You can tell when a crisis is brewing at Ibrox, the emergence of a spontaneous statement is a sure giveaway. Far from apologising for using club funds in an ultimately pointless legal defence of Sports Direct’s enforcement of a contract signed last year, chairman, Dave King, reacted to the reality that Newco will complete at least four years of his tenure trophy-less by threatening Sports Direct with further legal action.
This time the action is over a lack of accounting information on the performance of that merchandising contract from a year ago. It is almost certain that Sports Direct are obliged to provide a sales reports and some form of audit, this would be the basis of any sales-linked bonus payments.
Dave’s court action is likely to be the most expensively purchased accounting report in history. All this gunboat diplomacy may seem wasteful but some clubs cannot exist without a bogeyman.
Celtic are now in the League Cup Final. Those inside the club will realise there is a lot of work to do to complete the first leg of the treble treble, but the majority who traipsed out of Hampden on Sunday will consider the matter a forgone conclusion. They saw a green and white future; the very real prospect of another treble while the chairman with the reverse Midas Touch controls Ibrox.
Fergus McCann built a new stadium and had league trophy in a cabinet in the boardroom when he left Celtic five years after taking control. This character will be at Ibrox four years come March and the greatest achievement in his tenure was a semi-final penalty kick competition win.
Never change, Dave.
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The blame game again as the treble rolls on?
All of Celtic’s ‘star’ players that have signed since 1994 do so on the basis of getting improved terms in;
A) A bigger league elsewhere.
B) If there are no suitors, the promise of improved Celtic terms.
All Celtic players who sign up on consecutive contracts are further rewarded, Victor Wanyama, Virgil Van Dijk, Keiran Tierney, Stuart Armstrong Leigh Griffiths etc ,etc ,
This goes back to the three musketeers Di Canio, Cadette, and Van Hooidoink, all of whom turned the gun on Celtic at some stage, threw their toys from the pram, downed tools or threatened to, at any given stage in their well documented contract wrangles.
The common denominator with potential exiters is that they all want to leave Celtic to get the fantasy wages their peers get elsewhere in Europe. Blaming Celtic is farcical, we have no side contracts, tax schemes or other benefits to have attracted these players in the first instance, only the promise of a move, or more money meantime.
Every star that we’ve sold has left at vast profit to Celtic it’s been a fairly successful strategy so far, including negotiated sell ons, and will no doubt continue as a viable alternative to fraud and deception, trying to get a foothold in Europe.
In summer Celtic’s problem was finding cheap that could be sold on, we didn’t but instead compounded the daisy chain of nearly men stuck in the queue heading out of the CP the exit door. The formula for success is that when we do buy, we buy from a better market, than anyone else, even if the spend now includes hyperinflation, the only appeal of coming to Scotland is to play for Celtic the only show in town.
Two months to the window CSC
Ashley’s at it again – buying up Evans cycles – good luck with that law suit King, the guy has money and a proven strategy on how to get more money. Neither of which king has !
On your bike Mike?
For those who feel Celtic have done nothing, I refer you to Auldheid`s 12:14 am link:
http://cdn.celticfc.net/assets/downloads/SFA_Correspondence.pdf
I realise some will feel this is not enough but it is definitely something.
Also, is it possible for people no to go to hyperbolic extremes when talking of whether people approve or disapprove of the Board?
JJ
BOURNESOUPRECIPE on 31ST OCTOBER 2018 9:51 AM
Thats kind of the way I see things……….from afar.
Attempting to function within those restrictive terms of trade involves a stack of juggling .
Sometimes the balls get dropped.
No pun intended.
BOURNESOUPRECIPE on 31ST OCTOBER 2018 9:51 AM….
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TET.
On Ogilvie.
You are a year out. This from Wikipedia is accurate. It was when a Judicial Panel was being set up in March 2012 to deal with Craig Whyte that Ogilvie admitted being an ebt recipient and stood down from involvement as did the SFA who passed the ball to the SPL on grounds they would be court of appeal. Regan’s fingerprints are all over this. So no grounds for Celtic to find an alternative. Suspicions do not form grounds.
Wikipedia.
On 8 June 2011 it was confirmed that Ogilvie would take up the presidency of the Scottish Football Association, succeeding George Peat.[1] He relinquished the post in June 2015, when he was succeeded by Alan McRae.[7][8]
In March 2012 Ogilvie admitted to being a member of the Employee Benefit Trust scheme at Rangers when he was both a Director of Rangers as well as the treasurer of the Scottish Football Association.[9]
On LNS. Nobody knew about the witheld documents until March 2013 after the LNS Decision was announced in Feb 2013. Nobody.
That discovery came from SFM who then wrote to SPFL cc Celtic at end of March 2013 (from memory but possibly in 2014. CQN had its 10th Anniversary party that year to tie it down.)
The SPL voted to accept the LNS Decision in Eric Reily’s absence but even had he been present he would have been outvoted. The passage of time requires facts to be restated but the basis of your thinking as stated is not based on what happened and when.
The big mistake (and TBB and I at least commented on it at the time) was to make non registration of side letters the issue rather than wait until the BTC result was finalised. The charge then as is the case now on the UEFA licence would have been dishonesty by using a tax scheme unlawfully that needed side letters to be so but had to be concealed from SFA to get the desired wage advantage.
As you can see from the correspondence Celtic have tried to get an investigation on LNS but failed and their position at the last AGM was they were waiting for the one that is underway to run its course.
A full year on that position is no longer tenable in my opinion and I look forward to hearing what their position now is, as I’m sure others are also.
BRRB, last night: Court of the Crimson King. Now you are talking… HH from a miserable Dundee, weather wise. Hoping for a localised outbreak of sunshine 3 miles doon the road at Dens this evening.
Like to see a few trick and a couple of treats tonight.
‘Mon The Hoops!
TEUCHTER ÁR LÁ on 31ST OCTOBER 2018 9:12 AM
Chairbhoy
Excellent read, Thank you.
HH
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I’ll ‘plus1’ that sentiment.
HH jg
PS chairbhoy and SFTB….. looking for definitive conclusions from the contrasting Moussa & Boyatta situations is challenging unless you allow yourself to recognise
That the only thing we were consistent in was our inconsistency.
Auldheid
I am not a year out, the dugs on the street knew he was involved in the administration of the EBT’s, this should have been grounds for his P45, this was way before Ogilvie admitted he had an EBT.
Are you trying to tell me that Doncaster of his own back furnished LNS with the info without running it past his board, a board which we had a member on, if you are, that may wash with some people but it sure doesn’t with me.
HH
Sevco Superman
Auldheid on 30th October 2018 11:43 pm
Thanks for taking the time to reply to me last night and sincere and heartfelt thanks for all your efforts on this along with the other Resolutioners. I remember quite some time ago reading your blog on SFM about the light shining through the prism and never has that felt so valid. What is it they say “everything comes to s/he who waits”. Here’s hoping….
HH
new article posted.
CHAIRBHOY,
That was a long post without one single proven fact in it.Plenty of “Allegations”without proof.Reading it I would think that you were personally involved in all of the transfer business.You put across what you think as facts.The Puccini story.Do you know for a fact what the guys wage demands were?You say the Dembele deal was done and dusted by PL.Maybe I am mistaken,but was not Brendan content with letting him talk to Lyon.”We cant stop letting players go to improve themselves”the gist of what he said.
All you did was regurgitate the same old rumours and gossip that was around at the time,and put your opinions to them,calling them”Facts”.