I heard two bits of good news today. First, and most importantly, season ticket sales have been fantastic. We’re well on track to reach target. We don’t know what next season will bring from several revenue streams, most importantly what European football will deliver, but knowing the income arriving from season tickets allows the club to make early decisions.
Specifically, a couple of hours ago we agreed terms (with player and club) for the outright purchase of a player, currently registered with an English Premier League club. He flies north tonight and will sign subject to a medical, booked for tomorrow. I understand the coaching staff are delighted at the capture as he’s been our number one priority for some time.
Tip for the day: don’t ask ‘sources close to the club’ what the consequences of today’s result at Fir Park are for us, unless you want a lecture about how:
We’re on our own……
We know we’re on our own……
We’ll stand or fall on our own merits……
We don’t need money from two derby games that we could almost match from a good run in the cups……
We need to build a successful Celtic team……
We need to pull a squad together for the qualifiers……
We need five-in-a-row……
And none of this is changed whatsoever by who else is in the Premiership. Not. An. Inch.
That’s me told. I also got the feeling no one at Celtic has any appetite to be involved in the kind of scenes we witnessed at Fir Park today. It’s not the image we have for our future. We want a successful, family club, open to all. As it has been since 1888.
Anyway, I’m sworn to secrecy on the identity of the player, but you’re smart, you’ll figure it out. Well done with the season tickets, take a bow.
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12 Orcs out of contract? The Sevco beancouters will be rubbing their hands.
No £500 k to Newcastle.
No promotion bonuses.
No increase to the onerous contracts.
12 wages off the monthly pay role.
Administration by any other name.
However I’m hoping the hubris continues. Replacing players with spent ticket SPL journeymen on daft wages seems like a great idea to me…….
Horrible club, ugly fans, dire fitba’………
………and the Huns were pish as usual too.
Richard Wilson – “there will be changes at Rangers”.
Now that is an exclusive with 12 players out of contract, two managers on garden leave and one on a short-term contract.
Ya Fud.
Ray Winston – be wearing the hoops?
Erwin – takes it on the chin
http://twitter.com/stephenmcleish/status/604205779676188672/video/1
this is a guy driving past Poundland when 2nd goal goes in :)
RT
Messi will be wearing the hoops next year
Unfortunately it the Barca hoops 8))
England might win it ..
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KGSPUOaHYn4
I am sophaphilical as I enjoy my bottle of red!
Dick Wilson????? never saw the eejit till tonight.
Thank goodness I am the twilight zone :O)
Wee Pat thought the problem was that the Huns were kept in, and the ‘tension was building’.
I assume he meant from around the 50th minute when most of them tried to leave…
Wilson, another Fraser Wishart. Smarmy and hurting.
You can fail on a lot of levels.
Their failure exists in their lack of checks.
Every move is seen as the best move and not questioned, neither is the move before that scrutinised.
Charles Green – great move
Charles gets Ally on board – great move
Ally gets Charles annexed from popularity – great move
Kenny McDowall is the real football man – great move
Stuart McCall is the smart money choice – great move
Ashley’s involvement is monumental – great move
Interest free board member loans keep the flame burning – great move
King can usurp useless board members – great move
King & Murray have ousted the deadweights – great move
£30 million needed statement – great move
Rebuke and defamation of Ashley’s investment – great move
QotS & Hibs were the tough games & Motherwell a pushover press junket – great move
Not one check, not one naysayer – Cameron, Greig & Murray in the stand – re-enforcing the past whilst ignoring a future clanging on loudly around them.
Humility isn’t earned it’s learned.
McCall should remember that the next time he’s conducting an open interview on TV, slagging off the players he’s got by comparison to Stubb’s ‘clean sweep’ when moving to Hibs, as some sort of proof he’ll come good.
They all deserve each other – and we deserve their absence – for another year
Great Move…
“Rangers were just unlucky to meet Motherwell in the play offs”
Rat Nevin
captain beefheart
22:54 on 31 May, 2015
No old firm anymore, but if you equate the reaction on here to that fair play, oldco/newco it’s still the same hatred from their fans, the less they are in my life the better but surely we as Celtic fans can still laugh at the “people”
Anyway good night & God bless Cqn
why didnt the cops take the cargo off the ict players ?…and jail em for drinking alchohol in public ?..
https://twitter.com/jenky67/status/605130157372940288
McCall said he didn’t see it… Hahahaha
roberttressell
23:05 on 31 May, 201512 Orcs out of contract? The Sevco beancouters will be rubbing their hands.No £500 k to Newcastle.
Don’t rule out Ashley having a £1 mil penalty clause,for not getting promoted :)
Bed time for this contented Tim. Looking forward to the first person who tells me the Scottish league needs ‘rangers’! I’ll be asking them if they saw the gulf in class between 11th in the top flight and 3rd in the 1st division……
Armageddon? Arma-loving it
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
In other news…
Dawn French has announced that she will boycott the next Miss World.
Bada bing – I don’t know if my sides could take that……
Laughing Spanish Man Reviews Rangers FC Season 2014/15
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1TxAfrmFas
Some the lucky ones managed to get out early.
bournesouprecipe
23:10 on 31 May, 2015
“Rangers were just unlucky to meet Motherwell in the play offs”
Rat Nevin
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fantastic comment
love it
Lol.
Celtic need us. The supporters. No other entity is required to keep us alive. I’m in there. KTF.
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
Damn, Sportscene finishes with celebratory scenes.
I was hoping for a black screen, a minute’s silence and The Last Post playing us out…
But never mind – according to FF, Cammy Bell apparently gets married tomorrow! LOL, I bet the best man’s intching to add a little something to his speech. The Faither of the bride might call it all off…
I hope that last post came out the way it was supposed to. Lol Night Night all. KTF.
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
Good to see ICT winning the Scottish Cup .. Obvious looking at the Falkirk fans .. Their gene pool isn’t diverse enough ..
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Uzae_SqbmDE
Danny Bhoy .. The pipes the pipes are calling :)
I’m going to get odds on Sevco not getting promoted next season.
Bookies seem to have a blind spot where Sevco are concerned.
Mullet
bournesouprecipe
23:17 on 31 May, 2015
Mullet
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Excellent. :))
BT
Your warnings about Nevin have wrung true.
martybhoy59
22:25 on 31 May, 2015
Don’t know much about Boyata but I trust Ronny and the coaches, on the evidence of our signings the manager is now the deciding who he will sign rather than John park.
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The key for me, is signing guys we have a bit of knowledge on.
In recent years, our best signings have been guys who either
1) we have the inside track on because they played against us, played against the coaches etc Hooper, Wilson, Griffiths , Gordon, Mulgrew etc
2) We have properly scouted on paper and then followed up by watching 2/3 times – VVD, Johansen
Our big failing is guys we sign last minute before the close of transfer deadlines. On paper these guys may look good, but reality is the last minutes Bangura, Puuki, Boerrighter, Wakaso, invariably turn out to be duds.
I know there are exceptions to all above, but, the fact that Boyota is in early doors is very pleasing
bournesouprecipe
23:17 on 31 May, 2015
Mullet
Cracker!!
Some may think that quonno went a bit far in the gloating stakes earlier this wonderful evening. He certainly did not.
He is old enough to remember in its full nastiness THEIR coat trailing ogfTHE Seven Lean Years.
Even more recently, as Murray promised THEM heaven as he led THEM to hell, he had to endure in his workplace, THEIR insufferable arrogance as, mainly for his benefit, THEY would loudly proclaim THEIR offended frustration that big teams like THEM should have to play in diddy competitions like the League Cup.
Tomorrow morning, before going forth to enjoy the first day of summer with his good lady, he will stand in front of the mirror for five minutes or so, practicing his straight face.
He makes no apoLogy for repeating his first post of earlier this evening.
HAVEN’T THEY SUFFERED ENOUGH?
HAVE THEY FRIAR TUCK.
Ok Nytol
Looking forward to work tomorrow, whit shift is in ? Oh Blue shift
Ha hahahahahaha