I’ve been looking for signs for an inflationary bounce in English football. The next Premier League TV deal is still 12 months away but at this stage before previous TV deals kicked in, clubs started spending ahead of themselves as they looked to secure a piece of the lucrative new deal. In particular, I’m keen to see how central defenders are valued.
Today news broke that West Brom agreed a deal with newly-relegated Hull City to sign central defender, James Chester (26) for £8m. Chester has 11 months left on his contract at Hull. Three years in the English Championship and 45 Premier League games over two seasons was enough evidence to induce modest West Brom to pay the asking price.
It would have helped that three other Premier League clubs, Southampton, Aston Villa and Newcastle, were also reportedly interested, but no one is making false claims for a lad who has not troubled the scouts of England’s top clubs. He’s a modest player who is able to sign a pre-contract in January. This is a spectacular fee, passing between two modest clubs, for a central defender.
Consequences for us? We’ll see.
I’m doing a State of the Club article for Friday, as we do the day before the league campaign starts. So far there’s a flow to the words. A solid result on Wednesday will reaffirm that, whereas a reversal would, frankly, deem a satisfactory assessment inappropriate.
So much turns on these next few games, Champions League qualification, squillions of pounds, and sure, the State of the Club. We’ve come through a few iterations of acceptable levels of performance over the last 20 years, since winning our first trophy in six years. Younger readers will never appreciate how precious a 1-0 Scottish Cup win over Airdrie could be.
These days it’s all about the treble and Champions League group stage qualification. The loss of a cup would be an annoyance, but Celtic need to be part of the Champions League.
Our friends at Magners have offered a pair of Premium seat tickets for the Jock Stein Stand at the opening league game of the season on Saturday. To enter, all you need to do is email me with the name [IN THE SUBJECT LINE] of who we play that day, celticquicknews@gmail.com
If you’d like to donate £1 to the CQN Mary’s Meals school kitchen appeal, help towards what would be our fifth kitchen in Malawi, you can do so here:
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Beyonce
Goal
Close, hit the post
Aftrenoon BSR
Doing a lurcy there.
Just missed it.
Paul67
Indeed, transfer prices have gone up in line with EPL and other English TV deals.
If there are VVD suitors, Celtic must get paid accordingly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=plhcTycP9QE&app=desktop
top repost from this morning Anthony:-)
In There!!
Got some tickets in 412 for me a friend and his kids!!!!
Good section to be in???
Aberdeen now allegedly interested in the new Iniesta
SPFL Transfer News @SPFLTransfer · 4 hrs4 hours ago
#AberdeenFC match #Rangers bid for Allen.
EuroChamps67
Hail
Are the Italian FA proclaiming parmageddon yet;)
I see that bampot Lawwell is at it again eh!
Putting my Qarabag ticket on my ST card so I cannae add to my collection of briefs from all our big European games!
Bet the bassa tries the ole good for the environment ruse.
Paperless tickets good for the environment my erchie. More bonus money for you more like.
Sack the board!
Eurochamps67
CanihaveanargumentpleasenoyesicannoyoucantCSC
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Watching.. Go Back To Where You Came From..
The Award Winning SBS Documentary..in which the three-part series.. six “ordinary” Australians will follow in reverse the journeys of asylum seekers to unspecified destinations.
001
I remember that win over Airdrie like it was yesterday. It meant so much at the time. I think I might have shed manly tears of relief at the time. Not that I will ever admit to that.
Now if you will excuse me i have to get back to my mixed martial arts cage fighting workout.
Manly men csc
In advance of our first game against competition worthy of the name tomorrow, here are last season’s goals/assists per minute stats.
Goals/assists per minute 2014/15
Player Minutes per goal/assist Minutes played/goals & assists
Pukki 67 200/3
Guidetti 79 1965/25
Fisher 98 195/2
Griffiths 100 2295/23
Stokes 113 2610/23
Commons 128 2945/23
Berget 135 405/3
Scepovic 150 1050/7
Mackay-Steven 167 1000/6
Johansen 187 4850/26
Forrest 195 1560/8
Mcgregor 222 2000/9
Wakaso 245 735/3
Henderson 258 515/2
O’Connell 270 270/1
Lustig 290 1160/4
Armstrong 303 1210/4
Van Dijk 320 5120/16
Matthews 365 2920/8
Brown 389 4280/11
Tonev 495 495/1
Izaguirre 507 5070/10
Denayer 547 3830/7
Bitton 668 3340/5
Mulgrew 770 1540/2
Ambrose 798 3190/4
Players with no goals/assists Minutes played
Gordon 4560
Zaluska 515
Kayal 500
Forster 360
Mcgeough 90
Boerrigter 70
Tierney 70
Twardzik 45
up_over
Are you a computer?
Zbyszek
good to see you posting and giving us your insight.I hope you are recovering well after your recent health problems.All the best
HH
EC67
Don’t worry – I’ve got three…
Didn’t catch up with the old fella ’til last night, who confirmed he wanted to go to the game.
Jumped on the site to get the tickets sorted, but our 3 seats had gone – my fault for not getting the business done before the Sunday cut off time.
Bought 3 tickets. OK, didn’t get ‘our’ seats, c’est la vie. Didn’t get the season ticket holder discount, too bad. Didn’t get a discount for the boy’s concession either. Hey ho.
I’ve no major issue with all of that. Most if it’s my fault for not getting the tickets bought on Sunday.
The thing that narks me is…
…I’ve got to go in to Celtic Park to collect the bleedin’ tickets.
If the new ticket technology can activate a season ticket smart card, surely to goodness it can issue a pdf of the tickets to print out at home.
TimePoorTimsCSC
bournesouprecipe
I hoped my sexy vertical lines would have suggested otherwise.
What is the Stars & Jimbo67
Celtic Scottish Cup Winners 1995
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNchOPtWY5c
Ps it’s not your side that the bad picture quality is from:)))
Aberdeen now seemingly interested in the new Iniesta from Easter Rd. this should be fun.
Virgin media price of package up by £3.00 a month? – Not bad as you now get BT Sport Europe HD with all the CL games.
No need for Sky csc
tonydonnelly67
12:43 on
28 July, 2015
Are you an echo ;-)
12.28pm
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Paul67..WC or Anyone Else in the Know..
Are Celtic FC Interested or are the Hoping to be Invited to the International Champions Cup series..?
The Crowds it attracted in Australia were mind boggling Considering the AFL and A-League are in Full swing just Now..Circa 99k at Games..
It is Obviously bad Timing for Celtic Re; Qualifiers but it must be something we would want to be Involved in..
001
up_over
We want the dots
We want the dots
The Battered Bunnet @ 12:41
Didn’t you also get skelped with an ‘on-line booking’ fee … ?
VIP
Eurochamps67 @ 12:31
I see that bampot Lawwell is at it again eh!
Putting my Qarabag ticket on my ST card so I cannae add to my collection of briefs from all our big European games!
Does that mean all of the tickets purchased on-line go on to the season ticket? I’ve missed that announcement and have been sweating since the postie went by this morning.
bournesouprecipe
We’re in the Deila era now. Dots obscure possession stats and slow protein absorption.
Are we going for the full super Eurocharged Gazebo tomorrow evening?
Usual lower EK pick up circa 6.45?
Eurochamps67
FulleruosizedparadisegazeboesdontshrinktofitCSC
TBB totally agree. I’ve bought three tickets. Have to collect from ticket office which closes at kickoff. I am leaving Dundee at 6pm so that will be tight. If I don’t get there, I lose £66.
Great clip posted by TD67 earlier
Bunnets should be compulsory IMO
001 Bhoy..
12:45 on
28 July, 2015
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so you’re advocating we travel halfway round the world, forget the ECL qualifiers just so we can earn a few Oz$$$’s
Fieldofdrams could no one collect them for you?
Before the Airdrie game we had Hibs in the Semi-final
Celtic 3 Hibs 1 – SCSF 1995
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZNpR-DFW_s
Commons “available” tomorrow says Ronny Deila – will he start, though?
up_over_goal
13:04 on
28 July, 2015
Not a chance. Surprised if he’s even on bench.