Exciting day as we await the Champions League Group Stage draw! Ideally, I would like to go to Frankfurt (already have the Tshirt), Seville and Lisbon. Whoever we get, this level of competition will be a new level for much of the current squad.
There is no point sugar coating what happened last night. After achieving remarkably in the Europa League last season, Newco again defined my expectations and progressed to the group stage of the Champions League for the first time. The money that will now flow into Ibrox, on top of last season’s earnings and cash from sales over the summer, should put them on a solid financial footing for the first time.
They are a strong and effective team, underestimate them at your peril.
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Hankray at 12.27
That sort of sensible, readable post will never catch on :)
ALL of Scottish football rallied round the restoration of a ‘strong Rangers’. Last night is a culmination of those efforts. Be careful what you wish for.
I certainly don’t underestimate the huns …..what i will say …surely the people who have bank rolled them to the tune of 100 million in the past years will want their money back with some profit?!!
Still expecting a brutal draw and them to get a fare easier one !!
On the contrary, Paul, owing to the way our club is run the better they are the better we will have to be to stay half a step ahead. Life in the slow lane for partner club would mean life in the slow lane for Celtic. Just a pity that’s the way it has to be (not literally HAS to be, obviously!).
P67’s preferred group would give us a fighting chance of Europe in the new year. We will know in a few hours time the actual rather than the hoped for.
The supporters of PSV will be waking up this morning both angry and gutted. How can their team put Monaco out and then fall at the final hurdle against an outfit from wee Scotland, the land of the plastic pitches ? Perhaps playing against a recent Euro finalist, they afforded them too much respect. The Dutch can be like that, either brilliant or rank rotten, never much in between. Lose to DU and then put seven past them a week later.
Ange, and some of our squad, might just be quite pleased with last night’s result as it lends credibility to their decision the ply their trade in Scotland. Jota from Lisbon will not view the world through the same window as Celtic fanatic Joe from Linlithgow. We just hope that Jota from Lisbon wants to show the wider world what a talent he is. Along with another 10 guys in G&W.
Cannot pretend otherwise just how annoying last night was.
Like most people in here I was pretty optimistic that PSV after securing a decent result at Ibrox would have had enough in their locker to see their opponents off into the Europa League.
Alas it wasn’t to be but on reflection their success is unfortunately merited ( albeit with their usual luck involved) , however nothing should stop us all enjoying the day today because we are in it for the first time in years so let’s all embrace the draw and begin to dream ourselves.
We are champions and they lost the ELF by a penalty kick.. so let’s rejoice those facts!!!
The Huns are no mugs but neither are we and with Ange at the helm we have nobody better to steer us ahead and deliver more success this season.
Now go and get a midfielder like Wanyama ,no excuses
The £40M chat was alive until January, then when Celtic took over at the top of the SPL the outright entry to the group stages and previously referred to £40M like the original Rainjurz disappeared. Sevco qualify and hey presto they’re getting £40M again.
Most Celtic supporters know differently of course, however there is irony that because of the way the coefficient works over the last ten year period, Celtic in Europe actually created the coefficient that allowed the second placed in the SPL the chance to qualify for the CL. Celtic will receive in the region of £8M more than Sevco’s first qualification for the tournament not including ticket sales which will be less expensive but more plentiful because we have the biggest ground capacity.
The only dilution of payments will be TV revenue and Celtic will receive £3M less than we would have had Sevco not qualified. Demand for Celtic tickets has never been higher, there were supporters ticketless outside the ground on Sunday verse Hearts, CL packages are priceless.
This season’s wealth from the Champions League was earned when we took the title back as it will be again with more direct entry next year, so long as we maintain any gap already created in the SPL.
Barcelona or Real Madrid who the hell they trying to kid CSC
Madmitch 12:21
Spot on, although I don’t share your optimism going forward. PL wasn’t the only problem.
Top three options looking delightful…pace, power and goals.
1. Maeda Kyogo Jota
2. Haksabonovic GG Abada
Very limited opportunities for Forrest
None for Johnston
HH
I think we’ve signed a ringer.
Haksabanovic, in that video, manages to look like Tony Watt and Robert Snodgrass
Ernie Lynch
“One of the characters was a street walking prostitute who (from memory) was described as being ‘dressed like a Newsnight presenter’.
I wonder who he had in mind?
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Was it Jeremy Paxman? Surely not Kirsty?
Celtic 2 Real Madrid 0
* Celtic first Quarter-final since 1974 in the European Cup.
* All 67,000 tickets sold within days of their sale in January 1980.
* Our last great victory in the European competition till the 2000’s.
* Real arrived in Glasgow on the Tuesday lunchtime. Greeted by a piper, and the complete staff of the Renfrew Hotel, where they were staying, turned out for them on arrival at the hotel.Captain Pirri would play despite picking up an ankle injury on the weekend. They trained at Lesser Hampden under floodlights.
* Bobby Lennox and Real captain Pirri are sole survivors from Di Stefano’s testimonial in 1967.
* Real’s manager, Vujadin Boskov, was the Vojjvodina manager when they lost to Celtic in the ECQF in 1967.
* England boss Ron Greenwood is in the stand to watch Laurie Cunningham.
* Real turn out in unfamiliar all blue kit.
* STV bid to show the game live but the Celtic board refused saying that they would be letting down the capacity 67,000 crowd who had already bought their tickets.
Match report
Latchford kept Celts in the game in the first half as Real impressed. However Celtic blew them away in the second half and only a disputed disallowed goal from McAdam prevented Celtic taking a 3-0 lead to Madrid.
MacLeod and Aitken were tireless in midfield and Provan worked the flank well. Danny McGrain used his considerable experience to keep Real danger man Laurie Cunningham quiet.
Both Celtic’s goals came through Sneddon overlaps. For the first goal Ramon spilled Sneddon’s shot for McCluskey to score and for the second Sneddon delivered a fine cross for Doyle to run and head in spectacularly.
Celtic had grown stronger as the game went on and given their inexperience at this level this was magnificent result. The fans rushed home to watch extended highlights on STV.
@ Celticwiki
We will see on the 3rd how good this mob are.Sorry,I am not a fanboy.I have watched every game they have played this season,and have watched a team far inferior to ours.2 or 3 of the games,noshots on target 1st half.Plodding midfield,with not an ounce of flair.I read their blogs reaction to their games,and its no where near as complimentary as on here.European games aside where from being shit the game before,they then are worldbeaters.
Not sour grapes,but PSV were disgraceful last night.on that performance,some would probably get a game for Hibs.Bushiri standard.
Very confident for the 3rd.Very.
wtf …be afraid ..very afraid …..gtf
smiley https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1LroYX9su0A thing
Braw
Brilliant signing for us today.We now have the best strike force since Sutton Henrik and BBJ.Sparkling,gifted,deadly,superfit .If the price is correct,amazing bargain. Re our new Bhoy.
how tall is he
BSR @ 1.19
Crowds @ P/head — as it has been said on occasion.
Build our / my portal steel frame high …
We desperately need to start planning a for a full main stand rebuild.
67,525 capacity for the SPL with another 8K seats in the attic for high days and holidays.
As you note — we are turning people away at the moment.
Plus the main stand — in its current incarnation — is 50 years old and very much past it.
Rebuilding it — if not now then when?
For me it is all about a draw which allows the chance of European football after Xmas.
As long as we have that I think I will be happy.
2 challenges I see are their fans are paying well in excess of 10% more than us at all levels for European football. So they will get similar revenue despite a smaller stadium.
Secondly their support really create a hostile and difficult environment. Standing for the entire match in 90% of the ground whereas ours tend to wait to be engaged a bit more and sit until excited.
MM
“Rebuilding it — if not now then when?”
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Some other time in the future?
Hey P67! You stole my CL group from the last article😎☘
HOT SMOKED on 25TH AUGUST 2022 12:48 PM
I hope not, but thankfully it hasn’t been my experience :)
BSR
And I was at the Madrid game, cold starry night but a fantastic result, undone in Madrid by dubious refeering, they scored their first on the stroke of half time with a debateable free kick, prior to that McCluskey should have scored when clean through, I think Del Bosque and Stielike played as well as those you mentioned.
Frankfurt from Pot 1,would give us a good chance of getting 3rd place, and the Europa League after Christmas
refereeing oops
3 goals in 4 games that the Devil himself would have trouble conjuring up.A ridiculous hand ball on the stroke of HT with the score 0-0.,an absolute howler by a keeper,letting a trundler roll under him from 25 yards,and last nights Inspector Clousseau attempt to play out.
Just who else gets these kind of breaks so regularly?.
B78 @ 1.48
They always get the same revenue or better than us — they have a bigger and more costly hospitality offer because corporate Scotland will always support them if they are being successful.
Their EuL run last season kept them alive without recourse to their confetti share sales — they were lifting at least £3mill for every home game.
We just need to manage our new resource level well and build for the future.
If TFOD2.1 are not around / in the CL — then P67 and the board acolytes can peddle their lazy tropes about the CL not being for the likes of us.
If the TFOD2.1 get into the CL then there will be a clamour for us to do the same.
Very conflicted about the whole situation — would prefer TFOD2.1 were in the Norwegian Blue position but without the threat of the TFOD2.1 the board would sleepwalk the club towards Euro football irrelevance.
They gave it a good go in the recent past and would do so again if they were given half a chance — so at the moment use the TFOD2.1 to our advantage. Their recent progress will have shaken up the board from catatonic to a gentle slumber.
AP is the main man now — he seems to be fired up about the CL so as long as he is with us we are at least trying a leg to do well in Europe.
Always remember the queues in the snow for the Real Madrid tickets round by the main stand
Think waited 2 or 3 hours to get my hands on the coveted ticket
Well worth the wait but we found out in the Bernabeau that some teams always
get the decisions from referees
Just like the huns in Scotland I guess
RC,
He is a wee bit taller than thon other guy,but not as tall as the last wan.
Dessybhoy
Me too also, so have seen Celtic beat Barca and Real, recall Doyley’s headed goal. Laurie Cunningham was class, sadly died tragically also.
BIG WAVY on 25TH AUGUST 2022 1:25 PM
Top three options looking delightful…pace, power and goals.
1. Maeda Kyogo Jota
2. Haksabonovic GG Abada
Very limited opportunities for Forrest
None for Johnston
HH
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maybe Forrest can be the holding midfielder – he’s shown his tackle in the past. ALLEGEDELY
CORKCELT @ 10:35 PM,
“We could of course have spent money while they were down, it wouldn’t have affected our Domestic Trophy Haul much.
It might have improved our European performances but not guaranteed .
What would be different now, would we have more money in the Bank or would we have a better squad then what we have, hard to say,
The ghuys we could have bought 8.9 10 years ago would be gone at this stage anyway.”
“They were down…” presumably meaning when the Newco were in the lower divisions and looking to get to the top tier!?
It’s undoubtedly the case that there are certain things that are deemed conventional wisdom on the site that is, in reality, far from it.
Now you mention the spending of money and that of course is important, for me the money spent was a symptom; we lacked ambition, and foresight and real investment, short, medium and long term investment would have reaped huge benefits in my opinion.
With greater investment we could well have beaten Newco in the 2016 SFA cup semi-final, remember Newco were still “down” at that point.
Going from Ronny Delia, who was initially brought in as a coaching assistant with a remit to bring our backroom up to scratch, to Brendan Rodgers and his team, who were a known quality entity, expensive, sure but they proved value for money.
Even though by that time Newco were in the top tier, we won every domestic trophy. The logic has therefore got to be, we would have had a better trophy haul had we invested in the team.
Also the ten in a row Championship could well have been secured, this was a huge milestone in the Club’s history and due to lack of investment, especially in management, coaching and backroom operations, this important milestone wasn’t achieved.
The money in the bank is an interesting point, firstly to me that matters not a jot, we are a Football Club and that’s where our focus should be, not banking money but investing it in the team. I’ve made the wider point in solid business terms in the past that a PLC having 40% of its turnover in cash is very poor business practice, the reality is, in that situation the Board would have been expected to make the money work by investing it in the business or if unable too give it back to the shareholders.
So as a conversational PLC it’s regarded as bad practice and as a Football Club a completely wrong minded approach.
While your point about a better squad has more veracity about it; the point is last season we had a massive rebuild, sure this current squad had a good season but that was only due to the fact the rebuild was factored in, if we had a settled squad that had been developed and improved over a number of seasons and transfer windows, then we would be going into our UCL group with less uncertainty.
Hail Hail
He did indeed, yes John Doyle’s goal no one was stopping him getting to head that in.
My word, PSV were poor second half but there you go, Sevco won and Tbf we would have been delighted had we similarly won in the circumstances.
I’ve said for years that our focus across the Clyde rather than across Europe completely stymied our progress so I don’t intend to focus on them now.
New fella looks a bargain if the stories about the fee are close to the mark.
Hopefully our squad is better equipped for the dual demands this season. Another one or two additions would be excellent.
This season again affords direct entry to CL for the Champions so we need to ensure that the league is the priority.
Looking forward to the draw anyway.
CL performance targets this season — strong at home / resilient and competitive away?
Last season suggested that their was some amount of dross in the CL — teams on the slide at home / hanging on for qualification then collapsing the next season in the CL proper.
Bundesliga falling off a cliff.
Ligue 1 not being very deep.
Spurs — I rest my case.
If we can lose the Scottish / SPL cringe we might have a chance.
Too many time in Europe we have beaten ourselves / lost the game in the changing room.
MM
Feasibility studies suggest not any time soon. Cost is prohibitive with too little little gain when we’re distracted perennially by ‘how many in a row’ we can achieve.
Architecturally it can be done, funding won’t come from the buying cheap selling high strategy, we’d need some of the State Aid we’re alleged to have access to.
For the SMSM, their natural order has resumed: R****** and Celtic. Always in that order. The BBC Scotland newsreader was even sporting his red, white and blue tie……
BSR @ 2.21
Main stand rebuild — what feasibility studies?
Are you privy to any behind the scenes fag packet analysis?
The base question remains — if not now then when?
How long is a Main Stand designed in 1929 going to be credible / legal for a front rank sports ground?
£100mill budget — plug number — what would it cost to finance ?
What would be the revenue return?
My thoughts are an extra £12-15mill in revenue from year round use.
If we are turning away free money then what should we do?
Remember we led the world once with the Double Decker stand.