A moment of clarity from Newco assistant manager, Davie Weir on how far behind Celtic they are, “unless you’re spending £100 million or whatever the figure may be and even that doesn’t guarantee [success].”
This season Celtic will earn circa £50m more than Newco, £100m would address two years of deficit. Whereas Celtic are motoring with a worldwide recruitment strategy that’s delivering players ready for the challenge of Champions League football, Newco don’t have the experience or infrastructure to achieve value from a windfall (not that there’s one coming).
All of this talk of cash, on the back of some recently nuanced reporting, suggests Dave King’s election promises to spend whatever it takes are now seen for what they were.
A PR campaign convinced them to take their club from the hands of one of Europe’s richest men and give it to the directors of took so much care of Oldco.
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Jamesgang…
Cool
I got your wee ‘poignant’ Christmas hug btw…..
Was awfy braw…
Mr.Braw.
Grinny thing…
Moderator 2
Ok…fair enough.
I would usually throw in a few curses and sweary’s…but i will let it go.
Just asking for a bit of fairness….thats all.
HH
Don’t post so much nowadays, and even lurking has been restricted by work stuff.
Totally shocked to see the decline in quality of comments on the blog: some really appalling language and insults more akin to Follow Follow than CQN.
This place used to be like Cheers – a cool, urbane, yet down to earth hangout populated by all sorts of witty patrons – a place where everybody knew your name, and the beer was always ice cold.
Now, it’s like the Star Wars cantina.
GLASSTWOTHIRDSFULL on 17TH JANUARY 2017 6:53 PM
Jackson – “Rangers came through financial meltdowns”.
………….
Hahahahahahaha
Shoite
Hahahahahahaha
Shoite
Hahahahahahaha
….and more shoite from beyond the grave…..!!!!
prestonpans bhoys on 17th January 2017 7:32 pm
Glas 2/3 full, 6:56
The man with no surname spent £17m in 2008 alone , only offset by selling Some numpty (Hutton?) for 8/9m
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Yeah, that sounds more like it.
Throw in the early ones like McCulloch, Thomson and Whittaker then £4m for Jelavic, and you can’t be far off £30m.
ItaliaBhoy
It’s withdrawal symptoms from the winter closedown causing a down draft which ran into the anti cyclone of core held beliefs in a model that does not currently apply, causing the perfect storm.
With the more zephyr like breeze from the east approaching this weekend in the shape of a football calmer views are expected (unless Celtic were to lose of course causing an Imperect Storm.)
Jobo Balde (the nearest thing we have to a weather forecaster) will, like most of us, think the latter unlikely.
sevco are cheats as was rangers before death they cannot compete fairly as they have always been allowedto cheat by the sfa and journo,s and celtic football club
67Heaven
You really shouldn’t laugh at the deceased. Although there may be the odd exception :-)
i cannot allow celtic plc away with this and i will always mention it just like sevco and not rangers they are a disgrace for what they have done and allowed this cheating with no comeback
https://twitter.com/agentkevinitk/status/821100275310202882
Real Betis offer £5.5 mil for Bitton…
Auldheid,
hope you’re right!!
Bada Bing
We should snap their hands of for that…£5.5 Million.
We could get Carlton Cole back:)
HH
Gooood Evening CQN :-)
Hoi Big (smooth talking) Chap – you told me only Dena and I knew of your news :-)))
I’ve sat oan my knuckles to keep it a secret, as well
All the very very best to Jocelyn
Oh
And yourself :-)
Hail Hail
Glasstwothirdsfull,
Had a further look at a Hun website of that year, total spend £17.35m, total in £10.30m, loss for the year £7.05m
The footnote says not a bad bit of business for Rangers this year!!!
Bada
I just choked oan my pizza there
Hold out for a 2nd bid at £5.5m and not €5.5 :-)))
GlassTwoThirdsFull.
Smith spent £29m from Jan 2007 to Aug 2008.
This was offset by sales of Hutton, Cuellar and Cousins bringing in £19m for a net spend of £10m.
Had the receipts from the latter been put aside rather than buying players, RFC would still exist today as the spend up to 2009 pushed debt up to £31m and with the collapse of the banks put pressure on SDM to sell up and help reduce the debt Lloyds had taken over from HBOS.
The reckless element of this spending was Aug 2008 because by then a series of determinations setting out what HMRC thought they were owed had started to arrive in Feb 2008.
Smith then, as now, knew that without that spend CL would be beyond them and their supporters would start to drift away.
Doing the same thing again is not possible because no MIH to borrow through and no credit line and no one with £20m to throw away to stop the drift.
It’s like watching Jaws 2 knowing that in the end the shark is going to get it, only the means is unknown.
The Green Man- a few guys getting the car ready with Satnav for Glasgow Airport…if that is an opening bid and it’s genuine, we could get £6.5-7 mil….
Sitting watching Lincoln v Ipswich (only cos its on council TV),this is where Graham Taylor made his managerial debut and won the old Div.4 with Lincoln,but it struck me how more appropriate ,in the football context, is the minute`s applause to show respect than the minute`s silence,which is often abused when used(know what i mean?), other teams he managed played each other (Watford and Aston Villa,where grown men cried when applauding to show their respect,to a man villified by the Sun.
This should be the standard method adopted by all Football Associations.
HH
This is all over the place and cannot be ersed tidying it up.
Anyway
Was enjoying the chat on catch up over last night and moon-howlers shift was riveting, unusually entertaining. Resolved to post and congratulate them all…
Then
In the space of about 10 posts it went agley (sp?)
Would like to echo sentiments of CRC and others. It’s a great blog, the best!!
I have serious reservations about board, about ethics, about lots of stuff around agitators haunting the blog. Guys that ( i feel) know hee haw about fitba, or never talk about fitba etc…
When all said and done fairly sure it’s well-intentioned passionate views, no matter how nutty it might seem to others.
For the overwhelming majority on here who are Celts fans, to go to the trouble of posting a view or comment, it’s worthwhile remembering that post will be important to the poster, in some way.
I’ve made my share of mistakes on here and had the benefit of wiser heads pointing out errors and alternative views, hopefully, learned from some and also worked out who to ignore! ;-)
It eventually becomes obvious who the anti-Celts are.. time always tells.
Been offered lots of advice…. Best advice i ever had, on here?
Don’t feed them!!
Bada Bing
I think we could get about 6 million.
Quickly:)
HH
As much as I thought Biton would be a great buy for us, it hasn’t worked out, and better for both if that bid is real.
I like the look of the new midfielder. But, I wonder how/where will he fit into the line up….
Brown seems untouchable, and Armstrong seems to be rounding into the midfielder we hoped he would when we bought him …
If BR keeps with his preferred system, Eboue seems to be a 2 in the 4231 … but, as I said, we have SB and SA there already, and neither of them really work in the 3.
Thoughts?
Bada Bing
Maybe even 5 Million will do it.
Buy Robbie Keane:)
HH
Best of luck to Nir, if he goes. A good footballer who will prosper elsewhere .
MIT
SA as the box to box midfielder TR who knows he doesnt appear to have the fitness for the way BR plays, very skillful though and a goal threat.Good problems to have and its a squad game as players at times will be unavailable
Prestonpans Bhoy
Probably plagiarised from this. (All my own work from a few years back).
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1E7h3-NNOVYR8ReUuynsUS1_hq8D5tBKviapp8e72Uj4/edit?usp=drivesdk
Yeah good luck to Nir
Opportunity to Play in a league where his style will fit better, and be appreciated!
Some decent shekels too…
With the current exchange rate that Bitton bid is worth £4.7m, would take that……
JMCCORMICK
You still in Manchester ? If so and Bitton story is true, I’ll come roond and buy you a glass of champagne :-)
Sitting looking out the windae at that big monstrosity Old Trafford just now
For many years, new Celtic signings took a few games to settle. Even Henrik took time to find his feet in Paradise.
The moment I sensed that this was going to be a very special season was when Scott Sinclair netted the winner at Tynecastle, minutes after being introduced as a substitute.
Play Ebouae against the Rovers, even as a sub, and watch him go.
Re the Coral court case.
I posted this earlier, seems that the bookie want’s it both ways, he will win obviously, but if the defence gets their act together and produce this advert, it would imo put the cat among the pigeons.
It seems as if their brief is doing everything in his powers to not call them a new club, alienating the bigot pound is not a good move for them.
http://news.coral.co.uk/football/corals-top-10-fiercest-club-football-derbies-europe_48705.html
Had a quick look in the rags here, no mention of any Betis bid.
Thought the value of the £ went up today ?
So how much is €5.5 really worth ?
See whit you’ve started Bada :-)
Need to go and look that oot
Auldheid,
Not surprisingly your sheet is more accurate than their website, oh why am I not surprised :0)
Dessybhoy..
How you doing mate?
Doesn’t Rogic line up more in the middle of the 3,rather than as one of the 2 ? I like Armstrong, but, at the moment, I’m not sure that he is a good fit for the middle of the 3 … he makes some good runs, but, frankly, his shooting is not good enough for that role at the moment, and Rogic has a bit more creativity, which I think is necessary for that role. When fit, I think TR has that role.
I hate to say it (it is going to get me in trouble on CQN), but, from the admittedly little I have seen of Eboue, Brown seems to be the one whose role is most under threat by Eboue.
The youtube video that was posted on here by someone (sorry, I cant remember who) of Eboue reall;y impressed me …. solid, good positioning, and good vision … as soon as he got the ball, he was moving it forward with purpose …
I know youtube videos can be unreliable… but, it is all I have seen of him so far, and so far, so good!
I think a midfield 2 of Armstrong and Eboue could be great!
MiT
I wondered who would be the first to mention Broonie and Eboue, I was thinking along the same lines, given BR is building for the future :-)
HH
Just seen Chris Sutton at Licoln,the place where he failed as a manager of course……
Cowiebhoy,
86 pence to the pound so 5,500,00*.86= 4,730,
Am I right in thinking that people on here are discussing and wishing Nir Bitton well on his €5.5m transfer based on a tweet from some bloke who calls himself “AgentKevin” and has less than 800 followers on Twitter
I, er, would wait for a little more established source before the valedictory posts are written