There is a striking symmetry in the English Premier League. None of the 10 clubs in the top half has an English manager, whereas only two clubs in the bottom half of the table have non-English managers. For all its apparent self-importance, the English game is keen to learn from Europe.
The likes of Sam Allardyce, Steve Bruce and Roy Hodgson are still getting a gig, although I cannot understand why. Graham Potter took over at Premiership Brighton two years ago and has kept them there since. Sean Dyche also keeps Burnley away from the trapdoor.
The England national team has a native manager, although one who took over at top flight Middlesbrough before changing their status to a Championship club., his only prior managerial experience. The top English manager today is sitting at home on the south coast waiting for his next appointment.
News leaked that Eddie Howe spoke to Celtic four weeks ago. A week later his agent sent out the clarion call to prospective employers. Newcastle, Southampton and Crystal Palace will all remain in the top flight and could replace their manager, Everton, who Howe supports, may lose Carlo Ancelotti, despite his £12m salary.
You know the script, players, agents and even managers talk-the-talk but if they have a pen in their hand and are about to sign your contract when get a text message from a club paying £12m-a-year, they will want to check a few details over.
I know the managerial appointment is taking longer than Celtic wanted. “The clock is ticking” for a club with enormous rebuilding plans ahead. A desire to make the right appointment will soon conflict with a desire to make the appointment at a time that allows the new manager to make a success of the job.
The month of May is a hard deadline, candidates have been told it’s time to get off the pot. No deal is done, but there will hopefully not be long to wait.
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BIGBHOY @ 2:58 PM
Does anyone know if Sevco availed themselves of Government loans arising from Covid emergency?
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BB – No I don’t.
Loans came with conditions though including
1. Being VAT registered
2. VAT payments up-to-date
An educated guess?
Sevco passed one of the above.
and bombed out again just swithing betewwen pages
Sevco debt was 19.3m at 30 June 2020. Since then they’ve bought players for over 10m
Arlene gone. That was swift and brutal
https://www.rte.ie/news/2021/0428/1212495-arlene-foster-northern-ireland/
RTE a bit ahead of BBc on Foster resignation
CELTIC40ME on 28TH APRIL 2021 3:59 PM
Sevco debt was 19.3m at 30 June 2020. Since then they’ve bought players for over 10m.
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Where is that figure from and to whom do they owe it?
I NEVER said that £80m over two seasons puts them ahead of Celtic – I said that is what they will believe. They have covered c£100m up till now when it looked like Celtic were on another planet on the field & financially. Why would they stop now that they are tasting success and the live prospect of £80m CL money.
There is little rhyme nor reason how a club can repeatedly make losses of such magnitude and continue to trade, let alone put together a squad and management team to win the title.
The point I am making, and seemingly failing, is that there is no logic to what is happening behind the doors of Ibrox.
They have no bank facility and therefore probably a low credit rating. We all knew when they borrowed from Close Brothers. So the question is which institution are they borrowing from – frankly I cannot see financial company lending to them.
Arelene Foster gone. Does this mean we’ll finally a get a new series of Cracker?
That scary juncture while Arlene gets papped for not being sufficiently staunch!
HH jg
The government passed the money and the running of the Covid loans to the banks to administer. Effectively any company/business had to apply for a bank loan. I doubt that Sevco would be successful.
26/05/1967
Hail Hail
Corker of a photo..👏👏
JHB on 28TH APRIL 2021 4:23 PM
Where is that figure from and to whom do they owe it?
Swiss Ramble on Twitter, from their accounts. Transfer fees, I’d imagine, seeing as they can’t get credit from anyone else.
“I NEVER said that £80m over two seasons puts them ahead of Celtic – I said that is what they will believe.”
“A debt-free Ibrox business supported by its investors that has won the title in Scotland for two years and has been in the CL group stages for two years – yes I would expect it to be valued on a par with Celtic – why wouldn’t it be?”
“King’s “pack of cards” is proving uncannily true up to a point”
“My reference to King & “fold” does not refer to our club folding – but the ability to challenge for honours folding in the short-term. That short-term may be all Ibrox needs to get their noses in front again”
On a lighter note 😁 support for independence has fallen due to the awareness that Scotland would find it harder outside the UK to tackle a pandemic, and the ludicrous prospect of a hard border with England.
We’ve had the global financial crash & a global pandemic in the last thirteen years – the UK has ensured that Scotland has survived these catastrophic events – God help us if we’d been separated.
Scotland’s public spending deficit will INCREASE to 25 per cent this year, 8 TIMES the maximum required for EU membership.
In the 10 years of Austerity forecast by the SNPcult’s own Growth Commission following indy would there be access to the EU for a small debt-ridden country with no currency that had closed its borders to its biggest trading partner, i.e. the UK?
We benefit from a UK public spending dividend of more than £2,500 per head of population all down to fiscal transfers under the Barnett Formula.
Due to a UK party split-vote, a minority of the population may at the moment vote for SNPcult at Holyrood and return them to power- however the total lack of economic coherence makes independence a pipe-dream.
we fupped up
CELTIC40ME on 28TH APRIL 2021 4:55 PM
Why do you continue to selectively pull various bits and pieces out of context?
I have been willing to debate straightforwardly and in good faith with you on various points.
Jesus wept ……
Quote attributed to AF below
“My election as leader of the Democratic Unionist Party broke a glass ceiling and I am glad to have inspired other women to enter politics and spurred them on to take up elected office”
“I understand the misogynistic criticisms that female public figures have to take and sadly it’s the same for all women in public life.
“I want to encourage you to keep going and don’t let the online lynch mobs get you down.”
Don’t sit on the fence Arlene.
The DUP behind the curve on modernity and equality?
Who-da-thunk-it?
I once read a tweet that explained the Barnett formula
We pay uk £20 we get back £4, the uk buy a £20,000 lawn mower for which we’re liable for half yet we don’t even own a garden
Maybe not wholly accurate to the tweet but you get the point
JHB on 28TH APRIL 2021 5:01 PM
Here we go, I wondered when the straw man would appear.
They’re cut and paste quotes, in full, from previous discussions.
You should read Swiss Ramble on Twitter. I think you’d learn a lot.
79caps @ 9:55 am
Has the Labour Party ever apologised for its past? Its murderous colonialist policies from 1945 to 51 and the Iraq war? It goes back a long way – Labour MPs cheered in the House of Commons when it was announced that the men of the Easter Rising had been executed.
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I am linking the record from Hansard- which makes no mention of cheering-
In fact the first response to the PM’s announcement was a cry of “Hunnish” from the Irish Nationalist MP, Laurence Ginnell. I suspect it is difficult to discern the response of the 42 Labour MPs in the 640 House of COmmons discussion from this source but I strongly suspect you read some erroneous fact rather than merely made this up.
http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1916/may/03/resignation-of-mr-birrell
If you are looking for a more detailed and nuanced discussion of the British Labour Party and the british Left’s response to the Irish Rebellion, then this link might help.
https://archive.irishdemocrat.co.uk/features/british-labour-and-the-easter-rising/
But, remember that, at this point in the war and Rebellion, majority opinion in Ireland was against the Rebellion too………… until the British shooting started.
The British Left has been largely progressive and anti-colonialist in contrast to the British right. The Scottish Nationalist movement ranged all the way from Dewar Gibb and Willie Wolfe to Hamish Henderson and the great Irishman Dominic Behan, who supported Scottish Independence.
Nobody In Western History from the past can escape scrutiny on these matters and live up to modern standards on Racism and Colonialism. However the British Labour Party, reformist as it was, rather than revolutionary, did manage to advance the interests of working people in this country and rolled back many entrenched barriers. They expanded the vote, improved wages, housing, access and equality and managed to avoid becoming a mere US Poodle on foreign policy. Yes Atlee. with a majority of 5 MPs committed troops to Korea, as we had given a treaty commitment in advance, against a murderous Communist invasion and Churchill continued that support. Neither were able to influence US policy at all and the wars would have happened without them. The excesses in Kenya etc; were largely due to Tory majority government and Harold Wilson managed to avoid our engagement in Japan, even while being considered a traitorous spy by his own Eton-traitor riddled Security Services.
Tony Blair and most of his cronies let the British Labour movement down badly by signing up to the adventures in the Middle East and Afghanistan. These wars would have occurred with or without our involvement or opposition, but George Galloway and Robin Cook deserve some acknowledgement for their views back then, no matter how much of a caricature George has become since. We tend to think that smaller countries, like Scotland, would avoid these colonialist attitude but Denmark’s enthusiastic involvement kind of gives the lie to that.
My worry, as ever, is not sectarianism or colonialism, though the Nats have a scarily fragile view on what constitutes Scottishness, but the ever present threat of economic impoverishment in adding Independence to Post-Covid, Post-Brexit and post- Sub-prime Banking Crisis as another reduction in our living standards for a decade, at least. The more rabid Nationalist will see the poverty as a price worth paying in order to have the virtue of oor ain flag and borders (no breaking away now Shetland and Orkney!- you’ll only get a referendum if we let you). Many other Nationalists will just raise the deeply unconvincing whine of “Are you saying we are too wee to govern ourselves?”. Of course we can go Independent and govern ourelves but there is an unavoidable cost to doing so at this stage in our economic cycle. It would have been far easier to do so back int he 70’s- remember that time when you were all voting Labour?
I console myself with the prediction that The SNP, under Nicola Sturgeon, has no intention of offering a Referendum with an independence date anywhere near the current troubled economic and pandemic conditions, and they are likely to be a One Party State again, following this election, despite an improved Labour Party showing. With the support of the Greens and/or, less likely, Alba, they will be the next Government. They will then, having achieved power again, kick the Independence Referendum timing down the road a few years via a Commission or Think Tank that ensures no new state will come into being in the 2020’s, at least.
Celtic could well win 10 in a row before this happens
Go Tell The Spartim
“Maybe not wholly accurate to the tweet but you get the point”
Yes, it’s a very comforting sweet lie- Is that what you meant?
Adios Arlene
PARK THE BUS AND BLOOTIR IT on 28TH APRIL 2021 9:39 AM
Keane with assistant Duff and “Park the bus and blootir it” up the park makes sense to me.
Why are the failed executive being allowed to appoint their replacements?
*is that the failed exec that gave us NIAR and the quad trebles, BTW I would have Keano and Duff in a heartbeat KevJ.
jhb
on a lighter note give us one of your moonhowling phone ins to George ex working class now a social conservative? go on,you know you want to.Talk sport friday nights with George Galloway 10-12 bout 2012.
it’d cheers us up.’they”m lmao
PARK THE BUS AND BLOOTIR IT on 28TH APRIL 2021 12:56 PM
If PLC has put all their eggs in the Howe basket and it doesn’t happen the media will delight in telling the guy who does become Celtic manager that he wasn’t first choice.
*after WTT bailed oot we spent around 2 months pursuing Gérard Paul Francis Houllier, he later admitted that we almost had him but for the emotional pull of Liverpool.
Pursuing a part time degree from Lille University he elected to spend a year in Liverpool as an assistant teacher at Alsop Comprehensive School, while there he would attend games at anfield.
He was invited to become joint team manager with Roy Evans, that arrangement did not work out and Evans resigned 4 months later leaving Gerard in complete charge.
He later on complimented the club, as did Gudd Hiddink, in their professionalism in pursuing him and wished us well. We then moved on tae who the record labelled as the “The worst thing to hit Hiroshima since the Atom Bomb!”.
Meanwhile one of the true football greats Johan Cruyff once stated “Wim Jansen is one of only four men in the world worth listening to when they talk about football.”
Did Paul just pull the Ancelotti / Everton stuff out of thin air? He is under contract until 2024. He has stated in numerous interviews this year he wants to stay and be there when they move to new stadium.
He is a massive name in mngmt. His 11 million base salary is high, but Klopp is on 15 million and Pep on 20 million.
Howe has won nothing and compared to Ancelotti he is a rookie.
Get a grip.
Stephen McGowan is a tough listen, full of self importance.
Defelction for sure that he is informed by PL.
back to basics
“I want to encourage you to keep going and don’t let the online lynch mobs get you down”
I think I know where Arlene is going with that one….
Then again does two constitute a mob these days?
If so standards are going down faster than I thought
SFTB
The tweet referred to I found amusing I just wasn’t doing it justice though I’ll thank you not to pontificate, no sod it, pontificate away, it’s only a blog after all, I do tend to read most of your posts even right thru to the end
Many thanks for all your kind thoughts re the Mrs, things went well, as she said herself, she is alive :)
As for our next manager, I will wager now the majority are gonna be disappointed, just have that gut feeling about it.
I am another who could go with Keano and Duffer.
Saint Stivs
The 95% vote in favour is of votes cast (doesn’t change the price of fish acknowledged), but there is a significant number of small shareholders who either do not vote or have lost their shareholding details, or may have passed away and nor bequeathed their shares. The Celtic Trust is working hard to change (improve) this factor.
HH
I see on one of the side articles that today is the anniversary of our 1973 – 8 in a Row.
Hibs 0 – Celtic 3 (Deans 2, Dalglish 1) at the old Easter Road.
Hunter
McGrain Brogan
Murdoch McNeill Connelly
Johnstone Deans Dalglish Hay Callaghan
(Hood)
Not a bad side!
TET
So pleased for you both!
Praying for the best!
Take care and God bless!
CELTIC MAC
Great team!
Not one of the present squad would improve that side.
IMO.
The champions league is a good we money earner but the idea that it solves all of sevco’s money issues is stupid as is the idea that 40 million goes on top of previous non champions league season.
The champions league is worth about 30 million ish per season to scottish clubs. If you pick up 15 million for europa league from previous seasons then the uplift in income is about 15 million, not 30, really simple logic and maths. At the same time, the coaches, players etc all want bigger and better bonus ( those greedy cunts)
If you have been making a 15 million loss after europa league money for previous season then that 30 million champions league money is possibly breaking even, before signing one player.
It was that exact stupidity that led rangers to the gutter. There is a doomsday situation if you dont adjust their business to accommodate for non champions league seasons. We have been doing it for years and it’s no easy.
HH
B2B
re Arlene and the misogyny
I have been scanning the youthworker/extreme idiots in the 6 counties
they offer nothing and thankfully more and more voter see through the fear they offer
interestingly there is a lot of good discussion going on.check out irish times podcast and slugger o toole for good quality insights. :-)
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/inside-politics
https://sluggerotoole.com/
HH
0.5×0=0.
:-)
hh
PB
Cheers
Hope and trust all is well in your life.
HH
TET
We are fine thanks!
Take care!