Rangers Managing Director Stewart Robertson targets positions of power with the SPFL and SFA

The Gers Managing Director missed out on a place on the league board earlier this year after failing to win the required backing from Championship clubs.

The lines of communication between Ibrox and Hampden are already open through Robertson and Director of Finance and Administration Andrew Dickson.

And the Light Blues chief, who served on the SPL board whilst he was a director at Motherwell, is keen to see Rangers represented in the corridors of power.

Robertson said: “The club has been on the outside for too long in these last three or four years.

“A club of Rangers stature should be at the top table – we should be in there and have a voice and should have an influence with what’s going on in the Scottish game.

“It’s absolutely key that we do that – myself and Andrew Dickson have been having regular meetings with [SFA chief executive] Stewart Regan, [SPFL chief executive] Neil Doncaster and [SPFL chairman] Ralph Topping, and some of the PLC board members have been doing that regularly too.

“It’s about building relationships – it helps that we know them from days gone past, so that’s made it a bit easier to do that. They have got the confidence in us now that the board and the team here are looking to do the best for Rangers, but also for Scottish football.

“Andrew is already on a couple of key committees. The next stage will be to get onto the SPFL board and in due course the SFA board, so these are steps we definitely want to take.”

As Robertson and his fellow directors continue to make progress off the pitch at Ibrox, Mark Warburton’s side are on course to clinch a Premiership place this term.

Rangers have spent four campaigns outside Scotland’s top flight but their focus is very much geared towards becoming one of our top twelve ranked clubs once again.

Robertson told RangersTV: “Everything has been set up for next year for being in the Premiership. All the plans at the moment are aiming to be in the Premiership.

“We have a way to go yet obviously before we are there and we are not counting our chickens. But we have to play for that and the business plan is to get into the Premiership.

“Then, when we are in there, we want to be competing with Celtic, we want to be competing for Europe, so it is all about that, hence why we are bringing in two or three guys in January. Those guys have to be capable of settling in next season in the Premiership.”