St Johnstone’s owner Adam Webb wrote proposals that the Prime Minister should be reduced by 12 to 10 clubs.
The SPFL competition group (CWG), which includes club representatives in the four divisions, currently explores the possibility of a flight of 10, 14 or 16 teams.
The reconstruction talks were partly motivated by increased pressure on the calendar of devices, with additional European matches leaving fewer dates available in the national calendar.
Première teams are currently playing 38 league matches per season.
Any change proposed would require the support of 11 of the 12 Premiership clubs, plus 75% of the Première and Combined Championship clubs, as well as 75% of the 42 SPFL clubs combined in order to pass.
The saints are currently at the bottom of the Première, it should therefore not be surprising that Webb supports an extended league.
The owner of St Johnstone, Adam Webb, has shot the suggestions that the post of Prime Minister should be cut
The director general of SPFL, Neil Doncaster, back when the SPFL brand was launched in 2013
However, he told Sky Sports: “ It would be a huge error (cutting the farm around 10 teams). I think the bar for good or evil with regard to football, British football and world football, is the English Premier.
“They have 20 clubs and, although we are not the same size as England, of course, and we will not have 20 clubs in our post as Prime Minister – what you want to do is closer to that. It is a more familiar system that is more successful on the world scene and on the British scene.
“Looking at the quality of the championship this season, I can tell you that we have certainly two, three, four clubs that it would do very well in the first, and this is where we should go. We should develop the Premiership.
“ We should go to a league at 14 teams very soon, then five years later – as long as the quality of the championship is sufficient – projects to go into a league at 16 teams, and if you continue to develop it on a gradual and very deliberate way, we can make sure that the quality is there.
“We absolutely have to have quality with each team of the Premièrehip, but it is the direction that we should go because it is better for Scotland, it is better for Scottish football.”
