Charles Green has warned Lord Nimmo Smith that he is walking into complete madness despite boycotting the SPL’s investigation into Rangers use of EBT’s.
With the chief executive’s of the SFA and SPL afraid to speak out about the issue Green knows that his comments are going unchallenged.
On Saturday The Sun uncovered a ‘top secret’ first draft of the five way deal put together to retain Rangers’ SFA membership.
That deal would have conveniently buried the EBT issue with honours removed from the 2000-2011 period.
An agreement was finally reached less than 48 hours before Sevco were due to play Brechin in the Ramsdens Cup with tickets, hospitality and television coverage already agreed for that match.
Two years after being informed by HMRC about the use of EBT’s the SPL have reluctantly decided to investigate the matter with their credibility compromised by awarding Rangers a Champions League qualifying place AFTER they had been informed about the use of EBT’s.
All payments to footballers have to be declared in contracts lodged with the SFA and SPL with Lord Nimmo Smith investigating the evidence that for over a decade Rangers fielded players whose full payments weren’t revealed.
Three days after uncovering the first draft deal Green told The Sun: “We have never questioned the integrity of this panel but I’m starting to feel sorry for them because they don’t know what they are getting themselves into.
“They are learned, they have international reputations and everyone knows their areas of expertise but they are being drawn into something that is complete madness.
“If Lord Nimmo Smith can do me a favour, I would like him to get everybody in Scotland to agree whether we are newco or oldco.
“It changes every week to suit someone else’s agenda, so long as it doesn’t suit Rangers’ agenda.”
Green has played the newco/oldco game to his advantage at every turn most recently spending money on signing David Templeton from Hearts while ignoring oldco creditors including Rapid Vienna, Manchester City and Arsenal.
Lucrative long term contracts have been issued to Lee Wallace, Dean Shiels, Francisco Sandaza and Ian Black while dozens of businesses across Glasgow are left with worthless invoices.
While ignoring those issues and claiming the history of the club that remains in administration awaiting liquidation from BDO Green wishes to claim money paid to the SFA for international appearances made by Rangers players.
The whole issue should have been cleared up when the SFA issued Sevco with membership but in keeping with tradition the deal was shrouded in mystery leaving the SFA on the backfoot.
“There is no relationship with the SPL and the SFA,” Green explained. “I’m chief executive of Rangers and have obligations to deal with the SFA.
“As far as the SPL is concerned, I have no regard or respect for them. The SFA will be the appeal body in the event that I don’t agree with what Lord Nimmo Smith’s panel say.
“Yet it appears the SFA have the completely contrary view on some issues. I am owed £330,000 by UEFA and the SFA have refused to hand it over because they are saying I’m not entitled to it.
“It is money due to Rangers for releasing players to play for their countries. Maybe this is another case of Charles Green being stupid. Or is this now a case of ‘Well, it doesn’t suit us’.
“It seems we can have the pain but not the gain.”
Another day of cowering silence is expected from the SFA and SPL.
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For someone with nothing to say about the EBT investigation & not wishing to attend he sure has plenty to mouth off about….all garbage as per norm.
If Chico wants money owed to the old club, then must also accept the outstanding monies due BY the old club…simple enough surely even for someone with single digit IQ like Chico. Then of course that would leave them open to a huge tax bill while also having a large queue of angry ex players & officials knocking on his door looking for the tax they will have to pay on the EBT’s.
Over to you Chico…put up or shut up.
All this bluster and crap from Charlie is just part of carefully orchestrated double-act between, him, sevco and, Ogilvie, the SFA.
It’s what any two criminals do when they get caught and questioned by the police. They blame it on each other in the hope that the police wont be able to pin anything on either of them.
Green and Ogilvie are hoping that the argument about the tainted titles will make everybody forget about Green buying Ibrokes and Murray Park for a pitance; about Ogilvie’s, and God knows who else’s EBTs; and about the fact that the SFA knowingly allowed ragers to play in the CL when they were bust.
Also, for sevco and the SFA, it has the added advantage that if sevco goes down, they can blame each other for it for the next twenty years until the orcs finally calm down.
I always thought that the oldco losing their cheated titles was the most important thing. But now, I think that the SFA’s handling of this, right from the start, is the biggest issue. We can’t let these things be swept under the carpet. We need to know who exactly had EBTs, and we need to know why the SFA let an illegal Scottish team play in the CL.
I watch him talk…his lips move like he was saying something but all I hear is …”blah, blah, blah bigotry,…blah, blah, blah, revenge,…blah, blah, blah, hate,…blah, blah, blah, bile. This very dangerous individual is a word merchant and uses words like a scaffy uses a brush. He will say anything…absolutely ANYTHING to get his customers on his side and to get hold of their money. His customers being a few thousand deluded dead rangers supporters who are desperate to believe they still have a club. So he delves into the cess-pit of the lowest common denominator to press the right buttons and pull all the right levers to make them dance and sing. It’s not rocket science. It just took him a few weeks of observation and a few cosy chats with old lodge member Nosferatu and bingo!. . . he had the combination to bring the dead back to life. Trouble is now that he has awakened this zombie he needs to feed it with toxic bile every day or it gets restless; it has even been known to turn on its own crazy creator. However, regardless of the pathetically useless nature of the quislings at the SFA/SPL their is still the very real danger of the angry mob running amok when the dead zombie is finally put to rest by the BDO. But not before the poor Zombie is stripped of its dignity and its desire to be a living entity by the good Lord ‘Nimmo Von Smith’. Meanwhile the mad Barron Green lowers the back door moat of Castle Greyskull with all the money made from the poor deluded souls from ex-dead Ibrox and beats a safe retreat to Monaco to join up with partner in creativity the mad genius Cragus von Whiyteus.
Its just not a happy ending…in fact its very,
very ugly!
But still the local news-rags will tell the poor souls that help is on the way in the shape of a …blah, blah, blah billionaire!
What sort of sentence is this from Ally? “To mention the crime for a punishment before the punishment has been proven guilty or not guilty would be rather strange” Surely he meant to say “To suggest a punishment for a criminal charge that has yet to be proven guilty or not guilty would be rather strange”. Putting the bad vocabulary aside, it’s not unusual for deals to be struck between prosecuting and defence lawyers to avoid court time with the criminals accepting lesser punishments than would be likely should a court case go ahead. Obviously the administrators from the SPL and SFA were keen to avoid hanging out their dirty washing for the whole world to see. I forecast the sight of many a skid mark in outsize holey underpants.
Get the titles stripped and we can all get a bit of peace and quiet. Green was funny at first but he needs to give his chops a rest now
He is off his rocker, he is in awe at the hero worshipping he is receiving from the Sevco Wanderers fans, remember only a couple of moths ago the man was having to use more security than the Pope did to move around Glasgow! He is enjoying himself, it’s the easiest scam he’s ever been involved with, and he’s been involved in a few.
What a sorry mess! Charles Green is only batting for his team whether he believes in his twisted logic or not. Lord Nimmo’s unprofessional comments made this much easier for Green, who despite getting all the help from the corrupt SPL and SFA administrators, he keeps spitting it all back in their face.
Does Green really think a football team can run up 100 million pounds in debt, then get rid of the debt by declaring itself liquidated, sell off its main assets on the cheap, then carry on with the same brand name as if nothing had happened? Of course not!
He’s just trying to keep the brand name in the media spotlight by coming out with controversial statements on a daily basis and he’s doing a very good job at it too. As for Lord Nimmo, I think he should read up on company liquidation laws.
Nimmo doesn’t seem to understand the differences between oldcos, newcos and ownership. What an embarrassment.