Leggat - RANGERS, PAUL STRETFORD AND GANGSTERS - Exclusive

[ian1964 10,626]

THERE are growing fears that Charles Green has not got anywhere near the 20 worldwide investors he claims are backing the bid to buy Rangers which he is fronting.

 

And there are now also questions being asked as to just where the £8.5M Green has deposited in a client account with London lawyers, Field Fisher Waterhouse, has come from.

 

On top of which, there is the highly controversial figure of agent Paul Stretford, someone else with close links to Charles Green and who McDonald had admitted has been earmarked as the man who will have all the responsibility of buying and selling players, should the Green Gang get their claws into Rangers.

 

Stretford was involved in a sensational blackmail case at Warrington Crown Court in 2004. The case collapsed when it was proven that, when giving evidence, Stretford had misled the court.

 

The Football Association moved in and after examining all the court papers they handed down their judgment on 53-year-old former vacuum cleaner salesman, Stretford.

 

Paul Stretford was BANNED from operating as an agent for 18 months and FINED a staggering £300,000.

 

The court case followed a row over Wayne Rooney and who owned the rights to represent him. During the court case evidence was heard and reported that Stretford was at a meeting in a hotel which was attended by one of Britainâ??s most notorious gangsters, Tommy Adams, of the North London-Irish crime family, the Adams Family.

 

Evidence was also led which alleged that Adams was there at the invitation of Kenny Dalglish, who was then the owner TWO MILLION shares in Stretfordâ??s Proactive company and who recruited players for Stretford.

 

This is the man Charles Greenâ??s crony, his business associate, his big boss, Mike McDonald, wants to hand the Ibrox cheque book to.

 

And there is an increasing belief that these are the men â?? Charles Green, Mike McDonald and Paul Stretford â?? who ARE the SOLE investors in the move to snare Rangers on the cheap.

 

That there are NO men, NO families, from Europe, Singapore, India, Kuwait or Abu Dhabi, the places where Green and McDonald have said the MEN OF MYSTERY are mustering.

 

There could though be an involvement from a fifth man, though not financially. A Scot! A man with a high profile in football. Someone with close links to Stretford. But he is still in a job and cannot be named.

 

YET!

 

The murky picture which Charles Green has attempted to keep dark and mysterious and in the shadows, is now beginning to emerge into the daylight.

 

And with someone like Paul Stretford at its centre, it is not a very pretty picture.

 

 

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AND......

 

THE bungling Scottish Football Association and one its main sponsors, William Hill, are heading for a big bust up.

 

For I can reveal the bookmaking giants, who rescued the Scottish Cup by pouring their cash into it, are unhappy with the timing of the Rangers appeal.

 

The SFA set the headline grabbing appeal for today, at a time when the back pages should be full of stories about Saturday's Scottish Cup Final.

 

By tomorrow, though, the Hampden showdown will be relegated, with Rangers and the SFA taking centre stage again

 

The SFA also edged out coverage of the William Hill backed event in today's papers by announcing the Scotland squad for Craig Levein's meaningless jaunt to America, yesterday.

 

And to further take the spotlight away from William Hill, the SFA chose yesterday to announce their doomed to failure bid to co-host the European Championships with the Republic of Ireland and Wales.

 

It isn't often the bookies take a tanning, but the SFA seem to be taking William Hill for a ride.

 

Does Stewart Regan ever think about these things? Does he ever consult his diary?

 

Or is SFA chief executive, Regan, Peter Lawwell's pal, too busy twittering tosh on Twitter?

[Tannochsidebear 2,376]

I must have missed Leggat's piece on the fact that The Blue Knights had not got anywhere near their stated 10 investors, never mind the 20 they hoped to get to.

 

This just stinks of sour grapes from him and it looks like he is still being worked by The No-dosh Knights.

 

He may be 100% on the button, I dont have any info either way, but as fans we owe the new owners the time they asked for to try to get the CVA completed to avoid a liquidation of our club.

 

Leggo would be better advised to continue his "investigations" into this consortium and when he has some concrete evidence of something wrong, by all means expose them. Until then, save the puff pieces and let us all move on.

[foggy dewhurst 0]

the leggo chap makes it all sound like an episode of the sopranos

[aweebluesoandso 290]

I'm a fan of leggo, he's one of the few Journo's that fights our corner. But i hope he will give Green and his consortium the time to prove themselves.

[Frankie 8,371]

I think Leggo has been very poor lately but I have heard the same thing about Green not having anywhere near 20 investors though I do believe he does have a family from Singapore involved.

[GovanAllan 0]

If McDonald and Stretford were the gangsters Leggo claims then would Green not have told them to lie low until the deal was completed, instead of releasing their names. If thats all Leggo can come up with about Stretford it's not much I found that out yesterday with a simple google search.

[EDGE 0]

Leggo is some man. Nearly everything he says is 100% wrong. He trumpeted the Shyster as the saviour of Rangers and look how that turned out, so the fact that he's against this new takeover might turn out to be a Godsend.

[Guest wolfman]

used to enjoy reading leggat blogs but over the last few weeks they have become very tiresome.his support of TBK has become nothing short of paranoia making his blogs nauseous.

[Tumshie RFC 0]

Leggat has become nothing more than the Blue Knights cheerleader rather than an impartial journalist. There are guys on this site who write far, far better blogs than he does.

[tangent60 0]

I am growing tired of Mr Leggat.

 

Rangers don't need a blogger who is merely a propagandist for one particular group.

 

Rangers need responsible bloggers who try to look at all the groups vying for control of Rangers objectively, who seek the facts, first and foremost. Giving fans access to plain, unspun facts is arguably a better way for the support to achieve clearer and better thinking.

Edited May 16, 2012 by tangent60