Elite Vs Rangers to enter court next week.

[Loyal72 13,438]

Elite are seeking to recover 9.5m from Rangers, STV article below:

£9.5m court action against Rangers over football kit sales to 'kick-off'

Elite Sports Group Ltd lawyers claim the Ibrox club breached a contract which allowed it to supply the strips

A multi-million pound court action brought against Rangers over football kit sales will begin next week.

It follows the final procedural hearing in the case brought against the club by sportswear brand Elite Sports Group Ltd. 

Elite’s lawyers are pursuing an action against Rangers and are trying to recover £9.5m from the Club.

Elite was the exclusive brand partner to Danish sportswear firm Hummel and it instructed lawyers to go to the Court of Session in Edinburgh last November.

Lawyers claim Rangers breached a contract which allowed the firm to provide the Glasgow team with Hummel kits.

Lawyers for Elite claim the breach occurred when Rangers signed a deal with Castore, a Manchester based brand which counts tennis ace Sir Andy Murray as one of its investors.

However, Elite went into administration shortly after the case called in Scotland’s highest civil court.

The administrators for the firm are pursuing the action at the Court of Session in Edinburgh.

On Thursday, Elite’s advocate David Thomson KC told Lord Braid that he and fellow advocates were fully prepared. 

Lord Braid then allowed the case to proceed. 

He said: “The case will proceed to Tuesday when we will kick off.”

The case being brought by Elite arises from a separate legal dispute involving Sports Direct, which was then owned by Mike Ashley.

Lawyer for Ashley’s firm went to the High Court in London seeking an injunction to stop the deal between Elite and Rangers from going ahead. 

The deal, which was signed in October 2018, was supposed to allow Hummel to supply Rangers with kits and to sell replicas to fans. 

However, Judge Lionel Persey QC found that the deal with Hummel, to be a three-year contract worth £10m, was undertaken without giving Sports Direct a chance to match it. 

Judge Persey ordered that Rangers couldn’t “wear any Official Rangers Technical Products designed by, supplied by, gifted by or manufactured by Elite or Hummel, or bearing the Hummel brand”.

Castore is the official technical kit partner of a number of leading teams and athletes including Rangers, McLaren Racing, Newcastle United, England Cricket, US Open Champion Matt Fitzpatrick and Andy Murray. 

The brand sells into more than 90 countries globally and was valued as being worth £750m in September 2022.

The court has previously heard how Rangers signed a deal with Castore in May 2020 and that this deal breached the terms of the Hummel one. The agreement was reported to be worth £20m and covered five-seasons. 

Mr Thomson told the court that this new deal caused Elite to sustain losses which it needed to be compensated for. 

Rangers are contesting the action. 

The case is expected to take eight days. It will begin on Tuesday. 

[VanVeenRangers 2,698]

Given our court record we will likely lose this hence the cautious approach to spend money in the transfer window.

If we get into the CL groups then it will be very welcoming.

[The Specky Forum Organiser 69,294]

Great

[McEwan's Lager 31,966]

I think it's likely we will be found to be in breach of contract.

I think we'll be looking to argue down the actual damages. 

[Loyal72 13,438]

4 minutes ago, McEwan's Lager said:

I think it's likely we will be found to be in breach of contract.

I think we'll be looking to argue down the actual damages. 

Fling in the Ibrox mess, and this nonsense it's obvious as fuck why we're not spending money. It's also interesting Bennett knew this was coming and made no mention to other factors that would be impacting our transfers.

[The Specky Forum Organiser 69,294]

Just now, Loyal72 said:

Fling in the Ibrox mess, and this nonsense it's obvious as fuck why we're not spending money. It's also interesting Bennett knew this was coming and made no mention to other factors that would be impacting our transfers.

Everyone knew this was coming, it's not breaking news.

[ger4life_1872 30,432]

1-1 then get them back to hampden

[Loyal72 13,438]

Just now, The Specky Forum Organiser said:

Everyone knew this was coming, it's not breaking news.

Okay? Does that change my opinion Bennett could've still been more honest and mentioned it in his drivel interview? Not really.

[Bears r us 31,283]

I had forgot all about this clusterfuck. 

[Amato 3,094]

Wasn't provision made in the accounts for this at least, or was that for some other legal fuck up? I've lost track

[McEwan's Lager 31,966]

2 minutes ago, Amato said:

Wasn't provision made in the accounts for this at least, or was that for some other legal fuck up? I've lost track

I think that was the SD settlement.

I don't believe we made a provision for this one due to the uncertainty of when it would be concluded (ie. beyond the upcoming FY) and the uncertainty around our prospects.  

 

[The Archer 1,394]

The only club in world football that has this shite every season eating up money and damaging the clubs reputation. Scunnered to fuck with this

[BlueboyG 5,476]

Need to get this board to fuck out our club, one fuck up after another.

[Moody Blue 9,982]

Club run like a hobby for directors with zero business acumen costing the club millions of pounds every 1/2/3 seasons. Time will tell on the outcome but our record in courts of late is the same as games against the mhanks. 

[esquire8 44,995]

Wasn't this a Robertson and Blair decision? Interesting to see how we are able to defend this.

[RWB72 1,561]

We are we constantly on the end of shite like this

Does any other club have this much court drama?

[The Godfather 75,476]

10 minutes ago, RWB72 said:

We are we constantly on the end of shite like this

Does any other club have this much court drama?

Better than being dragged through the courts for ruining young children's lives.

 

[10pshortof17pound 2,623]

Just now, The Godfather said:

Better than being dragged through the courts for ruining young children's lives.

 

Commercial shit before criminal shit any day.

[Jimfanciesthedude 25,513]

Have we ever won in court, our record there is like at the piggery the last 8 years

[Darth Bear 15,671]

We must be the only club in the world to lose money selling t-shirts.

[Marco 1,755]

13 minutes ago, Jimfanciesthedude said:

Have we ever won in court, our record there is like at the piggery the last 8 years

We won the cinch case (or was that settled before court?). Board found the one entity more legally incompetent than they are.

[theiconicman 3,111]

We've spent more in legal fees and losing them than in the squad.

[McEwan's Lager 31,966]

1 hour ago, Marco said:

We won the cinch case (or was that settled before court?). Board found the one entity more legally incompetent than they are.

Was it not Parks of Hamilton rather than Rangers that won that one?

 

[Marco 1,755]

11 minutes ago, McEwan's Lager said:

Was it not Parks of Hamilton rather than Rangers that won that one?

 

Fuck, you're probably right. The club got an apology though so still claiming it. 

[LegendofCoop 18,048]

Elite are/were in receivership iirc. This will be about getting their penny in the pound through a CVA. I think that £9m figure was always pie in the sky.