04 Jun 2020 08:43:22
I always advocated that the season should have been declared null and void, which is almost what the powers that be in Scotland did, just handing the title to the unwashed.

Leagues in England are restarting and have already restarted in Germany. If the SPL season had been restarted and Celtic went on to win the title, I would have had no complaints but the SPL/ SFA took a strange option indeed.

This should inspire Gerrard and his players for the new season to ensure Rangers are back at the top again, at last. On another note, has anyone read Into the Bear Pit by Craig Whyte? I'm reading it right now. It comes over that both he and Murray were strange people indeed!

1.) 04 Jun 2020
04 Jun 2020 09:56:42
Inspire them Doiger, its just as likely to demotivate them seeing what can actually happen in this country that has been turned into a backwater. On Tuesday I watched Danish football and yesterday German second division football. How can they afford to restart but we cannot? Why don't we use the Hearts guys money to restart the league and if Hearts go down then they go down via results. This farce has nothing to do with relegation, money, safety or whatever it is to do with a deal with Adidas that might have fell through had the league not been called.
Take the guys £4mil and use it to finish the league or is this "unconditional" "no strings" payment actually conditional with strings?

2.) 04 Jun 2020
04 Jun 2020 10:39:08
I thought it was £2 million split between the 42 clubs - hardly a pot of gold?
Each club gets approximately £47000, a tenth of what Doncaster gets to make a shambles of running the SPFL every year.

3.) 04 Jun 2020
04 Jun 2020 11:51:59
Why would Adidas deal fall through for Celtic if they couldn't play the last 9 games of their previous deal.

4.) 04 Jun 2020
04 Jun 2020 12:11:34
Doiger I won’t read whites books let alone buy them as I think he’s skimmed enough money! Furthermore how can you believe anything that’s in it?

5.) 04 Jun 2020
04 Jun 2020 12:17:22
It wouldn't huey, it might have fell through if the tims HAD to play the last 9 games because the new deal is due to start on July 1st and they would (potentially) still be contracted to finish the season with their old shirt makers. Either way they would not want to rock the boat and jeopardise the deal. In the current climate I don't think it would take much for Adidas to reconsider the outlay and look for a way out.

6.) 04 Jun 2020
04 Jun 2020 12:48:57
Jyf I can't see your point of view here. Your take is adidas would have pulled the plug on their deal because the league would run over and give them a get out clause. Wouldn't be the same for all team with new strip deals us included. What are Adidas paying them £25—30m over a 5 year deal that's peanuts to a billion £ company. Castore had to borrow £7.5m to break into the football market and have paid us £5m up front. So those 9 games with Hummel gear on would not make them think twice but Adidas would.

7.) 04 Jun 2020
04 Jun 2020 13:19:57
Wouldn't believe a single thing Whyte or Murray says. Hopefully you didn't pay for the book Doiger.

8.) 04 Jun 2020
04 Jun 2020 13:33:15
Yes IOM adidas are not in the financial position you might think they are and I didn't say that they would pull the plug on the deal, I have no way of knowing that, but what I have said is that the tims would not want to rock the boat and by not being able, contractually, to start the deal on July 1st is rocking the boat. I may be wrong IOM but the whole think makes no sense and there is definitely more to why they were so keen to end the season so early and did not want an inquiry, in fact liewell made an impassioned plea to all the other clubs to STOP an inquiry. Our contract with Castore IS different IOM, it would not have started until after our deal with hummel was over, when ever that was.

9.) 04 Jun 2020
04 Jun 2020 14:19:26
Jyf, Like you I’ve been saying the Adidas deal was a driving factor for endless nag the league. New Balance deal was for 5 seasons and was due to run out May-June 2020 with Adidas kicking in beginning July 2020.

If the league was played out during July/ August it could have created a potential problem that Celtic wouldn’t want due to the overlap.

This way, they get the best of both worlds- awarded the league and a clean start to Adidas deal.

10.) 04 Jun 2020
04 Jun 2020 14:28:46
Iom u r right re all deals would have been an issue not a reason to walk away from a 25 million deal.
Bigger problem for Adidas is German government still refuses to give the 750 million loan the say that required to keep going through CV.

11.) 04 Jun 2020
04 Jun 2020 14:32:28
I didn't know you were already saying this hewhohearsvoices, I have done my own digging and come to the same conclusion. Adidas are currently losing a fortune and have applied to the German government for loans. If the season ran on past July 1st then there definitely would have been some contractual renegotiations required, I'm not for a minute saying they would walk away or even that the contract would have been devalued but I doubt certain people would have wanted to take that chance.

12.) 04 Jun 2020
04 Jun 2020 17:02:31
JYF, you say our deal with Castore would not start until our deal with Hummel is over, we signed a 3 year deal with hummel. We only done 2 years, i know the court said we had to end the deal due to Ashley, but have we negotiated a deal with hummel.

13.) 04 Jun 2020
04 Jun 2020 19:28:41
Hummel/ elite owe us £2.8million Isle of mull 1!The hummel/ elite deal is finito pal, its castore who are our new kit manufacturers/ retail partners. Hummel are already a distant memory.

14.) 04 Jun 2020
04 Jun 2020 19:42:45
Do a wee bit of research IOM.

15.) 05 Jun 2020
05 Jun 2020 02:49:21
If you sign a 3 year deal and only complete 2 years of it due to a court order, is that not leaving someone open to claim.