At the time of the Off Licence Putsch in 2015, I wrote that Mr King would be a boon to the Sevco schadenfreude industry.
And so it has proved to be.
The £6m damp squib yesterday was not what The People wanted to hear.
They had been enthused over the weekend with hallucinatory consumer dreams apropos the likely transfer budget that would be given to Mr Gerrard.
Oh dear…
Regular readers of this site would not have been surprised to learn that there are no external investors on the horizon.
Consequently, Mr King had to give The People some tantalising prospect to hold onto as he headed back to South Africa.
He speculated that if Sevco could win just one title then Celtic would fold like “a pack of cards”.
I think the simile he was reaching for was a “house of cards”, but such nuances would be lost on The People.
For the record, I much preferred Ian Richardson’s Francis Urquhart to Kevin Spacey’s Frank Underwood.
The former dripped with Machiavellian authenticity.
I’m sure that there a few chaps in the Blue Room who now look at Mr King and think “FU”!
Of course Mr King has previous for this type of manipulative pish.
Tragically this transparent ruse seems to have worked on many who inhabit Quintessentially British message boards.
The inconvenient truth is that Celtic hold all of the cards on Planet Fitba.
The Parkhead club has developed a sustainable business model.
The football budget available to a Celtic manager is funded by either UCL Group Stages revenue or the sale of a player like Virgil van Dijk or Victor Wanyama.
Celtic’s scouting network seems to be able to consistently source young players who grow in value at Lennoxtown.
Moreover, three starts in the recent 9-0 aggerate battering of Sevco were academy graduates.
If Forrest, McGregor and Tierney were to be sold at the market price then they would probably realise more than the entire occupancy of the Sevco team bus.
That process is ongoing and I’m told that the next bright prospect in the Celtic Academy is a young Irish lad called Barry Coffey.
My information is that it was a personal intervention by Brendan Rodgers that sealed the deal and fought off interest from the likes of Chelsea.
The infrastructure that Celtic has for developing young talent is simply not available to any Sevco manager.
Of course, the RIFC Chairman will never be constrained by such pesky facts.
I had written recently about the “cognitive overload” effect of Mr King in full flow.
There are just so many untruths to process that many of them pass you by in that moment.
It is a technique used to great effect by President Trump.
He doesn’t try to slip in a lie like a night time infiltrator through a guarded perimeter.
Instead, he lays down a hail of fibs like supressing fire.
It is machinegun lying.
I was thinking of this yesterday when I was suddenly blindsided.
Something strange happened at the intimate wedding party, sorry press briefing.
Mr King told the truth.
You might want to take a moment dear reader…
He was indeed surprised to learn of the resignation of Mr Paul Murray, a fact reported here at the time.
Like a winger cutting inside onto his weaker foot, when Mr King tells the truth you are rather wrong footed.
However, he was spot on and the Murray resignation came out of the blue for King and it was equally unwelcome.
At the end of the wedding celebrations, it doesn’t seem to have dawned on the invited guests that this shallow grandstanding was the behaviour of a man with no fucks left to give.
It is almost as if he finds this chaos pleasing because he knows that he is the smartest person in the room.
As I have written before everything is fine for the Sevco clientele until the basket of assets has to play football matches.
Tonight at Pittodrie is the pinnacle for the Engine Room Subsidiary.
Becoming second is all that they can manage this season.
Indeed it is the best they can ever do until Celtic self-destruct.
That will not happen unless the champions behave like Rangers (1872-2012).
Dream on Dave.
Dream on…
Phil why is my comments not getting through? Have you mixed me up with somebody else?
Gerrard. Now Rooney? Oh, my life!
A sound foundation of Scouse Catholics. That should do the trick.
They’ll be marching out to ‘Faith Of Our Fathers’. Mark my words.
HH
There is no way, sevcovians believe this nonsense. They may well put up a front, that king will get this club off its knees and back to where they think it belongs….but…. When your chairman says they did not take the millions on offer for Morelos as it would only sit in the bank, then say they only took the Close bros money (including a million plus in interest charges) to make them feel NORMAL. It is not a NORMAL person in charge of this wreck….and, believe me, they know it.
It’s just a matter of time before someone posts a photo of Stevie G in the stands at Seville in his retro strip.
I believe he was in the same hotel as Roy Keane, Dermot Desmond and some other big hitters.
Will go down like a lead balloon with the gullibles whose heads must be spinning after reading King’s version of War and Peace!
Brother Levein has made yet another schoolboy whinge about there being no level playing surface when playing against the Champions. Boohoo. Celtic’s advantage arrived at by legal and prudent use and development of finances and infrastructure has not taken effect overnight. So, the Levster whines its no fair. He will cut his grass to meet his needs rather than profer a standard of sportsmanship beyond his ken. His glibness and shameless Monarch of Ibrox prefers the old ruse of telling his subjects that IF sevco win one title then the collapse of Fortress Celtic will swiftly follow (as if by magic). The lack of dignity on Leveins part is there for all to see. King cant spell dignity so remaining in his G&S mode. On the other hand Brendan Rogers has nouse and dignity which is both a credit to him and his club.
Levein is a clown and is responsible for the fatwa on Broonie.
Has he seen where his bunch of cloggers are in the yellow/ red catd table?
Our ever so busy Compliance Officer should have taken action against him for his outrageous comments on Broonie.
Celtic might have Barry Coffey but you can still get a cracking cup o tea at Easter Road.
I agree with King. For what reason would I doubt his veracity!
The sword of Jamoncheese hangs over the Antilles Heel of Celtic which will come Tumbling down like the walls of Status Quo! Beware the sides of March, Rogers! For, the days are lumbered like the hair on your legs! WATP,
All of King’s forces and all of King’s men
Will never stop Celtic from doing the 10
Sevvie G must be the ‘Joker’ in that rather tatty pack of cards.
It was only a matter of time – now Rooney is going to Ibrox – FFS – to add to the £50m of transfers the world’s dumbest fans have already lined up.
Or maybe I’ve got this wrong! Is a South African milion really a billion – just like a British billion is million million while a US billions is just a thousand million.
Are we all just running DavieG diown, when he is actually promising StevieG a warchest of £6,000m
Today, I’ll mostly be singing “Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstond” by Nina Simone.
“I’m just a soul whose intnetions are good
Oh Lord, please don’t let me be miunderstood
When we won the 1st of our current 7-in-a-row, First Rangers went bust therefore in Sevcology…
Aye but remember, according to the Lying King, four of them didn’t count because Rangers/Sevco weren’t involved. In fact, that Renaldo and the other Real Madrid players were absolutely distraught, inconsolable, when they found out that the three European titles they won in four years didn’t count because sevco didn’t take part in them.
If I recall… before Christmas 2011, old-Gers had a 15 point or so lead which Celtic has overhauled and passed comfortably by spring 2012. A swing of 25 plus points in a few months. They were crumbling but still there and with their big hitters.
The revisionists there love to think that it was their points deduction that lost them the league. It was well lost by then and if you gave them the points back plus 10 they would still have lost heavily.
But as we know with Scottish football… history is something that can be rewritten to suit the want of ‘the people’.
The problem with machinegun lying is that anybody who isn’t of the blue persuasion sees this manic behaviour for what it is…Psychopathy. His Trumpesque style of communication seems to suit those who are blinkered and are desperate to hear only positive messages. Gullibillies and the SMSM won’t look any further as they have been spoon fed this guff since 2012 and it works a treat. HH
Thanks Phil,
appreciate your time and knowledge,SG must need his heid looked.
Noo,I have NOT checked this but my brother has just told me that SGs daughter is called Lourdes!!
Like you Phil I’m not religious,but that name definitely has an RC feel to it.
I wonder how SGs family will feel when the hate-filled choir start with their repertoire,Silly boys,the Famine song,and their main income stream classic….Penny Arcade.
Again,I have not checked it myself,and as you often say ‘I will retract and apologise,IF that’s proven not to be true’
HH?
Since Celtic brought in Lee Congerton as head of recruitment our signings have been ver questionable. The last transfer window saw us bring in Charly Musonda and Marvin Compper who both cost us millions for virtually nil returns. We can’t afford to keep making such expensive mistakes.
Good point, well made
It’s time StevieG got his advisors to translate DavieG’s Q&A into simple words a footballer can understand.
Nothing, zero, nada, zilch in The Warchest
No, as in zero, investors queuing to fill up The Warchest to the £50m mark
No share issue possible to fill up The Warchest to the £6m mark.
No directors, concert party or three bears prepared to lend DavieG a bent penny more to fill up The Warchest.
The only value in The Wardchest is the £75 Drew Pritchard might offer for it – it needs a lot of work so it’s worth no more to me.
Some say it won’t end well. I say it isn’t even starting well. Any proof that ST sales have soared – surely DavieG would have mentioned that.
Today, I’ll mostly be sing “Daydream Beleiver” by The Monkees
“Wake up StevieG,
Oh what can it mean
to a daydream beleiver
and a homecoming glib and shameless tax evasion criminal”
As long as the Celtic hierarchy continue to do what they do well then the gulf (and it is a considerable gulf) will remain or get bigger.
Whilst we all would love to see us do the 10 in a row it is also enjoyable to just sit back and wallow in the fact that for all of kings bullshit we are simply light years ahead of them right now.
Instructive that King felt the need to chuck the People some WATP red meat with that rambling incoherent interview as he’s clearly barred from making any RIFC share moves without the Takeover Panels consent. The whole £6m rights issue squirrel is just another GASL con to get the Klan renewing for 8IAR. This obvious fraud won’t stop the likes of BFDJ spinning Sevco yarns of course. Neither reality or law apply to the People.
You say that combined value of Forrest,Tierney and McGregor would be more than total Sevco squad
I would say Tierney alone is worth more than that bunch
I was being deliberately conservative.
However, I take your point.
I thought you were just being nice,Mr.Fear.
Ha ha ha. Just further emphasises how great it feels to be Celtic right now
Very well put Phil. After reading that ‘fold like a pack of cards’ nonsense last night, I was looking forward to your excellent piece today
Regarding Kings lying I have two military phrases that perhaps might come in handy for future reference to his style of sustained b/s?
Belt-Fed Bullshit or Suppressive Liar choose yer poison Phil
©️Charlie Saiz
Chapeau
Can you imagine Dermot Desmond’s kitchen around 11pm last night as the first text from Lawwell appeared on his phone?
Pistol Pete 67
Deck of cards…. ooft
Dermot response..
I have 1.8 Bi££ion aces up me sleeve Peter
Mr King’s Q&A with the press – as reported in the papers today – is absolutely extraordinary. Bluster over substance throughout and with a strange apparent detachment from reality.
On the subject of weddings, did you hear about yesterday’s jilted bride? A terrible shame… https://theclumpany.wordpress.com/2018/05/07/jilted-at-the-altar/
If DK is struggling to get the funds out of South Africa, how did he manage to plow in all his millions in the last few years, just asking
No comment,have you been paying attention?
That GASL has been lying since,I’d bet,probably long before he could walk.
Again that’s just a personal observation ?
He hasn’t. He’s borrowed the money from other people.
OPM my friend
So are SARS…. Also who said it was his money. There are constant rumours that King borrowed this money from the 3B….
An Aberdeen win tonight puts them beyond Rangers reach. A Hibs win tomorrow leaves them needing a draw against Rangers at the weekend, pushing them down to 4th place and praying for a Celtic cup final win to allow them into Europe, licence permitting, next season.
Preliminary rounds in July, unseeded, its a long road to the Group Stages, particularly if you have a rookie manager trying to cobble together a team and a style of playing.
Licence permitting !!!!
Ha ha ha ha
Interesting statement made by DK that the director loans would never be repaid. Has this statement been made not only to keep the support on side but to body swerve the Fair Play regs. We have no debts, apart from the “regular overdraft” from Close. OK you’re financially sound have a European licence!
Jus read King’s comments at his recent presser. What a vague and contradictory tissue of Pish from the inveterate liar.
Are the Sevco customer base that stupid? Really?
YES HH
Yes
What about the suggestion in his comments that he has to fully fund next year to satisfy UEFA Licence – has he been referred up by SFA who are protecting their own backsides ?
Where will this Funding be coming from? If he can’t even get TOP’s money out of South Africa . what guarantees does SFA/UEFA have that he can support a defecit club/company ?
Does your Rugger Guy have any view on this game of Canasta ?
It’s more like a game of 3 card Brag – and King is holding a 5 high!