Michael Lustig arrived early on a pre-contract from Rosenborg. A right back as tall as the North Stand he is one of the most curious signings we’ve made in a while, considering the strength we have in that position.
Rabiu Ibrahim, past-wonder-kid of African football, came in after negotiating an end to an unproductive stay in Eindhoven. I hear lots about Ibrahim’s ability but Celtic will have to find a way of turning that into a productive force in the SPL, something PSV were unable to do in the Netherlands.
Polish international striker, Pawel Brozek, arrived on load from Trabzonspor, where he spent most of last year at the side of the pitch. Pawel is an experienced pro who is likely to enjoy his time in the SPL. He’ll keep the front pairing of Abbot and Costello on their toes, neither of whom will be certain of retaining their place.
Young players, Paul Slane, James Keatings and Lewis Toshney went out on loan to MK Dons, St Johnstone and Kilmarnock respectively, which Josh Thompson continued his tour of English towns and cities by heading to Chesterfield for 6 months. None were likely to make more than cameo appearances this season, all will benefit from the career development opportunity.
Throughout the month I ignored stories that we would sell our prime first-team assets, Hooper, Stokes, Samaras, Forrest, Commons, Ki, McCourt and Matthews were all linked with clubs in England and offers were received for six of the above, but who in their right mind would sell top players in January when you are in a nip –and-tuck race for the title?
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Surely news of Fat Sally’s demise is premature?
He cannot be sacked right now – no way – and he is too much of a dunderheid to quit.
Bookies changing odds or withdrawing betting options means nowt – if three of us walked into different shops this morning and placed £10 bets then they’d probably fear inside knowledge and close the hatches. It’s all part of the risk-free, over-round strategy of blue-chip bookies these days.
Huns’ first team squad:
GK: McGregor, Alexander, Gallagher
D: Goian, Broadfoot, Papac, Wallace, Whittaker, Bocanegre, Bartley, Perry
M: McCulloch, Edu, Davis, Naismith, Aluko. McKay, Bedoya, Celik, Ness, Wilde
S: Lafferty, Healy, Kerkar, Little, Hemmings
Strength in depth?
Press conference at Ibrox………. for some reason
mickthetic
Depends on the type of phone? A lot of new ones can (it’s called tethering). You might not need to plug it in, can do it wireless, effectively making your phone a wireless network.
Tick tock tick Tock !
SSN:
Chelsea: Latest published account figures for last three years would fail UEFA FFP rules.
Wonder what UEFA will do?
In some ways I envy Craig Whyte, he has the honour of putting Rangers out of business whilst making a tidy wee profit for himself. Post car crash liquidation I think he will get to France (literally).
Mickthetic , you can. Depends on your phone. I’ve an iPhone , works fine.
Any live links to the press conference?
I could do with a laugh.
bamboo says:
1 February, 2012 at 13:38
THANKS FOR YOUR REPLY .
Malone
Thank you
Mtt
Brogan Rogan – where is it being reported?
Is the press conference on sky I need to see it!!!!!
OR any1 want to get a taxi over with a few beers!!!!!!!! lol
BRTH – is this presser confirmed?
Cardiffbhoy
Thank you also
Mtt
leftclicktic says:
1 February, 2012 at 13:57
It certainly looks like Lloyds and SDM saw this as a way of distancing themselves from a toxic connection.
What happened after that depends on the FTT but either way it stopped being their problem.
SDM, having had the Rangers support reject his legitimate way of raising funds – share issue- would I suggest have little compunction in shafting them in the manner that appears to be how it was done.
Paul67
I think you need to take a more measured view of the situation we find ourselves in at the moment.
Our form is mixed – struggling between poor and acceptable – and we have a huge hole in both the centre of our midfield and our style of play.
Add in the fact that we were outplayed for long periods at the weekend by a game if limited 1st division side and we are benefiting from the weakness of others not our own form or abilities.
If the Q+D figures for the past 5 years are to be trusted then the club has become a player trading team where paying down the debt has taken precedence over player investment and growing the business.
Consequently we need to stay focused and work to make the team more of a threat through the middle rather than relying on square balls and working an angle on the flank.
We have a young team.
Full of talent but missing organisation and experience.
We were this going into January and we are still this coming out.
The team needs work.
The cracks are showing.
CM needs a rest.
EI will only be up to speed in Aug.
VW is a sitting MF not a pressing MF.
JL has struggled in the middle without BK.
JF is not old enough to generate a performance every week.
NL cannot do simple substitutions.
GS is on the slide.
AS is still a moony git.
Ki looks unfocused at times.
We are still a good team.
But work is still required.
Next 2 games are huge.
Both need to be well beaten.
We owe them too much to just scrape past.
The TFOD are a train wreck beyond my wildest dreams.
Unfortunately they are still with us and so are there hangers on.
I fear we will have many surprises over the next 15 weeks.
Consequently we need to get stuck in not be sidetracked by cheap jibes aimed at Govan.
The half yearly accounts will bring reality to the club.
Without Sion I fear they would be disaster.
We will never have a better chance of winning the league. We are better in every department.
Rangers will find it tough against the top 6 teams & will struggle if they get more injuries.
Hoping all SPL teams show no fear against them and go for the kill against this weakend mess of a team & club. A couple of poor results will demoralise them.
From our point of view we have to step up a gear and play to the best of our abilities and we will win this league. Let’s build up a gap over the next few weeks and show them no mercy.
Maybe not the best day to try and get the trophy cabinet down the marble staircase and into a van.
Alot of attention over there just now…
Latest image of events in Govan
Paul67,
no sure about the off hand tone of Abbot and Costello, implying a coupleof jokers or clowns, I thought he front pair have been doing well this season.
Paul.. Can I have whatever s giving you the energy… Superb stream of articles…
I hear Rankers are trying to get Santa on loan till December…
sonofdan
“marble staircase”?
I’ve bid £20 for this to make a new kitchen table top so they will have to lower the trophy cabinet out by pulley…
Auldheid…,
murray cannot distance himself from the toxic debt, he presided over the club during the years they operated the tax evasion scheme.
He and his fellow board members will be hunted down like dogs by HMRC, to recover any unpaid debt :oD
From what I can gather an average season ticket at Rangers is around £400. Even if the prices don’t increase and assuming 40,000 season ticket holders in each of the next 4 years (probably on the high side but even so) then Ticketus can expect to get the following:
2011-12 – 23,154 x £400 = £9.26m
2012-13 – 27,017 x £400 = £10.8m
2013-14 – 27,014 x £400 = £10.8m
2014-15 – 23,154 x £400 = £9.26m
Total = £40m – Not a bad return from a £24.4m loan, provided Rangers remain in business long enough to pay the debts.
What this means for Rangers:
2011-12 – 17,000 x £400 = £6.8m
2012-13 – 13,000 x £400 = £5.2m
2013-14 – 13,000 x £400 = £5.2m
2014-15 – 17,000 x £400 = £6.8m
Even adding on single ticket sales and TV money etc, the revenue Rangers will expect to receive in each year is going to fall short of Craig Whyte’s estimates yesterday of £35m per year.
From the accounts, in years without european income, their ticket sales and TV income is circa £30m, their commercial income is circa £6m, sponsorship and other income is £5m so that is a turnover of approximately £41m. Take £10m of that (season ticket sales due to Ticketus) and their annual income will be approx £31m.
With outgoings of £45m, European football is vital to Rangers.
Mort
Neil canamalar
‘Hunted down like dogs’
Nice wee image came into my mind ,there.
Simon Grayson sacked by Leeds.
Sally does not even win that race today.
Former Rangers directors and those on the panel to decide on who was ‘fit and proper’ to take over from Dodgy Dave are fair queing up to wash their hands Pontius Pilate Style.
‘I didn’t knwo a thing’, ‘It wisny me’, I wouldn’t have let him near it if I knew’
None of them should ever be allowed to deny their part in their downfall. All these ‘legends’ and great rangers men were right in the middle of it when they were spending money they didn’t have and fiddling the tax man. They might not have known – but how would you when they don’t ask?
Mort,
Thanks for that – very interesting.
With a £14M hole in the accounts every year, a good run in Europe is required just to break even. And that doesn’t take transfer fees into account does it? So they would basically have no money to spend unless players were sold.
Could all be academic of course!
Mickthetic- Awe naw posted how to toggle mobile last week after i asked same question. HH
When they come to make the movie ‘The Demise of the Hun’, I expect Gerry Butler to play the role of Ticketus.
Mo(h) Bangura will have a cameo as a Sheriff Officer.
Gordon_J at 14:43
Selling off income streams (merchandising, catering and now some season tickets) gives an injection of cash in the short term but at the expense of future income makes absolutely no business sense, unless of course you aren’t in it for the long term.
Mort
Judging by everything thats come out, White has been well and truely rumbled, but I am still convinced this whole thing has been orchestrated by murray and the old “no surrender” brigade.
Cant wait to see them all go to the wall!!!!
JonnyRambo67 says:
1 February, 2012 at 13:19
BRILL BRILL BRILL
i think we have had a good few days but i think we should not get too carried away right now, we are only one point ahead in the league and the huns will be hurting. fat sally will try and use this to spur his team on. we still have a long way to go and we need this title. nothing has been won yet. let’s bury them…
When Craig Whyte originally came out and said they needed to save £7M off the wage bill, I said that was the equivalent of shipping 10 players on an average of £17k/week each and replacing them with players on an average of £3.5k/week each – in order to keep workable squad size.
However it now seems that Whyte isn’t that bothered about having a workable squad. So he just needs to ship 8 players at an average of £17k/week.
Mort says:
1 February, 2012 at 14:46
Gordon_J at 14:43
Selling off income streams (merchandising, catering and now some season tickets) gives an injection of cash in the short term but at the expense of future income makes absolutely no business sense, unless of course you aren’t in it for the long term.
Mort
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Everytime they did this Celtic cyberspace raised its eyebrows. The MSM raised their glasses and shouted hurrah!
Can’t recall who mentioned it but there are going to be so many books written about the past decade.
TGSC,
Sailing On….
Top 3 threads on Folgen Folgen right now? They are certainly still in denial anyway
1) Do you believe we can still win the league? (54% say Yes incidentally)
2) Administration could be a good thing
3) The pressure is really on the beggars now