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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Bhoylo83
no not a windo lickin hun 100% Timgeridoo
Sanna it’s yours
Drop a note to HCPT77@hotmail.co.uk, and Laura will drop my No.
The 2nd driver at the recent BMCUWP hootenanny if you remember the face :-)
Hail Hail
Magnificent7
How’s life comrade?
Cowiebhoy , cheers .
Email sent
Magnificentseven supporting Oscar all the way
23:12 on
14 November, 2013
glendalystonsils
22:56 on 14 November, 2013
Weefra
http://www.sad.co.uk/SAD-Lights-and-Lamps/sddsl10503.htm?gclid=CP79w4uz5boCFRMctAodwnoAcA
I worked with a lassie that had one of those lamps for SAD. She used to sit it on the desk next to me and switch it on through the day. After a week my face looked like a bar of nugget. And she was still miserable.
Thank you Thank you all for your concern, just heard ole Nigel Lawson commenting on the Chinese building of more coal fired Power Stations. Strangely enough, my coalman, who I believe knows what he’s talking about, tells me, there is enough coal in Ayrshire to provide Scotland with FREE electricity for the next 50 years minimum. Oh, meant to say, he is a Tim.
Night Night Timland for the last time.
Weefra HH supporting Wee Oscar.
I think it wd have been better for Tony Watt if he’d been sent down to England and maybe Paul Lambert at Villa could have helped Tony out sort himself out. Remember he’s still young.
Weefra
The biggest coal merchants in Scotland, are the Fergusons from Stirling, I believe
They most certainly ain’t Tims
Haha
Sheik Yerbouti
Tassoti must have been some player to be better than Daniel Fergus McGrain.
Good Evening All.
Cowiebhoy—- Sorry I have been ran off my feet for the last couple of days so I never got round to the Lourdes donation. Is there a way I can still donate anyway? Not fussed about the chance to win anything– i’ll just chalk down to a wee reminder of Sr Marie Benign!
Parkheadcumsalford and others.
In the current issue of the magazine my old man gives his all time favourite fantasy Celtic team and Malky McDonald was his first choice. He says he was the most complete player he ever saw.
Bob Dylan
There are many great tracks from Dylan.
I like this one– not one of his better known songs but I love the words and for a three chord guitar player like me I can give this a batter.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xxo1uu_bob-dylan-up-to-me-blood-on-the-tracks-outtake_music
Also like Odetta singing don’t think twice it’s alright.
Sheik
Whit nae Jinky????
Cowiebhoy
I also believe that most of the scrap metal dealers in scotland arny Tims either !!!
Could be wrong mind you >}
HH
SannaBhoy, to make sure you recognise CowieBhoy check out the Mag. His picture is in there on my article. Yellow t shirt, he ha a big smile, alternatively described as a glakkit look on his fissure.
As the independent adjudicator whose daughter won second prize I can confirm the draw was fair and above board.
I told Miss Doc when I got home I told her she had won the Onsie.
She thought of ACGR curled up in a ball and started to sob!
Well done to CQN for what you have done this week, again, a child will have a trip to Lourdes in the care of a young woman who will look after them and make sure they have an experience of a lifetime. Well done to her for giving her time to that.
To give away your time is truly charitable, it is the only thing we have that is limited and nothing we can do will extend it. We can make more money, have more things, but we can’t make more time. So to give some of that away is charitable, truly charitable, well done Laura.
Sheik Yerbouti
Where’s Jinky?
Cowiebhoy
I can assure you my coalman is a Tim. He lives not far from BT. Honest. :)) off to bed now.
Weefra HH supporting Wee Oscar.
Oh, and funeral directors as well >}
HH
Weefra,
For you mate, hope it works posting from work.
http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DjHPOzQzk9Qo&sa=U&ei=c2CFUq7QCajE7AavmoDYBA&ved=0CA4QtwIwAA&usg=AFQjCNH23McyOYczfEAR0kt1kQw7rKralw
jude2005 is Neil Lennon \o/
23:47 on
14 November, 2013
Sheik
Whit nae Jinky????
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SORRY
maradona no dae it fur ye :)
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Delaneys Dunky
23:45 on
14 November, 2013
Sheik Yerbouti
Tassoti must have been some player to be better than Daniel Fergus McGrain
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my hero mcgrain
but tassoti could play along the whole back line
And George Best?
Delaneys Dunky
23:52 on
14 November, 2013
And George Best?
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aye the subs bench could be bigger
whit aboot
cris ronaldo
hughie galllacher
james mcgrory
+ best
Best team ever, and I defy anyone to argue against it.
Simpson
Craig
Gemmel
Murdoch
McNeill
Clark
Johnstone
Wallace
Chalmers
Auld
Lennox
HH
Doc ,
cheers . met cowiebhoy at the last hootenanny – we were on taxi duty together .
Just checking that you want me to vote No on R12 ?!
will you make the afters or Saturday ?
Sanna
BRTH
No probs, the response was overwhelming as it was
Laura can still be contacted on HCPT77@hotmail.co.uk
I’m sure she will still take donations, and enter those that do into the raffle, she needs to sell a few hundred pounds worth of these, it assists with her costs.
She will also put any extra raised for a child into Group 77 to support others in the Group in ensuring more Children get the chance to attend
Hail Hail
SY
The bench would beat the first team :))
Night all. Night wee Oscar my hero x
S Y
C P T???
If Tassoti can play anywhere in the back four,play him elsewhere and put Danny in his rightful place.
Job done.
TET, can’t argue with that, a team has to play together before they can be a team, it has to be built. The Galacticos are not as successful as they should be if the theory of simply putting the best players available for each position are played together.
BetterthanthesumofitspartsCSC.
And congratulations to SFTB on his smashing prize. Pity he never rated Nakamura(!)
I hope Laura reached the grand figure she was aiming for.
Right,off to work.
CowieBhoy, I didn’t realise Laura had to sell the raffle tickets too.
I’ll email her tomorrow.
The exiled Tim
You are missing ,the imperious,Gianna Rivera,the best player I have ever seen in a live game.But.,who do we leave out ?
DOC
She’ll get rid of them no bother-donation to same account.
Sanna, can’t do either, sore foot. Still on crutches, not for long though, painful, can be long term and it hasn’t healed after a steroid injection as quickly as expected. Just need to be careful with it, need to get back to work.
Will see you in a March, possibly twice. I’ll email soon when I know if I’m here for the Kano, might be back in Germany late March, work.
Doc, CQN has contributed enough, we have other things in pipeline to fund raise.
Just a reminder for other ( seeing that BMCUWP is too busy to read back ) :-) thanks mhate
A Grand Total of £1078 has been raised so far
Fully funding a Child’s Pilgrimage to Lourdes
Nite nite Bhoys and Ghirls, got a meeting in the morning !
What’s the rest of you up to .
Hail Hail
BMCUWP, of course she will, after the response on here I have no doubt.
Just had a thought. My post earlier in no way was to belittle the giving of money for charitable causes. That is a worthy thing to do. But time is the most precious thing we have, to give that away, is just more so.
Snecker………..Thanks for the kind words Snecker and yes Straw deserves a special mention for the rat he is. The Hillsborough families showed more class in accepting his apology than he deserved IMHO. I don’t know about a privilege for you to sign but it was a privilege for me to know that so many brave and decent folk were prepared to put their heads above the parapet and say enough is enough.
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Tomtheleedstim …………….Thanks for the kind words and I wasn’t tempted to ask THE question at this time. Some questions are better left for a more opportune moment. Some answers are known in advance as well. We will see.
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Richie #TeamOscar………..Thanks Richie and yes they were hurting and this has been my experience with anti-Irish racism, anti-RC bigotry, and freemasonry in Scotland is that when you confront them with it they are shame faced and bluster away, but they know the score all right despite their protestations. It has done more harm than any other one thing and is the bane of Scotland.
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Tontine Tim…………..Thanks T T but magnificent is a bit OTT and the height of decorum, well…..I was conscious that I was representing 3,116 good people and that kept me in check. Glenn Harrison told me of abuse and Tommy Hamilton at QVS and having met and found him truthful and genuine, with out an axe to grind (he made his Hamilton and Masonic allegations 5-6 years before the massacre) I could do nothing other than give it my best shot to have it investigated.
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Fanadpatriot…………..Fanadpatriot you are not half as glad you signed as I am that you signed and thanks for that and the kind words.
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Morrissey the 23rd Supporting Resolution 12 with a YES vote…………………….Thanks for the kind words and I did come on earlier and wished you well tomorrow, if you get the strength that I got in knowing that good, decent people were supporting me, you will be fine. Fairness isn’t much to ask for is it? H.H.
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minx1888 praying for Wee Oscar @ 18:05…………..Thanks for the encouragement minx1888 I will do my damndest. H.H.
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Dan Supporting Wee Oscar…………….No apologies needed and yes I know what they were at and that is why I framed my opening address to goad them into doing everything in public as given the chance they would quietly agree to dispatch the petition into the long grass, which they will still try to do but hopefully I can counter that with a thing or two.
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long haired yins man…………………Thanks for the compliment and yes singling out one group, Freemasons would not be fair albeit that they are by far the biggest and most corrosive group but some of the other groups mentioned would not attract registration as they aren’t secret, don’t demand preferment of their brethren and don’t practice bias against any particular group on the grounds of race, religion or colour. H.H.
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Jobo Baldie………….What do you mean you are only watching it in stages! Get a grip man. If I were running the country I would make watching this in one session compulsory. But seriously do you see the day when any Irish-descended and nominally at least RC would rule this country? Not that I would want to you understand.. well not at the moment anyway! Thanks again for the support Jobo Baldie, H.H.
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Eddiekirkmichael………I had a tear in my eye……..when the wife made me turn it off after the 23rd viewing! You were a great help Eddie and are still the only member of CQN that I have met. Morrisey23 was too busy drinking coffee and chatting up that candidate’s assistant to meet me.
CowieBhoy, I forgot to give you money to give to ACGR tomorrow!
Text in the morning.
Big Nan, well done, I watched the video of your presentation.
They squirmed, the tufty club chap could hardly look at you, he constantly looked for his lead, and affirmation of his position from the chair. You held your argument together well
Secrecy is their weapon and their weakness.