There’s always some excitement when a player arrives at Lennoxtown with the intent of giving the club a look at his wares. 17-year-old Norwegian midfielder, Kristoffer Ajer, did exactly that yesterday, ahead of what we hope is a busy transfer window.
I’m pleased Ronny is scouting a market he knows well, and that we are looking to recruit below-radar players with potential. It’s also good to have prospects play training games with the squad ahead of any decision. It’s too easy to make multi-year mistakes but Kristoffer will be measured against the first team squad, and the Development Squad.
One of Celtic’s perennial failures is our inability to promote the country’s best youth talent into top professionals. Before Rangers liquidation we were involved in an all-or-nothing arms race. Every game was precious so the prospect of allowing youth players time to develop in the professional game was seen as a luxury too far.
With the greatest respect to our current rivals (including Newco, should our paths meet in the Scottish Cup), those competitive pressures have now eased. Ronny can afford to take a different view of team development. Until August, anyway.
I know what you’re thinking. You read the charges laid out at some of the characters involved with Rangers, old and new, and thought: haven’t Craig Whyte and Charles Green suffered enough? Surely calls for due process to be fulfilled are nothing short of bigoted rants? These men made their mistakes and have come through the mill, they should be allowed to get on with their lives!
Aye, I know, it’s a ridiculous suggestion.
The charge list includes “fraud, conspiracy and serious organised crime”, which is a Sword of Damocles hanging over Ibrox. No current Newco directors were involved in the criminality which is alleged to have facilitated the club’s setup, but that won’t change what happens in the event charges are upheld.
I’m sure the SFA are pondering the scope of punishment appropriate for this scenario. Irrespective of team loyalties, such is the seriousness of the alleged offenses they will be praying for not guilty verdicts.
Please note that all men charged are innocent until and unless proven otherwise and are entitled to a fair trial unprejudiced by public comment and desist from inappropriate comment.
If you have two minutes, take a look at Steven Donnell’s page here. He’s currently cycling round the Premiership’s 12 grounds to raise money for Accord Hospice in Paisley. In minging weather. With his dad, who is blind.
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Timaloy
amazon fire stick is just as good, I have both, but rarely use my box now.
Cheers Masty
Might just go for the fire stick then
timaloy29 on 6th January 2016 3:56 pm
Go the whole hog and treat yourself to an Android TV. My Sony 43″ came with Kodi built in.
Tontine
howye?
I believe that upton park is built on the grounds of the boleyn family estate, ann boleyn’s fathers estate.
Timaloy,
the amazon stick has a wide price range, depending whats on it, I paid 60 for mine has everything I need on it, some go up to 200 god knows whats on that
WEEMINGER
I didn’t know they existed. I will have a look at them thanks!
masty
You can get a Firestick for about 30 quid now. I don’t know if that’s a very basic version
Bigot Bowl
Near Kinning pk
HH
Timaloy
for that yòu will just get the basics, I have around 10 movie sites, at least 4 sports, all the in demand and catch up, every film andd series out there, watched the hateful 8 the other night, superb it was.
Ipox…the cuckoo stadium, ye know what I mean.
timaloy29 on 6th January 2016 4:23 pm
This is the one I got.
http://www.sony.co.uk/support/en/product/KDL-43W755C
Masty
Hateful Eight was brilliant I watched it over festive period with my two boys – we are all Tarintino fans… In fact when they come to make Hunco in chains – Id love him to direct it… Plenty of bloody scenes to be made, I suspect..
THOMTHETHIM FOR OSCAR OK on 6TH JANUARY 2016 3:24 PM
Quonno,
And therein lies the problem.
By adopting a Croppie lie Down stance, our custodians are complicit part and parcel of the corruption that is Scottish Football.
– See more at: http://www.celticquicknews.co.uk/ajer-alleged-serious-organised-crime-for-sfa-to-consider/comment-page-2/#comments
DM ( David’s Mausoleum)
I usually refer to Celtic Park in my posts but in my mind it will always be Parkhead..
John james has been very busy today.
HH
Make sure you have a good broadband speed before getting Firestick etc
The Edmiston Halting Site.
quonno on 6th January 2016 4:38 pm
On the other hand we’ve nowhere else to play football so any shouting on the clubs’ part is hollow. We can call them corrupt as we like, we’ll still be taking part in their competitions and validating them.
StillBroke Stadium por cierto
timaloy29 on 6th January 2016 4:07 pm
MartyBhoy84
Ciftci, GMS, Armstrong and Christie all played against Celtic with Deila as coach.
How do you know he had nothing to do with it? People really do just make stuff up.
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timaloy29
It was an opinion, mate…at no point did i state it as fact so it wasn’t a case of just ‘making stuff up’.
It is my view that Deila has not had full input in to all of the signings that have been made under his tenure…I understand that there is a structure at the club where transfers are concerned…seems like there is more of a collaborative decision-making process when identifying and signing these guys is concerned which is fine, but I’m not convinced that the manager always has the final say, and it is my view that the manager is the most important man at the club on the football side so should have final say so. The clearest example of this is the Tonev signing as I had mentioned…we had tried to buy him the previous season before he went to Aston Villa…clearly he was surplus to requirements there so was offered to us or he was still on the scouting team’s database so was revisited when he became damaged goods at Villa. The fact we went after this guy again despite his failures in England (and the fact he’d rejected us the previous season!) doesn’t say much for the rest of the guys we’ve identified on the database.
Many people were foaming at the mouth after the first season CL exit debacles to Legia and Maribor but i was willing to give him a pass on this as I don’t feel he was supported properly by our board in the transfer market…he was clearly working in the loan market for the most part probably because the board wanted to be cautious due to Deila having little experience, and most of the guys who came in were mainly guys who’d been identified pre-Deila (Berget and, possibly, Denayer excepted).
Since then, I reckon he’s had more input on transfers but, again, not always convinced he has the last word on ALL of the signings…that’s why I posed the question on this lad we’ve brought in from Norway if this is perhaps the start of Deila being given an opportunity to recruit his own players?…guys that he knows etc.
My view is that if it is a change of approach it has come too late for Deila…nothing will save him now as we’re too far gone with him at the helm, progress is not being made on the park, and a general malaise has enveloped the club and its supporters…but perhaps a new manager with a bit more experience could reap the benefit of a shift in the decision-making process?
If and when Celtic play the team or any team playing out of Ibrox, it will not be them. They died 2012 and are going through liquidation. Anyone who comments that we will be playing them is justifying the great lie por cierto.
PoundStretched Stadium
Green, Whyte & Golden Balls Arena
Quonno,
It will always come down to what the fans do.
Even if you give Celtic the benefit of the doubt, as in, perhaps they know that there is no escape for Them,the fans can express their wishes and even future intentions, should justice not be done.
Remember it was non conflicted fans, with no business models to protect, who stopped Them being shoehorned into the Prem League or League 1, after Liquidation.
Deal with the main problem first. A business with no customers is no business.
It’s time for the Celtic support to come out of hiding and join with other fans’ groups, instead of the ourselves alone stance we seem to have. Common ground an’ all that.
POR CIERTO on 6TH JANUARY 2016 4:50 PM
and until then we have to get by on Rory Bremner jokes ?
HH
masty on 6th January 2016 4:16 pm
Tontine
howye?
I believe that upton park is built on the grounds of the boleyn family estate, ann boleyn’s fathers estate.
*correct Pat, the Hammers originally leased the ground from the RC Church.
“It is my view that Deila has not had full input in to all of the signings that have been made under his tenure”
He has
“…I understand that there is a structure at the club where transfers are concerned…seems like there is more of a collaborative decision-making process when identifying and signing these guys is concerned which is fine”
It’s collaborative in the early stages when John Park looks over all the scout reports collated. He will usually recommend a 2 or 3 to the coach.
“but I’m not convinced that the manager always has the final say”
He absolutely does.
“clearest example of this is the Tonev signing as I had mentioned…we had tried to buy him the previous season before he went to Aston Villa…clearly he was surplus to requirements there so was offered to us or he was still on the scouting team’s database so was revisited when he became damaged goods at Villa. ”
Clearly he was an option offered to the coach who felt he was a decent option.
“Many people were foaming at the mouth after the first season CL exit debacles to Legia and Maribor but i was willing to give him a pass on this as I don’t feel he was supported properly by our board in the transfer market”
He was beaten by clubs with less resources
“most of the guys who came in were mainly guys who’d been identified pre-Deila ”
Identified maybe. But it was his call.
The process goes like this:
– Paul Lawwell sets the budget for Park and Deila to work with
– Deila will discuss with Park what he’s looking for (a target man, speedy winger etc.)
– Park will assign scouts, look at reports and recommend some signings to Deila
– Deila will tell Lawwell who he wants and Lawwell will try and do the deal
All signings will of course be taken into account with the budget. Deila might have to decide if he wants to take his 2nd choice at Left Back so he can get his 1st striker
*peter lawwell
Christ on a bike
Wan ae ma favorite pieces in this fiasco appeared a coupla year back on Paul McConvilles site a guest post by goldstein
https://scotslawthoughts.wordpress.com/2013/09/28/a-story-about-craig-whyte-rangers-charlotte-and-the-last-2-years-guest-post-by-goldstein/
POR CIERTO on 6TH JANUARY 2016 4:50 PM
If and when Celtic play the team or any team playing out of Ibrox, it will not be them. They died 2012 and are going through liquidation. Anyone who comments that we will be playing them is justifying the great lie por cierto.
Name just one thing different about the whole rotten crew.
They were, are and will continue to rotten to the core.
And PL and DD will continue to encourage THEM.
– See more at: http://www.celticquicknews.co.uk/ajer-alleged-serious-organised-crime-for-sfa-to-consider/comment-page-4/#comment-2749025
Craig Gordon was signed when we had no manager.
!!Bada Bing!!
It’s possible that we had already discussed it with Ronny, we know we had him lined up.
Secondly, we signed Gordon as a backup on a pay per play deal. We have since signed Logan Bailly yet Deila has played Gordon.
It’s fair to say Deila is happy with Gordon.
Given some of the signings… What reflects worse on Deila 1) he has full authority or 2) he has no authority ?
Eachy peachy to me
timaloy29 – My new Andriod box arrived today, planning to set it up tonight and I’ll let you know tomorrow how it goes. My router is next to the TV so I’ll probably use an ethernet cable although I’ll set it up via broadband first to see how it goes…
West End of East End
Thanks
I’m definitely going to get something. I will try and convince the wife we need a brand new tv as well ;-)
Thomthethim
Good to see you posting again.
A few quick questions.
When you talk about supporters getting together to challenge the cheating/corruption, do you mean the Celtic support or supporters of all clubs?
Who exactly is it you think should be challenged?
What would you hope/expect to be the outcome of this?
TIMALOY29
I have the one I bought from aow and I have purchased another for the room
The broadband I use is virgin and I have no problems with them
Some of the movies on navi are superb quality
TIMALOY29 on 6TH JANUARY 2016 5:13 PM
!!Bada Bing!!
It’s possible that we had already discussed it with Ronny, we know we had him lined up.
Its possible but not fact HH
There is unquestionably a demand for a business that installs and then supports people transitioning to smart TVs / streaming and on demand services. I mean that honestly, the market is there and crying out for it. The ordinary masses (like me) really do struggle with all of this. Someone will do it soon and make an enormous amount of money.
How much would you pay for someone to come to your house, give you a 10 minute tutorial on what kind of options you have for services in personal, layman’s language (firestick, android TV, apple TV, chromecast, what kodi is and how you get it etc etc), then sell you it and install it? Take all the pain away of the research.
You’d pay a one off £50, surely. The person could be in and out in an hour no problem. The person would have that fee as income and if they’re smart get a wholesale deal and make a few pounds on the equipment they sell you at RRP.
If they are even smarter they get your details and a low monthly sub of a couple of pounds to keep you up to date of new developments on a quality email, what’s on TV guide, ‘how to’ guide, channels etc.
1,000 installations in 6 months yielding perpetual monthly subscription income of £2,000 on top of the £45k in installation fees, with a database of returning customers for new installations and products. That’s in just 6 months as a sole trader let alone taking on a few tech savvy personable youngsters and multiplying this.
Jeezo, I might do it myself.
So, what’s a USB and why does my AV cable not fit into this HDMI scart antenna? Once I know that I’m away, right?
If anyone of you tech savvy guys wanted to set something like this up give me a shout. It’s the running a business part I know about, not the tech. This time next year we’ll be millionaires.