When you’re shopping in a sellers’ market, agility is the only way to survive. You need contacts, sufficient coverage to trawl outlying corners of the bazar, and enough experience to ensure you don’t get burned.
If you’re trying to buy Champions League-calibre players for £100k you’re shopping in a serious sellers’ market but there is good strategy behind the deal Celtic have struck with Icelandic club, Fram, for the signature of 20-year-old striker, Holmbert Aron Fridjonsson.
Holmbert may or may not be the next Ibrahimavic, experience suggests you’ve got to kiss a lot of frogs in this game to find the one you’re looking for, but if Celtic are to bring a player to Glasgow who is capable of hitting the top, we’ll have to get him before the hundred-or-so other clubs floating around the wealthy leagues of Europe, which means we shop early.
We can afford to sign a few at £100k in an effort to fill just one place in the team. The argument could also be made that our more expensive players have only a marginally higher success rate than those signed for six figures or less.
Thanks for the big response to the launch of the second edition of the CQN Annual [which is now shipping]yesterday, as well as CQN Magazine, and the ‘10’ event, which the occupants of the comments section are being given a head start on.
If you are on or near South Uist tomorrow make sure you take in the Hebridean cultural event of the year, when Alex O’Henley has a book signing of his biography of Celtic great, Malky MacDonald at the Dark Island Hotel from 1-2pm, before a Q&A at the Polochar Inn, from 7-8:30pm.
Not only does the book chart the life and achievements of a pre-war Celtic great, it does so in two languages (English when read one way, flip the other way for Gaelic). It’s a great work, available from the Islands Book Trust.
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Mark 67 many thanks from me also for the updates from the AGM. Hail Hail Hebcelt
I would have thought that zero hour contracts are against European law. Maybe it needs a ‘Bosman’ challenge.
Leftclick, normally that would be my response, but not this time, for now I’ll sit and wait until we have an explanation. What has been said to persuade Canamalar to agree, I hope he can tell us.
We need clarity.
Well done to PL on the Rory Bremner comment, I look forward to the MSM reporting that.
Never mind the padenrics, flowery language and excuses.
The fact the Celtic Football Club won’t pay their employees the Living Wage is a disgrace.
You can work for us but we won’t pay you enough to come and watch us play!!!
SSN reporting new ceo at ipox next week -as pl said it will be rory bremner then he can pretend to be the entire board and anyone else he wants
twists n turns
12:39 on 15 November, 2013
On resolution 12. Whilst we clearly need to wait for info from Morrissey and/or Canamalar, I would think its a safe assumption that they are content with the nature of the discussions that have been held prior to the AGM. I’d be astonished if they went to all that effort to simply withdraw the resolution without a whimper. I actually believe its a positive sign, but, as I say, let’s await some information from the main bhoys.
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Correct and very importantly the resolution was not withdrawn and the material that calls into question the SFA’s role in monitoring AFTER the licence was granted is still there to base questions on and the avenue to do so is now there.
One point that should be made is the SFA are on safe ground in their case for granting the licence at 31st March, although the bill had surfaced and been accepted before then, not enough time had elapsed for it to be deemed overdue, never mind an overdue payable.
Thus Celtic cannot say we lost a CL opportunity at that point which undermines the case for going to the CFCB on that basis.
However at the first monitoring point at 30th June it is unclear if by then the bill was overdue and an overdue payable and that depends on what Rangers told UEFA and how far that was checked by the SFA.
That is being treated by the SFA as confidential (well they would) and in the interests of proper governance (the ultimate aim of Res 12) further probing to get at what was said and how far it was checked is necessary.
The adjournment keeps the door open and hopefully the fact that it has gets msm acknowledging that CF material contains information that they cannot justify not looking at.
Anyone reading that material would conclude a degree of collusion between Rangers and SFA but not enough are aware of the detail although the requistitioners are.
Morrisey will no doubt fill in the gaps and it would be as well to hold of speculation on what it all means until folk are in the picture.
Lets not forget Celtic opposed the resolution as unnecessary but are no longer pressing that position and it has not been voted against by them.
MHARK67 prayin for OSCAR KNOX –
Many thanks for the updates – helped alleviate an otherwise dull morning at work!
BTW thanks mark67 for the updates -disappointed in the living wage resolution being rejected -this was a real opportunity for the board to walk the talk
So Bankier managed to tell his minions that Livingstone should have chosen the lifetime peerage title of ‘Lord Livingstone of Ibrox’ in stead of Parkhead, so he could ‘Lord over them’. He then went on to scold the assembled masses and warn against belligerence when travelling abroad in the future, and managed to shame Brother Walfrid’s ethos by voting against the living wage resolution.
SFTB, you might not want to criticise him, but I do. He is an affront to what Celtic is all about.
So, the new punchline is “Rory Bremner can pretend to be Tony Blair!”
c Peter Lawell 15/11/13
Mhark67…cheers for the updates
setting free the bears supports Resolution 12 & Oscar Knox
12:53 on 15 November, 2013
It would be utterly wrong to use the words roll over. The resolution was not voted down by Celtic. No one predicted that.
I said it last week the Celtic Board is made up of people who have been high up in the business World for many years and they are very used to fielding difficult and awkward questions.While I respect that there are many clever posters on CQN there are not many in the Boards league.I will wait with interest to see how they fielded resolution 12. H.H.
Twisty/Auldhied – good common sense there re Res 12. Better to wait and hear the story straight from the horse’s mouth!
T4
As a sponsor of Resolution 12 I’m a bit annoyed that a ‘compromise’ has been agreed without any wider discussion or information. I hope that those who were party to the compromise are in a position to give an open and transparent explanation without hinderance.
It took 100+ people to get it there but looks like it took far less to get it passed over?
HH
Firstly, I think the Board are being a tad myopic regarding the living wage resolution. It only takes just over a thousand season ticket holders to take umbrage with this decision and not renew next season and the season after and so on, because of it, and their ‘ £500k’ will be lost without being able to set it against tax! Most of this work force will not be liable for PAYE.
As regards Bankier this is his second not-so-veiled dig at the Celtic support. I smell closet hun.
Finally, I’m sure Canalmalar, Morrisey et al have a very good reason for withdrawing Resolution 12, there may be interesting times ahead.
Hail! Hail! PMTYH
MHARK67 prayin for OSCAR KNOX –
Adding my appreciation to Mark and others for the AGM updates. The living wage is totally in the tradition of Brother Walfrid and Celtic PLC should reconsider this decision swiftly. The public standing if this social policy was implemented by Celtic PLC is incalculable. A bit like the figure of 500K the board are using.
So how many years of increased living wage was paid out to the directors today from the resolution that the trust did not support ?
All these discussions debate boil down to a club or a business. We are clearly a business.
They say charity begins at home. The PLC clearly think thats only deserving of people within a certain social class.
And we are a community club …one big family.
Bankier needs binned.
Patasitical behaviour from our board.
I wonder if the tea lady gets paid like DD if she does not turn up
Morrissey23rd only rolls over and his his belly tickled by Morrisey and pretty ladies. I have the scars mental and physical to prove this one.
HH
Auldheid, you are right in that everyone expected the board to do as they indicated– by saying it was unnecessary–they would do and vote against it.
It will be interesting to hear what Canamalar and Morrisey have to say on it.
The living wage rebuff has just put the Celtic Trust in the strongest position they have had in years and good luck to them. I hope that this brings them a lot of new members because the fans do need a rallying point and the Trust is democratic, it is only what the members choose it to be.
The gimlet-eyed one doesn’t do it for me.
monteblanco
“SFTB, you might not want to criticise him, but I do. He is an affront to what Celtic is all about.”
Read what I wrote.
I did criticise the guy and I re-stated that I have had strong reservations since his first public pronouncement about wanting the Celtic support to be more like the Tartan Army.
I said I was reluctant to criticise without knowing the full restrictions on anybody’s role but I have overcome my reluctance in this case because the guy appears to have no defence.
Here’s a section of what I posted. :-
“Ian Bankier has constantly embarrassed me with his utterances about Celtic. He is a very poor front man.”
How you mistake that for uncritical is beyond me.
Dia daoibh uilig
Enjoyed the AGM updates, thank you.
DesertBhoy if you’re about,a chance to recoup losses
Top gamble 2.40 on the nose and little pop 3.50 ew
And for anyone else of course
Ádh mór
BB
Bankier may well lack the common touch but I doubt he is a closet hun.
joe filippis haircut
13:16 on15 November, 2013
Garbage
HH
Agreed ernie.
I do not care what his background is. He just does not get us.
While I appreciated the reduction of £100 in season ticket prices I’d have happily taken £90 if the other £10 went directly to offset the costs of putting employees on the living wage.
I’d guess the other 40000 or so other season ticket holders would say much the same.
Not our finest moment.
Mainly left-wing suport and a Tory bored….where’s Philvis and The Singing Dick?!
T4
SFTB
Neither does DD or half the folk that post on here. More profits with a forelock tugging support and thats where we are going fast.
They are gauging whether we still have the gumption to carry out another “celts for change”
I have my doubts.
HH
Big Nan package dispatched to you should be with you tomorrow or Monday at the latest. Hail Hail Hebcelt
Quite shameful from the board to vote against the Living Wage when our CEO earns 1million and one of our directors is part of the Westminster Government that currently makes millions’ of people’s live a misery. The man who said “How would Walfrid vote?” nailed it.
It doesn’t look good to have the club bragging about our charitable ethos and then spit on a proposal that seeks to make the lowest paid employees’ life a little easier. It’s disgraceful actually. All over a relatively small amount: 500k (mysteriously up from 120k a few weeks ago).
Have to say I’m not impressed by Bankier either. Something doesn’t ring true about him as a Celtic fan
Joe Filippis Haircut
Well they did not appreciate the subtleties of UEFA FFP Article 66 until it was drawn to their attention by the Resolution :)
There is a wide array of talent available to Celtic on CQN ad elsewhere.
It is a pity that Res 10 on improving communications is unlikely to get voted for, as it would allow Celtic to draw on that talent in a constructive manner.
SFTB,
You said ‘reluctant’ so I changed that to ‘might not want to’. I fail to see how that could possibly be beyond you.
You then overcame your reluctance and managed to call him ‘very poor’.
I just thought that was a tad too restrained (imho), so instead called him an affront to what Celtic is about.
I want him gone, but I never was as reasonable as you. Pedantics shemantics, get him tae ………
“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
Gandhi.
Living wage Celtic. Don’t sell the soul of the club it is worth more than £500, 000.
setting free the bears supports Resolution 12 & Oscar Knox
13:33 on 15 November, 2013
‘Agreed ernie.
I do not care what his background is. He just does not get us.’
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He was at St Als. He should get us. I suspect he’s not any kind of football fan and is only on the board because his business/legal background appealed to The Great Desmondo.
Why Bankier’s figures don’t add up.
If £500k is the top line and there are 117 staff affected, on average, each one would need to be working 72 hours a week for 52 weeks a year for it to cost that. If his calculation includes tax, ni and pension (highly unlikely but let’s just suppose) it would come down to perhaps 60.
The numbers don’t add up.
HH
joe filippis haircut
Are you serious?
I quote: ‘While I respect that there are many clever posters on CQN there are not many in the Boards league.’
Just ’cause you’ve got a big car and get paid lots of dosh doesn’t make you good or smart …
FF(S)
St Als was a rugby playing school.
He could do with a good ruck.
IMO.
Row Z – I can’t remember where I saw it but I read a figure of £120k earlier this week.
The £500k could be a smokescreen.