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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A stor – clean bed sheet, aberdeen, doubt it.
new article posted.
Mea Culpa
12:13 on
14 August, 2013
‘Celtic must go about their business quietly and do their work behind the scenes.
I have absolutely no doubt that is what is going on.’
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“Rangers are a fantastic club with a great history. They will, in not too long a time, be back in the SPL. I have no doubt about that.
“And they’re needed for Scottish football because of their following, the size of the club and especially their history. We certainly would like to contest with them every week. We believe we have a better team and management structure.
“For us, it’s disappointing that they are not there but that’s decisions by the various clubs and leagues and we accept those.
“Rangers are one of the great clubs in Britain and we have to acknowledge that.
“They are a motivation for us to go along and beat them in every Old Firm match, so we miss that opportunity.”
A Stor:
I think you are mistaken. I have never stated any such thing.
Being far, far away in Oz, I am well out of such echelons.
A Stor…,
That will just tell us,
‘Look we’ve no pushed the bed’
:o)
Mea Culpa
“Most clubs in Scotland have Sevconian leanings and a pathological hatred of all things Celtic.
Trying to garner support from the other clubs is very difficult.
Even last year, were it not for the fans themselves, Sevco would have been slotted right into the SPL.”
That was the “fans” of the clubs in Scotland that have Sevconian leanings and a patholigical hatred of all things Celtic? por cierto
P67 has indicated Celtic have kept quiet as they didn’t want to be the ones held responsible for the downfall of orcs. & SFA(not in those words) as we would be made out to be the big bad club
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Agree with this, I think we’re waiting for someone else to fire the bullet, unfortunatly everyone else thinks the same
Follow the money
HH
Canamalar1.
As for backlash. I refer you to mea culpa’s recent post….and that would be only from the locals.
It was not “pie in the sky” that halted the Shoehorn”,
As for leaving Scotland, that won’t happen any time soon.
Had you actually digested my post, you would have gleaned that I said that there were only two options, neither of them feasible, for Celtic not to be complicit… and by extension , paying supporters of Scottish football.
It may be hard to swallow, but, if one finances the game in Scotland, then one is complicit in the corruption.
As for seperating club from the PLC.
You are obviously having a wee joke.
You are straying into Holding Company territory here.
The club is the Board, the management and team, plus the fans.
A trinity or three legged milking stool if you prefer.
It cant function if one of the components, or legs, is missing.
Don’t let your antipathy towards the Board cloud your judgement.
To date, there has only been one constituency who have impacted on the TRIFC bandwagon and that is those from other clubs.
Apart from that, all other damage has been self inflicted.
You have commendably put a lot of thought and effort into your campaign, but, as I said, it is flawed,as your main target is really the club and not the SFA.
A pity.
Well done Summa, good to have a laugh in these stressful pre transfer deadline times.
Estadio National after Summa’s dogging from his iphone question was i wrong in thinking you meant El Pedro’s Greatest Movies!!!
Summa of Sammi…. 10:57
Aye, one of El Great Pedro’s Greatest moves ;)
EN
What did CF come out with last night about Longmuir?
hi