The SPFL have are set to hold an emergency meeting after Rangers failed to respond to a midnight deadline on Sunday to vote on a resolution to extend the current TV deal with Sky Sports. Top flight clubs were given 28 days to respond to the resolution and the Scottish Daily Mail reports that while 11 sides agreed to the request, there was no answer from Ibrox chiefs which resulted in the resolution collapsing.
That led to Hampden chiefs calling an urgent summit with the £30million a year deal now thrown into serious doubt. The report continues that clubs “were also asked to provide a letter of waiver agreeing to let Sky increase the number of home games they show from each ground each season from four to five”.
Under the proposed new deal, by season 2028/29 broadcasting giants Sky Sports would increase their payment from £25m to £30m while also having the ability to show a maximum of 60 games – up from 48 – from 2024/25.
Rangers are said to have concerns that the SPFL haven’t invited other companies to bid and the league body will now hold an emergency meeting with one option to change the rule so an 11-1 majority would be required to vote it through - but that would require a vote of all 42 SPFL clubs.
The Ibrox side were involved in a bitter sponsorship row with league chiefs after they agreed a deal with cinch, which Rangers argued was in conflict with one of their own deals. That resulted in the SPFL being forced renegotiate. Rangers managing director Stewart Robertson also accused those on Hampden’s sixth floor of underselling the Scottish Premiership and clearly have reservations over this latest proposal.
Record Sport have contacted Rangers for a comment.
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