THE Scottish Football Association could hold discussions with the representatives of both Rangers and Mike Ashley over the billionaire's Ibrox influence.
The Hampden hierarchy have written to the club and the Newcastle United owner requesting more detail about his involvement and future plans after Ashley increased his boardroom power last month.
Ashley has signed an undertaking which limits him to owning no more than 10% of the shares in Rangers International Football Club plc and pledging not to have an influence in the running of the Ibrox club.
"We've written to the club itself and to Mike Ashley looking for clarification," said Campbell Ogilvie, the SFA president. "That could lead to a meeting between the SFA and the club and, indeed, Mike Ashley and his advisors. That would be the next step. Then we'll take it from there. But we really need more information."
Why are you making commenting on The Herald only available to subscribers?
It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse.
heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment.
We are doing this to improve the experience for our loyal readers and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself.
We are lucky at The Herald. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories.
That is invaluable.
We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse.
In the past, the journalist’s job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com
Comments & Moderation
Readers’ comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers’ comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. You can make a complaint by using the ‘report this post’ link . We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments.
Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.
Read the rules hereComments are closed on this article