More evidence emerged today on how Rangers recompensed players through their Employee Benefit Trust (EBT) scheme in The Sun newspaper, who have a draft contract Rangers offered an unnamed player. The contract was a letter confirming a six figure payment as well as a £1200 per game appearance bonus.
An accountant told Sun reporters Paul Thornton and Ewing Grahame:
“I have been shown a contract of employment showing how much money players were going to get but also a back letter which I presume that individual has assumed is part of his salary. It seems like a contract.
“If the two documents are handed to someone together, is that seen as being his overall package? If the answer to that is yes then there is a problem because the money that goes into the trust really should be getting taxed because it is his salary.
“The fact it is there as a back letter at all suggests it is dodgy.”
Attention is obviously drawn to the potential criminal consequences of these tax arrangements but football fans throughout the country will be alarmed that Campbell Ogilvie, the man who was general secretary and director of Rangers when the EBT scheme started, is currently president of the SFA and would have been involved in scoping out the secret remit of the SFA inquiry into Rangers, which was asked to report within an incredibly quick two week period. Ogilvie is also one of the few men the inquiry will report to.
If the allegations in today’s Sun are accurate, Rangers have improperly registered football players for a period of around a decade. The penalty for playing an improperly registered footballer in any game is a 3-0 forfeit.
When the SFA president is in a position to confirm all of this, the association have all information they require to make a ruling on this, but despite these allegations being widely reported for many months, they have yet to even acknowledge there is anything to investigate.
Can you imagine the scrutiny the Football Association in England’s board and chief executive would be exposed to if this scandal was not being actioned?
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Tel’s team talk working a treat.
a noticeably less committed ,disorganised and overall poor performance from ICT …hmmmmmmmmmmmmm
This game has the feeling of a leaving do!
PC67
Big Terry knows how it works.
Big Terry knows a new management position might be coming up soon.
Ach, let them have a bit of fun today. This could be their swansong.
Imagine how they feel, waking up every morning, those few seconds of blissful ignorance before kerbam!, reality hits. And it IS hitting them now.
A few goals today won’t do them any more good than a cheap elastoplast that comes off after a couple of hours.
TONYG
The agents would never have accepted Rankers word that they’d never ask for their EBT loan back so they probably demanded the letters.
Nests and vipers spring to mind.
HH
Did anyone else hear that ?
Absolutely disgusting.
pedrocaravanachio67 says:
26 February, 2012 at 13:05
:))))))))))
dead cat bounce
Paul67,
Keep on Shining.
from last thread….
gallagher says:
26 February, 2012 at 12:13
The arrival of DD must have worried moonbeams no end, because he was richer.
The 6-2 game must have caused him great consternation but being ‘still game’ he went and spent £12m.
Halifax merging with his pals at the Bank of Scotland and subsequently upon examination of MIH and Rankers accounts moving all control of them away from the masonic mafia up here must have made him nervous and twitchy.
So what did DM do ?
He installed place people with their hands on the levers of power and influence through the sfa and the media because they the Peepul had to prevail at any price.
It’ll be amazing to see just how obvious this all becomes as the veil is torn aside.
That’s what i think
HH
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I think that is a very good summary of what has been happening.
Whats the poppy story?
More Dignity at its finest/reprehensible worst?
This urine might become available as a collectors ‘Rangers last game’ DVD.
Soundtrack contains all your favourite venom.
I wonder if there is investigations into these contacts you may find when the agents are eventually interviewed about these matters they may say that they did inform the governing body.As agents they have to advise their client correctly or they themselves will be liable
OMG ICT have a shot – only 22 mins gone?
Paul67
It is up to member clubs to ask the SFA questions. I hope our own club is doing just that.
Looks like one of those dodgy stars will need to unstitched and they lecture us about a tainted title…
Gordon64 says:
26 February, 2012 at 13:08
Tep. We’d really miss them eh?
Gordon, hear what?
Said last week it would depend on which team Mr Butcher put out.
We were talking yesterday leaving the ground – potentially hard fixture – defined by Mr Butcher…
He wants the gig but he also needs to be seen fulfilling his paymasters wishes.
My 10 year old could have tracked Davis back for the first and the space Aluko got for the second.
It must be quite ‘difficult’ to set your team up to be gash…
U
Very noticable, when they’re sing “we’re gonna win the league” it’s about 30 of them singing, but the famine song and who s***** all the boys the lot of them are belting it out…… scumbags ra lot o them.
listen that unionist loyalist choir there.
They’ve been defrauding Her Majesty for yeeaars! Hypocrites!
So they are singing all of the usual songs then? No surprise there.
What can the authorities do – fine them? Dock a few more points? It will all become academic pretty soon anyway.
petec says:
26 February, 2012 at 13:09
Thanks amigo tis a feeling i’ve had for a long time.
Re the poppy….It’s an allegation just now, something to do with Ratners hanging on to charity cash, if proven it’ll be ‘help yourself to the heroes’ :)
HH
Italiabhoy
quite so
Lardo
Unrepeatable vile !
ICT very poor, Ranjers poor, 2 awful teams in a very poor game.
TONYG says:
26 February, 2012 at 13:00
I’ve had the same thoughts. Over ten years there must have been dozens of agents who dealt with these letters at Rangers. Not to mention player’s lawyers, accountants and financial advisors. How on earth did no one blow the whistle or tell their client “this is as bent as a ten bob note, ditch them”?
Paul67…
Further to my previous post on this…
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/irish/8353540.stm
We all know that the Scottish brotherhood gets fully behind the huns and we should expect no favours from them.
So we all know that we are for the most part, on our own.
The league in the bag, league cup final in a couple of weeks, still in the Scottish cup, European football guaranteed next season (unless Idi Salmon) screws it up for us and we are in a healthy financial position, including all taxes paid to date.
I think we are doing alright on our own, I really do!
Who’d be a hun or a hun sympathiser?
Let them rot and burn.
bjmac says:
26 February, 2012 at 12:54
The sooner this mob of sectarian scum don’t have a platform to air their vile form of “supporting” their team, the better. How can a single Celtic fan have any sympathy for them whatsoever?
They really are vile sectarian animals…..HUNS indeed.
hh
bjmac
22.15 mins in
Despicable
The scum b******s
Clearly agents talk to other potential buyers for their players I would imagine Celtic must have known what they were up against when competing for players against Rangers.I hope and trust that they still have the correspondance when highlighting these matters with our governing body and the responses given
Afternoon bhoys from a warm hun free mountain.
I suppose the hun loyal and faithfull can always say they won their final game, with the help of Big Tel..
mightywhite says:
26 February, 2012 at 13:16
Holy Moly. What chance rangers players were equally as naïve and duped?
the deals might well have been ‘dodgy as a ten-bob note’, as Honest Cover-up says above, but with the huge sums of money offered and ‘don’t worry, everyone does it’, it still might have been hard to turn down.
Anyone got the stats for yesterdays game please?
I was back in that previous thread on my own….
What do you mean, Philbhoy, I should go back there :-)
Hope you’re well.
hh
bjmac
ICT completely disorganised and disinterested, with the exception of Johnny Hayes.
Afternoon all.
Does anyone know if there is anymore tickets being released for the final? And if so when?
The only silver lining is we don’t want them dropping too many points or the title clincher at Ibrox will be off, it could be won without us kicking a ball on Mar 10 or 17th
Won’t hold my breath waiting for anyone in the studio to condemn the singing. Instead Swally will applaud them at the end of the game and tell the press “the support were magnificent, truly magnificently brilliant and that’s the honest truth, honestly”.