Police raid football clubs

Dave Sutton's barnet · Post by **Dave Sutton's barnet** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 6:48 pm

Alright everyone, leave poor old T58 alone! He reported breaking news as he heard it, he won't bother again, y'ungrateful.....

trotter58 · Post by **trotter58** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 7:08 pm

BWFC_Insane wrote:Which is a funny comment to make as I listened to the headlines on 5live at 6 and they said that 3 clubs were raided, Rangers, Portsmouth and Newcastle.

Check the time of my post. I reported what they were saying at 4pm. Don't shoot the messenger!

BWFC_Insane · Post by **BWFC_Insane** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 7:40 pm

Apologies!

Anyways it is clear that the three clubs are Rangers, Pompey and Newcastle and we are in the clear on this one at least!

communistworkethic · Post by **communistworkethic** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 8:49 pm

I posted this over a long time ago, but I have it on good authority that of the £8million or so that newcastle paid for Boumsong, Rangers recieved about a third of that, with two other scotsmen pocketing the rest between them. Allegedly one is an agent the other a moustachioed former manager.

fatshaft · Post by **fatshaft** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 11:20 pm

hisroyalgingerness · Post by **hisroyalgingerness** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 9:29 am

Quote wrote:What is known is that the Boumsong deal was so odd that it was commented upon by every observer and plenty of Newcastle fans at the time. Four months after succeeding Sir Bobby Robson as manager, Graeme Souness was in his first transfer window as Newcastle manager. At £8.2m, Boumsong was his first big statement in the market and Souness compared the Frenchman to John Terry and Rio Ferdinand in terms of what he might bring to Newcastle's notoriously fragile defence, which had just lost the England international Jonathan Woodgate to Real Madrid. The difficulty Souness and Newcastle had in persuading assessors of the worth of the deal was twofold. First, that no other club was known to be challenging Rangers to sign Boumsong and, second, that six months earlier Boumsong had left Auxerre for Rangers on a free transfer.

Newcastle were well aware of Boumsong prior to his departure from Auxerre because Robson had travelled to France to watch him. Robson declined the opportunity to sign the centre-half, even on a free transfer, and his doubts about Boumsong's suitability for British football were confirmed when the club's talismanic England striker Alan Shearer was marked by Boumsong in a pre-season game against Rangers and came off to speak in dismissive terms about the Frenchman's lack of physicality.

Shearer, famous for guarded comments, even mentioned Boumsong's previous availability on a free transfer on television and when Boumsong made his Newcastle debut against Yeading in the FA Cup at Loftus Road, and was given a torrid time by DJ Campbell, doubts over the wisdom of the transfer mushroomed.
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Dave Sutton's barnet · Post by **Dave Sutton's barnet** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 4:39 pm

Telegraph reports the arrest of a second man, this one on conspiracy to defraud.

David Bond wrote:The inquiry is thought to focus on two transfers made in January 2005: Amdy Faye's £2 million move from Portsmouth to Newcastle and Jean-Alain Boumsong's transfer from Rangers to Newcastle for £8.2 million.

Both players are represented by the agent Willie McKay, the man believed to be at the centre of the investigation. McKay has denied any wrongdoing.

Montreal Wanderer · Post by **Montreal Wanderer** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 4:51 pm

Dave Sutton's barnet wrote:Telegraph reports the arrest of a second man, this one on conspiracy to defraud.

David Bond wrote:The inquiry is thought to focus on two transfers made in January 2005: Amdy Faye's £2 million move from Portsmouth to Newcastle and Jean-Alain Boumsong's transfer from Rangers to Newcastle for £8.2 million.

Both players are represented by the agent Willie McKay, the man believed to be at the centre of the investigation. McKay has denied any wrongdoing.

I was away when this broke and knew nothing of it until now. I never did like McKay though.

Bruce Rioja · Post by **Bruce Rioja** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 5:04 pm

Dave Sutton's barnet wrote:Telegraph reports the arrest of a second man, this one on conspiracy to defraud.

David Bond wrote:The inquiry is thought to focus on two transfers made in January 2005: Amdy Faye's £2 million move from Portsmouth to Newcastle and Jean-Alain Boumsong's transfer from Rangers to Newcastle for £8.2 million.

Both players are represented by the agent Willie McKay, the man believed to be at the centre of the investigation. McKay has denied any wrongdoing.

Now I'm no Sherlock Holmes, but even I could see that there was always going to be more to Boumsong's transfer to Newcastle.

Dave Sutton's barnet · Post by **Dave Sutton's barnet** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 5:05 pm

Montreal Wanderer wrote:I was away when this broke and knew nothing of it until now. I never did like McKay though.

We probably have some key players to thank him for (from memory, anyone who speaks French, generally with an African accent) but he was perfectly happy to f*ck us over on people like Laurent Robert...

Dave Sutton's barnet · Post by **Dave Sutton's barnet** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 1:06 pm

More from the Telegraph: it's Chimbonda!

Bruce Rioja · Post by **Bruce Rioja** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 6:37 pm

Dave Sutton's barnet wrote:More from the Telegraph: it's Chimbonda!

Oooh, Jimmy Jewell. Where there's a Scouser..................

chris · Post by **chris** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 12:44 pm

More arrests

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7116823.stm

marshall_42 · Post by **marshall_42** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 1:50 pm

chris wrote:More arrests

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7116823.stm

City of London Police said the men - aged 69, 55, 48 and 30 - were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud and false accounting.

What age is Allardyce?

superjohnmcginlay · Post by **superjohnmcginlay** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 1:51 pm

marshall_42 wrote:
chris wrote:More arrests

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7116823.stm

City of London Police said the men - aged 69, 55, 48 and 30 - were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud and false accounting.
What age is Allardyce?

Or Gartside?

Daxter · Post by **Daxter** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 2:01 pm

Allardyce- 53.

Gartside-66

perfan · Post by **perfan** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 3:26 pm

Daxter wrote:Allardyce- 53.

Gartside-66

66?????????? Are you sure? He looks about the same age as Allardyce.

Salford Trotter · Post by **Salford Trotter** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 3:43 pm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Gartside

66 according to wiki

boltonboris · Post by **boltonboris** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 4:42 pm

marshall_42 wrote:
chris wrote:More arrests

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7116823.stm

City of London Police said the men - aged 69, 55, 48 and 30 - were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud and false accounting.
What age is Allardyce?

When I saw there was a 30 year old man arrested I thought... Craig Allardyce, although I hope it's a player of a rival club...

marshall_42 · Post by **marshall_42** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 6:28 pm

Redknapp!

There goes his chance as England manager.

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