Gordon Waddell at it again.

Sydneyger65

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We have £40million in the auditorium, £40m…any advance on £40m?”
“£50m, you say, sir?…FIFTY MILLION from the pre-match presser…not going once, not going twice…are we all done?”
Here’s hoping.
The fantasy auction for Alfredo Morelos this week has been quite something. All the figures that no one has ever bid and possibly never would being refused for a player apparently not for sale at any price anyway.
Which, in a nutshell, is why Rangers are still posting annual figures whose bottom line has a minus in front of it.
It’s the 21st century equivalent of David Murray’s Rangers tenner for every Celtic fiver. The ‘We Are The People’ vanity that says you don’t have to be a viable business, as long as you can stop Celtic.
Sorry but if someone bids even close to these figures for one of your players, you bite their hand off for it then shout it from the rooftops that you did.
Because it’s what makes you a success and persuades the next Morelos to come.
The post-agm headlines reminded me of a conversation with Ally McCoist back in the dark days at the start of ‘The Journey’.
They were playing Stranraer on the Saturday, a bog-standard 3pm fourth-tier league game, a 90-mile, two-hour luxury coach trip down the road from Murray Park.
Yet their entire squad and staff, vastly over-resourced for the level they were at anyway, were spending an overnight on the Friday at five-star Turnberry to prepare.
It was pointed out this was the kind of unnecessary profligacy that had put Rangers under in the first place. Maybe they should cut their cloth.
“Until someone tells me we’re not Rangers any more,” McCoist said, “We will continue to behave like we’re Rangers.”
Maintain the facade. At any cost. Which is exactly what this artificial peeing-up-a-wall contest on Morelos’ value is.
Your entire club has been a loss-making exercise, ‘strategic’ or not, soft loans or not, since you got back in the game in 2012.
At some point that has to change and since we’re not getting a billion-pound TV deal any day soon in Scottish football, and the Old Firm aren’t being flown on private jets straight into England’s top 20, this whole ‘not for sale at any price’ schtick is brainless.
Of course he is, and so he should be. If someone wants to give you £40m for a player you paid £1m for, damn right you sell him, you balance the books and you reinvest in the next guy – or several guys – who are going to do exactly the same.
The trouble is, they’re still slaves to the wrong mentality, they’ve never created a culture the way Celtic have done with their fans, where they understand that THIS IS WHAT THEY DO! They scout, they sign, they develop, they sell, rinse and repeat. Of course you want to build and keep your top talent, see how far you can take them, but when the money gets crazy and you’re operating with an eight-figure annual deficit?
Because if that’s not their model then what else is going to get them to break even or make a profit once the attitude that losing money every year isn’t a problem is on the flight back to South Africa for good?
European money should be the gravy, not your bread and butter. You can’t bank on it.
Morelos should be the flag bearer for modern Rangers. They took a chance on a kid from Colombia, in the outpost of Finland. Didn’t speak the language but hell, he could score goals.
Look at him now. Bargain of the century.
His two goals the other night were outstanding, like most of his others.
The concentration and physicality required for both showed a striker at the absolute peak of his powers.
He’s brilliant – powerful, quick, hungry and – thanks to gaffer Steven Gerrard – far more disciplined.
The trouble is, instead of saying ‘this is what we do and this is how our club is going to work’, they’re still in the mindset of thinking all they have to do is stop Celtic. Not fix Rangers.
It has been their problem since day one of the post-liquidation era. Using another club as their yardstick instead of creating their own. So, sure, if a big bid comes in January, when you’re in a fight for a title and trying to deny them nine in a row, the timing would stink.
But you’ve got class cover in Jermain Defoe and you’ve then got a pot of millions to find a replacement, who presumably will be on a list Ross Wilson has in his drawer. Ideally you’d do it in the summer but needs must.
This is what it comes down to. That’s what Rangers’ business has to be.
Which brings us to Dave King’s standing ovation at his announcement he’s off. Does he leave them in a better state than he got them? Absolutely. Better management, infrastructure, academy. Team challenging on all fronts. All good.
But all the talk of statues and his name on buildings? Spare us. Then refer back to the underlying issues that all still need fixed.
Still in a legal fight with Mike Ashley and without a retail deal worth the paper it’s written on, perma-losses on the balance sheet, no major trophy, no title since 2011.
He’s had fans queuing round the block with his ‘they’re all enemies of Rangers’ rhetoric and they’ve lapped it up without much critical appraisal of their own direction of travel.
For a while the fact he simply wasn’t Craig Whyte and wasn’t Charles Green was good enough.
But a true legacy doesn’t just mean leaving the place looking tidier than you found it.
 
Couldn’t care less what these media no marks have to say about us.
You can smell their fear every time they open their mouths as they talk some shite.

I like you couldn’t give a flying feck what the likes of GW thinks or says as his thoughts cannot change a single thing, 55 is going to kill feckers like him.
He is blinded by hatred and no doubt gets loads of well dines from his fellow mutants
 
I’m now starting to take all this constant negativity from our press as good news. This shows we’re back...god only knows what they are going to say when we win #55.
 
the printed press is dying a death and its glorious .......... the bottom of the barrel stories are quite laughable , i wonder how he would remark on Man utd's books ? likewise Real Madrid Chelsea Barcelona etc
 
Gordon Waddell sucking mentally challenged cock as usual

Actually stopped reading half way through as he is an irrelevant wanker who would. Not be allowed into Ibrox or HTC if I was in charge of Rangers along with a few others who continue to demean our club

When 55 arrives arseholes like him will be spewing and that will make it even sweeter knowing how much it will hurt them
 
I haven't met one fan who isn't resigned to him going in the summer. How much is all that's debated.

January is what is discussed.
So Waddel wants a bid accepted in January and we go with Defoe and a new striker. Hmmmm, sounds like he wants the league handed to the filth.

Also, that's not a quote I remember Ally every saying. Anyone remember that?
 
A bitter rant is all i see. Spends half of it going on about how him being "not for sale" is stupid when he's only not for sale in the middle of a season when we're having our first true fight for the title since 2011 while making sure to gush praise on "The Celtic way" in there as well. The Scottish press is filled with absolute nobodies who provide zero technical, analytical or tactical analysis yet are giving the platform to spout pish like this weekly.
 
Wow, what an embarrassing piece of shite. If I were him I would ware a balaclava from now on.
That sounds like an ill Phil piece.
Falkirk fan they say lol
Loves Peters arse
What an absolute embarrassment.
 
Seriously, does this berk write about anything other than us? Every week the same tired, bitter stuff. It’s become obvious there’s only one sector of the populace still buying newspapers and they must be pandered to.
 
Waddell is a Rangers hating arsehole, he must have been churning out these shite articles for 20 odd years now. The same guy would be slaughtering Rangers if we sold Morelos in January, he would be saying we have a serious lack of ambition and that we have thrown away any chance we had of winning the title.
 
Absolutely embarrassing to see the likes of waddel are too bittee and blinded by their hatred for us to actually notice that by claiming we won't sell him for 50 million we are actually trying to increase is value? Does he expect us to come out and say 'yes we'll happily accept 20 million'?

Imagine actually trying to talk up the value of players in the Scottish game, how dare we.
 
The trouble is, they’re still slaves to the wrong mentality, they’ve never created a culture the way Celtic have done with their fans

He got one thing right.

Defending paedophiles and attacking the victims and their families on Twitter.

Throwing bottles at little boys.

’Bloostained’ Poppy banners.

Hanging effigies.

Wearing Celtic tops with “66 Ha Ha” on the back.


They can keep their ‘culture’.
 
Well he's probably sitting at his breakfast laughing his fat face off reading FF and reading his piece and the reactions,don't give him the oxygen guys just ignore him his paper is dying literally,then we can all laugh our heads off.
 
People seem desperate for us to sell him in January.

Also a lot of "journalists" seem to pretend they do not know what Gerrard means by not for sale even for £50m.
 
King never said he wouldn't be sold. He said he wouldn't be sold in January.

Scottish journalism folks. Why let an actual factual quote get in the way of a piece of shit article
Correct mate, never let the truth get in the way of a good story
 
He’s got to try and sell his shitty wee paper so that’s the crap he comes out with knowing fine well what Gerrard meant when he said £50m, but that’s still the crap he comes out with!
 
I really do wish we had some decent journalism in Scotland. I like to read about sport but it is actually pointless up here. I’m not doing the paranoias route but there is a serious lack of debate, balance and basic research. There are many with agendas and that’s not just about Celtic. It’s pathetic.
 
You can feel his hate for our club in that article he's been doing it for years but that's a new level from him.
 
Taken from the Comments section of the Sun story on Cairney ...

Anything to win a trophy you know your club don't have a chance unless Celtic disappear, any word on nelly and dunn or you ignoring that one or the 66 fans your club killed and try to hide the truths

There’s that Celtic ‘culture’ I was talking about, encapsulated in a few semi-literate lines.
 
From the same guy that wrote a story bemoaning Scottish football always downplaying itself, claiming in said piece that Steven Fletcher could be every bit as good as Karim Benzema. Seriously.
 
We have £40million in the auditorium, £40m…any advance on £40m?”
“£50m, you say, sir?…FIFTY MILLION from the pre-match presser…not going once, not going twice…are we all done?”
Here’s hoping.
The fantasy auction for Alfredo Morelos this week has been quite something. All the figures that no one has ever bid and possibly never would being refused for a player apparently not for sale at any price anyway.
Which, in a nutshell, is why Rangers are still posting annual figures whose bottom line has a minus in front of it.
It’s the 21st century equivalent of David Murray’s Rangers tenner for every Celtic fiver. The ‘We Are The People’ vanity that says you don’t have to be a viable business, as long as you can stop Celtic.
Sorry but if someone bids even close to these figures for one of your players, you bite their hand off for it then shout it from the rooftops that you did.
Because it’s what makes you a success and persuades the next Morelos to come.
The post-agm headlines reminded me of a conversation with Ally McCoist back in the dark days at the start of ‘The Journey’.
They were playing Stranraer on the Saturday, a bog-standard 3pm fourth-tier league game, a 90-mile, two-hour luxury coach trip down the road from Murray Park.
Yet their entire squad and staff, vastly over-resourced for the level they were at anyway, were spending an overnight on the Friday at five-star Turnberry to prepare.
It was pointed out this was the kind of unnecessary profligacy that had put Rangers under in the first place. Maybe they should cut their cloth.
“Until someone tells me we’re not Rangers any more,” McCoist said, “We will continue to behave like we’re Rangers.”
Maintain the facade. At any cost. Which is exactly what this artificial peeing-up-a-wall contest on Morelos’ value is.
Your entire club has been a loss-making exercise, ‘strategic’ or not, soft loans or not, since you got back in the game in 2012.
At some point that has to change and since we’re not getting a billion-pound TV deal any day soon in Scottish football, and the Old Firm aren’t being flown on private jets straight into England’s top 20, this whole ‘not for sale at any price’ schtick is brainless.
Of course he is, and so he should be. If someone wants to give you £40m for a player you paid £1m for, damn right you sell him, you balance the books and you reinvest in the next guy – or several guys – who are going to do exactly the same.
The trouble is, they’re still slaves to the wrong mentality, they’ve never created a culture the way Celtic have done with their fans, where they understand that THIS IS WHAT THEY DO! They scout, they sign, they develop, they sell, rinse and repeat. Of course you want to build and keep your top talent, see how far you can take them, but when the money gets crazy and you’re operating with an eight-figure annual deficit?
Because if that’s not their model then what else is going to get them to break even or make a profit once the attitude that losing money every year isn’t a problem is on the flight back to South Africa for good?
European money should be the gravy, not your bread and butter. You can’t bank on it.
Morelos should be the flag bearer for modern Rangers. They took a chance on a kid from Colombia, in the outpost of Finland. Didn’t speak the language but hell, he could score goals.
Look at him now. Bargain of the century.
His two goals the other night were outstanding, like most of his others.
The concentration and physicality required for both showed a striker at the absolute peak of his powers.
He’s brilliant – powerful, quick, hungry and – thanks to gaffer Steven Gerrard – far more disciplined.
The trouble is, instead of saying ‘this is what we do and this is how our club is going to work’, they’re still in the mindset of thinking all they have to do is stop Celtic. Not fix Rangers.
It has been their problem since day one of the post-liquidation era. Using another club as their yardstick instead of creating their own. So, sure, if a big bid comes in January, when you’re in a fight for a title and trying to deny them nine in a row, the timing would stink.
But you’ve got class cover in Jermain Defoe and you’ve then got a pot of millions to find a replacement, who presumably will be on a list Ross Wilson has in his drawer. Ideally you’d do it in the summer but needs must.
This is what it comes down to. That’s what Rangers’ business has to be.
Which brings us to Dave King’s standing ovation at his announcement he’s off. Does he leave them in a better state than he got them? Absolutely. Better management, infrastructure, academy. Team challenging on all fronts. All good.
But all the talk of statues and his name on buildings? Spare us. Then refer back to the underlying issues that all still need fixed.
Still in a legal fight with Mike Ashley and without a retail deal worth the paper it’s written on, perma-losses on the balance sheet, no major trophy, no title since 2011.
He’s had fans queuing round the block with his ‘they’re all enemies of Rangers’ rhetoric and they’ve lapped it up without much critical appraisal of their own direction of travel.
For a while the fact he simply wasn’t Craig Whyte and wasn’t Charles Green was good enough.
But a true legacy doesn’t just mean leaving the place looking tidier than you found it.
You can smell the fear once you get past the B O. These no marks are afraid.
 
Whilst I firmly believe in giving zero oxygen to such keyboard diarrhoea, just for once I’d love for Fatty Waddell to turn up to one of our pressers and for Gerrard to eviscerate him for that pile of shite. But we know Waddell won’t bother, he probably fills his jobby-catchers at the mere notion of having to justify his bile face to face...
 
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