McAvennie slams Rangers after £150m news via BBC – ‘it’s wrong’
Frank McAvennie has claimed Rangers are “a law unto themselves” after a dispute over a new broadcasting deal for the Scottish Premiership.
Speaking exclusively to Football Insider, the former Celtic striker said the Gers are “arguing about everything” at the moment.
On 26 September, the BBC confirmed that the Scottish Premiership clubs have approved a £150million broadcasting deal with Sky Sports.
The deal is projected to provide clubs with £30million per season and gives Sky the right to broadcast 60 Scottish top flight games every season.
The proposal was voted in favour by 11 Premiership clubs.
The Ibrox club were the only team to vote against the deal.
Rangers declined to approve the deal unless the SPFL apologised for its handling of a dispute with the club over the cinch sponsorship deal and agreed to meet the legal costs incurred during arbitration.
As reported by the Daily Mail (26 September), Light Blues managing director Stewart Robertson made it clear that he did not agree with the proposal, claiming the deal undervalues Scottish football.
SPFL chairman Murdoch MacLennan hailed the deal as “the largest single commercial contract in the history of Scottish league football”.
McAvennie insisted the Gers need to stop complaining.
“Rangers are a law unto themselves at the moment, they’re arguing about everything,” he told Football Insider.
“They argue about cinch, they argue about everything. It’s all legal work. Rangers obviously think they can get more which is fair enough, I think they should get more, I think the whole lot should get more but it isn’t happening but you’ve got to get money in.
“If you keep holding back deals that’s going to cost the little clubs money, because you’re waiting, it’s the wrong thing to do. It could be life and death to the little clubs.“
In other news, a Rangers expert has suggested the real reason Ryan Kent is ‘upset’ at Ibrox.