This hasn’t been an easy week for the Dalai Lama of the Blue Room.
I’m told that a sit-down with a quintessentially British chap on Monday didn’t go well.
The brother in question has an Ibrox donor card and has been known to donate to the basket of assets in the past.
Sadly, he had to tell the Transcendental Chairman that his ATM days were over.
For the avoidance of doubt, he was sympathetic to the request, but the financial realities made it impossible for him to help.
I understand that this benefactor was one of eight possible donors who were being approached to assist with the small matter of a possible payoff.
So, not the best start to the week.
Then on Tuesday Celtic’s financials dropped.
My heart goes out to that nice young Mr Bisgrove who had to break the bad news to the Dear Leader.
There was a danger at one point that peak tranquillity could have been achieved at the top of the marble staircase.
Less perfected souls could have exploded in anger.
However, Sevco’s spiritual leader remained an oasis calm throughout.
I don’t know how he does it.
Perhaps he’s on some kind of meditation…
Just to gather those excellent lyrics into one place…
Donation once again
Donation once again
With Ibrox long a basket case,
It’s Donation once again.
Citation:
PMacG.
When you see the kind of wages paid in England I can’t see loads of Champion’s League level players suddenly deciding to move to Scotland to play for Celtic, or any other Scottish club, and take a pay cut! I know we did it during the Martin O’Neill years and Gordon Strachan was left to assemble a team on a much smaller budget. We should also remember the old Rangers and how it ended for them them when Lloyds bank said enough was enough ! Spend some money by all means but remember to be fiscally responsible! We’ve got to remember that quite a few of the top Champions League teams are backed with money from regimes that go against Celtic’s principles!
WATCH shocking moment city centre hostel stormed by DOZENS of masked thugs, Evening Times Headline yesterday
Real headline should be Union Bears attack hostel, but we can’t have thay
I particularly liked the Daily Rangers take on the incident in 2 column inches on p26, about the ‘alleged’ ambush, and how ‘it is not known if any football fans were involved’ in the ‘sickening scenes’ lol, so it may have just been bunch of bakers or perhaps rugby fans that just happened to have a go at the fans of the team who just played that manky shower earlier. Lol
Donation once again.
Classic Phil, very clever
And Ibrox long a basket case…
I will await the Celtic fans rendition of that at the next Glasgow derby.
You can bet your last and final bottom dollar that if Sevco had £72.9 million in the bank that every last penny would be spent on the team to keep their jackboot on the throat of Celtic…
Absolutely bang on friend.
Do you think that nice chap P Lawwell might offer the Rangers a nice bridging loan as he obviously thinks the world of his Glasgow rivals and the need to keep them solvent ?
Bring Back
Terry Cassidy
Iain McDonald
Michael Kelly
Jack biscuit tin.
The next time in paradise open you eyes. The bus shelters are gone.
Although I would obviously rather be in our position than theirs, it does irk me that we have millions in the bank that Lawell & Co now say we have to keep there “in case we don’t get CL group stage football”. The reason we have failed to get to the CL group stages in the past is precisely BECAUSE we kept money in the bank instead of spending it on players that could have got us there. An investment that would have repaid itself (and then some) almost instantly when we did qualify, with all the funding that that gets you. It would also have strengthened the squad enough to more or less guarantee that we win the domestic titles, which then get us back there the following season(s). As you often say Phil, failure to prepare is preparing to fail and boy do Lawell and the rest of Heated Driveways Ltd know how to do that. Way too much emphasis on the balance sheet, not the team sheet, even though the success that comes from bolstering the latter is critical for strengthening the former.
Speculate to accumulate always works, ask any other business person.
Surprised they havent arranged another charity match for the farces to keep the proceeds again. The three disgraces continue to thrive at ibrokes.
That scenario is misplaced:
rather than occuring at the top of the marble staircase,
it must have happened down in the bunker, a la ‘Downfall’ meme? 🙂
And IF the Blue Room occupants gave a rookie manager a 3 year contract
– without inserting a break clause –
then they are thicker than we give them credit for…
The comparison with Der Untergang is lazy and offensive.