Kris Commons looked like he had put a lot of practice into taking penalties yesterday. The ball was firmly hit and found the corner of the net, a feat which is far from impossible but which has been beyond various Celtic players for the last few years. We have little a little over a month before we could face a penalty kick competition against Juventus. Penalty kick practice should be on the menu every day between now and then, for the entire squad.
I’m delighted Lukasz Zaluska has had an extended run in the team. No player will be at his best if he is seldom tested and never in important games. Lukasz carried his share of the blame for last weekend’s Hampden defeat but not every keeper can pull off a Nigel Spink. Good to have Fraser back for Inverness.
If you read on a Celtic site that The Rangers chief executive and chairman are “at loggerheads” after “a chaotic week of back-biting” or that there is a prospect they will “frighten the life out of those institutional investors who ploughed £17million into the coffers little more than a month ago”, you would be forgiven for discounting the claim as a case of wishful thinking.
When it comes from the Daily Record and recent colleague of the club’s newly installed head of media you can be sure there is a little more to it than that.
You would think with all the positive feedback Green and Murray would have received form the SPL Commission they would be flush with joys. I sincerely hope, for their sake, that Phil’s Bridge over Troubled Waters ditty was more wishful thinking than another leak from the media team. That would be embarrassing. “Squelch.”
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Presumably it would have been a horse and carriage park back in the day that Richard 111 was buried there, No?
UEFA warnings over club finances
New figures show European football clubs made record losses in 2011, despite repeated warnings from UEFA.
http://www.aljazeera.com/sport/football/2013/02/201324154821941951.html?utm_content=automate&utm_campaign=Trial6&utm_source=NewSocialFlow&utm_term=plustweets&utm_medium=MasterAccount
According to Keith Jamgle Jackson the Deady Bears have graduated from Zombies to
a disembodied spirit of a dead person haunting the living!
“Today’s Rangers is in a state of deep confusion. The brutal events of the last year have left it so ravaged and traumatised that it can now barely be recognised. It is exhausted. It has become a ghost of a club.”
Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion has nothing on the scary ghouls you see hanging around Ipox
New meaning for Ghostbusters if Phil is correct and they are liquidated again
Casper CSC
Usually ‘gut feeling’ is a reliable measure for your instincts. Now my gut feeling about ‘Yorkshireman Charles Green’ was that he was a complete wideo but it also struck me that he was quite canny.. £5m for debt free Huns was a decent price… Yet my guy feeling remained.
The Huns must have had similar feelings but I guess they just want him to be a saviour so much that they are willing him to be true. Mind you they didn’t back him with their own money to any great degree.
If he turns out to have misled them.. They will surely reflect upon their own gut feelings?
UEFA introduced new regulations, known as Financial Fair Play rules in 2010, to help clubs avoid financial trouble and Spanish club Malaga was banned in December last year from European competition for at least a season over unpaid bills [GALLO/GETTY]
European clubs have allowed losses to collectively soar to a record $2.3 billion and failed to control escalating player salaries, despite repeated warnings from UEFA about the grim future football faces unless such spending is curbed.
Football is reflecting Europe’s economic turmoil, with half of top-division sides seeing their financial situations worsen in 2011, according to a financial analysis published by UEFA on Monday.
Over five years, club losses have trebled to a record $2.3 billion and the cost of paying players has leapt 40 per cent to $11.2 billion.
Hard times
“Economic austerity … has raised general awareness of the fact that action can no longer be delayed,” Andrea Traverso, UEFA’s head of Club Licensing and Financial Fair Play, said.
Traverso warned that the economic crisis has made “access to liquidity more difficult in many European countries.”
“An increasing number of clubs are currently facing limited funding availabilities. Without a change in behaviour, the risk of clubs going out of business will increase.”
– Andrea Traverso, UEFA
“An increasing number of clubs are currently facing limited funding availabilities,” he said.
“Without a change in behaviour, the risk of clubs going out of business will increase.”
UEFA was encouraged by some aspects of club finances, however. The total debt of the clubs whose accounts were analysed dropped by around 10 per cent to about $10.5bn, while the revenues generated by clubs in 2011 rose by 3 per cent to about $18bn – meaning an average growth of 5.6 per cent over the past five years.
“Which other industry has grown like that during the economic crisis?” UEFA General Secretary Gianni Infantino said.
Infantino said he was confident the record losses are at their peak and that the increase in the number of sanctions handed to clubs, including Malaga and Atletico Madrid last year, for failing to settle overdue payments indicated that “financial fair play has teeth.”
Financial regulations
The FFP rule that clubs must break even on their football-related business, or risk being excluded from European competition, comes into effect in the spring of 2014.
Chelsea, Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain have been the major spenders in recent years.
“UEFA will not be happy to do that, but UEFA will do that,” Infantino said of the potential exclusion.
“Everyone, including PSG or any other club, knows the rules and they know when they kick in, and they know that they must demonstrate that they can generate their revenues without cheating.”
UEFA President Michel Platini tells teams in the foreword of the report, which analyses nearly 700 club accounts across the organisation’s 53 member nations, that financial fair play rules are vital to curbing the “financial distress” facing football.
“Keeping costs under control and within sustainable limits is, and will continue to be, the clubs’ biggest challenge,” Platini said.
More than 60 per cent of clubs breached at least one of the rules designed to ensure debts are paid as they attempt to break even on football business – a condition of entry for the Champions League and Europa League.
And 139 of the 220 clubs playing in the Champions League or Europa League this season breached at least one of the “Financial Fair Play” criteria.
Television pairs:
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cartoon pair:
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??
Finally, a real favourite on here,Royal Pair:
– – e – -/ – – – – – r – a and – – – – c -? – – – e – –
JJ
Bloody fingers! ? should be /
so – – – – c -/ – – – e – –
Presumably Queen somebody and Prince somebody.
Incidentally, this is just to help me finish a list I was given!!
I can see it is sp popular all other topics have been ditched 0:-)
http://maleysbhoys.com/2013/02/04/fttt-the-dissenting-opinion/
Scottish fitba team?
-he—n- b-s-a–‘s
JJ
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert ???
Soooo Jabba offering Clyde first dibs on his Tier 2 musings
Not offered to Auntie Beeb? Or, offered but rejected, because he has placed restrictions on the line of questioning?
Maybe he will get an easy time at Clyde
or
He simply chose to upset the Beeb and others including Sky etc. etc.,
Simpler to call a press conference -shurely- and maximise audience for his message
but…
Risks facing ‘open season’, and all those difficult question the press will be burstin’ to ask him…aye they are….really!
Battle lines being drawn -or redrawn
Interesting times ahead for the guy whom, any reasonable person could be forgiven for concluding that he looks like a weans drawing
Good evening Timland.
Jelly and ice cream all over again………..fantastic.
Good early evening Celts, I guess nowt happened on AIM today as I would have got a heads up from CQN’ers …. Ach well champagne back oot the fridge then for a bit.
V
BJM 68
Well done. Are you a Hun?
Valentine`s Day @ 17.43
I wisg they were all that easy 0:-)
JJ
Comfortable win for the Celts yesterday despite the tight confines of the pitch. Great to see James Forrest back
Hahahah.
Just seen the Eric Cantona Kronenburg advert. Superb.
The nod to camera at the end…hahahaha.
Vmhan
Thank you for your donation.
Lionroars67,
Cheers for that, my fav kills the club company argument IMO
“She then specifies the amount being contested with direct regards to Rangers Football Club “Of the £46.2 million assessed, the sum of £36.6 million (PAYE £27.4m, NIC £9.2m) is on Rangers, and the balance of £9.6 million allocated variously among the other four group companies.””
JJ
BJM 68
Well done. Are you a Hun?
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No – Just a perpetual lurker on this site, but like to help out if I can ;-)
Had never heard of the ECA until MSM started going on about how great the rangers were according to them… here’s more…
“RANGERS will rub shoulders with Europe’s elite clubs for the next two days in Qatar at the annual conference of the European Clubs Association.
Chief Executive Charles Green and Head of Administration Andrew Dickson will attend the event in Doha.
Rangers were granted associate membership of the ECA last December despite the club’s current status given their previous involvement.
Indeed former chairman John McClelland was a leading light in the ECA in recent years.
Green told the official web site: “We are delighted to be attending the ECA conference and I feel it is important that the club is involved.
“We were very pleased last December when the ECA board decided that as Rangers were founder members they should be an associate member despite the club’s current Third Division status.
“There will be discussions on the changing shape of European football and the impact of media and TV so it’s vital that we continue to be involved while we try to return to the top of Scottish football on merit.
“In turn I think there is a lot of interest from other clubs on what has happened at Rangers so we can relate what has gone in that regard.”
Sandman
17:51 on 4 February, 2013
‘Hahahah.
Just seen the Eric Cantona Kronenburg advert. Superb. ‘
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Certainly a big improvement on his attempt to break into the estate agency training video market.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhIjuQmHmfE
Ah! Your welcome, the Googybhoy did good!
V
Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire
17:53 on
4 February, 2013
Yes the parts of the judgement the MSM just ignored
The upper tribunal will not ignore
I hear Jim Traynor has given an interview to Radio Clyde.
Why not BBC Shortbread you may ask, his long term employer?
Well, even Jim Traynor doesn’t have a brass neck that thick.
So they found Dickie 3 illegally parked…if it was up to me i’d widen it and pap the lot of em’ in.
Forty-six European soccer teams
would require equity infusions to
meet incoming fiscal control
regulations, according to a report
from regional governing body UEFA ,
which said clubs’ losses widened by
2 percent to 1.68 billion euros
($2.28 billion) in 2011.
An analysis of the finances of about
700 clubs released today by Nyon,
Switzerland-based UEFA showed
sales of 13.2 billion euros in 2011
were eroded by 9.4 billion euros
worth of spending on players and
salaries, a 43 percent increase over
five years.
Excellent opener from Jabba…… rangers are now ” in a better place than they were before”
To think some will actually believe such nonsense. Poor deluded fools.
I haven’t stopped laughing all day.
Message sent from my landline
The Rangers can quite rightly claim a World First in Doha.
They are the only European Club Association delegate that is unable to play in European Club Football.
That’s a first.
the moon bhoys
Celtic and Aberdeen are full members. hearts are also an associate member.
Sevco dont seem so special when you know that wee fact…
Fholks,
Apologies if already posted. AT’s view on the latest news on FTT appeal.
http://blogs.channel4.com/alex-thomsons-view/hmrc-big-tax-case-victory-lawyers/4008
Estoril
God bless her majesty
GoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooD
Evening……………………………………
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Q………………………………………
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Another glorious day in the Costa………………………..
BigJoe6thIntheCQNfantasyFootball
steinreignedsupreme
18:14 on
4 February, 2013
I haven’t stopped laughing all day.
Message sent from my landline
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Stein,
Ano great ” here we go again ”
Sent from my living room :))
s, revenue & customs
for launching an appeal against the rangers (il) tax case ruling