I suspect we have not seen the best of Daryl Murphy, who has proven to be a solid Championship and fleeting Premier League player in England but has been unable to retain a place in the SPL, but his hamstring injury, suffered after the long flight to Pennsylvania, will be a blow on two levels for Celtic. They are denied a squad player for the crucial Champions League play-off round against Helsingborgs and are likely to unable to loan him out, easing more pressure from payroll.
Daryl was singled out for credit (here) for the way he changed the shape of Celtic in our opening league game of the season against Aberdeen. He would have been useful to Neil Lennon this coming week.
News that Helsingborgs have lost their top striker is welcome but is not quite ‘like signing a new player’ for Celtic. Let’s hope they haven’t lost their Kenny Miller only to find their Jordan Rhodes.
There can seldom have been more financially important games to the club than the Helsingborgs tie. Celtic accounts are usually released mid-August (16th last year) but I don’t anticipate any rush to publish this year. Last season’s accounts could well see the largest loss in our history as the club chased their first league win in four years (insert standard lecture on financial responsibility program, avoid urge to run legacy Sir David Murray malware).
I expect the figures to show Celtic are operating with a Champions League budget (and that’s without evading tax). Football finance lessons are clear, if you have a Champions League budget you need Champions League income. Time for this team to step up to the challenge. Get along and pack the place out on the 29th.
No regrets this time.
Bed early tonight if you are off to Dingwall in the morning. I hope we see a few of the young lads.
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Lennybhoy
Happy birthday mate, hope you have a great day starting with a victory in Dingwall. Enjoy the BBQ nothing beats having your family round about you. Hail hail and God bless PB
Burghbhoy 09:54:
Cheers mate.
Right time to go to the Bookies before settling down with a beer to watch the Champions. You all have a great day…
Until we meet again…
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
67H @ 9.54
My job is to bury the bodies so that an accountant can’t find them.
Consequently I can spot financial train wrecks that have been tarted up for audit.
Well, a long trip up to Ross today for the bhoys – those who are healthy anyway. How did we manage to get such a long injury list so early in the season? Is it just sheer chance?
Seems we are short of strikers today so I hope Tony Watt gets a game. I’ve high hopes for this lad. A 2- 0 win and no more injuries will do me nicely.
paddybhoy1888 09:58:
Just caught your post…thanks, passed you and Joe in the car coming back from Aberdeen game. Glad you were concentrating on the driving and not my waving like a mad man…
Really away this time.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Madmitch…….. Are you Sydney tim ?
madmitch
10:00 on 18 August, 2012
67H @ 9.54
You would have made a fortune at oldco then ……….
MADMITCH 1000
Serious now.
I have little time for PL and his one-man-band way of running our club.
There are a number of reasons,and I’ve stated them clearly in the past.
IMO,his only success has been on the financial side-curiously,his area of expertise,and the one he was hired for. Sticking his oar in to waters best left to experts,he is quickly rumbled.
It doesn’t stop him though.
Now,your post earlier worries me,and your explanation of your own area of expertise worries me more.
If he can’t even get the financials right,is shown to be financially incompetent,then he should be shown the door.
He has been the one responsible for investing in duds through his scattergun approach instead of simply getting the players his managers have asked for.
That approach has been a dismal failure. About the equivalent of signing a Rafael Scheidt evry season.
AND NOT PATRICE EVRY-blinkin’ posted while I was spellchecking!
Madmitch
Another kiddy on Tim.
TallyBhoy,
Thanks for the info. My SkyItalia saying game on at midnight on SkySports HD1. Is that your info?
madmitch
we must have better people than you at the plc – you have been predicting this train wreck for years now and it still hasnt happened.
use your expertise to tell us all when the crash is coming
Lennybhoy
Happy birthday auld pal
Will CFC entry into the CL group stage do for your pressie?
bobby murdoch’s curled-up winklepickers
10:12 on
18 August, 2012
We seem to be blessed with a number of financial experts ……LOL
I have reviewed previous accounts in detail, and, despite being shafted out of CL money for some years, by provan CHEATING ……and, despite the worst recession in history, we are doing fine ……. In pursuing the dream, make sure you don’t sleepwalk into a wall, like the bhuns did……….HH
CELTIC4ME 1022
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVuvTuxgA_Y
Lennybhoy
Happy birthday! :0) have a good one
Davie Provan? :-)
madmitch
and do all celtic supporters a service and explain in detail, like rtc, where the bodies are buried and exactly how the plc has been cheating and lying and acting illegally.
if i had that sort of information about celtic i would publish it in a blog or even on here
Happy birthday Lennybhoy…
KTF
HT
glad you made it ok….
1 hour deadline until scoring starts :)
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Happy birdie to you
Happy birdie to you
Happy birdie dear Lennybhoy
Happy birdie to you………
Madmitch
For what period will the next set of financials be produced ?
just received a text from Estadio National..
He is too busy munching his way through half a dozen rolls n sausage to post… o))
Any word of the team yet..?
pfayr
our financial year runs from 1 july to 30 june
Happy Birthday Lennybhoy
50 is the new L
Latin CSC
BT
Only a half dozen ….thought it was a special occasion :-))
Does anyone know the CQN fantasy football league code?
Celtic40me
Thanks …but what year will be covered …
67 HEAVEN
In fairness,I have ALWAYS given PL credit where it’s due,and that is when the P/Ls become public.
Equally,I’ve long state the opinion that Rangers cheating was was tantamount to a fraud of £30m-ANNUALLY-by one public company on another,and as such should be investigated by City of London Police,etc.
But it matters not one jot if he can’t do the one job he was hired for.
By the way,was that our Davie Provan or theirs that was cheating? Just kidding…
First bit of good news today …..they say it comes in 3’s
http://www.newsnetscotland.com/index.php/scottish-news/in-brief/5619-scottish-newspaper-circulation-continues-to-fall
Pabloh
Post from Patrick above contains details
BWCUWP
I don’t think we have a Davie Provan anymore …..
PF
sent his mother out for well fired rolls now
any Blackpool bhoys look after my young cousan Francis, he will be in the Shammy club soon,..
PFayr, Cheers!
pfayr
it will be the twelve months to june 30 2012
hoopy 60th birthday lennybhoy
Good morning fellow Celts getting warmer and sun creeping out in Renfrewshire.
Watching hoops on tv then off to watch St Mirren v Hibs with fellow CQNer
dettolandtheblackash – many thanks for the Helsingborgs brief they seem to be like gold dust over there now and I think the Henke connection is driving demand -btw hope the 5’s went well last night?
HH