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This season was a dogfight until the Glasgow teams returned from Dubai, one conditioned and determined to make amends for the result at Paradise on the 29th of December and the other shrouded in rumours, bans, going concerns and litigation.

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Then the brakes were cut, Jabba was attacked walking his dugs, Alfy forgot how to poach an egg let alone a goal and the Peepul descended into rage as the results worsened by the week after Boyce had handed Celtic the advantage at Tynecastle.
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The Coronavirus stepped in to spare Sevco’s blushes, however, it is a bandaid on a bullet wound, the Newco has a massive financial storm approaching with deferred wages the least of their worries.
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The going concern of £10m has yet to be addressed, there is still no kit deal in place and regardless if they get one or not they are still tied to MASH, this year’s litigation for ‘many millions of pounds’ will be followed up by another dose unless they play ball with Ashley.
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The ridiculous fee paid for Kent has yet to be paid in full with the majority of the £7m deferred to this season, as well as this the creative accounting which added worth to the 8-year-old clubs valuation of its assets has fallen to pieces in the tabloids.
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A man who couldn’t be bought for 40 million pounds in December labeled a man child by Jackson in the Record in March.

Sevco less than no money, they are flat skint and reliant on loans from men of limited means in these dark times, the saviours haven’t come to town.
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Their King has fled and will require massive compensation for his prior investments to be moved along.

Until such time, no businessman can escape the punitive repercussions of the Takeover Panel as the cold-shouldered business pariah simply can’t be an associate.
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Indeed to buy Mr. King’s shares would take over 13 million pounds if we are to assume his 25.58% holding of 66,672,893 shares are to be valued at 20p per share, so before a penny can be put in by a new investor NOAL will need to be paid out this sum....
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.....or the new investor will have to risk corporate isolation.

A prospectus to a potential investor would read:

1. 13 million for King’s shares
2. 10 million (ball park) compensation to Ashley
3. 10 million going concern 2019
4. 5 million for Kent transfer.
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5. 12 million for 3 months of deferred wages
6. 20-30 million needed to rebuild squad
7. No retail deal meaning an operating shortfall for 2020/21
8. Compensation to Hummel
9. Sponsors like Ladbrokes cancel association
10. Company contingent on European Football to survive.
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If there is a Real Rangers Man with £70m or so lying around willing to bet on Stevie G toppling the 9 in a row Champions then Celtic may well have a title challenge next year.

The one thing that will be devastating to Football in general but may well be terminal at Rangers..
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...is the one thing no one dare talk about, a season of empty stands or massively undersubscribed season ticket renewals. There may well be limits placed on how many people can be allowed into grounds or people may well stay away due to fear of infection...
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.....not to say that many people are feeling the pinch and will not have enough money to buy a season ticket in the first place. The one level of income that they can rely on may well be curtailed by the virus sweeping the planet, this combined with the above ...
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....will likely put them into admin and hand Celtic the 10 at a canter. They have to sell before they can buy and have few saleable assets, as a company in distress they will not be able to ask for much for Barisic, Aribo, Kamara, Tavernier, Morelos, no others are saleable.
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Half of them are too old, the rest far too inconsistent to draw a bid outside of hundreds of thousands of pounds bracket, even those listed above are all worth less than £5m by some margin with Morelos worth a punt at that amount to a club in a country which doesn’t have VAR.
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Otherwise, his red card tally would soar and he would spend even more time on the bench due to discipline than he does now.

All in all, it is a very bleak outlook for Scotland’s least decorated club, the longer this crisis continues the worse it will be for them....
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....when UEFA meets this week, the destination of Celtic’s title is the least of their concerns, should this season be postponed even further, the papers may well be forced to tell the truth again as they did in that magical summer of 2012.

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