Sevco and Gang of 10

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We are three days away from Rangers creditors’ vote on the proposed CVA and my best sources remain strongly of the view that HMRC will vote against.  As a result, on Thursday, the process to liquidate Rangers will commence and Charles Green’s company, Sevco 5088, will attempt to purchase the assets of the business.

One of the first acts of Sevco 5088 will be to apply for membership to the Scottish Premier League.  They will offer the league an opportunity to retain considerable revenue streams which would be lost to the league following the liquidation of the former football club, Rangers.

Attitudes hardened towards a Newco proposition since Mr Green came onto the scene, specifically since Rangers raised an action against the Scottish FA at the Court of Session, but sentiment in football is fickle.  We should ignore all public comments on the subject of Newco and concentrate our minds on the SPL vote, which will take place next week.

Two months ago the Gang of 10 clubs thought they were in an ‘Arab Spring’ moment when they met to discuss how they would use Rangers demise as an opportunity to re-engineer the league.  Charles Green is aware of their feelings on this matter and is likely to use this knowledge to inform his offer to the league.

Expect Green to offer to support a change in voting rights if the SPL allow Servco a franchise in the SPL.  This offer would allow the Gang of 10 to not only retain much of their existing income streams, they would actually be able to bring in additional income.  Servco FC would benefit from being the first company to be able to buy a place in the top division of Scottish football.  The only loser from this scenario would be Celtic.

The existing voting rights protect Celtic from several hazards.  The most important two are the rights of home teams to retain match ticket revenue and a limit to the number of home games shown live on TV for any club.

You will hear lots of comment from the Gang of 10 that they are not interested in splitting home gate money but none of them have agreed to exclude this matter from the change in voting rights.  More Celtic home games on TV would be welcomed by armchair fans that live abroad but would see season ticket holders suffer as kick off times are moved to accommodate TV scheduling.  Neither of these matters will be addressed at this month’s SPL meeting but, if the voting rights change, you can expect to read about them soon.

If the application from Sevco is rejected, we enter a new world, where SPL voting rights will inevitably change and Scottish clubs will have to learn to cooperate with each other on a constructive basis.  As Celtic fans, we will embrace that challenge, but you can be sure that a slice of your season ticket money is being offered right now by people who have nothing whatsoever to do with Celtic.

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  1. Fortunes Favours

     

     

    I know you were referring to the SPL, but it appears the idea itself derives from the latest scheister to arrive down Ayebroke way. Are we going to the time of day to any idea coming from such a source? The answer has got to be no, but the solution, if there is to be one, surely lies elsewhere.

  2. TimmySeville on

    Delia

     

     

    You are a dreadful bore.

     

     

    Cogent. I have been reading your inane drivel throughout this last 24 hour period. You are an italicised smart arse of epic proportions.

     

     

    Many fine CQN’ers have afforded you a reasoned response yet as they do not stand steadfast and staunch on the side of rhetoric you believe you have the right to patronise. You are not interested in any arguement reasoned or otherwise. You have no interest in one gleening a fuller (if not complete) understanding of the issues under discussion as your ego demands acceptance of your pre defined point of view.

     

     

    Modern day philosphers like yourself are plain tiresome.

     

     

    Now with full length strokes off you trot and massage that ego of yours somewhere more becoming of your nature.

     

     

    Your Tim’ll Fix It badge is in the post.

     

     

    Stupid stupid media house.

  3. James Forrest is Neil Lennon! We are ALL Neil Lennon! on

    Deliasmith:

     

     

    You want an answer? I’ll give you an answer.

     

     

    The buying of a season ticket is a huge financial sacrifice. There are guys on here, and elsewhere, who pay that money not so much to watch football matches but as a statement of personal loyalty to the institution that is Celtic. You don’t believe that? I can tell you I know guys who buy their tickets even though they have work commitments that don’t always allow them to make games, family commitments which have the same effect or who live far enough away they get to Celtic Park once in a blue moon. Those tickets often end up in the hands of family members and friends, and it’s a rare thing if money changes hands.

     

     

    For some, a season ticket is about a personal commitment to a cause. It assures you are doing your part to strengthen your team. You want to stop fans buying season tickets? You want to destroy the season ticket model at Celtic Park forever? You tell Celtic fans their money is going to subsidise empty seats at Fir Park, and you will see fans voting with their feet. What is being proposed here will destroy the connection between fans and the club. Part of the process in buying a season ticket is an implicit vote of confidence that your money will be well spent, making Celtic Football Club a better force on the pitch.

     

     

    By the way, Rangers fans will react in exactly the same way as we do. They will vote with their feet. The idea of giving anything at all to other clubs in this league is one they can barely stomach as it is … and so you have the supporters of the two biggest clubs in the land (if they survive) who will feel betrayed, who will feel conned and cheated, and will spend their money on merchandise instead, or other areas where the other clubs greedy mitts can’t get to it.

     

     

    And what will be the result? Will the other teams thrive and prosper? No, the biggest two teams will stagnate, and the rest will have a brief fling with newfound riches, lasting about one season, and then the whole of the game – all of it, every club – will go down at the same time.

     

     

    You will kill the game stone dead. It will not help clubs. It will destroy them.

     

     

    There are other arguments. How is it in our interest to strengthen our rivals? In case no-one told you, the objective in a sport is to WIN … and whilst there is joy in taking part, sister, I want to WIN, I want to win every game, every league, every cup, from now until the end of time. I do not want my money funding the wages of a striker who might score a goal against us, depriving us of a league or a cup, and thus more money. That is the road to madness.

     

     

    The SPL brand is already heavily damaged by the Rangers situation. If the NewClub is allowed back in the league, the Jon Snow (for the Game of Thrones lovers out there) of Scottish Football, it will be damaged further, perhaps destroyed entirely as anger explodes across the country. Certainly, the reputation of this league will never, ever recover.

     

     

    What will help clubs above all is if they start LISTENING to their fans again. League reconstruction is a MUST, but clubs voted against it out of self interest and spite, although fans were overwhelmingly in favour. TV contracts must respect supporters feelings on when games are played. Summer football should be a consideration. The pyramid structure should be implemented, and there should be play-offs for relegation and promotion. All of that would improve the game in this country out of sight … and what would improve it more than any other factor would be a demonstration we run a clean game, which means Rangers 2012 starting at the bottom and EARNING a place in the league.

     

     

    And on the way, the financial benefits of them visiting every ground in the country at least twice would transform the game from the bottom up.

     

     

    There is your footballing revolution, your redistribution of wealth and power.

     

     

    The fans want these things. The clubs are denying them. You tell me why our club should fund the present system any further, far less have the money come out of our pockets? We at least have run our club properly. Can the Kilmarnock’s, Dunfermline’s and Hearts’ say the same, far less Rangers?

     

     

    Why should we pay more so they can continue to run up debts? If we give these clubs an extra million they will spend two million. The facts are there in their own accounts, and that should be all the argument against this you need.

  4. Totally unconnected (but somehow, I feel relevant) observation which was passed to me today…

     

     

    …the 21st Century. Where deleting history is more important than making it….

  5. delia smith

     

     

    Just going to bed but my quick answer to your question:-

     

     

    “Seriously fellow Celtic fans, somebody on this blog must be willing to try to explain why it’s OK to pay visiting teams thirty per cent of the gate, or more, for a cup tie but unthinkable to pay twenty per cent to them when it’s a league game.”

     

     

    It’s really quite simple. There are different rules for the cup competitions and they were agreed by all the clubs. In a cup game, there is no guarantee of a return fixture and, as the home team already has ground advantage, I would imagine that the more equitable splitting of receipts is seen as a balance to that advantage of not being guaranteed a home Cup tie if you are unfortunate enough to be drawn against the Celts at CP. In our league games, all our opponents, well at least those in the top 6 nowadays, get the same number of home fixtures wherein they can earn their own money.

     

     

    On the overall argument about fairer income distribution bringing better competition, I think there are a couple of false assumptions being made. Firstly, in a post-Bosman era and with improved transportation not limiting us to local club options, we cannot and will not return to the heady days where Airdrie and Dundee could get near comparable crowds to us by adopting your proposal. Instead of having 2 strong clubs and 10 weak ones we will create 12 weak ones. Secondly, an equable distribution of all income can have some perverse incentives involved. What reward is there for a club who attract more than 50% of all spectators if each additional home supporter above the half way level has to pay his money direct to opposition coffers even though he has no allegiance to that team and, in many cases, would actively strive not to support them morally or financially. That spectator has a perverse incentive to withdraw his attendance so that his money does not go to strengthen the opposition and, thereby, reduce his preferred club’s hard earned advantages. Crowds fall off at CP because Celtic fans do not want to support anyone but Celtic and Celtic reserves.

     

     

    I’m off to bed now

  6. BOBBY MURDOCH'S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on

    FORTUNE’S FAVOUR

     

     

    Canny be BB,she’s not called us all morons yet.

     

     

    Glad to see some opposition to the idea of gate-sharing;I was ploughung a lone furrow for a while early afternoon.

     

     

    I have no problem with negotiating-we are in a position of strength,after all-but that doesn’t mean saying-ok,folks,dip my wallet.

  7. Delia

     

     

    You are a dreadful bore.

     

     

    Cogent. I have been reading your inane drivel throughout this last 24 hour period. You are an italicised smart arse of epic proportions.

     

     

    Many fine CQN’ers have afforded you a reasoned response yet as they do not stand steadfast and staunch on the side of rhetoric you believe you have the right to patronise. You are not interested in any arguement reasoned or otherwise. You have no interest in one gleening a fuller (if not complete) understanding of the issues under discussion as your ego demands acceptance of your pre defined point of view.

     

     

    Modern day philosphers like yourself are plain tiresome.

     

     

    Now with full length strokes off you trot and massage that ego of yours somewhere more becoming of your nature.

     

     

    Your Tim’ll Fix It badge is in the post.

     

     

    Stupid stupid media house.

     

     

     

    truculent … ad hominem … My, you must be a terrible fella to bump into in the corridor. And how dare you call me a house? I’ve never been so insulted. I’ve a good mind to call you a garage. Or a taxi.

     

     

    And this:

     

    The buying of a season ticket is a huge financial sacrifice….

     

    For some, a season ticket is about a personal commitment to a cause. It assures you are doing your part to strengthen your team.

     

    All true, but so what? You have to play somebody 19 home games a season. Nobody’s going to buy a season ticket to watch the grass grow or Harlem Globetrotter exhibitions. It’s not called a league for nothing – we’re all in the league, we play each other. Why is this so hard to take in? If there’s no opposition there’s no game, there’s no league, there’s no Celtic.

     

     

    You want to stop fans buying season tickets?

     

     

    My initial response to this question was “no, of course not”, but in fact I think it’s at least arguable that the game would be better off without season books being so dominant. Young people, unemployed people, poor people, they can never get a season book. The club I started watching when Mr McGrory was nominally the manager used to let dads give their youngsters a lift over the turnstile, used to let you in on the cheap if you were on the burroo, used to let priests in for free. Those unemployed men andold priests are dead now I guess, but the boys are customers now. Professional customers. And there aren’t many boys in Celtic Park these days.

     

     

    What is being proposed here will destroy the connection between fans and the club.

     

     

    Well it would change it that’s for sure, but maybe for the better. I think it’s a great shame that football clubs have tricked so many people into believing that you measure your identity in pounds handed over to the club for a seat, a crappy replica shirt, an overpriced pie. My ancestors left behind the ould sod, the priest and the drink. They kept on with Celtic, nothing else. But they knew, and I know, that there are higher and better aims in life than being a super-consumer..

     

     

    And what will be the result? Will the other teams thrive and prosper? No, the biggest two teams will stagnate, and the rest will have a brief fling with newfound riches, lasting about one season, and then the whole of the game – all of it, every club – will go down at the same time.

     

     

    – just like in the 1960s, 70s and 80s I suppose, when Scottish clubs never qualified in Europe, never beat the English – oh no, not never … always.

     

     

     

    There was a lot more, but that’ll do for now. And thanks for giving an answer.

  8. James Forrest is Neil Lennon! We are ALL Neil Lennon! on 12 June, 2012 at 01:03 said:

     

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    I know of one person who’s got a season ticket and is not even going to be in the country for most of the season……it will be farmed out to whoever really needs it,whenever,however.

     

    The person in question supports Celtic F.C. come hell or high water,and I admire that. It’s not blinkered; it’s love for all that we stand for,all that we were created for,all that we come from.

     

    When,and I can assure you it’s coming,the scandal perpetrated by one club for the benefit of none except itself fully detonates,then there will be a lot of fallout and in the aftermath football in Scotland will be changed forever,and we will survive, stronger and better.

     

    How can I assure you? Well,it has become stark staring obvious, with ALL that’s been reported over the last year,and with every daily dose of desperate fantasy emanating from the toxic club we all despise, that the merde has truly hit the windmill for all concerned in trying to keep the stench from everybody else’s noses.

     

    It’s just a waiting game now. The evidence is in. They are gone.

     

    Meanwhile,we are Celtic. Have been since 1888. Will still be in 2088. Still loved as ever.

     

    HH! KTF.

  9. Delia

     

     

    I made a polite request that you went back and read my two earlier posts as I felt they would give you some idea as to where I was coming from. Clearly you have either chosen not to or have decided not to make comment on them.

     

     

    I would ask you then, as a supporter who already makes a substantial contribution to the other SPL clubs by attending all Celtic’s fixtures at away grounds, should I have to contribute twice through my season ticket payments?

  10. From an RTC post:

     

    “Given Brian Kennedy’s company Weatherseal is now the SPL’s new sponsor, I imagined a multitude of posts would have been forthcoming on this subject.

     

    Neil Doncaster and the SPL are now financially inwoven with a company owned by a Blue Knight who is desperate to keep RFC in the top flight.

     

    I would have thought this was worthy of a “Wow, just Wow” episode but, as I said, maybe I have missed it or others don’t deem it important.”

     

    Good ole boyz SFA,keepin’ up their fine traditions….

  11. Do Manchester United pay half their gates to Norwich?

     

    Do Barcalona pay half their gates to Mallorca?

     

     

    Because the guy in the pub whom you drink with ears half of what you earn should you be morally oblidged to buy him two drinks for every one he buys you?

  12. When I used to get lifted over into Celtic Park the stadium held 80,000. Very seldom did it ever sell out, and when that was on the cards the game would be ‘all ticket’.

     

     

    Without standing area’s ‘lift-overs’ are no longer viable.

     

     

    I can’t remember but back in the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s when Scottish clubs were doing so well in Europe, did Celtic split their gate money with them?

  13. If Tennant’s didn’t have Kestrel for competition maybe their product would be crapier. So every time I go into a pub and buy a pint of Tennant’s I’m going to insist that half the profit goes to those trail-blazing louts over at Kestrel because without them we wouldn’t know what quality is.

     

     

    And when I buy my Glasgow Herald I want half the profit to go to the Daily Record so as they might up their game.

     

     

    And when I buy my Greggs pie, and when I put my bet on at Coral’s and when I buy my Embassy Tipped and when I buy my next Greggs pie and when I put 5 pound in the plate at mass I want half of it to go to the wee freebies. Aye it’s a grand old life to be living when I can’t even spend my money the way I want to spend my money without somebody, who might not have paid their taxes like I have, dictating to me that half of what I spend will not go to what I want it to go to, it will instead go to prop up others that I may not have a huge liking for. I might as well just sling the huns twenty quid now, oh on second thoughts I’ll sling them ten, the other ten I’ll send to the taxman on their behalf. Like f.

     

    What next, do the other clubs in the SPL want a share of our merchandise sales. Do they want a percentage of our image rights; do they want a percentage of our shareholders dividends; do they want a wee sub from the Celtic TV subscriptions; do they want a percentage of our match day food sales; do they want a cut from our pre-season friendlies; do they want a cut from the money the Celtic Supporters contribute to charity; do they want a cut from the tills of our bars; do they want a percentage of Audi car sales to Celtic supporters?

     

     

    I won’t ever pay a penny towards another teams running costs other than to pay through their gate. If they did not make it so difficult for away supporters to get tickets then they might get a few bob more.

     

     

    I honestly believe such leeching, along with another’s cheating, will be the death of Scottish football.

  14. Very quite night on CQN.

     

    Good Morning to all.

     

     

    Interesting day in Poland. We play against against Russia I’m Warsaw. Their supporters chief said to the Russian media: If we let them marching in the centre of the city with red flags, if we let them throw the flares on the pitch, if our stewards don’t touch their fans and don’t say them a word, if we let them get on the stadium drunk, if we let them get in with banned flags and banners… If we dissapear, they will be decent fans and will show it tonight.

  15. Even if Rangers were to be successful in exiting administration through acceptance of a CVA, it means they would then be in danger from the big tax bill when the FTT finally announces its verdict. With a Rangers free of administration, there would be nothing to stop HMRC issuing a winding-up order in the wake of the FTT verdict going in their favour.

     

     

    Green and the Administrators know the CVA has little chance of success. In fact if it WERE accepted, they would be shitting bricks.

     

     

    They want liquidation. It is the only way to wipe out the big tax bill. Acceptance of the CVA would throw them straight back into the lion’s den.

  16. Good morning friends from East Kilbride where it’s a dry and a bit brighter start to the day. Have a pleasant one.

  17. Mountblow tim on

    Good morning CQN from a cloudy Clydebank

     

     

    3 days to go till the end no CVA

     

     

    19 new players on the way they’ll be lucky to have

     

    19 supporters come Friday

     

     

    Keep the Faith

     

     

    Hail Hail

  18. BOBBY MURDOCH'S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on

    TIMMYSEVILLE 0101

     

     

    KITALBA 0404

     

     

    Sorry,lads. Canny split you,I’m afraid you will have to share the prize for POST OF THE DAY.

     

     

    It’s a cyberpint,btw. You can toss a coin to see who gets the Kestrel,and who lands the Tennents!

     

     

    BTW,I know a lot of you who are resident in Scotland don’t think much of Tennents,possibly due to dubious past employment practices. That is your choice,and I will not criticise you for it.

     

     

    But I suggest to you to try living outside of Scotland;by Jings,you will appreciate the stuff when faced with a choice of Fosters,Carling,Carlsberg,etc.

     

     

    And I still have nightmares about being forcefed Marksman lager in the nineties when I went to a Spurs game.

     

     

    Only thing worse was Norseman in Sunderland in the late 80s. It got as far as my tonsils and no further.

     

     

    Yer spoiled,you lot!

  19. BOBBY MURDOCH'S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on

    TOM McLAUGHLIN

     

     

    Howdy,bud.

     

     

    How did your recent job interview go?

     

     

    Are you Brisbane-bound,or stuck in that well-known hell-hole of The Gold Coast for the foreseeable?

     

     

    I’ll swap you for Swindon anytime if yer homesick,btw!

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    A rather intriguing article from the Daily Express..

     

     

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    HOME > SPORT > FOOTBALL > Angry Rapid to vote against Gers CVA

     

     

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    ANGRY RAPID TO VOTE AGAINST GERS CVA

     

     

    Tuesday June 12,2012

     

     

    Rapid Vienna is owed money from the £4million transfer of Nikica Jelavic in August 2010

     

     

    By Erwing Grahame

     

     

    Have your say(1)

     

     

    RAPID VIENNA will be represented at Thursday’s meeting at Ibrox to determine the outcome of Charles Green’s CVA proposal – and the Austrians will vote against it.

     

     

    The club is owed £1,011,763.44 by Rangers from the £4million transfer of Croatia striker Nikica Jelavic in August 2010.

     

     

    Green’s offer means Rapid would instead receive a maximum of just over £91,000 – even though Rangers will  recoup all £5.5m from the sale of Jelavic to Everton in January.

     

     

    Rapid could also end up with a lot less because creditors have been told the amount they receive will depend on the outcome of the big tax case and £25m lawsuit against lawyers Collyer Bristow.

     

     

    It could take years for these to be settled and, if results go against Ally McCoist’s Rangers, Rapid could end up with just £10,000 of the cash due to them – which is why they insist they’ll take their case against the Ibrox club to UEFA and FIFA. 

     

     

     

     

     

    We expect others to do the same and, if need be, we’ll go to UEFA and FIFA to help us in this case

     

     

     

     

    Rapid PR man Peter Klinglmuller

     

     

    “We have a contract with a British law company and they will be at Thursday’s meeting taking care of  the business on our behalf,” said Rapid PR man Peter Klinglmuller.

     

     

    “It’s important that we receive the full amount due for Jelavic and not just a percentage of the fee.

     

     

    “When you do business with a big European club then you expect to be paid the full amount.

     

     

    “In a Jelavic interview in an Austrian newspaper the other day he said that he expected to get more money from Rangers than our club would.”.

     

     

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    So could the money due to Jellyfish be coming from an offshore account/EBT ?

  21. Big Georges Fan Club on

    James Forrest is Neil Lennon! We are ALL Neil Lennon! on 12 June, 2012 at 01:03 said:

     

     

    Jon Snow ????????

     

     

    Surely not – he’s a good guy in my books. A better analogy for thems would be that rat Theon Greyjoy – now there’s a man who better fits their mould – le Petite Merde of Westeros!!!!!!

     

     

    HH

  22. Why on earth does ANYONE, RFCia fans included, even allow Mr Green in the room?

     

    This guy is worse than CW. At least CW paid a quid.

     

    I trust that everyone who is seriously considering the CVA has a musical background ‘cos you are all going to have to sing for your money.

     

     

    What a charlatan this CG is!

     

    One fate clearly not awaiting CG is beheading. With a brass neck like his you’d be hard pushed to find an axe strong enough to do the deed.

     

     

    If I were a hunnite, I’d be chasing everyone involved with running RFCia out of town.

     

    I say, you should call the newco, should it ever arise from the ashes, Shouracruiks FC. Hunbelievable, the lot of them.

     

    You can play your games at Cheymless Stadium.

  23. Must admit. Delia Smith that was a mighty fine job you did yesterday and last night. You played a blinder in fact.

     

     

    While the biggest story of the day past almost unnoticed your fawning ego and PR deflection skills was just genious.

     

     

    Anyone for an loan bidder for Rangers and now Blue Knight sponsoring the corrupted SPL? Na. If you didnt think there was a sting in play before then surely it must be evident now that whatever way this plays out it will have been orchestrated and manufactured as planned.

     

     

    Remember our day back in 1994.

     

     

    The Rebels Have Won.

     

     

    You’ll maybe not hear them shout it from the marble staircase but it’ll be whispered in their handshakes soon.

     

     

    The Masons Have Won.

     

     

    MWD

     

     

    MWD

  24. Re the Huns 19 signing targets……

     

    What a brass neck they have while owing millions to creditors, given that the probable intent is to sell ST’s based on the lie, does anyone know if the Huns have sold any?

     

    Hx2

  25. They will be lucky if they ever play in Europe again.

     

     

    Rapid Vienna will send lawyers to the

     

    meeting at Ibrox on Thursday which will

     

    determine the success or otherwise of

     

    preferred bidder Charles Green’s Company

     

    Voluntary Agreement proposal to rescue

     

    Rangers and the Austrians have instructed

     

    their representatives to oppose it.

     

    They are still owed £1,011,763.44 by

     

    Rangers from the £4 million transfer of

     

    Croatia striker Nikica Jelavic (who scored in

     

    Sunday’s 3-1 victory over the Republic of

     

    Ireland) in August 2010.

     

    Green’s offer to creditors means that Rapid

     

    would need to settle for a maximum of just

     

    over £91,000 – even though Rangers will

     

    receive £5.5 million from the sale of Jelavic

     

    to Everton in January.

     

    Rapid could also be asked to settle for much

     

    less because creditors have been told the

     

    percentage in the pound they receive will

     

    largely be determined the outcome of the

     

    big tax case and the £25 million law suit

     

    administrators Duff & Phelps have lodged

     

    against lawyers Collyer Bristow for their

     

    role in Craig Whyte’s deal to assume

     

    ownership of the stricken Glasgow giants.

     

    It could take years for the latter issue to be

     

    resolved and, if results go against Rangers,

     

    Rapid may receive £10,000 of the cash due

     

    to them – which is why they are determined

     

    to take their case against Rangers to

     

    governing bodies Uefa and Fifa.

     

    “We have a contract with a British law

     

    company and they will be at the meeting on

     

    Thursday to take care of business on our

     

    behalf,” said Rapid spokesman Peter

     

    Klinglmuller.

     

    “It’s very important that we receive the full

     

    amount we are due for Jelavic and not just a

     

    percentage of the transfer fee.

     

    “When you do business with a big European

     

    football club then you expect to be paid the

     

    full amount.

     

    “There was an interview with Jelavic in an

     

    Austrian newspaper the other day where he

     

    said that he expected to get more money

     

    from Rangers than our club would.

     

    “Yet it seems unfair to us that we might not

     

    receive the money we are owed for the

     

    player when Rangers expect Everton to pay

     

    the fee they agreed for him.

     

    “I don’t know how the law works in Scotland

     

    but we are used to paying our transfer fees

     

    in full.

     

    “We also expect other clubs to do the same

     

    and, if we need to, we will go to Uefa and

     

    Fifa to help us in this case.”

  26. Morning MWD,

     

    Stuck in bed with a viral infection :<)

     

     

    Re yir post, I expect CFC to have a part to play in this, I hope the endgame for us (if the Huns are allowed in the SPL virtually Scot free ???) is resignation from the SPL.

     

    Hx2

  27. So the story about rangers signing players is nonsense. Rule in question specifically prohibits a club in administration signing players.

     

     

    Stupid Huns…

  28. BOBBY MURDOCH'S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on

    THE SINGING DETECTIVE

     

     

    Gadzooks,you even procrastinate when you copy and paste!

     

     

    By the time I got to the meat of your post,I’d nearly lost interest,zzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

     

     

    Only kidding,bud.

     

     

    It’s a valid point.

     

     

    How can it possibly be legal-even aside from all the other illegal and immoral things they have done-to buy something (a player,in this case) on the never-never,sell that item on to a third-party for top dollar and stiff the original vendor?

     

     

    I thought that if you bought an item which was not legally owned by the vendor,you lost out,and title returned to the original owner.

     

     

    Think of Iain Ferguson and the XR3i which he bought in A PUB…….

     

     

    Rapid should demand his return,and Celtic should demand a cut of any future fee since nobody had heard of him till he tore us a new one.

     

     

    Trebles all round……….

  29. Vmhan

     

     

    Is that a liver infection? I have that too after a couple of nights in Derry.

     

     

    Fantastic weekend all round.

     

     

    Big thankyou to Coorslad/Coorslass Derryghirl and your good self for helping make it the great weekend it was.

     

     

    Re. The Huns. If this saga pans out as i believe it will then im with you. I’ll be expecting more than sound bites and measly words from our current board.

     

     

    MWD

  30. BOBBY MURDOCH'S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on

    MWD

     

     

    Hope you are doing well,bud.

     

     

    Very insightful post,btw,so not lost your touch!

     

     

    A few posters late on pointed out her “newness” on the site,yet for all that newness,she was quite relentless.

     

     

    James Forrest had a go at her,as did Fortune’s Favour Mibbes.

     

     

    TIMMYSEVILLE at 0101 however was just superb-excoriating,no less.

     

     

    But hey-I’m telling you the plot;you’ve obviously read back……

  31. In these days of club (regardless of size) keeps its own gate money, how many clubs won how many trophies?

  32. BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS –

     

     

    Still waiting to hear if I have a second interview. Was told I would be notified this week.

     

     

    Even if I am lucky enough to be offered the job, it will take a very good offer to move me from my current position.

     

     

    It’s all about “wait and see what transpires”.