An updated version of Ashley/Llambias timeline with Rangers 20-05-2011 Craig Whyte and Andrew Ellis are invited to meet Ashley at 100 New Cavendish London, Llambias fills in for Ashleys absence 15-02-2012 Ashleys man Llambias is introduced to a group of rangers fans to explain why selling the name of the stadium isnt such a bad thing 2012 A short time later Mr Ashley gains the naming right for £1 22-08-2012 the club signs a joint venture deal with Ashleys Sport Direct no details are confirmed by the club 05-12-2012 Pre IPO it is declared Ashley owned 8% of club. other initial investors are shown to be BPH, Marg, Mather, Green and Ahmed. Esteemed company and would suggest they were all involved at initial take over to buy club for Green. 13-12-2012 Keith Bishop (Ashleys PR man) invoices rangers for work which no one knows what its for, Jim Traynor was employed at the time as Media Director. It is later revealed by us that Llambias is a director of Keith Bishop PR and owns 51% of the company 29-08-2014 Rangers announce new share issue to attempt to raise £4m As previously Mike Ashley and Steven Mucklow guarentee to underwrite this share issue and agree to buy any unpurchased shares, they remove this under writing days before the issue and as a result Rangers only sell just over the required 75% of available shares and are left with a cash issue. Ashley refused to buy shares at issue 03-10-2014 Ashley buys shares from Hargreave hale and gives them £400,000 which he could have gave the club weeks earlier in the share issue 10-10-2014 The email we put out recently shows Somers beg Ashley to make a better loan offer as Kings deal may be accepted by other board members 26-10-2014 Rangers borrow an initial £2m from Ashley, this sees Wallace and Nash leave the club and shortly followed by Crighton, oddly the three directors who wanted to accept kings offer. it is agreed Ashley will receive securities and 2 directors. kennedys £3m loan offer is declined and this included putting security of Ibrox in trust for fans. Story breaks that all directors were served with legal warning that they would be sued if they didn’t accept Ashley loan 13-11-2014 Story breaks that Llambias meets ex director Stockbridge at Mar Hall Bishopton 27-11-2004 Annual report comes out and it shows for every £10 spent on merchandise only 75p goes to club, our merchandise deal is with SD 19-12-2014 Llambias is appointed CEO 22-12-2014 Somers claims at AGM Llambias was selected after thourough recruitmant process and was best candidate, not selected as he is ashleys man 15-01-2015 Papers show that the board are considering offering Ashley loans against Murray Park and Ibrox, these papers prevent anyone else gaining security for a certain time period and it comes to light they were submitted signed by Leach and Llambias without prior knowledge of other board members nor the NOMAD
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