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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From Twitter
Jon L. Pritchett @tobaccoroadguy
To further clarify, the US/UK group with whom we were working is not going to bid for Rangers.
Tweeted back that I’m prepared to loan him the £1…
KOJO 0034
Even by your standards,that is quite simply an unpleasant thing to say.
Possibly Mr Buchanan was having a personal pop at the President of the USA when he said that.
My Dear,Dear Kojo…
I expect that even Oor Maggie McGill has gone oot and purchased “Zimmerman Wanted: Deid or Alive” tee-shirt fae her friendly local Chapter of the New Black Panthers…
A World Turned Upside Doon…Indeed!
i think a few players will be off this summer as well but to be honest i would not be over worried if we sold ki, commons and hooper along with paddy, radmussion, murphy. mcginn. jaurez and all the players going out of contract this summer.
but we will have to wait and see what the summer brings
bsr
Remember it well. Thats why I had always belief in the big man!!!
bournesouprecipe
Only recently started back twittering myself.
Great to know you’re still around and looking forward to reading you in CQMagazine
HH
OK! OK! OK!
So we share our TV & Sponsorship doe. League gets more competitive. We lose and draw more games. CQN goes into meltdown more frequently. Then we sit and wonder why we’re not as good as we were in 2011/2012.
Brilliant!!!
Who gets the blame.
Sammi – no he’s gone cause we can’t afford him
Broonie – nope he’s gone too
Maybe Fraser Forster – Wait a minute he’s away as well.
Oh! I’ve got it. How about our 18/19 year old wingers brought through from the U19’s cause we are good at expecting loads from them when they will not be at their best until they are 27 or 28 when, yip, you guessed it, they will be gone.
Perfect!!!
MWD FORWARD LOOKING TO THAT.
stephbhoy
1) “i dont buy the stuff about injury crisis etc…, we could justify having 5 players for every position in that case and at right back we’re getting close!”
We had such an injury crisis. It happened and it is predictable. Next time it may be strikers, or wingers. This time it was CBs. I agree that a squad sizeneeds to be controlled. That’s why I favour versatile players like Ledley, Mulgreew, Matthews, Broonie and Sammi because they help with the cover. But our fans end up complaining about round holes/ square pegs.
As a fan, it is easy for you not to buy the comfort of a large squad. Your job is not at stake after bad results.
2) “and to the guy who thinks if we give our money out we’ll be even worse than before when it come to europe, are you serious? is that not what watty said, what 2 million pounds will make a huge difference to our euro performances?”
Very Serious. And if Walter said it, that’s just another informed opinion. It does not make me wrong nor you right that he spoke thus.
3) “jock said celtic tops dont shrink to fit, but i think we would all agree they do now because things change”
They always did. It was not a true statement when Jock said it either. Frank Munro, Dowie, Roy Kay etc;
4) “what is so hard to understand if we dont change then we die as well ”
Nothing at all. It is a simple concept to the point of being simplistic. It stems from the false premise that you imagine I am proposing some kind of status quo. I am merely proposing a different form of change from yours, because I am not convinced yours will have the desired effect you imagine. A couple of drops of our largesse will not make Scottish football more competitive. Celtic changing to a new more competitive environment will. Our development squad played Next Gen football this season; that is a great development. I want the same raising of standards for our first team
Moonbeams WD. Kano 1000 \o/ Supporting Neil Lennon 100%. Eating Jelly & Ice Cream. Awe Naw… on 4 April, 2012 at 00:41 said:
what? has anyone on here suggested that season ticket or home gate money be shared with any other clubs, we are talking about sharing t.v money are we not?
maybe sharing ticket revenue from away supporters
think of humankind – man needs woman to procreate and repopulate the earth
celtic need other clubs to continue as a viable business
otherwise we will be playing in a semi-professional league and will celtic will be done as a full-time professional club, is that what you want?
Kojo
You are one heartless soul. Have you ever thot that Harry Conway has been tryn to contact you??
TSD
You make a case for Ki being likely to go but you did say he (they) will go. I was questioning your translation of the conditional into the certain.
As for the Hooper argument, that is all pure attribution. “He looks like he does not appreciate us” just reads, to me, as “I (TSD) don’t appreciate him”
We can replace him with better. We may replace him with better. But, if he is a 20 goal SPL scorer at the end of the year, we have not produced enough of them in the past 4 years.
My grandson goes on serious trials for Scotland 14s on Sunday. He’s glad it doesnt clash with his G B duties!!
Thats Ma Bhoy!!!
Look!…SFTB has morphed into P8ddy!
Hybrid? hybird? Who gives a Fffffffffrance??
MWD ..
Our wingers are at their best in their early twenties…
Mid-Twenties for Central Defenders..
And if they’re good enough,like Charlie,keep them on till they reach 30y..
You Know It Makes Sense..Ken ?
James has been our Most Inspirational Player this season….he has just played too many games for a Sophomore..
He should be used very sparingly…if at all…for the remainder of the season..
Pinkety ?
Good Night..
setting free the bears on 4 April, 2012 at 00:52 said:
realistic optimism = knowing we will never leave scotland we are trapped, so lets make the best of what we have. i have been hearing about the promise land for 3 decades i anticipate another few yet.
seriously, if you cant see the interdependence between clubs that compete in the same league and potential to improve that, then the green tinted glasses need to come off.
some of the best ideas are those that are simple so i’ll take that as a compliment
TinyTim on 3 April, 2012 at 22:14 said
You cannot use the normal business comparison. If the other three agents go out of business you take their customers and get richer.
If it were a four team league you operated in you would not take their supporters and would have no one to play. To stay in business you would want them to stay in business too.
In football that requires clubs operating according to their natural income and finding their level. The problem in Scotland is that the supporter base of two clubs is so huge they will always be favourites if they manage therir football properly.
The obvious answer is not to share the natural income but release the biggest income generators to find their natural level elsewhere. Those left behind would find themselves in a truly competitive league where the income gap is nothing like so biased.
What stops the natural way of things taking place is a mixture of envy and stupidity in Scotland and fear in England by the clubs who would lose position as a result. So we are stuck, sharks in a goldfish bowl.
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bournesouprecipe on 4 April, 2012 at 00:37 said:
Georgios Samaras could score his 50th Celtic goal where it all started in his Celtic career, at Rugby Park.
* Remember he floated in from the right wing, kept going, and going and slotted it in, with his left foot?*
@OptaCeltic
Sammi the KillieSkelper (Never got the Chance @ Hampden)..;0(
Summa of Samaras
PS.. Play Sammi WIN Titles.. Cups
am of the bed work in the morning
No problem with sharing telly money
Seen a suggestion about sharing competition winnings, stupidest suggestion I’ve seen on here ever.
Auld Neil Lennon heid on 4 April, 2012 at 01:05 said
agree 100%
Steph
Climb back in!! lol
Was a Celtic man yesterday. Was a Celtic man today. Will be a Celtic man 2 morro!!!!
HaiL HaiL
Qualification on the telly money,
All competition telly money shared on the proviso that chanel67 have rights to show all games live outside Scotland
stephbhoy
“realistic optimism = knowing we will never leave scotland we are trapped, so lets make the best of what we have. ”
Naw. It means arguing that your view is right because it is. Circular sophistry. I’ve been told lots of things would never happen (fall of Commmunism, anyone?), but they did. A gap has already emerged whereby smaller clubs in bigger leagues can afford more than bigger clubs in smaller leagues. Celtic is not the only club so affected. We can stay in the ghetto for a slow death or we can make a run for it.
“some of the best ideas are those that are simple so i’ll take that as a compliment ”
I said simple verging on simplistic. Simple is good. Simplistic is pejorative.
Not all change is good. There are evolutionary dead ends. We need to discriminate which changes will help us and which will kill us.
I am about to change my waking state into one of sleepfullness so that I can avoid a change of job tomorrow :-)
P.S. Kingoh, I have morphed into Morph
SFTB
Using ‘word of the day’….you are a hybrid version of Morph!
That Club 9 statement in full:
I’d sooner cover my Sandy Galls in honey and ram them into a beehive than invest in the festering pile of waste down Govan way!
I think I’ll contact the 9 lot and see if they want to buy Rankers history from me for 50p…that’ll about cover the cost of posting them some nice used bog roll…..
Can we get the trophy presented this day?
http://www.scotsman.com/news/spl-post-split-fixtures-final-old-firm-match-set-for-late-april-1-2213384
Some of the comments tonight re sacrificing our financial and playing advantage to ensure the other clubs are successful are breathtaking.
If we go down that route why NOT vote to ensure RFC(IA) remain in the SPL?
Heck why not go so far as to underwrite their debt to other Scottish clubs, HMRC and local suppliers?
What about a tax on our ticket sales to go to the SPL and SFA?
Hand over our advantages in good management, wise investment to ensure they can continue to cheat us?
Continue to treat our fans as criminal?
Heck no.
Instead let us hire our management to teach them how to run a club prudently, let our model be the template for other clubs to follow.
And let us make money doing it.
‘GG
Some recent info:
http://rangerstaxcase.wordpress.com/
Kojo and his plethora of admirers can barely disguise their fascism.
Sumfin orijinatin in relijin methinks.
Me flirt Naw! Never
Steal. Maybe.
I have Kleptomania but when it gets bad I take something.
I’ve got a feeling the newco sill be included next season as a GIRFUY to Celtic.
if that does happen then the plc must tie them up in litigation for years, after resigning of course.
Could we be playing in another league whilst suing the sfa & spl for loss of earnings ?
Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire on 4 April, 2012 at 02:37 said:
In Scottish courts or non Scottish courts?
Aw wait ah minute..wait ah minute…Miscegination….awe naw no obama oan anaw noo…whit he’s half white?????….contaminator! contaminator! contaminator! ….bring back the Daleks!
Margaret McGill on 4 April, 2012 at 03:00 said:
I had to look that up.
Every day a school day on CQN.
‘GG
‘GG on 4 April, 2012 at 03:04 said:
Welcome
Did you know Kojo went to McGill University? Me auld grate grate granfaither will be spinnin and spinnin and spinnin just like the alloy wheels the brothers buy
Professional football at its highest professional exquisite best:
Busquets says to Puyol: “ref has seen Nesta pull ma shirt twice at this corner so get close and as the ball floats in you twist next to me and grab Nesta and I’ll go down..good chance of another penalty”
Puyol: “Deal”