Rangers v Celtic

is it either Fenerbache or Bodo?

incredible dropoff in quality from the CL tbf

 

Not really surprising as soccerball is and has been all about the clubs and Leagues with the most dollars. No wonder Sevco are seriously thinking of becoming "americanised".

European football in particular has been ruined as a spectacle since the introduction of the so called "Champions League" which, in itself is a complete misnomer and indeed UEFA should be prosecuted under the Trades Description Act.

Soccerball is no longer about the ordinary people and certainly hasn't been since at least 1992, actually even slighter further back than that.

Soccerball is dead, long live something else.

 

I wouldnt trust a turkish team to beat sevco, they will have a massive wage bill and players who were good like a decade ago, old mercenaries, 38yo Dzeko for example, theyll be slow as **** and get into a rugby match which suits sevco, Mourinho is also finished as a manager, a dinosaur now

would much rather they were up against the 20yo unknown scandinavians from the arctic biolab run by Peter Thiel and JD Vance, zero glamour against blood doping mutants on an ice rink

 

remind of the teams you beat in the CL this year?

 

The dims are now saying they would win the Europa league after their outstanding performance on Tuesday lol

 

All in the elite competition on merit.

Europa league teams there because they’re not good enough for CL.

 

Goes without saying

Beat teams / perform well in the top tier , you have the beating of second rate tier teams

 

Young Boys and Bratislava are europa level teams, maybe even conference

will be unlikely anyone ever gets an easier draw in the CL in the next 50 years

Liepzig are borderline, theres not much between about 6 teams for the 4th CL spot, which Germany really ought to lose now

 

Eddie goes and truth bombs my wind up oot the water !

 

Only if it was you lot in the final

 

when you also factor in we got to play Zagreb reserves away, fluked a completely undeserved draw against Atalanta, the deflection against Young Boys, the misshit cross Kuhn goal against Liepzig, and getting to play against Bayern without a striker for the 2nd half

the stars absolutely aligned for us this season and we were runing about with Ralston, Scales, Taylor, Dane Murray, Yang etc, sold our main striker before the playoff

what a monumental wasted opportunity, achieved absolutely nothing with it

the expectations have been lowered so much over the last 20 years, doing that absolute bare minimum of scraping into the top 24 is being heralded as some kind of remarkable success and progress

in reality very little progress has been made, squad is still weak as **** and key players will be sold in the summer before anyone else is brought in

 

Now do all the times we were unlucky

 

IF the Celtic board had ambition, they’d be backing Brodge in summer with at least 4 quality signings plus replace any leavers with upgrades .

This is what a needed to build on this euro season , cement qualifying for next round after league stage . Then same again the summer after to look to get closer to the top 8 etc


But they won’t , back to 2m euro punts on random poles n swedes

 

Football has been ****e ever since the tippy tappy pish came in. Teams are too scared to lose possession.

 

Rugby match suits Sevco

Are lads have an average height of 5ft 6. Butz is are tallest player and he’s 6ft ffs.

 

Ooooooooft the news that Dubois's replacement is a Rangers fan seems to be irking some people on here.

 

Exactly, I was actually wanting Fenerbahce until I saw some of their game last night, the ****s are huge even if the are older. They would bully us to ****.

 

What’s this?

 

tell me moar

 

Just to take my mind off other things and because lots of Celtic fans seem to be uneducated on how the world of big corp finance works, since I work for the biggest financial investment firm on earth, I’ll give a brief explanation of how Rangers will become the “richest club in Scotland’ after 49ers enterprise “acquire” them.

They will take over as the majority shareholder.
49ers enterprise net worth
$6 billion. I don’t know a huge amount about the corp behind Celtic but I’d say their net worth is likely around $2 billion max.

How net worth of a corp enhances net worth of company they own:

Economies of scale.
Brand and market power.
Strategic synergies.
More access to credit and financial resources.
Capital infusion.
Commercial expansion.
Market confidence - Rangers will come out of AIM onto the main market and their share price will increase.

What does this do and how would FFP (which seems to be what Celtic fans think will save them) affect this?

Everything above will INCREASE revenue. FFP is based around expenditure vs revenue. Without a doubt the revenue will significantly increase within 5 years and therefore expenditure can also increase.

Right now Rangers’ revenue is likely around $30-40 million behind Celtics’. With a company behind them with a net worth X3 that of the company behind Celtic and a FAR higher global presence, with consolidated operations etc their revenue should increase by around 20% in the short term (3-5 years) and about 80% in the long term (5-10 years). Celtic’s’ revenue will not increase unless they progress further in Europe, even then this increase won’t come close to a 80% increase over 5-10 years. There doesn’t seem to be any significant asset expansion, and there is only so much revenue a team in the SPFL can expect to make from player transfers.

Advice for Celtic fans - if you want your club to be close to matching Rangers’ revenue in 5 years time, demand that your board forget about the SPFL and concentrate on Europe. You should also be asking why they are not planning on any asset expansion at this point.

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