“I brought Charles Green in to buy Rangers” screams the BBC headline ahead of this evening’s interview by Chris McLaughlin of the Last King of Rangers, Our Hero, Craig Whyte. Whyte has retained private contact with a couple of journalists but he has previously declined earnest requests to go on the record given the level of investigation he is under. The wrong word could be costly.
But here it is, “I brought Charles Green in to buy Rangers”. An unequivocal assertion.
The interview will be broadcast on Reporting Scotland and Newsnight Scotland this evening and has been trailed by every outlet in the land (first trailed by Phil Mac Giolla Bhain last night). There appears to be genuine surprise in many news outlets. CQN’ers will be busy checking this this is, in fact, news, not a rehash of an earlier established fact (it is genuine news).
It has been a few months since Our Hero was The Only Show in Town but he can still put on a captivating performance.
Charles Green has yet to respond but he will. He has no choice. He could categorically deny the claim, citing Whyte’s court-established reliability, but to do that he’ll have to calculate that corroborating material will not emerge. The wrong word now could torpedo hopes of a successful share issue next month
A bombastic statement from well-polished PR people is what’s needed. I hope we’re not disappointed.
“I brought Charles Green in to buy Rangers”. Kaboom!
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can BDO delay the flotation on AIM while decisions have to be taken re recovery of assets ???
Jabba also said the MSM will be full of our hero tomorrow, interesting to see what his chip wrapper says.
For the record, the run away Train started rolling on 25/05/1967…it’s all Gemmell, Chalmers and Jock’s fault
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Propaganda overdrive, although it only works for a targeted few
Jabba is the Chief Exec of “The Rangers” really.
That was tripe.
Bloody shameful BBC.
@StMiley: The truth is out there http://t.co/tk9QIoYO
I reckon this will be the last season that I will contribute to anything to do with scottish football.
Had enough, they are taking us all for mugs, we are in our own way as guilty as the stupid huns, in some ways worse, we are not stupid, and yet we still contribute to a corrupt game, a game that is so feckin corrupt, they are breaking every rule in the book to accomadate a club who have cheated every other club in the land, and yet the authorities still do everything in their powers to protect them.
My money is as good as anyone elses, if they want it, they will have to sort it, or not a single cent more will be forthcoming.
Over to you Celtic, and I doubt I am in the minority.
Just watch the season books next season if you doubt me, unless something is done.
It’s a farce, they are cheating, they are stealing, they are corrupt, and they want our money, more fool me if I give the game a penny more.
Snake Plissken
23:16 on 17 October, 2012
The huns arrested this season could all have been arrested last season under the existing law.
The reason they’ve been arrested this season is because of the size of the grounds, it’s nothing to do with the new legislation. That was to crimilalise us. That nice Christine Graham MSP made that clear.
If you watched the coverage of the bill through the committee stages you would know that.
hoopsmon
23:18 on
17 October, 2012
exactly, why did we not have Jabba and Chris debate the issue, cowards……………
Jabba asks why our hero comes back now…he knows the FTT outcome and has seen the report…
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
sftbs
In fairness it was two years ago and I cannot remember every post people make even from guys who write as well as James Forrest. Perhaps I tuned out because I just thought it was politicking but I do recall being angry at the time.
I would say that Jim Murphy was rather partial and he was after all the first high profile politician to make noises of give them leniency long before the SNP. It’s cut from the same cloth as me but then again Labour did give banks freedom to do what they pleased. Maybe he felt guilty:)
Everyone has a great defense regarding Craig Whyte- he’s a liar.
Alex Salmond had better have some good answers because this is one issue folk will not just let go.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFJ3KayeUTc&feature=youtube_gdata_player
If only Paul McBride was still here. How he would have ripped them apart.SPL clubs would have hired him to sue the SFA for running Scottish football for the betterment of Rangers.Its beyond stupid.
Jabba, the BBC, what did we expect
they’re standin on the tracks arguing about how they get rid of the jobbie, and don’t see the train hurtling towards them
Prestonpans Bhoy
Cowards. One and all. Vomit inducing sycophancy. Hell will be too cold for them.
Jim Traynor was the original lead singer of Masonic Cabal…famously heckled by Dick Byrne one night at the Ole Burns Howff. The incident is referenced – symbolically – in verse 67 of Love Truncheon Blues. Dick denies to this day that it was he who through the first mutton pie…
Chris
TONYG
There are other lawyers out there as good as Paul Mc Bride was.
The clubs don’t want to rock the hun boat, they are all complicit imo.
Snake
I think it was Sir David Murray pulling in a favour having backed the SNP before the last election that Salmond accepted which shows you how little Salmond knows about the economy and current affairs. I bet he admits now that it was poor judgement.
It was warning from Murray to Celtic plc about who calls the shots. Unfortunately for us Paul Mc Bride called his bluff on behalf of Celtic plc.
One thing we know about DD and that he is not adverse to bad publicity within the Celtic support and that was the price
HH
jabba never asked one relevant question
dismissal, rhetoric and aspersion
When the hun started using tax money they were insolvant
bbc scotland are still trying to treat this as a sports story
why was jabba even on camera, this is business and finance
threw (sp)
lennybhoy…supporting neil lennon and cfc until i die
23:13 on
17 October, 2012
…..don’t know why the interviewer didn’t make that obvious point to jabba…… Oh, wait, yes I do ……… At the end of the day, they are deed, and zombies2 are next …….. The big shock is coming to them …….. BDO have the authority to seize all assets, and greengo ‘buying’ them under the sevco guise is not going to ‘cut it’ with the law / BDO ……….
Traynor saying he criticised Murray for getting debt up to £85m and spending £12m on a player. Anyone remember this?
Jim Murphy , does he not run the Westminster branch of the deadco supporters club
My god when will this end?
Ernie
I don’t think you’ll get an argument from me on that but in the overall scheme of things it is balance for balance’s sake and the only way to get that was to criminalize us to play the one’s as bad as the other myth.
Michael
I saw the RTC thing but in the article from the Record, Salmond was accused of acting for Murray not Whyte and the article was printed in June of this year a whole year after Murray had gone.
Jabba dismissed the £100 m debt with saying they wouldn`t
have got it anyway. That is taxpayers money , the guy has no
morals whatsoever. He`ll retire soon after this
I think that ole Chucky cheap suit, will have one last money making scheme before he departs
Think of the money that he could raise by selling all the names and addresses of the most gullible ,stupid ,stupid, people on the planet, to double glazing salesmen,energy supply salesmen,car salesmen,the demand would be off the radar!
THE EXILED TIM
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Celtic as well
right hacked off, if I’ve been to nearly every away day for the past 2/3 years then why I’m I not offered a ticket from CFC for DUFC? Got all the tickets available from them previously for away games.
Need to go direct to DUFC….
Regarding Mr Greene’s STV intterviw this evening.
Financial Services and Markets Act 2000
S.397 Misleading statements and practices….
(3)Any person who does any act or engages in any course of conduct which creates a false or misleading impression as to the market in or the price or value of any relevant investments is guilty of an offence if he does so for the purpose of creating that impression and of thereby inducing another person to acquire, dispose of, subscribe for or underwrite those investments or to refrain from doing so or to exercise, or refrain from exercising, any rights conferred by those investments.
PFayr
22:15 on 17 October, 2012
One aspect of Whytes interview which I found particularly accurate was his comment re the old regime and their failure to even attempt to make any provision to try and pay off the big tax bill
A question which none of the media have ever asked …Johnston and co knew of the potential indebtedness but carried on regardless
The Huns have been a financial basket case for many years …Murray should be getting it very tight right now
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PF Ayr
For any journos looking in here is a post on CQN from mid June.
It will take BDO acting for HMRC to check out Walter Smith’s part in Rangers downfall and they will have every reason to do so.
When the PLG “project” went belly up two men decided on the way ahead, Sir David Murray and Walter Smith (funny how his knighthood never turned up intit?).
Smith was not even at Rangers but was working with the SFA. (did they ever get compensated btw?). Anyhoo WS and SDM got together and started to build a team to end Celtics title domination and divert the CL income that came with it to Rangers.
So in 2007 after Smith arrived Smith identified £11.3m of players that SDM agreed should be bought to start the rebuild.
In 2008, by which time the core big tax bill had arrived (Feb 2008 I’ve read) WS identified a further £18m of players, two of whom are on the ebt list (Mendez and Davis – so WS knew all about ebts). That makes £29.3m that WS was responsible for Rangers spending in order to win. (a habit WS could not break when he managed to get approval for a £4m spend on Jelavic in spite of Lloyds control, although the full price was never going to be paid as things turned out).
To be fair transfers out in 2008 of £19.5m brought net spend (not including wages) down to £9.8m but had that £19.8m been set aside for HMRC in 2008 and had only half of the £18m been spent Rangers could easily have covered the big tax bill before interest and fines.
This WILL come out in the HMRC wash and WS stands as guilty as SDM in Rangers fate. All the above figures are in the public domain and all it needs is a jouno with gonads to bring it out.
…with a fat wallet
Traynor interview on Newsnight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQT1Lwu3PPc&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Am now watching Beeb 2 and the wild Hippo population that Pablo Escobar left behind. …..How apt.
Burghbhoy
23:30 on 17 October, 2012
‘Jim Murphy , does he not run the Westminster branch of the deadco supporters club’
No. He’s a Tim.
Jim Murphy, season ticket holder at parkhead
Until we meet again…
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
TONYG
Sad to say, probably more than most.
From Wee Craigie’s interview with sychophant Chris McLauchlan tonight. At 30:30.
BBC Interviewer “How much did you make?”
Craig Whyte “Any arrangements I had with the purchaser are confidential”.
I thought we had always been led to believe that by the time Duff & Phelps had offloaded the assets to Chuckle Brother Green, that Whyte was out the picture, an irrelevance.
Hmmmm.
Jabba getting confused between debt and built in financial, year on year deficit.
Murray killed Rangers, Whyte is a patsy, a well paid patsy, but a patsy never the less.
How many institutional investors will be interested in a company with all this bad publicity going on around it?
Is that Whytes agenda?
The SPL/SFA knew that Rangers were bust by October, they have questions to answer.