Dundee utd not been paid yet.

[ian1964 10,429]

The Express:

 

 

 

RANGERS are at loggerheads with the SPL over who is liable for paying the club’s debt to Dundee United from a Scottish Cup tie last season.

 

Ibrox chief executive Charles Green claims the SPL agreed to settle the £31,000 sum – but the top flight’s governing body maintains that agreement is void as it was made with the oldco Rangers.

 

It is believed the Light Blues were told in a letter on May 18 that the debt would be withheld from the next sum payable by the SPL to the club, following an application by United.

 

However, Rangers were consigned to liquidation the following month and Green’s company bought their assets and business before his application to join the SPL was rejected.

 

Green said: “Why the SPL have not paid Dundee United the outstanding sum as previously agreed is a question that they need to answer.

 

 

 

We wrote to Dundee United on Monday

Charles Green

 

“We wrote to Dundee United on Monday explaining the SPL had previously confirmed they would pay it.

 

“I spoke to [sFA chief executive] Stewart Regan and his solicitor this morning and provided them with copies of all relevant documentation.”

 

The newco was granted a transfer of the oldco’s SFA licence with one of the conditions of membership being the payment of all football debts, which stood at more than £3million.

 

Rangers finished second in their final season in the SPL and would have been entitled to 15 per cent of the income – about £2.5m.

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However, Rangers were consigned to liquidation the following month and Green’s company bought their assets and business before his application to join the SPL was rejected.

 

The old company (the PLC) who owned the assets has not been liquidated as of now, so the SPL are probably treading on slippery ice here!!

[calscot 0]

Sounds to me that they use the oldco/newco - whichever way benefits them, at every opportunity to shaft us.

[Crimson Dynamo 128]

Just how much money have the SFA got of ours???

 

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/sfa-and-rangers-set-for-new-battle-1263498

 

RANGERS and the game’s governing bodies are on another collision course over an outstanding debt.

 

Dundee United revealed yesterday they are still waiting for £31,031.20 due from a Scottish Cup tie at Ibrox last February.

 

But Rangers continued to insist they had paid their Scottish football dues and their row with the SPL is now likely to be kicked up to the SFA for a ruling.

 

However, in a further twist it can be disclosed the Ibrox club themselves have had to wait for the SFA to release £800,000 owed to them. That money was sent to Scottish football’s governing body from Southampton via their own association as payment for the transfer of Steve Davis.

 

Charles Green was still salvaging Rangers at the time and felt it appropriate the fee go to the SFA instead of into his Sevco account.

 

Yesterday a Hampden source revealed that because the money was with the SFA it was suggested by Green they proceed to pay the club’s outstanding Scottish football debts.

 

But almost a week later he discovered they hadn’t. Not only that, according to the source the SFA had no intention of making payments.

 

Green, it is understood, paid the debts – but not United’s £31,000 – from the Rangers account as soon as he’d been alerted but then couldn’t get his Davis money back from the SFA.

 

Apparently the people authorised to sign off cheques were on holiday.

 

United have been careful not to say who should pay them but they should have been settled in full by now, especially as it is unclear when SPL clubs will get their hands on TV money.

 

Normally they’d have received their first payments – around £675,000 each – by now but the renegotiations with broadcasters after Rangers went into liquidation have ensured the cash hasn’t started flowing yet.

 

Last night the SPL still couldn’t say when the payouts, which will be lower than usual, will be made but they are likely to get something before United will see any of the money due from the Ibrox cup-tie.

 

Rangers insist the SPL agreed they would pay and have a letter, dated May 18, which states the debt would be taken out of SPL money owed to them.

 

This was before liquidation and afterwards the SPL withheld around £1.2m Gers were due for finishing second.

 

The SPL will argue the letter is no longer relevant because it was sent to the business which went into liquidation and United’s debt should be paid by the newco.

 

They are adamant the five-way agreement – between the SFA, SPL, SFL, Sevco and The Rangers Football Club PLC (in adminstration) – which allowed Rangers to get an SFA licence makes it clear who should settle outstanding debts.

 

But Rangers are furious and determined to hold the SPL to the wording of that May letter.

 

Green said: “We wrote to United on Monday explaining the SPL had previously confirmed they would pay it.

 

“I spoke to Stewart Regan and his solicitor today and provided them with relevant documentation.”

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Nobody to sign cheques you would've thought Liewell would back in the country for the Septic ST sale nonevent.

[stewarty 1,877]

Nobody to sign cheques you would've thought Liewell would back in the country for the Septic ST sale nonevent.

 

I know that the SFA is antiquated in much of its approach, but hardly anyone routinely sends cheques these days. Most Finance systems have links to the BACS system and this could have been done easily. Maybe the person with the relevant delegated authority for transactions up to £800k wasn't available, but that doesn't mean that they couldn't have worked around it by gaining some form of verbal and written (email) authorisation in lieu of a subsequent signature, should it be required.

 

There is no end to the SFA excuse making it seems.

[GovanAllan 0]

I know that the SFA is antiquated in much of its approach, but hardly anyone routinely sends cheques these days. Most Finance systems have links to the BACS system and this could have been done easily. Maybe the person with the relevant delegated authority for transactions up to £800k wasn't available, but that doesn't mean that they couldn't have worked around it by gaining some form of verbal and written (email) authorisation in lieu of a subsequent signature, should it be required.

 

There is no end to the SFA excuse making it seems.

 

That goes down as one of the lamest, nobody to sign cheques.

[pete 2,499]

Football Integrity is in abundance.