Just a few days after the Blue Knight’s offered Craig Whyte £500k for his shares in Rangers Our Hero sold to Charles Green, who is now owner of the embattled football club, for £2. Craig has doubled his money in a year after buying Rangers for £1 last May, but as he accepted a bid for his shares a quarter of a million times smaller than that of the Blue Knights, curiosity has peaked.
For many months Celtic Quick News has billed Craig Whyte as the only show in town, that he would only sell to someone who paid his substantial asking price, or who was his proxy. No one is suggesting Whyte has pocketed £2 for his trouble and dropped off the scene in a sudden bout of benevolence. There is clearly tons we don’t know about this deal.
We’re grateful to Paul McConville for his research on Charles Green today. I am sure Paul only spent a short time researching the subject but it was nonetheless a fruitful endeavour.
I may have missed specific reference to his security over Ibrox but Mr Green does not have the disposition of someone who owns a football club without a ground, so it would be reasonable to assume that Whyte’s security is now in the control of Green. In time we’ll find out how these assets changed hands but I suspect nothing will be said publicly on this subject for now.
Craig Whyte did not start the Rangers crisis, he never had an EBT from the club and he repaid all of Rangers bank debt. He has been enormously entertaining during his 53 weeks in charge and, from the little information provided on the 20-or-so mostly-anonymous venture capitalists who now own Rangers, he has passed the club onto what looks like an equally rewarding group of people.
If nothing else, he parted ensuring what is left of the club didn’t get into the hands of the Rangers support, accompanied by a pushy investor with deep pockets.
Cheers for that, Craig. Once this blows over, we need to get you in for the Paradise Windfall.
I’m still freezing. Hug a radiator CSC.
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Joey Barton would be to Celtic, what Anders Behring Breivik would be to the Little Sisters of the Poor.
God Forbid that Celtic would ever contemplate such a heinous individual.
if they could sign then laud players like hurlock hateley and elbows
barton is maybe the trying to impress the guys from the marble staircase
hh
Kilbowie Kelt on 13 May, 2012 at 23:53 said:,
Correct.
aldersyde avenue;
Yes, but Hateley would have said it of Fleckaldinho, a re-signed Davie Weir and a returning Nacho Novo!
Cults’ has made a very valid point.
This season Twenty’s plenty….but next season Fifty will be nifty!
crushednuts
This type of money?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETxmCCsMoD0&ob=av2e
Barton may be a thug however when his mind is right hes a decent player, still wouldnt want him at CP.
aldersyde avenue on 13 May, 2012 at 23:20 said:
Dirtymac
UEFA will not get involved. Let me repeat that
UEFA WILL NOT GET INVOLVED.
There is as much chance of UEFA intervening as Paul’s suggestion in yestedays article happening.
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The only way Newco can get a icense to play in UEFA competitions isfOR UEFA to be involved.
UEFA need do nothing, the situation is already covered.
The SFA could make a case but I doubt they have any grounds and UEFA would then have to make a decision, but that means they have to act. The only way they will get involved is to say yes or no, but given they are looking at excluding clubs who use CVAs to avoid tax and continue as Oldcos from playing then a yes is very, very unlikely for a Newco.
The only question will be when the three years begins. Rangers do not have a license for next season having failed 3 licensing criteria. So will the 3 years click in the season after next or next? I think next but no UEFA money 2012/13, 2013/14, 2014/15 so it will be season 2015/16.
Bartons not a bad player, nut job perhaps but he did make some suprisingly open and thoughful comments about homosexuality in football in a recent documentry. Strange guy
KK – you think that’s appropriate, using that bastard’s name on here?
Shocking analogy.
T4
Just watched bbc barton incident again.
Paul, can you add this thugs name to your language filter? Any mention of this disgusting specimen of a human being in a Celtic context should get a yellow card.
Off to bed
This team has more promise than I’ve seen in any Celtic side for a long, long time. This season has taught us, however, that we need to stay strong, united, and behind the man… because there will be disappointments, some bad ones, along the way. Its not how we treat victory, but adversity, that defines us.
oiche mhaith
TTT,
What?
Seen a helluva lot worse.
Doesnt excuse him but before Barton lost it Tevez did kick him as showed on sky.
New Alex Thomson post up.
Posted to RTC
No to Newclub
HH
bigphil47,
cheers bud
Charles Green plans to skydive into Ibroke whilst singing ‘When a Man Love a Woman’ just as Brian Kennedy goes to the mary whitehouse, ‘How’d ya like them apples?’
Kilbowie Kelt,
Did you ever go on the Clydebank Emerald?
Good night Champs. Just give a knowing smile when the Huns in your work start talking about Green, CVA’s, etc.
They’ve had a hard time of it lately! :-)
T4
Jim Ballantyne just happened to be in Belfast and was invited to the hund raising event according keevins. Oh and sumdae stuck a badge in his lapel. Hope it didnae cover that wee fly badge the masons always wear??
Hugh, am going to speak to my lawyer if you keep insulting my intelligence!!
What if Neil announced tomorrow that Joey Barton was one of his major summer targets?
Cuellar been released by Villa….with Fojut deal falling through this might be good business
Any pics of Lenny putting the cup down in front of the G B??
6 players out tomorrow.Majstorovic,McGinn,Loovens,Cha,M.Wilson and Spence.
jude
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNy9_QzRDRw&feature=youtu.be
CultsBhoy loves being 1st forever & ever on 13 May, 2012 at 23:38 said:
antrimkev
Harsh on Coyle…
Really?
Compare MON to coyle
Woud love to be a fly on the wall when Bartley goes back to arsenal.
First session, he halves three people, then starts shelling 60 yard diagonals.
The look on Wengers face……… What has happened to zis boy…….?
Craig Whyte has agreed that Charles Green and Brian Kennedy can cage-fight for CW’s stake in the ranjurz. Normal rules apply, last man standing wins dependent on coiffurage. Brian Kennedy has already appealed. ‘It ain’t what you it’s the way that you do it!’
O’Higgins…get in there
Apparently @Joey7Barton doesn’t much like Shearer.
seperated at birth: Joey Barton & Elbows McCulloch, two thugs in search of a fight
TTTT,
I unreservedly apologise for offending your finely honed sensitivities.
I can only abjectly seek your forgiveness.
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Tricoloured Ribbon on 14 May, 2012 at 00:01 said: ….
I did indeed, when they left from Cart Street about half a century ago.
Willie O’Neill & George ‘Pudgie’ Maxwell ran the bus at that time.
Fantastic memories.
Great days.
Barton chat is just a bit of Fun – he is a player with a market in EPL not SPL
He’s an intelligent guy, a brilliant footballer but clearly a complex character who is so fucused on winning he can totally lose it.
If he were announced as our summer target I would be delighted as I think every team needs winners, every team needs a maniac
besides I like guys who make Ballotelli fill his pants – did anyone else notice Mario hit reverse when Barton went for him? LOL!!!
Shearer, twat, the stropp he had after booting Lenny in the face, ban me and I won’t play for engerland, pure scum of a man.
think too much pop been consumed tonight by the state of some of the posts in here, mine included, time for bed, need to rest ma smiley muscles for work tomorrow
WE ARE CELTIC
CHAMPIONS
WE ARE CELTIC
HAIL, HAIL
GOODNIGHT AND GODBLESS
ps: ah knew in october we’d skate the league, lolololololol
hh
THE EXILED TIM on 14 May, 2012 at 00:15 said
true
fair play to Barton – he is a chesire cat for getting sent off
but at least when he got sent off he makes sure he got a few and made it look good
When big micah came across to him he stopped acting the big lad though
Kilbowie Kelt,
I was a young cub then lad.Mick McGuinness was ma mentor.Connollys Bar.
TET
Brill ta. You dont happen to have one of my grandson he’s in there somewhere?? lol