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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Hate to think of our fans going through the same shit in Amsterdam again.
Would hope for a boycott but no chance of that.
We need precautions to protect safety of our boys over there…
Fenerbache
Fenerbache
Hard group
fenerbache
RVP at Parkhead. Good attraction.
Fenerbache….thats a bad one!
BobbyM
Aye, it’s no as if it’s a hard thing to do, the likes of Maribor and Malmo manage it with much less money.
HH
Fenehrbace. Turkish delight for Turkeybhoy.
we are here because we failed in champions league, no consolation.
BMCUWP
I was talking about the corporate money men who sponsor football and run the media, not Celtic’s owners.
Michal Kadlec plays for Fenerbache.
Remember him?
Well said Ger57. How do you stop supporting Celtic? How could you stop loving this club? There’s no 12 step programme out there that can stop this addiction.
Celtforlife CSC
Guernica
I am not advocating playing two in merely cutting out the garbage that I constantly hear on TV. We do not have galacticos. Get players in the positions who do what you expect them to do. Buy a centre back that wins everything in the air. A full back that can defend, a striker that scores goals.
LB
We in group “good chance of gettin yer c*** punched in”
I blame the accountants. Bring back the spivs, I mean the whites, or greens. Not too shoddy a cup when you look at the teams. Fenerbache too. Interesting. Will be fun.
Great trip Istanbul will be. Would have preferred one of the European side teams but hey ho.
Nice easy draw so far then
would rather have a hard group.some good groups in the europa this year.
Uncomfortable fan venues so far….. no too guid!
Sometimes you are better in a Group where teams take points off each other, particularly if you can win your home games.
It’s like the CL groups with nay money
We got the top Hoolie group so far..
Life insurance will be high for those trips
Europa League draw :
Pot 1 – Ajax
Pot 2 – Celtic
Pot 3 – Fenerbace
Pot 4 – Molde
Dates – 17/9, 1/10, 22/10, 5/11, 26/11, 10/12
At least no Russian or Azerbaijani journeys – up to us to make it to last 32 past Xmas
4th team in draw?
Ajax,Fenerbahce,Molde
Molde
Molde
Ajax
Celtic
Fenerbache
Molde
I knew we’d another bloody Scandinavian team
SYDNEYTIM on 28TH AUGUST 2015 12:03 PM
Tony. You remind me of a person who spat on my face in 1992 as I stood outside the ground in the rain after a game shouting get the board out
Low life
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Wow your a class act eh?
Molde completes group A. Home for Ronny.
Molde, back to Norway for RD.
Celtic in group A for arrested.
Do-able
We’ll struggle to take points off either of those clubs. Not a good draw at all.
Molde (Norway) completes our group !
Ajax
Celtic
Fenerbahce
Molde
Awe Naw more Scandanavian medicority, Beefy will be beelin:)))
Molde…. more Norwegians. Quite a tough group. COYBIG!