Celtic have been dragged into a former club’s scandal today by Scotland’s former best-selling daily newspaper, who have completely misrepresented issues surrounding the registration of Juninho.
The newspaper makes the astonishing and completely inaccurate claim that the “SPL have revealed they decided not to investigate Celtic’s EBT payment to Juninho”.
The SPL have investigated Celtic’s EBT payment to Juninho. They found Celtic acted absolutely in line with the rules and this week issued a statement confirming this. To tell people otherwise is recklessly inaccurate.
A front page statement proclaims:
“Hoops in clear because Juninho only received cash AFTER he left the club”
Utter nonsense. It’s a bit like saying:
“Hoops in clear because Juninho’s name begins with the letter J”
A true reflection would read:
“Hoops in clear because they discharged the registration and entire employment process of Juninho in a correct manner and no differently than the way every other SPL club has registered players”
When Juninho “received the cash” has nothing whatsoever to do with Celtic being “in the clear”. It is, frankly, an embarrassing attempt to pander to the paranoia of others and betrays a fundamental lack of knowledge.
The newspaper also dedicated all-but-one column of their back page, and part of an inside page, to the ‘story’ of how Celtic “didn’t end up in the dock”. Compare this to the coverage the same newspaper gave to the actual SPL statement on Juninho, released in an earlier attempt to dampen-down ill-informed paranoia, which received a tiny, 35-word, 1-inch back page note and a single column inside the paper.
Throughout recent weeks a basic misunderstanding of the legality of EBTs appears to have taken root in some minds. It is as though some mass psychological phenomenon is at play. Or maybe it’s just a deliberate attempt to confuse the easily confused?
EBTs are not against football, or specifically, player registration, rules. This is accepted as fact by anyone even vaguely familiar with the rules, yet we have some, who should know better, tell us that Rangers’ EBTs were recorded in their annual accounts, as though this is some defence against player registration charges, or that others should join them ‘in the dock’, because they used an EBT.
The matter in hand is not the use of EBTs, it’s about player registrations. You can pay players in EBTs, folding notes or Dutch tulip bulbs, as long as you register him correctly. And pay your tax.
Player registration rules are categorically clear, clubs must register all contracts with the SFA and SPL. All monies due in relation to football must appear on those contracts. Juninho’s contract was registered correctly.
On this issue, Celtic are exposed to the joint analysis of other 11 SPL clubs and the other 93 SFA clubs (counting both Ibrox based clubs), who control the rules and their scrutiny.
There are limits to what an employer can publicly reveal about a former employee’s personal financial details, but Celtic have revealed all facts concerning Juninho’s employment to the SFA and SPL.
Their conduct was investigated, was found to be absolutely and completely impeccable AND in line with SFA advice on player registration.
All I am wondering about is, should we be happy that those who should be planning for some serious headwinds are instead following a ridiculous wild goose chase?
I think so. That being the case, what are people trying to divert attention from? Hmmm.
Last week I met John Maguire, managing director of Celtic Development Pools. John’s been there for 30 years, the enthusiasm for youth player development is tangible when you listen to him talk. He’s at the coal face, raising money for the enormous youth development project which brings players like James Forrest into the club, and also polished Tony Watt into the exciting talent he is.
The ‘Pools predate my time but today’s fabulous harvest of young talent was made more possible by the Paradise Windfall, which now pays £15,000 each home game and has been the largest lottery in world football for years. Income from the Pools and Paradise Windfall generates around £1.5m each season.
The coaches at Lennoxtown (and most fans) know how important it is for Celtic’s youth scouting and development to be the very best it can be. It has to be world class. For the guys at the Pools office, the challenge is clear, fund this ambition.
To this end, this weekend the Development Pools launch TikPick. For £1 you can win a cash prize for predicting 10 results. It’s not a lot of money and none of it will go towards putting fuel in a £100k motor car. This is a grass-roots level investment in our future. Go take a look here.
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In 4 or 5 posts a poster has thrown about terms like moron and retard. The poster also accuses others of racism and hunnism at a whim.
Yet said poster states that others must learn what it is to be a Tim.
Think he is protesting too much and in the process coming across as very unTim.
For anybody that still does not believe that the main aim of Celtic Football Club is missionary work. Check out this list of converts.
More Celtic Conflicts Of Interest For SPL Dual Contract Investigation
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Published on Friday, 14 September 2012 02:07
Written by boss
The web is indeed tangled – for a detailed analysis see the flowchart produced by chubbybrown and others. Here’s another link to add to the huge, and growing, collection.
The auditors of Celtic are of course PKF who have been in place for almost twenty years since the days of Fergus McCann. Celtic’s accounts were signed off by PKF’s Senior Statutory Auditor, Charles Barnett.
Barnett has an interesting history of football supporting – a Rangers fan until McCann started using PKF, then turncoat Barnett became a supporter of Glasgow’s second most successful team.
You shouldn’t be surprised by now to know that the auditors of Harper MacLeod LLP are also PKF. Of all the auditors in the country, including much more prestigious firms than PKF, Harper MacLeod use the same firm as their client, Celtic. And of all the audit partners that could be involved, Harper MacLeod’s accounts were also signed in the pen of Charles Barnett, a man that even some of his friends describe behind his back as a complete knob.
As an aside, PKF’s Regional Managing Partner in Scotland, Martin Gill, describes one of his duties as: “develops relationships with key contacts in our high profile clients such as Celtic plc and Harper MacLeod LLP” – I’m sure he does.
So we have an interesting group of McKenzie, Lawwell and Barnett: Barnett acts for McKenzie’s and Lawwell’s firms, McKenzie’s firm has links to Barnett and Lawwell, and Lawwell’s company uses Barnett’s and McKenzie’s services. Are you keeping up?
PKF were Celtic’s auditors at the time when another turncoat, Eric Riley (yes, he was a bluenose once upon a time) was appointed as Financial Director at Celtic. Did PKF have any involvement in the process of recruiting Riley? Answers on a postcard.
And while we are talking about links between Celtic, PKF and turncoats, step forward Celtic’ Commercial Director, Adrian Filby, who used to be a Kilmarnock fan. But where did he train? Surely that’s one coincidence too many?
Before RangersMedia gets another boring solicitor’s letter, nothing improper is implied in any of the above; it’s merely to point out yet more coincidences linking Celtic and Harper MacLeod.
Remind me why the SPL used Harper MacLeod to tear into Rangers at the same time that Celtic have, apparently, no case to answer?
Srs
Aye, I find that quite incredible, takes all sorts I suppose :>)
lorbobo
This is due to your consistent moronic inability to debate your own retarded points. i.e The behaviour of a hun.
If the cap fits wear it.
I think you know you are wrong and that is why you cannot debate your points.
Your smear tactics are up there with the Daily Record … are you an avid reader or an employee ?
Hail Hail
Sevco will be dead by the end of October according to my Rapid Vienna contact.
Hail Hail
Glendalystonsils likes a mr whippy with his lime green jelly 17:12 on 14 September, 2012
“It’s all very well to say ignore them, but they need to be pulled up for this kind of cr&p”
I’m not sure they do. We all know what the statement said. And they statement was made by the people making the decisions.
If the DR want to print something else in a desperate bid to attract readers it makes little difference. It is not going to change anything.
The irony is, the readers they are trying to attract hate the DR with a passion. I’d be surprised if the DR is in business 10 years from now.
For the hun a PhD translates as fud……makes them all over-educated..
….Doctors of Violent Buffoonery, the lot.
Steinreignedsupreme
2 years from now …. they are embarking on a campaign soon to attract more women readers. Its the wives that need telt
HAil Hail
I had the misfortune to read Leggo’s blog today, I blame CQN for being down :>)
Still going on about the conspiracy between the sfa/spl and Celtic and PL in particular, and how he runs the whole shebang.
Considering the feckin mess the huns have made of runnig the game for the past 100 and odd years…….
I for one am delighted that PL is running the show !!!
IGC
13:35 on 14 September, 2012
Belated WELCOME ABOARD :)))
HAIL HAIL
Awe_Naw_No_Annoni_Oan_Anaw_Noo 17:25 on 14 September, 2012
Sounds like it is down to Just Joan then.
So Brown’s definitely starting tomorrow, then?
It’s obviously gratifying that a player deemed to have a degenerative injury and ear-marked for big games only has made such a quick return to fitness, but it still seems a bit odd. However, Ledley is out, if the comments of the manager are anything to go by, so I wouldn’t have Brown in tomorrow’s team.
So here goes yet another team selection destined to bite the dust:
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Forster ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
Lustig :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Wilson ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Rogne ::::::::::::::::::::::: Izaguirre
Matthews :::::::::::::::::::::: Wanyama :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Twardzik ::::::::::::::::::::: McCourt
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Commons :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Hooper ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
P.S. Huge relief that Sammi’s injury isn’t as bad as feared and that he may even be fit for the Spartak Moscow clash. Our best player in Europe, without a doubt.
Is this not a Timposium?
Aye…got it…jaicket ➡➡➡
Ha ha! I kinda like that look (4-4-1 gone mental)
When lining up supporters to be interviewed for the CQN TV videos at Celtic Park, we asked did they know Celtic Quick News. Approximately 1 in 3 did so we have some way to go to reach awareness levels of the MSM. CQN had over 200,000 unique users for the last month of season. That number of Celtic supporters is way beyond what any single red top can deliver, so other than word of mouth and online chat, the MSM influence is unquestionably less than they would like us to believe. Newsnight Scotland was making a similar point last night in relation to their importance to the forthcoming Independence debate.
up_over_goal
we got a red card already then;) Its like what Roy Keane(not while playing for us but might as well have been)… ‘I just know i’m going to be booked by certain referees’ and said to one ref in the tunnel pre-match ‘you might as well book me now and get it over with!’
HH
Good article Paul but hardly surprising stuff.
The Daily Record are in business to stay in business – not to publish facts.
If the Turnbull Huttons of this world have proven anything its that the landscape can change if people look beyond conventional parameters and stand up for something.
For me, three things should happen.
1) Celtic should ban the Daily Record from Celtic Park. We’ve banned fans for life if they commit one disgraceful act. This rag is a serial offender.
2) Celtic should display the SPL statement on the big screens at the next 3 home games
3) If someone was throwing bricks through the windows at Celtic Park, would you give them money to buy more bricks??? Celts like us here on this site should be bold in telling our fellow fans “This rag is hurting the club you love. You can be a Celtic supporter or a Daily Record reader ; you can’t be both.”
Hail Hail
Up over goal
You’re not McCourt’s agent by any chance?
McCourt to start again for some…. Been a long time since he put in a good performance from the starting11
winning captains
I agree.
The internet banpots find the information, but the MSM still have the megaphone.
Untill the MSM said anything about the huns situ, nothing was being said or done.
A sad reality.
Awe_Naw_No_Annoni_Oan_Anaw_Noo
17:21 on 14 September, 2012
Sevco will be dead by the end of October according to my Rapid Vienna contact.
Hail Hail.
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:)))) been waiting to hear something about that ,I knew they had given der hun till 31st august to pay in full NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO chance.
HAIL HAIL
CQN had over 200,000 unique users for the last month of season.
Are we saying that 4 out of 5 people with CQN accounts are not real Celtic supporters…i.e don’t have season tickets?
hamiltontim
I like my footballers like I like my 1970s character actors – underrated.
leftclickltic
Celtic seeking reassurances that Scottish teams will not be banned next season due to Chuck greens inability to pay an October deadline brokered by the SFA.
SFA skating on thin ice.
HAil Hail
Back to Basics
do we still allow them advertising space within the stadium?
We should have got tough with them years ago and given them minimal cooperation until they dropped their agenda.
HH
THE EXILED TIM 17:26 on 14 September, 2012
“I had the misfortune to read Leggo’s blog today”
I caught up on the Legless output today.
He appears to be sober this week. Despite that, there is no substance in anything he writes. Too much ambiguity to be taken seriously … ‘some people believe’, ‘apparently’ ect, ect, ect. You would think David Jakey Legless could back up his claims with all those sources he has…
But he can’t get a job. He needs to get back on the vodka and orange SOON!!!
So, this site has a readership of over 200,000. If everybody sent 1 email of complaint to the DR, would it make a difference. Probably not. The hun is their main source of income ; I don’t give the rag even as long as 10 years.
Eventually they’ll have to print the truth….it’ll be unavoidable. And the reaction will make The Fall of The House of Usher seem like a comedy ; and that’ll be that. A broken Record.
up_over_goal
John Cazale would be great in midfield. If he wasn’t 30 years dead…
Awe Naw
Is that the same monies due to football associations outwith scotland ???
The same money that has to be paid to fullfill their licence agreement……..
Awe_Naw_No_Annoni_Oan_Anaw_Noo
Thanks for update
Till later .
HAIL HAIL
TET
that´s the one.
But they are not alone.
Chuck was giving the ECA the same line as he was giving the SPL.
SFA of the belief that as long as Sevco exist that is the main thing for now.
They are gambling.
Celtic have NOT been given reassurances regarding a blanket ban from UEFA for Scotland
HAil HAil
Steinreignedsupreme
Even the hun blogs see him as a jakey, but they still believe the crap he writes.
A good thing really, it takes their tiny minds off their real problems.
Awe Naw
I’ve not got shares am I not a real Celtic supporter??? :-)
Salmond booed at Glasgow Olympic parade.
Good.
Awe_Naw
We can see this situ a couple of ways.
If the sfa are proven to be so incompitent and corrupt, and we are a casualty of their folly, it’s a godsend for us to escape…
Or we say nothing and end up like them.
I can’t see the suits saying nothing.
I hope that the sfa collapses, I honestly think it’s our best hope of escaping the hell.
The Panatloon Duck
Yes, indeed. Gone too soon from this earth – if we could combine his forehead with Majstorovic’s body, we’d have had a great CB.
Back to Basics – Glass Half Full
Great post!
I would just add that , in my dreams, the “Turnbull Huttons” – and I am sure there are many – replace the “Campbell Ogilvies”.
HT
:-)))
You spend 65 years supporting Celtic you become a pensioner and then can no longer afford a ST. That means oot skoot your oot ?????
Some peepil on here need to give themselves a shake
And naw the spelling is accurate :-)))
Anyways long time no hear.
How are you doing. Have the kids broken you this year yet ?
HAil Haikl