Celtic interim accounts for the 6 months to 31 December were released this afternoon. The standout figure is that, despite Champions League revenue being absent this year, football and stadium income was down from £16.8m to a similar £16.5m. This suggests other ticket sales increased.
The hit from the lack of Champions League came in the multimedia and commercial column, which was down from £19.5m to £7.9m, but the club still make an operating profit of £3.2m. So, we’ve a fairly solid club on our hands.
We invested £5.7m in players, while making a profit of £7.1m on disposals. With player trading, tax and interest all accounted for, we made a profit for the period of £6.601m. This Armageddon thing is working out quite well.
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Jamesgang, I can tell you’re an auld fart when you say you are taping the game:-) Do you sometimes listen to the game on the wireless?
What age group is young JG playing at?
You canny beat going to watch yer boy play. Wee acgr is playing for his uni team and I’m looking forward to watching him play again, canny wait if the truth be told. I don’t even need a ticket.
hamiltontim
08:08 on 7 February, 2015
Morning folks
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Big George’s fan club
Best thing would be to email St Mirren directly with yours and the wee man’s client codes.
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Morning HT. Cheers, I’ll do that and see how we go.
We usually go down without tickets and pick up spares in Paisley – that’s worked out fine so far, but I’ll try the official route first.
Thanks again – just off to get the Hoops on, then up to Dundee. Excited about the game today – just saw PH on the TV saying that his team would be out to “express themselves”, so no ’11-behind-the-ball’ from them. Should make for a good game – if I recall from our last game up their, Lizzy got a bit of a roasting from their right winger (or more accurately, he got little cover in behing him when he went forward on the left). Hope Ronny is on to that – big VVD needs to get over to cover that area.
Hope everyone has a great game.
Oh – meant to say – Wee BGFC got Adam Matthews’ shirt after the game last week, so he’ll be wearing it today for luck.
Hail, Hail
BGFC
behing = behind
Dontbrattbakkinanger
Correct.
And the element of farce increased this week,of course, as Sevco try to carry goals from Newcastle.
Normal weather is resumed Jobo , great , last few days I had no idea what my olds had to put up with in your vicinity. So my old man might be walking Roukin Glen as we speak. Great to read so many positives on the blog last few weeks and CQN starting to look like we are giving Ronny a fair go. Long May it continue. If he can get the treble this will be monumental if anyone says less coz sevco are not around they can just be happy with the mental bit. Mon the hoops.
Morning all
Bookies giving 10/1 against Dundee today, Seems generous as they have been very difficult opponents so far this season and probably should have beaten us earlier on in the season up there. Be glad to get this one out the way.
Jimbo67
ACGR
He’ll be 10 in April. He’s in P5 but plays with the P6s cos they had a space in the team for him. Plays alongside Hutchybhoy Jnr.
I am an old fart. Getting worse. Like my auld Dad I’m now starting to call every electrical device ‘the machine’ – desktop, mobile, remote control, laptop, satellite box……disnae matter. All called ‘the machine’!
Jobo
Deffo vhs. We were to poor off the mark to get stuff when it came out at first. So the Betamax was deid long before we got ‘a machine’!
HH jamesgang
My friends in Celtic,
It has been a long time since I was so optimistic and positive about Celtic, both on and off the park.
Although we have won nothing yet, I am really buying into our management team and the way forward. It is great to see that they still value craft and creativity as well as speed and athleticism.
It should not go unrecognised what our manager thinks of his backing by our custodians, ” amazing”.
Since RD has obviously hypnotised Peter Lawell to part with money, both to sign and retain players in January, I can now look forward with anticipation at the summer transfer window, rather than with dread. ( Either that or RD has simply turned Peter Lawell upside down ).
HH.cumonthehoops
St M away tickets
Thought St M were going to sell directly to Celtic fans. Saw that online a few days ago. I hope to be there!
HH jamesgang
From the hootsman
Seems perhaps our young Viking is da boss Mhan.
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“I absolutely had to change Ronny’s mind about me,” said Commons. “He was probably a little bit sceptical about whether I could change the way I am at 31. When my age was spoken about in terms of why I might not get a two-year deal, I thought that was just an excuse, something he said because he didn’t want to say I was lazy or not fit enough.
“It has taken hard work and dedication to show him I am willing to not so much change my game, but adapt to give him what he wants on the pitch while winning matches. It was mainly off-the-ball things he wanted. Being a ‘number 10’, you can get away with being a little bit lazy in the SPFL. I wouldn’t say I was lazy, I would just say you can probably get away with it.
“There are certain games where you don’t have to produce your best football but can still find yourself in good areas, bright enough and intelligent enough to hurt the opposition without actually putting in the work. But Ronny wasn’t asking me to do anything I wasn’t capable of. I now feel fitter than I’ve ever been. Since day one, Ronny has come here and wants us to try and play not like a Scottish team, but in a Barcelona or Bayern Munich style. He’s a real big fan of Pep Guardiola, the way he plays and treats his players.
“He wants us to be elite athletes, 24 hours a day. That was a big hit for lads who had not done that for four years and getting that way when you are not winning games, as it was at the start of the season, is more difficult than when you are winning.
“But we are all on the same page now and going in the right direction. The lads are flying and we have some good games to look forward to.” Deila confirmed he held reservations about Commons but has been won over by his performances since the turn of the year.
“Kris and I have talked a lot over these last eight months since I came to the club,” said Deila. “I always told him I thought he was a very, very good football player. I can’t teach him so much about football but he still had something more to give in the way he trains and with his fitness. If we could get that even better, what a player he could be then.
“In the beginning, I didn’t see that kind of improvement from him. That’s why I waited to give him the contract that he wanted. But in the last month he has really bought into it and has been working really hard. You saw his performance against Rangers last Sunday was really good. So I’m happy that he understands what I want and agrees how we are going to do it.
“You need players who want to develop all the time. From the first day I came to Celtic, I told the players there were two things I would demand. One, you have to be fit. Two, you have to give 100 per cent in training every day. Players had to know what that means and it was maybe a little bit of a change from before. But Kris is an intelligent guy. I’m delighted he has signed now and I think he will play a better game now because he can stop talking and thinking about the contract. It will make him a better player.
“The best players, the ones who achieve things, always look forwards and learn. They have to make the small things better. I’m delighted he is staying because he is going to be important for us. But it was also important for me to see that he wanted to do it, because he is a role model for the youngsters. If the role model doesn’t buy into what we want to do, then it’s very hard for him to continue.
“When you come in and take over a successful team, who have won the title for the last three years and been in the Champions League, it’s so hard to change. They are thinking, ‘Why should we change when we are winning?’ But I’m not Neil Lennon, I’m Ronny Deila. I have to do it my way. I believe in my way.”
Unsurprisingly, Deila feels he has just experienced his best week yet as Celtic manager with the Old Firm League Cup semi-final victory followed by the transfer deadline day signings of Stuart Armstrong and Gary Mackay-Steven before Commons agreed his new contract.
But he knows there is little time to savour it as his ambitions of a domestic treble go on the line again in today’s Scottish Cup fifth round tie against Dundee at Dens Park.
“It will only really be a good week if we beat Dundee,” he said. “I have to thank Peter Lawwell and the board for getting us what we wanted from the transfer window, both in signing new players and keeping hold of our best ones.
“It shows the players that the club really wants this treble and they are giving everyone the trust they need.”
HH jamesgang
Jamesgang,
How are you about lights being left on? :)
the exiled tim
The french keep ALL their decent wine for their own market. Am excellent bottle can be had for a pittance over there. They export the vinegar, with the exception of some high really high ticket bottles to fleece the foreigner and subsidise the home market.
Potential banana skin today. Celtic have a habit of losing games after a week of good news. Hard game up there the last time. Wee Griffiths of the bench to salvage a point.We are playing better this time though.
Not into the account side of Celtic much but do wee have hard cash in the bank ?
Spare ticket if anyone interested.
HT – I know it was a tough ask. If you can’t get them then no big deal; I’ll be forced to watch the game in Heraghty’s (sigh)
GM
It does my head in. Almost more than anything else in the world. I start to go on about hungry kids in the 3rd world and then the kids point out that’s my wasting food script, not my leccie Bill one!
HH jamesgang
I see oor Ronnie has undone all his good work of the past few weeks and went and praised Oor Peter :-)
That will never catch on .
Well done Ronnie, lets be having a few more arm pumps to the fans today.
H.H.
P.s long shot I know but if anyone cant make the thistle game this week and still have their tickets from the first time round, Me and wee shades are looking for 2.
Jamesgang, geez an update on how young JG’s game goes.
Mon the hoops
Jimbo67
Same odds for Villa at home to Chelsea.
You don’t often get double figure odds for the home team in the EPL.
Having said that, at this stage of the season, you don’t often get a match in which one team’s goal difference is superior by 51!
ACGR
Will do. It’s only a bounce match so it counts for nothing. But not for him! Remember that feeling!?!
HH jamesgang
67heaven .. challenging the lie ..i am wee oscar / neil lennon.. ipox belongs to the creditors
07:46 on 7 February, 2015
My understanding is you can’t play ‘competitive’ games for more than two clubs in a season. Not sure what the lad streete has played but it’s worth a check. U21 league or cup games count as competitive
Jg,
:))
Aye I’m turning into my auld man in front of my eyes.
Right…haul ass in shower (no warmer than 37 degrees obviously)…dundee brace yersel
HH!!
pfayr supports weeoscar
08:04 on 7 February, 2015
Thetimreaper
The SFA don’t count u21 games…not sure about the rest
Not upto the SFA again as I understand it. International transfers are for uefa/fifa to rule on
My friends in Celtic,
Reading back :-
Neganon2 : I value your posts, although I may not always agree. We must always question and seek answers from our club and beyond. It is precisely that attitude than can prevent complacency. HH to you.
BGX : I find myself agreeing with much of what you say ( Bar the politics ). I very much value your posts. HH to you.
Disagreement providing its within the acceptable parameters of the blog contributes to a healthy and vibrant forum.
HH. We are all Celtic.
Jobo
off to Strathy myself, but strictly gym stuff till half ten, it will be slippy out there, always is.
Anyone else see a banana skin today ( talking Dundee now) , when things go well for us we usually screw ourselves up.
Good interview in Scotsman as well, thanks for the cut and paste.
Both boys club games involving the kdc househousehold today due to snow. Grrrr
‘Off’
CQN Coupon if you fancy a punt.
AWATR: Portsmouth
BT: Swindon
GL2: Northampton
Jobo: Hamilton
LB: Ipswich
PF: Watford
Pog: Leeds
TTT: Bournemouth
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
phyllis dietrichson
09:18 on 7 February, 2015
HT – I know it was a tough ask. If you can’t get them then no big deal; I’ll be forced to watch the game in Heraghty’s (sigh)
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I occasionally drink in Heraghty’s when I am back. You don’t happen to know a loud ex – AIB bank manager, who looks like Kenny Rodgers, and who frequents said establishment?
Morning all.
Great read from the Scotsman to start the day. If our manager is sold on Kris Commons then I am too.
Not my usual nature, but can’t muster any sympathy at all for Motherwell after the way they so blatantly lay down to sevco …
Not noticed Thunder Road posting lately ?
thetimreaper
07:56 on 7 February, 2015
Just keeping an eye on the corrupt barstewards…. :)
67 heaven
07.41
Good post and I couldn’t agree more. It’s a wonder uefa haven’t stepped in to scrutinise the whole sorry shambles. Or is it the norm for clubs recently perished?
I keep picturing the 1872 club as the guy who murdered Sam Wheat in the film Ghost. After his own horrible death he’s dragged away screaming, by the devil, off to Hell for eternity
Perhaps not a good analogy though as thems was a suicide job.
Celtic have a total of 15 midfield first team players.
The Live Updates article will be up at 12:00. Could someone leave a note here?
Thanks.
Stuart mccall resigned because he couldn’t stomach his orders to sabotage his team to second bottom of the league to ensure the moonbeam beleivers got a team that would liedown to them in the playoff final. Ensuring he was a championship manager next year. His biggest moan was not being confident of being able to sabotage the team enough to let new rangers win.*
(*some of the above might just be made up)
BOGNORBHOY
I was just thinking that myself yesterday-honest!
I’ll mail him. How’s you?
FAVOURITE UNCLE 0829
No problem,mate. This place is full of curry houses and chicken shacks.
I expect the prices to plummet in a glut.