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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Maybe someone could take the opportunity to ask her why she didn’t knight Jock Stein.
Funny thing Ole Lizzy QE2 coming to Celtic Park and sending the Bears in to a fit of apoplexy. Time was it would have had me beeling to. In some ways I am indifferent to it however it’s not that I no longer care it’s that I am rapidly losing the will to fight every battle and rant every rant that needs ranted. And a large part of me does think it’s funny that we are gaining a fair bit in the environs of Celtic Park as a result of the games and all that jazz………. and of course if it winds up the Sevconians then who am I not to indulge myself. Yet my cognitive dissonance senses are in overdrive…….
So here is my token protest at the queens visit to CP – I am a republican, I am a socialist and I object to monarchy. No person should be in possession of land, wealth, houses, title and status because they were born in to it and we should play no part in the honouring of her or what she and the Commonwealth she fronts up represent. Her story and that of her throne is an insult to me and everyone else who has to work for a living. So too is the fawning admiration and gushing bull plop that surrounds every bit of coverage of this ‘hard working’ monarch.
In the mean time I’ve more immediate and realistic fish to fry. Or curry to make to be more precise. I’ll be nowhere near the C’wealth games and hope only that they look after my beloved Celtic Park and that the once conquered nations hump their erstwhile imperial masters at every event.
Up the Republic! (Of Scotland, of England, of Wales…….)
Table for 1 for the CQN dinner for me please.
Booked for the jimmynaepalscliqueCSC
If anyone wants to chat with me in person on the night, drop me a message on CQN. I’ll spend the entire meal checking for CQN updates and erudite mirth, just like I do all the rest of the time.
Right must head. Off to my speak to my therapist about my socialising issues……
JamesGang
pigalle
16:39 on 14 November, 2013
How many medals are Celtic going to pick up at these ole Commonwealth Games then ?
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None and it’s Peter Lawwells fault for not breaking the bank for a top notch Commonwealth Games standard striker…………
Probably
Whatever happened to the Commonwealth Games money?
kikinthenakas
thats a good shout by Celticbhoy re post discharge care, your going to another Board area which sometimes can be a problem, so have a word in the SCNs ear just to make sure the process has been completed
hamiltontim is praying for oscar
15:20 on 14 November, 2013
I’m hearing the same things, I just want every opportunity for a kid, being a bit of a dumplin’, that it is possible to provide.
Still hopeful he can make it.
Che, did you get my text?
There’s a fine line between bravery and stupidity, and I think Our Hero may have crossed it. If our assumptions and educated guesses are correct, and he does still have an interest in Ibrox, Murray Park etc., then I genuinely fear for his safety.
I just hope Chris Graham or Leggat are the ones who open his mail.
HH
Alasdair MacLean
16:23 on 14 November, 2013
“I’m looking forward to QE2 opening the Games at CP.”
That old circle will never be squared off…..chestnut…fact…whatever you want to call it.
How can you have the second Liz, when the first one’s never been?
As Hamish Imlach wrote.
Never been a QE 1 of Scotland.
Never been a QE 1 of The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
(The country of which I am a passport holder.)
So QE 2 is an imposter……….a bit like a footlball club playing in the lower leagues of Scotland.
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Spare the old dear a thought, she might have to use her own passport to get up to her holiday home at Balmoral after the referendum……. did anyone think that through yet?
Can a foreign monarch with her foreign security forces holiday on foreign soil without permission from the host nation? Will she also have to surrender ‘her’ land back to the occupied nation her forbears nicked it off?
Doc
no text mate,
but this iphone is playing daft gits again, problems worse than last one.
anyone thinking of iphone please think again, if you have one dont go near the IOS7 upgrade its torture, stick to IOS6
Are we in the qualifying rounds for teh Commonwealths or do we get in as a Host Club? If so what chances of a Glasgow Derby against Queens Park?
Exciting times ahead for Glasgow indeed.
And what of Tony Watt? Have there been revelations about the bhoy? I suspect Mr Lennon tried to remove him from the Glasgow goldfih bowl of temptation by sending him to Belgium. Has it not worked?
I see his name mentioned but missed why we are talking about him?
He deserves our support and a chance to succeed but he has to want to do it. Youth. Wasted on them so it is.
jamesgang
16:47 on 14 November, 2013
Table for 1 for the CQN dinner for me please.
Booked for the jimmynaepalscliqueCSC
If anyone wants to chat with me in person on the night, drop me a message on CQN. I’ll spend the entire meal checking for CQN updates and erudite mirth, just like I do all the rest of the time.
Right must head. Off to my speak to my therapist about my socialising issues……
JamesGang
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Jimmymob,
I’ll have the seat next to you :))
I went to see my therapist because I kept imaging I was a moth.
He told me “it’s not a therapist you need, it’s a psychiatrist”
I said ” but your light was on? “
Just read the FF affronted-ness about CFC getting all the benefits of the Commonwealth Games. Snorted out loud on the train….. Genius isn’t it
Want to get your team even further ahead of Scottish rivals and take on the best in Europe? What would you do if money was no object? Why build a velodrome across the road. That’s bound to make a difference to us when we play Barca!?!?!
So Neil, what was the secret of your success tonight against Milan?
Well it’s the new Tollcross Baths don’t you know….
And folk say we’re paranoid?!?!
JamesGang
Latest tweet from Alex Thomson.
@alextomo: David Limmond in court today facing hate charges related to Rangers online chatshow, following #c4news investigation.
Sean Fallon said that whenever he emptied some poor,unfortunate opponent…he wouldn’t go near the player that he had just left lying in a crumpled heap,on the ground,instead he would walk over to the referee and apologise to him.
Apparently the referees loved Sean because he was tough,but never dirty.His challenges were honest and fair,and he never set out to deliberately injure an opposition player.
Right, offski. Dinner and then yet more meetings about meetings. We pencilled in the start of the revolution for tonight but we had to put it back for a Committee meeting instead where we will decide that the AGM is the best place to put forward a resolution to Congress demanding the immediate withdrawal of all labour until such time as there is fair and equitable distribution of wealth or until the quality of grub on offer at our meetings is improved – whichever comes sooner. I wait with baited breath the agreement of the minutes and of course, matter arising – AOB can wait. For once it isn’t clashing with a Celtic game.
Brothers and sisters……… I’m away fur ma tea.
RobertTressell
16:45 on
14 November, 2013
I agree and would add that I personally have nothing against Liz Windsor, I’m sure she is very nice and her family too. But time for an end to monarchy surely.
I’m also with you on the curry, last night I made a kofta bhuna. Tonight it’s something with chicken (kolhapuri perhaps).
HH
Tusker, thanks for the comments and yes it will be a hard road to get this petition past first base, especially as the main documents in support of my petition were a/ The Domstol rules from Norway which were overlooked in the e-mail that was recieved, and, b/ The Social Security Commissioner’s Dundee Appeal ruling, which SPICe didn’t include.
The SPICe team (Scottish Parliament Information Centre) did however manage to include a whole list of stuff that supported Grand Lodge’s TEN PAGE submission which was in effect a counter petition based on Jack Straw’s capitulation to UGLE with an election looming.
Of course I ain’t taking this lying down and want the PPC to consider these documents and write to the sources, Domstol and DHSS.
Will keep you posted.
Been banging away at this since the get go……
CW took the whole from SDM for a pound then split the business up…….real assets in one company and footie in another company.
Its always been that way………Bomber Brown for all his lack of sophistication grasped this concept at the beginning.
Ticketus will have a floating charge on whoever/whatever owns the bricks ………and everybody else got their erases felt in IPO
If you want to play your footie at the bigot dome then Craigie boy will eventually get a piece of the action weather the bowling club committee at Hampden like it or not.
Comedy gold…..this big old albatross keeps laying the eggs…….
As PJ Barnum would say,
Theres one born every minute…….
Morrisey 23rd good luck tomorrow and be comforted at the AGM in the knowledge that you have many good Celtic folk on this and other sites rooting for you.
H.H.
Alasdair MacLean
16:43 on
14 November, 2013
Maybe someone could take the opportunity to ask her why she didn’t knight Jock Stein.
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Was that not down to Harold Wilson?
Celtic is not the only club to benefit financially from the Commonwealth Games.
The Ruby 7s are being played at Ibrox. To whom should the cheque be made out?
Big Nan. read your piece this morning and was blown away.i was told when DUNBLANE happened that there was a masonic connection but the person who told me could not get the full info.
i think you should try to get ANDY MURRAY involved.someone as high profile as him would get the WORLDS attention.
good luck on both accounts.
Jonny the Tim supporting wee Oscar @16:56
who is David Limmond and what’s that about??
P
The Ruby 7’s ….. saw them in the Burns ….. naw, I’ll let someone else make the claim.
Alastair,
I Don’t know if you were around at the time when the QE2 was launched.
There was much speculation as to what the ship would be called.
There was also speculative controversy on the possibility of it being named Queen Elizabeth 11.
I worked on the building of it, so I was present at the launch.
There was great expectation as to what name she would come out with; and when she said the words,” I name this ship, Queen Elizabeth 2, there wad a noticeable pause, as the bystanders computed this information.
This lasted till one of the bowler hats remembered to start a rousing, obligatory cheer.
The explanation given was that it was named to represent the second monarch called Elizabeth, but as the second ship to bear the name Queen Elizabeth : hence 2 rather than 11.
From twitter. How the mighty have fallen. One minute you’re relieving HMRC for £100M. Next thing you know it’s a 10 bob ticket on a corpie bus! …… Or even better, a McGills one!!!
” Just tried to get on the bus using my ticket for the Rangers legends game thinking it was my bus pass, don’t think I’ll get far with that”
JamesGang
Re the book launch regarding Malcolm MacDonald.
When I left school I done a YTS with a small local TV and aerial erectors (cause ye couldn’t get a job due to Maggie, and certainly not an apprenticeship due to, well…. St School)
Anyway, one morning we were allocated a job in Ardrossan. I always wore my Celtic scarf, so whilst wee Gordon was up on the roof (Bungalow) I was at the bottom of the ladder, the wee auld fellow came out the house and he said “Is that your team son” I said yes “Come on in and see this” He took me into his hallway and showed me an old black and white picture, “That’s me there” was a picture of a Scotland team, with Winston Churchill shaking hands with the team.
Never really elaborated at all, just asked if I went to games and said he had played with Celtic, a very humble wee man.
I’ve got to say that I’d not heard of him, but looked him up in books when I got home and thought wow ive just spoken to him,
Malcom MacDonald
My mothers step father played for Preston North End, Bobby Beattie… I asked him about him and said he was a smashing player.
Bobby was a humble wee guy too…never spoke to much about his career.
Look him up, he was something else.
Played with Tom Finney, Bill Shankly, Tommy Docherty
Something about old players that young Tony Watt and the like could learn from.
Ayrshire is Green and White
And produced some smashing footballers.
HH
Really frustrated at our faithful rubbishing an writing off a signing based on how much we pay. Sure these same experts wrote off lubo, the king etc. How much did we pay for ledley or Matthews? Im no expert but that seems the right fee to pay for Scandinavian of that age an who is to say we haven’t unearthed a gem. One thing for sure he has one or two games before the experts on here declare him a dud. No pressure.
I have been exchanging emails with the Dutch Embassy re the events in Amsterdam.
Here is what I received from them –
Dear Sir,
Our apologies for not having replied sooner. Regarding the arrest of Celtic fans in Amsterdam, the Embassy has received the following briefing from the Public Prosecution Service in Amsterdam:
18 Celtic fans were arrested by Dutch police in Amsterdam on Wednesday 6 November, following disturbances ahead of the Champions League football game between Celtic and Ajax. 12 were later released after paying fines of up to 500 euros for public disorder. The remaining six appeared in court, charged with acts of violence against police officers in a public area. They will be brought to trial before a judge on 21 November. Four of the six have been released pending the trial. The remaining two will remain in custody until that date. Some video footage and photographic material of the disturbances has been provided to the Public Prosecution Service, which they are now examining. The Dutch police are also conducting an internal review of the incident.
For press enquiries, contact the Press Department of the Amsterdam Public Prosecution Service on 0031 88 699 1202 / pers.amsterdam@om.nl.
Yours sincerely,
Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
London
scotlands shame
17:38 on 14 November, 2013
Calm down mate and behave….. Who’s giving him 2 games to prove himself, if he can’t score 3 in his first game he’s a dud.
Kind regards
The expert :-) HH
excathedra44-I posted a few times if Tony Watt had played more last season instead of Lassad and Miku,he and the team might be better off striker wise.
Celticbhoy
16.42 will do….
Met the registrar but not the consultant who carried out the op, already it feels better than last week.
Kikinthenakas
quonno.I think that is more than likely fella.H.H.
Big Nan – first chance I’ve had to come on and congratulate you! Keep fighting the good fight!
Morrisey23rd – best of luck tomorrow and congrats to all involved
Good to see I’d sign this kid, we should buy more like that, get them early rather than have to spend the money that was talked about for Finboggeson etc. We should be trying to get Scandinavians and other Europeans ahead of Ajax and the like.
We should continue with wee Jordan Larsson.
I see a few having a dig at our 19 year old player who is out on loan, the kid is 19 Ffs, get a grip, Celtic Supporters? I’ll tell you what, I wouldent like to be wounded in a fox hole with some of the tough guys in here, shocking, and bang out of order in my opinion, this kid scored a goal that arguably gave us one of the best nights at Celtic Park, and will be talked about for decades to come, I only hope that in those decades, people will say WHY.? It’s horrible, it’s shocking, it’s Hun like, to reach out a hand for this kid should be a given, to shun him, and dump him, and name call him, and make presumptions on a 19 year old boy beggars believe, or then again maybe I should not be worthy of the people who post in here, that never made a mistake in there life, or even more so when they where 19, I know I made many at that age, but I would make many more if I could just put on that Celtic shirt and score the winning goal against they greatest football in the world for my club, sounds easy eh? I wish.