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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Getting criminal now…
After an interesting first 15mins this is getting a bit boring
Letter they showed about proof of fundsrers to newco being formed during may
The noddin’ donkey……
Aye.
How good will it be if the big house guy comes on?
Judge Judy taking tomorrow off!!
‘One of the biggest names in football on the planet’
pmsl
Why does Alistair Johnston remind me of Pontius Pilate?
It’s not like I have met either of them.
Duff and Phelps getting it now
is Sammy in a garden hut?
Bring on the Duffers
“one of the biggest names on the planet”
tell us sammy, are rangers in the top 50 world football brands?
I know one scottish team who is :)
Here goes duff and Phelps….
NUFF N HELLPS coming up.
And over on RangersMedia……… Their fans are laughing at this programme, typical Huns!!
SFFS
Paul67
Great updates lol!
Duff&Duffer bye bye…
That’s in Sammy’s planet obviously
Rangers the gift that keeps on giving!!!
haha ‘not quite true’
TAL
GLASGOW RANGERS, SLIPPING BEHIND THE TATTERED BLUE CURTAINS IN THE FOOTBALL CREAMATORIUM!
Loving “The Data Room”! Someone should show it to Doncaster…
obonfanti1888 on 23 May, 2012 at 20:20 said:
“Ogilville declined to be interviewed”
He was unavailable because he was having a good night out with Chic Young …. no change from £95,000.
Who leaked all these emails? I want names.
“Not quite…true”. An early contender for understatement of the year!
“We don’t do cheating”
nothin’ from charles or jim???
The huns wont be laughing when the padlock goes on and we get those trophies…
Duff and Phelps
rotflpmsl
The PR man of D&P is called Ramsay. Is that a first name?
(Ok, so it might be Ramzi I guess….)
Oh they are screwed so many differnt ways.
All of the skeletons are coming out of the cupboard at once.
Sammys angry
lol
Did he just say “Ramsay”???
Not Media “Big” House agin??????
:)
Oh dear Ramsay, got roasted by Mark Daly on the phone lol
Grier, hide and seek champion of the world (Whyte and Murray disqualified)
Is the data room a bit like when they have the blackboard on Crimewatch?
Prince Albert is excited about investing in Rankers…..LLLOOOLLL
Sammy
You’re hosting redundant tattoos.
Indelible reminders of the long con you happily participated in.
As long as they had money eh?
Even borrowed money runs out Sammy…
U
Sammy, you’re the man! Cue ‘Only An Excuse’!