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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Sometimes in life you have to have a little trust in certain matters.
It may not be what you are used to but I for one have no probs with this one.
The aim for me was to know the right questions were asked of the SFA ,for me anyway Auldheid has intimated that they were and the resolution has not been withdrawn but things are in fact ongoing.
If the club had refused to entertain us and simply kicked it out then I would have been rightly angered, so far what I have heard today has exceeded my expectations on resolution 12 as of this moment things are still very much active and for that I am thankfull.
Of course I would like to know every last thing that was said but for now I wll keep my trust in those that are at the forefront.
If your expectations are different from mine that is fine and “batter in”.
Ps I’m disgusted at the living wage being voted down
I’m also disgusted at the living wage being voted down, leftclicktic …… This is not acceptable and needs to be rescinded before I renew my SB next season, or I will have a decision to make …………WE ARE MORE THAN A CLUB…….and if we do the right thing, other Clubs may follow this example……
THIS IS NOT OUR ETHOS…………
Haven’t read back yet but, on Resolution 12, I don’t understand the ‘barrier’ to our Board asking the SFA to re-address this license decision on behalf of the Celtic Support…!!??
Cheers mick hh
A little late to the game but I noted a discussion earlier on zero hour contracts.
Personally if I was on a zero hours contract I’d be inclined to conclude I was effectively unemployed, and I would therefore register as such each week.
Given the additional possible strain on the benefits appraisal process, I’m sure this would encourage the government to review the legality and ethics of such contracts.
WALKING AWAY, WE DONT DO WALKIG AWAY , HE SAYS WALKING AWAY, WILL THE REAL ANDY GORAM STAND UP, HAILHAIL
Lads,
CQN naps here please…
fleagle1888
CQN Saturday Naps Competition : Week 14 results & standings
Rockon is trying his best to lead from the front, with yet another winner (Swift Arrow @5/1).
Others : Som mes que un club naps two-in-a-row (Talking Sence @15/8) and finally Che (Zulu Oscar @5/1).
+£19.00 Rockon Neil Lennon (5)
+£12.88 Som mes que un club (3)
+£ 9.00 Bada Bing (3)
+£ 4.50 fleagle1888 (3)
+£ 3.50 What is the Stars (2)
+£ 3.00 tommytwiststommyturns (1)
+£ 0.50 16 roads (2)
-£ 2.00 bonbhoy (2)
-£ 4.25 Che (2)
-£ 4.50 Kilbowie Kelt (2)
-£ 4.88 PF Ayr (3)
-£ 5.00 valentinesday (2)
-£ 7.00 BULL67 (2)
-£ 7.00 El Madrigal (1)
-£ 9.50 Cathal (1)
-£ 9.50 green T (1)
-£ 9.50 leftclicktic (1)
-£ 9.50 MHARK67 (1)
-£ 9.80 voguepunter (1)
-£10.50 twists n turns (1)
-£11.00 BMCUWP (1)
-£12.19 Burgas Hoops (1)
-£12.20 Sponsored by Cheetah (1)
-£14.00 Magnificentseven
-£14.00 pedrocaravanachio67
-£14.00 petec
-£14.00 unionbearBhind
*No selection (wk 11) : Magnificentseven, pedrocaravanachio67, petec, Sponsored by Cheetah
*Non-Runners : MHARK67
Cheers, fleagle1888
Goulanes 1.50 Cheltenham – good luck everyone.
Ballynagour 14:30 @ Cheltenham.
Lads,
my nap is Port Melon (Cheltenham 3.35)
fleagle1888
Roserrow 2.0 Lingfield
13:50 Cheltenham – Monbeg Dude
Wetherby 130 Wayward Glance
Good luck everyone.
Tales Of Grimm…14-35…Lingfield
My choice for 3IAR is
Dumbarton
Wetherby 1515
Arra best!
today’s donkey is
CHELTENHAM 14:30
FINIANS RAINBOW
Good luck all
Paddy’s Saltanes 11:50
GOOD LUCK to everyone except if your a bookie!
HH
sorry just noticed left out meeting 11:50 lingfield
Tresor De L’Isle 2:40 Wetherby…..good luck.
LINGFIELD 3.10————— HOODNA.
Good Luck Everybody.
Was going for Goulanes, but I need to get out of my kip earlier! I’ll take a big chance on an Irish raider in the Paddy Power, Hidden Cyclones.
Great consistency from Rock On with 5 naps already!
T4
Hitchens 15:10 lingfield
Araldur 3.00 Cheltenham
Lingfield 2.00 MIA’S BOY.
Good luck y’all.
Boogangoo 8.20 wolvs
Monetary fund at 3pm please. Cheltenham.
14:10 @ Punchestown – Fire Belt – NAP!
Good luck.
Goulanes for me in the 1.50 at Chelt please, be lucky (I assume there is no restriction on posting the same selection as someone else?) If so put me down for Rajdhani Express in the 2.30
Afternoon all.
My stinker/sinker fur the day.
Sunnyhillb(h)oy 3.00 Chelts…be lucky.
Colour Squadron 1430 Cheltenham
Bull67 – no restriction, I could have went with that as well. Just thought I’d try something a bit riskier!
Got a score on Goulanes, so it better feckin win!! :-)
T4
TOMMYTWISTSTOMMYTURNS
I take it yer other half disnae read this?!
Or is that yer pocket money for the week?
Good luck anyway,bud.
Still struggling to find a gallant loser….
Bobby – two out, I thought mine was going to do it. Cheetah was very unlucky there, another few strides Colour Squadron would have nicked it.
I’m not doing very well today, or yesterday for that matter. Got Salubrious in the 3:00 to get me out of a hole!!
T4
T4
Canny get the 3.00 result yet,hope it won and you can finally buy the lads a beer.
Remember,nae change fae a ten bob note!
Legacy Gold 405C
Bobby – 3m hurdle and beat in a photo-finish…! You couldnae make it up, bud.
Big man upstairs is laughing at me. :-))))
Hope you’re well.
T4
Bobby – good luck in the ‘lucky last’!!
T4
Getting there…a 10th :O( fekme