I try to avoid those who really should be avoided but I caught the report of Peter Lawwell’s Sky TV interview on their website yesterday. The “No summer sales” headline was misleading in itself as our chief exec actually said “there is no real necessity to sell players now”.
We are a solvent and well-run football club, there is no real, or imagined, necessity to sell, but there is an enormous leap between this status and “no summer sales”. All clubs, not just Celtic, sell when an offer exceeds their valuation for a player and they believe the money could be more productively redeployed elsewhere. There is no necessity for Manchester City to sell players, not until the oil runs out in the Middle East, anyway, but they may still sell.
Best part of the article was from Charlie Nicholas, “I’m a bitter idiot. Listen, I’ll prove it…..”
I’ve translated that quote from the vernacular.
Loved newco Rangers accounts. £3.5m in the bank on 31 December, £1.5m loan since, so they have £5m to operate until the season ticket money comes in, which will just be enough, but cash burn is running at over £1m per month; close to £15m a year.
£30m-£50m is not enough.
Seville – The Celtic Movement:
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Kitalba
“Was he sticking up for the person in question more so than I was, or are we invoking a new, immeasurable uber-Tim licence qualification? ”
If you want to know the answers, ask me.
For the two questions above I’d say :-
Don’t know as I was not comparing my response to yours.
&
No, I have no measure of uber-Timness or interest in it.
Kitalba,
Just so there is no misunderstanding…
When I used the words OLD & THICK about myself, I was not ‘decrying’ myself. To me OLD is a plus, & certainly beats the alternative.( George Burns :¬)) )
THICK was used in the Donegal sense of the word, meaning STUBBORN.
I like that version of thick.
Nor do I feel any need to ‘Pull it in’, whatever that means.
Macjay denigrated JF. You responded by saying that she cares as much about Celtic as anybody else.
I disagree with BOTH of you & said so.
END of….
No drama or insult offered or intended.
Good Luck.
sixtaeseven
I may not be the bonniest of Tims but to suggest my care worn coupon is like a orc strip is outrageous my good man!!
Fine singer is Jack Jones…..
Marrakesh Express 13:03
Pieman will have the questions he wants to be asked lined up (with rehearsed answers) – just like when he was asked about the venue for the League Cup final.
Still loving the positive spin being put on the transfer of Laxey loan to Letham: £45k fee for setting the loan up and 10% added per annum after 2nd July.
“Wur pyoor saved, min”
Erm, hud on a wee minute.
Instead of paying an extra £150k to Laxey, they’re now tied in to paying £45k, likely rising by another 10% in little over 3 months time.
Now, is that another 10% of £1,000,000 and then £45k for a total of £1,145,000?
Or 10% of (£1,000,000 + £45,000) for a total of £1,149,500?
Did Sevco really just trumpet a massive potential saving of £500?
I suppose it is cost cutting, so some credit (pardon the pun) is obviously due.
KK:
What criteria do you apply to Jeanette Findlay to raise her up to an elevated level above other Celtic Supporters.
Has she for a decade taken a Friday afternoon off to catch the flight up to Glasgow to see the Celtic every second weekend; and lose the afternoons pay. Did she pay for two season tickets for the best part of ten years and in that ten years only take her seat on two occasions. Did she also in those ten years buy any season tickets for kids who loved the ‘tic but never could go? Did she ever buy batteries and the half bottle of vodka for the Celtic Supporter who lost his family to a terrorist bomb.
I’ve no doubt she is a good Celtic Supporter, but please, when next I turn up at the turnstiles, is there going to be some uber-uber measuring machine going to judge me on my charitable contributions and my contributions as a percentage of my net wage as a Celtic Supporter?
Kilbowie Kelt, I stood up for Jeanette Findlay, you just had to uber your support of just a one supporter without even knowing the sacrifices most Celtic supporters make to support their team without humouring or courting the media.
minx1888 praying for wee oscar
11:52 on 28 March, 2014
Was it something you said..hahahahahahaha..CL games are a different ‘kettle of fish’
Confused dot com
Who is so arrogant amongst you, you can class a Celtic Supporter?
Paul67,
The £3.5m was available at 31 Dec…….once that ‘disappeared’ in Jan / Feb, they had to borrow £1.5m for March…..>>>> bye, bye, sevco….!!!!!!!!
Marrakesh,
I’m loving those questions neebs.
Add in ‘Ally, why did you say you didn’t read your contract, you just signed it when quite clearly you had read it?’
‘cos ye asked for yer wages to be kept quite and fiddled aboot wi ya sleekit wee baw bag’
Canny see Shepherd reading out last part. Needed that off ma chest :-)
Geordie Munro:
A lot of huns struggle with long sentences. Others blame it on the schools.
Kit.
Oh don’t I know it.
“Who is so arrogant amongst you, you can class a Celtic Supporter?”
What? Like calling them a prick? A board lover? Or saying there’s something suspicious about you?
Who is so arrogant as to state they are free from judging?
I would’ve thought the only way anybody would’ve known it for sure, would’ve been if they’d gone to one of those schools; not ours, thems.
Kitalba,
You are attempting to force a confrontation where none exists.
Sorry, I’m not in the mood.
I have given you the opinion of one old, thick Celtic man. That will have to suffice.
I have been listening to JF for well over a decade & have ALWAYS been impressed by her selfless input.
She is the spirit of my club.
setting free the bears supports:
Be careful in the question you ask and the definition?
Now that I have given you that wee heads up I will gladly give you the opportunity to ask the question again.
Words to be heeded and acted upon, no1.
Mrs jamesgang, ‘ you don’t need to get me anything for Mother’s Day….’
Fair play me thinks, you’re not my mother……
‘But if you were thinking about getting me something……..’
Aaaah. Gotcha. It was a piece of subtle guidance…..
HomerSimpsonIsARocketScientistCSC
HH jamesgang
Jobo
What’s with the friggin’ weather in toon Mhan!
You didn’t predict this this morning!
HH jamesgang
On a flying visit from Toronto. Just bought a cap at the Argyle St store.
Barry now know who Brassman is. Can we adjust the heat.
Kilbowie Kelt:
You went overboard with your post, if anybody is interested in reading back this is what I said about the bold Jeanette…
I think Jeanette cares about our club just as much as you or I, or anybody else.
Yep! that’s what I said.
Right….That’s all my popcorn finished.
Onto football.
Complete change this weekend or strong lineup (same as Wednesday) and let the guys take the plaudits.
kitalba
Supply your own wording if you care to answer.
Kit,
For you to say someone went overboard with a post is the most hard neckit thing I’ve ever read on here.
Geordie Munro:
Is that a compliment?
SFTB
“Supply your own wording if you care to answer.”????
Course it is.
No!
Yoooou hang up. x
OK, Kit. You win.
Exactly what did I say that was ‘overboard’ ?
Just had a marvellous coupla hours with SWINDONBHOY,first time I’ve met him and hopefully not the last.
There he was,resplendent in his black n black HOOPS,and me in my blue n white t-shirt set off nicely wi the bloodshot red eyes.
Think I’ll swap jobs!
Smashing fella. I recommend his company to anyone.
Lovely wee finish to my day,bud. And my grateful thanks.
See ya on yer birthday!
Kit
I was referring to both of his posts on the matter. As KK was the person who initiated the point I felt that I would take the opportunity to commend him on it.
Why you would wish to draw comparisons with your own post, I have no idea.
KK
Kitalba,
I deliberately chose the words FAR MORE.
I am happy to repeat them.
I get angry when I hear the motives of somebody like Jeanette, who has selflessly given so much to our club, being questioned & denigrated.
Talking to an accountant yesterday….reckons they may have enough to pay the wages this month but not next and some bills are outstanding….Groundhog Day next month when it seems they go back to Laxey Partners for more money. He also told me they are hanging on for the cup final which would see them over the line til season book renewal.
Happy days for Tim’s everywhere…..3 in a row and party tomorrow at Paradise followed by Kano Foundation dinner….brill…
Kikinthenakas
kitalba
You wanted me to frame the question more acceptably to you.
Rather than guess your mind on that issue, I invited you to post your own question that would allow you to answer the point.
And, I’m really not of a mind to chase this metaphysical point any further beyond there.
Speak your mind!
Hamiltontim:
I have no idea what you are talking about. I stood up for JF to be put down for standing up for JF to have you praise a post by KK for putting me down for standing up for JF whilst he is standing up for JF and then you come on and ask me what I am on about.
A gallant attempt to paint a realistic picture Paul, but already too late.
By August, if we sell anyone, at a certain location in Oz, call it Sidney, a Tim will be saying Lawwell lied.
Sorry, Kit.
That statement IS a reflection of my thoughts & contains not one word which is ‘overboard’ in any way.