The seemingly chaotic life of the Scottish Football League chief executive, David Longmuir, appears more predictable after First Division clubs made their feelings on league reconstruction known. Significant amounts of trickle-down money is available from the SPL to second-tier clubs from next season if they vote to merge the league organisations, which is likely to result in an 18 team bottom league. Longmuir managed to put a spoke in the wheels of a considerable majority in favour of reconstruction but his hopes will be denied.
Three weeks ago we reported speculation that Longmuir aspired to a job at Newco Rangers. Yesterday he responded by saying, “I know there are different expressions of conspiracy going on but I don’t deal in conspiracy, I deal in fact and honesty”. You can bookmark that for future reference.
I predict that the conspiracy will soon merge with fact and honesty – if Newco can still afford to recruit next season.
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Unbelievable.
Charles Green admits to the fact that he and his fellow cohort , have lied to Craig Whyte , to hoodwink him.
How can he possibly be trusted by anyone?
What a fool to admit this in a national newspaper , when a legal trial awaits.
The Scorpion and the frog comes to mind, but there seems to be more than one scorpion.
TT
Kayal33
Lenny out , MON in.
That would do me.(:-)
It’s probably crossed Chuckles mind that Whytie has him on tape.
So who has duped whom?
Or are they working together in the continued duping of the hun masses?
TinyTim
08:46 on
5 April, 2013
Lenny to stay. Should he go then MON shouldn’t even be on shortlist. He’s had his day, it was great while it lasted, but he’s yesterday’s man
BMCUW
The ‘Telegraph’ photo?
Neil had a dry throat and was merely rinsing out his mouth.
Nothing to see here – move along!
HH!!
Kayal33
I am normally not a believer in players or ex managers returning.
However MON has a pint to prove to some.
Can he cut it on a reduced budget?
I think he can.
There is however no vacancy , so my comment is pure theatre .(:-)
TT
All this talk of drinking habits.
Pint = Point
TT
So what is Whyte trying to win back, oldco,sevco or newco,or coffin,grave or the corpse..?
TINY TIM 0844
Gonna unashamedly use your excellent analogy to link it to this Northern Soul classic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_ZBqpEUbik
Now which one is which,I wonder?
My betting is both of them think that they are clever reptiles who found a patsy……..
NFL MUST STAY!
I don’t believe he has ever said that he wants to leave.
The Scoddish msm up to their old tricks again.
HH!!
Morning Celts and happy Friday to ye all!
I see auld Craigy bhoy is back in town, he must be looking to pick up the pieces after agent Green strips as much value/ profit out of the newco as possible before he disappears into the Green yonder.
Whistle while ye work CSC
V
And to our plc, will you be attending the FAC demo on Sat?
Have you started the fightback? What about the rfc cheating over an 11yr period, are you rolling over completely on that one?
Is it any wonder the Celtic support are questioning this?
Action not statements CSC
Official Celtic POTY Dinner 2013
Sunday April 28th at the Thistle hotel Glasgow.
Tickets £150 each.
I have access to 2 tickets for this Gala dinner event.
Mix with Lenny and the Bhoys.
Interested parties can contact me at
andrew.watt16@btinternet.com
TT
championés championés championés
Great news about wee Oscar.
Off oot with wee Riley.
V
COORSLAD
Dunno,but the MSM will report it as a triumph for whichever one wins,and assign the combined history of Ajax,Bayern,Man U and Liverpool to newhunco.
Nae Timmytitles from the latin countries-they will simply be expunged.
Hey presto-drat,was that eyetie?-the world’s most successful club-just like the aul’ days!
Just in.
Barca have made an official complaint to UEFA regarding the referee’s performance in the match with PSG.
Paranoid so they are! Nearly as bad as us! :-)
HH!!
BMCUW
Keep On Keeping On✊
TT
TALLYBHOY
Neil Lennon to EVERTON?
The longest serving manager in England apart from SAF and AW is gonna stand down or leave?
Where do they get this from? Apart from the usual garbage about Neil,it’s a downright insult to the manager and chairman of Everton,suggesting that one is gonna dump the other
That’s the first and probably last Sun article I’ll read for a while. Does Jabba just write this for them and get them to print. It didn’t take long to find the cliched “tough talking Yorkshire-man.”
It seems Green is good and Whyte is bad in SMSM land; there’s something half right about that.
I did like the subliminal message though: “Green branded Whyte…”
Nike should sponsor these two.
WelcomebackdearleaderCSC
Oh,bollocks.
Post 666
Nae bets for me today at Aintree…………
Chuckles stated:
Last night he said: “Whyte is trying to tout that he was behind the whole deal. He says he has tape recordings of Imran and me saying that he is Sevco 5088. Which is all true. We were warned before we ever met him that he would be taping things
Who warned Chuck that CW was taping all his business conversations? Was it his deputy head of media? Was it the oldest young manger? Was it Paul Murray?
Whoever it was, given that, unlike Sandaza, Chuckles knew he was being recorded he would have been incredibly stupid to say something that could potentially implicate him in something dodgy!
The most explosive part of the whole jing-bang isn’t the allegation that Chuck was the front for CW in removing assets from a soon to be liquidated company, or the allegation that investors were misled in that pertinent information was withheld from the market prospectus, or the allegation that Chuck told porkies in order to acquire an asset, no, the most shocking, baffling, stunning, mind-blowing and earth shattering thing is that….BOMBER WAS RIGHT!!!!!!
Folllllow the muuuuunnneeyyy!
So if this reconstruction goes through,they have won a league that will no longer exist..champions for a couple of months..another world record..
The piece Celtic_First has pasted above is essentially the rebuttal piece by Green to the main story, pasted below. There are a couple of interesting aspects to it.
Firstly, from a reporting perspective, the rebuttal has been given the same prominence than the main story, which itself rather glosses over what looks to be fairly explosive material – that Green was Whyte’s puppet who reneged.
Secondly, if Whyte’s story is true – that Sevco 5088 was his vehicle and that Green unlawfully transfered the assets of 5088 to Sevco Scotland following the acquisition, why has he waited until months after the floatation to attempt a remedy?
Surely it would have been much more straightforward to obtain an injunction to the float, and get the matter settled at that point?
Or is it simply that Sevco in whatever form needed the share issue to keep trading, and a challenge at that point would have sunk the whole project?
You got to hand it to Whyte though. The man simply adores disaster. It follows where ever he goes. We should rename him. How about Whirlwind Whyte?
By KENNY McALPINE and GRAEME DONOHOE
Published: 9 hrs ago
DEFIANT Craig Whyte claims he STILL owns Rangers — and chief executive Charles Green was a frontman for HIM.
Disgraced Whyte insists he has a dossier of evidence which proves his case.
And he claims he has proof to back up his allegation that he was conned.
The Scottish Sun has seen a bombshell warning letter Whyte sent to Green and former Rangers director Imran Ahmad days before the recent £22million flotation deal.
We have also obtained secret recordings Whyte made in meetings with Green, Ahmad and Ibrox finance director Brian Stockbridge apparently discussing the takeover of Rangers.
Whyte — who plans a £50million court case — says the evidence proves he and partner Aidan Earley were conned in that deal and the subsequent flotation in December was ILLEGAL.
And he says he also has evidence his involvement in the takeover was kept secret from the SPL and SFL. Last night a source said: “These are dynamite claims and it will be interesting if this does end up in the courts. Conspiracy theorists will be having a field day.”
Sevco 5088 Ltd and Green bought Rangers for £5.5million in June, 2012.
Green transferred the assets — including Murray Park and Ibrox — to a new company called Sevco Scotland days later. Whyte claims the £50million assets were transferred illegally because Green didn’t have his or Earley’s permission. His warning letter — prepared by a London QC — says Whyte and Earley intend to sue Green and Ahmad for deception and breach of contract.
It says Earley approached Ahmad at finance firm Zeus Capital to participate in the takeover, as Whyte wanted a frontman. He believed his negative publicity would “hinder any deal”.
The letter says Ahmad then told Earley he had ‘just the right guys’ — referring to businessman Rafat Rizvi and Green. Whyte claims Ahmad introduced Green and Rizvi to him at a London hotel on May 1 last year. It’s alleged Rizvi and Ahmad agreed to raise funds for the deal while Green would front it. The letter also says that all parties agreed Earley and Whyte would have a majority shareholding in Sevco 5088.
And it alleges that Ahmad, Rizvi, Green and Earley would share a £250,000 fee and ten per cent of share capital raised.
In one of Whyte’s recordings of their meetings, Green says: “You are Sevco, that’s what we are saying.” In a second tape Ahmad discusses Rizvi and how he will represent him on the board. He says: “Charles can’t do anything… you should regard us as your reps (inaudible) no loyalties to Charles, to Rafat (inaudible) as well.” And in the third Ahmad says he could only be the chief executive officer of Rangers if he got the go-ahead from Whyte, and that Green was terrified of the job.
Ahmad says: “I could do that but that can only be at your insistence, only with your majority stake. He’s terrified of the job, it’s a high pressure job.”
Green, 59, has always denied that venture capitalist Whyte was part of his consortium but has admitted meeting him in London.
Last night he said: “Whyte is trying to tout that he was behind the whole deal. He says he has tape recordings of Imran and me saying that he is Sevco 5088. Which is all true. We were warned before we ever met him that he would be taping things.
“What we had to do at the start was get the confidence of this guy for him to give us the shares, to give us the debentures, to do a whole raft of things. I’m not worried about what I’ve said on tape.”
Whyte’s warning letter says December’s flotation on the AIM Stock would “perpetrate a fraud” on himself and potential investors as the assets were still owned by him through Sevco 5088.
But Green hit back: “The only agreements that I entered into with Craig Whyte were that he would hand the shares over and the indemnity to enable the CVA to go ahead and in the event that it didn’t go ahead then those shares and that company would go back to Whyte.
“It would be no good to me anyway because we were now going down the Newco route and that’s why we had this Sevco 5088 and Sevco Scotland.
“The agreements between Craig Whyte and Sevco were that that was conditional on the CVA.”
BMCUW
NFL will never go to Everton – they play in blue ffs!
…and they have Jellyfish and Naitalent on their books! Granpa Weir is also the reserve coach I believe!
Is there not a chapel at Goodison ‘tho? Don’t know why I mentioned that!
HH!!
Good to see Jim Goodwin backing NFL and ridiculing the ridiculous trumped up charge from the SFA. To paraphrase he’s been called much worse in training. Difficult to see where they go with this one now the ‘victim’ finds it ridiculous.
I hope the Paisley Puritans weren’t watching the Boat Race.
TinyTim
08:46 on
5 April, 2013
Kayal33
Lenny out , MON in.
That would do me.(:-)
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MO’N wouldn’t contemplate returning to Celtic on a limited transfer budget. Absolutely no way he would work under the financial restraints Lenny has. Not many experienced coaches would. If NL leaves who would we replace him with? Coyle -? not for me. If Lenny leaves we could be in a wee bit of trouble management wise.
We need some proper investment in the team – a couple of quality seasoned pros and leaders. 1 quality CB and a ‘football playing’ midfielder not just another defensive spoiler type athelete masquerading as a footballer.
For my tuppence worth – Lambert, Henke, Dolph management triumvirate for me. May not work but it will sell some SB – worth 600 quid just to see Henke every week :-)
Where the heck are my sedatives………?
Re Neil Lennon
Good to See Jim Goodwin and Pat Fenlon coming out and backing Neil Lennon
God bless the Fenian Brotherhood
Ogilive and friends at the house of hun will be hurting
I see some are pandering to the msm agenda of demonising NEIL …….fortunately, he will be our esteemed manager for many years to come….
Forza Wee Oscar..
Great reading this morning…..and our Board knew this would happen …….
Battered Bunnet – so whyte held off til chuck got the money or maybe whyte thought chuck had no chance on raising the money – like of all of us ( in fact many of us believe part of the reason for the cash-flow issues is that all the share money never turned up ).
So if whyte sees green has he money he is interested again – big time. He also knows it’s time for the gullible to stump up season ticket money. He couldnt have picked a more strategic time to go after Green and his Sevco assists – cash-flow issues / season ticket golden goose. Chucks ruthless cull of sandaza , pip, Murray and stadium manager shows whyte that he will need to play hardball to win. Hence the sun, court case etc. Seat belts on for the sequel and it could be better than original. Whatever happens the only losers are the club from ibrox.
I have only one regret after months I am back to my fighting fit weight…..please no more jelly and ice cream.
From today’s DR (save them the hit!)
RANGERS are about to be hit with yet another bill after a panel ruled they are liable for the legal expenses of five former players they were in contract disputes with.
Sone Aluko, Kyle Lafferty, Steven Naismith, Jamie Ness and Allan McGregor all quit the club when it was placed in liquidation last year.
The players refused to transfer their contracts from the old company to the new one, which the club challenged.
Now the panel has ruled that Rangers should pay all legal bills relating to the dispute.
The panel was established and facilitated under the SFA’s articles of association after agreement was reached by the club and players over who should represent each side of the dispute, with a chair appointed to review both parties’ claims.
However, the SFA is not directly involved in the arbitration process and has no influence over any decisions taken by the panel.
Wonder what the FF reaction to the sun story is? After all they only realised that they were in financial trouble once the DR confirmed it.
Has the penny arcade dropped yet?
If you were an investor in Sevco and read Charming Charles
tell us that he would have told Craigy bhoy anything to get him
to sign up what would you think ?
Or a horde of Zombies who have bought the Team Adidas
£10 million war chest, 500 million fans and 100 million turnover
claptrap.
Green and Whyte deserve each other as my friends Old dad used to say.
Lie down with dogs get up with fleas.
The penny drops:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hc_rMiTxizg&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Tallybhoy good Tim club…..Our Lady of Everton.went to see them beat Man u in the cup final with a Paul Rideout goal. Great day only ruined a tad by Ray Clemence after lunch speech cracking poor taste jokes about Daniel Amocachi who was an Everton player at the time. Got Clemence back by asking him about Kennys goal at hampden thru his legs. Response from him was as long as there are bxxxxxxxx like you I will never be allowed to forget it. The smile from the young coloured waitress is still an image today.