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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@celticrumours: Lord Livingston of parkhead gets a cheer. Bankier cracks a gag about lording it over rangers. #ticagm
@celticrumours: Much applause for Neil Lennon. Also applause for Peter lawwell. #ticagm
Celtic Underground @celticrumours 29s
Charity is within our dna. Appointing @polishturnstile will bear tremendous fruit. We are delighted with that department. #ticagm
@celticrumours: Most difficult part of season is summer. Qualifying for Europe most important. #ticagm
Celtic Underground @celticrumours 9s
Global appeal is highly important. We need to tap into that. We are putting modest resources behind this. #ticagm
@celticfc: You can watch the Celtic AGM video presentation on Celtic TV Freeview here. (PC) http://t.co/RK8JIKmGEa
@celticrumours: Looking ahead w will continue to live within our means but do the best we can. Key is we need to win spfl. #ticagm
Monsoon ——-way down south .
Visited my Quack earlier . Flu vaccination time .He advised me that there were 2 vaccinations this year -influenza and viral pneumonia.. He added ” one in each arm ” and then asked whether I was right or left handed.
I told him ” left ” and he said ” Ok –I’ll do the pneumonia one on the right –I warn you it will burn and will produce a reaction. ”
The man was telling the truth———–when he stuck the needle in and pressed ,it burnt like hell and 1 hour later my upper right is stiff ,swollen and red..
Celtic Underground @celticrumours 52s
Looking ahead w will continue to live within our means but do the best we can. Key is we need to win spfl. #ticagm
@celticrumours: Intend to put investment into Celtic park. Video showing computer generated image of walk way to main stand. Looks good. #ticagm
@celticrumours: We put smiles on faces of everyone across world. We have sense of social responsibility. Best fans in the world bar none. #ticagm
I’ll leave it to Mhark67 now.
No point in double dunters of same info!
HAIL! HAIL!
Token
Am I unique on this blog ?
I am classed as protestant (although I only went to church when I was in the BB), white, born and bred traced back to great great grandparents Scottish and I have no interest in Ireland or the struggle for independence in Ireland or any religion but I do have a big interest in politics but none of the previous 3 (Ireland, Religion, politics) have anything to do with watching Celtic in the country where they have played their home competitive football for more than 126 years now…
I support Celtic for purely football reasons. They were the best team to watch when I grew up and although we haven’t always enjoyed vintage seasons during my life, I still support them and always will.
I have opinions on many things as does everyone else on this blog but that doesn’t make me right or wrong on these subjects.
I would dearly love CQN to just be about Celtic, about football but that’s just my opinion (see above note).
I respect every other bloggers right to discuss whatever they want, rant about it, rave about it and to disagree with anyone who contradicts their firm beliefs but ultimately nobody really cares or does a complete U-turn after a discussion here.
Lastly.. a huge well done to the good guys on here who are procative in raising funds, comforting the bereaved, taking their fight to the AGM and many other good things that come from folk here which are way too numerous to mention.
Keep the faith, always support Celtic and know that you may well be in a minority in the world as a Celtic fan but WE ARE THE ELITE !!
@celticrumours: Now onto peter lawwell. Qualifying for group stages was fantastic. Great memories. Winning league and double.#ticagm
@celticrumours: Europe more and more crucial for finance and exposure. We were ourselves as a champ league club. #ticagm
@celticrumours: Helped allow us to give £100 discount to thank fans. Delighted to do that. We haven’t made our mind up about next year yet. #ticagm
@celticrumours: Beginning to see impact of youth policy. We are creating champ league players. Money reinvested into squad. We will invest. #ticagm
@celticrumours: New league structure gives us something new. Redistribution of money good for game. #ticagm
@celticrumours: Club have a duty to explore other playing environments. For us and for the rest of Scottish football. #ticagm
@celticrumours: My main reason to be is to promote celtic but we have a responsibility to Scottish football. #ticagm
@celticrumours: Need to find new markets China is one of them. Long term strategy. Partnerships involving academy, players and social projects. #ticagm
Milan .
Allegri has been given one more ” Vote of Confidence ”
Italian media says it applies for 2 games —
Genoa [ at home ] on 23 /11
Celtic .
Allegedly the necessary criteria is a minimum of 2 draws. Anything less and he’s gone..
Montolivio has been waxing lyrical to the media re how much he’s enjoying the international break . It has got him away from the stress of an in crisis Milan.
ryecatcher
10:34 on
15 November, 2013
:))
Oops got a job gotta go I will try to keep the updates going in about 10/15 mins if anyone is interested
Cheers
TTT – you’re on.
Celtic Underground @celticrumours 15s
NL: Club is going from strength to strength. Players are talented and have great character. #ticagm
Not agm but still liked this:
Graham A @graham1A 1m
‘Institutional investors’ were just investors before they invested in sevco. They were institutionalised soon after it. #sevcoNutters
Big Nan
As you said when talking to the committee, Scotland has a problem with the Irish, and it has been ingrained since before an Gorta Mór.
Other communities around Europe embraced Calvinism at the Reformation, but they were minorities (in parts of Switzerland, France and in the Spanish-controlled Netherlands, most typically). These smaller communities found it easier to be ‘the city on the hill’, a people set apart, pure, saved and unsullied by sinful, lost infiltrators.
If you were in a fortified city such as Geneva or Montauban, you could control quite easily who transgressed in what ways, who got to stay and who had to be ejected.
There is only one instance of Calvinists trying to run an entire country: Scotland.
Irish people arriving in their thousands in the nineteenth century upset this and things have never been the same since.
Celtic Trust @TheCelticTrust 35s
#ticagm NL frustrated with the financial situation – impossible to compete with clubs with more money
Celtic Underground @celticrumours 6s
We are in transition at the minute. Little bit of pain along the way. Still in with shout in Europe and leading league. #ticagm
Celtic Trust @TheCelticTrust 5s
#ticagm NL on role of support – gives Celtic players an extra spring in their step
Celtic Trust @TheCelticTrust 1m
#ticagm forgot to say – biggest attendance at an AGM for many a long year
Hmmm wonder why??
Robcfc11 – welcome (if this is your first post). You are unique as a human being. I don’t think you are unique as a Celtic fan who posts on the blog and are “.. protestant (although I only went to church when I was in the BB), white, born and bred traced back to great great grandparents Scottish and I have no interest in Ireland or the struggle for independence in Ireland or any religion”. Although I don’t know that for sure as everyone is welcome here, so nobody is asked about their race, colour, creed or political affiliation. Judging by some of the heated exchanges here I think you will find the posters are a diverse bunch.
Celtic Trust @TheCelticTrust now
#ticagm NL on expectations for team, looking to make second place if we can. Consistent in league but want to maintain that.
Celtic Underground @celticrumours now
Showing Petrov video. Talking about the money from game going to those who need help. Video focusing on foundation. #ticagm
Alasdair McL
Try here: http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/newsandmediacentre/41430.aspx
To see Big Nan’s contribution, fast forward c.52mins into the recording …
FF
Celtic Underground @celticrumours 12s
‘That type of work is who rare and why we are . Charity is in this club’s dna’ I think we are seeing a slogan emerging here folks. #ticagm
Celtic Underground @celticrumours 32s
‘we are committed to social inclusion as a club that had always been open to all.’ #ticagm