As Brendan Rodgers mulls over additions to his coaching staff, one possibility, Kolo Toure, has taken a position with the Ivorian Olympic team.
Kolo’s role at the club in the early part of last season, when he steadied a shaky defence sufficiently to see us through the Champions League qualifiers, could be reprised this season. Due to injuries, we’re short in central defence, while running with only two strikers until January (at least) seems tight. A Kolo-type figure may help both positions.
Scratch deep enough, however, and it gets more complicated. Kolo did well at the start of last season but was soon erring consistently, before being retired by omission. This was someone playing at the top of the game the season before.
Bringing in another experienced addition to the squad to patch gaps in defence or attack works on paper when you look at Kolo’s early work, but there are significant downside risks. The match fitness of anyone out of contract right now is unlikely to make them suitable to undertake hugely important games in the coming weeks.
Then there is the question of attitude – Philippe Senderos once looked like a good idea, but Phil took a red card instead of jumping for a ball, when his team needed him most. The small matter of money also has to be considered: Kolo was paid a fortune for his time in Glasgow; straight from the football budget.
Opportunity cost is another issue. Kris Ajer will not see a great deal of first team action this season, but his development would be hampered more with a 35-year-old team-mate on £35k per week as first reserve. And surely we hope to promote a striker through the ranks?
The final issue to consider is what will happen to the squad in the final week of the month, if Champions League qualification is secured and the transfer window gets into full swing. We were scourged for so long by squad fillers.
Sign quality combatants, able to last a season in the first time and with years of development ahead. This is where strategy has to be.
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CUCHULAINN
I’ve now got your number. I’ll call and let you know how I get on.
HH jamesg
HomeSportFootballCeltic FC
Celtic’s Champions League opponents FC Astana WON’T sell star men until after Hoops clash
The Kazakh side’s top scorer Junior Kabananga and wide man Patrick Twumasi are both attracting interest but Astana chiefs say they will not sell ahead of the Celtic showdown.
Well there is a shock from the Record.Who would have thought that?
The only thing surprising about this story,they did not finish,
“So,GIRFUY”
https://mobile.twitter.com/JulieOwenMoylan/status/895253468339949568/photo/1
Aye
BABASONICOS71
very good:))
GLEN CAMPBELL RIP
https://youtu.be/MG3rS9M5lwo
TONYDONNELLY67 on 10TH AUGUST 2017 12:49 PM
Framboise
There was a young kid involved with the slashing incident , need I say any more, obviously his safety would be a concern.
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Going all continental on us TD? :-)))
Have just read Craig Swan,of the Records,report on last nights Hun game.Deary me.Only the 2nd game of the season,so could ,I suppose be called premature ejaculation.I have read some hero worshipping,some over the top fawning,far too much B_sh!t,from hacks concerning them,but this is up there with the best.
” a young kid?”. A wee goat!
Smiley foxy pussy thing
Braw.
Sumbdae was saying earlier that Leicester were nicknamed The Foxes and that their goalie was called the cat.
I thought he was takin’ the Schmeichel…
See awe this – developing story stuff
when will yeez git it intae yer heids that…..
hee haw will happen, until yeez empty the park ?
Ah mean, how many stories dae yeez need developed ?
Nothing / Zilch / Hee Haw will happen until yeez get rid….
of those who are holding Justice back….
The Complicit / Compliant / Kowtowing PLC board.
Don’t sing about rebellions in another country, and then….
get fun oot as, not having a drop of rebellious blood to….
rebel against yer own oppressors, thats hunlike.
And don’t get swayed by the clique conformists who’ll,….
sleekitly, try to tell you that, a boycott would hurt Celtic…..
no it wouldn’t, it would hurt the PLC, are they Celtic ?
Naw, they urny, but they put Celtic at the back of the bus.
So, why financially support them, when the do what they do ?
Always be aware of cliquey silver tongued lotharios…..
anybody who is always so nice, is the exact opposite….
Beware of wolves in sheep clothing, they’ll keep you….
at the back of the bus.
Who would have sorted out, 25 years of Murray Mibbery, with all the evidence we’ve got ?
The rebellious Parkheid JUNGLE ?
Or,……
Sweetie Wife Clique Conformist Fae The Masonic Golf Course CSC ?
Aye.
…….off-oot.
SOUTH OF TUNIS
Thanks for that, top tune
It’s unfortunate that the young team’s IrnBru Cup match v Annan Athletic at Galabank is set to be played on Wednesday night at the same time as the Astana game.
I’d like to think our stadium announcers will tell us the half-time/full-time score from Annan.
STARRY…
The best ones are always the ones that are true.
Found out today that to discover your ‘rap’ name (as in hip hop name) you have Young followed by the last reason you cried.So i’d be Young Progres Joy. ;)
I’m kinda more interested on how thems got the Tuesday fixture and we got the Wednesday, and we play thems on the Saturday? Did they toss a coin? Put both fixtures back in, first one out gets the Tuesday game? No one has asked them yet, well as far as I know they haven’t, unless I missed it, i’v been missing a few things lately, it fact the only thing recently I haven’t missed was that big ginger toms )!( hole.
Turkeybhoy
The ‘journo’ writing the GIRFUY has a draft of the following too :
” A worried Celtic forced to go back to Man City reject Patrick Roberts as fears grow that James Forrest, Johnny Hayes and an under-par Scott Sinclair will be too risky to pitch in against the Kazakh all-stars. “
Davidopoulous…
Last words of Kermit the frog ….” Amuppet”
As he climbed inside Miss Piggy
Smiley animated thing
Mannamana thing
Braw
Neustadt-Braw
Too far…
Well, Elmost…
Is this really a precursor to the accounts being published?
Toure, Sinclair and Dembele on combined wages of £4m increased the wage bill to unsustainable levels therefore the extra we earned last year plus a bill we paid saw most of the excess ate up? My tongue is firmly in my cheek.
On matters Sevco and cheating. When will we hear about the likelihood of success or otherwise of bringing forward a Judicial Review?
My concern is that those funding may have a conflict of interest and may be comfortable with an attempt for JR but secretly happy that the actions of certain people at Celtic are not exposed.
I find it astounding that people believe that there was no Celtic hand in proposals to place an RFC back in any league after their collapse. I found it enlightening to read, within the second of the CQN #bungfermline articles, that a JR may fail on the basis of the legally binding nature of the 5 way agreement. Your telling me Celtic had no hand in proposals to place RFC in the second tier – then no hand in the 5 way agreement?
Celtics understanding of the Scottish Football eco system appears to be at odds, most times, with their customers behaviours. Their belief, it appears to me is that if one of the animals in the eco system fails then we all fail. Of course RFC are not seen as a Dodo or some obscure bear in the Russian outback…they are seen as water or oxygen. No one could have predicted how much of a bowel entanglement Scottish Football would become by giving life to this bastardisation of a sporting club. The business continuity plan is a constant – like a dog returning to its own vomit. It’s sickening that Scottish Football in total now has squandered debts to HMRC from Rangers, Dundee, Hearts, Motherwell etc. I am very surprised that the politicians are not putting legislation in place that required the esoteric eco systems of football to pay their debts. You can squander money on vanity. You are exempt from the laws that every other business must abide by.
I don’t agree with how the news of historical matters in relation to Dunfermlines administration and recently commenced SFA investigation have been leaked. However I do understand the temptation to put the news out there. That is the news though isn’t it? That Matters in relation to Dunfermlines administration are being investigated? So this ended up the sub story rather than the lead but would probably never have been a story at all had the story not been pumped up by CQN.
Why any journalist is not asking the SFA and or Dunfermline and the cast associated with this episode a few searching questions is beyond me. Well it’s not really but in the real world it would!
Lastly, would it surprise anyone if HMRC and the legal representatives of the RFC EBT recipients used the 5 way agreement?
HMRC to player- you owe us
Player- RFC are responsible here’s my side letter
Players lawyer- Have you heard of the 5 way agreement that means RFC Newco are responsible for football debts? Surely a players contracted salary if not paid is a football debt?
So if the 5 way agreements helpfulness to RFC at present is that it protects them from losing titles through a JR process it follows that the legal strength of the agreement binds all other elements. This includes football debts. This will hinder them in any claims for salary from former players.
Same club, same choices.
TonyDonnelly @12:15 and STARRY PLOUGH @ 1:03
Any chance you could C & P those articles? As I mentioned the other day, Safari can`t open some sites on my PC.
JJ
Mullet and Co 2
The 5-way agreement, or at least the draft we have all seen defined the football debts:
“RFC Scottish Football Creditors” means [the SFA, the SPL, the SFL], The Dundee United Football Company Limited, Heart of Midlothian FC PLC, Aberdeen Football Club PLC and any other football club in membership of the SFA, which are owed or which may become owed any sum or sums by RFC;”
Basically, employees weren’t covered.
If the 5 way agreement makes it legally enforceable to stop the ability for Scottish Football authorities or the courts to impose sanctions on RFC then where does this leave the Traverso letter?
Does Traversos letter detailing that RFC are not the same club leave an escape route to CAS from the bureacratic and legal vacuum?
JJ
Sorry mate, could you specify them please?
This place is mental sometimes.
HH.
Tony
The link you posted at 12:15 ( on page one of this article).
JJ
HOTSMOKED…
Here’s the one Tony posted link to.Can’t get the other article to c&p.
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Alex Thomson has thrown his backing behind a Judicial Review into the governance of Scottish football.
The Chief Correspondent of Channel 4 new has regularly covered the story and been amazed at the mangled logic of the SF, SPL and SPFL.
Since preparing for liquidation during the 2011/12 season, starting with the granting of a UEFA licence, there has been a series of illogical decisions made by the football authorities.
The top secret Five Way Agreement is at the core of the issue with a number of matters following on.
With confirmation that Craig Whyte’s £1 takeover was legal and the Supreme Court deciding that the old club operated side contracts for a decade the SPFL and SFA have refused to revisit the decade of cheating.
One group of supporters have raised the funding to start a Judicial Review although future funding may be required with a large number of supporters expected to onate through crowd funding.
Babasonicos71
Thanks. I will have a read now.
JJ
BABASONICOS71 on 10TH AUGUST 2017 1:40 PM
Found out today that to discover your ‘rap’ name (as in hip hop name) you have Young followed by the last reason you cried.So i’d be Young Progres Joy. ;)…….
Nice one…….
Mine’s would be
” Young Stubs Toe coming out the bath tub “…….
my next one will be………
Young Paddy signs 4 yr deal.
H.H
No comments from the bold Alex?
That`s a shame as he may be the best Media hope supporters in Scotland have in our quest for justice.
Thanks again .
Cheerio for now,
JJ
https://videocelts.com/2017/08/blogs/latest-news/alex-thomson-backs-calls-for-a-judicial-review/
That’s the best I can do JJ it’s loaded with adverts that site, hard to copy and paste, sorry.
My rap name ( Courtesey of 50 Shades) is:
Young Discovers that Pepo`s was shut for his holidays when I went there for a fish supper Last Friday Night.
Definitely offsky ( Off Sky ? )
JJ
HOT SMOKED…
No worries fhella.
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50 SHADES…
I now have a vision of one of a youthful Alan Stubbs dismembered toes emerging from a bathtub in some kind of horror b-movie scene. ;)
Tony
No problem Babasonicos 71 posted the article above.
Thanks for your efforts anyway,
JJ
CUCHULAINN
Check your messages bud.
Book those flights.
;-)
HH jamesgang
https://videocelts.com/2017/08/blogs/latest-news/alex-thomson-backs-calls-for-a-judicial-review/
Naaaaa, can’t get it JJ sorry, best I can do mate.
JJ
Awe ok, you got it, good.
https://twitter.com/joewhsg/status/895399279858155520
HOT SMOKED
Sorry mate couldn’t cut and paste the James Forrest article, it’s on the Celtic Blog though on Facebook if yer on there:))
HH