Rangers could be hit by £5m bill as Sydney Super Cup chiefs seethe at Celtic friendly no show

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Furious bosses of the Sydney Super Cup are set to hit Rangers with a whopping £5million bill for pulling out of the derby Down Under.

Record Sport understands urgent legal discussions kicked off in Australia after the tournament’s promoters woke up on Friday morning to discover the Ibrox club had pulled the plug on the deal to face bitter rivals Celtic on the other side of the planet in November.

Rangers have blamed event giants TEG Live for the dispute, insisting that the Aussies are ‘unwilling to fulfil their commitments’ and it’s understood this centres around a perceived reluctance to package the friendly as an ‘Old Firm’ clash.

But this has been angrily refuted by sources Down Under who are adamant the club’s commercial director James Bisgrove even gave his personal approval to an initial launch at the start of last month in which the ‘Old Firm’ slogan was not used.Get all the latest Rangers news sent straight to your Inbox every day by signing up to our newsletter.We cover every morsel of information regarding your favourite club in the form of articles, videos and podcasts.The newsletter will arrive every day at 12pm, giving you a round up of the best stories we've covered that in the last 24 hours.To sign up, simply enter your email address into the link here.And if you aren't already, make sure you join the conversation over on our Rangers Facebook group and Record Sport Instagram.And now the organisers - who have already sold around 50,000 tickets for matches which also include A League outfits Sydney FC and Western Sydney Wanderers - believe they are due the staggering £5m sum for breach of contract.In a statement released yesterday they said: “We were disappointed to wake up this morning to Rangers FC’s