When you’re shopping in a sellers’ market, agility is the only way to survive. You need contacts, sufficient coverage to trawl outlying corners of the bazar, and enough experience to ensure you don’t get burned.
If you’re trying to buy Champions League-calibre players for £100k you’re shopping in a serious sellers’ market but there is good strategy behind the deal Celtic have struck with Icelandic club, Fram, for the signature of 20-year-old striker, Holmbert Aron Fridjonsson.
Holmbert may or may not be the next Ibrahimavic, experience suggests you’ve got to kiss a lot of frogs in this game to find the one you’re looking for, but if Celtic are to bring a player to Glasgow who is capable of hitting the top, we’ll have to get him before the hundred-or-so other clubs floating around the wealthy leagues of Europe, which means we shop early.
We can afford to sign a few at £100k in an effort to fill just one place in the team. The argument could also be made that our more expensive players have only a marginally higher success rate than those signed for six figures or less.
Thanks for the big response to the launch of the second edition of the CQN Annual [which is now shipping]yesterday, as well as CQN Magazine, and the ‘10’ event, which the occupants of the comments section are being given a head start on.
If you are on or near South Uist tomorrow make sure you take in the Hebridean cultural event of the year, when Alex O’Henley has a book signing of his biography of Celtic great, Malky MacDonald at the Dark Island Hotel from 1-2pm, before a Q&A at the Polochar Inn, from 7-8:30pm.
Not only does the book chart the life and achievements of a pre-war Celtic great, it does so in two languages (English when read one way, flip the other way for Gaelic). It’s a great work, available from the Islands Book Trust.
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eddieinkirkmichael
Will come back to you on this asap.
Billy Bhoy supports wee Oscar
21:50
Very, very funny post, amigo.
Post more often.
hehehe I love your cloud bye bye
Get the kettle oan,
HCPT draw will be with us shortly
Doc in the hoose as judge and jury :-)
Hail Hail
Cowiebhoy
21:51 on 14 November, 2013
That will be the 5 minute Bannockburn walk, so we will be back in 30 mins :0)
Did you make 88 teams?
HH
CRC
@Drambowiecelt ………….braw …..counting baby,s toes ……braw
Confirmed I am at Cowiebhoys for the draw.
CRC, Cowiebhoy picked me up.
Parkheadcumsalford
21:20 on 14 November, 2013
Tontine Tim,
A great day on CQN, Besides Johnny Higgins, there was mention of the great Malky MacDonald. My auld mhan (sorry: Andre Rieu is playing YNWA to the Dutch sojers) used to reckon he was the greatest player he ever saw play for Celtic. (He now reckons it is Bobby Murdoch. I had the privilege of seeing Bobby in his majestic prime.)
*both my parents loved Malky a very honest player, as a lad my da’s favourite player was Johnny Crum, as Malky said in the Centennial video “he was as fly on the park as he was opposite”.
I too had the privilege of seeing Bobby in his prime and was at his debut where he scored the opening goal in a 3-1 victory over the jambos, actually saw the midweek before game in the greens v whites.
Bhoys and Ghirls
At 10pm there has been another few contributors to the HCPT fund
Now stands at a total of 91 teams in the draw
Good luck to one and all
Hail Hail
Now that’s what I call sportsmanship.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lS8jQxHnmM
eddieinkirkmichael
Yes we can offer 50% discount on the ticket price for low income/unemployed. Just mention the discount when emailing celticquicknews@gmail.com
Tickets are going really well – expect a sell out over the next few days.
Cowiebhoy just make sure to tell Doc to pick Arsenal:)
winning captains
22:05 on
Thanks
Winning Captains.
The Celtic way.
Well done.
Winning Captains
That is a great offer. Would be nice if Celtic PLC, could make a similar gesture on match day admission prices.
Good evening all
Night Night Timland.
Weefra HH supporting Wee Oscar.
EC67 –
Problem with Dylan is the sheer abundance of material. I was a late starter with him but Blood On The Tracks and Desire are just fantastic. Last album I bought was Time Out Of Mind which must be about 12-13 years ago! My Bhoy’s taking me (it was a birthday present) and he’s only 20!
Cannie wait
willtherebeagazebothoughCSC
Must be just about draw time.
So, for the only time in my life I shout out “Come on, Killie!”
Just orgamnising now.
Weefra
Hello, Goodbye??
Is all ok sir?
Mod delete that comment by Doc at 22.33
yellow card offence
Can Doc and Cowiebhoy count up to 91? Have they enough fingers and toes between them? :-)
HH
CRC
Drum rollllllll plleeeaaassse
And the winner is Setting Free the Bears with Partick Thistle.
The Winner of the ” calm before the storm”
No 59 , Partick Thistle
SFTB
Hail Hail
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Well done SFTB and that’s not for your 5s performance tonight :-)
HH
CRC
Canny believe it, and the booby prize of a Celtic Onesie
Team 15, Colchester
Miss Doc
Honest
CRC Doc is orgammising at the moment give him a few minutes at least :)
ttt
Quality >}
HH
DD
Aye, just a bit down at the mo. Don’t know what it is, was at the doc last week and got a clean bill of health. Still feel really down. Maybe retirement has finally hit me, but, soooo looking forward to the aberdeen game a week on saturday. Thanks for your concern. :))
Weefra HH supporting Wee Oscar.
night night champions
Congratutation,s SFTB.Bring on the AGM
Awerabest PJ
Ok Cowiebhoy
That was the practice draw, seemed to go well? When’s the real draw? :-)
HH
CRC
MurdochAuldandHay apologies:-)
MurdochauldandHay & Wee Oscar
22:40 on 14 November, 2013
Is that what caused his hair to fall out? :-)
HH
CRC
talk aboot hot balls ….! hahahahahaha well done SFTB….and the Jags —-our city rivals …hahahahahahaha braw
3rd prize. A signed Celtic Team Ball
Team 79 Huddersfield
TomtheLeedsTIm
And that concludes the Big Draw
Thanks to you all, everyone of the CQN family
Hail Hail
Off to my scratcher soon
To Canamalar, BRTH, Auldheid and Morrisey the 23rd- superb effort. Hope you and those of us who support Resolution 12 get a fair hearing.
Jimbo67 supporting Oscar Knox