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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STEPHBHOY67 on 22ND JULY 2024 8:49 PM
Go look at the uefa coefficient points over the last 5 years and them compare them to same 5 year bank balance and if you can tell me it does not stink then with due respect you know knowt
is it ……………..
the worse we do in europe, the more money we make ?
stivs
factual trolling!!
ajeti, barkas and Haksabanovic were bought for us to feck it in europe but with a startling twist make us more money by losing
So much makes sense from the last 10 years
We blew it, to make money!!!
all about dat share price boi!
How many season ticket holders are there,
TIMBHOY163 @ 9:54 PM,
52,000 true souls…
That is where the money comes from, not the business gurus…
Hail Hail
TIMBHOY163
How many empty season ticket seats are there……
Cos you know man utd, arsenal and liverpool (delete as appropraite, I dunno lol) are looking out for those empty seats and limitimg them to x per season
Or they will take your season tick off you
So if its a 60 thousand seated stadium. we’re is the other 8 thousand.
TIMBHOY163
good question
Must be
Areas for segregation, hospitality passes for friends and family, press passes etc?
different allowances for fire and rescue, police and ambulance
So although there is 60k seats the egress points allow for a safe 59k in the stadium??
Shit like that I would imagine??
As am sure when we play in the champions league we have a different capacity than when we do in the spl???
A mixture of the above
Clunks,
I too am looking forward to the new season. Can’t help it but especially looking forward to gubbing the huns.
Its such a shame that our custodians have rolled out the red carpet for them at our ground.
The good times : In the pub at 8 oclock for the hun ko at 12. Ending up in Balloch long after the game and the wife asking the next day
” Where did you lose your jacket ”
Ans : If I f@ cking knew that then it wouldn’t be lost.
As BRRB would say ” Let the good times roll”
118 and 119 has large amount of public ticket sales
https://x.com/Zeshankenzo/status/1815401973719396751?t=0KWMbgFUHjQBwx-KZ3nxDQ&s=19
No laughing now bhoys 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
PRESTONPANS BHOYS
looking at the public sales
The away tickets rarely sell out
I would imagine making a hefty dent in the 60k capacity
as we have to give out x (2500???) seats to the away support???
https://philmacgiollabhain.ie/2024/07/22/not-a-lot-of-loving-for-the-close-season-cup/
😍
GREENPINATA
lost more jackets, hoodies, phones, wallets and days like that lol
Clunks ,
recently noticed , we now have a new breed of rent out your season ticket supporters .
Purchase a season ticket in your name with no intention of ever attending a game .
No wonder we have a big waiting list these days . HH
Clunks
Yeah there’s good chunk of seats for partitioning the fans , plus apart from the sheep, hertz and hibs, the away end is never filled (add them for next season).
We were the first parent and child seats in 118, that would be around 20 years ago. Most of the other seats in 118 and 119 were public sale seats. Was a good bit to be in because lots of the public sale bhoys were throughly enjoying the experience 🍺🍻😂🤣
PRESTONPANS BHOYS
Nailed it matey
“BURNLEY78 on 22ND JULY 2024 8:14 PM
If only you were running Celtic. I can’t imagine how well we would be doing.”
I have thought the same about quite a few CQNers !!
Chairbhoy @ 6.32
You’ve been consistent and steadfast, but it was sudden and unexpected by most.
We’re surely not squirrelling money at an unprecedented rate, to fatten shareholders wealth? Brendan has to burst the budget to match the growth of our club we need to break new barriers that only we can, CL level players will come to play in the CL, (eight games before Christmas) there’s a data base full of them.
Losing a tier one manager once was careless, losing him twice would be unforgivable. With another 12.30 K.O. there’s actually only one more sleep for us all and Sentinel Baldie.
HH
With the old CL format a club’s seeding (Pot x) mattered to that club.
Higher up you got? Theoretically the fewer hard games you had.
Now it don’t matter a jot to your club. You’ll play 2 games against Pot 1-4 regardless.
All that matters is how good you are on the night (not what you did before).
If you think the above is a load of old fanny, fair enough.
Consider this if you will though.
Imagine a scenario where a champions league group stage participant was given a choice of playing
EITHER
Celtic at Celtic Park as one of their Pot 4 team matches
OR
R2ngers at Hampden as one of their Pot 2 team matches
… which would they go for?
“BOURNESOUPRECIPE on 22ND JULY 2024 11:00 PM
CL level players will come to play in the CL, (eight games before Christmas)”
I have often asked those who want us to buy players costing 20m and upwards if they thought that calibre of player would actually come to the SPFL.
Those eight CL games you mention might make a difference . Hmm…
Anyway, it is a goodnight from me.
Goodnight.
The new champions league format and its effects on our transfers is at this point undeterminded
Right now, I can only think its a good thing, ie more games against better opposition to showcase your skills
Where that would leave us in terms of future sell on fees and better players attracted is unkown
CLUNKS on 22ND JULY 2024 11:10 PM
` undeterminded`
That`s a new one on me :-)))
Definite goodnight now.
@Chairbhoy……Over the years you have highlighted many a weakness
I am sure you have celebrated our Trophy Haul in those years….
But enjoy the good times …..
is it ……………..
the worse we do in europe, the more money we make ?
Who is “we” in this scenario?
Seats are for mollycoddled wnkles.
Seating sucks the soul and energy off of the terraces.
Seating and all ticket = a security information data sucking scam.
Thatcher wanted a security state because she couldn`t handle football hooligans at mainly English International games.
Now there is a society of sheep who walk for miles holding up bits of cardboard and grassing their neighbours for not wearing an unworkable plandemic mask with the proper pronouns on written on them.
Celtic fans sing about setting Ireland free from 100+ years ago coz they are all talk about yesteryear, yet they say hee haw about the sell out of TODAYS Ireland to the World Economic Forum and the equally odious dangerous and corrupt World Health Organisation, with their facilitating the “NOW” as we speak Invasion of Ireland by supposedly undercover United Nations soldiers who are in Ireland to do what?
The Jungle era fans would [ long ago ] have been chanting a new narrative about TODAYS Invasion of Ireland and wakened the sleeping Irish folk up from the looming catastrophic certainty of waking up one morning SOON in a “fenced in” processing camp.
Oh yeah? And who`ll be doing the processing?
Sleekit boring dullards are life threateningly dangerous x 60,000.
No matter who we sign or for how much.
Brendan is a Scooby Doo punch bag at all levels in Europe.
Anybody who disagrees is a member of the Stevie Wonder CSC
Very superstituous
HOT SMOKED
dyslexic fingers….
Am sure you could see `undeterminded` and understand it meant “undetermined”
you fubducket (see what I did there?
Mmmm…a nonsensical article….mibbe even a diversion….where’s the signings that improve our squad
Oh Jay…Why single out Brendan???…If you know yer history…
Oh wait…..
)
just in case lol
Also Hot Smoked am only taking the piss
Howevah
And then there is unordinary joe who has obviously been kidnapped by non socialist aliens
Thenanally probed by what can only be called a
Ungalloway tip
I hope it hurt lol
OJ…r u a hun wife murderer…allegedly