Win over HJK worth at least £6m to Celtic

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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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  1. Now I wouldn’t wish harm on anyone…..well anyone who is not included in my ‘top 1000 wish harm on you list’…….but I justconsidered that the McCoist’s plans had major faults.

     

     

    At first I wrote this as as “Fat Ally Flawed” but noticed that it could be written as ‘Fatally Flawed’.

     

     

    I do these strange out-takes whenever Brendan Foster starts speaking (he is on my list)

     

     

    Hail Hail

     

     

    Estadio

  2. tommytwiststommyturns on

    Bada Bing – a commentating legend, but it won’t be “the greatest comeback since Lazarus”!

     

     

    T4

  3. Richie on 12 August, 2012 at 11:41 said:

     

    I noticed the 5 stars were back on their tops yesterday.

     

     

    Noticed last week they had them on their training tops- as well as the same club crest- in the Evening Times: my stress levels were raised dangerously high looking at that picture. What is wrong with this country when such levels of shameless conceit and arrogant contempt for the decent rules of civilised society are so flagrantly dismissed by feral mob of delinquents and rampant cheats?

     

     

    Its disgusting.

  4. Lennon n Mc....Mjallby on

    Wonky

     

     

    Well said,an utter disgrace but I wouldn’t let it bother you too much as they are the only ones who believe in it,the good thing is,its more ammunition to prove how shameful they are in pub,office and internet arguments.

     

     

    Never ending ammunition.

  5. Scotland’s Shameless ***** that’s 5 stars btw in cas anyone thinks I’d be so crass as to call them ***** even though they are.

     

    They even found time yesterday to wish ill upon Dylan McG. after his dangerous looking knockout.

     

    They have learned NOTHING.

     

    And they never will…..they are just way too stupid.

  6. roy croppie on 12 August, 2012 at 11:54 said:

     

    DontPatmadug

     

     

    McCoist is untouchable for the MSM. He is a Churchillian figure who has led the orcs through their darkest days.

     

     

    The sneaky one is leading them like a blindfolded man with cataracts stumbling and banging into various obstacles in a midnight maze with black walls that leads nowhere…and only offers the simultaneous consolation and curse of “moving forward”…when in reality they are going in circles and repeatedly following their old footsteps back to where they started.

  7. theglasgowcelticway on

    Sevco away record so far : two games played,both drawn after 90 minutes.Are they too big for the 3rd division?

  8. I hope young Dylan is doing okay. He was our best player by a long way yesterday and I wish him well.

     

    HH!

  9. Lennon n Mc....Mjallby on

    Their stars is a PR embarrassment to say one of them will soon be stripped.

     

     

    Add to that they have just confirmed their Zombie status.

     

     

    The Munsters O’ The Midden.

     

     

     

     

    Of course we all know its Charlie boys attempt to sook up the hoardes to sell tickets.

  10. DontPatmadug-I hope the MSM leave Sally well alone mate,he is doing a fantastic job ,ET to beat the mighty Brechin and a 2-2 draw against 3rd Div promotion hopefuls Peterhead.:}

  11. 67Heaven ... I am Neil Lennon..!!.. Ibrox belongs to the creditors on

    theglasgowcelticway … 12:25 on 12 August, 2012

     

     

    They have a potentially massive problem, in that their players DON’T WANT TO BE PLAYING IN THE 3rd DIVISION, irrespective of all the media hype …….oh yes, ….AND….. Basicly, sally is a really shoite manager …….hopeless and hapless…..!!!!

  12. Systemically there is something very very wrong at that club or “great institution” as Salmond likes to call them…a chance to start afresh and pay all their dues, as well as distance themselves from the cultural crimes of the past and embrace repentance for the sake of the whole of Scottish football…but instead they are pressing forward full throttle with signing players on SPL wages that are funded by monies they should be using to pay off debts…as well as the fact they also dwarf every other club in the Third Division but yet still find it acceptable to dishonourably prop up their advantage over these teams by splashing cash they don’t have or can even legislate for…change is not possible either on an individual or organisational level until modesty is accepted and repentance is practised…but the moral equivalent in terms of distance for this mob is as if they were on Pluto and the rest of us are living here on Earth: they populate a remote alien world, that is an ice-laden wilderness of permanent darkness.

  13. Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire on

    leftclicktic,

     

    I just spent half an hour looking for a post last night by someone who copied and pasted a tweet about BDO declaring sale of assets void, failed miserably in my search, so cheers for your link, the games afoot :o)

  14. Liked this from Firhill yesterday:

     

     

    CelticResearch ‏@CelticResearch

     

     

    Best thing about Firhill today was the HT tannoy scores. “The early DIV3 kick off-Peterhead 2, Sevco 5088 or whatever they are called now 2.”

  15. foxy_1888

     

    12:28 on 12 August, 2012

     

    >>>>>>>

     

    Weird,isn’t it,how some people get co-opted and corrupted by the establishment when they crave love. The Beatles once returned their o.b.e’s. After John Lennon was murdered they re-accepted them.

     

    At least he never reneged on his beliefs and/or history.

     

    He got it right when he sang of McC. ” How do you sleep at night?”

     

    Lennon&McCartney….the 20th. Century’s outstanding musical geniuses,undoubtedly. It is sad to see that P.McC has sold his soul. And it’s not like he needed the money.

     

    Oh well.

     

    HH!

  16. Paul67

     

     

    I was waiting for this article.

     

    You have been very quiet on the money front recently.

     

    Consequently I await with interest the figures for the 20011/12 accounts.

     

     

    Just how much did Sion gift us with their EUFA unfriendly selection policy?

     

     

    Finally are we going to get detail on the Celtic Triangle development?

     

    The scale of the proposed building on London Road looks all wrong.

     

    As for the later phases, limited would be the most positive I could give them.

     

     

    When are we going to get a U20 / Reserve stadium?

     

    That would be much better than housing / commercial behind the Celtic End.

     

    Total lack of imagination from PL et al.

  17. Good afternoon from a sun-drenched West End.

     

     

    I watched the 2nd half against some team from Spain last night and thought we did very well – even with the goal we lost.

     

     

    Hope young Dylan makes a speedy recovery. That guy went through him when he didn’t have a hope of making the ball.

     

     

    What about the strip clash as well? What was that all about?

  18. Sid Waddell RIP –

     

     

    ‘They may have Shakespeare on the box tomorrow night, but there’s more drama going on here’.

  19. roy croppie

     

     

    12:40 on 12 August, 2012

     

    Liked this from Firhill yesterday:

     

     

    CelticResearch ‏@CelticResearch

     

     

    Best thing about Firhill today was the HT tannoy scores. “The early DIV3 kick off-Peterhead 2, Sevco 5088 or whatever they are called now 2.”

     

    ———–/—-/——————————

     

    ROFL

     

     

    Pishing from the heavens in manc…..surprise surprise…… But still I can’t stop smiling sevco the gift that just keeps giving

  20. I think this orgy of spending they have initiated recently could well be a fear of humilation…they’re repugnant seventeenth century triumphalistic mind-set is haunted by terrifying nightmares of losing face to the bottom feeders…as well as meeting us in the Cup and ending up totally humiliated…humiliation must be the worst kind of punishment for someone with a superiority complex…I just worry about injuries to our guys if we get the Orcs in the cup…Black…Kyle…Elbows…various other cloggers they will have signed by then…they will kick us off the park…and no doubt get away with it.

  21. Can anyone comprehend the mindset that would haughtily award itself five stars…when most clubs only do so for European honours?

     

     

    If you are to be allowed this indulgence then the Big Cup winners should be allowed to have gold stars that are also bigger than the small white stars for league wins…that would put them bams in their place.

  22. Steinreignedsupreme on

    wonkyradar on 12 August, 2012 at 12:47:

     

     

    “I think this orgy of spending they have initiated recently could well be a fear of humilation.”

     

     

    The Billionaires Boys Club haven’t spent a bean. All of their signings have been out-of-contract players.