Yesterday’s court listing certainly explained the urgency of the recent dignified conclave in the Blue Room.
Yet another Sevco sore face brought to you by Limpopo Productions in association with Glib and Shameless Enterprises.
Cheers, Dave!
As ever, we must follow follow the money.
Your humble correspondent is confident that this evidence-based approach to the Sevco shenanigans provides a much more accurate picture of the state of play there than anything the Stenographers are allowed to regurgitate.
As the wage bill is cut at the basket of asset Operation, Soothe is in overdrive.
Any player brought in, inevitably on a loan deal, will be trumpeted as a brilliant move.
The reality is that any new addition to dear Philippe’s squad of serial losers will have some deficiency or other.
Simply put it will be either regarding the player’s ability, attitude or injury profile.
Of course, that doesn’t stop the SMSM from scurrying to giddy status.
What will NOT happen is any questions as to why his club, Vfl Wolfsburg, is happy to see Václav Černý leave on a loan to Sevco.
I contacted a fellow member of the IFJ who covers the Bundesliga and asked him about the player.
He painted a picture of an undoubtedly talented lad with a somewhat relaxed attitude to the lifestyle requirements of a disciplined athlete.
Meanwhile, with Conor Goldson heading for departures and Captain Disappointed open to a move, it is incontrovertible that an austerity drive is ongoing.
It’s all about cutting the wage bill.
Why?
My take is Hampden rent money.
Even with mates’ rates, it is a cost that the Transcendental Chairman would not have budgeted for.
Unsurprisingly, those on my side of the city are hoping that something existential is afoot at the building site John Brown played for.
Well, using the same evidential criteria I deployed in the second half of 2011, investing in jelly and ice cream futures doesn’t ’ seem like a shrewd investment at this juncture.
When Craig Whyte was in the Blue Room, there was the contingent liability that HMRC would issue an unpayable bill.
Indeed, that was why the club had been sold to him in May 2011 for one pound Sterling.
Once administration had occurred in February of the following year, there was ZERO chance that Hector would allow a CVA.
Moreover, I said so at the time.
As I was providing a rough draft of the last days of Rangers (Est 1872), the anonymous heroes on message boards derided my reporting as a green-tinted fantasy.
Events, of course, utterly vindicated my journalism.
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So, where are we now with the basket of assets?
Well, they’re in court (again) and almost certain to lose.
They are looking for loan players where the parent club effectively pays all of the salary.
Moreover, the squad is being rather rapidly gutted in order to the wage bill.
The monies saved will go, in the main, to pay the rent at Hampden while they work out what to do with the Copland shitshow.
In another part of the Fitba Multiverse, dear Philippe has already got his representatives reaching out to a couple of clubs in England about his own exit route.
None of that spells the end for Sevco, so no jelly and ice cream then.
However, stocking up on popcorn might be an idea.
The best offering of Operation Soothe I have seen this pre-season must be in the Scottish Sun today that Rangers have had a £5million offer for Goncalo Borges who Porto value at £42 million knocked back, have they even got a spare £500,000 at the moment ? rather than the quoted £5 million, comedy gold continues.
Now they have another freebie on loan that’s bumping his gums about bringing silverware to the midden. You have to ask yourself where they dig up these dullards who never learn from their predecessors. Maybe Celtic should just say keys up before the start of the season. HH
Phil is it not possible that the evaluation of whatever problem exists with the stadium structure might also present an unplayable bill?
I meant “unpayable”. Unintended pun there lol….
Unplayable seemed right enough to me!
That’s not really great news. The reality is that Celtic NEED a club playing out of the bigotdome. My major worry if such a scenario were materialise, would be that a GENUINE billionaire with wealth off the radar would walk in with his pound. Mind you, there have been so many Rankers FC issued that a shareholder would probably need to own tens of thousands of them to get a penny of that pound.
Whatever, make no mistake, there’s good money to be made out of the gullibillys for a smart man.
Your “major worry” is based on a serious lack of knowledge of current UEFA ordinances.
Charger – I don’t support either Celtic and Rangers. Many of my non Old Firm friends refer to Celtic and Rangers as ‘The Bigot Brothers’ and I often take issue with them with this as I think that bigotry in Scottish football lies primarily within Ibrox.
Your comment about Celtic needing Rangers, which is not uncommon amongst Celtic supporters and Celtic board, makes it far more difficult for me to argue my case with my friends.
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