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Celtic’s preparations got into gear over the weekend with the first part of a money-spinning three game tour of the USA.  They join Manchester City, Chelsea, Milan, Barcelona and Real Madrid in games there over the next two weeks.  After facing DC United on Saturday, Celtic play City and Chelsea before heading home.

This kind of exposure is worth the trip for the wealthiest and best promoted clubs in the world; it is a measure of Celtic’s appeal that we are involved in such rarified atmosphere.  Turning devotion from the ex-pat community in North America into a wider commercial income is a tough challenge.  Champions League exposure will be our only conduit to this market after the players board the plane this weekend.

We will bank some money and get match practice, but the route to relevance in the US sports market is more difficult than getting an invite to the White House.

Great news from the Champions League draw – we’re not involved in it!

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  2. Aipple on

    Had ball in DC. Great turnout for the Hoops.

     

     

    Getting ready to head to North Carolina for the Citeh game.

     

     

    TEXASTIM and his wee clan are truly wonderful people. Great night of songs, the black stuff and much merriment.

     

     

    My Looval lover had a blast. Watching/hearing her blast out the Celtic Symphony a real highlight.

     

     

    HH all.

  3. celtic40me on

    It really is nice to not have that feeling in the pit of your stomach around this time of year. For all the terrible suffering we have to endure during the transfer window it’s nothing to the stress of those play offs.

     

     

    Although Man City have left their Euro 24 players on holiday there’s still enough star quality for the games to attract a lot of interest and give the team a real challenge.

  4. bigrailroadblues on

    Good afternoon all from the Victoria Bar. Dublin in 4 weeks then meeting up with drunks from this parish and SC. I love August!

  7. What is the Starz on

    TMCL and WBC

     

    I saw that movie Zone of Interest a few months back.Very good as a movie.

     

    The banality of evil

  9. scullybhoy on

    mmhome on 22nd July 2024 11:46 am

     

     

    You could email them

     

     

    store@celticfc.co.uk

     

    >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

     

     

    Cheers mate.

     

     

    I still cannot see anywhere if I have to pay return postage.

     

     

    HH

  12. Saint Stivs on

    the weekend with the first part of a money-spinning three game tour of the USA.

     

     

    how much are we earning for going there ?

     

     

    next season we are back in the play off round, we need all scottish teams ourselves included to start getting co-efficient points.

  13. bournesouprecipe on

    This transfer window is a new thing.

     

     

    You always got transfers and loans but windows and money came later and Celtic survive. Not only that, we’re so far ahead in terms of wealth SMSM is having to ‘regulate’ by being governors of mythological rivals on a national basis. Bemoaning the latin ‘status quo’ as if it’s a bad thing turns your nose up at a somehow, not better enough domestic double. Bernardo and Idah on ‘loan to permanent’ won’t win the Summer Closed season never mind the CL and Celtic are just not better enough, for some.

     

     

    Walk a million miles in my moccasins, remember when the paper boy delivered the Evening Times and your big brother read out , “ We’ve signed Willie Wallace “ who’s he? said a wee bhoy. In the intervening years we went viral but quality players won’t come to Scotland? except when they have, and ‘ interest ‘ on bank accounts has two very separate meanings.

     

     

    Jock Stein was ‘key positions’ away from immortality, Brendan’s ultimate demise at Liverpool then Leicester didn’t reflect the coach, recruitment was another matter. He’s apparently frozen out East Kilbride’s latest, so he’s duty bound and must buy better.

     

     

    We deserve better CSC

  16. Chairbhoy on

    BOURNESOUPRECIPE @ 12:38 PM,

     

     

    I’m not asking for the world.

     

     

    I’m not even asking for a management team and a footballing team as good as the one Willie Wallace joined.

     

     

    I’m asking for Celtic to put the best team on the park they can in 2024…

     

     

    ToomuchtoaskCSC

     

     

    Hail Hail

  18. bigrailroadblues on

    North Carolina Police cancel all leave for officers. “Help ma boab” says Chief of Police.

  19. Fred Colon on

    BRRB , who asked you to ask Aipple who asked him to ask you about yer favourite month ? 🤪

  22. Saint Stivs on

    Norwegian opponents could await both Kilmarnock and St Mirren in European competition after the draws for Europa League and Conference League qualifying.

     

     

    Kilmarnock will meet Molde or Silkeborg of Denmark in the Europa League third qualifying round if they get past Cercle Bruges.

     

     

    Should they lose to the Belgians, the Ayrshire side will drop into the Conference League third qualifying round, where they will take on whoever wins between Tromso of Norway and KuPS Kuopio of Finland.

     

     

    St Mirren, meanwhile, will face the winner of the match between Brann of Norway or Go Ahead Eagles of the Netherlands in that same Conference League qualifying round should they defeat Valur of Iceland.

  23. Moisey17 on

    “The only exposure to that market will be via the champions league” – why don’t we try the novel idea of trying to build a team that wasn’t just CL cannon fodder and perhaps that may up the profile……….

     

    Before the hounding starts not being consistently bottom of the group would be a start.

     

     

    CL qualifying – terrifying – wouldn’t bet your money on us having to come through qualifying. When have we ever invested properly for that…..

     

    Smallminded csc

  24. lets all do the huddle on

    why do we need to break into the US sports market?

     

     

    what will we do with the revenue when we dont spend most of the income we currently get?

     

     

    whose pockets would it line?

     

     

    Red-Bull-ification. Have a decidedly average product but market it well so it rakes in fortunes way above what the quality of the product merits.

  25. TexasTim on

    Aipple at 12:02

     

     

    Thanks for the kind words – enjoyed your company too and had a great time.

     

     

    Point of order: wee clan? You don’t want to see our grocery bills 😳💵💵

  26. Paul The Spark on

    I wonder what team the ‘Football Fans’ supported who allegedly used racist & homophonic language towards cricket teams in Edinburgh before the Huns v Manu Utd match. BBC reporting it as football fans, but I think the clue is the fact that the cricket team said police watched it and didn’t do anything. I think I’ve seen this movie before.

  30. bournesouprecipe on

    Chairbhoy @ 1.18

     

     

    The Brendan voyage is due to enter uncharted waters by the 1st of September.

     

     

    When this happened last time he turned back, and bolted for England. I’m not convinced we have the leadership to threaten, never mind smash our glass ceiling. By the time we’ve played in the new CL format,the standard back of fag packet economics, say we’ll have £130M kicking

     

    about.

     

     

    The plan seems to be more of the same status quo, and then tickle the O’Riley cash like what we did with the Tierney wad.

     

     

    HH

  32. Melvin Udall on

    AIPPLE on 22ND JULY 2024 12:02 PM

     

    Had ball in DC. Great turnout for the Hoops.

     

     

    Getting ready to head to North Carolina for the Citeh game.

     

     

    TEXASTIM and his wee clan are truly wonderful people. Great night of songs, the black stuff and much merriment.

     

     

    My Looval lover had a blast. Watching/hearing her blast out the Celtic Symphony a real highlight.

     

     

    HH all.

     

    —————

     

    Brilliant stuff Aipple.

     

    Boondock Saint also posted some great comments. 😃👍🍀🇮🇪⚽️ 🇺🇸

  33. bigrailroadblues on

    Residents of Mount Florida, Kings Park etc must be raging about the hun trashing their neighbourhood in the coming months/years/whatever. I’m glad they keep away from Vicky Road but it won’t be long before there is trouble.

  35. jackiemac on

    ‘Great news from the Champions League draw – we’re not involved in it!’

     

     

    great quote paul67

  36. bournesouprecipe on

    There’s nothing like an empty Celtic boozer to attract the travelling Zombies.

  37. Saint Stivs on

    new c; league format.

     

     

    our objective is to finiish 24th or above,

     

     

    ergo we need 12 teams to get less points than us.

     

     

    8 games, 24 points.

     

     

    i dont care who we sign, wont make a difference,

     

     

    with some luck we beatthe pot 4 teams, draw twice with po3, and we will lose the other 4.

     

     

    have you seen who is in the draw , we will be lucky to get 8 points, will it be enough.

     

     

    as an aside we will still be in europe in january.

     

     

    and remewmber no europa parachute anymore.

     

     

    the monies coming in will be spent, infrastrucure and players.

     

     

    no statement to stock exchange for extra-ordinary profits this time.,

  38. lets all do the huddle on

    a random old boy sitting on a wall on Clarkston Road with his dog. he has a spain flag wrapped round him.

     

     

    i mean i wanted spain to beat england as well but its maybe time he let it go 😄

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