I see the story that Feyenoord are chasing John Guidetti has lasted more days than I expected. John Guidetti is a likeable guy and seems to have enjoyed his time at Celtic, but he desperately needs to show some form before the end of the season if he is to attract the attention of Feyenoord or any team of that calibre.
One aspect often overlooked about Guidetti is his inexperience. The player is still only 22 and had started only 30 games before arriving at Celtic Park last season, there’s a good chance that by the end of the season he will have played more games for Celtic than anyone else. On paper, a season at Celtic was a chance to sort his career out, grab first team football at a prestigious club who were short of a centre forward. Conversely, being kept out of the team by Leigh Griffiths will damage his reputation.
Barcabhoy sent me an interesting summary of Celtic’s material loss since the liquidation of Rangers. The figures below compare the three years before Rangers liquidation with the two and a half years since.
As you see, even though we are comparing a shorter time period after liquidation, Celtic’s turnover and profitability is still miles better than when we had to compete with Rangers.
This should end any nonsense about Celtic needing or in any way missing Rangers. We lost some revenue streams: domestic commercial and ticket income, but the slipstream to European revenues have more than made up for the gap. More importantly, we are also no longer caught in an arms race with a death-risk opponent, allowing us to bring costs below income and plan longer than the current season.
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told this to my hun son in law (he’s a good wan)…….a disgruntled hun concedes that NFLs team are going to win the league after the loss of a fifteen point advantage.He then goes to the bookies and puts £50 on rangers winning two in a row.
two and a bit years later he cheerfully goes back to the bookies with his “winning slip”. Now the bookie himself is a “died” in the wool hun what does he do
1. pay out
2.refuse to pay out (as rangers died quoting ASA “different entity” and JG)
3 refund the original bet as rangers where “DEMOTED” and although re-registered the original bet was for winning the premier league
FOURGREENFIELDS
Frustrated,exasperated,p’d off. Desperately looking for a cat to kick. We’ve got the whole lot,bud.
One thing for sure though. We know how to play the long game.
neganon2 et al- Not sure who Nimmo-Smith played for :), but he surely sought advice re players abilities ? Would this not be a key element, in deciding on a sporting advantage? If so, who gave LNS advice on football ability? Duffield perhaps? Jorg Albertz or Brian McLaughlin ? Mmmm
BMCUWP
I hope so mate , I really do .
HH
!!Bada Bing!!
11:00 on 15 April, 2015
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The ‘only’ way that Celtic fans – in particular – will get the justice that they, long-over-due-deserve…is…by holding a financial gun at the Celtic board’s head and…making it clear that…failure to carry out their duties will will result in a probable short-fall in SB-sales coz, the fans are scunnered tae their back-teeth wi awe the rolling over to accomodate the cheating…befouling…social-unrest-rioters…so, get wi the programme or…yeez’l be sacked…….or words to that effect.
Ye know what I mean – CSC
Lost the will to live again…..
Sneaky paul67 has posted a new article
HH
CHARLIEBHOY
The answer is simple. Bookie tells him to eff off.
They don’t deal wi political niceties,they don’t worry about newco or oldco.
He placed a bet on a dead team. Had he placed it on a dead horse he would have got the same reply.
Btw,I’m glad that so many Rangers fans now believe in resurrection…
4 of last 5 games on Sky, including away to the sheep