I reckoned Champions League participation was worth circa £22m to Celtic. By contrast, Europa League football will be worth less than a quarter of that. Ancillary income, such as retail and kiosk sales, will also suffer.
The challenge now is to improve the team without that income. This should not be impossible. Malmo managed it, and we’re not in a situation where the bank is hammering at the door. But what should be clear, is that the next five days represent the best chance to strengthen the team for next August’s qualifiers. There’s a notion that the biggest games of our season come early, but we’ve 11 months to plan for 2016’s biggest games.
Three things to remind you about:
Golfers: buy a raffle ticket for £1 to win a round of golf FOR FOUR PEOPLE at the magnificent Aberdour course in Fife. Competition ends on Saturday, get your tickets here!!! It’s offered by Taggsybhoy, in support of the Foundation.
There’s a Mary’s Meals collection from 1pm on the Celtic Way ahead of the game on Saturday. Ideally we’re looking for backpacks, but handtowels (the school kitchens you paid for have handwashing facilities and each child is given their own handtowel), pencils, rulers, etc.
If the kids got new kit for starting school last week, dig out the old stuff and bring it along.
Magners have kindly donated two Premium Seats in the Jock Stein Stand for Saturday’s games. You can win the tickets by answering this question:
Who is Celtic’s top scorer this season?
Player’s surname in the SUBJECT line of your email to celticquicknews@gmail.com . Competition closes at 22:00 TONIGHT, so not a lot of time to enter.
No call today for a donation, go stick a £1 in Taggsy’s raffle instead. Thanks.
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NegAnon, Does he wear his underpants outside his trousers, He may well be involved in the negotiations once a target has been identifiedbut I cannot and will not believe that he is out there identifying the players we need. He is actually a very good CEO and Celtic are a very well run Limited Company. The problem is that most fans don’t give a rat’s arse about things like that, they are only interested in the football. I can totally relate to and understand that, People on here need to be consistent, apparently Malmo’s wage Bill is 8 million and we are 33 million, yet people are blaming the Club for lack of investment. It was not lack of investment caused our defeat to Malmo and if we had thrown another 5 or 6 million into the squad ahead of the Malmo game that would not have guaranteed success either.
Our team played badly and let us down and our Management team share the blame its got feck all to do with Peter Lawell.
CORKCELT on 27TH AUGUST 2015 7:06 PM
Billy Bhoy, What evidence have you that Peter Lawell was responsible for signing the list of players you mention.
Well, Craig Gordon was signed in the summer….while Lenny was “away scouting for players for Celtic at the World Cup. He arrived at the same time as Ronny. So, let’s see….hmmmmmm
I think incidents like that have confirmed the suspicions of many of us.
Lenny himself said “To be fair Desmond, you sold all my best players and replaced them with shite!”.
So, whoever is buying in the players it doesn’t appear to be either of the last two managers!
BSR
Someone’s obviously trolling and we must have been hooked. There is no way that anyone who supports the ethos of our club would ever come out with a comment like that. A moderator needs to look at that and remove that posters eligibility to EVER post on this blog again…obscene.
The Raith game gives us,as supporters, the opportunity to stage some sort of tribute to Turnbull Hutton. One of the few to call it as it was. A trait that those in the corridors of power are not renowned for.
Furthermore. Someone on here earlier doing the maths. Apparently we “lost” £13m as a result of our defeat to Malmo but….could net somewhere in the region of £9m from the Europa. That’s nearly four times what we get for winning the SPL. A figure not to be sniffed at.
HH
OK. it’s very late here…..
Good Night. God Bless.
Thoughts and prayers with our friends in troubled times.
Speaking of friends; Marspapa, BT, BMCUW, PB, Butsy, JNP, and (some) lurking Tims, et al, see you soon…….
Regards & Hail Hail
TBM
GEAROID1998
All in,I’d have been surprised not to have taken c£30m by qualifying for the CL.
£9m isn’t a bad consolation prize,but…
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 27th August 2015 7:19 pm –
For sure pal…..Agreed!
Regards & Hail Hail
TBM
TBM
16 day window of opportunity for that!
See ya then…
Livibhoy
From earlier, re giving Pedro kudos for making good signings.
At least you recognise that it is Pedro making the signings :-)
Ok, this is what I believe and know.
Vic Wanyamma, scouted by John Park, kudos to Pedro
Ki, discovered by Pedro himself I understand, a contact from Asia tipped him off, mucho kudos to Pedro.
Now this is where I start to struggle where Pedro and his lacky John Park are earning their corn as a scout and a Director of Football.
Fraser Forster was down to Alan Thompson
Gary Hooper was down to Gary Parker.
Joe Ledley and Adam Mathews were down to Lenny.
Kelvin Wilson, down to Lenny.
I could go on but you get the gist.
Even on the night that Mo Bangura was signed, Lenny was in Portugal watching Baba Diwarra, fully expecting to sign him, I wonder how that worked out then.
Go back to Tony Mowbery, Edson Brafheid turned up at Lennoxtown one day, he didn’t have a scooby who he was.
I am happy to give Pedro kudos when due, but it’s few and far when it comes to football matters, and if I am not mistaken, we are a football club, we want to watch games of football, and not a balance sheet.
HH
Just to be clear the 33m wage bill is for all 500 odd employees of Celtic. Not just the footballers.
Can’t quite fathom if this blog is morphing into Communion Quick News or The Celtic View…
Either way , I think the sycophantic board propaganda peddled as blog headers, or people boring the arse off others about which Mass they attend is becoming tedious…..
Celtic fans demographic is open to all creeds and colours , and shows historical antipathy to most of the boards who have served us (and themselves) in the past.
I’ve had enough of Pravda now……
Over and Out….
Hail Hail
Oh good,he’s gone anaw!
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
9 million buy ye a Brentford player:))
Lurking for last 30 mins
John Park is PL’s buddy & eyes & ears
PL listens to him
That’s why some players have been signed without managers say
As for Paddy McCourt transfer to Celtic.. A good few bob but will leave that to the learned people who apparently have inside info !
Efe wasnt scouted by NFL BTW. It was a panic buy as KW wanted away
See above for culprits
Anyway HH and off oot as they say
Holy fuck
Pele??????????
TBM
Good Evening Timland
Everyone’s getting it tonight,big Pedro.the great Desmendo, Ronnie,
and let’s not forget the dafties who buy the ST,we’re in the dog house,
but the wee sensitive precious soul’s masquerading as Celtic player’s
get off Scott free.
The Bottom Line is …………. on 27th August 2015 7:39 pm –
GET HIM OUTA HERE!!!!!!!!!!!
TBM
Bloody hell,I really don’t believe that.
Time for my pre-nightshift nap,I reckon.
Whit’s wi’ the racist hun patter merchant ??
Admins?
The Spirit of Arthur Lee
Nie przeklinaj, chyba że po polsku, na przykład – kurwa mać.
Bloody hell,I really don’t believe he’s got the baws to repeat that.
Time for my pre-nightshift nap,I reckon
How difficult is it to rid ourselves of a racist moron on the blog???
Get him tae fecgguck!!!
TBM
The Bottom Line is………..do one ya knob!!!!!!
FLEAGLE1888 on 27TH AUGUST 2015 7:11 PM
For those interested in the Europa League seedings…
Celtic – as things stand – have a 37.5% chance of drawing a French team in Pot 3
(Monaco, Bordeaux, St.Etienne)
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I hope we get St Etienne. Always had a thing about that Sarah Cracknell
THE BOTTOM LINE IS. Maybe we are out because of Ambrose and Boyata that is your opinion certainly not mine and the colour of those players has absolutely nothing to do with it. I think you really need to think before posting racist nonsense. H.H.
HUNDERBIRDS ARE GONE on 27TH AUGUST 2015 6:27 PM
I wonder what CQN would have been like over the last few days if we had progressed. I suspect there would have been very few sightings of the ‘sack the board’, ‘sack PL’, ‘sack Ronnie’, ‘spend more money’ style posts that have been in the ascendancey.
The hard truth is that for a second year in a row we did not qualify when faced with modest opposition.
This means that some at CP are not doing their jobs and calls for either a change of direction in their thinking or their sackings is justified.
I stand in awe of posters who appear to know the workings of the inner sanctum of the Club. I hold my hand up and freely admit I do not know how or by whom these decisions are made. I am basing my views on my knowledge of how various business models operate and hopefully on logic and common sense.
Peter Lawell is an intelligent and successful man as is Dermot Desmond, these guys know when to act and when to delegate. I cannot believe that our CEO goes on solo runs identifying and buying players. It is not his field of expertise and clever men know their strengths and limitations.
NYEBEVANSREBELSOLDIER
I blamed the players about 830am yesterday. And I still do.
See y’all later.
Slight change of tack – I watched the Celtic U20s easily dispatch Hibs U20s 5-0 at the home of Spartans this afternoon.
A decent crowd there, with Broony on the touchline, Liam Henderson in the stand and Alan Stubbs and his management team there too, obviously looking for Celtic loans, as Hibs were pretty poor fare.
And of course, the indefatigable PaultheTim recently returned from Malmo. Obviously no signings this afternoon without the confirmation selfie with Paul.
Em ramie
Most importantly did Paulthetim as you for a picture with him? :-)
TBM
See you soon
I am making a public request to Paul to cancel The Bottom Lines Account immediately. I reckon some of the stuff he is saying could land the site in legal trouble with the authorities.
I Used to laugh at the huns being turned over in the C/L..so untill we can Compete we better of outa it, Getting Horsed 6-1aint for me, We aint Ready, OBVS..
Racism comments what year have I logged into.
Dortmund 1-0 down at home but 4-4 on agg with 3 away goals
Sorry 4 away goals
Enjoy the Europa Petrofac Auto Windscreen Milk Cup whatever !
You deserve it.
….PFAYR SUPPORTS WEEOSCAR on 27TH AUGUST 2015 8:18 AM
Supersutton
One of the tasks of senior management is to ensure that the standard if employee is up to the task
They choose he manager …they pick the players…the set the budgets
They are culpable that’s that’s the name of the game
Btw are you the corner stats man?
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You just quoted the corporate viewpoint. Which is precisely what I don’t care about. I’m interested in whether the players selected did their job. They didn’t.
Yes, I am the corner stats man, but don’t blame me for losing 3 goals to Malmo – I’ve already done that.
Don’t have access to my stats spreadsheet as I’m away on business, sitting in airport to go home right now. Will update tomorrow.
BMCWP………well that’s good Bobby,thought I was the only one,
still got the hump wae the horse racing game?