Celtic were far from their slick best on Saturday, but they still dominated Hearts and could easily have won by a more flattering margin. For most of the game, Steven Naismith set out to defend as we predicted. It was only when Hearts pressed Celtic that his side belied their place at the bottom of the league – and managed to disrupt the champions.
I don’t often hear the positive characteristics of directors at Ibrox, so when I do, they stick in the mind. Apparently, Oldco’s much maligned Martin Bain and Newco’s Stewart Robertson had little time for calls to the baser instincts made by their clubs. John Bennett, who resigned as Newco’s chairman and interim-CEO on Saturday, falls into the same category.
Sipping hemlock from that Loving Cup is a mugs game. Hopefully Bennett will recover from his brush with toxicity.
I don’t have time to write, and you don’t have time to read, everything we could share about Dave King today. The man who as non-exec at Oldco was paid to look after the interests of all stakeholders, while the club marched towards liquidation.
Who then campaigned relentlessly against the Newco founding fathers as the fledgling club tried to establish itself. The same person who advocated Newco “overinvest” in an attempt to catch Celtic, leading to today’s consequences.
Yesterday, he nominated himself as the man to rejuvenate the failing club. “I’ll come in, stabilise it, get the right people in place, get the club working properly, at least give it direction, give it a plan.” It’s that simple!
He sprinkled his comments with fairy dust like “Steven Gerrard”, who is lauded for winning one trophy in nine, in a season Celtic collapsed on all fronts. He also said, “Saudi, obviously”, I mean, obviously, he’d mention Saudi!
And apparently, “There’s a lot of interest in America”, and in case you are in doubt, “[Newco] really should be able to march on and actually dominate in Scotland.” Actually. Dominate. In. Scotland!
Neither of us have time to digest this in full, so let’s get to the golden nugget:
“I think we’ve got to get away from the model where we just rely on supporters writing out checks. There is money out there, but that money is not going to come from Rangers.”
There are two views on how to run a football club:
1. Live within your means.
2. Do not live within your means.
Despite all his precious Rangerses have gone through, Dave still believes that surviving on the teat of a sugar daddy is the way forward. This is populist nonsense, which liquidated Oldco and wrecked Newco.
Give him the job, let him set aside all those promises John Bennett made about sustainability. If we put a plaque on the wall of Celtic Park with Dave King and David Murray’s names on it, there would be more candles lit below it than there are at Carfin Grotto.
We’ll pick up on those two world views on how to run a club next week.
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Peter Lawwell’s forward in the Annual Accounts.
“This took our total spend to £68.0m over the three financial years to 30 June 2024. Since the year end, and up to the closure of the transfer window on 30 August 2024, we have invested a further £31.2m into player registrations (including transaction costs).”
So £99.2m spent on players in 38 months – astounding for a club that wins c£4m for being champions.
Someone is “spending the F****** money” by the looks of it. HH
Bring back the transfer window. I miss the weeping wailing and gnashing of teeth..
Looks like Glasgow is tomorrow going to be named host for the 2026 Commonwealth Games, with £100 million coming from the Comm Games Fed and possible other financial support from Comm Games Australia, and maybe London. And nowt fae Embra. The games will not be on the scale of the 2014 games, fewer sports involved etc.
Should it turn out to be the Poundland Games there can only be one venue suitable for the opening ceremony with King Charlie IV present…..and folks jumpin aff roofs….. Ayebrokes
leftclicktic on 16th September 2024 10:11 pm
thank you. video clip like this renew my faith in humanity a wee bit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRYBC1nj1iM
God bless Sarah Friedland
HH
Silence Is Not An Option CSC
Trump for Rangers Chairman.
Remember where you heard it 🤔
Watching tonights game,Iwata was impeccable.Topped off with a stunning goal.
Do we have a sell on clause ?.
Its the Clubs which are the members of the ECA. Celtic are ordinary Members are as Sevco https://www.ecaeurope.com/. Its now over 700 clubs and is the sole representative of the clubs recognised by UEFA and FIFA
However, elections to the Executive Committee are of Individuals. Peter Lawwell was elected in 2014
https://www.ecaeurope.com/news-media-releases/celtic-fc-ceo-peter-lawwell-joins-eca-executive-board/
If PL resigned, then no other Celtic person will be elected. The election is for an individual not the club.
The ECA Board, is Chaired by Nasser Al-Khelaïfi of PSG (a good European name) Peter Lawwell is a deputy chair. The new format of Champions League etc was agreed by UEFA and ECA and the competitions will be dealt with by a new joint body. ECA have nominated 5 individuals to serve on this committee and PL is one members nominated
This is a hugely important body and Peter Lawwell is a big hitter and has been for 10 years. He will be spending most of his work time on ECA issues in the future.
Celtic have input to the highest levels of the game via Peter Lawwell
TB
It was the only odd thing about the window.
Iwata never let us down. Actually seemed to be engaging well with BR way of playing.
Bigbhoy
Don’t be stupid. There are 500,000 Celtic fans would tell you he has no idea how to run a football club.
B78,
Agreed re Iwata, I thought he played really well for us when needed last season and was a good back up.
Hopefully he has a good career.
Burnley 78
Don’t you be stupid,Peter knows he has 500,000 sycophants to counter those 500,000 Celtic fans who would dissent and tell him he has no idea how to run a club.
The only difference I would suggest those Celtic supporters dissenting offer their view honestly and within their knowledge base.
You Burnley78,and with respect say zero of how you would make Celtic better in 2024 fail to note any error made since Peter came back on board with Brian Quinn,you counter constantly within a ‘bogey man within’ against other Celtic fans when as someone with board experience that dissent should be easily debated out.
Just remember we would not have our great club to talk of, if dissent and questioning of hierarchy had not taken place in 1994,to a certain extent getting shot of the Kelly and Whites was not the problem,the problem was their sycophants not having an arse to chew on were found out,they just wanted to be associated with those in power.
They are as remote today from it as ever
Don’t be afraid B78,I know that in terms of executive for Celtic it is small and very tight,our next gen are in place already In our executive side.Celtic can always do better and steer their own path.Glorifying £77m at cash seems as vacuous as Harry Enfields loads of money character,especially keeping in mind the Walfrid ethos in our club,we need to get even better and have that money working better.
HH
Barach O bampot
Thank you for your posts on Palestine
Remember in Ireland,friends of Israel seek to control power to
https://www.ontheditch.com/oireachtas-friends-of-israel-group/?s=08
HH
celtic40me on 16th September 2024 9:08 pm
AULDHEID on 16TH SEPTEMBER 2024 8:12 PM
The last 8 last year were
Arsenal
Bayern
Atlético de Madrid
Dortmund
Real Madrid
Manchester City
Paris
Barcelona
I wasn’t talking about the ownership model for these teams, I was pointing out that a super league already exists and that breaking into it in any meaningful way is beyond us and everyone outside the elite. And the clubs that are part of the elite but arent in the EPL are facing an uphill battle to keep up with City, PSG and the EPL clubs.
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I understand that a de facto super league exists, but we may be at cross purposes in that I don’t see a breakaway super league, powered by Saudi oil money, where there is no financial regulation, will ever exist.
That is the last thing the Yanks would want, so I don’t see a breakaway super league but I can see a European Super League consisting of a number of divisions where promotion and relegation feature.
The template is already in place.
CL is Div 1, the EL Div2 and EC Div 3.
I think European football will evolve in that direction and I hope a reason BR chose to come back was to play a part in reducing the constraints that caused him to leave before.
(There always was a super league in the UK. It was the natural consequence of population. Clubs in cities earned more than clubs in towns and they more than villages, all due to the number of supporters coming through the gates.
TV changed all that because it removed the natural geographical demographic factor from the equation leading to the current huge financial imbalance in population terms between Celtic and clubs in say the lower part of the EPL., a challenging factor which PL refers to in his financial statement.)
Anything that provides a better distribution of football earnings
Anything that provides a better distribution of football earnings is worth seeking.
Calum
https://youtu.be/pJVynSLObmQ?si=U26nKQXzNFl7-G2b
HH
Good morning all from Govanhill.
Good morning all from a lovely, sunny, warm, birds a chirping Garngad.
Whats that sparrow?
COYBIG you say.
D :)
Good morning from a bright sunny North Staffs.
I might even get up.
An T
Points taken re your post last night and I agree partially.
Busy day today at a conference but I will come back to you.
Although probably better over a beer sometime.
Good morning CQN.
I’ve no doubt a few articles will be written about the financial stuff over the next few days … then we can put it to bed for a bit.
Interests me less than it used to.
We didn’t lose money – Check
Cash in hand – check
Plan for the cash – TBC.
Interesting interview on Celtic A.M. this morning with a Slovakian journalist/pundit/commentator.
What he had to say was not only interesting and insightful, but the enthusiasm and positivity with which he talked up Slovan’s chances on Wednesday night really stood out.
For some reason I couldn’t stop thinking about someone from the SMSM speaking on a Slovan podcast 🤔
Tom McL – I’d echo earlier statements about your post yesterday morning recollecting childhood experience of Celtic – Slovan Bratislava.
Brilliant.
This new CL format,is the new Super League,or as close as anyone will ever get to it for the foreseeable future.I think we will strengthen again in the next couple of windows for the Qualifiers,which should not be beyond us.We HAVE to be here every season.Only show in town.
Back To Basics,
I am same as you.Little interest in the money side.We are now on solid ground,it will take care of itself.
How much would a new South stand cost nowadays ? Probably frightening amounts wish we had done it back in the 90s.
TB – agreed it will take care of itself.
Or more accurately perhaps someone on the board will take care of it.
I still think though the board are slow to share their strategic thinking with the fans.
Might be interlinked with that confrontational rather than consensual relationship they have with the fans that Auldheid occasionally alludes to
The hand of God @ 9:10 am
How much would a new South stand cost nowadays ? Probably frightening amounts wish we had done it back in the 90s.
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I think this is a great point.
When I first started doing the most rudimentary
fag packet arithmetic in my head on this a few years I was in £80m territory.
Now I’m closer to £200m !!!!
Scope has crept admittedly
South stand = a day spend on HS2 – they wouldn’t notice it.
Perhaps Paul will have an article about Celtic today 🤔
I see 2 of our CL opponents are playing against each other tonight- a bit early to judge form as we don’t play them till January.
Morning all.
new article posted.
Difficult, nigh on impossible to compare building a Stand in the 90s,and today.Building materials increase,don’t even go there.
Reals stadium finished a year ago,£1 billion.Man U quoting £2 billion.Spurs,Arsenal,arenas,more than doubled during construction..
We would need a massive share issue,naming rights for however long.
Just get on with it Celtic.