redknapp tax evasion - trial begins january

[Hoop Blah]

If there's no limit then I might ask my boss to just start paying me in gifts as well!

[facaldaqui]

Sorry to go against the flow of this thread, but it seems to me that although it is obvious that Mandaric and Redknapp are totally bent in this matter, they should be found not guilty (on the evidence so far). The only evidence that the money is other than a gift from Mandaric is in the tape between Redknapp and the journalist; but Redknapp is saying he lied on the tape. Unless that tape is taken as conclusive, there's no way it can be proved that the money in the Monaco account was an undeclared work-related payment to Redknapp, as opposed to a tax-free gift.

The tax-free limit on gifts is £3000, I believe.

Not in Monaco.

[Ian Royal]

That's so transparent you could walk through it!

[Bandini]

By the way, is it normal in football for managers to get cuts of sell-on transfer fees for players they bought? Coppell would have made a fortune if that were done at Reading. It is a practice fraught with problems, as it could lead to spurious wheeling and dealing by managers out to make a buck. Harry certainly seems to buy and sell compulsively; and it strikes me that this could be said of his signings in the present window. Does he have an agreement at Spurs that gives him a cut of profit on players he buys and sells?

I think that Holloway had a similar agreement at Blackpool.

[Seal]

Does help explain why he was such a wheeler dealer at pompey...talk about a conflict of interests!

[leon]

he'll get off....it's all rather depressing, football appears to operate without any business or moral constraint.

[Svlad Cjelli]

he'll get off....it's all rather depressing, football appears to operate without any business or moral constraint.

But he's not dealing with football now - he's dealing with the law, in the real world.

[Mr Angry]

His scatter gun approach to his defence and his aggresive attitude in Court isn't going to go down well, and he really is struggling imho to properly answer the charges laid. However, his empassioned "Would I lie on the Bible?" defence is truly original and, if I may say, inspirational............



Saying - as he is now - that the money was a "gift" (after firstly denying all knowledge of the account, or any knowledge of any money deposited into the account) sounds like someone simply making up excuses for his actions and trying not to face up to the reality that he has been on the fiddle for decades, didn't believe he would ever get caught, and having now been caught, is behaving like a child when confronted by an adult with a mis-deed.


Anything other than a guilty charge would be a travesty.

[exileinleeds]

His scatter gun approach to his defence and his aggresive attitude in Court isn't going to go down well, and he really is struggling imho to properly answer the charges laid. However, his empassioned "Would I lie on the Bible?" defence is truly original and, if I may say, inspirational............



Saying - as he is now - that the money was a "gift" (after firstly denying all knowledge of the account, or any knowledge of any money deposited into the account) sounds like someone simply making up excuses for his actions and trying not to face up to the reality that he has been on the fiddle for decades, didn't believe he would ever get caught, and having now been caught, is behaving like a child when confronted by an adult with a mis-deed.


Anything other than a guilty charge would be a travesty.

Does the jury go out today?

Biggest laugh for me so far:

'arry: I am the most ungreedy bloke you will meet EVA. EVA.
Mandaric: 'arry got in a right strop and was not an 'appy bunny when told he would only get 5% bonus, not 10% as he thought he morally deserved...so disorganised and messy- yet knew exactly what he should get.

The guy is a liar and a charlatan.

[Wax Jacket]

yeah if only he hadn't actually paid a load of tax eh

[Hoop Blah]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJBsI7RAuvk

At least he's not been accused of being a wheeler dealer!

[Royal Rother]

...he has been on the fiddle for decades....

And it has been common knowledge for ages and ages. (True or not) I was first told about 15 years ago that he was the biggest brown envelope merchant in the game and he wasn't even considered a top manager at that time.

(I am told that) Kevin Bond has followed him around / been taken with Redknapp for a very good reason.

[Mr Angry]

Does the jury go out today?

Tuesday apparantly.

Spurs play Liverpool at Anfield on the Monday night, and as the Court day finishes at 4.30pm, he is going to struggle to get up there on time without the use of a private jet.

I'm sure the accused using a private jet will be something that will really go down well with a jury the evening before they retire to consider their verdict........

[Uke]

His scatter gun approach to his defence and his aggresive attitude in Court isn't going to go down well, and he really is struggling imho to properly answer the charges laid. However, his empassioned "Would I lie on the Bible?" defence is truly original and, if I may say, inspirational............

He is a regular churchgoer, just every 4 years...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba ... ankie.html

[Mr Angry]

He doesn't seem to realise that admitting in Court that you lied to someone (as he said he did when asked by a NoTW reporter as to the source of the money in the Monaco account) simply proves to the Court that you are a liar, and therefore EVERYTHING else that you say has to be viewed in that light.

Presumably, his defence team told him to say that as that was the ONLY defence he could possibly offer up having been taped saying that the money was a bonus for the Crouch transfer......

[Uke]

He doesn't seem to realise that admitting in Court that you lied to someone (as he said he did when asked by a NoTW reporter as to the source of the money in the Monaco account) simply proves to the Court that you are a liar, and therefore EVERYTHING else that you say has to be viewed in that light.

Presumably, his defence team told him to say that as that was the ONLY defence he could possibly offer up having been taped saying that the money was a bonus for the Crouch transfer......

What about the players that follow 'Arry around?

No sweeteners for them?

[Silver Fox]

'Arry is one person who was presumably happy with the hacking scandal, I mean who wouldn't lie to a horrible dirty News of the World journalist?

[Uke]

'Arry is one person who was presumably happy with the hacking scandal, I mean who wouldn't lie to a horrible dirty News of the World journalist?

At least he hasn't got a (presumably) lucrative column in a News International paper

[exileinleeds]

'Arry is one person who was presumably happy with the hacking scandal, I mean who wouldn't lie to a horrible dirty News of the World journalist?

At least he hasn't got a (presumably) lucrative column in a News International paper

Didn't stop the police from tipping off The Sun to send photographers to the arrest/house search.

[leon]

he won't get sent down