BT’s successful £897m bid for UK Champions League and Europa League rights is one of the most significant commercial developments for Celtic in years – if we continue to qualify for the Champions League group stage.
This money, £299m per season, more than double the current deal, is paid directly to Uefa. What participating teams receive is directly linked to the value their domestic TV rights raise. If Scottish clubs participate, they earn 10% of the UK distribution.
Scottish Premiership TV rights are currently shared by BT and Sky but they are worth a fraction of what they went for the last time a competitor (Setanta) made a genuine challenge to Sky. It would literally take loose change from BT’s budget to remove Sky from the required list of providers for Scottish football fans. Whatever the next SPFL deal looks like, having two major players bidding should ensure it is worth a lot more money.
The same is true for English football rights. 20 years ago Sky built their UK business on the back of English Premier League broadcast rights. If BT want to supplant them in the TV market, enhance their ISP position and secure a lead in the emerging services on-demand market, English Premier League rights will be the major battleground.
BSkyB share prices is down around 10% today, reflecting the reality that they will either have to pay a whole lot more for the same rights in future, or they risk losing market share. I’d be very happy to dump Sky, which has recently resembled a tax on committed Scottish football fans without the corresponding revenue spend.
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The new CQN Annual will be rolling this week…….
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Summa of Sammi
Very convincing statement. Basically saying is it about football or not?
Liked it.
that was yours Summa at 20.30
I went in person tonight tonight to confirm after two phones calls to the CSC confirm that the booking I made for the CSC for Billy No’Well was sound, as I had a bad feeling. It is not. DO NOT GO TO THE CSC after the AGM. I will look for an alternative venue that genuinely are able to accept and welcome us after the AGM.
Excuse me interrupting the blog to remind all shareholders what my club is asking us to agree to, this week:-
1. receive the accounts, auditor’s and directors’ reports for the year end 30 June 2013.
2. reappoint Eric Riley as director.
3. reappoint Peter Lawwell as director.
4. reappoint Dermot Desmond as director.
5. reappoint Tom Allison as director.
6. appoint BDO, LLP as auditor to Celtic plc
7. authorise directors to determine remuneration paid to auditor.
8.directors authorised to allot shares/grant rights up to £2,346,788 by 15/2/15 or next AGM,
9.directors authorised to allot above securities for cash.
10.organise working party on corporate governance of Board, SLO and fans’ organisations
11.take all necessary steps to make Celtic FC a living wage employer at £7.45ph.
12.bring to the attention of UEFA CFCB the licensing practices of SFA since FFP 2010.
I have no qualms saying Yes to all 12 above.
I expect our club to receive my support for Items 1-9 gratefully and I demand our club accept my support for 10-12 gracefully.
GERALD766 0001
Might as well shut the blog down then and we can all buy The Celtic View.
MORRISSEY THE 23RD
What went wrong there then?
Looks like some of the more enlightened Orcs are finally waking up,years too late,to what is going on re Fat Sally being played like a fiddle by his spiv masters.
Some of the unwashed are now asking a question about something I have found beyond bizarre for quite some time in this omnishambles at the Fourth Estate………..
Can anyone think of one business where the main board of directors require public approval from a manager and not the other way around?
I can’t and think this is so obvious that I might be missing something here?
RANGERS coup chief Malcolm Murray sparked a bigotry row by rallying fans with Loyalist slogan ‘No Surrender’.
The ex-chairman made the controversial comment during a bid to shore up support for a push to overthrow the Ibrox board.
Asked if he had a message for Gers supporters — during a video interview with protest group Sons of Struth, right — Murray replied: “No surrender.”
But he faced criticism yesterday that the phrase could be seen as sectarian.
Video:Malcolm Murray in a muddle after Rangers battlecryScottish Sun VideoRANGERS coup chief sparked a row by rallying fans with loyalist battlecry “No Surrender”
Broadcaster and Rangers fan Graham Spiers tweeted: “I think RFC want to move on from the ‘No surrender’ stuff.”
And a Celtic supporter wrote: “Talk about appealing to the lowest common denominator.”
Murray later insisted he meant “no surrender” to the club’s current regime.
He added: “If anyone thinks it’s something else they’re just making mischief.”
Good morning friends from a very dark, rainy but relatively mild (for mid-November) East Kilbride. Can’t beat a 7-train 10 hour round trip to Stockport for a 2 hour meeting…
Its unmistakeable isn’t it? All the signs are there, you can almost smell it. It’s palpable.
They’re going bust again…..and soon.
Jobo…..Stockport?
Ask the locals what they think of Brian Kennedy who nearly bought the Rainjurz and delivered a CVA for the Deadclub.
You might hear the name Walter Mitty mentioned more than once.
RYECATCHER
I read an article in FOUR FOUR TWO about 18 months ago on Kennedy’s antics at Stockport.
Fit and proper,no doubt about it!
BMCUWP
A lovely old bloke,who used to be our Finance Director before he retired last year was a mad Stockport and Celtic fan.He has lived there for 50 years and his father was a Mayo man hence the Hoops fanaticism.
Mild mannered with an enchanting,understated wit.Never swore in general conversation.
Until……..Sale Sharks or Brian Kennedy was ever mentioned…….His language would have made Frankie Boyle blush then!
Ryecatcher etc
I had a close friend who worked for Sale Sharks and Stockport County in terms of Sports Marketing when Kennedy was in charge of both.
Lets just say the experience was “challenging” in every respect.
Stockport County Fans hated Kennedy in every respect.
Half the staff openly hated him and members of his own family seemingly did everything they could to annoy him.
When he was interested in Ibrox my friend said his MO would be to use the stadium as often as possible for as many things as possible. Football Saturday, Rugby Friday and if you could make a track for speedway or greyhounds the you could bet on him doing it.
Also– he would never spend a pound when 50p would do so in that respect some would certainly not have liked his approach.
Oh– and he didn’t give a toss what anyone else thought about anything.
He was the Boss— and everyone was to know it!
BRTH
Loving your ‘challenging’ euphemism.
In my honest opinion,Kennedy will be back,in some form,once Spivco have cashed up and fled the scene.
It is what he does and will always do.
His MO is predictable and he is exactly the type the Orcs mk3 will follow follow.
Sale Sharks…..what an appropriate term for Brian Kennedy and his associates?
tom mclaughlin
01:06 on 12 November, 2013
Anyone who believes that Peter Lawwell’s annual income is enhanced by the selling of players for profit is living in cloud cuckoo land. No football club board in the world would be daft enough to sanction such a contract, not even Sevco.
Where some people get their ideas from simply beggars belief at times.
Next someone will be blaming Lawwell for players getting injured on the park. Oh wait . . .
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Go on then,Tom. Enlighten us.
Just how is his bonus evaluated?
A propos of nothing,Stockport County’s ground is the closest to the River Mersey.
And despite there not being a county of Stockport,they are so named in honour of the town being incorporated into the County of Manchester.
Apparently. Got blootered in a pub up there one night,and some guy told me this.
Will reserve judgement on PL, until I read the responses to resolutions 10-12 at AGM.
Expecting the worst but hoping for the best……I think Celtic ‘s PR is crap even at the best of times, so can’t figure out how my expectations have been managed apart from on this wonderful site.
BMCUWP….
Was Maine Road closer to River Mersey than Edgely Park?
Doughnut or a Merringue?
tomtheleedstim
06:10 on 12 November, 2013
Its unmistakeable isn’t it? All the signs are there, you can almost smell it. It’s palpable.They’re going bust again…..and soon.
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That day you buy a paper…
Ayrshire is Green and White
HH
Tom
Making a profit in the transfer window increases the club income
..no??
Why would it not affect PLs bonus ??
Going by your fairly abrasive if not insulting comment …you must know better …the floor us yours .
Bobby M
Been away for a while but possibly Salford City Stadium may be closer to the River Mersey.
HH
PS. It is a new stadium/ wonder who ground shares there?
Ryecatcher
What will be left when Spivco head off tho …..these rattlesnakes will bleed them dry …brilliant
Pfayr……….
The St.Ettiene bike will be amortised on the accounts at 50 million haha
BRTH
Don’t know that much about Kennedy
However his suit and tshirt combo was highly dodgy ..
Reminded me of the big man sketch from Chewing The Fat ….
Maybe he modelled himself on that …..he had all the look of a bullying plastic hard man
RYECATCHER
I doubt it,the Mersey runs from Stockport South of the M60.
Mind,I’m starting to think the oul’ fella was as blootered as I was!
LYMMBHOY
I’ve not been up there for a while either,but would that not be the ship canal that it is near?
Celtic have begun moves to strengthen their squad by making an offer for Holmbert Aron Fridjonsson, an Icelandic under-21 striker, and also expressing their interest in Zhang Xizhe, a Chinese international midfielder.
According to Sverrir Einarsson, the chairman of Fram, the Scottish champions have bid in the region of £120,000 for Fridjonsson, who was on trial at Lennoxtown earlier this month. The 20 year-old scored 10 league goals this season as Fram finished 10th in the 12-team Iceland Premier League and won the cup. Einarsson believes a deal for the 6ft 3in player is not too far away from being concluded.
“We have received an offer,” he told STV. “We responded to Celtic last night and we are waiting to hear again from them. They are not far away [in terms of the fee]. I think we are hoping it will happen. Celtic would be a very good club for him. He is a special type of player and I would be disappointed if he didn’t go all the way. I believe that he will.”
Peter Lawwell, the Celtic chief executive, also revealed the club are keen to sign “phenomenal” talent Zhang. Lawwell, who was part of a delegation that travelled to China earlier this month, watched the 22-year-old and was impressed, telling Chinese media there would likely be an opportunity for Zhang to join Neil Lennon’s side next year. With Celtic keen to tap in to the Chinese market, Lawwell hopes the player could make the same impact as Shunsuke Nakamura, the Japanese playmaker, and Ki Sung-Yueng, the Korean midfielder. Zhang, who plays for Beijing Guoan, has been capped seven times for the Chinese national team.
“We were informed about him earlier this year,” Lawwell said. “He is an intelligent player and left a profound impression on us. We are very interested in the local market. In addition, we wanted to have a look at Zhang and a better understanding of him. He is a phenomenal player and he is very hopeful of getting a place in the Celtic squad. He is young and is very good both physically and technically. He is progressing all the time and showing improvement.
“One of the most important issues would be how he would adapt to the rhythm of European football. Shunsuke Nakamura and Ki Sung-Yueng had great success with Celtic and both are similar to Zhang. But of course, he would need to prove himself. Next year, we will return to Beijing to discuss matters relating to business cooperation and when the time is right, we will invite Zhang to join the team.”
BMCUWP…
I drive past a ‘River Mersey’ sign at least twice a week on the M56 into Manchester.
At the end of the M56 is Didsbury then Moss Side.
Can’t quite remember if Maine Road was in Moss Side or Longsight?
Regardless, it was close to the Mersey.
bobby murdoch’s curled-up winklepickers backs resolution 12
07:48 on 12 November, 2013
LYMMBHOY
I’ve not been up there for a while either,but would that not be the ship canal that it is near?
Yeah the ship canal probably does but I’m sure the Mersey meanders pretty close by too…..
Gonna have to look on Google Earth soon :-)
HH
RYECATCHER
Now where’s my Google Maps. Intrigued now…
http://www.192.com/places/search/?location=Stockport&submitBtn=Search
Just catching up frim last night connaire12 best of luck today
SFTB great posts as always! a pleasure to read!
Oldtim thank you!
I am not a fan of Martin O`Neill.He did a very good job at Leicester but ,IMO, his success at Celtic is overrated. He bought success and his teams were boring. Also, I always felt he was a tad unstable. I believe people in control of their emotions are more likely to achieve success than are those who seem to be constantly animated. For all the media goes on about Neil Lennon “fuming, roaring and blasting” , Neil`s tone is invariably that of a man in control of himself ( except on the touchline at matches ! ).
Martin O`Neill`s comments on Di Canio are not becoming of a manager still heavily involved in the game.
JJ
PS Morning all 0:-)
If you reduce the scale on that,it will answer the latest meaningless discussion I managed to initiate.
I blame JOBO BALDIE.
Stick to the weather reports,bud-yer travel reports are too controversial!
Bobby M/Ryecatcher
Dropped pin
near River Mersey, United Kingdom
http://goo.gl/maps/PuIoi
HH
It’s not only CQN who have poppy debates………picked this link from the row on the Ross County website.
http://quaer0.wordpress.com/2013/11/11/hypocrisy-that-knows-no-bounds/