stewarty

Not sure who it was in the ambulance getting a mounted police escort along edmiston drive to PRW. I'm assuming it was Sterling, which isn't a good sign.

Point of order: Celtic’s annual wage and salary bill is £65.6m per their last full year accounts. That’s £1.26m per week, or £5.46m per month all in. Not that this diminishes the point the author is making.

Interesting. It does seem a strange wording to use, deliberately ambiguous. And to announce on 1st April was surely a cynical ploy to underplay this or dampen it to chipwrappers and everyone moves on. Russell Findlay was spot on in his comments.

Could be read either way - I read it the other way this morning.

Something to also consider is that many businesses operate on the basis of invoice discounting and this is considered a very normal practice, even among well established and thriving businesses. This is where a business sells its sales invoices (future income) to a lender at a discounted rate, and then lender then advances them the cash immediately to help manage cash flow. The Macquarrie loan arrangement is therefore just a variation on this theme. As was ticketus. There are many clubs in the UK who use the same lender. What we do need to guard against is bottom feeders like Whyte using such instruments to manipulate outcomes that are clearly not in the club's interest. So I don't blame fans for being worried when these arrangements come to light, but on this occasion it looks like normal practice.

Interesting. One thing I'm liking about the football review is that they're not waiting till the end of the process to take action. Its also only been a few weeks since Captain Picard announced that this was one of the findings they were taking forward.

Dessers. His best match for us, I thought. Very unfortunate not to be walking off the pitch with the match ball.

I’m hearing that the Parks are the main dissenters in terms of willingness to sell their shares. As ever, take with a pinch of salt as not hearing first hand.

Good point, I assumed he checked, but it was Kieran Maguire from the Price of Football podcast on twitter. He posted the original CH form per above, but then also posted afterwards to confirm the share price was 20p. https://x.com/KieranMaguire/status/1892171050831462820

Apparently they made a mistake on that form, the shares were at 20p each. So 18m shares @ 20p, raising £3.6m. I'm guessing its a conversion of a loan to shares, but I'm sure we'll get more details in due course.

Hearts 1 - 3 Rangers FGS Dessers

I thought Raskin hardly put a foot wrong and seemed to relish the chance to show his form against his fellow Belgians, but big Dessers for me led the line very well, his link up play was much improved, some terrific long runs in behind that should have led to more than just one assist... I wasn't totally convinced he was offside for the goal he had ruled out, but I only saw one replay when I got home. Overall for me he led from the front last night and gets my vote.

Yep, its about winning trophies. Simples. I look at some of the discontent over in the east end and to me the main reason it doesn't bubble over is because of their success. It wont be until we properly challenge for the title that the cracks will be more obvious.

Rangers 3 - 1 USG FGS Ingamane

Dio for me too, but Propper and Ingamane in contention. Dio in particular took some very rough treatment from the start of the game, and as mentioned, had zero protection from Walsh. Propper starting to influence the youngters around him and now with his goal threat, I can see him settling alongside Souttar as first picks when he returns to fitness.