There is so much material to wade through as a result of the excellent BBC documentary, Rangers – The men who sold the jerseys. Much of it is of only passing interest to us, although we will examine it in more detail in the days to come, one part, however, concerns Celtic and Celtic fans more any anyone else in Scotland.
BBC have evidence that the following players had side letters contracting payment to Employee Benefit Trusts:
Alex Rae, Arthur Numan, Barry Ferguson, Carlos Cuellar, Christian Nerlinger, Craig More, Dado Prso, Dan Eggen, Egil Ostenstad, Fernando Ricksen, Gavin Rae, Gregory Vignal, Jean-Alain Boumsong, Jerome Bonnissel, Julien Rodriguez, Kris Boyd, Lorenzo Amoruso, Kevin Muscat, Libor Sionko, Marvin Andrews, Michael Ball, Mikel Arteta, Michael Mols, Nacho Novo, Paolo Vanoli, Pedro Mendes, Neil McCann, Olivier Bernard, Peter Lovenkrands, Ronald De Boer, Sasa Papac, Ronald Waterreus, Sotirios Kyrgiakos, Stefan Klos, Steven Davis, Steven Thompson, Thomas Buffel and Zurab Khizanishvilli
The BBC list a large number of other Rangers players and non-playing staff who benefited from EBTs but they have no documentary evidence of side letters.
Scottish FA registration procedures are clear:
Rule 2.2.1
Unless lodged in accordance with Procedures Rule 2.13 a Non-Recreational [professional]Contract Player Registration Form will not be valid unless it is accompanied by the contract entered into between the club concerned and the player stating all the terms and conditions in conformity with the Procedures Rule 4.
“Will not be valid” being the key point.
The SFA’s Articles of Association also say:
Furthermore, all payments, whether made by the club or otherwise, which are to be made to a player solely relating to his playing activities must be fully recorded within the relevant written agreement with the player prior to submission to this Association and/or the recognised football body of which his club is in membership.
Article 98 states:
A club making payment of any kind to a player, either amateur or professional, must obtain from the player a written receipt for the same showing details of the payment, and any club under the jurisdiction of the Association must produce such receipts to the Association when called upon to do so. For a player registered by means of a Full Professional Form, a club must produce on request receipts for the wages paid to him in terms of his agreement lodged with the Association.
Documentary evidence exists that Rangers played 38 players with invalid registrations between 2000 and 2010 (the last year financial information is available for Rangers) . Results from all games involving these players, which is all games Rangers have played since 2000, are void.
I am sure the BBC will forward all evidence to the SFA and SPL for investigation.
You were cheated out of five league championships. Fortunately, evidence exists and the history books will be rewritten.
The SFA and SPL must immediately take action. A statement must be made this morning reflecting the gravity of the situation and reassuring fans that our game’s administrators are able to deal with this matter.
12-in-a-row! Who would have thought it!
Just a quick comment on Juninho. Juninho had an EBT for a short period while he was at Celtic. He had no side letters or contracts from Celtic and tax was paid on money paid into the EBT. ‘Nothing to see here’.
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Well done Paul
And Ghod bless all Internet bampots ( myself included)
lovely weather for Jelly and ice cream
the boy from the port who took the 30 pieces of silver and now he cant even tell the truth about it,,,,,,,,,12 in a row ……..i hope yous are all hurting…but we will enjoy our jelly and ice cream ,,,,,,just in time for the 45th anniversary of winning the big cup…..
What is Mr Green and his consortium of two thinking now
Ghuys
Just joining the dots…. If David Grier of Duff £ Phelps arranged for an “invoice” to be raised on Ticketus then it is not much of a stretch to conclude that this “invoice” is the self same “invoice” which the Shames Accountant referred to as being subjected to MS Clipart and had failed to be processed through the books thus avoiding VAT.
Seems to me as a reasonable man, acting reasonably that on the balance of probabilities that Duff £ Phelps have a case to answer for master minding and committing a VAT fraud.
Anyone know if you do a stretch for this kind of out of hours activity?
Chillcfc
What about Juninho? I know we paid the tax eventually but did we send the details of the EBT to the SFA/SPL? Won’t we have a season with plenty of 3-0 defeats in it or will they find a way to say that as we weren’t punished for that wecan’t punish rangers now?
Billy Dodds has repeatedly said he never had an EBT live on BBC Scotland.He is a liar.I’m pretty sure lying while on duty with the BBC is automatic dismissal.
weeminger on 24 May, 2012 at 00:10 said:
they are indulging in their 2nd favourite pasttime after bigotry, whataboutery. Jininho had an EBT don’t you know!!
Paul67,
Ahh. I see where you’ve been going with all this now :))))))))
Paul you are a true CELTIC legend.
Keep up the pressure Paul
I find it hard to believe that Myth and Sally haven’t benefited from their little scam.
So why no revelation…?
Would this be a good or bad time to admit that I know sammy? His pals on r***ers media aren’t very happy with him!
Was it just me or was anyone else expecting to see findlay appear attached to the porno kings pipe?
I think it is time to interview Walter Smith.
acoustamatix:
Took the words out of my mouth mate. I expect a statement from Celtic in due course regarding that. The allegation is out there; we either answer it, and take our rap on the knuckles, or we have no right to ask Rangers to do the same.
The thing is, Rangers won the league that year, not us. Taking into consideration deductions of points, it was probably – I’d need to check – but probably Hibs who won the league that year, providing Juninho’s 14 games didn’t include at least 4 defeats.
!!Bada Bing!! on 24 May, 2012 at 00:15 said:
Yes, blatant lying … http://t.co/6euBHgUs
AweNaw……
If your about, we had a few posts back in Feb about Chris Kamara and the liar neil mccann.
Regarding their disagreement on/off camera on Goals on Sunday.
You mentioned that the liar mccann ripped Kamara a new one off air.
Do you think your source will let Kammy know that the liar mccann lied to him that day, as I don’t think Kammy will take to kindly to a little runt like mccann telling him porkies then coming across all high and mighty off air.
I can’t seem to find Van Brockhurst’s name anywhere, I would have thought he’d have been on an EBT, unless Henke warned his good pal away from it ;)
SunnyBhoy on 24 May, 2012 at 00:13 said:
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Fear not…..their ocean of sewage is so vast,Greenpeace couldnae get it cleaned up.
We are clean,otherwise the masonic tendency press would’ve been screamin’ blue murder and whataboutering in special pull-out sections until we were run outta town on a rail.
HH !
Ha, I see that the interlopers are on now, what about the Brasilian.
Yous sad feckers can’t help yoursels.
Celtic sorted everything with Hector and the SFA.
Now feck off back to your sewer.
Muppets on Jauninho.
Celtic didnt set up his EBT.
His agents brought it from a previous contract.
Celtic looked at it, and decided, from a Celtic PLC point of view, we wont continue.
Any Tax paid up in full .
Anyway…..who are we signing?
James Forrest is Neil Lennon! We are ALL Neil Lennon! on 24 May, 2012 at 00:17
Apparently the table would be …
Aberdeen 64 points
Hibs 63 points
Celtic 54 points
Hearts 53 points
and the bottom
Rangers 0 points.
miki67
NOVOgot £1.2million
Well done Paul excellent work.
Time for that spl investigation to be concluded and punishments handed out.
This fits right in with what we seen tonight. Well done Paul
Game of bids………….. Directed by Duff & Duffer
http://i.imgur.com/3BbGT.jpg
HH
Greenwells Glory on 24 May, 2012 at 00:14 said:
Hi Ghuys, Salve salve;- Not posted in a while but dropped in now and again to keep up to speed with things down Govan way. Questions :-
1) Given the amount of information already in the public domain are BBC being cynical with their timing ie could this not have been broadcast during the playing season ?
2) Did the programme produce irrefutable evidence of dual contracts?
3) Given the serious allegations against Duff and Duffer should the SFA and the SPL not take precipitous action?
4) Should the SFA president’s position now be deemed no longer tenable ?
5) Can any normal well balanced football fan of any club now have any belief in the integrity or crediblity of the SFA or SPL CEO’s?
6) Will it make any difference with regards to them being parachuted back into the good old SPL?
Greenwells
Ceterum censeo Rangerinem esse delendam
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Ratso’s 1.2 mill can buy a lot of rat food btw……
here we go 13 in a row
CultsBhoy loves being 1st forever & ever on 24 May, 2012 at 00:05 said:
Daly could have a daily slot!
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Daly Record? Naw didn’t think so either.
Papac – like Campbell-END Ogilvie – was touted in the press as an honest pro..
……well they got the pro bit right!
Truth is a concept rarely encountered.Truth is sidestepped.It is ignored.History has taught us that centuries pass before Truth becomes visible.However,because of the internet,CQN,TRC,Phil and Paul McConville and the rest,it cannot be ignored.The BBC did not tell us anything we did not know.What it did do was give the ordinary punter the facts of the case in a constructive manner.P67 just laid it out as it was unfolded.Thank Tully we have seen this day.
The Duff & Phelps Goldmine or maybe not after tonight
http://i.imgur.com/GtQ2J.gif
Paul67 Can I ask a serious question?
Is this confirmation that I’m not paranoid?
Tictalker talking tic
Paul 67
You,ve had a productive day which invariably means I have not.
Power to your keyboard.Great work.
Not interested in us gaining titles lost back.
VOID in the record books for every tainted cup or title will be suffice for me.HH
Whoosh>yo! Paul67,trying to keep up to speed while on nightshift in bedlam,going to be fun next few weeks.
Great to see the “tanks on the marble staircase” wheelled out again.
This time for good.
Search and destroy.
Slan
Aldo
Sunnybhoy:
I just read that on Paul McConville’s excellent blog on the subject.
I would endorse everything he says. Go for full disclosure and see what’s what.
The human torpedo on twitter suggest that Juninho’s ebt may have been a payoff.
His ebt was set up April 2005 he left April 5th 2005.
Quickdraw on 24 May, 2012 at 00:15 said:
We are clean regarding Juninho. I was told that there was an EBT but Dermot Desmond declared it, paid tax on it and ensured we never went down that route again.
Remember the handbags argument between Chic Young and Jabba Traynor about Alistair Johnston’s noddy head?
Utterly pathetic how individual journalists (sic) tried to suppress so many threads of this story.
I guess the “It was Craigy Whyte alone on the grassy knoll” defence is somewhat smitherened now.
If they get away with Division 3 and stripped of their trophies they will be doing well.
Like I posted many times in recent weeks, the CVA/Liquidation stuff was merely the dress rehearsal.
NOW IT’S SHOW TIME!!
NAME DATE AMOUNT &IF PROOF OF SIDE LETTER
Congratulations on the Orwell Prize, RTC, and multiple chapeaux to all your excellent contributors.
For anyone without access to the “BBC Dataroom”, here’s a list of the EBT recipients. Some of the dates may be a bit out, but the amounts are accurate (I hope). The end column is “evidence of ‘side letters’?”. Maybe someone could crosscheck with team-sheets to see how many games should (will??) be declared 3-0 to the opposition because an improperly registered player took to the field.
Alan Hutton 2002 -? 94 Appearances £364,000 No
Alex McLeish 2001-06. £1.7m Yes
Alex Rae 2004-06 34 Appearances £569,000 Yes
Andre Kanchelskis 1998 -2002 £145,000 No
Andrew Dickson 2003-present £33,000 No
Arthur Numan 1998-? 118 appearances. £510,000 Yes
Barry Ferguson 1996-2003 and 2005-2009. £2.5m Yes
Bert Konterman 2000-? 79 appearances £300,000 No
Bert Van Lingen 1998 to 2002. £65,000 No
Billy Dodds 4 years £190,000 No
Bob Malcolm 1997-2006 88 appearances. £125,000 No
Campbell Ogilvie 1978 -2005 £95,000 No
Carlos Cuellar 2007-2008 £448,255 Yes
Chris Burke 2002-2009 96 appearances £55,000 No
Christian Nerlinger 2001-2004 ` £1.8m Yes
Claudio Caniggia 2001. 50 appearances £1m No
Craig Moore 1994-1998/1999-2005. £1.1m Yes
Dado Prso 2004-2007 108 appearances . £1.9m Yes
Dan Eggen 2003 £68,000 Yes
Sir David Murray 1988-2011 £6.3m No
Dick Advocaat 1998-2002. £1.5m No
Douglas Odam 1988-2003 £119,000 No
Egil Ostenstad 2003. 11 appearances £370,000 Yes
Fernando Ricksen 2000-2006 182 appearances. £684,225 Yes
Federico Nieto 2005 3 appearances £24,500 No
Gavin Rae 2004-2007. £376,000 Yes
George Adams 2003-2005. Director (Now at Ross County) £30,000 No
Ian Murray 2006- 2007 43 appearances. £95,000 No
Jan Wouters 2006-2007 coach £285,000 Yes
Jean-Alain Boumsong 2004 18 appearances £630,000 Yes
Jerome Bonnissel 2003 3 appearances £48,000 Yes
Jesper Christiansen 2000-2004. 3 appearances £320,000 No
Joel Le Hir 2006-2007 physio £28,275 Yes
John Greig 1961-2011 £40,000 No
John McClelland 2000-2011 £225,000 No
Julien Rodriguez 2005-2007 34 appearances. £638,000 Yes
Kevin Muscat 2002-2003 22 appearances. £1m Yes
Kris Boyd 2006-2010 £215,000 Yes
Libor Sionko 2006-2007 18 appearances. £178,000 Yes
Lorenzo Amoruso 1997-2003 £639,000 Yes
Martin Bain 2005-2011 Chief executive £249,000 No
Marvin Andrews 2004- 43 appearances £316,025 Yes
Maurice Ross 2000-2005 78 apearances £120,000 No
Michael Ball 2001-2005 55 appearances. £1.4m Yes
Michael Mols 1999-2004 £260,000 Yes
Mikel Arteta 2002- 50 appearances £674,603 Yes
Nacho Novo 2004-2010 178 appearances £1.2m Yes
Neil McCann 1998- 100+ appearances. £500,000 Yes
Nuno Capucho 2003- 22 appearances £970,000 No
Olivier Bernard 2005- 9 appearances £224,000 Yes
Paolo Vanoli 2003 28 appearances £592,000 Yes
Paul Le Guen 2006-2007 Manager £201,250 Yes
Pedro Mendes 2008-2010 39 appearances £1m Yes
Peter Lovenkrands 2000- 129 appearances £902,000 Yes
Robert Reilly Commercial Director £105,000 No
Ronald De Boer 2000-2004 £1.2m Yes
Ronald Waterreus 2004- 49 appearances £510,000 Yes
Sasa Papac 2006-2012 161 appearances £319,000 Yes
Sotirios Kyrgiakos 2005-2006. 54 appearances £532,200 Yes
Stefan Klos 1999-2007 200+ appearances £2m Yes
Stephane Wiertelak 2006-2007 fitness/physio/coach £28,275 Yes
Steven Davis 140+ appearances £600,000 Yes
Steven Smith £7,500 No
Steven Thompson 2003-2006 £485,000 Yes
Tero Penttila 1999-2002 £140,000 No
Thomas Buffel 2005-2008 £1.2m Yes
Tore Andre Flo 2000-2002 £1.3m No
Yves Colleau 2006-2007 assistant to Paul Le Guen £106,200 Yes
Zurab Khizanishvili 2003-2005. £405,000 Yes
!!Bada Bing!! on 24 May, 2012 at 00:15 said:
I guess he is freelance. He’ll not be sacked but I’d be very suprised if he is on the rota next season.
He’ll probably turn up on Real or Clyde.