For the second home match running there was no sign of Andrew Cavenagh and his consortium buddies at Ibrox, they missed out on Barry Ferguson’s first home win as interim manager. The ‘pharmaceutical tycoon’ was able to find the time to go to Instabul and Bilbao.
To the surprise of no-one their absence has been blanked out by legacy media outlets.
Less than two weeks ago both STV and the Daily Record just happened to have film crews on the spot when Cavenagh, Paraag Marathe and Gretar Steinsson were shown around the outside of Ibrox by Paddy Stewart.
Raman Bhardwaj looked like a schoolboy autograph hunter as he tried to put a question in, he was completely ignored while the Record’s sports reporters remainder at their desks monitoring events on social media.
Pictures of the Three Wise men were picked up on the day of the Ibrox visit, in their initial reports the Record speculated that the real owner of the San Francisco 49ers, Jed York was included in the visiting party, taking in the Blue Room, enjoying the world class ceramics, the St Etienne bike and the other jewels in the crown. He didn’t, he is no where near negotiations with the people that the Record now refers to as the ‘Takeover Kings’.
Strangely Cavenagh & Co opted out of hanging around for a few days to take in the Glasgow Derby, the fixture that the 2012 Tribute Act cling onto for relevance, after the midweek fanfare for their walkabout there was no coverage of their non-appearance at the 1-1 draw with Celtic.
Since the photo opportunity there has been virtually no follow up, no insiders claiming that Cavenagh and the lads were overwhelmed by the marble staircase or the sticky carpet in the Blue Room as they looked around at portraits of Mark Warburton, Micky Beale, Pedro Caixinha and other losers.
Dressed casually, no one was wearing a blazer and neat flannels, there was no sign of brown brogues as the underwhelmed visitors looked around.
Last week Dave King called in to his good mate Jim White on TalkSPORT to talk things up, clearly the deal described by the Record on February 19 as being at an advanced stage is stalling. If it was ever a goer in the first place, suspiciously timed as Celtic powered towards a treble with the Season Ticket Renewals coming out from Ibrox.
On the pitch issues have been resolved at Leeds United, they return to the EPL in August as one of the favourites to be relegated, just like the three clubs promoted this season.
In Scotland the media is starting to notice that next season isn’t too far away, there will be a Champions League Second Round qualifier in around 70 days time, the draw for that round takes place on June 18.
When Barry Ferguson makes his twice weekly call for things to be sorted in terms of a manager it is simply a plea for him to get the job, the ironic thing is that the longer the takeover stalls the more likely Ferguson is to get the manager’s job. Especially if Derek McInnes is appointed as manager of Hearts.
After Saturday’s match away to Hibs there are no scheduled media conferences, hopes that a manager and/or takeover can be announced around May 24 to demote the significance of the Scottish Cup Final are fanciful, or delusional, whichever you prefer.
From next Saturday the media will have to rake around to keep up excitement and anticipation for the takeover, more than three months after the Record broke their WORLD EXCLUSIVE story.
Ibrox fan media is just as compliant, there isn’t an outlet anywhere raising any questions about what is going on, how much the takeover is costing and how the American consortium get to holding a 51% stake in the club or 75% to take full control.
Miraculously all of their problems will be solved as soon as this season is over. The reality is that the issues are only starting with a loss of £25m expected for this season with no chance of Cavenagh or his colleagues setting foot around Ibrox again.
And still no-one will go near Douglas Park, the second biggest shareholder in the club, the man sitting on at least 11.54% of the shares in the club. If anyone tries to cut out the Lanarkshire based businessman they are likely to find a demand for full repayment of his £12m loan at the top of their in-box on Day 1 of the Yankee Revolution.
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19 Comments
by James Ward
Pish, pish and more pish. Let the banter year’s continue.
by Francis Totten
Let’s pray the deal off and we will party for years 10 in a row
by Rasputin
You don’t need to pray. Even if I happens, and it will, they’ll still have miles to go to reach us. I dunno why alot of our side seem panicked by the takeover and keep saying it wont happen. They’ll look like prats when it does, and come across as scared – thus giving the zombies fuel. Accept it’ll happen, laugh at their thought that they go on a spending spree (which ffp means they wont). If it doesn’t happened, laugh again
What NOT to do I appear desperate and scared it will and go into denial. I expect it to happen, and so what? They’re STILL miles behind and we have more spending power than they will. We EARN more.
by Andrew mcdowall
O dear so many newco fans thought this was a done deal 👇now looks like the newco board may have to look at Administration if the 49ers don’t buy the club 🤔 so much to pay out by the newco club so many court cases coming up 👌only time will tell if the newco club Survives 😀
by Wontontone
Should be some sort of sweepstake as to what total guff, and at what point (ie how many points behind the rangers are) and from what continent/country the new Messiah is going to come from next season.
by James.
Hello 🙋♂️,
As a Celtic supporter and fan,
I still want to see a decent
performance each week from
Rangers + others in terms of
regular competition.
Competition is a good think 🤔
and it keeps the game interesting
and exciting IMHO. No – one wants to
pay for costly season ticket in the
knowledge that one team is “leagues”
ahead from its nearest competitors
week in and week out !!
It get boring 😴…
I will say one thing about BF,
he is definitely 💯 % devoted
and dedicated to his team.
However, Rangers, are that far
behind Celtic – you can equate
this – to chalk and cheese.
Barry F is not the man for this
turnaround project needed here.
Barry is too emotionally involved !!
They need someone who is a lot more
ruthless !!
Hail Hail…. ☘️
James ✌️🫶
by Stevie D
100% agree mate. Too many Celtic supporters would love to see Rangers in the gutter, which happened before and resulted in a dire, complacent Celtic, ritually humiliated in Europe and boring seasons. I want a strong Rangers which sharpens our edge and a return to the early 2000’s glory days of my youth.
by Editor
The last 13 years shows that a ‘Rangers’ team without tax and disguised remuneration scams can’t get near Celtic.
Europe is the challenge for Celtic but the real challenge is the Executive management who only one to be a few points ahead of their pals from Ibrox, regardless of how dire that mob are.
by Editor
I’ve got some upsetting news, Rangers died in 2012, it was quite a big story at the time before legacy media indulged in a rewrite.
Celtic find competition through European competition, no need to drag themselves down to being a few points ahead of the Tribute Act formed by Charles Green in 2012. They’ve won the same amount of trophies as St Johnstone.
by Steffan Omazik
Scotland a once proud Catholic nation now held under English protestant loyalist rule.
How it sickens the the ibrox scum to see the Catholics amass’ Winning trophy after trophy title after title. Please stop thinking low not 10 how about 20 in a Row, let’s engineer their destruction.
I pray 🙏 to my Holly father that the 66ers goes through as when Leeds go under the’ Hunery will be the scapegoats, & the beauty of it is they can’t see it coming.
To Dermot and the board keep the pressure up, help Brendan as best as you financially can, and never let him walk alone.
We are the people we are a futuristic team of the world 🌎 we are the Celtic family not a disgraceful load of Sevcodgers Taxdodger biggots Hail Hail Catholics 😀
by Patrick
Scotland has not been predominantly Catholic since 1640(after the Bishops War) so your comment is incorrect
by Peter
You appear to be a bigot, I’m not catholic but have supported Glasgow Celtic since 1966. Religion has no real place in football it’s an excuse to offlay blame and responsibility for mistakes yo make, HAIL HAIL.
by Steffan Omazik
Simple the truth I want to see them gone. There’s no place in a modern Scotland with orange silly whisky breathed Baldy over 50s marching up & down Glasgow celebrating the battle of the boing boing UP too your knees in fenian blood. I despice you” not for being protestants not for being Sevco fans , not for cheating your ways too titles through governing bodies, just you . Let us live in peace ✌️ without you 💔 lot.
by Tickled hun
Celtic365 😂😂. Maybe Celtic200 and ‘Rangers’ the rest of the time.
by Ralph Petroff
The main thing that I can’t get my head around is why anyone would want to invest in that club at all.
I mean, they’re living well beyond their means even just to be number two in Scotland. Giving that they’re making losses of about 20 million each season, a new owner would either have to put a lot of money into the club to settle their losses and invest enough into the squad to make it even remotely competitive – which they’re not allowed to do, even if they wanted to.
Or (and this looks more likely) there will be an austerity regime – but in that case it is doubtful whether they can keep up their European nights. So either you throw a lot of money into a black hole, or you have to cut costs considerably. Neither exactly sounds like making money – and that’s all an investor cares about …
by Bilskie
When will their next raffle be
by Whitey Bhoy
Same old pish that comes out of ibrox every season,bring it on, They are the laughing stock of Scottish football yet again🤣🤣🤣
by Graham Scott
I smell shite
by Peter Dunne
To be honest I don’t really care about what is happening at Ibrox no disrespect guys .