The Financial Position
How has the club weathered the global health crisis? Is the board confident that we have the wherewithal to survive the next phase of it without major negative effects? Will the management team be required to dispose of a top asset in the summer if we are to successfully navigate this, and will a significant portion of any recouped fee be available for a replacement?
There is little doubt that this will be discussed at length, and it should be, because it’s one of the most pressing things on the minds of the supporters.
The global health crisis has had a momentous impact on football all across the world, and our club is not immune.
So is our club safe?
Does this crisis mean we have to sell top players?
Are we still sitting on a surplus or has it all gone? If it is, is there an imperative to rebuild it?
That’s a question which this crisis has brought into sharp relief; if not for that money, what would the state of the club be coming out of this campaign?
It’s clear that we’d be in a bad, bad place.
So a rainy-day fund of some kind is a perfectly good idea, in principle, although another club has managed without either the pot to piss in or the window to throw it out.
The fans are not stupid, we will understand if the news on this front is not good … we will understand the sale of a key asset, as long as the club intends to replace him with quality.
I know the board isn’t going to bullshit us anyway, and tell us everything is fine.
Celtic fans can handle this stuff, so the board can afford to be straight with us.