The trip to the US to play Real Madrid is core to strategy for Celtic right now. It allowed the significant North American support an easier opportunity to see the team, keeps the club’s profile high among the game movers and shakers and will have contributed valuable financial resources.
You know there’s a ‘but’ coming, don’t you.
Gary Hooper, Anthony Stokes and Daryl Murphy all picked up or aggravated strains on the trip. The players are still stepping up their fitness regimes. Muscles are being stressed, then rested, then stresses a little further. Returning from two lengthy flights with a high incidence of non-contact injuries suggests we need to review how we prepare athletes for travel.
Do you like the new-look Celtic Quick News? Some fundamental changes have engineered into the back-end which should make things more solid going forward. More new features will come on-stream shortly. My enormous thanks to Kev, who designed the template and everything new in the engine room.
Don’t forget, if you have an article in you for CQN Magazine email me: articles@cqnmagazine.co.uk and let me know what you would like to write about. I’ll be able to give you some pointers. Next edition coming soon.
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Damian Finnegan
Mrs F sounds a bit like Mrs Tally!
Welcome to the blog – you have joined just at the right time! Super dooper new layout, although some on here do not seem to like it!
Personally I think it is a big improvement, but that is just my opinion!
I’m sure you are not a hun!
HH!!
TSD,
honestly, swap the word capitalism for socialism, individual for collectivism and the whole argument makes more sense, try it its simple.
There was a new blogger called Damian Finnegan,
resides in Malmo that’s in Swe(e)den,
he says he’s a tim but we’re no heedin’
it’s anither hun agin agin agin.
Welcome Damian i hope you’re a good omen.
Coat on…………..
HH
Kindly Ducky
Been here 15 years and love it. You bhoys should stop off here for our CSC pre-game session. I’ll have more info on the shindig very soon: location, directions, specials for all your bhoys. Great Celtic boozer run by a fellow Tim from Coatbridge.
Patrick 27
I don’t know who you mean.
Hi Paul67 – like the new layout.
Are you getting BREEAM credits for the green ECO friendly replies box?
Any CQNer wanting a cheap villa holiday here in Noto Sicily let me know
Gallagher
Sure Ghod loves a trier.
To all those “Super Roman Catholics” on here.
” Nevertheless, in some of these lands the enormous wealth, the unbridled luxury, of the privileged few stands in violent, offensive contrast to the utter poverty of the vast majority. In some parts of the world men are being subjected to inhuman privations so that the output of the national economy can be increased at a rate of acceleration beyond what would be possible if regard were had to social justice and equity. And in other countries a notable percentage of income is absorbed in building up an ill-conceived national prestige, and vast sums are spent on armaments.”
Pope John XXIII, 1961.
TSD
I can point you in the direction of some more intelligent right wing discourse if you want something better than the self-reinforcing myths that you are currently producing.
Of course, even the reasonable sites attract the nutters who cannot differentiate between communism, totalitarianism, socialism and the mixed economy. Plus, they all think that they are not right wing because History has ended, don’t ya know?
Damian
Ooh suspicious start, but I think I’ll say for now you are not a Hun. Therefore welcome :)
Been on here for about 3 years, totally addicts you!
HH
Singing detective
Could you expAND on that?
miki67:
In relation to your post earlier about POWAQQATSI is a Hopi Indian conjunctive — the word Powaqa, which refers to a negative sorcerer who lives at the expense of others, and Qatsi –i.e., life. It can mean living life upside down or inside out and back to front. This is a claim thrown by spiritual traditions at our modern science based technocratic society: it is money before morality, Power before Truth, Material possessions before living beings, self before others, the comfort of a convenient life before the environment, profit before people and so it goes on.
Well the Sufi’s have the Seljuq satirical figure of Mulla Nasreddin, sometimes believed to have lived during the Middle Ages (around 13th century) and considered a populist philosopher and wise man, remembered for his funny stories and anecdotes. He appears in thousands of stories, sometimes witty, sometimes wise, but often, too, a fool or the butt of a joke. A Nasreddin story usually has a subtle humour and a pedagogic nature. The Mulla insisted he was born upside down in this world of inversion- here is a typical Nasreddin story used as material for teaching instruction:
To What End
The board of a large company were working on their mission statement.
“What is your fundamental purpose?” asked Nasrudin.
“Our mission is to create constantly increasing dividends for our shareholders,” they declared.
“To what end?” asked Nasrudin.
“So they make increased profits which they will want to reinvest in our company,” they said.
“To what end?” asked Nasrudin.
“So they make more profits,” they said, becoming somewhat irritated.
“To what end?” asked Nasrudin nonchalantly.
“So they re-invest and make more profits.”
Nasrudin pondered this for a while and thanked them for their explanations.
Later that week they had arranged to visit Nasrudin’s house to work further on the Mission Statement. They found him in his garden stuffing oats into his donkey.
“What are you doing?” they asked. “You are giving that poor beast so much food that it will not be able to go anywhere.”
“But it is not meant to go anywhere,” Nasrudin replied. “Its purpose is to produce manure.”
“To what end?” they asked.
“Because without it I can not grow enough oats in my small allotment to feed this greedy beast.”
Profit for profits sake?
There is such a thing as Externalites in economics, an externality, is a transaction spillover, which is the cost or benefit that is not transmitted through prices and is incurred by a party who was not involved as either a buyer or seller of the goods or services causing the cost or benefit. The cost of an externality is a negative externality, or external cost, while the benefit of an externality is a positive externality, or external benefit.
In the case of both negative and positive externalities, prices in a competitive market do not reflect the full costs or benefits of producing or consuming a product or service.
Pumping chemicals into a river might be a cheaper alternative for a big pharmaceutical corporation and may result in profit- but what of the hundreds or even thousands of people who become ill or the cost of cleaning up environmental devastation?
Is Capitalism a false economy- in the sense that the Externalities and the aggregate costs are such that it will ultimately bankrupt civilization? What price do we put on the priceless resource of an irreplaceable natural world that sustains us?
Have you seen a film called Baraka by the director Ron Fricke? It is fantastic.
Baraka is often translated as ‘blessing’. It is actually a technical Sufi term for ‘Divine luck’. A spiritual property that is generated by a group of seekers, just like a Bee hive produces honey. The Sufi harnesses this Baraka by organizing the group of seekers in concert with specific principles and then transferring the Baraka to a Tekkia or ‘storehouse’. The Sufi then channels this energy to enlighten “fana” (“to pass away,” or “to cease to exist”) as many seekers in the group that are ready for the Sufi experience.
“The purpose of a life is to make an unconscious mythology a conscious autobiography.” Sam Keen
A wee link to Paul McConville’s take on Chuckles’ bigotry jibe.
http://scotslawthoughts.wordpress.com/2012/08/14/will-the-sfa-give-rangers-green-a-bigotry-red-card-by-ecojon/#more-1934
Will this mean we should now be calling the huns visigoths instead?
Damian Finnegan
Indeed :)
welcome amigo and HH
Given their disappointments of previous transfer windows, why are some posters even discussing who Celtic should sign?
At the risk of repeating myself, it is now nine months since NL was making no secret of his wish for a class central defender and strong physical striker.
It could be argued that in not providing these, PL is in dereliction of his duties to the manager and fans.
By my reckoning, if at all, Champions League money cannot be counted on until two days before close of current transfer window.
A convenient time for PL to decide that there is no time left to secure major signings.
As for trips to America and such like to play meaningless friendlies during the season, forget it.
SiciliaBhoy
Looks beautiful, too late for us this year but next year Starry Family could be up for that..
The Comfortable Collective
I find your post “Super roman catholics” in bad taste
EmeraldBee\o/ proud to be an internet bampot
19:24 on
14 August, 2012
A wee link to Paul McConville’s take on Chuckles’ bigotry jibe.
http://scotslawthoughts.wordpress.com/2012/08/14/will-the-sfa-give-rangers-green-a-bigotry-red-card-by-ecojon/#more-1934
Will this mean we should now be calling the huns visigoths instead?
The real question not being asked by the Scottish media is. Who exactly is it that is filling Green’s mouth? Is it Coisty or Jardine, who over the last few months has changed from a fairly bland figure into a thoroughly nast piece of goods. Could it even be newco’s chairman.
Made major faux pas tonight and turned on Radio Clyde. Lasted 5 minutes listening to usual nonsense from the likes of Gordon Dalziel. I’d urge all Celtic not to listen to any of this nonsense, which only lines their pockets with some extra OT.
Next two weeks are solely about getting into CL group stages. No risks to be taken in the Highlands and play fringe players.
Damian – very pleased to hear it.
If you see Saga, say hi from me. Kurt too, if he makes it up to the big city. And give Jussi a pat on the head from me.
Right, that’s me exhausted my southern Swedish cultural references…
For all you bhoys and ghirls coming over to Helsingborg, drop off in Malmö for a pint or 20. The CSC Malmö invites you to our humble abode:
http://www.facebook.com/drumbar.torg
P Ducky
Are they all cats, by any chance, as the names suggest so? Not a cat patter.
Interesting….
Well, well, well.
Anyone got a tin opener for this ‘can of worms’!
Now I have been all over the Rangers story since the start, taking pictures of everything and anything surrounding the Ibrox scandal, then I starting doing this blog and I told you all how Ticketus own Rangers. I also told you about Ex Rangers player tax avoidance secrets.
Anyway.
So I was doing a study on the EBT’ers or the Tax dodging barstewards as I like to call them when I happened to stumble across some information that took me by surprise.
First of all we must understand the difference between being Employed by (a football club) and being Loaned to (a football club) are two totally different things.
Employment is a contract between two parties, one being the Employer and the other being the Employee.
In football the Employer is the Parent club which means the club who holds the players full contract registration.
A loaned player is one who is Employed by a football club and his services are Loaned to another club. This club becomes the Loaning club not the Employer.
For more information please use the link below;
http://www.football-league.co.uk/regulations/20110629/section-6-players_2293633_2125731
Now lets look at Employee Benefit Trusts.
The Employer establishes the trust, making contributions of an equivalent value to the deferred remuneration and the trustees will at a later date distribute the trust funds to employees or ex-employees.
The basic idea is that the trustees can distribute the trust fund when it is tax advantageous to do so perhaps when the employee is retired or non-UK resident.
The ideal is that there is no employee tax charge until the trustees distribute benefits which may be many years after those benefits have been earned.
The tax charge may be theoretical rather than real the employee or ex-employee may have moved to a ‘low tax jurisdiction’ or ‘tax haven.’
Further information can be found on the link below;
http://www.contractoruk.com/ebt/
Now it is going to get really tricky for David Murray to explain this one.
Gregory Vignal receive £173,000 via an EBT when he wasn’t an Employee of Rangers.
He was loaned from Liverpool to Rangers 2004-2005. His Employee Benefit Trust is subject to Tax and National Insurance as he wasn’t an Employee of Rangers Football Club, he was an Employee of Liverpool.
Federico Nieto receive £24,500 via an EBT when he wasn’t an Employee of Rangers
He was loaned from Almagro to Rangers 2005. His Employee Benefit Trust is subject to Tax and National Insurance as he wasn’t an Employee of Rangers Football Club, he was an Employee of Almagro.
Both players were not contractually Employed by Rangers but received the benefits of being Employed by Rangers.
Now surely the very fact that they are called Employee Benefit Trusts should have told the powers that be at Ibrox that these players were not entitled to and could not receive payments through them as they were not Employees.
Or did they know and done it anyway.
I’m sure we will find out in time but this is a ‘clear a sign’ yet that Rangers knew exactly what they were doing.
They never thought they would get caught, but they did.
Big Nan
15:49 on
14 August, 2012
Guest blogger on Paul McConville has a decent article re the most recent antics of Green.
He observes: “So what is he up to? Is it really all about selling tickets? Or, is it because his financial Master Plan is about to crash and he is challenging the SFA to bring him down so he can walk-away and blame everyone but himself.”
I have thought for some weeks now that it is the latter. This latest outburst and the Brechin happy clapping tells me he is for walking away after being banned by the SFA.
If Regan were smart he would stall and keep him waiting by which time I reckon everybody will be walking away from Ibrox.
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I think the latter possible unless he is being bankrolled (by Ticketus I suspect) but I offer another possibility.
He is a dick.
quonno
19:25 on
14 August, 2012
Agree can see the “pipped at the last minute of the window.” fable getting wheeled out again.
Auld Neil Lennon heid
I like the way you got to the heart of the matter.
Young Celts one up..
Celtic Football Club @celticfc
35. Atajic takes it this time and it’s a GOAL!!! The free-kick is executed perfectly by last week’s goal hero. 1-0 to Celtic.
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smashingmilkbottles,
What do you find in bad taste? Is it the phrase “Super Roman Catholics”, which as the quotation marks suggest is a quotation.
I took it from another poster at 18.39. I found it in bad taste too, especially coming from a bigot
If it is anything else I’m my post, take it up with Pope John XXIII, they are his words.
LuxCelt
19:05 on
14 August, 2012
caeser1967
Fair dos – i wasn’t really proposing M-A F as a striker – he did well for us on the right and for wba in a free role, often on the left of midfield/attack a bit like sammi does now. i was thinking as a squad player – better than the fringe bodies we have and better than we have let go too.
Agree Watt would be a better option up front. we still (IMO) need a big striker who can score with his head
How tall is Tony Watt? I’ve got a feeling that if he gets a run in the first team, he’ll be hard to shift and may well be the find of the season.
gsu
My Dear Dear Celtic Mac…
Get With The Programme….
Where Hiv Ye Been,Wi’ Yer Horse an’ Buggy Ideas…?
Communing wi’ Rip Van Winkle..?
Sieze the Zeitgeist..!
Excellent and perceptive article from my good and perspicacious frien’ ,Lloyd Marcus….fae the American Thinker Blog..which received huge numbers of positive comments…from Decent Folk who haven’t got a HUGE CHIP on their shoulder…
http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/05/m-can_one_be_truly_black_and_patriotic.html
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How’s kebab sales holdin’ up this weather,Mr Comfy Collectif…?
Young Atajic moved to Malmo with his family from Bosnia, when he was about 8 I believe.
HH!!
Just came on and gee whizz!! It has taken me 10 mins to get unbedazzled! I hope the changes are not too technical or I’m done for. Looks smart, professional and real nifty, Paul. Have you got an away version too? Keep it coming.
H H
Can someone better than sums than me work this out for me?
The numbers just don’t tally.
30,000 x£258(if all full price)= £7,740,000.
Tv money= £1,000,000 max
Then you have to run a business which costs £1,000,000 per month, outwits players wages.
I can’t work this out
v
starry plough
19:41 on
14 August, 2012
Young Celts one up..
Celtic Football Club @celticfc
35. Atajic takes it this time and it’s a GOAL!!! The free-kick is executed perfectly by last week’s goal hero. 1-0 to Celtic.
Somebody informed me that Atajic was leaving- is there any truth in this?
Do We Still use Parks buses
Young Hoops 2-0 up at Murderwell at half-time.
HH!!
SSB SPEECHLESS….
1) ….Transfer ban starting AFTER the transfer window closes
2) …..Since SSB cut someone off for calling sevco fans bigots, does that mean green will not be allowed onto SSB
…..Caller cut off …………… COMEDY GOLD