Let’s clear this one out of the way, Newco are not being paid the same money Celtic will receive for competing in the Sydney Cup; Celtic will receive more than twice as much as their city rivals (figures reported elsewhere are accurate). Confirmed.
The fee Celtic will receive, let’s call it, a ‘Jota’, is a lotta money. The commercial department has delivered bigger deals – multi-year kit contracts, but as a one-off arrangement, this is exceptional. The manager, who has not been home in three years, was also very keen on it happening. The deal was not contingent on playing Newco or their participation in the tournament. This payment is also not at risk if Newco get so much bad publicity from being filler in the Ange Homecoming Tour they decide to pull out……
I expect a couple of top English Premier League teams will also confirm games in Australia during the World Cup break, each working independently with the same promoter.
There is nothing particularly exceptional about this. Ange Postecoglou is a sporting hero in Australia, the higher value offered to Celtic reflects this. If he was at Ibrox, the story would be different.
This one does not suit the narrative from Ibrox, or from those peddling hoary old stories about Celtic and imagined partnerships. It’s a lot easier being on the outside with a grievance complex and a keyboard, than being the commercial team that will put money on the table for the transfer window.
Tomorrow we might pick up on the vanity project that Chelsea has been for the last two decades.
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pin ball in the hun box, just wont break to a RS player
Listen,its win for us if they go through.Another two m idweek games.Don’t care who beat us,we got 9 points from a group much more difficult than theirs,and went out.The got 7 points and went through.They have been carrying this luck in Europe for ages.All that matters is the league.They WILL get gubbed and no one will give a toss who they beat.
JHB
You are saying….we are playing off the cuff
You are therefore saying that we do not play to Anges game plan
I see a totally different team from last year and they’re playing in a style that Anges teams have played over the years
You sir are not a Celtic fan.
Furthermore
If we had the luck and refs on our side the way your team has we’d have won “55” titles twice by now…..
Now run along
Red star off side again
Eindhoven 4 Copenhagen 4. Defences on top.
Listening to this game with English commentary.They can’t believe RS have not scored.
RS score a 3rd goal and offside again.
laughable now at Ibrokes..another “offside” goal
Penalty to Bodo in last minute.
2-1 Bodo
Evidence definitively influences opinion. If you are exposed to hard evidence and it doesn’t influence your opinion…..what does that make you?
Red Stsr have third goal disallowed for offside.
Turkeybhoy,
Yes, you speak common sense.
However , I detest the huns winning anything.
HH.
TOSB,
It was offside.
HH.
JHB
Where’s your evidence Celtic play off the cuff?
TURKEYBHOY
They have been unbelievably lucky tonight, but that can’t explain all their results, surely?
The narrative after this from the Huns will be about how good VAR is, that they wouldn’t have got these decisions in the league. Guaranteed.
Rangers well worth their lead but Red Starvhave been unlucky. This score could be reversed in front of 60000 fanatical Red Star fans
Is the VAR man from the stolen 6 ???…that wouldn’t surprise me…..
Goldson misses a sitter.
Leicester score in last minute. 2-0 vs Rennes.
JHB on 10th March 2022 9:49 pm
Evidence definitively influences opinion. If you are exposed to hard evidence and it doesn’t influence your opinion…..what does that make you?
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The evidence is that you said that the majority of Celtic supporters were stupid and blinded by sectarian hatred…what does that make you?
Ange wants fast flowing football
He wants 1-2 touch football
He wants his players concentrating a minimum 90 minutes
He wants our players to concentrate on one game at a time
He wants to play out from the back
He wants more forward rather than side to side passing
He wants our players to be 24/7 athletes
But you say we’re playing off the cuff
We might need another 2/3 players to achieve all of the above. That will happen
You will be even more worried about Celtic then
Again from Richard Foster ex Sevco.
“You’re talking cumulatively, a difference of five or six inches and Red Star could have had three goals.”
JHB on 10th March 2022 9:31 pm
INIQUITOUSIV @ 9:23
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They are a team, a unit that performs in synergy…..at the moment, we are a collection of individuals who play ‘off the cuff’. This can work in Scotland – in Europe, against better teams & coaches, it can be easily neutured.
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So basically Celtic are not coached……….Hmm……what does that say about Ange???????????
Any football on tonight?
My friends in Celtic,
Impressive result and performance by the huns.
As we acknowledgethat , let’s reflect on how we took them aoart at Parkhead.
We beat, indeed humilated a very good huns team.
In Ange we trust . Its all about the Celtic.
TURKEYBHOY on 10TH MARCH 2022 9:46 PM
Listen,its win for us if they go through.Another two m idweek games.Don’t care who beat us,we got 9 points from a group much more difficult than theirs,and went out.The got 7 points and went through.They have been carrying this luck in Europe for ages.All that matters is the league.They WILL get gubbed and no one will give a toss who they beat.
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Correct.
JHB
You said
“They are a team, a unit that performs in synergy…..at the moment, we are a collection of individuals who play ‘off the cuff’. This can work in Scotland – in Europe, against better teams & coaches, it can be easily neutured.”
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I would say that’s a pretty valid viewpoint, and borne out by the facts.
We win many of our domestic games because we have better players and a deeper bench… not because we have a cohesive team structure and game plan.
I really am tired of individuals calling out posters as ” not Celtic fans”, or “not as big a Celtic fan as me”….
To think that individuals ,who are not celtic fans, would spend hours of their day on a Celtic blog is bizarre.
The Onlooker
Celtic fan.
As an observation, the likes of Goldson, Kamara and Bagolun gives them a real aerial threat for corners and FKs which is our Achilles heel.
We badly need a towering CH for next season.
Watched their second half with no volume. Not sure where people are getting the idea that they are very disciplined share wise. RS were waltzing through their midfield at will. Poor final passes, bad luck with rebounds, ricochet in the box aside I thought Belgrade were much better.
RT,
No team beaten 3-0 were the better team.
Who mentioned facts earlier on.
HH to you.
The onlooker – I don’t think jhb and co are sevvies. I suspect we have a few MSM agent provocateurs in the ranks though.
However the idea that we are ‘playing off the cuff’ is guff. Evidence suggests we score more and concede fewer. That’s a fact. I think it is fair to challenge that surely?
The Onlooker
You are just one of the 5% on here that can’t see through the guy. I’m disappointed in you
Red Star are 2 points behind Partizan Belgrade in the Serbian League standings. Partizan were absolutely thrashed 5-2 at home tonight by Feyenoord. A bad day for Serbian football, and not one that inspires confidence that Red Star can retrieve this tie, despite their horrendous luck tonight.
To think that individuals ,who are not celtic fans, would spend hours of their day on a Celtic blog is bizarre.
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every now and again I will spend hours in a day on hun blogs. I often used to join in , post, contribute.
they still dont know i am a tim when i reappear during one of their criseses.
go figure
Huns playing a Europa game three days before we play them is to our benefit.
We can win the league and the huns can win the Europa quarter final trophy.
JHB to be fair is having a blast tonight
https://www.footballscotland.co.uk/spfl/scottish-premiership/red-star-belgrade-fan-trolls-23354146