Russians step up regionalisation, don’t fancy Norwich chances

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Can you imagine offering £5m for the first-choice striker at any team on the Champions League knock out rounds?  I’m less concerned about the forthcoming Juventus game, which will take care of itself, but Celtic hope to have three Champions League qualifier rounds in July and August.  Many highly sought-after players don’t move until late in the transfer window, so the squad we finish the season with will, for the most part, be the squad we start that qualifiers with.

Asset management has been the mantra on CQN for years but when the value of the asset doesn’t peak above even the short-term value on the field we are better to allow a contract to expire than sell early.  In short, I don’t fancy Norwich’s chances of acquiring some under-priced talent, no matter how keen others are to make a deal happen.

Russian sports minister, Vitaly Mutko, told journalists he was working on the CIS League project, which initially sought to combine Russian and Ukrainian leagues, but may also include others.  Uefa are thought to be supportive of the deal while Fifa president, Sepp Blatter, sought to under-play it when in Russia this week.  The regionalisation of European leagues is the way forward for clubs disenfranchised by powerful TV markets.

Mutko, a former Zenit director, is one of Russia’s ‘colourful’ characters, but he is organised, ambitious and well-connected at Uefa.

Kilmarnock have long endured life with the highest debt-to-turnover ratio in the SPL but they have managed to pay their bills when due, until now.  News that a food supplier has taken legal action over a £16k debt is not surprising.  These are hard times for many people but when you have not, or cannot, pay a debt, at least be gracious about it.  Suggesting your creditor is seeking publicity by raising the action is very poor form.

Ironically, if there is one club in the whole of Europe who would benefit from regionalisation it’s Kilmarnock, who are stuck in an impoverished league with their remarkable infrastructure.  If only they had some vision at the top….

Looking forward to the visit of United tonight; the two most skillful teams in Scotland on show.
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  1. kojo: 17:51 on 22 January, 2013

     

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    Titter ye not, mon brave, ah’m still laughin’ tae.

     

    To be insulted by some on here is ‘soitenly’ an honour.

     

    Still chortlin’!

     

    Yer in-blog resident unreconstructed socialist.

     

    TooOldToCareTooLateToChange CSC

  2. Big Georges Fan Club on

    This is WEE BGFC. I am just commenting about the crowd on Saturday so more of the same tonight bhoys and yous part-timers better get along tonight and not be parttimers anymore!

     

    Obviously me and my Dad are going today again because we are season ticket holders and this time my pattimer sister is going today as well. It was a great game on Saturday and what a goal from Lassad to make it 4. Also does any one no the team today?

  3. Good evening friends.

     

     

    It’s going to be a cold one tonight. But am I bothered?

     

     

    If I start putting the layers on now I might get away from my house by 6.45 ;-)

  4. dessybhoy

     

     

    I had t he same problem for weeks, I kept updating it as it kept crashing.

     

     

    I switched from IE to Google Chrome, been fine ever since, touch wood…..

  5. Oh aye….one reason perhaps for the ‘feebies’ files being locked for decades is that the truth about MLK’s assassination/murder would set off rioting that would make 1968 look like a tea party.

     

    Just as valid an argument as any other guff.

  6. My Dear ,Dear,Dear,Friend.. The Singing Detective..

     

     

    Hiya. Palomine..

     

     

    Yep..as Usual.. we hiv goat the usual complement o

     

     

     

    Ostriches.. aboard.

     

     

    whit a Bunch o’ “Callow Yoofs”

     

     

    except, that these.. Ostriches oan here . are Far Far Removed fae Thur

     

    Youth.

     

     

    Ah guess.. there is A Loata Truth..

     

     

    In the saying.

     

     

    “There is Nae Fool..Like An AULD FOOL.”

     

     

    Right?

     

     

    Damn Right.

     

     

    Kojo

     

     

    Yer Pal.. who likes ye aloater..

     

     

    Still.Laughin.. Though

  7. nah im not a big fan of lennon…john not NEIL.

     

    im not sure he recorded a decent song post 1971 yet its mccartney that gets derided all the time because he had the cheek to grow old and uncool.

     

    lennons voice was shot by the mid 1970s and he was reletively still a young man..he had also completely dried up creatively .

     

    mccartneys voice has only become shot and weak in recent times …after all he is pushing 71.

     

    even in the beatles if it wasnt for mccartney they would have achieved nothing much after the mid 1960s……..lennon needed mccartney way more than the other way around,but thats an opinion that remains locked in the minority of folks like me because of the myth surrounding his tragic death.

  8. The Beatles were simply amazing, even as they didn’t know that at the time themselves.

     

    Some musicologists credit them with saving western music from a terminal decline.

     

    And George Martin, their legendary Abbey Rd. producer, is often forgotten in their musical progression: often known as the fifth beatle.

     

    In my eyes they can do no wrong.

     

    And no matter what, each and every McCartney album includes one or two absolute belters.

  9. The Reason Ah wrote whit a Did.aboot.. King..

     

     

    Is .. well…

     

     

    That.. Ah want Folk tae Know.. aboot his Real Un-White- Washed..

     

    if ye pardon the Expression… Character…

     

     

    Fur..

     

     

    Everyone,is Entitled tae be informed of the Actual Truth of the Matter..

     

     

    regarding. well…

     

     

     

    Anything..or… Anybody.

     

     

    Maks sense tae me.

     

     

     

    Kojo.

     

     

    Laughin’

  10. Now, for balance, Kojo, a 2,000 word discussion on the sexual pecadilloes of Ronnie Raygun and Pat Buchanan is jist whit we Celtic supporters need in the run up to tonight’s game.

     

     

    Or you could look up Negationism as you appear to be suffering from it.

  11. Dead and Loving it on

    notthebus

     

     

    better check your spelling mate.

     

     

    A real crime in the world of the two headed snake.

  12. I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.

     

    Just sayin’.

     

    Coat ➡….

  13. well said miki 67 with regards the george martin/beatles and macca .

     

    i agree.

     

    its not cool these days to praise a couple of old farts like george martin and mccartney but sometimes i think their individual genius gets overlooked .

  14. The ‘Love’ album released a couple of years ago with remixed, remastered Beatles classics proved how relevant, musically, thy still are.

     

    And McCartney’s Fire Engine project with Musical Youth shows his depth of understanding re. the 21st. Century.

  15. The Exiled Tim

     

     

    Ah wanna Gie ye.. wan o’ they. Intelligence Tests..

     

     

    Are ye Ready…?

     

     

    This Test is fairly Easy..

     

     

    Fur it only his Wan solitary Question.. tae answer..

     

     

    Here goes..

     

     

    “Dae You Actually, believe that ..

     

     

    Kojo and the Singing Detective are the SAME PERSON?”

     

     

    If Yer answer is ..”Yes.”

     

     

    Then.Ah am sorry tae tell ye Pal..

     

     

     

     

    Ye JIst Goat an

     

     

     

    “F”

     

     

    Which means yer I.Q. is Sub Normal.

     

     

    Kojo

     

     

    Noo.. Really Laughing.. like .. Heidi

     

     

    Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha

  16. Jeg er Neil Lennon-Greeninbingley on

    notthebus

     

    18:12 on

     

    22 January, 2013

     

    Its a bit silly this Kojo/Singing Dective thing is it not?

     

     

    Yes, it is. Very silly indeed. And tiresome.

     

     

    Like the annoying wee scroat in the street who tries to wind up the adults by shouting ‘hey mister – up yer bum’ or similar from just out of range, over and over again.

     

     

    They usually grow out of it by the age of about ten.

     

     

    Mon the Hoops (including Hoops).

  17. Dead and Loving it on

    On my trip to Ireland in December, I was in a wee pub having a pint when I noticed a sign on the wall ,it said

     

     

    some people bring joy to this place by coming in , others bring joy by leaving

     

     

    fits this blog perfectly sometimes,

  18. setting free the bears

     

     

    I lived on Long Island New York back in the 60’s and had a girlfriend who told me she was a Scientologist, dumb nuts me was thinking she was some kind of scientist

     

    . Now keep in mind I am not a historian, I am not into politics only into what I think is best for me. I am registered as an independant

     

    . My story is that one night I asked her if she would like to go to the movies and she said yes, so I said pick a movie and we will go.

     

    She calls me back and says there is a movie in my home town so lets go there, I said what movie, and I swear she said The Man who would be King but it turned out to be Martin Luther King, we were the only white people in the movie hall, never been so scared in all my life, lucky to get out alive.

     

    I listen to the radio a lot as I do a lot of driving and what I hear mostly is that MLK= Socialism. Not my opinion just what I hear a lot.

     

     

    nosocialisminamericacsc

  19. Big G and TET

     

    Cheers ive downloaded the adobe update and now using IE without any probs, thanks

  20. i wish mccartney would concentrate more on the ‘fireman’ style projects[with ‘youth’] rather than his karoke beatle money making world tours.

     

    once again i agree with you…..but thats mccartney for you,he never seems to know when hes got it right and hes usually off doing something silly next.

  21. Jeg er Neil Lennon-Greeninbingley on

    I don’t know enough about McCartney to comment – always seemed a bit of an irrelevance after about the time of Hi Hi Hi and Give Ireland Back To The Irish.

     

     

    But will forgive him anything for Eleanor Rigby.

     

     

    Lennon: “Imagine no possessions… I wonder if you can” has to be one of the most sanctimonious and pompous lines anywhere, ever.

     

     

    IMO.