One of the problems of doing your business discretely is that if and when agents or selling clubs publicise your interest in their player, media attention has a tendency to attribute too much focus on the most recent name revealed. Teemu Pukki is a player Celtic have been trailing for some months but the fact that his agent yesterday revealed their interest is no indication that he enjoys any pre-eminence over others strikers being considered. If anything, briefings from the agent are an indication of the opposite.
Reports yesterday that Pukki is backup in case a bid for Finnbogason fails are also wide of the mark; this is not the active path Celtic are working on. There are (at least) two other strikers under consideration, neither of whom have directly or indirectly leaked the discussions.
Nothing sells media adverts like transfer ‘news’, which is fair enough, but news is easier to find than the actual story. This is a ‘no news’ article, the easiest of all. No panicking in the back…
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Fergus,
Aye there’s a few who you can tell they have a genuine love for the club and like the hc’s, only want the best for the club.
But then you have the attention seekers who just don’t want to be happy.
Ffs!!! Who posted about beeb 4. I canny turn it over!!
Night all, bless the wee man
FSTB
If there’s any spelling mistakes up there it’s because I’ve just finished a …, very large glass of Vodka – Russian Green Mark…. Nice.
V
I was at the game the fans booed Fergus and to my recollection the MSM made the most of the story they had built up to the day .
Must say though ,one of my most disappointing days as a Celtic fan ,then again after seeing the MSM able to convince 500,000 gullible fans their club never died 15 yrs later does put it into perspective
HH
have to head ,goodnight all in Celtic
Courage wee Oscar
C.mon you bhoys in green tomorrow
Vmhan, green mark with the wee stopper thingy?
Tis no bad soitis ;)
paulsatim at 23:50
Memories flooding back. I was in Antwerp that night. Took the wife “to Europe” for her birthday. Bus left The Drover in the Gallowgate at shutting time – toilet on bus blocked by the time we left the outskirts of Glasgow.
2 days on a bus with 40-odd steamin blokes, all for 18 hours “in Europe”.
She was not amused. We are divorced.
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Tom..
Get Ole SydneyTim a Pint from Me..
Oh..On second thoughts make it a Lager Tops..;-))))
Summa
summa of sammi….
Still ongoing with Ryan amigo but will keep you in the loop as Ryan will, I think you made your mark there.
Melbourne is the place he seems up for.
V
SoS
Looks like a great day and night ahead.
HH
punx not dead
beasleystreetcsc
Vinnibhoy’s post at 10:50 earlier is essential reading.
Everything is a PLC now. Think about it.
I wanted to join the EPL at one time. Not anymore, the Celtic PLC want us to join up.
We are Celts frae Scotland and Ireland. I am happy that my Dad enjoyed Celtic being the KINGS of EUROPE, he certainly deserves witnessing that more than me after all the stuff he has went through. We are miniscule in comparison, well I am anyway.
affluencyKills.csc
God is Amazing and he always puts dudes that get you scratching yer heid @ in yer way, well until the picture crystalizes.
Awe_Naw_No_Annoni_Oan_Anaw_Noo
olde Bobby champions ye right, left and centre, who am I to argue?
I’ll be watchin’ the Bhoys later on. Ye are a stubborn olde git, please watch the Bhoys and support Neil Like you always do.
No work ra morra so I may stay up and wait for my other son to come in, also a chance to join the moon Bhoys n Ghirls (Maggie).
Evenin all.
Calm reading here all day after emotions calmed down this morning – it’s proof we all care. We might all have differing opinions, but we know what’s important.
Let’s use our collective strength to make a positive difference yet again.
Big Nan managed to make the point in a paragraph it would have taken me a 2000 line rant to get at. What kind of society invests billions in warfare, yet lets its children go without life saving treatment due to cost.
https://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/uk-government-and-the-nhs-provide-more-adequate-treatment-options-for-children-with-neuroblastoma-and-relapsed-neuroblastoma-in-the-uk
Our Captain…
“I haven’t come up against Scott before but I thought he was very impressive. It’s the first time I’ve seen him in the flesh. He stood out for me.”- Frank Lampard on Scott Brown.
Vmhan
Minshafter and happy clapper is just the term used here for differing opinions possibly to point score but ,hey it’s not the worst names that could be used :-)
GM keep seeking out the attention seekers ,they are easy to spot ,they disappear when all is well and then get raw fingertips when it goes belly up .
Goodnight fellow Tims onwards and upwards …. I hope
HH
Tam,
Apologies about last night, I was trying to say that cracking open the kernel of the apricot seed is difficult. Wee Oscar would have loved the challenge. There are online shops that sell the seed.
Just like the link I posted to you, you decided it wasn’t trustworthy, I have, through Bitter experience, known this to be the case. I never go back to those outlets.
Curious about the criticism of Fergus McCann……..?
He took a financial wreck of a football club and saved it from the same fate the orcs now suffer……..
He built a stadium from scratch and delivered it ahead of schedule………
He gave us Cadete, Di Cannio and Hooijdonk……..
He put ownership with the supporters……..
He delivered everything he promised……….
6-7M was a a lot of money 20 years ago. Lets not underestimate that. He was the only game in town with the bottle to put the money on the table and see the dream through to reality.
Dempsey bolted and cashed in his shares for 1M if memory serves me right.
SDM when he saw the money from Fergus and the supporters materialise suggested we squander our pot by bolting plastic seats into the almost derelict stadium terracing………
We should be eternally grateful that Fergus stayed the course, that Dempsey bolted and that no one listened to SDM.
Whats not to like?
Its great time to be a Tim……..
……..and he stopped the orcs from getting the 10th flag
leftclicktic oscar in our thoughts @ 12:16
Thank you!
https://mydonate.bt.com/fundraisers/morrissey23rdskydiveforstiliyan
Awe_Naw_No_Annoni_Oan_Anaw_Noo @ 15:33
It is criminal to pass on this once-in-a-lifetime chance to destroy them. Especially as the reason for not doing so is commercial. That taints us. That’s not the Celtic I am devoted to and the acceptance of the support makes me feel I no longer fully belong.
tommytwiststommyturns supporting Wee Oscar @ 15:40
With the internet, we know we are being cheating by the football authorities. I’d rather my club demanded equality and justice otherwise Celtic just de-evolve and lift our skirts for the shilling. We either stand alone or those were just marketing words.
EKBhoy @ 16:44
“Any attempt to blame SFA / Huns for what’s going in , allows an anti – Celtic campaign to get started and let them off the hook”
Fedupreadingpoppycockcfc?
tommytwiststommyturns supporting Wee Oscar @17:25
If we do nothing against the corruption again this season. VERY sadly, I don’t imagine I could re-new my ST again. I’ll go to the odd game for purely entertainment purposes, while I wean myself off. That’s the realistic out-come for me.
MaggieMcGillCSC
Am disappointed Fergus didn’t promise us casinos and floating pitches.
It’s a terrbile trait that thing they call honesty!
Flamin heck, 67Heaven, am starting to sound like you :)))
But I’m still finding my feet firmly planted in the mineshafter camp. And am staying there even when the ground collapses below me, as I think most mineshafters are doing, while the ole happy clappers find themselves floating away on a cloud of fantasy, battering the GB members (who are trying to rescue them) by battering them away with their golfing umbrellas.
Hey oh
Pedro,
RHCPs are outstanding. The bass player is one of the best out there. But am shocked that they still give Will Ferrell a gig on the drums….:)
Am not going to get into a discussion with you about the hand symbols at the start, but will email you a more disturbing story on a local(ish) level shortly.
FFM, sign up to BRTH petition if ye huvnae already dun so.
Aidan is in Awe of the Chilli’s, he loves guitar, I’m trying to introduce the Beach Boys frae the 60s, he loves the dog sounds at the end of tracks, he is 12, it is an abstract thing.
“Health Tourism” Costs Our NHS Many BILLIONS Each Year…
Probably Nearly As Much As Our Total Foreign Aid Budget Nowadays..
Successive Governments Have Been Too Ashamed To Admit The True Scale Of The Problem….
They Float A Figure Of £40 Million As The Annual Cost To The NHS…..
And Suggest That The Cost Of Any Administrative Clampdown To Recoup These Losses Would Exceed The Funds So Generated…
This Is A FICTION….!
Even Twenty Years Ago,The Annual Cost Of Health Tourism EXCEEDED £1 Billion…
(Despite What The Concrete Cow Farmers Of Milton Keynes Might Think ) ;-)
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http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/8880071/international-health-service/
Abstract, I think of WAN person fae Clydebank, the howlers genius.
Transmission
The Singing Detective Demands The Resignation Of Campbell Ogilvie
01:15 on 17 August, 2013
“Health Tourism” Costs Our NHS Many BILLIONS Each Year…
Probably Nearly As Much As Our Total Foreign Aid Budget Nowadays..
Successive Governments Have Been Too Ashamed To Admit The True Scale Of The Problem….
They Float A Figure Of £40 Million As The Annual Cost To The NHS…..
And Suggest That The Cost Of Any Administrative Clampdown To Recoup These Losses Would Exceed The Funds So Generated…
This Is A FICTION….!
Even Twenty Years Ago,The Annual Cost Of Health Tourism EXCEEDED £1 Billion…
(Despite What The Concrete Cow Farmers Of Milton Keynes Might Think ) ;-)
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http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/8880071/international-health-service/
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Looking forward to you and the Olde SFTB disseminating information again Soon.
Information is crucial. I love intellectuals jousting because it means trumpets like me can learn things.
On Fergus raising the flag…
There was booing… From maybe 500 people… Out of 60,000.
And I was really embarrassed, but then I blush easily.
Stupid Celtic temperament… Must suppress it….
Where is the bevvy?
FFM – txt Mack83 £? to 70070 – God bless Oscar & Mackenzie
00:59 on
17 August, 2013
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FFM hello old bhoy, whits the craic? Is the Vmhan on the nightshift session now? and also is this where the mineshafters yuc, stupid term can we please lose it CQN/ Paul67.
We are all Celtic supporters, different opinions sure but we will al,l at the end, KTF
now to business,
It really astonishes me that our plc board have planned this season by selling 3 first team players for a lot of dosh and then replacing with a few players who are not immediately first team players. If the nirvanna of CL qualification is everything then why not either keep the players sold or replace them, we all knew about two of the players leaving at the end of last season.
My thoughts are that the profit made between selling 1st teamers and buying pool players nets the plc board a tidy profit, and if we get into the CL then its a bonus all round, especially for the bean counters who will probably see a significant rise in bonus payments.
I don’t “Mineshaft”, but I do try to keep an open mind about the success and failures of the board at Celtic, if we don’t question and identify failures, how can we see the road to improvement?
My favourite song at the mo, normally its Simon and Garfunkel but this is an excellent alternative view….. did anybody see whit I did there?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAl-vZsswb4
V
Pedro,
Did that 10 mins ago, and am heartened by hearing news of a signature and donation already.
This is where “the social network” should be paying out dividends >:((
Did I say that last song was my favourite?
I love music so much that theres many fav songs, here’s another yin!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFGgbT_VasI
V
TSD,
Health tourism needs clarified, starting with said label.
But mibbes another time.
It’s another insipid and utterly inhumane point.
Not often i am worse the wear for drink but tonight…… Oh bhoy!
So happy i was born into a tim family. 3rd generation Celtic supporter. My weans are the 4th. i have no nation. I am Celtic.
Hail hail….
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VMhan..
Sorry had to go Off Oot..
Aye l have Told Ryan l can go a Book a Place in St Kilda on the Beach..Jan its’ a Great Spot..
Oh..What Date is it Just remembered l have a Festival at the End of January..
Summa
Have we replaced the spine of our team yet????
Vmhan,
It’s an absolute pleasure to hear you howling at the moon now it’s gone 12 :))
But you are moaning about signings, which means you will soon be labelled an insurgent.
Moonhowling etticut realises that this is very much a last decade trend, and the current issue, of extreme importance, is the GB, who in another era would have had proper support from their fellow Celtic Supporters.
What I’m saying is, this jakey Tim knows and appreciates the value of true Celtic Supporters and how the very best of them don’t realise it, ie your good self. Never a complaint heard from you. The real deal.
Forgive the soppyness :)) Just back from a wonderful week holiday with my younger brother (who I admire greatly) and his three young weans who sussed out what a soft touch I was within minutes, and now I’m condemnded to a life of torture and pain from the adorable wee gets – but one highlight of the week? – the oldest giving me a big hug when he discovered I was a Tim. Clever bhoy that, just like his ole jakey uncle :)))
FFM – txt Mack83 £? to 70070 – God bless Oscar & Mackenzie
01:31 on 17 August, 2013
TSD,
Health tourism needs clarified, starting with said label.
But mibbes another time.
It’s another insipid and utterly inhumane point.
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I disagree old chap, I think you just got TSD down as a person non whatevah.
Our MSM Fails To Tell The Truth About The Disturbances In Egypt..
Al Jazeera….?
Mouthpiece Of The Qatari Royals…..
Who Fund The M.B.
And Their Offshoots……
Hamas & Al Qaeda…..
Whereas The Saudis…..Don’t
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Reaping What Obama’s Sown in Egypt
August 16, 2013 By Matthew Vadum 4

President Obama continues to offer his blessings to the theocratic totalitarians of the Muslim Brotherhood as they spill blood on Egyptian streets in an effort to restore Mohamed Morsi to power.
Our terrorist-supporting president has the gall to scold the military, the most stable, trusted institution in Egypt, while his Islamofascist allies burn scores of Coptic churches in the region where Christianity began more than six centuries before the birth of Mohammed. The military has been struggling mightily to shut down Morsi supporters’ camps that Islamists use to launch attacks.
Yesterday an angry-sounding Obama took time out from his busy golf schedule while vacationing in a $7 million mansion on Martha’s Vineyard. Ignoring the violent provocations of his friends in the Muslim Brotherhood, he declared that the interim government and security forces in Egypt were out of control.
The Egyptian government has embarked on “a more dangerous path taken through arbitrary arrests, a broad crackdown on Mr. Morsi’s associations and supporters, and now tragically the violence that’s taken the lives of hundreds of people and wounded thousands more.” Obama left out the fact that Morsi is a Holocaust denier who calls Jews “bloodsuckers” and “the descendants of apes and pigs” and who has vowed to wage war against Israel.
Without mentioning the weeks of murderous Morsi-supported attacks on innocents, Obama pontificated:
We deplore violence against civilians. We support universal rights essential to human dignity, including the right to peaceful protest. We oppose the pursuit of martial law, which denies those rights to citizens under the principle that security trumps individual freedom, or that might makes right. And today the United States extends its condolences to the families of those who were killed and those who were wounded.
Just as he pretends not to be author of growing chaos stateside, Obama spoke as if a bystander, as if he himself were not the author of the events in Egypt. Obama, of course, backed the removal of Hosni Mubarak, a longtime U.S. ally who kept Morsi’s barbaric followers under control and respected Israel’s borders. Mubarak was forced out as Egyptian president on Feb. 11, 2011, after weeks of massive, violent, Obama-supported protests against his government.
What is happening in Egypt now is Obama’s will.
In his tee time chat off the coast of Cape Cod, Obama also air-brushed over Islamists’ ongoing Kristallnacht against Egypt’s Christians, referring to killed and injured Muslim Brotherhood supporters as “civilians” who “are being killed in the streets” as “rights are being rolled back.”
As John Rossomando reports at the Investigative Project on Terrorism website, last week a 10-year-old Coptic Christian girl was shot dead by Islamic militants while heading home after Bible school. “Muslim extremists tossed firebombs through the windows of four Christian homes and a local church last Sunday to stop a Christian neighbor from building a speed bump in front of her home,” according to Rossomando. “The clash left 15 people wounded.”
Coptic priests and laymen have been murdered by Islamists who have also burned and defaced Christian churches with anti-Christian graffiti over the past month.
“These guys have been blowing places up and killing people in Sinai. They’ve been attacking churches all over Egypt – putting al-Qaida flags and Morsi’s pictures on churches, so there is no question that the Brotherhood are the new terrorists,” Michael Meunier, president of Egypt’s Al-Haya Party and a Coptic Christian, reportedly said about the orgy of violence that has erupted against Christians since Morsi’s overthrow.
In his vacation press conference, the worst thing America’s pro-Islamist leader could say about the ousted Morsi’s brutal, bloodthirsty government was that it was “not inclusive and did not respect the views of all Egyptians,” as if he were still a part-time university lecturer holding forth on civics and the supposed virtues of multiculturalism.
Obama portrays the Muslim Brotherhood as possessing the moral high ground, when in reality its members are the bad guys and their camps are centers of Islamist warfare, torture, rape, and mass murder. The truth is that Egypt is divided and on one side is an enormous, breathtakingly violent, authoritarian movement within the country — the progenitor of al-Qaeda and Hamas. It’s no surprise that the conflict has escalated in this way, and will probably continue.
As Raymond Ibrahim writes, the pro-Morsi camps to which Obama refers are terrorist bases that the mainstream media portray as filled with “innocent victims merely ‘holding vigil’ only to be slaughtered, while calling for the prosecution of the military for ‘human rights abuses.’” The media “essentially follow the pro-Brotherhood Al Jazeera’s lead of portraying these bases in Rab‘a al-Adawiya and elsewhere as peaceful ‘sit ins.’”
Dupes working for international news agencies are doing propaganda duty for the Brotherhood. Instead of blaming Islamists for violent provocations, a Reuters report, for example, referred to the clearing of two pro-Morsi camps in Cairo in which “[a]t least 623 people died and thousands were wounded on Wednesday,” baldly as “the third mass killing of [Morsi] supporters since his ousting.” The report fails to note that innocent, nonviolent Morsi backers are increasingly hard to find.
On Capitol Hill, dupes have been busy in Congress promoting the restoration of the Morsi dictatorship. The perpetually wrong Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) criticized Obama for not doing enough to help the Muslim Brotherhood.
Obama’s decision yesterday to cancel scheduled joint military exercises with Egypt isn’t enough to show American governmental displeasure with the Egyptian military’s crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood, McCain said. “[Sen. Graham’s and my] message was ‘release these people from jail, have a constitutional change, set up a national dialogue and move forward with elections,’” he said.
Meanwhile, the Muslim Brotherhood called on its supporters to march in towns and villages across Egypt today in what it bills as “a Friday of Anger.”
After a little golf and playing with Bo, his Portuguese Water Dog he had specially airlifted into Martha’s Vineyard separately, perhaps the Nobel Peace Prize winner will grab some salt water taffy and watch the chaos in Egypt unfold on TV.
http://m.nationalreview.com/corner/355821/egypt-media-sympathizes-muslim-brotherhood-persecution-christians-ignored-raymond