.
Eight of the nine members of your board of directors believe the demand for such an open-ended, hugely time consuming and expensive investigation, carried out by a senior QC, to be wholly unnecessary, inappropriate and contrary to the interests of the company.
When the forensic investigation team at Deloitte completed its work, its report included nothing whatsoever to suggest any improper behaviour or impropriety by anyone.
As your independent, non-executive chairman, I am entirely satisfied with the rigorous process that your board undertook in putting the SPFL directors written resolution to members. It was the product of several weeks of intensive work – using the best medical, scientific, governmental and legal advice to devise a way forward for the game in an unprecedented set of circumstances.
Ultimately however, it is for you, the member clubs of the SPFL, to decide whether you wish the time of our staff and board members, and your money, to be spent on the exercise now sought by Hearts, Rangers and Stranraer, without Rangers having made available to the company or to SPFL clubs any of the evidence which they claim is in their possession.
You are now being invited, by each of them, to commit the SPFL Limited to uncapped expenditure on an investigation, without defined boundaries, into the SPFL board and its executive team, as well as a range of matters related to a resolution which achieved an 80 per cent plus agreed return.
All at a time when we have had no detail or evidence whatsoever of what it is the directors, appointed by you, and our senior employees are alleged to have done ‘wrong’.
If Rangers had been prepared to make available this alleged evidence, then the investigation could have considered that material and could have directly addressed the issue(s) which are said to be causing that club so much apparent concern.
At this hugely challenging time, distractions, scapegoating and sideshows are our enemy. We currently have a very small executive team comprising only five senior members of staff who are working tirelessly in the interests of Scottish football. Two of them are the subject of unexplained calls for their suspension.
I therefore sincerely hope that I and your board of directors can rely on your support so that we can be allowed to focus completely on helping all clubs survive the crisis caused by Covid-19, rather than spending extensive and unproductive time and expense on rebutting unknown allegations against directors and long-standing and hard-working members of the SPFL team.
Ibrox Managing Director Stewart Robertson is on the board of the SPFL.