Celtic are an astonishing 1/200 to win the Premiership this season; 11 games into a 38 game competition. 1/200 isn’t betting odds, it’s a borrowing strategy. The bookies are borrowing money at 0.5% for six months, an annual rate of 1%. Try borrowing at better rates than that.
Investors get a 1% tax free savings rate, which is also competitive, although they don’t get access to their money for six months without significant penalty. If borrowing rates were higher, returns offered on Celtic would improve to attract more investors. The Scottish Premiership has jumped from being a sporting event to being an investment opportunity less volatile than gold or property.
The 10 point gap between Celtic and second placed Aberdeen is the same 10 points as between Aberdeen and bottom club Ross County. We are metaphorically in a different league than even our closest challengers.
Question is, how did Celtic become the Bank of England of football? It’s not just because they are financially responsible with appropriate oversights, this helps. More importantly, they have used their financial strength to fortify the competitive product on the park. Others have been in similar situations in previous decades without the oversight, which led to enormously entertaining failure.
It might look like Brendan Rodgers has achieved alchemy over a sleeping dinosaur, but he’s only part of the story, albeit an important part. Much of the groundwork was in place when he arrived. Nine of those who started the League Cup semi-final were at the club last season, they were just not nearly as effective.
Brendan’s building on rock solid foundations. That’s what you need to build generations of domination.
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Danso
You can suggest anything you want
What difference does it make
Anyone who votes for Trump is an idiot
End of conversation
sorry cheated
WITS
I won’t stoop to your raging ranting level.
You obviously don’t care about the near 1million lifes snuffed out in the USA each year.
Nor care that Clinton wants to make it available up to birth.
ha ha, this is a great cqn debate.
Mon the Clinton, get yer finger on the button. Yer man knew where the button was.
listen i know trump is an nut but clinton is more sleekit and dangerous
Mr Clinton had his finger on the nubbin.
DANSO_1888 on 9TH NOVEMBER 2016 12:41 AM
go and look at the clinton foundation and you will see real corruption
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Dead right.
Julia Gillard ( former , thank god ) P.M. of Australia . Her govt. gave the Clinton Foundation $300 million.
Guess who gave her a job after she got the boot.
Yep. You got it.
only america could give you such a choice
na bill liked cigars and what you could do with them, ask monica
Anyone who ends a conversation by saying “end of conversation” has lost the argument.
FFS WITS get back in there………………….:_)
AULDHEID:
I may be wrong and I am more than happy to be corrected if that is the case but my very limited understanding of how a PCL operates is that it does no operate to execution on a show of hands as opposed is driven by the number of paid up shares that can be garnered in support. 10,000 individual shareholders can be muted and mooted by 2 or 3 ‘share-heavy’ shareholders. Quite a bit of that understanding was derived from reading David Low’s book.
Fergus McCann is on record that he wanted Celtic to be owned by the supporters. Well it is, but not in the altruist model that his professions of moderate ‘socialist’ investments was intended to nurture.
In effect what we have today, post Fergus McCann, is no different from what we endured pre Fergus McCann vis-à-vis despots or despotic mini-cartels dictating policy and opinion to the masses.
It is hard to fault their business acumen, and I would hesitate to do so, but their ambitions and their thin embracing of the soul and culture often frustrates and grates. We can laud the Charitable Foundation to the heavens and rightly so, and all the charitable initiatives are profoundly pleasing but never forget who it is exactly that underwrites all those acts of passionate compassion.
A CEILER GONOF RUST’S RINGPIECE IS SHINING BRIGHT LIKE A DIAMOND on 9TH NOVEMBER 2016 12:46 AM
ha ha, this is a great cqn debate.
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I agree.
Good laugh.
What you have to do when you look at the candidates.
:-)
Ask the people of Haiti about the Clinton Foundation.
Ask Denis O’Brien if his award of the Digicel Haiti contract was a result of his Climton Foundation donation or the million he gave Slick Willy for a speech in Dublin.
I could go on.. And on…and on.
But the better half wants this Catholic “idiot” to make the tea.
Danso 1888, on the contrary, Bill and Monica opened up a whole new market in cigar usage and cut tobacco intake simultaneously, well they did for me.
Mon the wee pink troosered lady, fire it onto the turbine hating golf course hairdo man.
GIRF intae him
yeah as i said the foreign backers of isis qatar and saudia arabia are big backers of the clinton foundation
Florida , a must win for Trump , not looking good for him.
the stench is of corruption is overpowering
Macjay, we’re going to get a world leader whose a total fuckup regardless of what happens, I’m just being philosophical before my world ends.
Hopefully I get to see us win the league and the hun tramp zombie affair die another death before my wee abode in Carmyllie is ripped apart by the impending nuclear Armageddon.
I posted my wish last a few days back.
I’m a man of simple needs.
HH
trump never stood a chance such is the american election a farce i tell you
Chelsea Clinton for ACGR’s next fantasy ride. Buckle up and ride on.
I’m taking this far too seriously, It really does mean a lot to me.
I am constantly amazed at how whiny the Ayn Rand/ Master Race/ Proven Businessman Lobby is.
A CEILER GONOF RUST’S RINGPIECE IS SHINING BRIGHT LIKE A DIAMOND , dont know why the corruption will still be the same no matter who wins, well clinton will win because the wall street pals want her to
Regardless of which of the two imbeciles win the presidency I’ll always be more pished off that I didn’t get a table at Coia’s for the Barca game.
Then again, will it matter? Probably not
GG
Haiti
Abortion
Denis O’Brien
Its all so bloody what
Trump is a feckin idiot who cant even use a hairbrush and I would vote for anyone to prevent him becoming the “most powerful man in the world”
So far in the last hour on here I have seen Clinton being described as pure evil,presiding over a million murders,sponsored by the sponsors of Isis,corrupt friend of Wall Street
Madness ,lads absolute madness if you beleive all that
Now I am finished
If Donald wins tell him I was only joking
He May look like an idiot,He May sound like an idiot
But dont let that fool ye……HE REALLY IS AN IDIOT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yuc4BI5NWU
WHAT IS THE STARS, suppose you will telling us she really is an angel and not the devil
Danso 1888, I really couldn’t give shit. I’m having a laugh and I know it makes no difference because I don’t have a vote. So I’ll have that laugh instead.
Are you in the states and do you have a vote?
That’s the spirit WITS, get back in there on the abortion issue.
oh no thank god im in belfast for my sins
Danso
She isnt an Angel
None of us are
But would you really prefer Trump
An remember …only an idiot would prefer Trump
you might be safer with an idiot
no i dont prefer trump only in america could this happen
Mon the wee frail wummin in the off purple suit. Intae they American basturts. Intae them.
Get intae the big hoose, te big white wan
i think the amrican election tells you everything with these two
only america would ask its people to pick from these two imbeciles
Danso, I honestly thought you were one of our US based posters.
FFS get a grip and calm down buddy,
And Mon the wee wummin in the Cerise hat.
The end of the world will come when it comes
A CEILER GONOF RUST’S RINGPIECE IS SHINING BRIGHT LIKE A DIAMOND, sorry but i am on the left of politics and i know trump is an idiot but clinton is sleekit
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1/200..????
Celtic were Never 1/200 on or $0.005..There is actually no such Price for the Reasons you mention at the start of the Article Punters are Daft NOT That OverDraft..
1/20 on Yes or $0.05 sorry cant do pound sign..
I Bet Celtic at $2.10 on Lots of Long Term bets as l thought Brendan like Martin would make it a Priority The Cup to build a Winning no matter what Mentality..
By the Quarter Finals Celtic were $1.80 which l thought was Fair considering Celtics League Cup Winning Ratio..
Imagine My Shock Horror Pleasure after the Semi Final Draw Celtic went out to $2.20 to Win The Cup..;-)
Cue more Long term Bets..Ha..
If You were Looking at Long Term Investments apart from Buying Australian Dollars with Sterling at the Start of the Season FAO MacJay ;-)
Betting without Celtic ..Rangers were $1.60 or Roughly 1/2 on in Olde Money Aberdeen were $4.00 or 3/1 in Old Money..If they Never had that Awful start to the Season you might get the 1/200 on Paul67 refers to.
001/1 on Bhoy..