The momentum for a confederated regional league in Eastern Europe continues to gather pace with clubs from Belarus keen to join. With a population of around 10m, Belarus is sandwiched between Russia, Ukraine, Poland and the Baltic states, but their league has been rendered uncompetitive by the domination of Bate Borisov, who are on their way to eight-in-a-row titles.
Bate, who are now Champions League regulars, have no opportunity to progress while the rest of the league do not have the resources to compete with them. A regional league would solve all their problems.
Russian and Ukrainian clubs are aiming to have a confederated league in place by the start of 2014, with sponsors thought to be keen to step forward and underwrite whatever is necessary to smooth the way, but the Ukrainian FA suggest 2016 is a more viable date.
Scottish football stands to gain more from regionalisation than anywhere else on the planet. We need to have this debate before blindly stumbling into another Management of Decline while legislators in Minsk leave us behind!
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re the Sevco share issue, it will be a success. A success for the enlightened few, CG and his allies including Mr Ashley ,possibly? .
CG will use the dough to repay any loans , that is a whole lot wiser than giving it to Fat Sally to squander, then he will sell up. Ashley could up his stake to around 20% at the new reduced price and wait till the Blue Knights or some other bunch of “Ranjurs men” throw money down the well.
Ignore them, look forward to tomorrow instead.
ChapelhallCelt
08:49 on
19 December, 2012
It’s the initial investors that are likely to make the big profits from this, not necessarily the institutional ones.
If the you read the stock market release from this morning you can see that the institutional investors bought in at 70p, along with the public offering – more or less doubling the number of shares in the company.
It all depends what those original investors bought in at but for the sake of argument Charles Green put up 15% of £5.5M in cash to get his 5M shares (originally 15% of the total shares). That would be £825k. He still has 5M shares but they’re currently valued at £0.74 each – or £3.7M.
Pledge
“A serious or formal promise, especially one to give money or to be a friend, or something that you give as a sign that you will keep a promise”.
What does the Friend give you back in return?
ASonOfDan
09:15 on
19 December, 2012
Up to a point. The AIM market depends on companies that acts as market makers, who as the name suggest have agreed to buy and sell the shares to ensure that there is a market. To an extent they can set the price themselves, so a lot of selling won’t necessarily cause a big drop in price. As far as I can see it’s been all sells today but the price has risen since opening.
Why would anyone give Steak Bake money to spend on a transfers, a man who has been bounced out of more cups than a page three model running for a bus.
Proof positive that the Madness of King Chas is progressing..
Thanks to Owen Coyle (or his grannie) for letting us know that Vic is a good player. Was really looking for her endorsement, in case we were all wrong. Also good that he/she jumped on the bandwagon to sell him off to the most over-rated league in the world. Although I note he/she believes Vic is worth about half of what I do.
PS the gun laws in America are based around the right to protect yourself against a corrupt government. That’s probably where the issue is – its not just the right to have a gun (as a toy)
PPS hun in the office here and just overheard him boasting about how solvent his club was …. FFS!!
Good morning CHAMPIONS
24 1/2 hrs till the draw. Who do we want iyo?
Weefra HH
A Ceiler Gonof Rust @08:07 on your reasonabelness comment and NatKnow’s comment sent me to bed laughing.
SP
met amadeus yesterday… in bookies… o))
WeefratheTim
09:29 on 19 December, 2012
Schalke
BBJ just on SSN singing our praises.
Weefra HH
How is Fat Sally getting money to spend after all this?
According to the prospectus, the owners expect to raise £24.5m through the stock market flotation, with an initial £5.5m of which would be invested in “upgrades to Ibrox stadium”. During Tuesday’s programme, Mr Green said it would include the creation of more bars in the stadium, with a view to improving the “fan experience”.
According to the prospectus, a further £3.5m could be put forward for stadium improvements, while £4.5m would be used for “acquisition of land assets adjacent to the stadium” and between £2m to £5m for “other identified projects which could result in additional revenue generating activities”.
If the target total of shares is achieved, between £11.5m and £6m of the remaining money would be used for “general working capital purposes” and “cash could also be used to provide the directors with additional flexibility to opportunistically consider appropriate investment opportunities as and when they arise.”
kayal33
Nice one. Malaga?
Weefra HH
weeminger
Cheers,
So they bump price up, sell their shares at a profit and disappear before the price crash.
WeefratheTim
09:33 on 19 December, 2012
At the moment Schalke are the most beatable team and ticket availability would be more than Malaga.
Who do we want?
PSG
they blow hot and cold
blantyretim
He’s living the life of Reilly that one!!
Anyone who was in London last year during the riots will appreciate how much an efficient police force is needed.
I posted elsewhere that the plebgate allegations by police were a complete fabrication, based on the fact I know the exact physical layout of the locus in quo.
When the Scottish polis were sent down one guy I know said, “Ntassoolla, I hope they send down the ones who keep yeez in line at CelticvRnagers games.”
He had been to one and noticed a difference between the in-charge (no pun intended) demeanour of the Glasgow polis, and the timidity of the Old bill.
“keep yeez in line” being the operative words.
We should refrain from commenting, but not from joking, about last night’s incidents until we see the footage.
SP
book launch yesterday…
kayal33
Agreed, but mrs weefra says if we get Malaga she might let me go. I don’ t want to go to Germany. :))
Weefra HH
I don’t like wee med type wideo commen. I do however find it interesting (slight admiration) for ingenious big scale confidence trickster. It takes a lot of b@lls to front something that fools many people.
Im warming to Chuckles as he is sticking to the biggest promise he had ever made. That promise was to himself and it is to wring every penny he can out of Rangers regardless of consequence.
Now that IS a Charles Green promise!
Kayal33 @09:36 – “at the moment.”
Many moments will pass and we must have all our players available.
As a matter of interest and I’ve tried to find it but didn’t, when is the deadline for submitting the list for the CL squad?
The likes of Anthony Stokes and James Forrest will need some time to reach match fitness. AS will be playing for a contract.
Ntassoolla
09:46 on 19 December, 2012
Usually the close of the January transfer window
Cenkos most likley will have negotiated a budget to ensure an orderly and liquid market in the new issue… The money for this would be part of the flotation fees.
It is the depth of this budget and its agreed length which will determine the direction of the RIFCL share price.
When it runs oot the paper is toast !
Ntassoolla 09:46 on 19 December, 2012
Are you expecting arrivals in January?
I emailed “Glasgow and the West’s” Clyde 1 News re zero coverage of the Club’s replacement,of stolen present’s at Great Ormond St Hospital.
Thanks for the email regarding Celtic’s generous donation to Great Ormond Street hospital.
We are aware of this but as we have been promoting their generous donations to Radio Clyde’s Cash for Kids in the past week, we will not be covering this. We have also been giving a lot of on air attention to Rod Stewart’s single which is also helping to raise funds for our charity.
We are also auctioning off a fantastic prize from Celtic on air all day on Thursday to raise money funds for Cash for Kids and Celtic’s own charity foundation. So that will get lots of coverage on air then too.
Kind regards
Lorraine Herbison
Head of News and Sport
Radio Clyde
I replied that there was no local coverage, of a national news story involving the World’s most famous hospital.Best not get in the road of a (failed) Share Issue.
I feel like I’m going mad…..this is light years away from high finance, this voodoo economics scheme by Chunkles and his reprobate mates….this is just magicking up cash out of nothing.
A criminal enterprise went bust. He snagged the remaining detritus for £5m. after D&P screwed mega-fees out of the rotting corpse.
Voilà! Into Div3 via special dispensation…….quick mind-flip, aided by a corrupt msm, there ye go…same old, same old. And now the £5m is suddenly worth X15 that or whatever Chunkles says it is depending on his mood, what the weather’s like and who he’s talking to. And then….roll up, roll up! Free cash here! And the institutionalised roll out of their sick-beds and hand over the kids’ Christmas present money to buy pieces of electronic paper representative of a zombie tribute act, and the ‘institutional’ line up like The Usual Suspects to launder their cash.
In amongst all this, Chunkles and assorted, un-named cretins are raking off fees on top of this lake of monetary sewage.
It’s a success! And there goes Chunkles strutting his stuff on the Green fields of iPox like a latter day P.T. Barnum (” There’s a sucker born every minute. “) mimicking a Nuremberg Rally, while the more astute of Ra Peepil riot in the stands at this blatant ripping off of whatever shreds of life there was left in the edifice they worship.
And all the time this is presented to the insulted gullible (us, the citizens who have been defrauded and cheated en masse already by the criminal enterprise) and we are supposed to sit back and go, ” Oh well, that’s just the way it is. What else can you expect? It’s t’rankers; you know what they’re like. ”
And then we move on to whatever new bowl of pablum awaits.
A massive scandal, several huge frauds, corruption every where, the rule of violence and fear. But that’s okay.
“Absawlootlay, Charrulls, absawlootlay.”, to paraphrase Chunkles’ lardy straight man, the pie addict propping up Greggs singlehandedly with his new found wealth.
No wonder the sleekit sneer is plastered permanently on his coupon.
The day Uncle Chunkles walked into his apparently terminal existence he couldn’t believe his luck.
Well…….neither do I.
This is all helping to rapidly destroy any credence whatsoever left in the game.
Blasted by lies. Stupefied by the scale of it. Cowed into craven fear by the orange hordes tramping the streets. Laughed at by Chunkles and his gang.
And we thought Minty was bad?
Oh well…..what time’s kick-off?
Steinreignedsupreme @09:53 – No. Apart from the old cliche about a returning player being like a new signing.
Bada Bing
she is from Norn iron and always includes the troubles in her news bulletins….
hurtning hun, just ask Terry O
Citibhoy Shoulder to Shoulder with Neil Lennon
09:51 on
19 December, 2012
Thanks for that snippet, it was the one thing I wasn’t sure about. I not that some people are buying at the current price, and not just in Christmas present sized chunks. Bonkers.
blantyretim
A book launch in a bookies, creative concept from the ole Amadeus..
miki67 it’s all facts and no conjecture.
I decided to leave it alone because I didn’t “waant tae dae ma heid in”.
BTW last night on LBC radio Curry’s were getting in on the act re Great Ormond St. The weasel words in their statement being “We’re willing to help.” Ditto Blockbusters. They made mention of donating DVD players. Is that high up the Xmas wish list for children this year?
Starry,
that’s v funny:) You back in the valley?
weeminger and others,
thanks for the info. So, all the sell trades this morning have been bought by, e.g. Cenkos, who have been tasked and funded to do this, and this is standard practice for this kind of share issue?
HH
Kayal33 best I found was last deadline, 4 days after transfer deadline i.e. – 04 Sep.
!!Bada Bing!!
09:57 on
19 December, 2012
I emailed “Glasgow and the West’s” Clyde 1 News re zero coverage of the Club’s replacement,of stolen present’s at Great Ormond St Hospital.
Thanks for the email regarding Celtic’s generous donation to Great Ormond Street hospital.
We are aware of this but as we have been promoting their generous donations to Radio Clyde’s Cash for Kids in the past week, we will not be covering this. We have also been giving a lot of on air attention to Rod Stewart’s single which is also helping to raise funds for our charity.
We are also auctioning off a fantastic prize from Celtic on air all day on Thursday to raise money funds for Cash for Kids and Celtic’s own charity foundation. So that will get lots of coverage on air then too.
Kind regards
Lorraine Herbison
Head of News and Sport
Radio Clyde
I replied that there was no local coverage, of a national news story involving the World’s most famous hospital.Best not get in the road of a (failed) Share Issue.
………
email her back and ask why their newsreader at 10am said “Rangers Football Club launched on the stock exchange this morning”, when according to their experts Rangerts Football Club is only a football club and not a company and this is the reason the club did not die in the summer?
TootingTim
Back in the valley TT, sick kids, broken dishwasher, crazy coffee pot, the usual run up to Chrimbo..
Three weeks in the Shire has left me a shell of my former calm self!
Planning to get over for our last sixteen game if poss, Easy Jet making life a bit easier for my Celtic supporting aspirations, I see your up the road again, you’ll be taking up residence soon..
If we get a German team will you be travelling to the away game if so we’ll do the ole CQN meet up, I got some great smudges which I will get to you after the Festivities are over..
Enjoy the game..
TootingTim
10:11 on
19 December, 2012
More or less. There have been some genuine buys but the huge majority are sells. That can only happen because companies like Cenkos are there to buy them.
It’s standard practice on AIM but it’s not as dodgy as it sounds, and it doesn’t indicate any kind of shadyness by C Green.
brogan rogan trevino and hogan supports kano 1000…..08:47 on19 December, 2012:
>>>>>
Another great piece of writing. One day we’ll have to have a collection of your illustrative essays.
‘Uncle Arthur’ is rapidly becoming my personal bête noire. His blatant criminality, his cynical fanning of very dangerous flames, his ubiquitous sneering drawl, all this is combining to give him the air of a psychopathic Uriah Heep. He is dangerous, he knows it, but he doesn’t care…so long as he fleeces some gullibles he cares not one jot how much trouble he leaves in his oily wake.