By Scott Burns

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Rangers and Hibs look set to face tribunals to set compensation fees for Lyall Cameron and Josh Mulligan. Dundee are entitled to six-figure compensation deals for the pair after they quit Dens Park on freedom of contract in the summer. The Premiership clubs have opened talks with the Dark Blues over compensation but are quite a distance apart on both fronts. Dundee would have been entitled to compensation of around £400,000 for Cameron if he had moved outside of Scotland and slightly more for Mulligan, who had been in the Dundee youth academy even longer. The rules are slightly different for teams moving within Scotland. The Scottish Professional Football League procedure is that the buying club and the team who are to be compensated have to try and come to an agreement in the first instance. If common ground can’t be reached then it is then put in the hands of an independent SPFL tribunal to decide the compensation. That is the direction both deals are heading. The problem for Dundee is that they are not a top tier club in terms of academy so that also lessens their compensation. Rangers agreed a pre-contract with Cameron in February and he made the official move to Ibrox in June. The 22-year-old has been pretty much a regular for Rangers under Russell Martin, although he has missed the last couple of games through injury. There is a chance he could make his return in the Premier Sports Cup against Hibs this weekend. Rangers had also been in talks with Mulligan over the summer but dropped their interest after the arrival of director of football Kevin Thelwell. That opened the door for Hibs who fought off competition from other Scottish rivals and England to land the 22-year-old. He put pen to paper at Easter Road in June and has been one of David Gray’s top performers in Europe and in the Premiership. Rangers had to go to a tribunal last season when they signed Connor Barron in similar circumstances from Aberdeen. The two sides were unable to agree and a tribunal ordered the Light Blues to pay £639,920 in compensation, with an additional £250,000 in add-ons based on future appearances and achievements. The figure is normally meant to be kept under wraps but Aberdeen went public on the fee because they were angered that it was well below what they had hoped to get. Barron has since gone on to become a full Scotland international.