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Police raids don't worry new Newcastle ownership
England - 19 July, 2007
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The new owner of English Newcastle United is taking a calm approach to police raids at the club's headquarters.
The claim is that the club is not under investigation, but that two potentially illegal transfers are being looked at by police. Even if Newcastle United is under scrutiny, the events happened long before new owner Mike Ashley took over, which was only weeks ago.
Police conducted raids at Newcastle, Portsmouth and Scottish Glasgow Rangers, as well as a couple of private residences. The raids are linked to transfers in Jan. 2005 of Jean-Alain Boumsong and Amaday Faye. Those are among two of the 17 transfers Lord Stevens would not sign off on at the end of his bungs investigation.
The Boumsong transfer was singled out at the time it happened as an odd event. No major club was actively pursuing Boumsong from Rangers, and new Newcastle manager Graeme Souness was shelling out GBP 8.2 million for the defender, whose virtues he extolled.
Boumsong had just come to Rangers on a free transfer six months earlier, and the previous regime at Newcastle had just declined a free transfer for Boumsong.
The claim is that the club is not under investigation, but that two potentially illegal transfers are being looked at by police. Even if Newcastle United is under scrutiny, the events happened long before new owner Mike Ashley took over, which was only weeks ago.
Police conducted raids at Newcastle, Portsmouth and Scottish Glasgow Rangers, as well as a couple of private residences. The raids are linked to transfers in Jan. 2005 of Jean-Alain Boumsong and Amaday Faye. Those are among two of the 17 transfers Lord Stevens would not sign off on at the end of his bungs investigation.
The Boumsong transfer was singled out at the time it happened as an odd event. No major club was actively pursuing Boumsong from Rangers, and new Newcastle manager Graeme Souness was shelling out GBP 8.2 million for the defender, whose virtues he extolled.
Boumsong had just come to Rangers on a free transfer six months earlier, and the previous regime at Newcastle had just declined a free transfer for Boumsong.
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