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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Celtic Underground @celticrumours 10s
Chair of celtic trust up now. Speaking in support of resolution 10. Wants a working party to improve and formalise communication. #ticagm
@celticrumours: Chair of celtic trust up now. Speaking in support of resolution 10. Wants a working party to improve and formalise communication. #ticagm
To cut a long story short…..
joost sack them awe and hand the club over to the Cellic support
after all – is ‘THAT’ not what Fergus promised ?
Careful Mhark76… ;-)
ryecatcher,
you read it correctly.
I believe Michael Walsh is his proxy guy
Apologies for that copied tweet at 11:39 I missed seeing the industrial language
@celticrumours: This is a different resolution from before from the trust. Wanting formalised lines of communication. #ticagm
@celticfc: Resolution 10, proposed by Celtic Trust, seeks to organise a working party involving representatives of the Board & supporters’ groups.
@celticfc: Proposal is for working party to report back to AGM in 2014 with recommendations to improve & formalise two-way communication structure.
Hope the ‘Any other Business’ section gets suitable probing questions today.
Is Phil MacG there?
@celticrumours: I like the sound of this working party idea. Chair of the trust speaking very well.board need to know their experience is different. #ticagm
@celticrumours: Board says they consult in a variety of ways. Prepared statement. Board things things are good as they stand. #ticagm
@celticfc: Chairman details the current communication platforms between supporters and the club, and recommends voting against Resolution 10. (PC)
@celticfc: Chairman calls a poll on Resolution 10, which will be taken at the end of the Question & Answer session of the AGM.
@celticrumours: Majority of Hall in favour. Calling a poll. Bankier brings out a dozen boxes already stuffed with proxy votes with “naw” written on. #ticagm
@celticrumours: Onto the living wage resolution. #ticagm
Celtic_First ,
I think you are tending to painting a slanted picture there – equating the Reformation and Calvinism with the masons, the orange order and sectarianism.
In my mind you hinting at division – along the lines of: (Maybe I’m hyper-paranoid / sensitive!)
Roman Catholic = good
Protestant = bad
It wasn’t called the “Reformation” for nothing.
What is Calvinism in Scotland’s main legacy?
I would suggest, education. Teaching the common people to read. Something the Roman Catholic Church burnt people for. On occasion. You don’t have to be a bigoted, sectarian, ignorant orangeman to accept the truth of this.
@celticfc: Resolution 11: Asks PLC board to take all necessary steps to make Celtic Football Club a Living Wage employer.
@celticrumours: Jeanette findlay proposing resolution. Discussing the positive impact of being a living wage employer. Referring to Boris johnstone #ticagm
Alasdair MacLean
11:50
Sorry, that’s a gross misrepresentation of what I’ve said and will happily debate it with you later. Some of your comments are outrageous.
@celticfc: Jeanette Findlay of the Celtic Trust speaking on behalf of Resolution 11.
@celticrumours: Jeanette saying that she was knocked for 6 when the board turned down the idea of a living wage. Referring to the rich men at table. #ticagm
@celticrumours: The people who bring the board their tea are being denied a living wage. #ticagm
@TheCelticTrust: #ticagm “this is one of the grubbiest decisions ever made by a Celtic board”
@celticrumours: This shames us. Jeanette wants to know why are we more than just a club if we don’t bring this in? #ticagm
@celticrumours: Our ethos must be more than just a brand. Folk standing up to applaud. Whistling and cheering. #ticagm
@celticrumours: Another speaker. Passionate about the living wage. You would have thought this was a no Brainer for us to do this. #ticagm
@celticfc: A second shareholder speaks at the AGM in support of Resolution 11.
@celticrumours: £7,65 is far removed from the excesses of some. He wrote to the Secretary of club with questions and will have discussion . #ticagm
@celticrumours: Wants to know how many are below living wage? #ticagm
The great Desmondo absent
Clearly takes his role as absentee landlord literally
Bet he’ll be at the first sevco game … Celebrating their tradition and heritage
@celticrumours: We are told to leave politics at the door of celtic. This for had been breached by mr Livingston. #ticagm
@celticrumours: Cheers again when this bloke ends. #ticagm
Folly Folly
11:08 on
15 November, 2013
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
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thanks for the link
big nan
thank you
powerful
@ByTheMinCeltic: Shareholder rounding on Ian Livingston over his Government role. This is getting feisty. #ticagm
@celticrumours: Only one now speaker allowed. Speaker talks of his otherwise high esteem for the board. Minimum wage is below poverty line. #ticagm
Following his recent crash in Houston, Dario Franchitti has been told by doctors that he will never race again.
@Hullbhoy: Jim Larkin being quoted at a Celtic AGM. Brilliant. #ticagm