Live updates on tonight’s BBC documentary, Rangers – The men who sold the jerseys will appear below.
The article will be updated throughout the evening with further comment and analysis available in the comments section.
BBC Revelations:
Graeme Souness received £30k from Rangers in an EBT in 2001, 10 years after leaving the club and while he was manager of Blackburn Rovers. Blackburn bought Turkish international, Tugay Kerimoğlu, from Rangers in 2001.
Duff and Phelps partner, David Grier, attended meetings where Craig Whyte’s use of Ticketus to repay Rangers bank debt was discussed before the transaction took place. Duff and Phelps are now suing Whyte and his solicitors for this transaction. The BBC have seen email evidence that Grier instructed the invoice to Ticketus.
Roger Isaacs from the Institute of Chartered Accountants said, “given that [Grier] was a partner of Duff & Phelps, I’m surprised that that involvement wasn’t firstly disclosed, and secondly doesn’t give rise to the sort of conflict of interest that I would have expected to have precluded Duff & Phelps from accepting the appointment as administrators.”
Isaacs, “I would expect Duff and Phelps.. to be forcibly replaced”.
Paul Baxendale-Walker, Rangers tax advisor and pornographer: “If HMRC don’t win, then hopefully you’re going to come back and say Paul, all the Rangers fans in this country want to thank you because you single-handedly saved Rangers FC £50m. You’re a hero.” (raises eyebrows while saying “hero”, Smoooth)
Paul, you’re a hero.
Sir David Murray: “I personally have never received any payment from any trust from Rangers Football Club”.
BBC: Murray received over £6m.
Graeme Souness received £30k 10 years after leaving Rangers while manager of Blackburn Rovers, five weeks before concluding transfer of Tugay Kerimoğlu.
40% of all Rangers players between 2000 and 2010 benefited from EBTs with some receiving half their income this way.
The SFA president received £95k over five years.
Sir David Murray: “It was non-contractual, it was discretionary”.
Ronald Waterreus’ agent questioned the tax scheme and was told “in the interests of Ronald as it enables him to receive funds tax-free.
“I can confirm that we will not pay these amounts to [Ronald] unless they are made through the use of the remuneration trust.”
Murray: “There was category no dual contracts at Rangers”.
Barry Ferguson and Stefan Klos each received £2.5m from EBTs, not declared to the SFA.
The SFA president declined to be interviewed about the £95k he received. In short his statement was “I knew nothing”.
Rangers fan Sammy asks of Sir David, “Why didn’t you just play by the rules?”
Murray borrowed the £6m he used to buy Rangers in 1988 from the Bank of Scotland.
Graham Spiers “Everything about his first decade in charge made him feel a bit man”.
Murray: “Too many people go through their lives never taking chances”.
Roger Isaacs, “All the evidence I’ve seen suggests that the money invested in Rangers has come from the bank”.
Mark Daly: “Sir David Murray left Rangers hopelessly exposed”.
Andrew Ellis: “Whyte told me Prince Albert of Monaco wanted to invest in Rangers.
“I see him every weekend, he wants to get involved.”
Prince Albert’s assistant: “His royal highness doesn’t know this Craig Whyte. His royal highness does not want to invest in this club”.
Murray, “I was duped”.
Speirs, “I believe [Murray] was duped”.
Old Murray friend, “David Murray is not the type of person to be duped by anyone”.
Whyte leaked email, “I have forwarded the projected financial projections to Mike McGIll (of Murray Group). These are not what we will use, they are not sustainable, but they are what the independent board committee want to see”.
Aiden Earley, on money said to be paid from Rangers to Barnstead Athletic, “The £250k that you refer to did not come from Rangers…. In the politest possible way I would very much never like to hear from you again in the context of Rangers”.
Alastair Johnston, Whyte turned out to be “a blatant liar”.
Sammy’s angry.
Gary Whitey, emailed Whyte and David Grier of Duff and Phelps in April 2011, “the Ticketus agreements will become unconditional”.
Duff and Phelps are suing Craig Whyte and his legal team for not disclosing the involvement of Ticketus in repaying Rangers bank debt. The BBC have emails to confirm that David Grier attended the meeting on 24 April 2011 where the Ticketus funding was arranged.
Duff and Phelps claim they knew about “a” Ticketus deal, not “the” Ticketus deal.
Duff and Phelps agreed to be interviews and then pulled out 30 minutes before the arranged time.
Grier, of Duff and Phelps, emailed in June 2011 Ticketus to say “We’ll arrange to get an invoice to you ASAP”.
Roger Issacs, Institute of Chartered Accountants, “I would expect Duff and Phelps to stand down or be forcibly replaced”.
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wee bazza 2.5 mil
Certainly get Murray tubed!
Still sitting out in the back garden in sunny ruglen sipping the fizzy pinot. Have I started celebrating too early?
S
P.S. For those of us abroad, please tell us the main points and not just comments like “now yer done fir” which need a crystal ball to understand.
“Mr Busted Flush”
Flushed.
What a scandal.. Lovin the old ranker names …. Wattereus..
Brilliant, Campbell Ogilvie along the corridor!
murray “categorically no second contracts at ibrox”
then list goes on -but key names
ferguson
mcleish
PLG
all got millions on top of basic salary….boooooom
Ogilville declined to be interviewed
There’s an effin’ surprise
Bastards, absolute cheating bastards.
Big Eck – £1.7M.
Some of the players who received payments were stunningly bad – which is ironic.
Pity Sebo isn’t on the list.
Denia
Aye,am with you,we want every kick o’ the ba’
Ogilvie statement ignores the rules. all payments must be through the contract… No ebt, no side letters…
Hope Michael Johnston is watching this!
sammi this a bang
We never had a chance against them.
If this is just some of the evidence from the Tribunal then they are doomed.
Their license must be revoked.
Wee bazza and Klos. Eck & PLG The roll of shame…
Hampden now :-))))))))))))
Football authorities will be watching ha ha ha
Boys taking a chance ,interviewing outside ibrox.
PLG £200K.
Vipbox – IGNORE the ads. They’re not real warnings. Just close them (the close buttons are often cunningly hidden).
The stream is working fine now and no more ads.
To get the facts keep reading the main post. Paul is adding bits as the documentary proceeds.
S
I hate them with all my heart. Burn in hell rangers!!
How can anyone ever defend this mob again?
Cheating on a massive scale – both in tax and in football terms.
Read a roll of dis honour
Brian Quin , Fergus McCann, Peter Lawell and Dermot Desmond, are REAL business men.
Only one word can describe them – cheats!
Our achievements against these bastardos is all the more commendable.
Metal? – Mickey?
Night-night Grimmond……………
Joanna – Lumley – Crack – etc…
Feck your union jack
We want OUR trophies back !
What larks.
will DM be in an institution in scotland lol
How many tainted titles? Tarnished cups?
This is the equivalent of ten years worth of match fixing.
whither Goughy?
Bonfire of the Vanities.
If 40 per cent of huns used them between 2000-10 I’m fair hoping there was at least one player in every game.