Leggat - TIME TO UNMASK GREEN'S MEN OF MYSTERY

[ian1964 10,626]

JUST about the only hackneyed old cliché Charles Green didnâ??t fall back on was an â??Ba Gum Ladâ? sound bite.

 

In all other respects this mouthpiece for the MEN OF MYSTERY who want to get their hands on Rangers, played the big, bluff professional Yorkshireman right down to the soles of his shoes.

 

But Green even managed to get in an even bigger Yorkshire cliché as he battled to win the hearts and minds of the media. He resorted to a phrase which has become a standing joke�. even in Yorkshire.

 

The one about going DOWN THE PIT!

 

Gimme a break, Mr Green! Donâ??t be a proper Charlie. Some of the more gullible hacks who fawned over you at the Rangers training ground may have fallen for your Yorkshire Working Menâ??s Club stand-up comedy act.

 

It didnâ??t fool this old hack!

 

Just who is Green fronting for? Who are the MEN OF MYSTERY? Whatâ??s their backgrounds?

 

And if they are all so fabulously wealthy, why does Green need TWENTY of them for the whip round?

 

It isnâ??t as though they will all be contributing £3M apiece. That would amount to £60M and remove the need for a CVA. They could just move in now. Today! They could sign on the dotted line, pay off all the debts, send out the season ticket renewal forms, complete with the price increases Green has promised, and watch £20M more roll in. From the pockets of hard working Rangers supporters.

 

But none of that is on Greenâ??s agenda. None of that is what he is being ordered to say by the MEN OF MYSTERY.

 

Of course there are many Rangers supporters out there who are already buying into the Green routine. Already welcoming him as the leader of a squadron of Arabian Knights.

 

And it is hard to blame them. Those supporters have spent the last three months on the edge of despair. They are now in such turmoil, so frightened, so bewildered, they are fair game for any blarney. And much of what Charles Green spouted to the media was just that. Blarney!

 

A patter routine carefully scripted and designed to hand headlines to the tabloids. To, in the vernacular of the press pack, fill their boots and send them off chortling happily with an easy story to write.

 

The same way Craig Whyte handed hacks an easy story to write a year ago. The same way he and his spin doctors whispered about just calling conman Whyte a billionaire. Rangers fans would be well advised to remember how that turned out.

 

So too would the press pack. It was not their finest hour.

 

Those fans may have been ill served by the media a year ago, but they at least knew WHO Craig Whyte was, if not WHAT.

 

Now they know who Charles Green is. Donâ??t they want to know WHAT he is?

 

Do Rangers supporters not want to know who the MEN OF MYSTERY are?

 

Or will Rangers fans aim venomous abuse at the few reporters who go diligently and professionally about the perfectly reasonable and entirely legitimate business of investigating Charles Green and of attempting to name the MEN OF MYSTERY?

 

There are already sections among the Ibrox fan base which has accused the Daily Record of digging the dirt. Of muck raking. Do me a favour.

 

Thatâ??s the paper which uncovered conman Craig Whyteâ??s dodgy deal with Ticketus. It is the bad guys, the villains whose dark deeds are laid bare by newspapers, who call it muck racking.

 

Thatâ??s the language those thieves in the House of Commons resorted to when the Daily Telegraph laid bare the money MPs were stealing.

 

So please, save the digging the dirt jibes, save the anti Rangers agenda comments, for those who deserve them.

 

Hereâ??s a wee question. I want to know all there is to know about Charles Green. I want to know what he is. I want to know who the MEN OF MYSTERY are.

 

Does that make me anti Rangers?

 

One thing I already know is that the administrators, Duff and Phelps say they have had a sight of the client account where the MEN OF MYSTERYâ??S money has been lodged with a firm of London solicitors. The firm is Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP, 35, Vine Street, London.

 

Now, give me a minute. Iâ??m just trying to remember where Iâ??ve heard a similar tale. Ah, yes.

 

That was when David Murray had a sight of the funds lodged by Craig Whyte as proof of financial substance, with a firm of London lawyers, Collyer Bristow.

 

Only the names have been changed.

 

One name which I believe we will be hearing a lot of in the coming days is that of a lawyer with that firm He specialises in football matters. His name is Daniel Geey.

 

Any hack wishing to get more information can reach him at daniel.geey@ffw.com or at ontheball@footballaid.com or at info@danielgeey.com or on 0207 861 4335.

 

He writes a monthly legal football column and offers advice to football clients on such matters as fit and proper persons. Now hereâ??s a thing.

 

Does Danny boy know who the MEN OF MYSTERY are?

 

Is he willing to stake his impeccable professional reputation and his clearly lucrative career on them?

 

Is he satisfied, as a leading legal expert in such a key area, that the MEN OF MYSTERY will pass the Scottish Football Associationâ??s fit and proper person test?

 

He should have no trouble finding out, for the website of the On The Ball company which Daniel Geey is heavily involved in, lists the Scottish Football Association as sponsors/partners/backers. Call it what you like, the site carries the logo of the Scottish Football Association.

 

So all Daniel Geey has to do is pick up the phone and give his pal, Stewart Regan a buzz. Thatâ??s to say, if he can find a minute to spare from fielding calls and emails from the Scottish press pack.

 

Reporters will be keen to find out everything they can about Charles Green. Wonâ??t they? They will be keen to discover just who the Arabian Knights, the MEN OF MYSTERY are. Wonâ??t they?

 

Or will there still be plenty of newspapers lazy enough to be satisfied with Charles Greenâ??s professional Yorkshireman stand up comedy act?

 

If I can steal a wee line from Green's blarney. The one about, â??Down The Pit.â?

 

IT IS TIME TO START DIGGING!.

[GovanAllan 0]

Pity you didn't cry for all this digging when Whyte took over Leggo.

[Frankie 8,371]

15% of £8million = ~£1.2million

 

Not a lot for the 'True' Blue Knights to invest for a seat at Green's table. Or anyone else who has claimed to have our club's best interests at heart.

[CumbernauldGers 0]

My god the man is posting contact info for a guy that he has no idea for certain is involved in this deal. Leggo is hitting a new low here.

 

As i said about his blog yesterday this must now be a spoof blog? This stuff cant be for real?

[CumbernauldGers 0]

15% of £8million = ~£1.2million

 

Not a lot for the 'True' Blue Knights to invest for a seat at Green's table. Or anyone else who has claimed to have our club's best interests at heart.

 

Very good point Frankie as TBK and BK said a few times it was not about owning Rangers for them, just saving Rangers so you would think they would want to invest some of there money in this to?

[calscot 0]

15% of £8million = ~£1.2million

 

Not a lot for the 'True' Blue Knights to invest for a seat at Green's table. Or anyone else who has claimed to have our club's best interests at heart.

 

Football is a risky business where you can see you're investment dwindle to pretty much zero value - just ask Dave King. A million quid is a big investment for even rich people. IMHO you'd have to be worth at least ten million for it to be even a little bit affordable. I'm not sure how much I'm worth as l'm the usual work for a living person so all my wealth is probably in the equity of my house, but I know I wouldn't be able to risk 10% of it to invest in Rangers right now. However, the more you have the more expendable it is I suppose.

 

So ten to twenty multimillionaires investing over a million each seems a realistic way to go for me and not to be sniffed at.

 

I still get the impression that the BK's were looking to something similar to Whyte in that they wanted the club for virtually nothing and then let the fans pay for everything - this time initially through a share issue. I can't help but think that a £15M share sale to the fans would generate at least 75% of the invested money but the fans would get about 25% ownership in return. Bit of a rip off.

 

Then a lot of stuff that is supposed to be included in the debt would probably still be paid out of ticket sales ie the fans would pay and then pay again while the BK's would own and control the club for very little investment.

 

I know nothing about Green and his consortium and I'm a bit nervous of them; however, at least they seem to be putting a modest and realistic amount of their own money into the club. Not something the BK's can claim.

[BlueMazza 0]

It's all very well Leggo suggesting the 20-strong consortium should stick in £3mil each. The debts aren't theirs & just shoving money is not going to solve the root of our problems! For Rangers to become viable again, we need to start at the beginning.

[chilledbear 16]

I'll be taking with a pinch of salt, the Rangers Supporters that are supposed to be involved.

[Guest Xander1873]

That is a terrible article, of course we must remain vigilant but asking for the consortium identities to be released when it has already been stated that this will happen once a CVA is voted on, will not help the club. They have entered into a binding contract and have bought the club, what we have to decide is whether or not we buy into their plans for the future.

 

The consortium has my patience but my trust must be earned.

[foggy dewhurst 0]

if old foggy had £1.2 million i would grab 15% of the club a bargain there to be had .