The SPL deadline for clubs to provide information on improper registration of players was six weeks ago today but the league has yet to report findings to clubs, while the chief executive rallies support to allow a Newco access to the league.
Time has expired on this policy of non-disclosure until it’s too late.
If the SPL chief executive ever tells us that Rangers fielded improperly registered players between 2000 and 2012, resulting in years of 3-0 defeats being awarded, there will be an enormous amount of anger, not only among supporters, but in boardrooms across the country, as they ponder money which was rightfully theirs but which went to Rangers – perhaps including Rangers prize money for finishing second this season.
We have made an attempt to quantify this money. Some of the losses were easier to calculate than others. For example, it was easy to calculate that when Rangers won the title in 2009 with improperly registered players, earning automatic qualification to the Champions League group stage, they denied Celtic £15m European earnings, plus £340k SPL prize money. Other losses are less clear, specifically when a club was denied a place in a qualifying round for the Champions League or Uefa Cup, which they may or may not have progressed from.
We have established three figures for each club in the SPL during the season just finished, to cover the period from 2000 to 2012:
Minimum loss:
The absolute minimum each club was denied from European and SPL prize money as a result of Rangers finishing above them with ineligible players.
Weighted loss:
The figure based on Scottish clubs gaining entry to Champions League/Europa League (Uefa Cup) group stages from 20% of their qualifying campaigns (which is slightly less than trend).
Maximum loss:
The maximum a club could have achieved if it qualified for the European group stage it was denied entry to.
Out estimates take no account of the subsequent effect money has on future years. For example, If Celtic earned an additional £15m from entering the Champions League group stage in 2009-10 their league challenge for that season would have been £15m stronger, and Rangers £15m weaker, potentially resulting in consequences in future years.
This multiplier effect would have benefited Celtic but it would be likely to have a greater effect on other clubs, some of whom would be denied the enormous percentage increase in budget automatic qualification to European group stages would have brought.
Hearts finished immediately behind Celtic and Rangers more often than any other club over the period and suffer the greatest potential losses, even more so than Celtic. Hibernian, Aberdeen, Dundee United and Motherwell also suffered significant losses.
Several clubs got nowhere near European football over the period, and some of the 11 spent only a few years in the SPL but each club lost over £1m.
Figures for each club are:
Hearts
Maximum: £72.3m
Weighted: £16.3m
Minimum: £6.2m
Celtic
Maximum: £46.7m
Weighted: £21.9m
Minimum: £17.4m
Hibernian
Maximum: £34.8m
Weighted: £8.4m
Minimum: £3.6m
Aberdeen
Maximum: £21.1m
Weighted: £5.5m
Minimum: £2.7m
Dundee United
Maximum: £20.8m
Weighted: £5.2m
Minimum: £2.4m
Motherwell
Maximum: £16.7m
Weighted: £4.4m
Minimum: £2.1m
Kilmarnock
Maximum: £5.1m
Weighted: £1.9m
Minimum: £1.3m
Dunfermline
Maximum: £3.4m
Weighted: £1.8m
Minimum: £1.5m
Inverness
Maximum: £1.3m
Weighted: £1.3m
Minimum: £1.3m
St Johnstone
Maximum: £1.1m
Weighted: £1.1m
Minimum: £1.1m
St Mirren
Maximum: £1.1m
Weighted: £1.1m
Minimum: £1.1m
In the event Rangers fielded ineligible players during the period under consideration, which everyone apart from Neil Doncaster knows, and even he will be unable to deny next week, we know the following:
Rangers received a minimum of £40.9m which should have gone to the 11 other clubs, assuming each club lost all their European group stage qualifying campaigns. This calculation does not include earnings from clubs now in the Scottish Football League, such as Hamilton Accies or Dundee.
If Scottish clubs progressed to the group stages of European competition on only 20% of their qualifying campaigns the loss would be £69.0m.
The figure for total potential losses if clubs successfully progressed to every European group stage is, as the figure for 100% failure, more illustrative than likely, but the maximum cost to the 11 SPL clubs is £224.6m.
Results will be changed, trophies can and will, be re-awarded, but these are the harsh financial consequences clubs, their lawyers and supporters, will consider when the facts are presented to them next week. The SPL executive has had six weeks to consider if there is sufficient evidence to commence disciplinary proceedings; they have failed to do so. They have failed you and every other football supporter in the land, while shamelessly pursuing an accommodation for the errant club BEFORE REVEALING THE FACTS TO YOU.
Time will be up soon, Mr Doncaster. You’ve had your chance but you have convinced no one. The people who really matter in this entire debacle are those who buy tickets for Celtic Park, Pittodrie, Easter Road, Tynecastle, Tannadice, Fir Park and the rest, they will hear the truth and read these figures. You have failed them.
You can read our calculations here. European income figures were sources from Uefa data.
Celtic’s disadvantage deepened when their winger John Doyle was sent off ten minutes into the second half for kicking the scorer, but there was an equaliser from Aitken, who was especially suited to a night of such fervour and force. Never bashful, Aitken was stimulated by the challenge of being in an outnumbered line-up.
From Celtic: A Biography in Nine Lives, by Kevin McCarra.
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up_over_gaol
Is Allison Robbie a journalist?
If this guy Green has not completed his deal to buy ragers ,what assurances has he been given from them that keeps him at the table .
I hope he was summoned to reveal who his hidden backers were and that was it
IMO they are not in a position to give him any assurance as to which league 9if any )ragers will be in next season
Brogan Rogan Trevino and Hogan supports Kano 1000 on 18 May, 2012 at 17:26 said:
The beer is on you?
Might fly out. Cheap flight and then free beer. Holiday pays for itself.
What has green been told yesterday that has persuaded two more investors to come forward .
My name is Sally and I demand clarity
sannabhoy..
no probs, safe home
looking forward to it…
Guys, quick question for the “cqn on the phone” brigade. Anyone know a way to copy/paste the page contents for viewing offline?
celticinthesun
Yes. Radio Clyde.
Brogan
Either way? You swing?:-) or are you a bit like Les/Lesley in Benidorm?
Hope the Krankies are not lurking on this blog.
BRTH 17.26
22 of us are arriving in Barcelona tomorrow morning,Thanks will all be there HH.
Sorry, but I can’t help myself… demob happy cos it’s Friday!
Hey Jude, and Housaaami
Take a bad club to make it better
Remember to start in league number 3
Then you can start to make it better…
Na na na, na-na na na
Na-na na na, hey Jude
Na na na, na-na na na
Na-na na na, hey Jude
Any others (shouldnae be hard)?
BRTH.
ONLY JOKING.HH
BT
What times your thing starting tonight mate?
T4-Got it 10s,ta.
Green announces names of two investors.
Sally says he has never heard of them and wants to know where they live.
BRTH
I hope the Krankies are not lurking on this blog and holidaying in Sitges.
HT
7.30 for 8 mate..
hope it stays dry for the procession this evening and all the kids have a great and holy day…
As I’ve said previously I get a daily quote from a webservice.
Sometimes they are apt. Today’s Quote is
Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive.
BY George A. Knight
BT
Thanks for that my friend really looking forward to tomorrow.
Hope tonight goes well.
Dontbrattbakkinanger on 18 May, 2012 at 17:19 said:
When the billboards look like this then we’ll know our larks is toppermost of the poppermost.
****
Where’s her CQN Badge?
did I see Ivanavic training on the pitch?
Jeff Stelling better go tell him he is suspended…
sannabhoy
On my mobile or ipod, as long as you don’t fully exit the webpage, the actually page you were last on should still be there offline, as long as no attempt is made to change the page, that works on mine. Eg, if you’re reading page 3 of a CQN article but you lose internet data, as long as you stay on that page you should still be able to read it. Hope that makes sense!
HH
Paul
Excellent article
Great to see a simple straightforward representation of what the huns have been up to.
Hope it gets the widest possible exposure – especially among fans of other decent clubs
HH
bt-I got it :}
BB
noticed….. p))
sweating like Kris Boyd at the monster munch factory picket line
sweating like Mike McCurry in the hampden car park
sweating like Minty at five to eight next Wednesday night
sweating like a goat at a ludge meeting
sweating like David Begg at a Celtic attack
sweating like a mincer in the Bridgeton butchers
sweating like Neil Doncaster reading CQN
missed it this morning
fergus slayed the blues on 18 May, 2012 at 17:33 said:
What has green been told yesterday that has persuaded two more investors to come forward .
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thats the only two and the RTC internet bampots are on the case :)))))
I wonder if the MSM will try and find out about the financial engineering & real-estate investment men :))))
The inter net bampots are good………….
Is this the company that links Green to SIngapore?
http://www.novaresourceslimited.com/
ANNNNNNNNND
Interesting, Charles Green resigned as a director of Nova Resources yesterday, reut.rs/JTAxk6
Paul67 et al
Great work regards all the data
But alas will be a total waste of time
If you look at what is already known about RIA
EBTs ,second contracts to players.
Neil Doncaster and spl still not issued an update while everyday pushing for newco in the spl.
Neil Doncaster and club chairman will vote newco in.
CVA will allow newco to start afresh with minor punishment.
Non payment of paye/NI And a mountain of other creditors
Hmrc still to deliver FTT judgement and final document.
CVA will allow newco to dump debt and ready to invest in squad
To win league with no punishment.
They have lost a few players and a 10 point deduction
That did not matter as Celtic won by more than 10 points.
The sfa will assist newco gain a place in the spl with RC ogilvie as Head architect .
Only received the 10 points deduction as it was already part of the rules.
Any further punishment will be for RIA as newco will not be responsible for old clubs problems as any rules have not been sanctioned yet.
As you first pointed out all those months ago this was the plan from the very beginning and is on track .
RC ogilvie (ebt) Stuart regan and Neil Doncaster have been for weeks helping push this along with various spl chairmen.
This will be a done deal on the 30th may unless some people grow a pair.
The again why would the cartel vote no.
Then the 5 year sky deal will be signed and delivered with newco .
Every club has lost out .
But at the end of the day the gravy train must roll on.
No matter what.
Your old articles regarding newco and entry to the spl along with Scotland are the huns ,the Huns are Scotland.
Hope I am totally wrong regards newco
But when businessmen see money to be made they disregard all other reasons from previous experience’s.And no matter what has happened before they will chase glory and cash.
Jam67
Patrick27, yep. got that. But what I want to do is copy , for example, the 7 pages so far and view them when I have no connection. Wonder if I could open 7 different windows and have a page on each ?!
sannabhoy
thats what I do on my ipod touch for reading on the way in on the train…
enjoy the rest of the evening bhoys n ghirls……..
KTF
Dontbrattbakkinanger on 18 May, 2012 at 17:19 said:
When the billboards look like this then we’ll know our larks is toppermost of the poppermost.
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Anymore pics of Margaret McGill m8 ?
Hail Hail
Damn IT!!!
Link-thing
didny work :(((
This is absolutely mental…thanks for totalling up those figures Paul67!
I agree about the winnings thing though – much easier to calculate!
James McFADDEN freed ny Everton???;;;;
blantyretim
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Have a Ghood Night m8.
Stay Safe.
Hail Hail
Did I honestly just hear Clyde start the program with a sound bite of “Rangers a season of resillience and brilliance!!!!” sweet lord the things they’ll do to keep the orcs happy…
SNYDE opens like the Rankers show??? Eh .. Geez listen to it.. Awful.. Actually said “rangers, resilience and brilliance”.
GIRUY SNYDE ..
Celtic champions…