Charles Green claims some SPL clubs 'won't be so welcome' at Ibrox

Rangers chief executive Charles Green said 'glints in eyes' showed him SPL clubs' true voting intentions.© SNS Group

Rangers chief executive Charles Green has claimed that some SPL clubs “won’t be so welcome” at Ibrox in the future.

Green spoke ahead of the club’s League Cup clash with Motherwell next week, which will be the first time Rangers have faced SPL opposition since the league voted to reject the transfer of the old company’s membership to Green’s new consortium.

In an interview on the official Rangers website, the Yorkshireman said that Well would be welcomed to the stadium because he believes the club was “bounced into” voting against the membership transfer.

Green said that “glints in eyes” showed him that certain clubs were voting against their own wishes.

He said that he believes only half of the 11 teams who voted genuinely wanted to see Rangers’ share denied a transfer. The result of the vote was ten against, with Kilmarnock the one abstention.

Green said: “Ally and I sat there and we know what happened. We know that only half of those clubs wanted Rangers out of that league.

“I believe that a number of clubs were bounced into it.

“What we have to understand is not everyone in that room wanted Rangers out of that league and I know – because I could [see] glints in eyes – which ones were happy and which ones were not.

“We recognise what happened and when some of these clubs come to Ibrox they will be welcome. When others come, they won’t be so welcome.

“Motherwell are a club who are suffering financially because Rangers are not in the SPL and we don’t believe that Motherwell are anti-Rangers.”

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