Rangers insist NO negotiations took place with cinch over a stadium sponsorship deal as they hit back in their SPFL legal battle.
The Premiership champions have been at loggerheads with the league body over the game's new sponsorship deal.
Rangers are refusing to promote the £8million deal and have not displayed any cinch branding on players' shirts, nor on any advertising hoardings or media boards.
Advocate Lord Keen of Elie QC said bosses at Rangers Football Club Ltd spoke to chiefs at online car retailer Cinch about renaming the club’s stadium.
The lawyer told the Court of Session on Wednesday that the organisations explored the possibility of calling the club’s home ‘the cinch Ibrox stadium.’
Lord Keen spoke during a hearing in which the SFA succeeded in a bid to gain permission to appeal against an interim interdict which had been granted against it earlier this year.
But Rangers have had their say and, in a statement on the BBC, said: “Contrary to the SPFL’s claims, no ‘negotiations’ took place.
“Cinch approached Rangers to discuss commercial opportunities in early 2021. Rangers provided information on what opportunities might be available.
“This is common practice for our commercial team.”
Rangers are citing rule i7 of the SPFL which states that clubs are ‘not obliged to comply with this rule if to do so would result in that club being in breach of a contractural obligation entered into prior to the commercial contract concerned.’
Rangers, who are also unhappy at the SPFL for paying £500,000 over the five years to an agency for brokering the deal, chairman Douglas Park owns the Parks of Hamilton motoring giants who are rivals of cinch.
