How does this play out?

[gisabeer 409]

How does this pan out? The Cheasedales and co arent buying up shares for nothing. I suspect they will be looking for top dollar to get them out of the club very shortly.

[BrahimHemdani 1]

No I'm a completely new poster- and I'm not here to indulge myself in anyone's misery, nor do I have any duplicitous motive. I read every team's blogs - I've posted on Celtic sites and been called 'a hun', posted on Bill McMurdo's and basically had people trying to intimidate me. I'm posting here because it is genuinely the only old firm blog that has a quality informative forum.

I suppose as Scottish football's quality declines, as competition declines, as star players are nowhere to be seen, the boardroom shenanigans at clubs is about the only interesting aspect of Scottish football now. At least for a wee while yet. To think just a few years ago we had Gascioigne, Laudrup, Larsson, Canniggia (at Dundee!!), Latapy, playing in the SPL. Before that we had the new firm running riot in Europe. Before that we had the old firm genuinely feared throughout Europe. What do we have now?

I'd like to see the SPFL introduce a financial fair play procedure to stop the likes of Rangers, Hearts falling victim to megalomaniacs, and for equal distribution of all finances except match day income distributed evenly throughout the league, if not in fact weighted towards the smaller clubs.

 

Your very last comment makes you sound like a university lecturer of my acquaintance. Have you by any chance read the FansFirst Plan, because we suggested more or less the same thing in terms of redistribution of finances to increase competition; but we did stop short of equal distribution because we knew the Clubs wouldn't wear it. As you will be aware there was some redistribution last year, albeit more away from 2nd place in the SPL than 1st place!

[BrahimHemdani 1]

A tad under 29p now!

[TheTinMan99 0]

Is this another one of andy steel's pals?

[buster. 5,257]

A tad under 29p now!

 

What ?

 

The figure that 4 independent experts came up with for what GW merits for his bonus.

This was done after spending 120 days painstaking days trying to interpretate his contract then numbercrunching.

 

 

ps, joke

Edited May 9, 2014 by buster.

[the gunslinger 3,366]

its starting to look like polly peck.

[Juancornetto 1]

It'll play out like the tawdry, clandestine monopoly game that it is. The PLC board will try to realise as much money as possible from their shareholding either through a sale, share issue or via mortgaging off of assets, until that time they'll hoodwink the fans into thinking they're here for anything other than that and that great things like ahead as long as the fans keep parting with their money. The money that attracted them to the table in the first place and is the only motivation in their continued interest in a football business.

 

Business with high turnovers, committed customers and who are in financial difficulty are the holy grail of "turnaround specialists" and speculators looking to make a quick (3-5 year timescale) buck.

 

Everything else is just a by product of the above. The football is way down the list of priorities, the challenge of competing with a dominant Celtic is not taken seriously as by the time questions are asked, your Laxey's Blue Pitches and Margarita's will be long gone, selling their shareholding to either us the fans or a n other wealthy individual for a tidy nett profit and after having made a fortune from brokering sponsorship, security, catering, merchandise contracts for themselves and their pals.