The squads are established now on Planet Fitba until the start of 2021.
Neil Lennon stated that he is pleased with the players that he has at his disposal.
Their task is clear, and that is to deliver Ten In A Row.
The major concern at Parkhead was that a serious offer for a key player would arrive at the 11th hour.
That didn’t happen, so it has mainly been a tale of adding first-team starters to the squad has dominated the domestic sphere for several years.
Across the city, despite the fictitious narrative being churned out by the Stenogropahy Corps, the key objective was to sell a major player to bring in funds.
Sadly, Operation Sell Alfredo failed, and no one was seriously interested in the ample Colombian.
Credit where it is due, the chaps on the sports desks preserved with the daily diet of pish for those playing Alfredo Bingo.
I was told yesterday by an impeccably placed source that Leeds United finally Did Walking Away from a deal to secure the services of Ryan Kent.
I think that a deal going up the £15m for the winger was very reasonable.
However, there was the Liverpool sell-on clause to take into account plus the fee that was initially paid for him.
In fairness, there was a late addition to Stevie G’s squad of serial losers yesterday.
This is obviously a different chap to the one mentioned here last August.
Of course, there are other transfers at Ibrox.
You can see them peeling off live on air.
Meanwhile, there has been another issue of dignified confetti in the Blue Room.
David Low, the football finance expert, is always worth listening to on such matters.
Today, I spoke with a source who is in a position to give me a steer on this recent share issue by RIFC.
He promised me that he would drill down into the details for me.
However, he did initially offer me two possible explanations:
(1) It was lights on money because no major asset had been sold during the transfer window.
(2) It was, he said, EXACTLY the amount owed by the club to Mr David Cunningham King.
I know that he will attempt to ascertain which it is.
You, dear reader, can rest assured that if I establish the details, then I will publish the unvarnished truth here.
My reporting is free from contaminated lamb or harmful PR additives.
That has been the case for the last dozen years, and I have no intention of breaking that promise to you now or in the future.
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Cyan, your tick box list cheered me up no end. Thanx.
Confetti shares!! I have recurring visions of folk in Weimar going to buy bread pushing a wheelbarrow full of Deutschmarks. So as they sink into the mire I think things will get hairy. Possibly two deadly virus winging their way through West Scotland. One through the air and the other along the pavements. Keep safe. HHLEWIS
Why should ScotGov or UK Gov give SPFL clubs taxpayers money due to Covid when these clubs send their players matter of factly on international duty and they become infected and return to Scotland?
Pay clubs to operate and import a public health threat?
Madness.
Under FIFA and UEFA rules they CAN’T refuse to release players.
FIFA are incompetent during this Covid19 pandemic.
Allowing international football competition, where players travel from numerous countries to another country to train and a third country to play is illogical and incompetent.
It is tough enough for club teams to keep the same players safe in the same team and same country.
FIFA are putting their financial
Interests before pro club national football.
Spot on!
Perhaps someone in the MSM could ask the SFA and UEFA why it is they took the decision to cancel the Women’s International games until next year and decided not to do likewise with the men’s International’s?
This has train wreck all over it for those Clubs with players now dotted all over the place under the guidance of people who don’t pay their wages.
Édouard out and now Christie forced to self isolate.
I would think that King is demanding his money, real cash money, and that he has leverage in order to force the board into raising the amount required. The convicted criminal I would imagine would have absolutely no scruples in publicly divulging well kept secrets that could harm the Club he reputedly loves.
I see the Daily Radar hasn’t given up on selling Fredo with claims that a cash rich Gulf club may still come in for him as their window is still open.
The club named has ‘well established ownership links’ with the owners of PSG so a brief sojourn in the desert could fast track a move to PSG and the top league that Morelos craves.
Aye right, though there was a suggestion that the £13m transfer fee previously offered as paid up front, is no longer on the table.
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There is not a snowball’s hope in hell that the Lying king will take shares over cash.
Though one of the other ‘investors’ may have stumped up the money, so that the club had the cash to pay DCK off. I can’t imagine which one though.
I always have a chuckle when the media report of further investment in the Ibrox based club
Define investment you bunch of media clowns!
Who has made an investment in Rangers and got the financial gain that usually follows ploughing money into a company?
The money is going straight down the big hole on Edmiston Drive to keep the lights on.
With Fredo unsold, what next?
Itten and Roofe were brought in as replacements for Morelos, both presumably earning decent money. Add in Defoe whose making a fortune and that’s 4 strikers.
Gerrard favours just one striker in his starting eleven, so the other 3 will be on the bench.
Not ideal and surely not the plan.
I see Stevie G has got the midfield player he’s been demanding, yet another mouth to feed.
The board.must be praying that the courts can do no business during the pandemic as the latest share issue could be wiped out by the Sports Direct bill.
No worries then?
If King has converted his loan to shares then it takes his holding way over the 30% mark and would leave him obliged to offer all the other shareholders 20p for their holding . I really don’t think King wants to go down that road again . New shares could have been issued to a 3rd party in order to raise the funds to pay off King and one look at his own companies performance will show he would certainly welcome a cash injection right now https://za.investing.com/equities/micromega-holdings-ltd-chart . My own theory is the auditors have put a gun to the Boards head and told them they won’t sign off the accounts without this money , faced with the prospect of losing everything they have decided to roll the dice again in the hope it gets them to the January window and another attempt to sell a Galactico. Whatever the truth they are running on fumes .
If you were to sum up the Transfer Window for both Clubs it would read something like this:
CELTIC
Offloaded major earners,injury prone and peripheral players tick ✅
Held onto every key player and asset ✅
Brought in highly experienced,International level players with vast experience in top flight Football ✅
Acquired a very good young prospect in Scottish Football for a decent fee ✅
Addressed all areas of apparent weakness within the squad ✅
Spent within our own Financial constraints ✅
THE 2ANGERS
🧮+🤡👞=🧨 ✅
Maybe king isn’t getting the shares, how about some other mug(s) are putting in the money in return for the shares in order to pay the lying kings loan back?
Arlene foster and co
If the share issue is exactly the same value owed to King, it seems confusing.
The last thing King – or any other creditor – would want to do at this juncture, is to convert tangible debt to worthless shares.
The RIFC Accounts are due at the end of this month.
King must already know just how bad the numbers are going to be.
If he converts his debt to equity and RIFC hits the buffers – then he’s lost that £8.45M conversion, (plus his other shares).
If he retains the debt and RIFC hits the buffers – then he might get some money back: not much perhaps, but some.
Additionally, I think I read it on this blog that King had his own debt [partially ?] secured, (against what exactly though was not specified).
All very interesting / confusing – and I believe that King is still the largest RIFC shareholder anyway?
He hasn’t converted his debt owed into shares.
It is being alleged that the monies raised will be used to pay off the debt owed to Mr King.
Will king have to make another offer to shareholders, as he must have control of rangers ,the park ,and Edmonton house is his but . I think the close brother’s, have the car park. and I do not see them wanting shares that can’t be sold .