The business model of the SPFL’s new sponsor, cinch, is to sell cars directly to the public, cutting out the dealer network. Newco’s chairman owns a large car dealership which sponsors Newco (although it is not a shirt sponsor).
Newco have refused to comply with the SPFL contract by adding the cinch logo to players’ sleeves and elsewhere. They claim compliance would break an existing commercial deal, presumably with their own chairman, but have refused to provide evidence of any existing deal to the league.
League and club sponsors often conflict. While the SPFL was sponsored by Ladbrokes, Celtic had Dafabet blazoned across their chest and Newco had their own gambling partner. Newco’s position appears to be that any club with a pre-existing agreement with any one of its partners can veto a league sponsorship deal. Quite a thing, with 42 clubs, some of which have 20 commercial sponsorship partners.
It is always possible that the SPFL’s rules are poorly drafted on such matters, the SFA were able to exploit what appeared to be a clear rule before, but the League have examined their position and have escalated the issue. Yesterday, chairman Murdoch MacLennan wrote to all 42 clubs, stated the league’s position and informed clubs he had referred the matter to the SFA’s arbitration process.
If you think this all seems a bit contrived, you are not alone. Why stand and fight on such a puny hill? Newco are not the private fiefdom of their chairman, he is not Cnut (be careful), able to turn the tide against cinch, so why antagonise every non-compliant club in the league?
Newco want rid of MacLennan and especially SPFL chief exect Neil Doncaster. Neither will do their bidding. If the club can find a contractual oversight, it gives them grounds to call for their resignations, again.
There are other mattes at play; step forward Malmo manager, Jon Dahl Tomasson, who yesterday alluded to the matter we discussed in our State of the Club blog 10 days ago. Newco need Champions League money more acutely than oxygen itself. Should the wheels come off the white charger tonight, you can expect conflicts on every corner.
I never get what is it about people who think they are too special to follow rules. There is a want about them. Are we going to see pyros from the Newco directors’ box next? Seems logical. Fight The Man, even if The Man is just a salaried someone, responsible for converting advice or strategy onto structure.
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ROBERTTRESSELL on 10TH AUGUST 2021 10:20 PM
SONSOFERIN on 10TH AUGUST 2021 10:10 PM
Just to make it that little bit sweeter, if they had only won this round they would have been guaranteed a minimum 5m just for losing the CL play-off round.
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Couldn’t be any sweeter if that news came coated in honey with a sprinkling of icing sugar and a bottle of full fat irn bru on the side. Lovely jubbly. Thanks for making my schadenfreude all the, eh, um, what’s another word for sweeter?
Sweet.
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The worst post of the evening. I’m a type two diabetic!!!!!!!!
Mrs BB, where’s the Raspberry jam for my toast???
:)))))))
HH
Brian
I hope Dermot is too busy golfing to notice the huns score , otherwise he’ll be right on to Peter .
(Wee joke for the ‘save Sevco’ conspiracy theorists).
We should be going all out on our signings and bury them. No time for hesitancy.
A decade since Malmo pumped them, as they edged towards liquidation
It’s the same club that heaps the financial pressure on them tonight.
This stuff writes itself CSC
” So Mr Gerard, would you say that the result tonight is a catastrophe fur ra Glorious………ih!?”
B-b-b-b-but we beat Real Madrid.
Penny (arcade) dropping on Sevco Media?? This is about the only non expletive ridden post I could find – it turns out that some of them can count after all:
“We lost £20million for the season before last with just 1-2 months of Covid affecting finances. We then spent big in summer, sold no-one and then had a whole season without fans, we’ll have done well not to have lost £30million in the past 12 months.
We have lost about £50million by reasonable estimates in 24 months, despite qualifying for Europa League twice.
We needed to sell 1-2 players, had no bids for anyone, so had to bring in players on frees. We’ll now likely lose Morelos, Kamara and another and even then will likely barely be able to spend.”
DAVID66
even cheating from goldson couldn’t get them through
was it the whole of the 2nd half Malmo played with 10 men
HH
JHB
No one would have predicted this result at the start….and less than no one at half-time.
I bet £10 on Malmo to win @ 5/1. And I never cashed-in at 0-1, red card, even at 1-1.
I PREDICTED IT
2011 Malmo beat rangers in their last ever chmps lge tie.
2021 Malmo beat The rangers in their first ever champs lge tie 😂
Bet we don’t see that strip again…
WBC
Surely the pre season cup gets automatic entry to the CL?
Belmont Brian – 😆
TOM MCLAUGHLIN
So did I, and referenced St Johnstone and St Mirren
@Tom snap…..Son in law got 11/2 held his nerve….
I Predict a Riot
TOM MCLAUGHLIN on 10TH AUGUST 2021 10:34 PM
Well done Tom, enjoy your winnings :-)
Goldson not signed that contract yet?
In (a magnificent.) seven easy moves
Invincible….indefensible….insensible….incoherent…..intoxicated…
………inconsolable…..insolvent…intestinal!
And that was just Craigan
IWD
BBC saying a run deep into the knock-outs of the Europa League will “soothe frustration”.
Try telling that to the fans right now :)
Waurs the multis the nicht?
Mibbes takin’ one night
aff????
:)
Malmo got the old klub liquidated and may well be responsible for the same happening to the new klub before it even hits puberty.
Surely some kind of record?
I feckin LUUURV the Swedes.
Seething Gerrard and Michael Bealing…
Timing is everything, if we can get another good lhad in upfront , flog Eddy and Ryan re- signs , keeps the pressure on them.
They now need to sell … fire sale … there is no guarantee they will get through the next round …. football moves on and the Huns system has been sussed
The wee lassie in Reporting Scotland trying to keep a straight face when the football came on
It’s now we should be turning the screw on them.Get the signings in,they are on the ropes.
When you get older you mishear things. The female commentator said after the match- “He has to pick them up. It’s against Dunfermline on Saturday “
But I heard “ He’s got to pick them Muppets against Dunfermline on Saturday “
WEEBOBBYCOLLINS
👍
You score 55 goals and still get beat 🤣🤣🤣
George Square will be safe tonight
GLENDALYSTONSILS on 10TH AUGUST 2021 10:31 PM
Yep
Uncle Dermo will see them right, Sharp Suited Man gets his DOF, albeit short term, but overruling and undermining the new CEO in the process.
Firesale at G51, forget Celtic strengthening from here.
Muppets is it????
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKl-y_LEgsQ
Re Cinch:
Huns jersey promoting Unibet.
Advertising hoarding promoting 32 Red.
Am I missing something?
PAUL THE SPARK
Many a hun wife/partner won’t be though .
My contacts advise me of fireworks in G32 and G78 this evening
The local Malmö supporters clubs clearly enjoyed themselves.
That’s der hun filth playing their next European tie in Kazakhstan/Armenia….lovely jubbly.
Although, advantage Sevco……there wont be any hun support to deride them.
Once Upon a Time in the West – The Danish National Symphony Orchestra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efdswXXjnBA
Spiers:
“ With so many newspaper reporters either banned, barred or out-priced from asking questions, “fan-media”who declare Steven Gerrard “my hero” and “my man-love” are currently grilling the Rangers manager about tonight’s fiasco against Malmö.
Utterly laughable.”
Zlatan Ibrahimovich!! Your boys gave them a hell of a beating.
G31 had Fireworks also, por cierto