Compensation Claim Boost

[Rangers Football Club 0]

RANGERS have made a successful start to their bid to win compensation for the players who walked out on the club last summer.

 

The club is chasing Allan McGregor, Kyle Lafferty, Jamie Ness, Stevie Naismith, Steven Whittaker and Sone Aluko for breaching their contracts.

Compensation is also being sought from their clubs â?? Besiktas, Sion, Stoke City, Everton, Norwich City and Hull City.

A meeting took place on Monday at Hampden to discuss jurisdiction on the case and Rangers prevailed.

Chief Executive Charles Green told RangersTV: â??From our side it went as well as we could have expected. From the other side Iâ??m sure they will be disappointed.

â??Clearly they wanted they commission to throw it out and rule that the SFA had no jurisdiction because the whole process of the first meeting was about jurisdiction.

â??What we stated at the meeting was that newco wants to continue where oldco was.

â??We have this slight anomaly where for a period newco were not members of the SFA from June 14 until being granted membership on August 3.

â??It was those technical issues which caused some consternation but I was very encouraged with the meeting.

â??It is still my position that these players breached their contracts and we are going to pursue them.

â??With newco taking over from oldco â?? and BDO were at the meeting and withdrew from the process â?? is a fundamental part of it.

â??Both parties were asked to go away and discuss various issues. We have been given until January 21 by the chair of the commission to come back to him.

â??In the absence that the parties canâ??t agree or cannot come up with a view, he will make a judgement.

â??Hopefully, though the lawyers, we can come up with an agreement on these issues and at that point then the commission can start taking the thing forward.

â??We are quite a way off from the position we want to achieve in terms of gaining compensation.

â??What these players and their clubs need to realise is that when we go to the next level this is going to be a number of days â?? not just an afternoon at Hampden

â??These players wonâ??t be training or playing, they will sit in Hampden waiting to give evidence or to make statements.

â??We are not going to let this drop as I have said since June.â?

Rangers settled with Southampton over Steve Davis, Coventry City over John Fleck and Sheffield Wednesday over Rhys McCabe.

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