Celtic will face Maribor from Slovenia in the Champions League play-off round. Maribor, of course, played a critical part in the death of Rangers, when they eliminated Ally MsCoist’s team from Europe a few months after Craig Whyte took over from Sir David Murray. Having heard the 6-1 aggregate result against Legia, they are already celebrating the draw.
Maribor gave Wigan two hard games in last season’s Europa League, winning their home tie and causing the FA Cup holders more trouble than expected in England. They progressed to the knock out round before going out 4-3 on aggregate to Sevilla – a feat Celtic would not have been capable of. Right now, they should be slight favourites.
If you missed it, today’s earlier article on Lady Luck, HMRC and money is here.
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RobertT
Just to clarify:
Dermot Desmond is paid the standard fee of £25,000 for his role as a non-exec director of Celtic.
He also owns a large chunk of shares as follows:
32.7 million ordinary shares – 34.5% of this class – which are voting shares and historically pay no dividend
8 million Convertible Preferred Ordinary shares – 58% of this class – which are voting shares and which no longer pay a dividend
and 5.1 million Convertible Cumulative Preference shares – 34% of this class – which are non-voting and pay a dividend each year of 6% of their 60p coupon value.
Last year the club paid £527,000 to holders of these shares, of which Desmond would have received about £180K.
There is a dividend reinvestment scheme – a so called Scrip scheme – whereby holders of this class of share can elect to receive ordinary shares in the business in lieu of a dividend. Desmond elects to take the cash as do most the holders of these shares.
Fag packet, his total investment in Celtic to date is in the order of £20M via the 4 share issues over the past 20 years, and he owns around 37% of the total voting shares.
In terms of return on investment, he gets £200k each year from that £20M, and a free padded seat.
Was a great day here yesterday, all fun and laughs, no moaners or Huns came near the place In case they outed themselves showing their true colours under the purs rage they where in of us having some luck, today?
http://youtu.be/E1_vsu2DyLs
burnley78
11:28 on 9 August, 2014
Imagine just what it would be like to support rangers right now.
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Impossible ! They died ;)
from twitter:
First leg of Celtic v Maribor live on the new Sky Sports 5 channel,return leg on itv.
Steinreignsupreme
Ok you accept failure, but don’t try and sell it to me. Loser. Hail Hail.
Sydney, my hair just has a bit of red left and receding and I still havethe same baw face.
My coupon would get facebook shut if I put a picture on it.
I’m an IT dunderheid so Facebook & twitter are no go areas for me.
Still look back fondly on my time as a guest on the Uni bus at a time where we were more united with the team and corporate issues were less relevant. However one thing hasn’t changed, discontent with the board on certain matters.
Your former neighbour and I along with our respective sons, still have season tickets but I don’t go to away games now.
However, my son is desparate to go to one, so hopefully this season. He’s annoyed I never took the chance to get tickets in with the Green Brigade when offered them, last wednesday.
Fleagle1888
If you are still lurking?
Are you running the NAP’s competition for 14/15?
Cheers in advance.
roy croppie
Reading wiki about Makienok:
Brøndby accepted an €3.8M offer from a Russian club on the young forward. Makienok reportedly said that ‘Money isn’t everything’ and decided to stay. According to multiple Danish newspapers the forward turned down a weekly salary of €34K !
Miku was a better player than any of our current forwards.
The glorious balance sheet,
Good luck to Tony Watt, Fraser and Virgil when a deal is done in the window.
What happens when Lawwell has no players left to sell. I don’t see a queue for Dirk, Pukki, Balde, Stokes and others.
For others such a Broonie, Lustig, Ambrose they will discover how Sammi feels with no contract offer and deemed to be surplus to requirements.
This is Lawwells approach which has seen Celtic weakened last season and further again this season. We don’t have the pretence of coming out of the transfer window stronger than the last one. Those words are certainly hollow now.
Lawwell is destroying our club with his one dimensional bean counter approach.
sid 11:35 on 9 August, 2014
“Ok you accept failure, but don’t try and sell it to me. Loser.”
I am ‘accepting failure’ by saying my ambition is to see Celtic compete in the CL?
Seriously?!?
mullet and co 2:-
Our current forward line is the worst Celtic attack since the Andy Walker, Charlie Nicholas mark 2, Willie Falconer permutation that started the 1994/95 season at Hampden.
tonyd- Aye, 3pm every Saturday, all standing round a headstone.
GreyfriersBobbyRSC
If you are correct then you pick out the ringleader and sell him to say Millwall.
However, it takes 12 to 18 months to build a new team nowadays , and Ronnie is asking a bunch if ghuys settled in their ways to change , so as a team we are likely to be disjointed and with individuals uncertain whether to stick or bust on the pitch. From the sidelines , sometimes this comes over as lack of effort etc….. Still not managed to see fitba this season , so just putting forward an alternative view.
HH
EKBhoy,
Whit if said ring leader was yer very own influential captain?
helmski bhoy
10:50 on 9 August, 2014
Here’s wan fur ye…..Say ye were an up and coming manager, a student of the game, a very intelligent deep thinking logical man and very well thought of in the Fitba circles. Ye git a chance to manage one of the biggest clubs in Europe. Ye try to instill yer vision intae your new squad but some of the squad dinnae like change. Said some of the squad are awe buddies and senior members. Said buddies are very influential to the young pups and plant their evil seed. New manager watches his new squad crumble to lower opposition (Nae offence Mr Z), twice in their first competitive outing. A wan aff wid be accepted but no twice. It looks to you like some of the squad irnae trying a jot and unrest vibrates around the dressing room.
All hypothetical of course
Whit dae ye dae? Whit dae ye actually dae?
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Temporarily, they have you over a barrel so initially you have to go with the flow. So you revert to the way things were done previously in order to try to negotiate the Maribor games and once those games have been concluded, hopefully with a successful outcome, you then start to make gradual change and make sure that you get rid of each player who caused you problems and you do it in such a way that everyone knows why you got rid of them and you do it when they are in a position of weakness – just like they did to you.
You also learn a lesson for yourself, that your changes should have been gradual in the first place especially when the team didn’t need a radical overhaul, just a few changes before you started to subtly alter the style of play.
Welcome back to CQN Huns , ….. feck me you had one horrible stingkin day yesterday, my heart pumps p!,sh for you, GIRFUYs
Don’t care about Rangers Burnley. Celtic matter. You keep asking who we should sign. That is up to the manager. HH.
GBS, good posts, especially the ones which demolish the theory that nobody wants to play for us.
SFTB; sorry to hear of the loss of your friend. I have said a prayer for him to the Lord who himself found peace and prayer on the high tops of mountains. May Martin be with the Lord in the highest heavens. Thoughts and prayers also for his mother, family and friends.
Latchford
The transfer window isn’t closed. Let’s see.
Helmski
The manager knows who is not doing the business. He has already stated the team will be rebuilt. No surprise there. Non triers will be emptied.
The glorious balance sheet
Cheers for that. Looks very suspect to me that Uefa found a loophole to punt them out. The real reasons look more sinister. I don’t think Sion were punted as quickly and Uefa knew after the first leg they were getting emptied out. The draw was even made and Celtic weren’t in the correct seeding for that.
I just hope that the suggestion senior Celtic figures bet on Legia are wide of the mark or we have more serious problems than I thought at the club.
LB
The BOYS!
WHERE IS YOUR HONOUR?
http://bi.gazeta.pl/im/5a/fc/fa/z16448602Q,Internauci-odreagowuja-wyrzucenie-Legii-z-Ligi-Mis.jpg
The battered bunnet,
How much does Dermot get in the event of a sale and how much does he earn off being the owner in other business dealings.
What of other investors like the chap on newsnow yesterday reported to have 7%? Is he interested in taking the same small dividend and blue chip kudos that goes with having Celtic on his portfolio or is he in it for something else?
The kips are all great at the moment but it won’t last unless there is a change.
latchford
I think Lustig signed a new contract in the close season. Otherwise I agree with everything that you`ve said.
Samaras and Ledley were not offered new contracts, despite the smokescreen propaganda issued at intermittent intervals in the months before they left. Commons will not be offered a new contract.
Getting the wage bill down rather than improving the team seems to be the driving force at Celtic nowadays.
http://uk.soccerway.com/players/simon-makienok/207175/
For non smart phoners, key facts are: aged 23, 6’6, app 14 stone
he’s started his fourth season at Brondby
Three full seasons goals/apps are 5/14, 15/25, 12/21
Played in both legs of brondby’s 5-0 agg EL defeat by Bruges this season
As an aside, some people moaning at Celtic buying other SPL players and others “just saying” that P McCourt is a free agent.
McCourt couldn’t cope with previous fitness regimes, HTF would he cope with what it’s being suggested Deila wants??
Just saying, like ….
Helmski
Have to disagree again. We need around 6 players. 4 first team and 2 squad players for now. Berget may already be one of those players. 5 still to come in. The core of the side is there. Brown and Forrest on the way back. The ringleader if such a thing exists should be dropped and punted pronto. The rest will fall into line. Moyes failing at Man Utd was due to a similar reason. In my opinion if a manager joins a team and they are under performing an experienced big name gets shown the door. The rest bottle it. If I were Moyes Rooney would have been emptied. An I’m the boss moment. Look at Strachan and his method after Artmedia. Experienced players were got shot of as soon as possible. He went on to win 3 titles. The manager MUST be in charge. Someone will have to be sacrificed to bring the rest into line. In my opinion after the last 2 games nobody is guaranteed to stay. Let the man do his job and build his team.
LB
Willie falconer is world class compared to our striker duds
Che, i believe the seat sponsorship is sorted for this season. because we were late getting them on the seats , we are letting them roll on this year.
Sanna
Wigan reject bid for Callum Mcmannaman.
TheOriginalSadiesBhoy
11:45 on 9 August, 2014
helmski bhoy
10:50 on 9 August, 2014
Here’s wan fur ye…..Say ye were an up and coming manager, a student of the game, a very intelligent deep thinking logical man and very well thought of in the Fitba circles. Ye git a chance to manage one of the biggest clubs in Europe. Ye try to instill yer vision intae your new squad but some of the squad dinnae like change. Said some of the squad are awe buddies and senior members. Said buddies are very influential to the young pups and plant their evil seed. New manager watches his new squad crumble to lower opposition (Nae offence Mr Z), twice in their first competitive outing. A wan aff wid be accepted but no twice. It looks to you like some of the squad irnae trying a jot and unrest vibrates around the dressing room.
All hypothetical of course
Whit dae ye dae? Whit dae ye actually dae?
……………………………………
Temporarily, they have you over a barrel so initially you have to go with the flow. So you revert to the way things were done previously in order to try to negotiate the Maribor games and once those games have been concluded, hopefully with a successful outcome, you then start to make gradual change and make sure that you get rid of each player who caused you problems and you do it in such a way that everyone knows why you got rid of them and you do it when they are in a position of weakness – just like they did to you.
You also learn a lesson for yourself, that your changes should have been gradual in the first place especially when the team didn’t need a radical overhaul, just a few changes before you started to subtly alter the style of play.
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Very good answer. A lot more diplomatic than my approach of giving them good toe in the hoop (No pun intended) and hope for a response
Gooooooooooooooooooooooooooood morning
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From a rrrrrrrrroasting HOT Costa Blanca….
BigJoeinDaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahouse.
Kev, I think a couple of posters on RIFC fan sites had legal action at least threatened against them. It’s easy to forget that there is a written record of everything you have ever posted, and you’re not just chatting amongst friends. HH
Squire
PAddy McCourt was me. My tongue was firmly in my cheek after a morning of blog misery.
No serious point sought on a blog in danger of taking itself too seriously once again
SFTB…..thoughts and prayers pal
Kevj….seriously great one, be careful with
that nonsense.
And I think that legal action had to do with matters pertaining to comments about the RIFC board, not some sectarian threat
What a week to be a Glasgow Celtic supporter
From rags 2 riches……………………………
BigjoethinksWeusedAlife
LiviBhoy:-
I think you might be onto something with the suggestion that the Bereszynski issue was very convenient for UEFA and helped boot a bigger, murkier issue into the long grass.
The football is fixed website definitely makes for interesting reading.
new article posted.
Welcome back Big Joe.