Celtic are in exactly the opposite position. They have no plans to invest the income over the year back into the club. Generating profit resulting in Corporation Taxed seems to be the target.
On all known form Celtic will spend some of the money raised from the sale of players. The £70-90m in the bank won’t be touched.
Dermot Desmond, Peter Lawwell and Michael Nicholson see things very differently. A transfer window is the chance to sell off performing players, bank a profit and hope for the best with some project signings from trusted sources.
Celtic have just written off £1m by releasing Stephen Welsh from his contract. There would be change out of £1m if that figure was used to pay Fotheringham and Maloney for one season.
This weekend Celtic could be back to square one if O’Neill and Keane decide that it’s not in their best interests to manage such a dysfunctional club.
Celtic fans are bracing themselves for the dreaded appointment of Robbie Keane as manager.
The idea has been floated for much of the season. His name was regularly mentioned in the autumn before it became clear that Paul Tisdale was insisting on Wilfried Nancy.
In January while managing…
A very visible Irish Catholic managing Celtic is extremely difficult for a large portion of the Scottish population to be at peace with.
We have to continue to push and be as good as we can possibly be. I don’t want to sit here and be a Celtic captain who’s not winning anything.
Back in the autumn it was impossible to avoid Lennon as he tore into Brendan Rodgers, sounding almost like Kris Boyd’s long lost cousin.
Chris Sutton has called out Dermot Desmond over his notorious attack on Brendan Rodgers.Within 20 minutes of Celtic announcing the resignation of the former Liverpool boss Desmond launched an astonishing attack on the outgoing manager.Nothing was spared. Celtic were a brilliantly run club being undermined by Rodgers. Rodgers had been…