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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Monaghan1900 –
They just don’t get irony, do they?
8-)
Ulcyr
curly
13:14 on
14 November, 2013
Monaghan1900 –
They just don’t get irony, do they?
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They surely do not curly.
HH
Monaghan1900
Someone needs to tell them that Britain won’t be competing at the Commonwealth Games!
delaneys dunky
13:03 on 14 November, 2013,
It was a large fragmented factory, I reckon your uncle would have worked in the the west works, I worked in the main works.
It’s been a long time, I’ll ask my da as he seemed to know everyone in his short spell in there.
Just read tony watt sent home from training for a 2nd time and that he was also sent off 1min after coming on as a sub in a game ?
Was this bhoy seriously a celtic fan before stardom ? Seems to be doing his best to mess things up. Had high hopes for tony. Sad reading.
I always wonder how finnbogasson wud feel if he knew how much hes talked about on these pages
Hes kind of a cqn cult hero
B-)
Monaghan
They don’t realise that Britain don’t compete in the Commonwealth games.
For the avoidance of doubt, I’d like to confirm absolutely and without ambiguity, that I will NOT be supporting Great Britain in the Commonwealth Games next year.
Neither will any other Celtic supporter.
Or for that matter, anyone.
At all.
Sipsini
A good Tim, with snow white hair.
Big Nan could you get your address to me ,I have something of a culinary nature I would like to send you. You can contact me via Paul67-if he does,nt mind. A wee thank you for the great work you have done. Hail Hail Hebcelt
Neustadt-Braw
13:10 on
14 November, 2013
greenmaestro
Ta, I had a wee idea, and went with it.
HH
Companies House document DS02 filed today withdrawing the Dissolution request for Sevco 5088 Ltd.
Sevco 5088 don’t do walking away…
The thing is about Watt, I don’t think it helps the lad that the new coach is such a blowhard.
He was hardly off the plane and he was being slated in the press for his fitness. Hardly a good way to build a working relationship.
Re: Sevco 5088 – from HB
Craig Whyte ‘sold’ his interests in RFC assets to a large company, as he didn’t have the spondoolies to chase this through the courts. That company must be Worthington. They are obviously blocking any moves to take Sevco 5088 out of the picture and will be funding legal battles to prove 5088 owns the assets.
This could take years to resolve…..
monaghan1900
zombies in moral outrage regarding tax money?
pmsl…
Were Celtic cheated by Feyenoord in 1970?
Doping was common in Dutch football. That is the conclusion of Guido Derksen, who has just published a book based on many interviews with former players of Ajax, Feyenoord and Twente.
Players of these clubs regularly took amphetamines in the 70s and 80s.
Hans Kraay, who scored a winning goal for Feyenoord against Real Madrid in 1965, said that players often took these pills unknowingly. He discovered that the club doctor had slipped a pill into his tea.
The author says that Feyenoord players were probably doped when they played against Estudiantes in the 1970 world club championship.
1970? That was shortly after they beat Celtic 2-1 in the European Champions Final.
Former Ajax players Johnny Rep, Arie Haan and Piet Schrijvers have all admitted in the past that they took amphetamines.
More recently there was the nandrolone affair involving FRANK DE BOER, Jaap Stam, Edgar Davids and Pep Guardiola.
Monaghan1900
Delightful reading there. The best response if you meet these people in real life is just to nod and agree. “Yes, Celtic really are the establishment club now”. Works a treat.
I really hope Lawwell has some sort of photo opp lined up for Lizzie they way they did with Maradonna. Imagine the response to picture of QE2 grinning from ear to ear with a Celtic scarf on!
monaghan1900
Think I knew your uncle. Was he friendly with Albert that was the the celtic pools agent and sat and commentated for the blind at celtic park?
If so I know who you mean.
Did you know the labour MP Sheridan worked in the stores at b&s before becoming the convener and moving his way up the Labour Party?
Time for my kip, nightshift. HH
paul67.
you have mail.
The dissolution request has been withdrawn?? Hmmm!
Is that the sound of knocking coming from within that coffin?
We’re going to have to re-name the zombies.
Sorry, last post, was meant for delaneys dunky.
Chairbhoy @ 1310
I have to admit, that until a couple years ago, I was in the MON school of thought re Ibrahimovic and his being more or less a 1-trick pony, i.e. could do the fancy stuff occasionally, but was a rubbish team player and didnt work hard enough. (I shouldve known Henrik’s praise of him was enough!).
However since then I have watched him many times and realise exactly what he brings to a team and how much he can influence a game single-handledly. His touch and presence, not to mention skill-set are sublime.
I seem to recall reading that, for 8 years in a row, his team won their respective league! 8 on the bounce! Amazing stat……and in addition I think after last season his record is now 9 titles out of a possible 10 or could be 11, im not 100% certain.
Still its a very impressive haul of honours indeed.
HAIL! HAIL!
Token
so anyway
hows Jim Traynor getting with that book that he was going to write about rangers or sevco 5088 or sevco Scotland or RIFC or a holding company orwhoever they are today
do you think he has finished that book yet
I wonder if he has a title
howabout Sevco- my part in their downfall
internet bampots rule so we dae!
All best wishes to Holmbert Fridjonsson and Tony Watt as they navigate the tricky road to professional football success.
I think that back in the old days, long before transfer windows had been invented, the 8-page Celtic View newspaper would have given this “signing splash” approximately two lines coverage about five paragraphs into the Reserve Team Round-up, on page seven.
timaloy29
13:27 on 14 November, 2013
The thing is about Watt, I don’t think it helps the lad that the new coach is such a blowhard.
He was hardly off the plane and he was being slated in the press for his fitness. Hardly a good way to build a working relationship.
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Thats true , makes you wonder if there manager even wanted Watt ?
Still Tony should be trying to prove him and many other’s including his own employers wrong.
Be gutted if he throws the dream away.
Regardless future doesnt look green and white for him as we have just signed another 20yr old with potential.
Atajic, fridjonsson,balde all ahead of him aswel as stokes and pukki.
fair enjoyin ma sausage piece
On the CQTEN Dinner on Friday 14th March. We have been overwhelmed by the response for tickets and we are around the 50% mark re reservations – after one day!
If you want to reserve a few tickets or a table for ten then please email celticquicknews@gmail.com – we will email everyone back to confirm the reservation. Agreed with Paul this morning that we won’t take any deposits but everyone can pay on Friday 31st January. That will let us re-sell any tickets not subsequently required at this stage.
We are receiving plenty of twos and four ticket requests – ie it’s not all table requests.
How many Fuggbaasons are at C P??
Having a laugh at “thems” outrage at us “allegedly” getting TAX-PAYERS money!!!
Thems definitely don’t do irony! (Is that a bit coppery or goldy?) c.Baldrick
HH
timaloy
100% agree re Tony. Coach is a bumm!!!
Interesting to read comments about our new signing Fridjonsson,if he does signs,this guy is 20 years of age,I have already stated on here that any of our young players who have not appeared in the first team at that age should move on.He should be put straight into the first team pool.BTW the much malign,on here,Kenny Miller made his Hibernian debut at 17 years of age.Give youth a chance.
pmsl???
Monaghan 1900
Cant stop lolin at that post
B-)
Heading to the agm tomorrow..i hear billy no’well is playing in the pheonix at 2pm..will need a laugh and a drink after the meeting no doubt hh
The Token Tim @ 13:42,
That is some record, interesting that like Henrik – he uses Martial Arts and works hard on his core strength, he has great flexibility for his height.
Great Player.
Hail Hail
Modern kicks in the cajones are rubbish
*Looks nervously over shoulder*
Fanadpatriot
good point,we cant keep buying strikers in the balde mode that need to be nurtured into the first team,atajik should have had a few run outs by now also.morton at home being one where a few next gens could have featured. Hh
@The token tim
That record includes Juve’s revoked titles?