barcelonabear
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Jani Kauppila
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Jamie Ramsden ?
Would be interesting to see the impact in the interim, as I would guess Warburton has somebody in mind to come in. I worked with Jamie years ago when he was doing his sports science degree, and can remember him always been enthusiastic about discovering new techniques and advances in the discipline.
Was always handy working a backshift with him if you had picked up a niggle playing at the weekend!
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Anyone who boycotts is worse than any celtic fan.
You're 100% right. If history tells us one thing it's that their boycott didn't work...
A boycott is not something to be decided upon lightly, but at this point our fan group is already so far splintered that I doubt anyone who chooses to boycott won't give a fuck what fans like you think, just as you don't care what they think and are ready to write them off as being enemies of the club.
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Ortiz, McKay, The guy who left at the same time as Wylde. Canae remember his name?
Mervan Celik
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Johnstone was thrice the player Daly is though.
We were at thrice the level at the time though. For the level we're at, and the level we want to get to in the time he'd be here, Daly would be a good signing.
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After Brett Molloy's tweets I would hope no one turns up for this one.
One idiotic player shouldn't be taken as a representation of a whole football club.
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David Murray banned TBB, he's gone. I dont recall Green telling us we cant sing these songs. When was the lat time we were punished for "sectarian singing"?
You're either playing devil's advocate very well, or you have a comprehensive lacking in common sense. The Billy Boys, all this UVF nonsense, anti religious songs and the like have no place in today's society. Green hasn't come out to tell us which songs specifically to ditch from the songbook as until now he probably hasn't been fully aware of how regressive some amongst our support are.
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I know what doesn't constitute an 'actual fan'. People who go against the wishes of the club.
Couldn't have said it better. An actual fan of the club supports the club without the need to bring their political and religious bias and try to attach it to the club, without tarnishing the name of the club, and as said above without thinking they are bigger than the club by going against the clubs wishes.
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Fans were superb!
You're right the FANS were superb and have been all season. Unfortunately these morons who go to games and sing songs that only bring disrepute to our club spoil it for the actual FANS of our club.
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A Rangers supporter is a person who supports the Rangers Football Club - & comply to their decision.
A lowlife scab opposes that, with the pretense he's supporting the team.
It wasn't the football club that made the decision though. Green just bowed to pressure from the fans who were already speaking of a boycott before he decided that if he took tickets we would be at a financial loss for not selling them, and he would risk the fans not continuing to back him.
The true time to boycott Tannadice was in the direct aftermath of the 2009 game. This boycott was just petty and causes divisions amongst the fans.
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Instead of signing duds like Stella, he could have signed a defender that knows how to defend.
Aye because being in the Third Division gave us a great platform to sign quality.
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A league of 16 is a no go due to the lack of games it provides. Whilst fewer games might actually be good for fans, clubs will point to being unable to survive with fewer matchday revenues and any tv deal will be scaled down due to fewer games that are able to be shown in a season.
Do we really want more Old Firm games? Going down to 2 a season would make these games mean more, and make any cup tie between the 2 clubs more unique.
English clubs already feel they play too many games a season - just look at the way most treat their League Cup and teams like Tottenham, in the past, have treated the Europa League. Financially it makes more sense to English clubs to concentrate on the Premier League and finishing as high up the table as they can. Cup glory only means something to the fans, and as all the reconstruction talk has shown we are only seen as a commodity to be bled dry.
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Is he replacing Ally?
Nah he's coming in to assist on the Govou deal for when the registration embargo's up in September.
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It's the Reserves Managers job he's been given. Think something's been lost in translation as it's more likely Papin was in the frame for the actual managers job before it went to Bozidar Bandovic. Though if he was in for the Reserve job then he really needs to sack his agent.
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Mitchell has been playing left back for the reserves, not entirely sure why when he was playing right mid last season but clearly the coaching staff see something in him playing there.
Cole's just back from a long term injury so it'll be a while before he's ready to play first team football, will need a good month or two of reserve games before he's anywhere close to match sharpness. Also heard first hand that Naismith was rather cocky at Thistle, but Cole was simply shaky in his performances and that's why he didn't feature too much.
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Guys do we honestly believe we ar ever going to get favourable press ever again????? Its the Times ffs .Riddled with beggars ala the Herald ala the Sun ala the Rebel ala etc etc etc
Its poor journalism. That is certain, our name included is just to make it seem like a story. However the continual jump to it all being a conspiracy against us is frightening and more systematic of cross city rivals.
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It appears to be more guilt by association than anything else.
It is indeed relating to Richard Hughes (not the ex-Portsmouth player) who co-founded Zeus Capital, the company linked to Charles Greens consortium in his takeover of the football club.
The only questionable issue for the club is the stance that it has no business relationships with Zeus Capital, although that could simply be attributed to all business dealings being in the past.
Put the toaster back in the kitchen Gaz!
Managed to get a copy of the article for anyone who wants a read.
Criminal investigations have been launched into tax schemes sold by a key shareholder in Rangers Football Club, The Times has learnt.Richard Hughes, the co-founder of Zeus Capital, the finance company at the centre of the Rangers takeover, also set up Zeus Partners, which created and marketed a £134 million film investment scheme that HM Revenue & Customs suspects may be part of an illegal effort to generate millions of pounds in tax relief.
The Revenue is understood to be investigating 17 companies set up by Zeus Partners. Criminal investigations by HMRC are reserved for the most serious cases of suspected illegality including those where “only a criminal sanction is appropriate”.
Mr Hughes, who has more than two million shares in Rangers, a stake of 6.8 per cent, played a pivotal role in the purchase of the Glasgow club after it went into administration in February. The collapse came after Rangers’ previous owners became embroiled in disputes with the Revenue. The club has been beset by tax problems that led to the new Rangers, who play at Ibrox Stadium, being forced to start from the fourth tier of Scottish football this season.
The Revenue claims to be owed an estimated £73 million in tax and penalties after the club used a tax avoidance scheme to pay its players for nearly a decade. Rangers went into administration over a separate tax problem, when Craig Whyte, who bought it last year, failed to pay an £18 million PAYE bill.
When Zeus Capital and the businessman Charles Green bought the club for £5.5 million in June, they presented their consortium of investors as a “new beginning”. But a year before the acquisition, Revenue officials raided premises associated with Zeus Partners, two sources told The Times, as well as offices of Seven Arts Entertainment, the US film company that was counterparty to the deal. Neither Zeus Partners nor HMRC commented on the alleged raid.
“They showed up, knocked on the door, and said, ‘We want to come and look at the records’,” one person said of the Seven Arts raid. “They took everything under the sun.”
Mr Hughes, who has one of the biggest shareholdings in Rangers, founded Zeus Partners as an offshoot of Zeus Capital, in 2006. It was set up so wealthy investors could access “returns that Zeus Capital has been achieving for its corporate clients”. Two other partners run the day-to-day business, although one said that Mr Hughes retained an “active role”.
Mr Hughes stands to make millions of pounds when Rangers floats on the stock market before Christmas. Three other Zeus Capital executives, who do not work at Zeus Partners, own stakes in the club, making the finance house collectively its largest owner. There is no evidence that Zeus Capital marketed schemes similar to those offered by Zeus Partners. The Revenue is not investigating Zeus Capital, the company involved in the Rangers takeover.
Zeus Partners’ controversial film deal attracted about 165 high-net worth individuals including Hugh Sloane, the hedge-fund mogul and Tory donor, and Laurie McIlwee, chief finance officer of Tesco. Individual investors are not being investigated by HMRC, however.
Each investor was offered a “high-risk film production” deal to buy a total of eight new films and some library content from Seven Arts.
The deal was structured so that in the event that the films were “blockbusters”, the investors would double their money. If they did badly, the investment would be largely wiped out and the cost could be written off against the investors’ other incomes.
Films purchased from Seven Arts included Knife Edge, a 2009 British thriller starring Hugh Bonneville and Tamsin Egerton, The Winter Quuen, starring Milla Jovovich and Autopsy, a horror film directed by Adam Gierasch.
None appears to have achieved anywhere close to the “blockbuster” level that would have generated profit. American Summer made only $2,269, according to Box Office Mojo. Deal, a 2008 film starring Burt Reynolds, is said to have made $61,625.
A year after signing the deal in May 2008, Zeus Partners declared that each of the 17 companies was worthless their accounts show, enabling investors to claim tax relief.
At the time, however, a number of the films had yet to be released. One, The Winter Queen, had not been made. “One of the key questions is how would the investors have known the stock was worthless as early as 2009, when some of the titles had yet to be released,” a person close to Seven Arts said.
Up to 84 per cent of an investor’s contribution was financed by a loan from Seven Arts. The loan was secured against the companies, so investors were not liable if films failed.
An investor who put in £160,000 could borrow about £840,000 and claim tax relief on the full £1 million without being liable to pay back the loan. For a high-net-worth investor the tax relief would be between £400,000 and £500,000.
Rebus Investment Solutions, a company representing several disgruntled Zeus Investors, said their clients had been advised that the film deal was a “win-win scenario”. “The deal was based on the notion that, if the films were successful, investors would see huge returns and, if they were unsuccessful, they would be able to claim tax relief on the losses,” a spokesman said. “Such a bullish view failed to take into account the significant risks, including potential challenges by HMRC.”
A Rangers spokesman said yesterday that Mr Hughes was “one of a number of minority investors” and had “no involvement in the management of the club”, and that Rangers had “no business relationships with Zeus Capital”.
However in June, Zeus Capital said that “it worked in conjunction with Charles Green to complete the £5.5 million acquisition of Rangers”. In the same month, Zeus Capital was described by Malcolm Murray, the new chairman, as “the primary advisers” on the Rangers deal.
Mr Hughes is understood to believe that the focus of the criminal investigation is on Seven Arts, not Zeus Partners. He denied that the film investments could be illegal or amounted to tax avoidance. The investments had been approved by qualified accountants before being marketed. He also said that he had not been contacted by HMRC in relation to the film investigation since it began about 18 months ago.
A spokesman for Zeus Partners said: “Zeus Partners provided a number of high-risk investment opportunities, backing highly successful entrepreneurs with a proven track record across a number of sectors. Individual investors had the option of claiming HMRC statutory relief in the event that the investments were unsuccessful. We are aware that there is an HMRC investigation into these and other investments under way at this time and Zeus Partners is providing its full co-operations to HMRC.”
Seven Arts strongly denied claims that it, rather than Zeus, was the focus of the Revenue investigation. Peter Hoffman, chief executive of Seven Arts, said: “There was nothing fraudulent about the transaction, it was perfectly valid. These were real movies we were intending to make money on.”
Mr Sloane said he had not claimed for tax relief on the Seven Arts investment. Mr McIlwee and the Revenue both declined to comment.
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Kay hasn't posted anything else about it, and rarely goes into detail on Twitter. While Alexi Mostrous who's written the article is a special correspondent and not a sports writer has just retweeted the following
Nick Sutton @suttonnickFriday's Times pp6-7: "Rangers in fresh trouble as club's key shareholder faces tax inquiry" (by @AlexiMostrous) pic.twitter.com/oYyol8op Retweeted by Alexi Mostrous
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Just noticed the following on Twitter. Don't read the Times so if anyone does feel free to share what is reported after they do so tomorrow.
There's a disturbing story about more tax issues relating to Rangers in tmrw's Times. It's by @aleximostrous, nothing to do with me ...
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Aye and get him to bring back Steven Davies...
Seriously though where's the woodwork that these folk come out of after every poor performance?
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Am sorry I love coisty he's a legend but time to go a think he plays that stupid 1 up front ? Am sorry am so angry he's has to go
I know when has that stupid 1 up front won anything?
Well apart from Chelsea's Champions League last year. But apart from that? Oh and Barcelona's 14 trophies in 4 years. Spain's Euros - World Cup - Euros treble. Us in the League Cup a couple of seasons ago. Dortmund's last 2 titles. But aye you're right it is a silly formation and that's the problem...
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So there's around 7k disparity between the figures, meaning they official reported by the BBC could have taken into account ticket sales that did not show up while the police figure takes in the actual number of punters in the stadium... the exact same method used by all clubs.
I get the feeling some folk care more about celtic failing than Rangers succeeding.
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thats a different Mackay
And neither of them spell their name with 2 a's -> McKay
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So he either wants more money or is annoyed that Modric signing has temporarily stolen the limelight from him. His diva like strops are the reason he'll never better Messi as a player.
Covid rumours - NOW CONFIRMED
in Jimmy Bell's Kitroom
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For any player deemed a close contact who returns a negative PCR test, they will be able to exit isolation early so long as it's been 14 days or more since they received their second vaccine. Anyone who's had it in the last 2 weeks need to complete the full 10 day isolation.
Though I've now seen a number of people in work who were identified as a contact, immediately got a PCR that was negative and then developed symptoms and tested positive a few days later. So the situation will need to be monitored very closely - which I'd hope was being done prior to these tests.