Celtic will receive £1.65m from the Uefa revenue distribution system for participating in the Champions League play-off round against Helsingborgs. Add to that around £1m gate money and the guarantee of at least three Europa League games, with Uefa distribution money, you can calculate the value of Wednesday’s win over HJK Helsinki as no less than £6m (all figures are net of vat). Quite a prize for one game.
Compare this to the projected income from newco The Rangers, who claimed to have sold 25,000 season tickets. If all sales were at full adult prices (£258 in vat), net income would be £5.375m.
Should Celtic overcome Helsingborgs and reach the Champions League group stage, the club will return to a remarkably strong financial footing.
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macjay,
Aye, Liam O’Flynn. One of the best in living memory of a large fine stream of Irish musicians.
Best concert I’ve ever been to…him and Arty McGlynn in Glasgow mid 90s.
Nobody could help stampin their feet. Amazing. :)
macjay,
You might know him from Planxty, the Chieftains etc…..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nL7sxg6BQSE&feature=related
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rm1G0uW3UI&feature=relmfu
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MacJay..
Yes Tim’s are Guid..
I wrote that Wee Post sitting on My New Super Dooper Camping Chair (With Esky in Armrest)..;0)
I was Watching a Football match between 2 Groups of South Americans.. A Brazil side full of Young seminarians..Studing in Australia.. Our Parish Priest who was doing the Commentary through a Very loud sound system.. With the Full Brazil Strip on.. With White ankle Socks .. Hilarious..
One of the Young Priests a Not bad Player No10 with Redemptoris Mater Sydney on his back..;0) “Her Outdoors” informed me it was Not his Name.. Ha..
Great Wee Day with Good food.. Just Yards from My House..
They were Not Div3 Priests/Players..;0(
Summa
PS.. Will arrange a Trip up to Sydney this Season probs after Chrimbo.. Might get Kit and Tom down as Well..
Foxy_1888 on 12 August, 2012 at 05:52 said:
Naw. I think if they were responsible in a corporate sense they would have fought the huns for that lost for that £60M CL cash that evaporated down Govan way instead of using them as a pacemaker. You are deluding yourselves if you think they are financial geniuses.
By the way on the chocolate bunny theory of yours. How do you distinguish between pre pubescent huns and young sweet tooth catholics around the spring equinox? I think we should be tellt. Just wondering like..you know on how you guage it….like a Celtic Bored statement ..how would you ever know you were fooling yourself. Like you do.
ok all you intellectual teuchters and ecumenical giants ..talk to you Sunday
Laters
Fortunes Favour Mibbes on 12 August, 2012 at 06:35 said:
Different generation.
`60s folk clubs.
Incredible String band.Humblebums.Corries.J.S.D.band.Dubliners.
Meet at the Met. etc.etc.
Did a bit myself at the ceilidhs.
SUMMA
PS.. Will arrange a Trip up to Sydney this Season probs after Chrimbo.. Might get Kit and Tom down as Well..
My place.
Deal?
The grog she will flow.
In a children friendly sort of way.:-)
As no fan of the left,I have my reservations about Obama.
Until I see and hear Mitt .
Now then,what rhymes with Mitt…………?
The great thing about talking to yourself is that , at least you get an educated conversation.
Fortunes Favour Mibbes on 12 August, 2012 at 06:20
Thank you FFB. That link’s a favourite now.
Good morning Celts!
Right now that PL’s bonus payment game (I can’t see any other reason for it) is out of the way, can we re-focus on football games to be played by our club that actually mean something.
I do wish that PL et al, in the spirit of fair play and openness inform the support next year if they plan to re -areange Saturday 3pm KO’s against the likes of DU,’to a midweek night that ST’s like me will struggle to attend.
Feeling cheated by the club and don’t like it, next seasons
renewal …….. As I mostly only go to Sat KO’s …… I’ll think
again when renewal comes round.
Pointless!
Morning,
I see the Herald leads the way for the doom & gloom match reports for a friendly loss.
Stupid hurting huns…
http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/opinion/stronger-hibs-needed-to-maintain-derby-fervour.18556856
Pseudo intellectual assessment of the state of the Scottish footballing nation..
Impressive use of English idiom.
Neither can hide the message: BRING BACK THE HUNS.
Aye, Archie ,you`d be cawin` canny if Jock were still around.
The Gospel according to Archie:
A brutal financial hierarchy exists in European football which surely excludes the possibility of any Scottish club joining the elite and that means Celtic too, whose comparative wealth in our land is dwarfed even by any average club in England’s Premier League.
That is why our domestic league must be highly competitive.
HELLO,HELLO….who are you , Archie boy?
lennon in the express says he is happy with the squad,so he thinks he dosent need to open the cheque book,to bring in new faces,ok thats fine considering the players that he has brought to celtic.,k wilson, d murphy. bangura,matthews mc court.players who in my opinion wont cut it at celtic.and the goalie zaluska a bag of nerves,no your right lenny ,keep the cheque book in your pocket.
macjay1
Summa
Im due a holiday mid February and thinking of going to Oz, lettuce know if your trip to Sydney is around that time… Also planning on going in Novemeber.
EN
Estadio Nacional on 12 August, 2012 at 08:14 said
A Timmy welcome awaits.
Good. Morning from a bright and hotter than Sidney?
Saltcoats!
Who needs espania av got a campervan
Good morning friends from a dry, pleasant but currently slightly cloudy East Kilbride. Mrs Baldie returns from Tunisia early afternoon so hunners a jobs to do this morning.
DJBEE on 12 August, 2012 at 08:17 said:
Sydney`s Arctic right now.
BUT Summer always comes.
Sunny saltcoatz 5 weans n a sleepin drunken bum of a m8. They are all goin to wake up soon think al go for a shower n go invisible for a few hours
Timbhoy 2
The manager never brought McCourt to parkhead
Published on Sunday 12 August 2012 05:55
HOW do you judge the worth of a football career? Is it in terms of medals or money, caps or cash?
Last week Scotland manager Craig Levein made it clear he is not keen to select players who have elected to play for newco Rangers in the Third Division. He believes it would be hard for players to earn their crust playing at such a lowly level and then switch to the demands of the international stage.
It means that walking away from Ibrox has helped Steven Naismith, Allan McGregor and Steven Whittaker retain hopes of playing in Brazil in 2014. For others, such as Lee Wallace who had already been capped and Ian Black who was on the fringes of the squad, it looks like they have put club considerations before their ambitions to play for their country. They will be richly rewarded in monetary terms but when the scrap book is being leafed through in later years, will it be enough?
It’s not just the damage the decision has done to their international aspirations, either. Given the chance, which match would you choose to be involved in, the Edinburgh derby or a no-win trip to Third Division Peterhead?
There are several who have opted for a stint in the lower reaches of Scottish football and while it is bewildering some it is infuriating others. The lure, undoubtedly, is lucre and while players who are trying to provide long-term security for themselves and their families cannot be totally condemned for that, it is galling.
Hibs manager Pat Fenlon is the latest to express his frustration. In need of a striker and being badgered by fans, he says he has tried, really tried. Apparently, he looked at bringing Dean Shiels back to Easer Road and had a shot at landing Fran Sandaza but both bought into the Rangers revolution instead. Or, perhaps more accurately, they were bought over.
After all, no kid ever spent their days in the playground dreaming of making it into top-flight football only to swap it for a contract in the lowest tier of the SFL.
Fenlon is mad that after the summer of discontent, having generated a mess that threatened to bring Scottish football to its knees, Rangers are back out splashing the cash like it was never an issue. He’s not the only one. Not the only manager who has been forced to live within even more stringent budgetary constraints due to the mismanagement at Rangers and the impact on gate receipts and television deals, not the only fan who waits patiently for big-name arrivals, not the directors who bear the brunt of it. If the Hibs boss is angry then imagine how the clubs who are still waiting for their football debts to be settled feel. Or the wee, local businesses who will never get the balance of cash owed to them. They will continue to struggle through the dire economic times which blight everyone out with the football bubble.
Protecting the integrity of the game? Where is the integrity in that?
There is merit in players such as Lee McCulloch hanging about. A player with the club at heart and the best years of his career behind him, his decision has probably got more to do with heart than wallet.
Football is an emotional game and it is also a business so we can’t totally blame players who have been at clubs where finances weren’t always sound, wages not always timely. They too have families to feed, mortgages to pay and a career that is all too short. People such as Kevin Kyle, who has had his shot at the top and is looking for another year or two of decent money to tuck away for that rainy day. Getting someone to pay him the kind of money Rangers are, despite him being out with a hip problem since the beginning of 2011, it’s not to be sniffed at.
But it’s the younger guys, who must surely harbour ambitions to play at the very highest level, who have to be questioned. They want to be part of something special, some have said, be part of taking the club from the foot of the leagues right back up to the hilt.
The last time someone tried to do that by over spending to such a degree, they went out of existence. Rangers are no Gretna but they are also a club who don’t seem to have learned from their own mistakes. It was their desire to buy success during the Dick Advocaat era which laid the foundations for the misery the whole of the Scottish game endured this summer.
No wonder people are frustrated.
Good morning CQN
Get well soon Dylay McGeouch
Well done the Blue Toon
Peterhead 2 Big Spenders 2
Keep the Faith
Hail Hail
macjay1 08:17
Good stuff, look forward to visiting Sydney.
EN
Vmhan.
Last nights game maintains celtics profile as a top European team, something that a 3pm kick off in the spl or even previous year’s European exploits has failed to do.
One game has accounted for 2000 season tickets worth of income.
Maybe Celtic have the right idea here.
lionroars67 –
enjoyed that, where’s it from
flightdelayed50minutesCSC
macjay1 for Neil Lennon on 12 August, 2012 at 08:06 said:
Jonathon Watson satirical take portrayal of both erchie and chicko being rabid Rankers fans were revealling the true nature of what lay beneath the surface, although i felt and still do they gave the chicko caraciature to much intelligence, he really is as dumb as he appears
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Jobo Baldie on 12 August, 2012 at 08:36 said:
lionroars67 –
Sorry Jobo should have posted source, Moira Gordon SOS
Perspective
The Madrid starting XI cost just under £300million to assemble, approximately 100 times that of Celtic’s, and the bench was overflowing with quality, including Iker Casillas, Pepe, Karim Benzema, Mesut Ozil and Angel Di Maria.
By contrast, Celtic could muster only four subs, among them teenagers Marcus Fraser and Calum McGregor.
Off the pitch at least Rangers could have landed in more hostile places than Peterhead when kicking off their Irn Bru Third Division adventure. The welcome was warm, as might be expected in a place known as the Blue Toon. Half ’n’ half scarves celebrating the historic occasion were on sale while bag-pipers were also out in force, as were stewards and police officers. They showed forbearance to the good number of away fans who sneaked into the home end of the ground and who were not shy about exhibiting their allegiance to Rangers.
Half n Half scarves……………………………………………
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Good morning
That’s the sun out now