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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hA ha you wish when did young Sophia become French?
The Italian babe. yer missus is kiddin ye on.
are you a Hungarian count?
Big Nan
Also watched your submission. very well done, and a couple of that panel were clearly hurting about something :-)
goldstar10
I see we were treated to another show of what my grandsons called, The Soldiers Marching. not one but THREE ORANGE BANDS on there way to drop off the Wreath.Thats at least 3 possibly 4 times this year in Kirkie.Anyone other area had the privilege.
Awerabest PJ
tontine tim
20:51 on 14 November, 2013
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You should get the Sean Fallon book mate,it really is incredible.
The famous clash with the old club hitman,Sammy Baird is detailed there.
You read that and just think,Jesus!!
I wouldn’t post it on here case a spoil it for those that are yet to read it.
Drambowiecelt
There were Vyella and Clydella shirts to go with the Crombie, as well as Weejuns from Saxone and made to measure mohair suits from Hepworths on Union St.
OldcrombiefrompaddysmarketCSC
eddie
I hope he gives you permission. Sounds like an interesting read.
JJ
PS “One of the chapters of his phesis” I suppose that`s better than ` faeces ` 0:-)
Talking of being cryptic :))
Just seen on TSFM
Corsica tweeting:
rangerscharitytheft @corsica1968 Protected account 57m
1/2 I’ve spoken today to FFW partner who reaffirms CG was not instructing FFW nor was “anyone publicly associated with newco”. Hmmm…
2/2 Told the question to ask is: are the insurers on stand-by?
Plans to end the long-standing tradition of placing a wreath at Ipox’s iconic John Greig statue have been dropped after a massive backlash.
Campaigners who planned a demonstration now say they will hold a victory rally.
John Greig, who personally plans to lay himself a wreath after the Club’s forthcoming Company AGM said:
“Ach, it’s a “thought” experiment really, sometimes described as a paradox, devised by Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger…
It illustrates what he saw as the problem of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics applied to everyday objects, ye ken?
The scenario presents a fitba’ player that may be both alive and dead, depending on an earlier random event.
Although the original “experiment” was imaginary, similar principles have been researched and used in practical applications: like fitba’ teams n clubs n companies n stuff.
Hard to believe, ah know!
But the thought experiment is also often featured in theoretical discussions of the interpretations of quantum mechanics.
Did you ken that, in the course of developing this experiment, Schrödinger coined the term Verschränkung (entanglement)?
Ach, at the end of the day, it’s really jist a wee bit o’ fun for the fans, a distraction, ye know whit ah mean?”.
Mind Bhoys, our very own HCPT Children in Need appeal,
Has been fantastically supported by CQN, with the full funding for a Child’s Easter Pilgrimage to Lourdes
Prize winner to be announced in around an hour and a half
10.30 ish
Hail Hail
16 Roads/ Tontine Tim
I think the thug at right back who fouled John Higgins was Bobby Shearer. I think it was a cup replay in 57 – we won 2-0 . My uncle Alex – the last survivor of the Holy Trinity who took me to see Celtic as wee boy- recounts the jubilation as the boys of Our Lady’s High left school and were told the score.
Oh and 16 Roads watch what you say about Bob
Jimbo67 supporting Oscar Knox
@Sargassosea
What a hoot the wife found a recieipt for one such shirt 19and a tanner
it must have been feckin customised
drambowiecelt
20:57 on 14 November, 2013
hA ha you wish when did young Sophia become French?
The Italian babe. yer missus is kiddin ye on.
are you a Hungarian count?
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Hahaha!
Bridget Bardot I meant to say!
Nah mate,my girl is Irish,and I honestly don’t know how she puts up with me. :)
Cowiebhoy
You have Text on Mobile.
Awerabest PJ
Cowiebhoy 21:06:
I’ll be in my scratcher by then, will you text me the winner and I’ll get it in the morning?
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Verschränkung
Entanglement
Has a certain ring to it…
;o)
Sixtae
@sixtaeseven
Hahahahaha
good craic bro.
H.H.
Jimbo – I said that Bob Dylan was one of the greatest singer-song writers of all time my friend.
Honest to God. ;)
Craigy Whyte: “Ich bin ein Verschränkung.”
Good night bhoys and ghirls!
Looking forward to Saturday’s meet.
Canny wait!
God bless and help all those in need tonight, and yes I know, there are millions and millions……but You can do it.
@16 rds methinks she puts up with you because
yer naw a Hungarian count.
Take away one vowel.
countdowncsc.
Good night all.
I am sure we will get loads of photo shopped pics of QE2 sitting in the middle of the team displaying the league trophy.Suitably adorned with YNWA scarf.
16 Roads
Just as well – didn’t have my specs on!
Jimbo67 supporting Oscar Knox
16 roads,
Hope you invited him to your house for tea..
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-24942951
Tuekeybhoy
The pics will be great…….just keep her out of the shower!!
sixtaeseven
20:08 on
14 November, 2013
Had to laugh when I read today that Bob Dylan had been awarded the highest awrd in France, the Legion of Honour.
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with all them Queenie visits and Argentine Jesuit…Bob the carpenter is pretty believable as a french squirrel ……braw
la réponse est dans le vent……………..ma man aw saw the siller tides run up the Firth o Forth ….awfy braw…
Well done Tom Minogue you were magnificent. You were the height of decorum. They tried to belittle you, especially the Tufts clown (no offence to clowns out there) when you talked about daggers etc, it was all a game to them until you played the orange card and not the r. churchill one, that’s when the tone changed, I sensed an unease then.
I did put my name to the list but it was a last minute thing as they have always made me nervous. When I was a lad there was a ludge in Dumbarton, one in the Renton and 1 each in Bonhill and Alexandria, the latter 2 having amalgamated.
On leaving school there was an abundance of work but not too many for someone of my faith, some of the biggest employers in the area shunned us and the BB lads got the apprenticeships, so I opted for the building trade, best move I made as the shipyards later closed and light engineering went into decline, new technology meant having an education and we now got a chance.
Anyway, after a bit of thought I figured, here am I 38 years and 3,500 miles from home and now retired, what can they do to me now, well apart from taking my pension from me and since that comes via Gateshead hardly unlikely and given all it’s worth not the bother.
As I said you were magnifico, but it’s not the craft that we should fear but the speculative society as that’s where the real power lies.
Oh BTW read your blog about Dunblane, absolutely shocking and if the SS can cover this up what chance the deid team disappearing forever.
Papa John
Larkhalll every day !
Tontine Tim,
When I was a young lhad, my auld Dad used to rave about Johnny Higgins. I believe it was Shearer who put him out of the game.
A great day on CQN, Besides Johnny Higgins, there was mention of the great Malky MacDonald. My auld mhan (sorry: Andre Rieu is playing YNWA to the Dutch sojers) used to reckon he was the greatest player he ever saw play for Celtic. (He now reckons it is Bobby Murdoch. I had the privilege of seeing Bobby in his majestic prime.)
Big nan
Just seen your appearance at the Scottish Parliament well done glad I signed your petition.
Regards Lizzie being at Celtic Park,I wish she wasn’t.
Just wondering if there are places available at the CQN 10th anni dinner for those on low incomes at reduced rates?
Sois Sage Braw
sixtaeseven…………..another awfy braw …..
quantenwelt.de > Quantenmechanik > viele Teilchen > Verschränkung
Verschränkte Zustände
Eine besondere quantenmechanische Eigenschaft ist die Verschränkung. Zwei oder mehr Teilchen bezeichnet man als verschränkt, wenn sie nicht unabhängig voneinander beschrieben werden können. Klassisch ist es ja immer möglich, Eigenschaften von Objekten zu beschreiben, ohne dabei die Eigenschaften anderer Objekte kennen zu müssen. yer a clever laddie …the german is so precise ….braw…
eddieinkirkmichael
From last night.
I hope you chose a jaunty wee tune for my map pin.
jimbo67
It was indeed Shearer that crippled Johnny Higgins. Did his knee in and he was never the same after his cartilage operation.
The same Shearer that reduced Booby Jeffries to tears after verbally abusing him during a game at CP.
In the days before Bosman, when a Free Transfer was akin to getting the sack, as then captain, Shearer strode up the marble staircase to receive his terms for the following season.
Instead, he was handed his jotters. A fitting reward for one of the dirtiest people to pull on that shirt.
Talking of that shirt, I have just returned from a lovely holiday in Tenerife and amongst many pleasant experiences, was the day that I encountered a fellow tourist, who was wearing the blue, five dotted jersey.
I remarked on his retro top and mentioned that I still wear my old Third Lanark top.
Another interesting observation was a pub, situated up a side street, called Bobbins.
Under the name, was the legend, The Original Rangers Bar in Tenerife.
Coincidentally, it was up for sale!!
It got me wondering if the New Rangers have a bar in Tenerife!
eddieinkirkmichael
20:55 on 14 November, 2013
My mate Gerry Hassan has just been awarded his Phd from West of Scotland Uni,
*We had a minister in Bonhill called alan hassan, GM of the LOL, hope he’s no related tae yer pal :-))))
drambowiecelt
21:15 on 14 November, 2013
@16 rds methinks she puts up with you because
yer naw a Hungarian count.
Take away one vowel.
countdowncsc.
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A count is a useful thing!
TCR – I wonder what that Brand menace thought of those zombie numbskulls he met here?
That would have been a bizarre scene,even by the standards of this lunatic asylum.
Mad mate.
adi_dasler
Aye! but that disnae count, jist like Croy on our front, was at one time,I am convinced somedy oan the council are getten ah Back(RED) Hander.
Awerabest PJ
Morrisey23
Will you be speaking at the agm tomorrow ref the resolution?
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Hail Hail