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Some thoughts to the 70% increase in English Premier League TV income:

Our financial strategy

Stop feeling sorry for ourselves.  We are not part of the easy-money league, so instead of complaining about Burnley’s financial strength, exploit the massive inefficiencies in England.  Lazy recruitment strategies, unscientific risk-taking and chronic managerial processes put a lot of money on the table for those who know how to run a football club properly.

If your forward business model involves selling players, better to be close to a rich, lazy, unscientific and chronic league.

Player values

After the last increase in TV income in England was announced transfer fees appreciated markedly, even before the increase came into effect.  Forgive the impersonal language, but player commodities are more valuable this week than they were last week, not just in England, but in Scotland and everywhere else.

The goalkeeper we sold for £10m last summer would command a higher fee, if we sold him next summer.  A player we ‘hoped’ to earn £7m from selling should now have his target value adjusted to £10m.

More than ever, it is important to manage playing assets.  Buy assets with development potential, hoard their registrations if necessary – Benfica employ and loan-out players to top leagues who would easily get into their first team.  It helps build the player’s value, which helps build Benfica.

Player trading velocity

If player trading is important going forward, my hunch is that trading velocity should increase.  To do this properly, it is absolutely crucial we invest more in the scouting process.  Scouting and recruitment is as important to the club as tactics and team selection.  Resource it accordingly.

SPFL TV deal

I’ve read lots about what we should do next in Scotland with regards to our TV deal, some ideas have merit, some not.  What is perfectly clear is that the current deal is practically worthless.  We must change.  The potential downside is almost immaterial, as we’re starting from such a low point.

Bin SKY and BT, go it alone, or get one of the new media players involved, or better still, collaborate with the Dutch league, which has its own TV channel, have learned some lessons, have many of our challenges, and would benefit from the fresh content we could provide.  There are more leagues in Europe with exactly the same challenges, if a pan-European league is a step too far, a collaborative TV infrastructure is a good start.

In football TV terms, we are the Straw Man, with nothing to lose.  Lead a path away from Sky and BT, educate fans on how to link up with Virgin, Amazon or an equivalent, do something genuinely radical.

The Bubble

It’s a bubble.  Just because the English TV market has not burst, doesn’t mean it’s not going to. Ask yourself a few questions:

Is this level of contract affordable by Sky or BT?

Will this new cash make the downside of relegation from the EPL any easier?

Will this cash make EPL clubs any more likely to change their business model, specifically, will they be more likely to spend less because they no longer fear relegation?

No, no and no.  The downside of relegation from the EPL will become more onerous and clubs will fear relegation more.

Sky are enjoying enormous market power but the entrance into the market of Amazon Prime, Netflix and others, while the offerings from Virgin and BT have matured, leaves Sky open to competition in the TV and film market in the future which they have never experienced before.

You no longer need Sky to watch multi-channel TV, round-the-clock news, recent or legacy films.  Their failure to maintain future Champions League rights, together with the fact that they are legislated out of the World Cup and European Championship rights, reduces their assets down to one lucrative prize: English Premier League football.

English Premier League football is the asset they are betting the farm on.  They need this and as long as the ‘farm’ exists in the form of a nation uniformly consuming TV through them, they will pay whatever they can to retain these rights.

BT are in the process of buying market share.  They are vastly better funded than Sky and need a strategic place going forward (which traditionally telephony isn’t).

It’s not a case of if Sky’s ability or desire to pay changes but when.  Then the bubble will burst, then football will plunge into a reverse gear.

Until then, we play the system.

Busy week for CQN11 St Patrick’s Dinner bookings (Friday 13 March, Kerrydale Suite, Celtic Park).  Email me for booking details, celticquicknews@gmail.com

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  1. Greenpinata on

    Eddiegreenhillsbhoy,

     

     

    A fair post, however I reitterate what was stated earlier. Alfie Nokes et Al did not instigate the political postings.

     

     

    Let’s be even handed about this and condemn the first pro snp posts, not the inevitable responses.

     

     

    HH.

  2. Stringer Bell on

    alfie noakes

     

     

    23:19 on 13 February, 2015

     

    TO THE YESNP MAD HA(T)TERS IN OUR SUPPORT

     

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    Out of a population of over 5 million, 18k Fran and Anna impersonators, who follow Scotland simply as an excuse to increase their number of drinking ‘stag nights’, decide that a excruciating dirge is our national anthem.

     

     

    The sooner the flirtation with The Nationalist Comedians (SNP=TNC) is out of our system, the better.

     

     

    They will return to the sidelines because they having nothing to say – their discredited and devalued cries on “it’s Scotland’s Oil’ and now replaced by “what about foodbanks”

     

     

    A one-issue rabble who, due to some never to be repeated circumstances, managed to force the nonsense of their Neverendum upon us – risibly backed-up by their ‘thick’ white paper.

     

     

    In years to come we will look back and laugh at this April Fool joke that was allowed to get out of control.

     

    ————–

     

     

    Your misreading an awful large part of what is in front of your nose.

     

     

    The SNP are well funded, well advised nd have payed a PR blinder since they flopped on their single issue mission. A politician selling out a speaking date at the Hydro, as part of a nationwide sell out tour was an amazing feat in 2104.

     

     

    Alfie, your outdated arrogance will fire more to the cause you oppose.

     

     

    I have no truck with the SNP. Even less with the Yes campaign and it’s bitter, petulant aftermath.

     

     

    I still manage to find the way you express your views completely obnoxious though.

     

     

    Eddiein kirkmichael

     

     

    We are all unionists to one extent or another. Some political, others monetary and Royalist. An important fact oft overlooked.

  3. timbhoy in spain on

    Been supportin Celtic for 60 plus years now & dae ye know what ?

     

    Ah jist can’t get enough.

     

    Doo doo doo roo roo roo.r

  4. dena29 on

    Goodnight Timland

     

     

    have a funeral tomorrow and then off to meet the hoots

     

     

    will post again about Tuesday :-)))))))))))))

     

     

    HH

  7. eddiegreenhillsbhoy on

    Timbhoy in Spain

     

    Just spluttered my beer all over me

     

    We were genetically engineered. Ktf.

  9. eddieinkirkmichael on

    Greenpinata

     

     

    23:36

     

     

    I have to say that while I try and stay out of the Politics dabates, unsusessfully at times, I do enjoy them.

     

     

    Who cares who started it, I blame the Romans what did they ever do for us?

  11. TheLurkinTim on

    Roses are red

     

    Bluebells are blue ( Violets r violet ffs)

     

    Them are so f*cked

     

    It’s beyond true

     

     

    H.H.

  14. twentyfirstofmaynineteenseventynine on

    TheLurkinTim

     

     

    In fairness to them, of the 4 or 5 songs they have we cant dispute the fact that the bluebells are blue

  16. eddiegreenhillsbhoy on

    Greenpinta

     

    I do . This is a celtic blog, fed up with all this to n froing post ref.vote.

     

    We are all celtic, United we stand divided we fall . Ktf.

  18. Capt Haddock (formerly known as tomcourtney) on

    Another delve into the darkside….

     

     

     

     

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    Dylan McGeouch…..

     

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    Thank f##k we got rid of that creature, Not only was he awful but no Rangers fan could support a player with that name!

     

     

    Ugly b#####d as well

     

     

    Horrible wee f##k

     

     

    Who f###ing hit him in the face with a sledgehammer

     

     

     

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    When The Last Time You Saw Rangers Win?……

     

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    I was actually thinking about when will I next watch a rangers victory . Next 2 away games against raith then Falkirk and I honestly don’t expect to win either . After that is Cowdenbeath away and no doubt another pumping . Relentless

     

     

    Here that’s a good f#####g point as the last 3 games I was at was tonight, scum and Hearts. I’ve no seen us win all year, WTF!

     

     

    We played a bit better but were still f####n useless.

     

     

    I would have accepted the Ricksen game at a push. However, we never even won that.

     

     

    When Michael Jackson was black, and alive.

     

     

     

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    McCostalot…..

     

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    his “vision” for the club at the start of division 3 has cost us 40million quid at best

     

    He should never be allowed in Ibrox ever again IMO

     

     

    I would love to be in a room with him all by myself so I could tear strips off him for his arrogance and incompetence

     

     

    from legend to leech.

     

     

    Its easy to say that but we are still left with his sh#te and he’s still leeching off the club its f#####g disgusting, we made this guy a millionaire.

     

     

    This is Allys Legacy. Cast in stone. This is it. He done this to us. His prints will remain over our club for some time to come too. There is no quick fix for the mess he has left behind. Well, there is but we don’t have anyone willing or capable to make it happen. The club needs emptied, top to bottom, to a man, emptied.

     

     

    The whipping boys of Scottish football

     

    F##k you ally mccoist you w####r F##K YOU

     

     

    Board should have done something when fat mccoist f####d off

     

     

    Could honestly kick Ally’s c##t in right now watching this

     

     

     

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    Twat in the beanie hat….

     

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    Don’t get me started on that clueless c##t McDowall

     

     

    KMcD should be f#####g ashamed the spineless b#####d. We are in f#####g free fall due to this f#####g twatt. FFS somebody make a decisions and get this c##t to f##k out our club, five game in charge he’s lost three, the useless b#####d!

     

     

    Maybe if the w#####s would get in a manager we might not be a f#####g laughing stock

     

     

    Thank you Ally, Kenny, and Durrant, for turning us into the worst Rangers team ever.

     

     

    Somebody show the beenie wearing clown the door please

     

     

    Kenny McDowall .Your clearly wanting to take Ally’s title of worst Manager in Rangers history away from him .F#####g abysmal but sadly predictable .

     

     

     

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    General comments…..

     

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    Hate too say this but this is not Rangers.

     

     

     

    Just seen the stats 2 f#####g shots on target,WHAT!!!!

     

     

     

    We don’t have any c##t that can score.

     

     

     

    Edinburgh F##kpig b#####d c##ts… how the f##k we have not scored here is beyond me…. that said our defending is f#####g stinking

     

     

    Sh#tebags

     

     

    Fat Boyd is a travesty, a f*king fat travesty

     

     

    Law’s a f#####g pretender as well.

     

    Lost count of the number of times he’s sh@t it away from 50-50s.

     

     

    Anybody that thinks we’ll go up now is f#####g deluded

     

     

    This is breaking my heart! !! F##### embarrassing! !!

     

     

    With the odd exception I f#####g despise our players , f#####g bunch of imposter ar###oles.

     

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    pinchmeitmustbeadream.csc

  20. timbhoy in spain on

    rudicantfail,

     

    Was at his concert in Barcelona 2 years ago.

     

    Feckin brilliant.

     

    Same ages as me tae & 4 hours non stop.

     

    Unbelievable.

  21. 67Heaven .. CHALLENGING THE LIE ..I am wee Oscar / Neil Lennon.. Ipox belongs to the creditors on

    timbhoy in spain

     

     

    23:37 on 13 February, 2015

     

     

    Good MHAN ……. I’m 59 years now, supporting the Bhoys, and we have both been lucky enough to experience the last 3 years …… Many of my friends in CELTIC are smiling contentedly in Heaven as we speak …..and we all just can’t get enough……..looking forward so much to Thursday….win, lose or draw…..HH

  22. TheLurkinTim on

    dena29

     

     

     

    23:33 on 13 February, 2015

     

     

     

    TheLurkinTim

     

     

    If you had seen me jumping up and down at the score tonight you wouldnt be saying that :-)))

     

    …………………………………

     

     

    Of course i would!! putting up wae wats coming your way ramorra…..ha ha…..good luck…..;-))

     

     

    mmmm…..wish I was there…..;-))

     

     

    H.H.

  24. twentyfirstofmaynineteenseventynine on

    Capt Haddock

     

     

    Hurting hurting huns, expressing themselves in their own inimitable fashion. Gift that keeps on giving

     

     

    HH

  26. Bobby Russell on

    Drove to London and back today, forgot about the Huns playing tonight, saw 2 Sevconians with scarves, didn’t ask them the score, just logged on to CQN on the phone and went to the last page. Within 2 posts I knew they’d been gubbed. Fair cheered me up after 15 and a half hours driving. (6 to get there, 9 1/2 back,horrible traffic,in case you think Miss Daisy drove)

  29. eddiegreenhillsbhoy on

    Roses are red

     

    The Rangers are sh#te

     

    There is no old firm

     

    God bless mr white

     

     

    Violets are blue

     

    Oh what will they do

     

    Got beat by the rovers

     

    An hibees too

     

     

     

     

    Oh what will they do

     

    Ktf.utlr.

  30. timbhoy in spain on

    Capt Haddock (formerly known as tomcourtney),

     

    Don’t you just feckin luv that site.

     

    My sides are seriously hurtin readin yer post.

     

    Sad hurtin huns.

     

    Ah’m luvin every minute of it.

     

    You any relation tae Harry Haddock that played wi Clyde?

     

    He wiz ma Maw’s cousin.

  31. dena29 on

    TheLurkinTim

     

    23:47 on

     

    13 February, 2015

     

    dena29

     

     

    23:33 on 13 February, 2015

     

     

    TheLurkinTim

     

     

    If you had seen me jumping up and down at the score tonight you wouldnt be saying that :-)))

     

    …………………………………

     

     

    Of course i would!! putting up wae wats coming your way ramorra…..ha ha…..good luck…..;-))

     

     

    mmmm…..wish I was there…..;-))

     

     

    H.H.

     

     

    Be careful what you wish for :-)00

     

     

     

    I dont know how long I’ll last but I’ll give it a go ………..and I’ll sing til the end

     

     

    HH

  32. bankiebhoy1 on

    Roses are red

     

    Violets are blue

     

    Don’t forget wee davie

     

    oh,

     

    and Grimmond too…………….!

  33. Mea Culpa on

    A very happy Admin Day to all my fellow Tims out there.

     

     

    And a great big ‘Thank You’ to our Edinburgh cousins for kicking off the weekend celebrations in a fit manner.

  34. TheLurkinTim on

    I know this has been posted, but it can’t be shown enuff to our strikers…..

     

     

    Here’s a guy who is strong holding off opponents, is brave & committed, has great anticipation, two good feet, never seen a better header of the ball, determined, knows where the goal is…..

  36. TheLurkinTim on

    I know this has been posted, but it can’t be shown enuff to our strikers…..

     

     

    Here’s a guy who is strong holding off opponents, is brave & committed, has great anticipation, two good feet, never seen a better header of the ball, determined, knows where the goal is…..can you tell who it is yet…..;-))

     

     

    http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LMt_vCidSsA

     

     

    H.H.

  38. timbhoy in spain on

    Roses are blue,

     

    violets are red,

     

    are you a hun’

     

    naw Ah’d rather be dead.

     

    Sorry Lhads.

  41. Gerryfaethebrig on

    Not been on CQN for a couplof days but P67 just hit me with a baseball bat, literary,

     

     

    Stop feeling sorry for ourselves. We are not part of the easy-money league, so instead of complaining about Burnley’s financial strength, exploit the massive inefficiencies in England.

     

     

    P67, Do you want to follow CeltIc into the land of unimaginable riches, the EPL or not ???? I thought for the last few years the easy-money league was where some CeltIc people wanted to go……

     

     

    For me I just want CeltIc to be Celtic, hopefully get by Inter, win the league and as for the 2 cups, good luck too the winners of both (hopefully it’s us), Europe for Ronny could be good

  42. Bobby Russell on

    Capt haddock, cracking comments there on the Hun website . Best one though was the Hun who posted

     

    “Hate to say this, but this is not Rangers”

     

    No shit, Sherlock…. We all know that… They went the way of the dodo 3 years ago.

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