People hear what they want to hear. When Neil Lennon was asked at a media conference if he was able to spend £6m on one player, as he was last year, he gave the honest answer; “Yes”. He was able to make this type of signing, but that’s not to say he would regard this as the best use of his very finite resources.
Some felt “cheated” when Celtic ultimately didn’t make a £6m signing, they perhaps only read headlines with promises to that effect, without drilling down to the actual quotes. Nothing can be done about this. Dave King is another story.
King desperately wants to do something positive for Newco Rangers, perhaps mindful of his role as a director when Original Rangers were consigned to liquidation. He wants to believe that he can bring influence to bear on the collection of hedge funds and Respectable Local Businessmen who control Newco, but he appears to be indulging in a bit of ‘hearing what he wants to hear’.
Newco accused King of making “untrue” and “disgraceful” comments, which is perhaps polite for “glib and shameless liar”. Based on their public comments, Newco are in the right. After almost two years of over-promising and under-delivering, they have played clever. Specifically, they did not publicly promise to reveal their forward budget plans for the club before season ticket renewal deadline. Why would they?
King met the board and then told the world he won this assurance from them. I’d be amazed if Graham Wallace was sufficiently malleable to be manipulated into making such a commitment to a man who led Oldco into liquidation. Wallace’s 120 day review period was surely chosen not because it takes anything like this long to discover the blatantly obvious, but because it allowed him to kick all this trouble into the long grass of the close season. Wallace’s entire strategy for this season is not to be drawn on discussing the long metaphoric winter that lies ahead.
A few weeks ago I described King as the Pied Piper of Govan. In truth, I don’t expect many fans will sign up to his hair-brained “give me, not them, your money” plan. It’s far more likely that thousands of would-be fans will simply tune out. There are a million more things people can do than watch lower league football; maybe some could back the team their grandchildren will support, I hear they have Champions League qualifiers coming up.
The worst thing for King right now is for Salary McCoist to fluke a cup win today, allowing Newco to flood their support with season ticket renewal notices on Monday on a wave of positivity. Acting on the eve of such a major game will surely have been a well-considered move. Better all-round if United win, momentum is halted and those hedge funds and Respectable Local Businessmen are forced into a humiliating liquidation.
Don’t bet on it, though. The current key holders will have contingency plans of their own.
Seville – The Celtic Movement
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United fans in good voice now
RobertTressell
£7, yes £7k a week.
That’s what he told one of the Albion Rovers players recently.
Give him a pay rise to stay:-)
1 min
Gold coast tom – you cannot be serious? Holy jasus!
Where’s yer treble gone, where’s yer treble gone….
FarfarawayCSC
corkcelt – can you email me please?
david@CQNMagazine.com
Poor Roddy thought it was a goal. Shame……
This is WONDERFUL …..it was always going to be hard for United….they were up against everything today…….
Good to see a young manager getting his team to a Scottish Cup Final at the first time of asking.
Looks like they’ve walked away!
Loads of empty seats……
That was nt for offside. It was for a blatant shove.
inury time
Gees Sevco are stinking the place out. That team is nowhere near assured gaining promotion next season.
What’s the world record for most free kicks awarded to one team? Madden must be close today
That moshni is one ugly looking fecker!.
Big sean.
Thank God there will be no huns in Paradise
Tom English’s quotes from yon Ramsdens Cup Final last week seem appropriate for that goal..
“.. this could not have been any more slapstick had the Three Stooges stood in the middle of the park hitting each other with wet fish.
In Black’s head, he must think he is some gorgeous amalgam of Xavi and Andres Iniesta. In reality, too often, he was Mr Magoo.”
Mr Magoo & the Wet Fish CSC
I can’t relax until they are more goals behind than there are minutes left…
No huns in my seat oh there will be no huns in my seat.
HH
Hun Armageddon
Naka – i am delighted for him. Hahahaha
stevo
14:31 on 12 April, 2014
Classy shot there. Just over
that’s a classic palomino.NOW WHO FUR.
do you ever read on here EUROPEAN nights.any idea how many FFS s.appear with no explanation.
Black and Sevco deserve each other
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The Scottish Cup need a Weak Rangers..
Summa
And even then.
Coisty. 10 in a row. Legned!!
1 min left
Why is the Underground so busy the now
I never watched but well done to Jackie Macs DundeeUtd. Held their nerve under severe provocation.
HH
10 sec
GIRFUY ya dirty cheating hunscum bassas!
FT yes
Forsyth: “… and the Rangers fans are starting to drift away now…you can’t blame them for wanting to avoid the traffic…”
No Huns at CP heheheheheheheheh
That WULL DAE!!!!!
Sevco shite.
Yesssssssssssssssssssss….C’mon the Arabs!!!!!!!!
Goodbye Goodbye we were the Silly Boys