"Here were two middle-class young guys - wet behind the ears - who would have had trouble running a raffle, never mind a bar." Not related to Mr Whyte by any chance? They'll be sending their CV's to him in any case
If you can't be arsed reading this, here is a summary; Timmy could buy the Huns to shut them down HOSTILE BID COULD CLOSE RANGERS - Exclusive RANGERS are at the mercy of a hostile takeover which could see the club closed down. The news that the astute Paul Murray has struck a deal with Ticketus is a big step in the right direction towards returning Rangers to safe and sensible stewardship. Butas things stillstand, anybody with enough money could move in and make the administrators an offer they can’t refuse…and not just from a financial viewpoint either. Some folk suspect dark forces have beenat work in the background. Be that as it may, the fact remains that Rangers are more vulnerable to hostile forces than they have ever been in their illustrious 140-year history. There is nobody inside Ibrox with the clout to stand up and protect Rangers from the club’s many wealthy and extremely well connected enemies. Think about it! And Rangers supporters must do exactly that in order that they heap plenty of pressure on the Duff and Phelps Two, Brian Clark and David Whitehouse so they know their every move is being watched. So Clark and Whitehouse know that if the Doomsday scenario comes to pass they will be held accountable by the many millions who support Rangers and who are scattered throughout the globe. Clark has already admitted that the motives of some of people who have expressed an interest in buying Rangers have to be questioned. WHY? Who are these people? What are their questionable motives? What Clark said was a direct quote from him in Friday’s Daily Record, the newspaper that has led the way in this whole sorry tale since it kicked off the WHYTE SCANDAL by exposing his dodgy deal with Ticketus. There was another direct quote from administrator Clark which set me thinking and set alarm bells a jangling. It was that some individuals have attached themselves to more than one consortium which has expressed an interest in buying Rangers. Now, before some of my colleagues – those who see Scottish football through Peter Lawwell’s eyes and describe it from his script - dismiss this as the ravings of someone who has just reported UFOs in his back garden, let me pose a question. Back in May, when Rangers had just stopped celebrating a third successive title and Craig Whyte moved in, with Rangers seemingly debt free, would they have believed the Ibrox club would be in their current situation? And no matter what doubts they harboured about Whyte at that time, how many will admit they saw all of this coming? That Whyte would turn out to be a huckster, a trickster, a conman, and very possibly a commonthief? Nary a one I’ll wager. So what if there was somebody out there meaning to do Rangers harm? Somebody whose riches scaled the peak of being a BILLIONAIRE….and then some? What if he saw £80m as small change, well worth spending to kill Rangers? Are there such people? Well, not in Scotland. But in a nearby foreign country? Mmmmm…….. Think about it! Such a person, either boldly and with a brass neck, but more likely hiding behind nominees, could buy Rangers, which would give him Ibrox Stadium, the training ground in Milngavie and the Albion car park. He could then decide that Rangers, as a football club, was being closed down. That would leave him with the three properties. None of which would give him his money back if he sold just now. But what if he held on until an upturn in the economy and sold Ibrox and the Albion for building social and/or affordable housing? Of course he would need the help of Glasgow City Council. Think about that! As for the land outside Milngavie? I am sure a deal could be struck for upmarket housing to be built there, giving any such so minded and rich enough enemy of Rangers his original investment – or at least the guts of it – back. Impossible? Well two people, neither of them given to conspiracy theories, both senior professional men, who I put such a scenario to said it was unlikely, but not impossible. For the original question regarding why Craig Whyte bought Rangers remains unanswered. Though the emergence of any hostile bid to buy Rangers and close the club could provide some answers. Especially regarding just how Whyte can sustain a multi millionaire lifestyle with no visible means to support it. It must be a helluva big Giro he’s getting. For the moment it is enough for Rangers supporters to be placed on red alert as to the danger their club is in. And enough for the Duff and Phelps Two to be made acutely aware of just how closely their every move is being watched. Even when they retreat to their Glynhill Hotel hideaway in Renfrewshire. Or even check in at the more up market Grand Central in Glasgow city centre. ……….. AND….. ODIOUS CREEP continues to boast and bumble in his own imprecise style. But whatever the self confessed *****phile sympathiser says, it all gets back to me. Not everyone in every television studio thinks Creep should be there. For instance, just before one his many irrelevant television appearances last week – Newsnicht since you ask – Creep was boasting away about how his daily newspaper colleagues delegated him and gave him a mandate to interview Craig Whyte on their behalf. Now clearly this is an old story as Odious Creep has not worked on a newspaper since the beginning of December. And so it proved as he added flesh to the tale. It was, he lied, on the plane coming back from Malmo that the other daily newspaper men elected him as their representative to interview Whyte. It seemed unlikely to me as I know that almost every newspaperman on that flight not only dislikes Creep as a person, but think he is a slothful, unprofessional dud. And so the truth came to pass. It is this, confirmed by three separate sources, one broadsheet, one tabloid and one even more official. All requests to interview Whyte were refused. When the plane landed, Creep’s bag was first off the baggage roundaout and as luck would have, it he and Whyte went through the Nothing To Declare lane together. During that time he got half a dozen sentences from Whyte which, as he had been spotted by a couple of gnarled old hacks, he was forced into passing round the press pack. These are the facts. Not the fiction. You get that fiction if you are daft enough to watch Odious Creep on telly, or listen to him on Radio Clyde. ……..FINALLY……….. WEE BILLY LECKIE is another who is well worth watching. The Sun’s wee Billy was wined and dined by Irn Bru last week as part of the Scottish Football League player and manager of the month awards. Possibly more than Scotland’s other favourite drink had been flowing, forwee Billytold anyone who would listen that Scottish football would be a better place WITHOUT Rangers. Tut! Tut! You Silly Billy! posted by leggoland @ 00:17
Good God! Wait until Scooby Doo and the gang catch up with Craig Whyte and rip of his mask to reveal DERMOT DESMOND Those men were called psychologists David. You see them every week
[h=2]Sunday, 11 March 2012[/h] [h=3]RANGERS AND TICKETUS: THE FACTS![/h] GIVEN the fact that the news of the deal struck with Ticketus by Paul Murray on behalf of the Blue Knights, broke late on Friday night, it is important to spell out what it all means. And to underline that nothing has been signed yet. That, according to sources close to Paul Murray, will not happen until he has had another meeting with Ticketus, probably tomorrow, and then only after the three main supporters groups he has been working with – the Assembly, the Trust and the Association – get a chance to see the contracts. My sources also insist that Paul Murray will make it a point to ensure there is complete transparency over any arrangement with Ticketus. He is, I was told, firm and forceful about that. Just as he is insistent that no deal will be entered into that is not to the utmost benefit of Rangers. And in the long benefit term to the Ibrox club too. My view is that supporters should believe him. For after all the backdoor dealings from Craig Whyte which have taken Rangers to the edge of oblivion, that must surely be good news for the worried Rangers fans out there. Paul Murray wants to see proper people back in the Blue Room, around the boardroom table and sitting in the directors' box. Of course some supporters will find it hard to get their head round Ticketus going from seeming to being the bad guys to suddenly joining the Blue Knights. As is the case with most things in the tangled weave of deceit and disaster left behind by huckster Whyte, it is not as clear cut as that. Ticketus were never the enemy. In effect, they were just one of many who were duped by Whyte. To the tune of £24.4m. That’s some Sting. They want their money back. Quite right too. But they know now their chances of getting it back from Whyte equate to a snowball’s survival rate in Hell. Of course Paul Murray and the Blue Knights could fight them to get the debt wiped out. But that would take years and all the time Rangers would be bleeding money they don’t have. Clearly Paul Murray has taken the view, based on his experience of doing multi million and multi national deals, that it would be better to do business with Ticketus. And just as clearly, Ticketus, who could also drag Rangers through the courts for years and whose organisation has £3BILLION under management, feel the best chance they have of getting their money back is to work with Paul Murray, a man they have done proper due diligence on and found to be a fine upstanding businessman and good corporate citizen. Those last three words are important. For Ticketus, doing business with a Paul Murray-Blue Knights-Rangers, fulfils what I believe to be their moral obligation and in the real world, makes good sound business sense for them too.[FONT="][/FONT] For Rangers, the good business sense extends to banking facilities. As a result of the chaos caused by Whyte, Rangers will find it difficult to secure banking facilities. Lloyds, who many believe caused all of this is the first place by refusing the Paul Murray offer last April, remain the club’s bankers. In retrospect, that probably means Whyte had to stick with them as no other reputable bank would deal with him. Therefore Ticketus – a reputable company with £3BILLION under management – will, in a way, act as Rangers’ bankers until the fiscal reputation of the club is restored. As it will be under Paul Murray. Those are the FACTS of the matter. Tomorrow will be an important day in moving the Paul Murray led Blue Knights closer to being able to sit down with the administrators and make a formal offer to buy Rangers and start the process of restoring the fine old club’s honour. Given what I believe is in place, when the offer is tabled The Duff and Phelps Two, Paul Clark and David Whitehouse, must surely look with favour on it. For their task is more than merely finding a buyer. It is finding a buyer with sufficient resources.... AND the good of the club’s long term future in their blueprint. PROPER PEOPLE! By adding Ticketus to the ticket, Paul Murray has now surely got the dream team in place to purchase Rangers. ..........AND........ DAVID MURRAY's cherry picked newspaper, the Sunday Mail, carried a story today with quotes from him saying the only mistake he made in over two decades as Rangers owner was selling to Craig Whyte. Well David, even if that were true, it was a whopper of a blunder. Eh? I shall return to the subject of David's disasters - and there were many - soon. For the moment, a red alert. Almost half a century of being in the business has given me finely tuned radar, regarding who is spinning and putting down the poison. Some of today's stuff, in a more serious paper - Scotland on Sunday if you must know - seems to me to perhaps have David Murray's fingerprints on it. Just as what the administrators have been saying about Paul Murray, publicly today, and privately last week, could easily have been scripted by David Murray, who they and Craig Whyte associate and Duff and Phelps partner, David Grier, have met. I'll be keeping an eye on the east. And not just Charlotte Square. And picking carefully through the english used, looking for clues.
"Paul Murray, a man they have done proper due diligence on and found to be a fine upstanding businessman and good corporate citizen". Was he not a Director of Rangers previously and therefore partly responsible for the mess they got themselves into in the first place? "£3BILLION under management" What the **** is that supposed to mean? That they have plenty of cash to throw at a foundering business - which as a football club is not exactly the best investment in the world. Ticketus are in business to make money for their clients and I don't see how them throwing money at Rangers (which I doubt any Asset Management firm would consider wise) would help them in the long term, sure they want their money back but giving Rangers any of the £3Bill they have "Under Management" (ie other people's money) would be laughably naive given the current situation.
Yesterday's was a belter. A billionaire Celtic fan's going to buy Rangers so that he can close us down. The boy's nuttier than a squirrel's scrotum.
I know but you have to remember he believes in the "Cowardly Hand of Hidden Forces" please log in to view this image
Bloody hell, Leggo in not one, but two pertinent questions shocker! Pity he has to go and spoil it all by trying to convince everyone that Paul Murray and his consortium of hard-nosed businessmen are only interested in buying Rangers out of love. Aww, how sweet. You've got to hand it to him though. When it comes to throwing his weight behind a saviour there's no half measures. No learning from the mistakes of the past for wor David.
I wonder how long before we find out that one of the Duff and Phelps team is married to a "Rabid" Celtic supporter? Surely Celtic are to blame in some way?
There'll definitely be some connection. One of their ex-business associates wife's cousin will be none other than a certain Gerard/Seamus/Donal O'Fenian (insert Timmy-sounding name here) who previously met Peter Lawell's best mate Stewart Regan at a evening fundraiser in the early 90s.
