Rangers have been ordered to pay Aberdeen £600,000 in compensation for the transfer of Connor Barron, an SPFL tribunal has ruled.

The midfielder signed at Ibrox during the summer transfer window on a Bosman, with his contract at Pittodrie having run down.

At the time, Rangers and Aberdeen were unable to agree a compensation package for the 22-year-old, after which the latter club requested a tribunal hearing be initiated in order to settle on the fee owed.

According to the Rangers Review, that figure has now been agreed at £600k.

Speaking at Aberdeen's AGM last month, the club's chief executive, Alan Burrows, expressed frustration at the logistics of the process including the time taken to reach a settlement.

He said: "This may sound like a cop-out, but the rules of the SPFL prevent us from speaking too much about it.

"But what I can tell you is that the process has been extremely elongated and has taken significant time for both management and staff.

"I am happy to go on record saying that the SPFL should have a much more succinct system to deliver this sort of thing.

"It should not take six, seven months to try and deliver that. We hope to have a conclusion on that fairly soon. I certainly agree that it went on for too long and should act as a catalyst for the league to do it better."