You get the sense that the Sword of Damocles is hanging over Newco Rangers. Some wondered about the sense in Mike Ashley controversially renaming Ibrox as the rumoured ‘Sports Direct Outlet Village’ but having bought the rights to do so for £1, he is now able to leverage this detail in his earlier loan.
He has the retail and stadium naming rights but ownership of the club badge, details of which it appears the Newco board leaked to the Daily Record yesterday, would allow him to control the strips, novelty ducks and other tat, no matter where it’s sold. Any future shirt deal would need his authority, as it would require use of ‘his’ logo. Which would inevitably lead to shirt deals being concluded by one of Ashley’s in-house brands.
All this makes sense if you are a retailer with notions of monopoly status. ‘Rangers’ branded pencil cases, alarm clocks and shirts will continue to sell, no matter in which league Newco inhabit. It’s a straight merchandise play from the retailer, who is the only person in the UK in a position to exploit clubs going through a hard time, like Newco.
Ashley is thick-enough skinned after sitting through all that Newcastle fans could throw in his direction for years. He doesn’t need to be liked, and with control over intellectual property like the badge, he doesn’t even need to be the retailer to make money every time club merchandise is sold. Newco wouldn’t even be able to put the badge on their tickets without his agreement.
In many ways this proposed deal is an inevitable step. Clubs are enormous merchandising opportunities, the people who can profit most from this are the retailers. It is, of course, only inevitable because of the state Sir David Murray left oldco in. As soon as he handed the keys to a liquidation specialist the game was over.
News in today’s Herald that an S&P study makes Celtic the least likely publicly listed football club in Europe to default is likely to sound a little hollow to some who watched us against Accies on Sunday. There are many ways to build a sustainable and successful football team, but none of them involve spending more than you earn.
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G munro..youre right man.
I wouldnt buy from Mikes Bazaar
For the obvious reason., but who ever has the Zombie badge has a pension for ever…coz i believe not in the 28 days zombies who die of starvation, but in the Walking dead zombies who last and last…you gotta do them in the nut to kill them bitches..
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I dont see the difference between NUFC owners and Celtics owners in how they run their respective clubs.
Can someone explain the difference to me ?
HH
Jamesgang 17:39
Didn’t someone try that once before….?
BSR
I dont buy it. We have not see any civil unrest the first time round. They can hardly muster a demo outside hampdump or Ibrox. They have had the absolute urine extracted from them financially and credit to them. They still keep giving.
One thing is for sure if Celtic say nowt then our custodians are charltans. Especially those that steered us on the FFP course and are still profiting from Celtic and their association with Celtic.
HH
Mike Sashley has openly stated that he will not sell NUFC until the end of next season. Don’t particularly know why.
NamingRightsNamingRightsYoursFurAPoundCSC
Buy your Nookie FC top and get your hun top 50% off.
Its a goer methinks
HH
Roy Keane given prominence on STV News as it is announced that he “Takes another swipe at Celtic”.
So what sensational revelation was it this time from Roy? He was 10th choice for the Celtic job.
The sooner Celtic get out of Scottish football, the better.
ANNAOAN
Mike Ashley is the sole owner of NUFC.
Celtic is owned by thousands of shareholders.
The Earl Of Denby
Agreed, it does sound like Mike Ashley has studied the DD book of running a football club on the cheap. Why do we not buy NUFC off Mike Ashley and give our largest shareholder what he wants ?
HH
Mike Ashley will present his takeover as a fans buyout of 51%. His mum will get 49% and be rest assured his auntie Betty will have 2%. The bears will be in honey Salmond heaven and back him foolishly as we VERY WELL KNOW
HH
salmon even .. what happened to him ? :-)
Eurochamps67
18:14 on 9 October, 2014
Rangers were liquidated in 2012.
Sevco/Newco Rangers are a new club.
These are the two facts everyone of us should continue to maintain as the truth.
Only when we give up holding this view will their revision of facts hold sway.
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Maybe sumdy should tell the Celtic ‘bored’!!!
Last seasons – trouble-torn – Glasgow Cup Final at Firhill had the
official Celtic website billing the game as between,
Celtic Football Club v’s Rangers Football Club ?!?!?
Oh, thats ma lift for work, bye.
Joe Filippi’s Haircut
Thanks fur the reply, Pal
Sure, Ah do not hiv Awe the Answers..
But.. Ah dae try .
Ah only Hiv Ma Imagination..n.. Whit Ah kin See Fur Masel.. Whit is Wrang wi the Celtic.
N.. Ah see a Team that Needs a SHAKE UP..
in the Last Game.. the wan agin Hamilton..
It wiz so obvious, that Commons..n Broonie.. Add Not wan Thing tae oor Attack.
Broonie, has a Rep that Is Based oan.. Aggressive Posturing..
He Promises a Loat..alwiz Did.. but, he fails. time after time ,tae Deliver.
Commons, Loses the Ba.. too easily..
Many Attacks,are Halted ,because as soon as Commons receives a Pass.. NIne times oota ten… he
Right Away.. Bungles it.. n .. the Ba’ is returned tae oor Opposition.
Commons, worth is based oan His Goal Scoring …which He Diz..
No Question.. He diz Get the Goals, aweright..
But, In the games.. n there ur FAR TOO MANY.. In Which He is Not Among the goals..
n.. it is Those Games ,where it is Obvious, that Commons is a PART TIMER!
n.. One thing We don’t need is.. Anither PART TIMER..(We Hiv More than enuff of them. tae Keep us. UNHAPPY.. already)
Same goes for Broonie..
Another..
PART TIMER.
We clicked ,as a team. Agin the Dundee United.. No Question.
But Since then.. We hiv Fizzled oot.
The Part Timers hiv bin At it Again!
Blowing Hot.. n.. Cold..
What kin we expect agin the Ross Countiers.. from oor Part Timers?
Ah Dunno.
We need Consistency. N..this Loat.. Especially, oor Present Cadre o’ Mid Fielders..
Are No ..well. Consistent.
This Is Not Good.. Not Good , AY TALL.
Kojo
Still,Laughin
Mike Ashley has a plan. He will become majority shareholder at Ibrox then sell NUFC to Rangers, change its name to Rangers and move to Ibrox, taking Rangers into the EPL and finally sticking 2 fingers up to the Newcastle public for their treatment of him over the years.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/10/08/presidential-proclamation-leif-erikson-day-2014
Tom McLaughlin
18:43 on
9 October, 2014
Mike Ashley has a plan. He will become majority shareholder at Ibrox then sell NUFC to Rangers, change its name to Rangers and move to Ibrox, taking Rangers into the EPL and finally sticking 2 fingers up to the Newcastle public for their treatment of him over the years.
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That’s the most frightening thing I’ve read today. :(
When do we stop talking about Rangers and start talking about our own challenges?
Like how we build a whole new team for next summer?
Denayer will be back at Man City;
Berget will maybe get a job as a postman if he gets a haircut but he sure as hell won’t be here;
Brown, commons, kayal ,zaluska are all out of contract, and it’s not certain they will be here;
Van Dijk will be sold;
Guidetti is open to offers come January;
Wakaso and Tonev will probably be back from whence they came;
Scepovic has not shown as yet that he is an improvement on what has gone before;
Izzy has imploded since he set off for the World Cup;
It’s pretty much a whole new team required. But you can’t borrow 11 players so it’ll be interesting to see what crazy stunts Peter Lawwell conjures up, all the while people gawp at the latest Sevco car crash unable or unwilling to see that we’re about to hit the wall in a big way.
I’ll say it right now – there is as much of a chance in my opinion of Camelon Juniors being in the CL next season as there is of Celtic being there.
Brace yourself for the steady supply of kojo posts denigrating Commons and Brown – they’ve already started – and hints about their glycerol levels being all wrong as they are ushered towards the exit as the PL fan club clap and holler with delight like frenzied seals being thrown a few rotting fish.
It’s good to fun to laugh at Sevco. But not so much when the hilarity diverts us from confronting our own issues.
Gotta Fly ..Sy
Seeya.
Kojo
Still. Laughin
Whitedoghunch –
Why did you post that on CQN?
I read it but have no idea why.
Bada bing
Jim and Charlie … I wonder which of them got Dux?
Ok Thirsday night quiz….
Can you name anybody who (given Celtic wage bill and other comparative advantages) could have led Celtic to a lower league position by this point in the season…. ?
( need not necessarily be anyone associated with football management)
Best I could come up with is Ally McCoist… Other than that I’m stumped
RWE @16.28hrs.
My thoughts exactly, you have not oversimplified it and I dont think you are ‘out of step’ with many who share similar stories of family who “mattered”
HH.
So the gist of pauls article .rangers are in big financial trouble and celtic are very solvent,
Great. Now maybe we could employ a manager and some decent footballers
Good evening friends.
Is Rick Ashley really that good that he’ll save the Huns?
C’mon!
MWD said AYE
the glorious balance sheet
18:54 on
9 October, 2014
You need to take more succour from the Mc Graw and Hill S&P list. Especially with a name like yours.
Cultsbhoy,
I dont know but I can tell you who the dunces are ?
HH
MWD
It’s destiny calling
A power I just can’t deny
It’s never changing
Can’t you hear me, I’m saying
I want you for the rest of my life
Together forever and never to part
Together forever we two
And don’t you know
I would move heaven and earth
To be together forever with you
HH
Only one dozen needed on the Living Wage petition to persuade Celtic FC that the successor’s to Walfrid’s legacy might just pay a decent wage to low paid workers.
You know it makes sense.
Please consider signing:
https://www.change.org/p/the-board-of-directors-of-celtic-plc-become-an-accredited-living-wage-employer
Cults Bhoy-
The advantages you mention were watered down the minute we became a temporary halfway house for other clubs’ rejects and projects.
The manager has made mistakes. But for deflected goals v Dundee Aberdeen and a soft penalty v Motherwell we would be 4 points worse off.
But the manager is being put in a straitjacket by constraints imposed by Peter Lawwell.
Mourinho etc would make a better job of it. But would even someone like that have been able to deliver a result over 2 legs v Legia with what he had to work with?
Sort the boardroom out before trying to sort out the dugout. Because otherwise we are just papering over the cracks.
Cults Bhoy
“Can you name anybody who (given Celtic wage bill and other comparative advantages) could have led Celtic to a lower league position by this point in the season…. ?”
Any CQN poster with the possible exception of anyone whose played football at a top club level.
Nothing`makes me laugh like the huns in more trouble.I still have a nagging doubt Ashley won’t let them go into admin as he has too much to lose with his retail tie in.
I wouldn’t be surprised if he bailed them out short term to get what he wants.
On matters Celtic. We have had the perfect opportunity to remove RD for a competent manager who actually sees how we are constantly overrun in midfield.
Never mind the balance sheet look decent.
Greenpinata
Appreciate the feedback, and nice to know that others feel the same way.
I won’t mention the ‘P’ word as when I did earlier it sent a few into paroxisms of negativity.
Hope you’re well.
HH
“The manager has made mistakes. But for deflected goals v Dundee Aberdeen and a soft penalty v Motherwell we would be 4 points worse off.”
The glorious balance sheet.
I’d take that. But I’d want the own goal v ICT to be discounted. Oh and the deflected goal v Maribor that seen us eliminated in the champions league to be erased too.
Dearyme csc
So ….. The case against boyd was deemed to be ‘NOT PROVEN’ …… and some Celtic fans what HUNNERY to return …..God give me strength……
Bada Bing @ 18.22
They went to same school as me. Watch it mate lol
HH
67Heaven. They even cheat out in the open and we take it on the chin.The day is coming mark my words when they will Lord it over us. H.H.
Is the England game on the telly tonight…….??
67heaven
Itvlondon and utv neebs.