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Rangers have been banned from fielding new signing Andy Webster.

The Scotland defender, who joined on a loan deal from Wigan but presently out injured, has had his case referred to world football's governing body, Fifa.

Wigan signed Webster after exploiting a new Fifa ruling to free himself from his contract, but he remains registered with Hearts at the Scottish FA.

Fifa has yet to rule on a fee for his transfer to Wigan and also must now decide if he can play for Rangers.

The SFA told BBC Sport: "The whole issue is now with Fifa. They will decide what happens next."

Hearts had contested Webster's right to move to Wigan and cut short his four-year contract by a year.

Fifa allowed him to sign for Wigan pending a ruling on a compensation fee.

But Webster has failed to command a regular first-team place with the Premiership club, leading to his six-month loan to Rangers.

Webster was injured in his first training session with Rangers last week and will be out of action for about six weeks.

£500,000 a week is nothing short of madness.

Really looking forward to this game on Saturday.

Hope we can generate a better atnosphere than we have done recently to rng in the new era.

Walter's first day of training:

Im sure i read somewhere that he is giving up all media work including Question of Sport.

Bugger, he's cracking on that.

Is it wrong that I'm hoping Ally can still do A Question of Sport?

"Money Available" says Murray.

Watching the press conference, this is surreal.

Yep it was, taken it down for some reason and the press conference is currently in progress.

Well your quick off the mark.

Day off college, fuck all else to do than sit here with Sky Sports News on .

Julien Rodriquez is set to join Marseille today on a free transfer subject to an in-progress medical.

Strachan maintained that the Beckham thing was a joke and the press just ran with it.

It mentions that Smiths first game in charge in his first stint was against Dun Utd. Does anyone know the score from that day?

Guys on Sky Sports News were saying when he took over he beat St. Mirren on his first game in charge, lost to Motherwell then beat Aberdeen for the title.

But meh, I can't remember to be honest.

Just been hearing that the Sporting Director at Real Madrid has grown so sick of the dragging on of these contract talks, or indeed the lack of talks, that he's basically taken the offer away from the table, and it basically sounds like they've told him to bugger off.

Apparent Loophole:

The SFA laws state that one member club cannot contact the manager of another member club, but the SFA is not a member of itself.

On a scale of 1-10?

11.

They're entitled to ask for a good bit of compensation.

The national team is on it's biggest high in years and now it could go tits up.

I don't expect TOO much to come of this.

Hopefully a financial package can be rattled out, as oppose to going to court.

David Taylor?

If there's been no compensation agreed, he's well within his rights.