“It’s just a dream come true”, the words of 20-year-old Holmbert Fridjonsson, who today signed a pre-contract agreement with Celtic and will join the club on 1 January. 5’ 9” manager, Neil Lennon, told Celticfc.net that the 6’3” striker is “a good size”, perhaps giving a glimpse into the innermost thoughts guiding Celtic’s recruitment policy, for those who have not noted the collection of Amazonians now in hoops.
Holmbert will push for a place with Anthony Stokes, Teemu Pukki and Amido Balde; Georgios Samaras is seldom used as a conventional striker. He has made 45 career appearances, five fewer than Victor Wanyama when he signed for Celtic, also as a 20-year-old.
A year ago, when Victor was busy declining a new contract offer, we talked about the window of opportunity, when you have enough appearances to judge a player, but not so many that the world and their grannie knows about him. We concluded that less than 30 appearances would be enough. Victor made a total of 61 Celtic appearances but was his stock rose stratospherically after 30-odd games. The stats suggest we should catch them between 30 and 60 appearances.
Stunning result for Gordon Strachan’s Scotland last night. Keep an eye on that guy, he’s got talent.
Really looking forward to another great charity night at the Columba Club, Blantyre, on Friday, starting at 8pm, where we are having a Q&A with myself, Phil Mac Giolla Bhain and Paul McConville, in aid of the Lourdes Fund. These are always great nights, tickets are available at the door, get along and say ‘hello’.
Many thanks to the hundreds of you have now ordered the CQN Annual, and for all the encouraging feedback. It’s a bit big for a stocking filler, unless perhaps you’re an Amazonian.
See you Friday.
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Oldtim67…..
I hope it has a good 54 proof…..do you have cream or custard ? I made mine in July ,I soak a muslin cloth with brandy ,wrap the pud up tightly close the lid of the tin (tape it if it is loose fitting ) then forget about it till xmas…..braw don,t forget where you have stored the tin though …..:)
Just said there on SSB that the SFA ARE GOING AFTER SEVCO, for the £2000,000 fine given out by LNS, good luck wi that wan.
Can anyone tell me if there any tables left for the CQN birthday bash?
Sorry £250,000 and it’s the SPL.
The CP longjohns will get their first outing of the season on Saturday…..
DJBEE
18:48 on
20 November, 2013
http://t.co/LBepUSROKU
Wow, just saw this from the amdam plod, utter scum
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that is bloody horrific. some kids in the first camera scene, then the dogs out of control, then the horse trampling a woman,
what offence was anyone doing ?
horrific.
Thems don’t pay fines,any fines……or compensation for tapping up Scotland managers.
R*ng*rs: SPFL board considers pursuing £250,000 fine
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It will be interesting to see how this squares with Neil Doncaster’s secret side-letter which (if Charlotte’s revelation was genuine) stated that, notwithstanding the 5WA, the SPL would not take action against Sevco for rule breaches by RFC related to EBTs.
een on TSFM
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Seen on TSFM
Deary deary me :((
Bourne
Completely agree. SKY’s original footage has clearly been doctored with a brutal assault being cut.
It would be great to see the club highlighting this along with the work they’re already doing.
Same club?
The Scottish Professional Football League
board is considering pursuing Rangers for
£250,000.
The amount relates to a fine levied by an
independent Scottish Premier League
commission on Rangers Football Club PLC’s
(RFC PLC) use of a tax scheme.
SPFL lawyers examined recovering the money
under the Five-Way Agreement – which
granted Rangers membership of the Scottish
Football Association.
Any claim to the company’s liquidators would
likely yield a smaller amount.
Liquidators BDO are in the process of
examining claims of creditors of RFC PLC.
As such the SPFL board has decided it is
reasonable to try to pursue the full amount
from The Rangers Football Club Ltd, although
no timescale has been set as to when to do
this.
The SPFL declined to comment on the
situation when asked by BBC Scotland.
The Five-Way Agreement gave the football
authorities power to recover football debts
from the new owners of the Ibrox club.
A condition of the transfer of the club’s
Scottish Football Association licence was the
payment of all football debts.
In a financial report produced by the
administrators Duff & Phelps, several clubs in
Scotland, England and Europe were listed as
being owed funds.
The company’s former chief executive Charles
Green claimed last August that those debts
have been settled.
In February, Rangers Football Club PLC was
fined £250,000 by the Lord Nimmo Smith-
chaired SPL commission after it found that
payments from its Employee Benefit Trust
scheme were not disclosed to the football
authorities.
The commission found that the company’s
management did not take professional advice
on disclosing the payments.
The findings also stated that the current
owners should not be held responsible for any
breaches made by the previous company.
The investigation relates to the period
between 2000-11 when Rangers operated the
tax benefit scheme, which was also the
subject of a long-running tax tribunal.
So the defunct SPL are chasing money from the defunct Rangers?
ASonOfDan
Floodgates about to open?
leftclicktic oscar in our thoughts 19:00 :
You going in on Saturday for the collection?
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Its simple: same club? Pay the debts.
New club? Debts gone along with history.
Keep pretending? BDO ought to be acting to get the money back for creditors of oldco.
Its called checkmate.
Bada
Nothing you’ve said could I disagree with.
The Amsterdam Police are actually the secondary issue in a sense, of what happened, because I don’t believe they singled out Celtic and they would have acted as they did
against any large gathering of fans.
They do it randomly Manchester Utd 80 arrests etc, etc
The coverage by the Scottish media was a manufactured story, and they gleefully
pounced on the policing and turned it into thier own pre scripted ancient anti
Celtic agenda.
It’s a tough job for Celtic and tokenism of banning an excrescence such as Hugh
Keevins, – just won’t do the job, I think thats what Paul67 means about bans,
and how they are ineffective unworkable or worthless.
Celtic should revisit our own mission statement to include independent Media misrepresentation, and when such as the Amsterdam fiasco reportage happens
Celtic’s legal department, in tandem with modern Celtic media swings into
action.
The Americans would sue the pants off them.
HT
See crazy spacing reply to Bada
HH
If all u bhoys are collecting on Saturday you may as well get your drinking done with internet bampots on Friday..
winning captains-do you think indirectly they are pushing thems on the “same club” mantra ?
Hamiltontim.
Give me a plan of where the buckets will be placed so as I can avoid them. I put £20 quid in at the AGM, and there’s nothing worse than getting buckets pushed in your nose every couple of minutes
I think that it is clear that it should be the police and not the fans that should be put away. The SMSM have went absolutely silent on this. If Celtic fans had been guilty of anything in Amsterdam it would still be THE major story today and for weeks ahead.
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bournesouprecipe-spot on sir.
blantyretim.
Nice smell of Brandy wafting through the house.If it tastes okay I’ll bring you in a bit to give to your good lady.
You haven’t been on since Sunday. Did the Holy Father lock you in the church
oldtim67
If you man a bucket youll not get a bucket pushed in your nose :-).
I believe we will be encircling BBs, so if you avoid that pub, you will be ok
HH
CRC
Been busy oldtim..
Got night on Friday then sportsman’s night Saturday. So behaving so far..
winning captains
very difficult to order multiple copies of cqn annual.
I have a few deidco friends and wanted them to see what a well researched publication looks like. Serious about the ordering of the multiple copies not so about the deidco friends (indeed truth be told I’ve no friends.
free the dam 2 and as Christy might sing “donate donate the dough the dough, donate donate the dough” this Saturday.
HH
you have to suspect many on BDO are Sevco fans. No other explanation for the obfuscation, delays etc.
It’s Salmonds Scotland. Where people are kettled, old clubs facing liquidation are called institutions,establishments, by Eck.
Welcome to Scotland, where the MSM DO NOT pursue any stories concerning a mint..
Dearie me..
HH
Crowd for Sat. 45/50 thou.?
Evening Timland from a cold hun free mountain valley.
Mrs TET is no a happy bunny, I fried her laptop earlier today, oh dear.
I am now desperatley looking for another one for her.
If anyone has a spare one they want to sell, can you mail me……desperate so I am.
nohunshere@hotmail.com
ps
re oldco/newco non debate
if you refuse to accept that you are deid then at least pay the face painters
sendintheclownscsc
OT
I wasn’t stalking you ya daftie :-)
Just wondering what you’re doing pre/post match?
1/4 of a mil to put the ‘same club’ argument to bed?
Cheap as chips – considering £1mil of shares traded today…
That’ll make those supporters rallying for them back to Celtic Park all the happy – not a new wrath just the auld wrath nursed and kept warm…
U
I can hear it now, to the tune of “Goldfinger”.
Frid-JONsson, he’s the man, the man with the scoring touch… a striker’s touch..
ShirleyB CSC
from the ticket website, crowd will be 55,000 if everyone who has a ticket turns up. aberdeed sold out their allocation which i think is 1800.
55,000 that’s a good crowd,
Regarding the £250
Just waiting for the old “Huv we no been punished anuff” line to be trotted out.
Ok, pay the interest as well ya deid muppets.
gearoid1998
Drop us an email and we will organise that way. We can sent to multiple addresses if you like. Email celticquicknews@gmail.com and put for my attention. Thanks
£250k