Livingston boss Davie Martindale admits drawing Rangers in the Viaplay Cup has thrown him a financial lifeline.
Martindale is desperate to cut costs by getting the likes of Esmael Gonçalves and Scott Bitsindou off the wage bill following losses of over £800,000 last year.
He said: “Getting the draw at Ibrox gives us a wee bit of comfort that if these players don’t move in the January it’s not going to have a huge dent on ourselves going forwards. "Ideally you want to do that but I’ve not then got the other side to bring players in because the potential cup draw money you will get is only going to help the club in terms of projected losses going forwards.“Four years out of five we’ve been in the quarter-finals and three out of those four were against Rangers, two at Ibrox and the one we weren’t was Ross County where we reached the final.
“We lost to Dundee United last year and it’s a potentially £300,000 loss by not reaching the quarter-finals compared to the previous year.”comes after chairman John Ward claimed last week that potential investors were being put off by a boardroom civil war.
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