Charles Green has accused Neil Doncaster of trying to bury the SPL’s inquiry into undeclared payments to Rangers players.
An SPL commission will sit today to draw up the framework for the investigation into payments made to players through EBT’s.
A decision is expected this month on the First Tier Tribunal but that looks at a separate issue regarding how Rangers used if the EBT scheme. EBT’s were legal if used in a discretionary manner with HMRC claiming that they were set up and used as a tax avoidance scheme and included in contracts agreed with players between 2000 and 2011.
The SPL investigation is less complex and simply needs to find out if players received payments that weren’t declared in the contracts lodged with the SFA and SPL. If it is proved that players had side contracts then all matches involving those players could be reversed to 0-3 and lead to titles being stripped from the soon to be liquidated club.
Following Rangers move into administration in February Doncaster attempted every move possible to ensure that the club remained in the SPL at one stage.
Showing the same grasp for reality that he displayed steering Norwich City into League One Doncaster even claimed that there was little difference between administration and liquidation as they were just different ways of shedding debt.
Doncaster worked closely with SFA counterpart Stewart Regan to provide the Ibrox side with as soft a landing as possible with Green claiming that the SPL chief repeatedly stated that he wasn’t interested in stripping titles won during the EBT era.
In a statement issued yesterday Green revealed: “What compounds the breathtaking hypocrisy of the SPL in this whole saga, is that the SFA, the SPL and us – as the new owners – took part in numerous discussions regarding the new company’s league status during which it was made clear that a deal was there to be done where ‘the EBT issue’ would be dealt with as part of a package of sanctions which would be implemented in return for membership of the SFA and a place in either the SPL or Division One.
“We do not accept that people who are willing to come to an agreement on such matters then have a right to instigate a full blown inquisition when matters do not unfold as they thought they would.
“In our view, it beggars belief that an authority which can be heavily involved in these discussions to the point that the Chief Executive Neil Doncaster repeatedly stated he was not interested in stripping titles from Rangers can lurch from that position to setting up its own Commission under the chairmanship of Lord Nimmo Smith.
“I must make it clear that we are not questioning for a moment the integrity of Lord Nimmo Smith and his colleagues but we believe the SPL have been hypocritical in their approach to this matter.
“Quite apart from their negotiations with our consortium, I know the SPL were well advanced in their discussions with another bidder and his representatives where EBT issues were raised and there was again an understanding that the EBT issue could be dealt with by agreement if new owners were to take over at Ibrox.
“Why is the SPL rushing to judgement now when it has been sitting on the matter for two years? Their haste is particularly difficult to understand when the tax tribunal judgement is imminent.”
With the investigation going public today it’s highly unlikely that Doncaster will respond to Green’s claims.
Last month the Ibrox chief suggested that the SPL must have been drunk or incompetent when dealing with footballing debts of Rangers before suggesting that he may become Chief Executive of the SPL when his Ibrox mission is completed.
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Charlie boys playing for time to get the share issue sold then it’ll be Monaco bound.
SPL/SFA could and should just expel them remove their licence game over.
correct Stevie, just be rid off them
I agree , throw them out of football altogether .they are lowest of the low .
So basically the spl are corrupt to the core(which we knew).The sfa are corrupt to the core(which we knew) and the devil they were making sleekit deals with has stabbed them in the back. Total clearout of every orginisation is the minimum required to cleanse scottish football.
Integrity and honesty must surely prevail again for the good of scottish football. If Old rangers found guilty of cheating they must be stripped of titles and trophies and the prizes redistributed to the fair and other true winning clubs.
Yes ,they must be stripped of titles and trophies ,and THEN punished.
Has anyone asked Chico when he bought the club, history, trophies et al….did he also buy the riots in Barcelona & Manchester – therefore he also bought ALL the debts and outstanding cases against the club.
Maybe they should also ask why HIS club shredded so much evidence when they claim not to be guilty of anything or why the delay in submission of documentation even by Duff & Dumber ?
The noose is tightening Chico, and you are months away from a desperately needed share issue. Cue the escape back South with claims of SPL / SFA interference / lack of co-operation and mis-management.
Sevco were only granted a licence to play by the SFA, on condition they co-operated fully with an inquiry into EBT/Dual contracts.
They (Sevco), have clearly gone back on their word.(Surprise surprise)…Remove their licence.
How can anything positive be achieved when dealing with such dishonourable people. The SFA/SPL are hardly awash with integrity, but Sevco are on a whole new level.
One question Joe, is Green’s consortium just like Murray’s Blue Knights, imaginary??
How much more “guff” have we too listen to from motor mouth Green? As soon as he see’s his chance to get out he will sell very quickly . He is spouting vile every day to keep the vile hoards that listen to him with what they(the scum of Scotland)just want too hear!!!!
smokescreen to buy some time , very predictable…
I invite the whole footballing world to pull up a chair and watch the greatest corrupt footballing show on earth. Be amazed at the way Rubber Reagan can do backward summer-salts and insert his own two heads up his own ass while doing deals under a table.
Be dazzled at Donkey Doncaster the Ibrox mule that brays about Armageddon while walking on his hind legs to pander to the biggest corrupt institution in Scotland. Marvel at the way the football authorities take endless cream pies on the face by a sevco franchise as they try and wrap them in cotton wool to save their own lodge membership and their own toxic jobs.
Then tell us who is mad to take this circus seriously . . .
There are two twits
Regan and Doncaster
one is an asshole the other one’s a fool
tell me now, without a hitch
who is who
and which is which