Spinning for trouble by Sky

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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.

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  1. SEE…..the problem with me IS .when i hear bad/sad news i just want to run.

     

     

    but not the night .go fight it WEE MAN iam in front of you,fight it big time.

     

     

    Hail Hail go on.

  2. Stairheedrammy on

    Sad news about the wee fighter, god bless him and his family and give them the strength to get through it

  3. Morning guys

     

     

    just up for the seasons first medal and celebrate at parkhead only to read back the sad news about “wee Oscar ”

     

     

    Puts everything in perspective …

     

     

    Thoughts and prayers for him and his loved ones

     

     

    C’mon the wee Oscar xx

  4. 67Heaven ... I am Neil Lennon, supporting WEE OSCAR..!!.. Ibrox belongs to the creditors on

    God bless you, wee Oscar …… and may he give you the strength and determination to ‘overcome’ again…..

  5. lilys grandpa-Me and Lily backing Oscar on

    Morning,

     

     

    Horrible news, devastated.

     

     

    Go on wee Man, the bravest of the brave!!

     

     

    lilys

  6. Pogmathonyahun aka Laird of the Smiles on

    Just logged on this morning to find out about wee Oscar, devastating news. C’mon wee man you can beat this. God bless wee Oscar Knox, puts everything else into perspective. If ever a wee miracle was needed it is now.

  7. Sad news about Oscar. I can’t imagine how painful this must be fot the Knox family. God bless them all.

  8. cliftonville celt from belfast praying for Oscar the wee legend on

    Devestated just devestated to hear the news about the wee man

     

     

    Keep fighting kid you’ve an army of thousands behind you

     

     

    God bless Oscar Knox

  9. Stairheedrammy on

    Talking fitba, cos that’s what keeps us sane in this crazy world, watching that Australian footie on BT Sports just now, it looks to be around the level of a junior game and yet they are on TV quite frequently. I take it that they fill an early morning gap

  10. A Ceiler Gonof Rust on

    Terrible terrible news overnight on the plight of wee Oscar Knox. May he and his family continue to find the strength to fight this horrible illness.

     

     

    Acgr

  11. Celticrollercoaster luvs his luminious lime boots on

    Morning Bhoys & Ghirls

     

     

    Been trying to post for the last hour, but words have been failing me.

     

     

    When I picked my moniker, it was like a CQN christening. This was something that would stick by me long and hard, through good posts and bad. It was an important decision to be made. It would be with me through my CQN days.

     

     

    I joke when I meet a lurker at any of the CQN events, or meeting up for badges or comms through the predictor that “ok your a lurker..but all lurkers have CQN names, what is yours?”, and believe me, most do and most are very proud.

     

     

    I picked mine because being a Celtic supporter you have many highs and many lows, and I thought it was appropriate and fun it would be to use rollercoaster in my moniker somehow .

     

     

    Yet my mind can’t help cast over to the Knox family, (I have thought about little else recently) and see how their entire life to date has been just that a rollercoaster and a dreadful one at that and perhaps being on one is not as great as you first think. Whilst there has been some good days, they are again on that uphill part again that nobody enjoys.

     

     

    Maybe life on the rollercoaster isn’t as exciting as anticipated, there a very few smooth bits, very few indeed, and I do not know what this family has done to deserve this, but I do know they need our love, support and prayers now more than forever.

     

     

    The next part of the journey for the family and indeed Wee Oscar is unknown to us all, but I do know this. The love, warmth, and happiness that Wee Oscar and has given us over the last few years will stay with us forever.

     

     

    Hail, hail Wee Oscar our Celtic Warrior, keep fighting wee mhan!

     

     

    HH

     

     

    CRC

  12. valentinesday on

    Good Morning Timland.

     

     

    Not a good start to the day reading off the news of wee

     

    Oscar,you’re in my and lots of others prayers,God bless

     

    the whole Knox family.

  13. Good championship morning to all on Cqn this is the day the Lord has given us let us rejoice and be glad

     

     

    HAIL HAIL

  14. Just woken up the the news about Wee Oscar.

     

    I have watched that wee mhan in his fight from afar and he has constantly amazed me with his strength and courage .

     

    I guess one thing the wee mhan has taught us over the years is to never give up hope, never give up the struggle.

     

    I am certain that brave wee bhoy won’t !

     

    God bless wee mhan

  15. CRC – very well written.

     

     

    Perspective and all that. I wake up concerned that I have a wee twinge in a calf muscle and then log on to CQN to hear the devestating news about wee Oscar. Always be thankful for what you have and take nothing for granted.

     

     

    Off for a wee walk and if I can manage that OK I’ll run later…

  16. Unfortunately , was out last night and unable to defend my quiz title, just wondered if Kayal 33 feels his victory is devalued in any way??

     

    ( tee hee , only kidding bud, well done !)

  17. celticrollercoaster luvs his luminious lime boots

     

     

    07:41 on 29 March, 2014

     

     

    I have often described my Celtic supporting journey as being on a Roller-coaster. It is why supporting the Club brings so much enjoyment on the good days. And knowing for sure when we are not doing so good that there will be great days to enjoy.

     

     

    I too hope and Pray that Wee Oscar and the Knox Family have more good days to come on what is the Knoxrollercoaster. Nobody but nobody deserves to go through what they have.

     

     

    We and many others have dug deep to help them on their painful journey. We need now to dig deep into our Souls and Pray for the Knoxrollercoaster to help them through this terrible time.

     

     

    Keep the Faith!

     

     

    Hail Hail!

  18. Pogmathonyahun aka Laird of the Smiles on

    celticrollercoaster luvs his luminious lime boots

     

    07:41 on 29 March, 2014

     

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    As you say difficult to actually know what to post but a great effort by you there. I don’t think I could have the courage to put up with what this wee boy and his family have been through and are still going through. The best I can do is pray for him and most importantly not give up hope.

  19. My heart goes out to the family of the wee man, Oscar, and if I was ever privileged to tell the wee man anything, I’d simply tell him… Fight.

     

     

    But it seems that’s all he’s being doing. My prayers for him and his family are a given.

  20. leftclicktic We are all Neil Lennon on

    Been sitting for15 mins trying to find some words these will do.

     

    Pogmathonyahun aka Laird of the Smiles

     

    07:56 on

     

    29 March, 2014

     

    celticrollercoaster luvs his luminious lime boots

     

    07:41 on 29 March, 2014

     

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    As you say difficult to actually know what to post but a great effort by you there. I don’t think I could have the courage to put up with what this wee boy and his family have been through and are still going through. The best I can do is pray for him and most importantly not give up hope.

  21. The whole Knox family and those affected by Wee Oscars illness are in my thoughts.

     

     

    My heart is heavy with sadness.

     

     

    I wish you all contentment as soon as possible.

     

     

    TT

  22. Morning, Champions

     

     

    I had a quick look at the BBC’s Celtic site this morning. Curiously amongst the various headlines over the last week nothing about Celtic winning the league. Plenty of propaganda about how Celtic foresee a Sevco revival and how there’s no escape from the SPL into any other league (courtesy of Tom British). The zombies at the BBC are really hurting. And you pay your license fee for that relentless bias.

  23. Anyone sampled the kerrydale bar pre match and do you have to enter by a certain time ?

     

    Thanks in Advance