Club 9 Sports released a priceless statement tonight indicating they are considering an investment in Rangers only as part of a consortium and will not be bidding for the club on their own.
So far, so clear. They then entertain us with a remarkable interpretation of liquidation, saying:
“We understand that it has been strongly rumored that our group planned to “liquidate” the club. It should be made clear that any party that attempts to acquire the club, eliminate the debts, affect a turnaround, invest monies and put the club back on solid ground is in fact “saving” the club from liquidation and preserving its past and its future.
“In an asset purchase, all of the good and valuable assets (records, marks, names, trophies, players, staff, history) are preserved and separated from the bad and harmful liabilities (tax bills, bad contracts, creditors), which have put the club into administration and which act to force the entirety into liquidation.”
“Saving” the club from liquidation by putting the entirety into liquidation. Don’t laugh, they honestly wrote this.
For the record, you can’t sell history or records. Can you imagine? Britain could flog off our whole empire period and maybe use the current economic crisis in Greece to buy their classical period from them. Aristotle, from Scotland, perhaps.
Personally, I would love to be the first Briton to hold aloft the European Cup, maybe Billy McNeill would sell me that record? He’s had it for 45 years now, it can’t be worth that much to him anymore.
I wonder how much Messi would sell his record breaking Champions League history? Barca are playing catch-up with Real Madrid in the European Champions stakes. Instead of buying expensive footballers they could just offer Real cash for some of the trophies won during the 1950s.
David Murray should have saved himself all the trouble and just offered our old board a few million for the Lisbon history, just think:
Rangers, European Champions, 1967. Opportunity missed. Murray should have had a word with Club 9.
I’m enjoying these guys already, hope they are given the green light tomorrow. What terrified Brian Kennedy floats my boat. They even finished off with some sweet platitudes about a “legendary fan base”. I think we have a winner….
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Just read the attention seeker’s comments from last night,,,This surely is the last strike for this Cretin??
Last year when Lenny was getting attacked at Tynecastle,whilst living under armed guard,this attention seeking Cretin said that Lenny deserved everything he got because he brought it all upon himself,,now we have comments like last nights!!
Paul 67 please get rid of this vermin,,free speech is great and all,,but there has to be a line that we dont cross!!
Hail hail
Good Morning,
For Bela Guttman, the story started with a haircut in a barber’s shop on a trip to Brazil. By pure chance, Jose Carlos Bauer, who Guttman had known from years before, decided to get his hair cut at the same time and place, and it was in the barber’s shop that Bauer told Guttman about the boy. It was only a throwaway line really. Just a comment about a boy, living on another continent, thousands of miles away who had something about him, a bit of potential and could play a bit. Bauer had recommended him to a couple of clubs but no one would take the chance.
Guttman, however, decided to make some enquiries when he got home. He discovered that this very same boy had in fact tried to join an official feeder team for his own club, but without success. Instead, he had joined the official feeder team for his club’s main rivals across the city, and it would seem that he had prospered in the rival camp, getting some good reviews. Apparently he could cover 100 Metres in 11 seconds, had good ball control, a fierce shot, and was big and as strong as an ox! Yet no one had taken the plunge and signed him, even though he was now 18 years old.
Although Guttman had many other things to do and to concentrate on, he decided to act on the boy. It would be controversial of course. Effectively stealing a young player from your greatest rivals would always be controversial. There would be outrage across the city and no end of press controversy, but then again Guttman never feared a touch of controversy or members of the press. However, he realised that if he was to succeed, then he had to move swiftly and with the greatest secrecy. His board agreed to back him, and it was decided that to ensure that their plans would be kept confidential, they would never mention the players name in communications and instead they agreed on a code name, and that is how project Ruth Malosso came into being.
Despite being registered with a foreign junior club, Guttman realised that the key to securing Ruth Malosso was his mother. The boy’s father had died when he was 8, so it was mum who ruled the roost and made the decisions. Strike a deal with her, and the rest would follow. Guttman tracked her down and had some people talk to her about her son playing football for Guttman. Once she had been suitably “rewarded” she agreed to allow her son to travel and sign up to a new life under the tutelage of the Hungarian.
The first move away from home is a daunting experience for any young man. Especially if it means stepping on board a plane and travelling to a foreign country. However, as this young man walked down the aircraft steps towards a new life, in a new country, he was fully aware that this particular journey had almost always been inevitable. After all, it is what he had always wanted.
Although it was still a few weeks before Christmas, this journey was the greatest of Christmas presents. He gets to play football and his mother and family received some much needed money. The parent club to his own club were not prepared to offer any money and simply wanted him to go on trial with no wages or guarantee of a contract, so when the chance came to be a fully signed professional he did not hesitate.
He was aware that the transfer would cause controversy, but this is the club he had always wanted to play for, where his heroes had played and so “Ruth Malosso” just went along with the arrangements. He was still a secret, and to ensure that he remained so, Guttman decided to keep the boy well under wraps. On arrival he was taken to the coast and kept there in a hotel for fully twelve days, while Guttman finalised compensation for his junior team. In the end they agreed on a sum. It was a big sum for an untried teenager but Guttman followed his instincts. He was sure he was on to something, although he was not sure what!
Despite arriving in December, project Ruth Malosso would not be registered as a player until May the following year. He was put through his paces in training and watched on as the first team went on a hugely successful run. Once officially registered, he eventually made his debut in a friendly against Athletico Club De Portugal and promptly scored a hat- trick! That could have been a flash in the pan but Guttman did not think so. In June, Guttman took his team to Paris to play in an international invitational only tournament. In the final they played against a team containing the most famous footballer on the planet and by half time, they were on the wrong end of a 4-0 score line. Soon after half time that score went to 5-0. Guttman brought Project Malosso from the subs bench and in blistering 17 minute spell between the 63rd and 80th minute, the young substitute scored a hat-trick and won a penalty, which the taker failed to convert. Guttman’s team eventually lost the tie 6-3.
However, L’Equippe who had been covering the glamorous tie, more or less ignored the winning team and their star player, the magazine just wanted to know who in God’s name was this substitute? One team sheet gave the name as Da Silva, another report said Ferreira. L’Equippe put the young man’s face on its cover, and made his surname redundant for ever more by simply declaring his first name in bold print. Eusebio!
In only his third game for the club, the young man from Mozambique had eclipsed a victorious Santos team and Pele, and had become a legend overnight. He had played just one solitary league game. Eusebio da Silva Ferreira had arrived.
It should be remembered that when Eusebio signed for Sport Lisboa e Benfica they were already the holders of the European Cup having defeated Barcelona 3-2 in the final of1961— they also beat Hearts 5-1 in the first round. The visit to Tyncastle had been Guttman’s first European game in charge.
Eusebio made an immediate impact in his first year helping the team to a second European cup and amazingly, in his first full year as a pro, he was runner up in the European footballer of the year competition. He would be runner up a further two times, and the winner in 1965. In the 1962 European cup Final, Madrid were winning 2-0 before Benfica went on to win 5-2, with Eusebio scoring twice. At the end of the game, Ferenc Puskas took his shirt off and handed it voluntarily to the young Eusebio— almost the passing of a baton!
In all he played for Benfica 614 times scoring 638 goals in the process. He played for Portugal 64 times scoring a record 41 goals. He would win 11 league titles with Benfica, 5 Portuguese cups, and was the leading league scorer a record 7 times. He was the first ever winner of the European Golden Boot. He would have been European Player of the year on a second occasion if a Portuguese delegate had not voted for Bobby Charlton instead! The delegate concerned only did so because he had thought that Eusebio was likely to get all of the other votes and was a runaway winner!
He was voted amongst the top ten footballers of the 20th century by various bodies, Portugal’s greatest ever player and has generally been regarded as one of the most sporting and humble of footballing legends. The man turned out to be even greater than the footballer.
Yet, for all that success and acclaim, he only managed to get his hands on that one European Cup winner’s medal in 1962.
Legend says that there is only one reason for that, and that reason is Bela Guttman!
After winning a second successive European Cup in 1962 and unearthing the young Eusebio, Guttman went to the Benfica board and asked for more money. When his not unreasonable request was refused, he flew into a typical strop and rage. He issued a string of invective and promptly walked out on one of the most exciting teams in Europe, and perhaps the most exciting young player in the world. He would never again manage such a team. On leaving, he apparently issued one of the most famous and lasting curses in football history against the club and Portugal by declaring “Never in another 100 years will Benfica win a European cup, and never will another Portuguese team win it twice in a row!”
Despite reaching 6 European finals since then, even with the great Eusebio in the number 10 shirt, Benfica have never managed a single success!
Whilst all conquering in Portugal, nothing would ever again go right for them in Europe– not even a coin toss!!!
Before the 1990 European cup final which was played in Vienna where Guttman is buried, Eusebio and other Benfica officials went to the graveside of Bela Guttman and prayed that his curse on the club be lifted. Alas in 68th minute Frank Rjikaard ( who was not even going to play in the game up until the last minute ) scored the only goal of the game securing victory for AC Milan.
To this day Benfica players and management talk of “beating the curse!”.
Tonight, Benfica with play Chelsea at Stamford Bridge in the Champions League Quarter Final second leg. They are trailing 1-0. No matter how well they play tonight, they will not win the Champions League this year- or any other year until 2062– and now you know why!
Project Ruth Malosso, aka Eusebio Da Silva Ferreira, and the curse of Bela Guttman. The stuff of legend!
I guess it might have been me that kicked of the race debate this morning. I asked if posts containing swearing were deleted shouldn’t Kojo’s racist ones be deleted.
I must say the reaction has disappointed me. What disappointed me was that there was a debate. I expected nothing but total condemnation and someone with the power to delete the comments immediately (I now appreciate that if only Paul has access to delete comments that “immediately” is an unreasonable expectation but the response was somewhat equivocal (obviously there were honourable exceptions who were clear in their condemnation.)
For some people to suggest that the best way to challenge racism is to ignore it is bizarre and ignores the lessons of history. All racism should be highlighted and condemned. To let it stand unchallenged give it a level of acceptability that leads it to be normalized.
CQN should not be a platform for the type of filth that was posted last night. If swearing is not tolerated because impressionable youngsters might read this blog then a much stronger stand should be taken against racism. Any racist comments should be condemned and deleted as soon as practicable.
67Heaven … I am Neil Lennon..!!..Truth and Justice will always prevail on 4 April,
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Rules don’t apply to the huns.
Hail Hail
jc2,its common practise for bookies to cut place odds as a tournament progresses,remember after the cut there are far fewer competitors in
the tournament and normally only a few have a chance of winning,
even still you should have been made aware of how many places they
were paying on
Quickdraw
I appplaud your comments!
HH
Discourse is being diverted.
Let’s get back to laughing at Rangers.
DeniaBhoy on 4 April, 2012 at 11:38 said:
thebhoyfromoz – way out of touch with UK music scene. Are the Waterboys still the same line-up as the original band? Were some of the band from Ayr?
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not the original line-up,but still incredibly good. the only time in my life that i'm going to see the same band in the space of a few weeks.
as for the Ayr connection,i'm not sure.
the new line-up is predominantly Irish. Mike Scott lives in Dublin these days.
I love reading your wee stories BRTH; every day is indeed a school day on CQN.
Hail Hail
oh dear, Kojo should not have really posted that on this blog.
As unpleasant as it was, it is a view held by most cultures just taboo to be discussed in public.
Quickdraw
I never said ignore racism … and nobody has from what I can see
I said I ignore kojo so have others
And there is a good reason for that. Guess why ?
So your post is Lazy journalism of the histrionic poodle variety which is a pity here on the land of non lazy journalism.
Hail Hail
Kit
I choose not to read his posts and I have no intention starting now.
When I read his previous utterings they struck me as the words of an intelligent but attention seeking individual who craves conflict and reassurance in equal measures.
I read his comments regarding Neil Lennon last year with disbelief.
I read previous posts which I deemed to be sectarian or racist in nature.
Ultimately they were about seeking attention and as a consequence I decide not to get myself upset by reading his drivel.
You are correct he represents nothing that I was brought up to believe that a Celtic supporter or a Catholic should be.
Just a thought. When Rangers* go into liquidation it will be a shock for many of their fans. I wouldn’t rule out some of them getting angry and even violent about it (why else would Whyte be advised by police about his safety). Now who will be responsible for the fact that it will come as a shock for many, who will be responsible for the ensuing bitterness, recrimination, violence? Who if not a group of people who have consistently pulled the wool over Rangers* fans’ eyes, consistently published spin, eulogies, fairy-tales and sycophantic untruths about Rangers since the year dot. The laptop loyal.
Quickdraw on 4 April, 2012 at 11:47 said:
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Hail! Hail! Jelly & Ice Cream when racism dies!
From "What's Goin' On"…a little boy's voice : " Daddy….what is racism? Is it a disease?"
No one is born racist. It's acquired.
A son of Dan
Can you please explain that comment for me?
Was thinking about this club 9 statement, and apologise if question has been asked or answered already.
Could Rangers(IA) set up a subsidiary company, transfer all the bad debt and liquidate that company, technically leaving Rangers free of debt and still holding their assets in player contracts IPox and Murray Park but crucially their SPL membership?
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Mersey..
Thanks for the Apologies..
“They'” are NOT All like that..My Dad..Brother..And Nephew are ST in 3 Different Stands at iPox..
They ALL Accept My Family..Speak every Day on Skype..
As l Said..I WAS a Protestant..Went out with a Girl from Cleland..(Had to keep it a Secret from Family because l was a protestant)..Funny Ehh..
Summa
PS..”They”..? Who are They..???????
Solentdave
you mean that the administrators try to diddle the creditors of valuable assets ?
Hail Hail
jeromek67,
i have lived here just over a year and not made it to any of the pubs yet. Why and do you have any recommendations?
2 children,1 wage earner, CQN and RTC have all contributed!
househusbands.csc
thebhoyfromoz
thanks for the info – sounds like I’m going to enjoy it but I might be running up to Broxden to get the last citylink/megabus out of town!
Info from one side of the world to the other, thank you Tim Berners-Lee!
@fritzagrandold: SFA pay Dundee United £35k of their owed Scottish Cup money, from TV money due to Rangers http://t.co/jUXPFcfb
Who’s the beggars now eh.
Oh what happened to the Huns dignity.
GORDYBHOY64
Makes sense when you explain it like that.
Watch golf but dont tend to bet on it so had read in papers down to 5th and thats what i expected.
If i rememeber correctly Kim missed a tiddler on the last to drop out top 3
or 4 and double compound my misery.
Just wanted to highlight incase there are any other guys thinking they can outsmart the bookies,,,
Cheers
Kev jungle 11.49
That’s why I’m asking. …….. LOL
Awe_naw
You are a man of conviction as am I, I am not averse to swearing but Paul on his blog is. I can respect that. But what is worse… a sweary word or unbridled hatered?
And that dick Kojo does not like swearing. It is a bit like Pol Pot sayin he does not like salt on his oats.
I don’t understand the FUNAMENTAL ethos of this site anymore.
Oh and he is going to come back on and play wounded victim.
67Heaven … I am Neil Lennon..!!..Truth and Justice will always prevail on 4 April, 2012 at 12:05 said:
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For what it’s worth m8…..my head is very similar to, Reagan McNeill’s from the, Exorcist with all this hun-stuff :o)))
Hail Hail
Off oot
laters….
In Todays Record page seven
Talks by the Scottish Government about crisis club Rangers have been marked ” top secret” it has emerged.
The SNP believe they are so sensitive they could wreck relations between Holyrood and Westminster.
Discussions were held between ministers, who have pledged support for the Ibrox club, administrators and HM Revenue and Customs
First Minister Alec Salmond and Sports Minister Shona Robison were involved.
But a freedom of information request about the talks has been denied because disclosure “would be likely to prejudice substantially relations between the Scottish and UK Governments”.
When asked why, a spokesman said Salmond spoke to tax officials in January. He added: “The discussion centred on securing a settlement to enable Rangers to meet their obligations to the tax payer and continue in business”
kit
…in his many guises includng singing detective, kojak and others!
He plays us all as fools!
hh
Kitalba
I think once Paul67 gets the chance to look at it he will pull it and rebuke Kojo. Of that I have no doubt. Please lets give the guy and his poor blog a chance.
I agree entirely with greenjedi that Paul67 should be informed about it and anyone elses dislike for a post via email otherwise Kojo gets what he is looking for …. were still talking about it !!!
many many poster on CQN would love to see me banned also and to his credit Paul67 has never chosen to do so.
Quite happy to leave it ALL up to him and I dont grudge him it one bit.
I also think we degrade the blog by going on even a DESERVED witch hunt.
in Paul67 I trust … I gotta …look I am still posting
Motel Money Murder Madness
Let’s change the mood from glad to sadness
Mr. Kojo Risin’, Mr. Kojo Risin’
Mr. Kojo Risin’, Mr. Kojo Risin’
Got to keep on risin’
Mr. Kojo Risin’, Mr. Kojo Risin’
Kojo Risin’, gotta Kojo Risin’
Mr. Kojo Risin’, gotta keep on risin’
Risin’, risin’
Gone risin’, risin’
I’m gone risin’, risin’
I gotta risin’, risin’
Well, risin’, risin’
I gotta, wooo, yeah, risin’
Woah, ohh yeah
Kayal33 on 4 April, 2012 at 12:10 said:
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I’ll say it again…..
Scotland IS the huns, the huns ARE Scotland :o(
Off oot
this time
Adios CQN
Hail Hail
Kayal33
He added: “The discussion centred on securing a settlement to enable Rangers to meet their obligations to the tax payer and continue in business”
they need to meet with Michel Platini and devise a new system of economics as there is no business model that can actually sustain such a development … unless Michel says yes to Europe
http://www.nyartsmagazine.com/reviewed/on-self-determination
A brilliant take on Scottish Independence by James Kelman.
Worth a read as always from that man.
awe naw
I agree that you should be banned.
Do you have Paul’s e-mail so that I can ask him to do that, please?
HH
Hen1rik @12.01
” This money will help meet part of the overdue payable to the club and has been offset from broadcasting revenue from the competition that, under normal circumstances, would have been distributed to Rangers.”
JJ
If the feeling is that we should ignore the Attention Seeker,,then i am all for it,no more from me on this subject!!
Hail hail
Sometimes I get to feel really sorry for myself.
Gettin old, eyesight failing, hearing screwed, cannae run a mile in under four minutes anymore.
The worst is however when words won’t come, imagination is stuck somewhere in the mental u-bend and I start harrumphing and pacing the room like my dad when he had lost his glasses (only for me to point out that they were on his head as always so as he wouldn’t forget where he put them)!
He used to go and look out the window for inspiration. I don’t as there isn’t a lot of visionary leverage to be gained from staring at the chimney across the road or from the two pigeons that come together every day for a brief bill, coo and hows yer father.
What I do is to get my Celtic match ball down and practice my keepy up skills just in case ……well just in case…..don’t mock…..there could be a sudden attack of dysentery just before kick off of a title decider and the tannoy would plead for anyone with the well honed touch of a living room ace striker (age no barrier) to take over the number 88 shirt …. for one glorious appearance only ……..of course it could happen…..and you won’t be laughing then as you cheer me onto the park to save the day, score the winner and be carried shoulder high around the ground by my grateful hooped team-mates. I won’t even take the wages…or the scarves you all toss in my direction or the offer of a statue beside Jinky, Jock and Brother Walfrid.
Anyway my impromptu but dazzling display of all round dexterity (can you use that for a foot based thing….or is it pedology or similar) usually results in the downstairs neighbour screaming ‘offensive’ language, thus preventing me beating my all time record of 365 using both feet, knees, head , book case, couch and wall mounted faux coal electric fire with smoked glass frontage. (I invented the Wii long before Nintendo, and have the bruises to prove it)
Today I followed my routine again but constipated neurons and synapses wouldn’t budge. Someone needs to invent the psychic equivalent of syrup of figs. And so harrumphing in the same way as my role model and pedagogue of yesteryear, I flipped through some old stuff that I had scribbled.
This one got my attention and humbled me again as it brought back the kaleidoscope of emotions from that day in February 2008 in Victoria on Vancouver Island…..oh and it’s short …….
There’s only one Terry Fox
Hail Hail
Estadio
Drarma bam, show started at 8 and we were out for just before 11, sorry for delay in replying, busy at work
merseycelt
so you admit that you haven´t written to him yet about kojo .. you just want to be heard ? :-)
celticquicknews@gmail.com
HAil HAil
Todays statement from Duff and Duffer…
“There are known knowns; there are things we know we know.
We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know.
But there are also unknown unknowns – there are things we do not know we don’t know…..”