Green Positive After SFA and SPL Talks
Potential Rangers owner Charles Green has described meetings with Scotland’s football authorities as “productive”. The man leading the consortium looking to purchase the administration-hit club met the Scottish Football Association and Scottish Premier League at Hampden. It came the day after the club’s appeal against a transfer ban and fine from the SFA was rejected. [...]
Rangers fans could call on the club to withdraw players from Scotland squads and boycott the Scottish Cup. The possibility from the Rangers Supporters Assembly comes after the club lost their appeal against Scottish Football Association sanctions. “Potentially, there will be a call not to enter the Scottish Cup,” said president Andy Kerr, whose group [...]
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Rangers have had their appeal against a year-long transfer embargo and a £160,000 fine rejected by a Scottish Football Association tribunal. The SFA had charged the club with six breaches of its rules and banned owner Craig Whyte from Scottish football. Rangers argued that they should not be held responsible for Whyte’s actions. And administrator [...]
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Livingston have written to the Scottish Football Association warning they may take legal action if the governing body fails to act upon Rangers’ financial woes appropriately. STV understands the First Division club have outlined they would pursue up to £1.2m in lost revenue for their relegation to the Third Division in 2009 if the SPL [...]
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Hibs chairman Rod Petrie has told BBC Scotland that sporting integrity should come before any financial benefit to Scottish Premier League clubs. Rangers face possible sanctions should they emerge as a new company, while the SPL is also investigating claims of undeclared payments to Ibrox players. Several club officials have expressed commercial fears about a [...]
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Charles Green insists a Rangers run under his consortium’s stewardship “will never have debts again”. Green’s group has agreed a deal to buy the club , whose administrator will start the process of offering creditors a Company Voluntary Arrangement. And Green says a newco will be launched if the CVA is rejected. “The ambition to play [...]
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Former Sheffield United chief executive Charles Green has agreed a deal to buy Scottish Premier League side Rangers. Green, 59, whose bid has backing from the UK, the Middle East and Far East, hopes Rangers can exit administration through a Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA), a key issue for many fans. Administrator David Whitehouse said that, [...]
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Ticketus has formally launched legal action against Craig Whyte over money owed to it by administration-hit Rangers. The finance firm purchased tickets from the club at the time of the businessman’s takeover last May. It has been revealed that Mr Whyte gave personal guarantees to Ticketus over the capital issued on the basis of future [...]
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A Scottish Football Association tribunal gave consideration to terminating Rangers’ membership during a case against the club on five breaches of the governing body’s rules. The club were handed a 12-month registration embargo in late April by an independent inquiry, as well as receiving fines of £160,000, having been found guilty of breaking four regulations. [...]
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Rangers will have their appeal against a 12-month transfer embargo and a £160,000 fine heard next Wednesday. The Scottish FA charged the club with six breaches of SFA and also banned owner Craig Whyte from Scottish football. Rangers manager Ally McCoist claimed the charges were unfair. The Rt Honourable Lord Carloway (Chair), Craig Graham and Allan [...]
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