It is a quirk of fixture scheduling that the farthest Celtic travel before December is Edinburgh. Exerting travel, like last week’s journey to Bergamo, will not interrupt our preparations as we compete on three fronts in the week ahead.
The rest of Scottish football’s attention will be elsewhere when we take on Dundee at Celtic Park tomorrow, but focus will return to Glasgow for Saturday’s League Cup semifinal against Aberdeen, and for our Champions League game at home to Leipzig, one week from today.
The win at Motherwell was doubly welcome as it was an away game after an away European tie, statistically when teams are most likely to drop points. The other interesting dynamic is that our next two matches are against teams who are not practiced at playing two games a week.
While Celtic coasted to a win at Motherwell, Dundee had a battle against St Johnstone before losing to a 90th minute goal. Celtic Park tomorrow is Dundee’s first midweek game since July. The same is true of Aberdeen. They also went to the last kick of the ball against Dundee United at the weekend, will doubtlessly have an engaging tussle tomorrow, before pitching up to face the Champions on Saturday.
We have the bigger squad and playing two games a week is our norm. Let’s make the most of the scheduling quirk and arrive for our next Champions League tie in top condition.
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Their accounts report is brilliant.
Loved this wee gem…
The club also said they were “free of any litigation claims for first time in over a decade” after settling a legal dispute with Elite Sports Group Ltd, owners of kit brand Hummel, in August.
😂😂😂
!!BADA BING!! on 29TH OCTOBER 2024 5:19 PM
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/scotland
Check out the BBC Scotland headline
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Let them run with their pro-ipox feel good pish!
The media are partly responsible the last club dying and the position this lot find themselves in, due to blowing smoke up the arses of the hun hordes on behalf of any arsehole that sits atop the marble staircase.
Long may it continue. A large percentage of them have no idea the trouble they are in, due to believing this type of pish.
😂😂😂
!!Bada Bing!! on 29th October 2024 4:58 pm
Thanks and that is my recollection as well.
TOM MCLAUGHLIN on 29TH OCTOBER 2024 6:08 PM
BADA BING
How much have they lost in their 12 years?
https://x.com/agentscotland/status/1851316722206171545?s=48
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If my fag packet maths (no laughing at the Huns account methods) are correct, they have lost a total of around £126.8m since they crawled out of Rangers’ grave.
Jeezaloo man!
If it wasn’t for the new UEFA regulations, they wouldn’t have a thing to worry about.
The SFA & SPFL are an absolute joke!
Well done Celtic and PL on their hand in assisting UEFA bring these regulations in.
👏👏👏
Bada / Melvin
I see no-one put their name to the article
GENE on 29TH OCTOBER 2024 8:32 PM
Bada / Melvin
I see no-one put their name to the article
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As it is likely a press release straight from Ibrox that they’ve been handed to publish. With that spin on it, it surely can’t be anything else.
Dick Wilson will have his mucky mitts all over it
Just because a club is running at a loss does not necessarily mean it is insolvent.
Insolvency means they don’t have enough cash or assets to pay their debts. Rangers are certainly not at that stage.
However, they do not have the means to buy players of any real quality. For the foreseeable future they’ll be limited to journeymen and even then, they will always have to sell before they can buy.
Financially, they will be in Celtic’s shadow for years, maybe even decades to come.
Somebody mentioned Fox News today,saying CNN was a bit one sided.Fox News and the BBC .Paragons of truth,impartiality,journalistic integrity,and unbiased reporting.
Said no one ever.
That’s without including BBC Scotland Sport.
Doesn’t take the DR long to provide hope 🤣
“New loan Rangers man unmasked as billionaire American John Halsted in major cash injection talks”
There’s more……
“The American billionaire, who specialises in equity investment, is looking at the possibility of putting much-need additional capital into the cash-strapped Ibrox club. The wealthy businessman has held detailed discussions with the Rangers board over a potential new investment.”
£17.2m sorted 👍👌
Tom Mc Laughlin,
Not disagreeing,but when you say” They are not at the state where they can’t pay their debts”,how do we really know this?.In 2012,I think everyone was shocked at the list of debtors they owed money to.This money that they are allegedly raising in January,or thereabouts,what exactly is that for?.Cant be to buy players,not allowed,so what?.
Correct,they will be in our shadow for the foreseeable future.
“How much have they lost in their 12 years?”
And yet in those 12 skint years they got to a European final.
Once again,Media acting as if they dont know the meaning of the word” Investor”.
TB
As soon as a creditor isn’t paid on time and thinks they can’t pay then they will issue a winding up order
What happened to the cross bar challenge money?
Rangers Financial Results
(Loss) £000
1989 -£2,955
1990 £1,214
1991 £43
1992 -£362
1993 -£3,262
1994 -£2,202
1995 £455
1996 -£2,137
1997 -£20,513
1998 -£12,491
1999 -£24,393
2000 -£24,999
2001 -£16,879
2002 -£35,328
2003 -£29,606
2004 -£5,939
2005 -£2,326
2006 £92
2007 -£6,253
2008 £7,172
2009 -£12,651
2010 £4,209
2011 £2,411 Never audited
-£186,700
2012 -£80,000 Assumed loss on declaration of TAX
2013 -£14,000
2014 -£8,100
2015 -£7,500
2016 -£3,300
2017 -£6,700
2018 -£14,300
2019 -£11,300
2020 -£15,200
2021 -£23,791
2022 -£919
2023 -£4,144
2024 -£17,170
-£126,424
Total -£393,124
That awkward moment when the Daily Record mentions a ‘ billionaire ‘
bournesouprecipe on 29th October 2024 9:37 pm
That awkward moment when the Daily Record mentions a ‘ billionaire ‘
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TURKEYBHOY on 29TH OCTOBER 2024 8:58 PM
Somebody mentioned Fox News today, saying CNN was a bit one sided. Fox News and the BBC. Paragons of truth, impartiality, journalistic integrity, and unbiased reporting. Said no one ever.
*absolutely, I used to love CNN but have went off it now, especially when too many trumpet sycophants are on the panels, and I don’t mean supporters but those that worked for him and possibly still do.
Personally, I get my US news from MSNBC who if, God forbid, he wins, will be closed down, just like he has earlier threatened CNN, New York Times, Washington Post and 60 Minutes Sunday evening show.
One of the spin-offs from Manchester Citys recent victory over the EPL re ATP rules is that the Panel also ruled that the ATP rules breached competition laws because they excluded ‘shareholder loans’ from the associated party transaction rules. The EPL will now need to find a way to rewrite the rules to include them. Now this would affect those such as Arsenal, so a big deal, but they are hoping get round this by saying it will only apply to loans made from now on, and that each loan will be judged on its merit, fair market interest rates etc, and any impact on PSR (profit & sustainability), good luck with that. If and when they do, where does leave the SPL, when its’ newest and one of its’ biggest clubs is being sustained by in-house loans covering year on year losses. I note that some £4 mill was paid out in interest so the club is not getting these loans for free. John Bennett is down for loans and overdraft fqcilties worth £18 mill and he has also converted another £5 mill into equity confetti. The former are interest bearing, so might meet the FMV criteria but the latter, the ol’ equity switcheroo less so. Bennett resigned as Chairman so may or may not be an associated party, George Taylor, who signed off the recent accounts is, as Julian J Wolhardt, a Director who is in deep for £10 mill at 4%. There are others Graham Park almost certainly, who have lent money to the new club, and or opted for equity. Now it may be that all these ‘loans’ either meet or would meet any new rules, but of course if they would not the chances of the SPL rewriting them to match the new EPL version are slim to none, and as Don King often used to say…..slim just left town.
Just had a look at their accounts – there’s a £4m one-off in the P&L related to Covid insurance, so the normalised loss before player trading is closer to £6m, not £2m. Profit from player sales was a whopping £18m lower than the last financial year.
The cash flow statement shows them to be burning cash and ever more reliant on investor loans to fund the business. Indeed of the £25.9m of net debt i.e. debt after deducting the £1.7m they have in the bank, only £290k is owed to the bank.
The bit I find funniest is they let Micky Mouth Beale blow £21m in transfers last summer, but offset some of that with £12m of player disposals, so a net spend of c.£9m. According to note 30 on post balance sheet events, they signed 10 players this summer for a cost of £13.4m and got rid of 5 player registrations and 4 loan players which brought in…………£810k. Cement has a higher net spend than Mickey Mouth 😂😂
However, maybe, just maybe they see the writing on the wall as they now label themselves as “ONE of the world’s most successful clubs” 😂
Just saw the final few minutes of 120 as Wolfsburg beat Dortmund in the German Cup.
1-0
TURKEYBHOY
There was one major difference in 2012 — HMRC
Log in pash
Tom,
Just the other creditors I was meaning.Not HMRC.I mean that list was like an Andrex roll.£800, here,£6,000 there,all sorts.Not individual debts that could close them,but added together,was a fortune owed out.I Its like a Chinese puzzle trying to work out the finances at that hell hole.
Anyway,they will not trouble us.
Great to see a full fixture list tonight and almost in parallel, I hope the 15 min delay at Pittodrie adds drama to the event and hopefully after the hoops are already confirmed top, regardless of that result.
Should have bought shares in deludamol. Most of the brains of Britain on swallowswallow think that winning the no litigation cup an£17 Mullion loss is a result. I blame the schools. 😂
THAT Shortie puff piece should get the sub-editor the tin tack…………..
Laughable blatant messsage management, even by their own standards.
HHH.
Good match day morning all.
Game day is here 3 points tonight is all that counts.
Ps and come on the sheep.
Pps on a personal note I now have a bloody infection in my Total Knee Replacement scar, right at the bottom, so on anti biotics.
5 – 1 to the Tic tonight.
D. :)
THE RUMBLE IN THE JUNGLE 50 years ago …
Zaire , not Parkhead .
Great spectacle .
Looking forward to the present day rumble with Dundee , 3 points ,no injuries then onto the Semi …oh and Mornin.
https://youtu.be/GUpGRXT18R8?si=DCvYf3Ce0TpyjHCE
The single “In Zaire “
Early reminder that 15 folk still have to get their Superbru predictions in for tonight.
And a complaint…….. David 66 has made the same prediction as me for the Celtic match. Please Sir!- He’s copying me!
The Huns’ attempt to positively spin the lack of fresh litigation as the glitter on a 17million turd is a bit like a cardiologist telling a patient that their congestive heart problems are inoperable but that that pesky bout of dandruff seems to be on the mend.
Mental!!
Pa Pa Pap Parra Ra Pap Paaaahhhh !
Show litigation the red card !
Will it prove to be another false Don for the sheep tonight ?…….
Genuine question for those with a business background. What are the people giving money to the huns expecting back? What “value” do they have?
I thought thon Orangeman was actually singing Baa Baa, Baa Baa, Baa Baa, Baa Baa Baa, Baa Baa Baa Baa Baa.
Possibly an omen for the sheep vanquishing the zombies tonight.