There has been some interesting chatter in the upper echelons of Planet Fitba this week.
I understand that the Sevco High Command has utilised a trusted intermediary to communicate some sensitive information to the chaps on the 6th floor of Hampden.
For the avoidance of doubt, this message was not to report that the Holding Company Vehicle was in rude financial health.
Quite the opposite.
Although they may formally deny it, the chaps at Hampden are almost certainly very well briefed on the dire state of Sevco’s current finances.
Perhaps this is not unconnected to the recent statements by Aberdeen and Hearts about the importance of adhering to UEFA Financial Fair Play regulations.
Both of these clubs dropped points today.
With the former being defeated by the Engine Room Subsidiary at Ibrox.
I do not think the people in leadership positions at these clubs will look kindly at a situation where they are denied a European slot by a club or company that does not play fair.
I do find myself sympathising with the chaps at Hampden on this one.
The others clubs make an unassailable point about the sporting disadvantages of adhering to the rules while Sevco is ruinously overstretched.
Mr Regan must feel like he is between a rock and a basket case.
Developing story…
Phil; did the conversation with Newco and SFA go along the lines of;
remember we told you that everything would be ok after the AGM, and we would simply convert the debt to equity by issuing shares? Well, there was a wee problem in that the shares issue was not approved so we aren’t doing that after all. We are just going to keep limping along getting money from wherever and the SFA will do well to remember who their dealing with and simply keep their mouth shut and keep turning a blind eye. We’ll get back to you when things get worse and we need a wee tap from you to keep the lights on.
Plausible?
Well said,sir.
By no means do we owe John Kennedy a living,but we have found him a significant and rewarding role.
But for a truly horrendous tackle in the infancy of his career,I have little doubt he would have become one of our many legends.
We lost three goals on Saturday. The first,offside. The second,clear foul in a crucial part of the pitch. The third? Dunno,I was still celebrating our equaliser!
Guess what,we still won.
I’m with John Craven and Phil on this,mate.
First was offside……..I am with the belief that the doubt is given to the forward, but it has to be non selective and consisten.
Agree about the second. A clear foul.
To those who allege that Clancey did not see it, well he certainly saw the same tackle from Izzy and booked him.
We will have to suffer more of this from the Brotherhood of Freemasony and Goat Molesting for a long time.
Brother Thompson will get the game at Ibrox and his flute err……sorry whistle will be fully cleaned out.
I wonder how many of this guys will, like Brother Clarke appear on YouTube recalling to The Peeepul stories of how they cheated Celtic, accompanied by roars of belly laughter by the XXXXXL Brigade.
Toure hasn’t played in competitive first team football for two months. Don’t expect a player to run out without game time and be top class game sharp.
Toure turned up here and played excellently in defence for several games. Has he gone backwards under Kennedy? Yes he has. Is Kennedy a Champions League coach?
Kennedy was foisted upon Deila and Collins he is foisted upon Rodgers. He is actually a leftover from Lennon.
He should have learned coaching at a smaller club first. Errors at CFC are costly. £30m CL money was lost in last two seasons qualifiers due to poor defending. He was the coach. Owing him a career to cost us £60m is a bad bargain.
Izzaguire hadn’t been given competitive minutes for months and was put out cold straight into Champions League against Barcelona without domestic football. Bad management of defensive players.
The 7 goal defensive surrender to Barca was negligent.
A lot of people forget that Rodgers’ assistant was a defender in his short playing career until injury at a young age curtailed his career (anyone spot any similarities??) but no-one is slating him. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Davies_(footballer)
G.A.W.K.
TRFC aside, be wary of treble spoiling officials and honest mistakes. Also, every obstacle will be put in place to prevent 10 IAR.
It’s not just Aberdeen and Hearts that need to address being cheated by financial doping of the game. Sporting advantage achieved through spending millions more than UEFA rules allow.
The two bottom teams were beaten recently by last gasp Sevco extra time goals to steal all three points with their financial doping strategy.
King stated publicly after the AGM that he intends to keep overspending for years. So forget about UEFA break even plans being agreed nonsense from Grant Russell. Why didn’t Grant highlight that King Strategy? How absent minded of him.
sevco are cheating (financially) every time they kick off against every team who abides by FFP rules
cheats then, cheats now, cheats forever more
Funny that an outfit with no bread is led by men whose reputations are toast.
Defensively Celtic let in three goals at the weekend.
Stopping goals is as important as scoring them.
Is defensive coach Kennedy slipping into his old ways?
I’d like us to move on to Champions League class trainers under the boss and not Deila era leftovers.
Defensive frailties can be critical in cup games. There’s no forgiveness over 90 minutes.
All defensive frailties need extinguished at CFC before Europe next season.
I think maybe you should look again at Toure’s contribution.
Hi Habla Espanyol,
I think your being cruel as regards John Kennedys contribution,well,I trust in Brendan ,and if he is good enough for Mr.Rodgers he will do perfectly well for me.
Also John Kennedy has given his life to Celtic Football Club,he had at least three operations on his knee,by the US specialist(Richard Steadman?)who also looked after Larrsons knee/leg after his break.The specialist then told him that he would be wise to end his playing career and look towards other options.He was put through his professional managerial training/coaching courses by the club,and he has shown faith by remaining loyal to the club.IF,he wasn’t good enough,somehow,I think Mr.Rodgers would have outed him,and he would have exited shortly after BR took over.
Thanks Phil
Serial cheats,mendacity at the drop of a magic hat.Misleading information duping the public.Self preservation at all costs and the rest be damned.Sevco and the SFA fit red hand in glove and the rest of Scottish football teams and fans should unite to prevent another serious abuse of power to prop up a failing languishing egotistical club that demands authority and supremacy that ill befits them.Let them die again and we can all tread the dirt.
Hi DannyMac23,
Very well said,hear,hear that man.
All clubs should breakaway from this sham,because it WILL run and run.
Leave them to their delusions and their blatant damning of the rules.
ALL premier league clubs should discard the useless sfa and sevcostriches in their UNREAL World of delusional grandeur and brazen rule bending.
Start a new league with a democratically elected fair and UNBIASED governing body,because they will do WHATEVER it takes to keep that cheating,non-tax paying gang of thugs in business,mark my words.We stay,it persists,same situation over n over again.
LETS NOT KID OURSELVES.We all know that is EXACTLY WHAT THEY ARE DOING.ATM.
Cut the tethers,start fresh,new and on an even playing field for All.Maybe then you might not get the terrible defeatist attitude of the manager,Derek McInnes,of the club that came second last season,practically throwing the towel in days before the game at ipox.What must his players think,if he comes out with this defeatist BS.
We can only be thankful that We have in Mr.Brendan Rodgers,a man that takes $#!+e from no one,press,manager,agent or otherwise.
Thanks Phil,In Brendan We Trust Hail! Hail!⚽️
surely you cannot die….AGAIN?
Watch this space….
IF permitted,We shall see them Phoenix for the second time.
Ergo,you must be able to die….AGAIN.
But to avoid that situation,and it IS in the post,we should all be encouraging our respective clubs to BREAKAWAY and start Our Own New League.With its own UNBIASED EVEN HANDED governing body.
Please excuse the caps,for emphasise only.
For me BREAKAWAY seems the only viable option.
We All know this is going to rumble on for years,well it has for five years till now.And I’d bet it will run for probably double that.We should have seen more of the pending court cases this year,MYSTERIOUSLY they were mostly put back time and time again.
This IS a fiasco and Celtic FC should be leading the way…;RUNNING,AWAY FROM IT.
Let’s have a similar situation to the inception of the SPL of 1974.
This IS EXACTLY WHY we need to BREAKAWAY,then ALL CLUBS benefit.
Thanks Phil.
BREAKAWAY is the name of an album(lp),old favourite by Gallagher&Lyle.
They don’t make ’em like they used to….
Shouldn’t there be points deductions for annually fielding teams they can’t afford to the tune of five or six mil in internal loans/money laundering? Wouldn’t that remedy the Sevco debt/yoofa fair play and see them live within their means with a player budget nearer Aberdeen than Celtic?
Of course, so easy to forget they arra peepul. £168m in unpaid debt and liquidation didn’t affect them according to the Brother Bears on the Hampden 6th floor. Ra peepul then, Ra peepul now, ra peepul forever, albeit these arra peepul without a credit line from a bank, nomad, listing, cannot convert loans to equity, unpaid bills, in a crumbling stadium and a radioactive criminal for chairman. WATP.
That’s a toasty wee piece on the Warbler’s Plan 9 From Outer Space, Clumpster.
I hear that next month he plans to put his own head in there with the lamb roast to guarantee absolute cull-inary perfection.
Something’s going on when the Rancid Wretched follow up this week’s revelations with what may be their very first official public outing of SDM as the Ruinator-in-Chief of the original club.
This must be the 4th or 5th leaking of the truth from this ragmag this week alone.
Any idea what’s going on here, Phil?
‘Green was named as “preferred bidder” for Rangers in administration in 2012 and he promised a bright future for the stricken Ibrox giants, who had been LED TO RUIN BY SIR DAVID MURRAY and then Whyte.
His plan to lead Rangers out of administration failed when the terms were rejected by creditors HMRC, FORCING LIQUIDATION AND A NEW COMPANY STRUCTURE TO RUN THE CLUB.’
(Apologies for the bold type, the italic facility doesn’t work.)
so whilst Ibrox leaks and Aberdeen and Hearts build on their stadium and produce FFP books showing how to live within their means they are to bend over to the wishes of the SFA/SPFL and allow crooks to claim the spots to Euro riches.
Hearts and Aberdeen fans and ma ngement have to voice their opinions and threaten action or forever be the whipping boys.
sevco must play in Europe , they should go straight to the champion league group stages .
any other course of action would lead to Armageddon throughout European football with numerous clubs going to the wall .
to refuse entry to European for sevco could also lead to civil unrest throughout the continent.
in “ one flew over the cuckoo’s nest “ it was called “medication time “
UEFA should cancel this year’s CL competition and just award the Sevco Rangers the Champs League trophy and much-needed pay cheque, after all they’ve been through, the poor wee lambs.
Or they could legitimately stage the competition and give a club that fails every rule of FFP at least 4 times over sneak in the back door, thereby conning at least one other Scottish club and one European club out of their rightful spot, like they did in 2012.
Decisions, decisions, eh, SFA ..?
The SFA is morally bankrupt.
Sevco received £2.9m loans in late October. Now October and November wages have gone through plus the SPFL won their fines case and are withholding TV money.
Was the Ashley court case postponed as it could have bankrupted them by Christmas? Do they have December wages covered? If weather stops the Celtic visit on 31 December are they stuffed? Do they need CFC games to survive? Are tax demands pesky?
Is Mr Robertson not sleeping well? Is he unwell? On a positive note Ally, Walter and Jabba are rich men. As are SDM, King, P Murray, Alastair (Noddy) Johnstone and other RRM.
you left out the Toilet money ?
Hi Steve,
One day in a Galaxy far,far away……..
IF the toilet money is ever mentioned in communiques via that dump and CP,that is how the communication will begin……
I for one can see that ‘toilet money’ being on their next creditors list,UNPAID.
Hail! Hail!
If they are supposedly the same club…then there is still an outstanding sum of £168 million in debt…of which approx. £100 million of that is still owed to the taxman…so how does that circle square in granting a UEFA licence for next season…or the following 50 seasons for that matter?
They are the people….
Are they they the people
I suspect with the frequent correspondence from the solicitors of the Res12 bhoys that UEFA will be inky too well aware of what may happen with Sevco and the SFA., subsequently I would be surprised if they simply took the SFA word for it this time round. Could still happen though. The tentacles reach far and wide. UEFA would be aware surely that COS could be involved.
The latest list of appeals granted by the SC do not include the one from BDO.
Well done Phil, once again. Shows why you won your award. Well deserved. We would know nothing of this if it were up to the brethern of the SMSM.
Regrettably we’re up against something that defies reason:
https://tyronetribulations.com/2016/11/30/dup-member-admits-he-thought-smoking-was-good-for-you-til-yesterday/
We r ra peepul…wae nae cash
was there an assurance on the 6th floor that debts would simply be converted to equity (preAGM) and the “losses” incurred to date simply vanquished?
Not an ounce of sympathy for the Sevco Friendship Association!
Not one single morsel of sympathy for them, but I do have a word of warning for Regan etc…..
You ARE being watched by all the clubs and their fans. You have a job to do….make sure you do it correctly.
Everyone knows what should happen with regards to Sevco and European competition.
Whoever the SFA office bearers will be at the time, RRM or whoever, your actions will be scrutinised like never before in the history of dodgy decision making and you will no longer be allowed to get away with it, largely thanks to truth seekers such as Phil.
Perhaps your best outcome will be that Sevco bin Warburton and bring in McInnes thus ensuring they plummet to 8th or 9th in the league and you don’t have a dodgy decision to make.
No point in seeking support from your friendly rags either, they’re paying the price for their years of laughable garbage now with sales thundering towards zero, and every football article along with every “journalist” who puts their name to a Jabba piece simply dismissed with utter contempt.
They say it’s lonely at the top! Maybe so…..but many, many interested, and unfortunately for you, knowledgeable parties are watching.
You will not be allowed to get this one wrong.
Ah sweet music maestro
Phil I must owe you a barrel of black gold by this stage,and by the time this fiasco has run its course.
Well,I’ll just give you the keys to Hallowed St.James Gates HH
tú magician, cas tú focail i ceol
And dare I say it yet again ..this is precisely why CFC, Aberdeen and Hearts should use the threat of seriously following through with the CFC AGM RES 12 material which exposes the 2011 disgrace to now force Regan et al (and to avoid this happening preserve their own jobs ) to ensure they NEVER repeat that desecration of their own and UEFA rules by now allowing TRFC into Europe next year .
One or two folks in various forums have questioned this tactic ..but in reality the outcome of a successful attack on the SFA via RES 12 had ultimately surely to be to ensure what happened on 2011 NEVER EVER happens again….That would surely be the outcome here !
As I covered in previous posts I humbly suggest given the current very weak position of the SFA that PL AB and SM link this also to the LNS report to get it completely set aside so that when the Supreme Court concludes all the appropriate trophies won by what would be formally and legally recorded cheating are indeed
removed from their formal records once and for all
On the ball again Phil. How on earth sevconia are rumbling on is beyond me. Talk about turning a blind eye.
No Sympathy from me TBH brought it on themselves!
Another fine piece. Thank you. And terrific final flourish.
Sadly it won’t matter. The SFA seem blind when it comes to sevco finances