Stuart Gibson has repeated Micky Beale’s claim that Ange Postecoglou is a lucky manager.
It seems that Celtic and especially their finances are never far from the thoughts of the power-brokers at Ibrox. Gibson is based in Hong Kong and is the third biggest shareholder at Ibrox.
Postecoglou has spent heavily since becoming Celtic boss but that has mainly been funded by player sales such as the exits of Jeremie Frimpong, Odsonne Edouard, Ryan Christie, Kris Ajer, Giorgos Giakoumakis and Josip Juranovic.
While Celtic have taken that route across the city big money offers for Ryan Kent and Alfredo Morelos who both started last month’s Viaplay Cup Final at Hampden.
Listening to the This is Ibrox podcast discuss the current position of the club board, The National reports Gibson saying:
In terms of where they’re at now, and where they’re supposed to be when I first had the initial conversation, I think they’ve achieved it.
They’re sustainable now. But we’re second in the league. We’re nine points behind Celtic and that’s just not acceptable.
That’s something we need to fix. As our new manager said recently and he got into a bit of trouble: ‘The Celtic manager has been lucky he had such vast sums at his disposal’.
That’s good for them but they basically had no one to beat for ten years. They should have accrued that wealth anyway.
We’d have accrued that same wealth had we been in that position but again we’re behind Celtic so we still have to have more money to be able to go into the transfer market, I think in a bigger way.
In season 2015/16 Celtic won just one domestic trophy, with Mark Warburton leading the Ibrox club into the top flight in season 2016/17 the hoops went on a run of winning 12 successive trophies with that tally now running at 15 of the last 18 honours.
Over the last 18 months the Ibrox side has sold Nathan Patterson, Joe Aribo and Calvin Bassey while reaching the final of the Europa League and group stage of the Champions League.
With that sort of income there should be plenty for Beale to spend in the summer, during January the new Ibrox boss had a bigger net spend than Postecoglou with Nicolas Raskin and Todd Cantwell signed with only Charlie McCann sold.
Please someone ask Mr Gibson why his clumpany did not accrue it’s wealth ! What were the reasons for that ? It would be fascinating to hear the answer …Or the spinned answer !
Roll up roll up…get your Sevco season tickets here.
Looks like their going to win the close season championship again.
Celtic are a disgrace, every summer they let them win we’re talking a load of pish league.
So a hun scum invester still taking more interest in how we spend our money that has been generated?
Why won’t we hear about just how pleased this arsewipe is about the returns he’s received upon his own investment?
Oh that’s right, fuck all
Hinge and bracket shitey pants Wee ate the poo.
There lucky to put the leccy on never mind the sashometer
and poor aggie the tea lady.
She’ll be calling the board micky tetris teeth beale player’s and laptop loyal can’ts ralotofthem.
Hun talks bollocks and shite. Quelle surprise.
Better to be a lucky manager than a cheating one – like the ones that led the DeidCo to titles and trophies through tax scams and financial doping. Rangers 1.0 only had a Celtic recovering from the brink of bankruptcy and having to fund a stadium rebuild to compete with in the 90s. Yet they still blew millions more than anyone else to win titles and to fail miserably in the Champions’ League that, ironically, they’d help to create in a bid to perpetuate their advantage.
no one to beat for ten years ?. what about the future england managers team ?.
Where was mega bucks investor mr Gibson in 2011 when the bill’s had to be paid to save the club of his fathers .
Yes that’s right nowhere .
No he pitches up when the debts of the dead club have been dumped and rocks up on the back of the 55 myth .
For a scrote like that to be lecturing to our club
Pisses me off .
For the LL to swallow swallow his bollocks tells you all you need to.know about them too
1, The death of the original Rangers has nothing to do with us.
2, He should do some research about the new finance rules, they can’t spend as they have OVERSPENT every single year of their entire 11 year history, hence his need for “investment” (;-0)
HH
But Celtic haven’t been spending big. Apart from Abada (£3.5m). the signings are £1m-£2m.
Nobody to blame but themselves, stupid hun bastards.
Stuart gibson who the hell is he…so celtic had no other teams to beat in last 10 years ..what a load of tripe.celtic has had to play beat many teams in last 10 years to win anything so now gibson the big mouthrd fool number 2 discredits every other team in scotland.gibson should concentrate now on paying back the tax fraud runnings into millions his club stole from taxman his club are cheats corrupt fraudsters who deserved to be removed from scottish football for good..well done celtic for beating all those teams in these last 10 years it hasent been easy as for rangers they can simply moan moan moan all they want because celtic pay tax when due and dont defraud taxman
Net Spend under Ange is around £16.5m in 4 windows.
That included a full squad rebuild with 15 players leaving Celtic in the Summer he took over .
Celtic meanwhile banked over £30m in profit.
If you are banking over £30m and your Net Spend is £16m then this means we have actually underspent by £30m.
Meanwhile over at the Debt Dome we have seen an overspend of over £25m in the same period despite reaching a major European Final and firther Investment via Debt for Equity swaps.
Fkem