BDO’s survey of British football clubs suggests control, if not complete sanity, has descended on Scottish football. Most Premiership clubs surveyed predicted they would return to profitability over the next year.
On the back of Phil Mac Giolla Bhain’s article on former Scottish Football League chief exec David Longmuir’s bonuses, which are no longer payable, these are heady days for some clubs who have lived hand-to-mouth stuffing pork into Longmuir’s trough. You better believe it’s financial Armageddon, for the former SFL man. The SFA will surely insist on inappropriate financial stain is left on our game.
Anyway………. It seems if I explain the structural gap between Rangers International’s earnings through season ticket sales and the costs of operating a football club which can facilitate circa 40,000 spectators on a regular basis, we can all figure why the gap cannot be bridged. We are different because despite having enormously higher football costs, we can access enormously higher revenue streams.
On the other hand, explaining that Celtic’s operational costs need to be augmented by player sales and/or Champions League income, just to break even, and that player sales and/or Champions League income cannot exclusively be used for player purchases, amounts to a heresy against deeply held orthodox views.
Add in a reminder about the strategy which has made all the difference to Celtic – buying wisely, selling wisely, and sit back to watch a secular belief structure ignore the ‘every penny to be spent’ prediction and vent as though their deity has just been denied.
This stuff’s complicated, apparently, but paying attention to financial detail is not a required Obligation to support Celtic, so if it doesn’t float your boat, I’d start by demanding to know where all the Seville money went to….
I hear the Daily Record accompanied their – Imran Ahmad to sue Rangers International for £3.4m – story with a completely baseless story about Celtic losing out on the only transfer target they know about. They were wrong on some of the Ahmad story (Charles Green may have produced the documents Ahmad would rely on in court, but suggestions they are in concert on this claim are wildly inappropriate). Still, it plays into current orthodoxy on Charles Green.
Going on what they’ve written, they know nothing about Celtic’s transfer negotiations either. Absolutely squat. Percentage of Celtic fans who know the media’s game: 100%. Percentage of Celtic fans who allow themselves to be influenced despite knowing the above……?
If these people have you panicking, look elsewhere for sympathy. We have a team building strategy, it has delivered well thus far and it will continue to do so. Buy wisely, sell wisely, spend every penny over a given business cycle. Pretty straightforward, really.
Magic Money Deity Denier CSC.
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sipsini
10:30 on
14 August, 2013
monaghan1900
09:48 on 14 August, 2013.
Hunmedia have lifted the block on guests…their reason being…too many tims were registering and ripping the pash out of thems;-))
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Brilliant! Taking the rip out of them is a major intellectual feat though!
Twists n Turns.
I do fancy a day at the races, I’ won’t say Yes yet,depends how feet are feeling,If they agree to take me to the racing I’ll go,we’ll wait and see.
BT. Where do you fancy having a drink, Near the Station,and a bit upper class would suit me.
Peter Bad Neil Good, caveman thinking….
I remember in 97 Celtic fans were screaming blue murder that PvH, PDC & JC had all left and we’d signed nobody to replace them except 2 diddies with dreads. One of the guys was a diddy, but the other guy replaced the other 3 all by himself.
Give the new signings a chance to bed in people.
Craigwhitesoptometrist 10:41
He hasnt said, but he hasnt signed one.
By leaving it to a just a possible wild card signing as noted on CQN yesterday, not ideal to if you sign a player and throw him straight into Aberdeen game then flight to Karagandy or just throw him in to Karagandy. IF we sign someone before this tie.
EN
To buy or not to buy?
Although they don’t mean anything absolute (Artmedia being a life lesson in this) we should bear in mind the UEFA coefficient of our 3 opponents to date
Cliftonville 2.116
Elfsborg 8.125
Shakhtar 2.941
Celtic 37.538
On paper this should be a no contest. But we know better.
Probably the first Scotland squad to play England since the 1800s to not feature a player from rangers or one of the variations of rangers…
Who said Scotland is not making progress?
Goalkeepers: Matt Gilks, David Marshall, Allan McGregor
Defenders: Gordon Greer, Steven Hammell, Grant Hanley, Alan Hutton, Russell Martin, Charlie Mulgrew, Andy Webster, Steven Whittaker
Midfielders: Charlie Adam, Barry Bannan, George Boyd, Chris Burke, Scott Brown, Craig Conway, Graham Dorrans, James Forrest, Gary Mackay-Steven, Shaun Maloney, James McArthur, James Morrison, Robert Snodgrass
Forwards: Leigh Griffiths, Steven Naismith, Kenny Miller, Jordan Rhodes
goldstar10 – Yes, I have no problem in selling a want away player in the final year of his contract. I do however have a problem with the notion that his fee is needed for running costs?
Which is it we wanted to keep him or we needed the money??
I suppose time will tell when his replacement arrives!
HH!
Zbyszek – that’s not good news….any chance of appeal, as it seems a very harsh decision?!
Hopefully a wake up call to anyone who would even think of bringing flares or smoke bombs into a stadium.
Are you hopeful of qualifying for the CL?
T4
Estadio Nacional,
Poor wee dead club. Look at all the “talent” they once had …
McGregor, Hutton, Webster, Whittaker, Adam, Burke, Naismith, Miller
.
Dogging..Oops..
Docking..External Docking..
Summa
TTT,
“Under UEFA rules, clubs cannot take action against their Association and even if they could, ranks would be closed and the club(s) would suffer.”
Untrue, go read my resolution, I identify exactly how the club can take action.
BT,
Good mhan, hail hail
monaghan1900
09:48 on 14 August, 2013.
Lol. Not where I work, loving every minute of it…That’s when I can get eye contact.Hunchbacks the lot of thems.
estadio – as i commented earlier celtic will be in a much stronger position to negotiate after we get through this play-off. in competitive games so far we have a 80% win ratio. not overly concerned regards this playoff, over 2 legs we will have enough to see them off.
Aberdeen game will be a weakened side due to long haul, why do we have to suddenly get a player in for this weekend. win, lose or draw against aberdeen, not overly concerned, season is 38 games long, we will be top come end of season. we buy players on our terms, at a price we consider to be right for us and on our wage structure not the players agent trying to screw us over due to perceived desperation.
Tallybhoy
10:37 on
14 August, 2013
On that note there is is a major symposium of illuminati on FF calling for FIFA to intervene in the Italy v. Argentina scandal. They are, as you indicate, also ruminating on the wider issue of religion and football:
“There wasn’t any until 1888.”
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“When did religious actions such as crossing oneself become part of the game and has it been sanctioned by the authorities?”
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“i read in a book recently[I’m prepared to accept someone may have read it to you] (possibly bobby lennox’s?) that on european nights celtic offer the services of a priest to the officials if they are from a “catholic” country. i.e. spain, italy, etc. yet the scottish media scum remain silent.”
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“No problems with religion anywhere in England or Wales; because no football clubs in these countries were formed to promote Roman Catholicism.”
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‘Remember when Scottish politicians and the football authorities were spending thousands of pounds on adverts and initiatives in schools to help ” take religion out of Scottish football ” ? Shellik played their part in response by building a statue outside The Piggery to honour a religious bigot, their goalie took to wearing Pope t-shirts and blessing himself, not forgetting Shellik demanding that the SFA hold a minute silence before a Cup-tie to commemorate a dead Pope.
The mhedia said nothing’
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“If you recall the night before Septic beat the greatest football team the World has ever seen.
Septic and Barca Officials had a whatever it is they do down the Calton,
It was read out with gusto by the narrator when showing the party in the chapel.
It disgusts me that they promote this in the name of football.”
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“I’ve always understood that a number of clubs emerged in the late 19th century that had religious or church origins (Aston Villa and Everton being other examples).
Celtic certainly took this to the extreme and was established as a means of keeping the local Catholic population away from Protestant soup kitchens. It was about segregation from the outset.”
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“The club revoked the no catholics policy in 1989, it needed to be done, most associated with RFC have moved on and care not a jot about which flavour of sky pilot people pray to.
WHY did it need to be done?
And in what way have Rangers fans ‘moved on’ because we have signed ‘Shettleston’s’ along the way?
Explain to me how Rangers signing a RC has moved me on as a person?”
This one is regarded by his fellow academics as a holder of orthodox views.
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Gordon_J backing Neil Lennon
10:53 on
14 August, 2013
Estadio Nacional,
Poor wee dead club. Look at all the “talent” they once had …
McGregor, Hutton, Webster, Whittaker, Adam, Burke, Naismith, Miller
..
At Least We sold the Spine of Our Team..;-)
Summa
Gordon_J backing Neil Lennon 10:53
What ‘talent’
Amazed to see kenny misser still in there, has he even got a club?
If he plays he will get a customary sitter that will rival gary mcallister’s penalty miss.
EN
ellboy- I don’t accept either we needed the Hooper money for running costs/working capital.
However I think we will spend because PL knows the fan base including bored loyalists will be looking for some reinvestment in the team, can’t always be jam tomorrow.
HH
Imagine prior to the Champions League group stages a group of Celtic season ticket holders got together and formed themselves into the Celtic Players No 6 Brigade and approached the club and asked to be seated together. The club grant the request and the No 6 thank them dutifully buy their packages and inform the club they will police their own wee section themselves. Come match day 1 the No 6 Brigade turn up armed with their old CSA scarves and other paraphernalia from the 60s 70s and 80s and create a tremendous wee atmosphere . However as the match reaches the 80 minutes mark with the scores tied at 0-0 and after singing their hearts out and coughing their lungs up the No6 Brigade as can be expected are truly nervous. So to a man they all light up thinking that acting as a group they are individually invisible. The stewards approach and ask them to stub them out only to be met with the “get lost” or “eff off” approach to supporter/club relations.
Match day 2 comes about and the previous scenario occurs and rather than send in the stewards the club request the assistance of the police. The police are a wee bit more robust as they aren’t on £7 an hour and a few of the No6 Brigade are ejected from the stadium. The club write to the No 6 Brigade and ask them to comply with the law and stadium regulations. British and American Tobacco take up the case and organise a rally to the old Wills factory on the parade highlighting the victimisation of the No6 Brigade. A spokesman for the No6 demand a smoking section be east abolished at Celtic Park in order to facilitate the group.
Match day 3 comes about and the situation deteriorates as Celtic needing only 1 point to qualify as group winners face Real Madrid who need the win too qualify. The No6 cannot suffer the tension and resort to type and spark up right from the off as do the Ducados Brigade of the Madristas. The Uefa observer at the game because of the fug created is unable to observe wether the players shirts are tucked into their shorts or not,the club is reported to Uefa and subsequently fined the equivalent of 1000 sleeves of Benson and Hedges. Celtic qualify with the point needed
The club act immediately and state that the No 6 Brigade will be offered seats elsewhere in the stadium and the No6 section will be closed down.
Come match day 4 at Celtic Park the No6 Brigade are there as before supporting Celtic all over the stadium however they have had to resort to annoying supporters in lavvies all around the ground rather than having their own wee smoking section and annoying those in close proximity
Hail Hail
Monaghan – they walk among us….! :-(
T4
craigwhitesoptometrist 10:55
I know what you are saying, and as Goldstar10 says this should be a relitivley easy tie but I think with whats at stake we should just make sure its as easy as we can make it.
EN
Stan Collymore has now unfriended Summa on facebook.
If CQN was a person he would be a bipolar paraniod happy go lucky mixed up individual
Pre season a disaster – Aw naw
We sold Wanyama – Aw Naw
Weve got Clftonvile and we were rubbish pre season – Aw Naw
We beat Cliftonvile dominated them – Celtic tip top bring on the next one
We sold Hooper – Aw Naw
We beat the Elfs – Not good performance but good result CQN wild with excitement
Who – good draw long way to travel – but great chance of making CL Group
CQN excited and positive full of the joys of summer
Next Day – have we signed the guy from Iceland – Aw Naw Whats going on terrible state of affairs
Sack the Board
BTW I feel it all – my emotions are up and down like a loose sock
67ECW
Summa of Sammi…. 10:57
Aye, one of El Great Pedro’s Greatest moves ;)
A docking station to play music or just charge?
EN
goldstar10
10:49 on 14 August, 2013
To buy or not to buy?
Although they don’t mean anything absolute (Artmedia being a life lesson in this) we should bear in mind the UEFA coefficient of our 3 opponents to date
Cliftonville 2.116
Elfsborg 8.125
Shakhtar 2.941
Celtic 37.538
On paper this should be a no contest. But we know better.
Barca 157.605
Benfica 102.833
Spartak 40.766
Celtic 37.538
Damn statistics ;)
tommytwiststommyturns
11:00 on
14 August, 2013
Monaghan – they walk among us….! :-(
T4
Makes the segregation thing more attractive!
mea culpa:
All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing – by Burke, Edmund.
IF NOBODY stands up to them and highlights the wrongs, then the wrongs will continue until long after you and I both are in our graves and the wrongs will be part of our bequeath to our children.
Saying nothing, doing nothing, is easy. Tell that to our children.
Bert Kassie has now unfriended Istanbulcelt on facebook
Summa
PS: Im told Strathclyde Park has a good dogging station, on the North Lanarkshire side, of course.
EN
MEA CULPA
Having survived it for 125 years proves that wee are big enough to withstand any backlash in the unlikely event of the Board getting up on its hind legs and telling it as it is.
Ohh forgot to mention on Matchday 4 fellow Celtic supporters show solidarity with the No 6 Brigade by sparking up their e-lites on the sixth minute
thomthetim @ 10 43 .
Indeed !
A Glasgow pal told me re sharing a Glasgow bus stop with a wee group of Celtic supporters who were heading to the Scottish Cup Final. Seem those guys were a wee bit juiced / boisterous and at one point chanted —–” **** The SFA ”
Pal said he didn’t know whether to laugh or cry
Nevermind the coefficient points goldstar10. Do you think the gap is bigger between Cliftonville
Elfsborg
Shakhtar
Celtic
or
Barca
Benfica
Spartak
Celtic
I think like me you will agree that the second group have the bigger gap in terms of attracting players and the leagues the teams play in. I hope we have enough to go past Shaktar.
But we really do need a penalty box striker.
Oh shit, this standing up for myself, standing up for justice, it’s all too much hard work and those bad men are going to bad mouth me… here son, I couldn’t be bothered to stand up for myself and my kin, sorry and all that but it’s your problem now.
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Estadio Nacional
11:05 on
14 August, 2013
Summa
PS: Im told Strathclyde Park has a good dogging station, on the North Lanarkshire side, of course.
EN
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Ha..Very Funny..
I Take it l have told You My BothwellHaugh car Park Story..
Summa
DIBBIA..
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Summa of SnoopDoggingCSC
tommytwiststommyturns
Yes, this is very harsh decision. We have not been warned, banned for using the flares before.
What decision that was?
Imagine it’s CL play off game, your opponents are higher in rankings and UEFA closes your North Stand.
I watched Steaua Bucarest last Sunday playing derby game against Dynamo Moscow and they looked similar to Spartak Moscow. Similar class, similar type of the game. I had high hopes for Legia going through but UEFA decision and possibly poor support without Ultras may have bad consequences for my team.
Strange decision in my opinion. The game was in Wrexam and Legia had no influence on who was at the game in Wales. Everybody could be there. Legia stadium regulations are very radical and people get banned for small deliquiencies against regulations. At least they were banned in the past, even for swearing.
Estadio Nacional
The fact that the Scotland team against the English tonight is not tainted by any current bun player, makes me slightly more enthusiastic about cheering them on.
TonyDonnelly67
Is the great Nicky Law no an English superstar?
As a matter of interest is there an example of us desperately needing to sign a player for a certain position – say centre forward – actually signing a player, him playing in the game in question and it being a success ie he scores the winner or something?