Very pleased to hear Nir Bitton has signed a contract until 2020. Five years is an astonishing extension for a player who is clearly heading in the right direction. It gives Celtic assurance that they don’t need to worry about a key player’s contract running down for the foreseeable future.
Nir was the first manifestation of Ronny Deila’s player-improvement work. At the start of last year he was little more than a squad addition, a bit like Leigh Griffiths, but he’s since excelled in domestic and European football, as well as for Israel in the Euro qualifiers.
Let’s see if he can continue to improve.
I note the media going ‘a bit Tonto’ over Sports Direct’s insistence that the Rangers Former Players Benevolent Fund stop using trademarks they own. I know this will make many people swallow hard, but’s be clear, if the Celtic Former Players Association were selling merchandise bearing the Celtic crest the club would be saying “Cease and Desist that right now, Joe”. Same is true if you are a fan selling T-shirts or street vendor selling scarves.
Without making moral judgements, football clubs earn money from licensing their logos, you want to use it, you pay. You don’t pay, the club cannot discriminate between who they pursue and who they don’t, as such discriminatory behaviour would be a legitimate defence in law by a transgressor.
Sports Direct own thousands of logos and brands. They will have a department sweeping for infringements and they don’t strike me as the kind of company who let any slip through without action. I’d be amazed if Mike Ashley, or any senior SD staff, were even aware of the action. Cease instructions will come out from the legal team without a second thought.
What remains galling to some is the fact that Newco have to take instructions from Sports Direct on use of logos and other IP. This, on top of the whole Fifa 2016 indignity, could be ended by repaying the Sports Direct £5m loan.
Why wouldn’t they stop the embarrassment and just pay Mike his money? He’s not going to cut a new deal, no positive accommodation is ever going to happen, all that lies ahead is more embarrassment, and the risk of Ashley taking genuinely draconic action to recover his loan. I’m sure they money’s there to repay, right?
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You will how ever have noticed this below, wonder if he picked that up in here?
However, in the Europa League, Celtic were held to a 2-2 at home by Fenerbahce – See more at: http://www.celticquicknews.co.uk/bitton-deal-heres-an-idea-just-repay-mikes-loan/comment-page-3/#comment-2710180
You beat me to it Tone.
Well done Ronny.
You deserve it for managing the club in crisis.
HH
http://www.celticfc.net/news/9444
Nice one Ronny, Nice one Son…
RD is right, all these extra games that other teams don’t have to deal with are mostly forgotten and taken for granted, I honestly can not prais the man high enough, and of course the vision of the board for picking him as our leader, I’v a feeling he will be here for a while, and wish him and the players nothing but the best of luck.
Lurking Huns GIRFUYs
Wondering if problems with cqn are when going from wi fi onto 4g then 3G depending on where you are
A couple of quick points.
As far as I’m aware there is no petition planned by anyone outside Parkhead on the day of the Green Brigad’s food drive.
At the previous food drive, which took place on the same day as the Celtic Trust were collecting signatures for the Living Wage petition, some of those asking for signatures positioned themselves next to the drop off points for the food drive. This wasn’t pre planned but was done for two simple reasons.
1) It would be easier for supporters as those who wished to donate food as well as sign the petition could do both without having to stop twice.
2) It was hoped the petition would receive more signatures as it’s easier to speak with someone when they’ve already stopped.
No hidden agendas just common sense.
Can I also mention that those Celtic employees who started receiving the LW on July 1st are now being paid 40p an hour below it since the recent increase. It’s for this reason that accreditation and commitment to updating is so vital.
Finally, brilliant Ronny, delighted for you on your award.
Ron D-those clowns Regan & Doncaster will currently be in their default position, hiding under their desks on Hampden’s 6th floor, with pencils up the nostrils and hankies on their heads.After the huns died, they said they would take a closer look at Club governance in all leagues, can Sevco see out the season? Could they prove this before the season started? Are they trading insolvent? Are they bringing in players while they are insolvent? That muppet Regan, had the brassneck, to call out Platini for transparency. HH
So is the BBC report on Big Nir signing a 5 year deal just highlighting their default position that Celtic must always be in a crisis. Biton wanted out of the crisis side is what they wanted to say.
Ronny Manager of the month?!
I thought McInnes would have been a shoe-in.
Congratulationss Ronny!
HH!!
That really is some adds I’m getting at the top of the page, I just opened one that states…photos that prove you have a dirty mind… Going by the pictures, I most certainly do ;)
Living to hate… loving to hate… that makes you a good person; one of God’s good guys… are you sure… really, really, really, sure?
Are you?
Are you so plastic?
It is not what you say that defines you… it is what you do.
It really is that simple.
Smashing Milk Bottles:
Food collections… do you remember?
I still owe you.
I won’t ever forget that. I remember what you did in my name.
Never ever will I forget.
I don’t know about God, I can’t speak for him, but in my eyes, you are one of the good. One of the best.
The best maybe even… who knows?
Who cares?…
Who sees pain?
I have not forgotten. I won’t ever forget. Never.
Interesting day tomorrow seems such a long time ago as well
http://www.scotland-judiciary.org.uk/25/1513/Advocate-General-for-Scotland-v-Murray-Group-Holdings-and-others
Good evening friends.
I was delighted to learn that Nir Bitton had signed an extensionto his contract. That delight was added to when I saw his eyes light up talking of his being a C\eltic player. Brilliant.
PARKHEADCUMSALFORD on 3RD NOVEMBER 2015 6:29 PM
I think it’s a great piece of business by Celtic. Well done to all involved.
Lisbon Lion Jim Craig has agreed to do a Q & A on CQN on Wednesday 18th November in the evening. We’ll start at around 7.30pm and we’ll try to get through as many questions as possible. Jim is a Celtic historian, as you know, and also wrote the foreword in Brendan Sweeney’s wonderful new book, Celtic; The Early Years which you can order here….http://goo.gl/OhL7bZ
How many Lions is that we’ve had on CQN!
Kitalba
I’ll back your comments about Smahing Milk Bottles.
A guy who does so so much for others without ever seeking credit for it.
Hopefully we are about to see the beginning of the house of cards coming tumbling down. Blind allegiance will only take them so far. Even for the thickest of them the penny must be starting to drop.Just happy to sit and watch it fall apart on and off the park.
What is it that is so difficult to understand about Europa league results having nothing to do with the SPFL
manager of the month award?
The clue is in the title…….S. P. F. L. Awarded for performances in the S.P.F.L.
I despair……..
Never thought I’d find myself saying this, but sometimes it seems like the most pro-Celtic pundit on Sportsound is Richard Wilson. Not that he’s exactly pro-Celtic, just even-handed when he discusses us, unlike the other hysterical clowns.
Snyde giving the bigot from SoS plenty of airtime……
Living wage?
Hunger. Cold hurting hunger?
An Gorta Mor?
Celtic football Club… hunger, cold, hurting, hurting hunger.
Hunger that makes you want to die…
in the same sentence… Celtic… hunger?
Excuse me while I cry my eyes out then I’m going to find the deepest gutter and I am going to vomit.
Sometimes the badge, the crest, the shamrock, is not worthy of the supporters.
Of the kindnesses of the supporters.
The club fails the compassion of the supporters and it does it so, so often, so eloquently, so painfully.
Whether I wear a green scarf around my neck or not, the club should never, ever, claim that, that it is not equal to.
Shame on the club if it ever dares to do so, and eternal shame on those who promote endorse such wicked deceptions. You do it in the name of your children born and yet to be conceived, and your lies will one day become their lies.
And you are gracious with that lie? You can clos your eyes on your starched pillow and sleep with that lie… and call yourself a Celtic Supporter?
I can’t.
Like Graham Spiers for instance….
Strictly ‘Deila’ for wee Rhona on BBC news. No christian names allowed.
Johnjames latest, there was two earlier to earlier today that I deleted by mistake :(
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Where lesser novelists deploy broad strokes to separate good guy from bad, Graham Greene was the master of the multiple distinction.His characters exist within a meticulously calibrated moral system. They fail by degrees.There is no real way to be good in a Greene novel, there are simply a million ways to be more or less bad.”
The aforementioned comes from a foreword by Zadie Smith in regard to the Greene masterpiece, The Quiet American.
A debate has been raging in the comments section of my previous article in regard to the relative merits of Mike Ashley and Dave King. The latter deserves broad strokes; but questions have been asked in regard to whether cutting the head of the serpent might lead to a greater malaise.
There are a number of anomalies in the letter that purports to be a requisition for a general meeting. There is a consensus that it is a hoax. There are also compelling suggestions that it is a facsimile of the original. The date of the document, the Monday when King crept surreptitiously into Scotland,and its content, could be the rationale for the emergency board meeting. However we also have October’s payroll to consider and proceedings against King for contempt of court. We additionally should consider the impending release of the audited accounts. Tomorrow might be a good day to ‘bury’ these as we are expecting news on the latest HMRC appeal in regard to the EBT However I doubt whether Monsieur Graham has the PR sophistication of his predecessors
Even if it is a fake, it poses a serious question: “What action, if any, the directors took to ensure that Mr King was a suitable, fit and proper person to retain such a post?”
Are Murray and Gilligan less bad? I’m fond of John Gilligan, but I won’t allow my admiration to cloud my judgement. He and Murray are complicit in an enterprise that delivered a criminal as our chairman. They should be held accountable for this, if nothing else. The question is so pertinent that it adds credibility to this document. It is not too much of a stretch to imagine Ashley asking a question that not only targets King, but also questions the board as a whole. We will know in twenty-one days whether it is a leak or a hoax. In the interim Monsieur Graham will cast doubt on it it as this is what he is paid to do.
If this document is a leak, with company numbers redacted, then who would have access to it? I posit that Level 5 would have received a copy of this letter as soon as it was delivered. The motives for a leak could range from outstanding invoices to having their professional pride being impugned by the decision to replace Traynor and Kerr with Graham. As we know, Traynor set up Level 5 to handle Rangers PR affairs. I’m certain that he even swallowed some costs to entice King to trust his affairs to a new company. Graham’s involvement could well be perceived as an act of betrayal by King. If it is a leak, we have a minimum of one smoking gun.
I posit that we had our chance with Ashley, Llambias and Leach and that this ship has sailed. Ashley will be concerned that there is a widespread boycott in place and by King’s malevolent stupidity. The unprecedented decision to requisition an EGM on June 12 to embarrass the board had no effect.Questions were asked by board plants such as Sandy Chugg. I get the impression that Mr Chugg will be indisposed should a general meeting occur in December or January.
Calling an general meeting would be a brilliant tactical move by Ashley. King plans to dilute Ashley’s holding and to carve up the company with a special resolution. A general meeting requisition would seize the agenda from King and postpone matters until after he faces contempt of court charges. It would be difficult to articulate a cogent case for a 75% majority from a prison cell.
In a previous article, A Perfect Storm, I envisaged a number of scenarios that could derail the current regime. I did not factor in the malevolent stupidity of King.
winning captains on 3rd November 2015 1:20 pm
Very amusing.
However you forgot to add that you decide to reformat the blog, telling everybody its for diversification and to provide much more news and opinion than is currently available, adopting a structure that fails to operate on most normal platforms thereby implementing a divide and conquer strategy where only users with constantly updated systems and software are able to voice their dissent/opinion with anywhere close to ease.
If voices of dissent are heard, then a technical response is sent telling them that its not the blog thats the problem its their phone / computer / isdn connection / etc that is the problem.
And also dont forget the favourite tactic of changing blog / stream etc just before anything controversial happens or looks like happening.
Otherwise, deja vu…
;-)
Much as I hate to agree with Doc…….he’s right aboot ‘CHEESE ON TOAST’ :o( FACT )o:
Oh the zombies are dead
Oh the zombies are dead
Oh the zombies are dead
Guys,
Please be VERY careful on the roads tonight. I nearly wrapped my car round a tree just there.
No, it wasn’t the fog. There was a Sevcovian from SOS on Radio Clyde claiming that Sports Direct have a seven year rolling contract to hoover up £9.25 from every £10 of Sevco merchandise sold.
No wonder Dodgy Dave has planked the piggy bank containing the £30m!
Sips
I noticed the other week that a Kilmarnock woman had lost half her body weight – Now today I see another ad here that a Kilmarnock woman earns almost £400 a day.
I demand to know if this is the same woman from Kilmarnock
Who are you going to make smile today?
How?
Yes You, if you can, why wouldn’t you, you don’t need to dream yourself a Celtic Supporter; why would you? Why should you?
Somebody is hurting, is in pain, is cold, is praying to die, to die forever and ever.
And you can take that pain away and paint a smile in its place…
and you didn’t.
You were too indifferent.
That does not in itself make you bad.
No feckin way…
I t just made you indifferent.
But don’t worry, don’t worry about a thing… nothing, nothing at all… you are after all one of the Celtic Family.
You are a Celtic Supporter, you can sleep tonight and tomorrow boast your credentials.
You are after all… one of the chosen ones…
you are a Celtic Supporter.
My heart goes out to you.
It really does.
And I am smiling, because I can because I am not cold and I am not hungry and my kids are not in pain of anything.
And I don’t hate the huns, I don’t have the time nor the hate.
http://www.thefootballlife.co.uk/post/132479863051/a-kings-ransom-boardroom-blues-at-rangers-yet
On glib and shameless financing
WINNING CAPTAINS
I can’t get into CQN through 4G using iPhone, constantly being redirected to pop up ads. Previously i was able to close the ads but it won’t allow me to do that now. Been having this problem since Saturday.
No issues using laptop or when iPhone connected to Wifi.
Anyone else?
THETIMREAPER
Happens to me in safari
I downloaded puffin browser and no pop ups on that
1) It would be easier for supporters as those who wished to donate food as well as sign the petition could do both without having to stop twice. 2) It was hoped the petition would receive more signatures as it’s easier to speak with someone when they’ve already stopped. No hidden agendas just common sense. – See more at: http://www.celticquicknews.co.uk/bitton-deal-heres-an-idea-just-repay-mikes-loan/comment-page-4/#comments
Ehhhhhhhhhhh, aye right, you honestly think Celtic supporters are that daft?
The point was and still is, it’s high jacking a food drive, people went there in good faith to give, not to have a petition stuck in there face and have debate about politics given to them by some left wing crackerjack who won’t take no for an answer, and has an attitude when you say no to them, as is what happened to me on my last donation., I wouldent allow you in the footprint at Celtic Park, stay in Georges Square, wave a flag, and get your face painted, let us support our club and stop annoying us, we’ll me anyway.
We are the quintessential good guys… yes we are.
Don’t let anybody tell you anything differently.
We are the good guys.
Keep telling yourself that.
And one day it will become true.
In your mind, if nowhere else, at least.
We are the good guys.
Trust me, it is written and it is true.
Or so I was led to believe.
And who would lie to me, who would deceive themselves so much they would work so hard to deceive me?
For sure for why?
We are Celtic Supporters…. Hate is not in our genes; not an ounce of it. We look after the poor, regardless of colour creed or how many heads you have.
Don’t we?