Virgil van Dijk is a class defender, one of the best we’ve seen in recent decades, but there’s no revelation in the fact that he would consider moving to the right club at a more testing league; they all would. The only pertinent fact about Virgil is that several clubs may put that to the test later this year.
The main thing to consider with Virgil is that he’s not likely to ‘Do a Kelvin’, and report as not in the right frame of mind to play, midway through Champions League qualifiers. With Jason Denayer wanted back in Manchester, it’s important Celtic retain Virgil for the qualifiers, or are sufficiently compensated before then that they can confidently secure the early signatures of prime targets.
From what I hear, Virgil’s been more than professional in his dealings with the club. He’s not running campaigns to leave and despite the plainly obvious that they would all like to play for Real Madrid, if the right move doesn’t materialise, he’ll get stuck in at Celtic for next season. So it’s not time to reminisce on favourite VVD moments yet, like the time that wee boy bounced off him at Hampden.
Trophy Day at Celtic Park is coming up on Sunday, 24 May when we play Inverness, when the Foundation will be distributing badges before the game to raise funds for the enormous work they do for the local homeless, the world’s poor, those with autism, those with Downs, and many more people and families who need your care.
You can participate in our annual Trophy Day by volunteering to work with the Foundation before kick-off. It is genuinely good fun and you get to step into the 127-year-old shoes those who have gone before you.
There are around 100 volunteers and we’re only looking for around 20 more, so get in soon by emailing cfcfoundation@celticfc.co.uk or calling 0141 551 4291.
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Árd Macha,
I Echo what you are saying.
HH Great Celt,
defo off oot noo.
Does anyone know what the school football team strip was worn at St Patrick’s boys school in Anderston circa 1958 to 1963, I recall it was the hoops as the school was run by Marist brothers but my memory it not what it once was.
Curious play by Uncle Mike.
He had other options, quicker, quieter and less cumbersome.
This one is public and carries an element of risk.
But then it’s public, and perhaps that’s his motivation.
We’ll see.
ennisbhoy & 09:31,
I’m sure we’ll get the older and wiser amongst us to give us the low down soon but my understanding….
SD have 51% of Rangers Retail, as part of the loan deal they get another 25% giving SD 76% at the moment.
When the loan is paid off by the new Rangers regime it goes back to 51% for SD.
craiginho
09:08 on 13 May, 2015
Always remembering also that there is the distinct possibility that they don’t actually own ipox …..and have never stated officially that they do …….. all good stuff…!!
TBB –
Does that not depend on who leaked the letter? It could be Ashley wanted it to remain in-house and he may be surprised that it has been made public.
TBB @ 09:40,
Could it be that MA is making this public to smoke out the new Rangers Board and Dave King while the ST money is coming in.
Is he in fact turning the tables on DK and PM by allowing the supporters who are also shareholders the option of getting their Clubs assets back by voting to pay MASH their £5M.
Hail Hail
tom mclaughlin
Hmmmmmmmm, could have something there, who would profit more with going public? RIFC I doubt would, …..Big Mick? Yup one to think about I’m sure.
Aye, like MA is going to start leaking stuff to the record ffs, looks more like a clumsy attempt by the master tacticians to see the glib ones intentions
Just read the article again. All it says us that Ashley wrote to Rangers on 29 April demanding repayment of his outstanding loan and requesting other information.
Nowhere does it say who brought it to the attention of the media.
Nowhere does it say who brought it to the attention of the media.
I think it said The Daily Record can reveal ……..sometimes that means a leak from outside Ibrokes?
Chairbhoy
09:41
ennisbhoy 09:31,
I think the original SD share of Rangers Retail is 49% though their shares are worth two of the Sevco ones which gives them control of the company.
HH
Chairbhoy @ 09:41
The impression that McLaughlin gives is that they get the whole shabang back.
‘If the loan is paid back, the club will regain security over their branding, the Murray Park training ground and the club’s retail rights.’
Ennisbhoy
The Battered Bunnet
09:40 on
13 May, 2015
Curious play by Uncle Mike.
He had other options, quicker, quieter and less cumbersome.
This one is public and carries an element of risk.
But then it’s public, and perhaps that’s his motivation.
We’ll see.
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Maybe he’s peed off at everything else being played out in public via the chip papers? Kings, Murray etc. seem keen always to get fan opinion on their side by controlling the message via the media. Might be that Ashley is happy to play them at theirm own game.
It is quite inconsequential in the scheme of things who leaked the letter*
A new Rangers EGM is a very public forum, it wasn’t going to remain a secret for very long.
*Although it will be interesting to speculate who benefits most from it coming out now.
In my opinion it must have been leaked by DK, he has his minions in the press and a supporters group doing all his work. Leaking it to the public domain puts pressure on Bike Mike and makes him look like the bad guy…..eh like he cares, this will back fire in DK… He has trouble with the Easdales also, they want their money back too…!
DK is a a rascal of the highest order..
Ayrshire is Green and White
SD loaned Rangers £5m secured. The club has failed to repay on the due date. The next step for SD, as for any creditor, is to write to Rangers – the debtor – to demand payment.
It makes no sense for SD then to make the letter public, especially BEFORE the new payment deadline as highlighted in said letter.
The next step would be court action, rather than going public.
No. This has come from Rangers, or someone inside the club intent on mischief.
3 weeks ago, the sevco bored advised the SMSM that they would be communicating their ‘plan’ to the fans within a couple of weeks ( seemed to be good timing to get the gullable to throw their money away on SB’s)……. Not a dickie-bird from the bored or the SMSM since then …… and they have now forced Michael to revise his intended plan to milk them slowly……he wants out, and he wants his money back……tick tock
CCCCRRRRAAAASSSSHHHH ……..hahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Rascal.
One of my ole gran’s favourite epiphets.
Usually accompanied by her best friend [Mrs Butler] noddin’ her head in solemn agreement.
Tom
It’s a public company with a GM requisition to deal with. By necessity, the contents of the letter need to be sent to shareholders in early course – the deadline is next Wednesday for that step – and published on the RIFC website.
Ernie
SDL had 49% of RRL. As part of the January loan, RIFC handed over a further 26% as security, to be returned when the loan was repaid.
It’s actually a little more nuanced than that. There are only 100 issued shares. (SDL’s 49 shares count double on votes on financial issues btw – which is pretty much everything). SDL has 49, RIFC has 51.
With the further 26 shares from RIFC held by SDL as security , SDL now has 75% of the company, and thus can force through special resolutions, for example, to issue new shares, thus potentially diluting the RIFC shareholding if they wish.
If one were particularly cunning, you might – while this GM requisition follows due process – elect to issue say 10 million new shares at £1 each in RRL. Both shares holders are entitled to subscribe in proportion to current share holding, thus RIFC would need to pony up £2.5M just to prevent their current 25 shares from being diluted to dishwater.
Meantime, RIFC needs to pony up £5M to settle the debt.
Even were they to settle the debt, if the dilution has occurred prior to that point, they don’t get back their 26% of RRL, they get their original 26 shares held in security, now representing just 0.00026% of the retail outfit.
Mind, RRL is currently the legal owner of all of the ‘Rangers’ IP.
As I say, if one were cunning…
Ennisbhoy @ 10:00,
The retail side is fairly complex – TBB did a great post on the ins and outs a couple of weeks ago ( maybe he/ or someone can re-post )
But SD most definitely hold the cards when it comes to Rangers Retail.
If Chris McLaughlin gave the impression new Rangers get all their retail back he is very wrong.
Hail Hail
It is quite inconsequential in the scheme of things who leaked the letter*
Although it will be interesting to speculate. Who benefits most from it coming out
.? I’m confused :)
Bfore anyone else says it
BFDJ
Says getting a £5 million final demand from MASH is like a new signing
I think the sevco bored know it’s ‘administration time’ , and are trying to blame Michael for it …… wonder who the secured creditors are..? …..are we looking at more Green and Whyte scoundrels ………hahahahahahaha…..now, where are those sedatives…!!?
Are the orc’s shelling out for season tickets yet ?
Tom McLaughlin
10:03 on
13 May, 2015
SD loaned Rangers £5m secured. The club has failed to repay on the due date. The next step for SD, as for any creditor, is to write to Rangers – the debtor – to demand payment.
It makes no sense for SD then to make the letter public, especially BEFORE the new payment deadline as highlighted in said letter.
The next step would be court action, rather than going public.
No. This has come from Rangers, or someone inside the club intent on mischief.
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Actually, that makes much more sense.
Right so the consensus sais it’s thems, ok, I’ll go with that.
Now a kin go an hing oot ma washin. :))
Ennisbhoy – TBB’s post @ 10:08 explains it better.
Exslaemuirbhoy…
They started taking the instalments at the end of last month….
http://www.rangers.co.uk/tickets/item/6705-season-ticket-automatic-renewals
Hail Hail
Cui bono?
Chairbhoy
10:22 on
13 May, 2015
Cheers man, didn’t know that. Clears a foggy image
Administration does nothing for the current basket case new pioneer club.
Their problem is not that they’ve got a shed load of debt they can’t repay, it’s that they have a business that loses money hand over fist with no sign of that changing any time soon. Administration solves no problems at all. There’s very little debt to dump.
They need more shareholders cash, hugely more. I’d say £30M now, and £15M each year that they don’t compete in the Champions League.
Or else, find some way to break even with a team as capable as Inverness.
Liquidation is worse, since until the debt to SDL is settled, the right to trade as “Rangers” is owned by Mike Ashley, not RIFC. RIFC could liquidate, but that’s an end to it. The only person who could ‘launch’ a nuevo newco new pioneer club is Big Mike.
It’s quite the pickle, potentially.
I think that the “slant” in the Record piece is anti Mash, with words like “grab”, etc.
It suggests that Mike is some sort of pirate or scavenger, who preys on weak or sinking vessels.
Nothing, in this case, could be closer to the truth!
Therefore, to my illogical mind, the “leak” was from inside Ibrox.
But why?
For what effective purpose?
mmmm pickles
Liking all this chat , love to think that mob will be in our wake for eternity
fook thum
The Battered Bunnet
10:25 on 13 May, 2015
Yes.
If £5m to Ashley was all that was needed to solve their problems it would be have been paid by now.
But, as you say, it’s £5m now, then maybe £30 to follow follow with no certainty of survival never mind success.
Shoulda minded my French.
Nouveau Newco est plus agréable.
I’d be conservative, and include Ashley’s £5M with the £1.5M owed to Park etc, plus May’s cash shortfall in the £30M needed to trade in the coming 12 months.
Chairbhoy @ 10:08
That was a well timed reply, right under TBB’s post about the ins and outs of which you alluded to.
A complex beast it is, of that there is no doubt.
We cannot expect too much from Scottish journo’s now, can we.
HH
EnnisBhoy