I'll try and find the link to where Messi and Iniesta were both offered trials at Oldco,it was posted on another forum,meanwhile......... St Mirrgers.
St Mirren Board Statement 27th March 2012
MARCH 27, 2012 BY ADMIN
It has come to the attention of the Board of Directors of St Mirren Football Club Limited that a meeting took place in our Boardroom in November 2011. This meeting was attended by Mr Ken McGeoch, Mr Paul Davies and Mr Gary Withey, Company Secretary of Rangers Football Club Limited. +
During the meeting Mr Withey had sight of and inspected commercially sensitive documents of St Mirren Football Club. At one point during the meeting the Clubs General Manager was brought into the meeting and asked various questions including whether or not the Club used Employee Benefit Trusts (E.B.T.s).
As a Director of the Company, Mr McGeoch had every right to inspect such documents. The Board, however, consider that his decision to show these documents to an Office Holder of another SPL club is a serious breach of trust and an error of judgement.
In light of the information available to the Board, they have asked Mr McGeoch to resign his position as a Director of the Company with immediate effect. Should he fail to do so within the next 48 hours, we regret the Company shall be forced to call, at the Clubs expense, an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company to consider this matter further.
+ The selling consortium of St Mirren directors were not informed of Mr Withey or Collyer Bristows involvement with Mr McGeoch until January 2012, at which point it had concerns over the involvement of Mr Withey.
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