“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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Every school child knows that the egg came first.
JurassicParkCSC
….excitement got to me …Heart of a Lion.. not heat…
Peter appears to have affected Sevco shares and achieved the near impossible by further enraging the Orcs on FF:
“If the SFA do nothing and say Liewwell has no case to answer then we as a club should sue him personally for his remarks saying that he has tried to damage the brand reputation of our club.”
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“Let us be honest here.
Everyone in Scottish football knows that Regan is a placeman, and that he is in Celtc FC’s pocket.
Everyone knows that Liewell has got himself inside the SFA to maintain and complete the corrupt stranglehold that The [Celts] now have on Scottish football.
Even the neutrals know this.
What keeps their mouths shut is that they now hate Rangers more than they love Scottish football.
This is the harvest of two decades of the unchallenged sowing of phress and mhedia negatives about our club and support.
It is like Stalinist Russia.
We have a long war on our hands in Scotland.
But it starts by fighting the first battle.
That is how war works.
Fortunately, like Stalinist Russia, our enemies are incompetent, egotistical and perhaps a wee bit complacent in their total power.”
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“Honestly, the club and the RFFF* should take him and these ASA complainees and any other troll still mouthing off against us to the court and sue them for libel, slander, malicious gossip, you name it. Only that will shut them up for good.”
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“[T]hat remark… is a clear attempt to undermine our commercial integrity.”
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“Following Liewells jibe the share price has fallen. You could argue that his comments adversly affected the share price of his largest competitor.”
If we are signing Amazonian sized basketball players I hope we have scouted them for there ability to Pivot & score a Slam Dunk, no more Double Dribblers :)
Signed up for the DAM Bhoys Bucket Collection
Hi Paul67,
Welcome to Holmbert, good luck to the new bhoy!
Good to see us proactive in the signings but would still like most of our twenty year olds coming through the Academy, we seem to have several strategies for player recruitment some more successful than others.
Stiil this ghuy seems as far removed from an Amozonian as I could imagine…
Big ghirls blouses don’t shrink to fit….
Hail Hail
Thou…..
Wanyama, I hadn’t heard of but also didn’t see a banner headline about his arrival…..he turned out decent I suppose.
Izzaguire?……….unconvinced…….sorry.
Further to Sannabhoy’s post, RIFC shares have hit an all-time (10 months!) low!
I’m intrigued as to who has bought them!
“Institutional Investors”, buying low to sell higher later?
HH
The latest Sevco CEO gives the thumbs up to hearten the Sevconian support:
http://www.google.com.au/imgres?imgurl=http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20131001014320/smashbroslawlorigins/images/c/cb/Wallace-and-gromit_0.jpg&imgrefurl=http://smashbroslawlorigins.wikia.com/wiki/Wallace_%2526_Gromit&h=1124&w=1417&sz=123&tbnid=dw2bqluVpakTmM:&tbnh=121&tbnw=152&zoom=1&usg=__2bFQfzbwh1bTGFbZTO8aiRzDxas=&docid=o1dmxAUDVtKXQM&sa=X&ei=ybuMUsPfFKuhiAee4IBQ&sqi=2&ved=0CC0Q9QEwAQ
leftclicktic – well said sir. See you on Saturday.
FAC have enlisted the services of a Dutch lawyer and they paid for him to come over and speak to the guys and their families yesterday at Celtic Park. Hopefully, this will help to deliver an effective defence for all the accused.
HH
TTTT
hoys, Ghirls and Lurkers
Those of us who are parents, watch our kids grow. We teach them right from wrong and hope they take the right path in life. We lead by example. We take them to their first game in Paradise we watch their excitement and joy as they watch our team win; we share their pain when their team lose!
We then send them off to their first European Away game with their friends, they are good bhoys never been in bother, not big drinkers. Just out for a good time following Celtic. Your bhoy doesn’t come home as he has been arrested and remanded in a foreign jail! To make matters worse there are pictures of him all over the internet covered in blood and you can’t get to him. You don’t know what to do, who to turn to? That is what is facing just one family!
Thankfully the Celtic Trust has been there, they have organised lawyers for all the bhoys old and young!
Please give up some of your time and help be a buckateer, help make a difference.
It really could have been any one of us
Please email Dambhoys8@yahoo.co.uk and help out
From FF
“Fortunately, like Stalinist Russia, our enemies are incompetent, egotistical and perhaps a wee bit complacent in their total power.”
Stalin was many things; paranoid, devious, ruthless and , occasionally, sentimental but he was never complacent. If he ever had a complacent thought he would have had the thought taken out and shot.
Monaghan1900
Stop it yer killin me here :)))))
Was it BRTH who posted that Ian Bankier read out at the start of the AGM “This is a private meeting” so basically PL and anyone else can say what they think without stupid stupid sevco being able to do a thing about it.
This time
till later all
A wee snippet or three from the Discussion Board of the LSE on RFC stock:
1. Would appear to be an excellent signing. However, rumour that his appointment will only be confirmed if the current board remain in place after the AGM. There appears little chance of this, but maybe a qualified new CEO will swing the vote. As I said, Rangers appear to have acquired a capable and qualified CEO. Will he still be around when he gets a look at the books?
2. Perhaps share price movement was due to fact that another site – has released an excerpt from SPFL board minutes that show they will now chase the newco for a £250K fine that was imposed on the oldco for the EBT scandal. As SPFL cannot recover from liqudated company they have decided it is a footballing debt which newco agreed to cover as part of the 5 way agreement. Seems like everybody is trying to get their cash before second admin. Sell now before left with nothing.
3. Only 1/3 of the way through the season, but pretty much all serious revenues are in or accounted for, short of selling players – but having added 9 players to their previously depleted squad why would they sell? Outgoings may change, but only adversely IMO. I’m back to “sell”.
DBBIA & MA&H – if you send an e-mail to the address shown, then our very own Minx will get back to you. Meeting outside CP about 12:30.
Cheers, bhoys.
TTTT
Minx ,T4 ,HT
Have signed up for the collection on Saturday
Any news on were we are meeting up?
Or will I receive news by email
Thanks
Sorry for the cliche but peanuts will attract monkeys at the top level in any sport…..lots of cliches are true nevertheless.
Do we aspire to be an elite football club or do we love having megadosh to pay bonuses to Lawell and the like?
Maybe if the scouting department did their jobs properly then we wouldn’t have to buy up potential from footballing backwaters and NL would have a young talent pool like Jackie Mac has at Tannadice?
Auldheid
ASA Asssessment for you to consider:
Whilst the ASA acknowledged that Newco had nit taken on all the debts and liabilities of Oldco when it purchased its assets and business and that that would normally preclude a business from trading on the reputation of a liquidated predecessor company, we noted having read its report in full that both an Independent Commission appointed by the SPL and the ECA had reached the conclusion that the football club RFC was a recognisable entity in its own right, and that it had continued in existence despite being transferred to another owner and operator. We consulted with UEFA, which explained that its rules allowed for the recognition of the “sporting continuity” of a club’s match record, even if that club’s corporate structure had changed. We also consulted with the SFA, which confirmed that its definition of a football “club” varied depending on context, and could sometimes refer to an entity separate from the club’s corporate owner. The SFA further pointed out that, following RFC’s transfer to a new corporate owner, Newco did not take a new membership of the SFA but rather that the previous membership was transferred across to them so they could continue as the same member of the SFA. We considered that consumers would understand that the claim in question related to the football club rather than to its owner and operator and we therefore concluded that it was not misleading for the ad to make reference to FRC’s history, which was separate to that of Newco.
tommytwiststommyturns calling for Dam Justice
13:48 on
20 November, 2013
DBBIA & MA&H – if you send an e-mail to the address shown, then our very own Minx will get back to you. Meeting outside CP about 12:30.
Cheers, bhoys.
TTTT
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Thanks for that T4 see you on Saturday
TTTT- cheers, can’t promise I’ll be there for 12.30 but would like to help out.
Comment on huns share price page;
SPFL carry over fine to newco
Created by oj17 – Today 08:55Today 08:55oj171
Perhaps share price movement was due to fact that another site – has released an excerpt from SPFL board minutes that show they will now chase the newco for a £250K fine that was imposed on the oldco for the EBT scandal. As SPFL cannot recover from liqudated company they have decided it is a footballing debt which newco agreed to cover as part of the 5 way agreement. Seems like everybody is trying to get their cash before second admin. Sell now before left with nothing
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The pieces of the jigsaw are starting to fit together!
HH
Ooops!
Read back, and saw that Emeraldbee had already posted that!
HH
Ryecatcatcher try this…
http://www.celticquicknews.co.uk/?p=5689
Forgot to say, welll done to Gordon, Broonie and the Team for a great result in Molde.
Hail Hail
MurdochauldandHay & Wee Oscar
meeting at Gate 1 on Saturday, this is at the corner of the main stand at the away end of the ground at 12.30pm
ryecatcher
13:11 on 20 November, 2013
Maybe he was an eyecatcher….?
‘Sell now before left with nothing’
maks sense tae me, and it maks sense tae Mo.
ryecatcher
These lazy posts are becomming tiresome.
Have you learned nothing from Larsson, Moravcik, Wanyama? we got Joe Ledley for free?
Never judge a player by his price tag, Flo anyone? or closer to home Schiedt?
Chairbhoy….
Unfair comparison sir.
Paid a million for big Big Vic.
How many shares did/does Fat Sally have? Is that him walking away?
HH
Welcome to Paradise, Holmbert. And an unwelcome to the mineshafters.
Jonny the Tim supporting wee Oscar
13:42 on
20 November, 2013
Further to Sannabhoy’s post, RIFC shares have hit an all-time (10 months!) low!
I’m intrigued as to who has bought them!
“Institutional Investors”, buying low to sell higher later?
HH
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To sell higher later! When will that be.
To be fair I can’t get my head round who would want to be buy 3.3m shares in Sevco
They are burning cash like there is no tomorrow , there is a court case as to who owns Ibrox and Murray Park , administration is imminent.
Must be some sort of spiv strategy or the person is an idiot!
jonny the tim supporting wee oscar
13:51 on 20 November, 2013
I keep telling anyone who will listen that sevco will go the same way as oldco, as soon as the shares can begin trading in December….
Dontbrattbakkinanger
13:03 on 20 November, 2013
“Amazonians only have one breast.
Too radical for Greenock.
The good people of PA15 much prefer the ‘two pups fighting in a sack’ look.”
Heavy breestit Greenockian wummin, even with a singular breest are so heavy breestit that they have enough heavy breestitness for two and can still have that “two fully grown dobermans fighting in a sack” look
What is happening with Tom Rogic at Celtic? Even when Commins has been missing recently he hasn’t had his chance. Last night he came on for Australia with about 25 to go and just about got MOM. The Aussies can’t undertand why he is not a regular and it is now a major concern for them as they see him as vital to their WC aspirations and no doubt will be putting pressure on Celtic to give him a regular gig or loan him out. He himself gavevthe impression in hs after match interview that he was not happy at the lack of game time. I really think NL has a lack of confidence in flair players like Rogic. On that subject i personally believe there is potentially aworld class player in Paddy Mcourt
They’re a civil rights movement now:
” VB Makes Another Donation To Civil Rights Camp
Progressive Unionist Party and Ulster Political Research Group representatives, acting on behalf of Vanguard Bears, presented a large donation to the staff of the cabin at Twaddell Avenue on Monday evening.
These funds will go towards the running costs for the ongoing protest at the Civil Rights Camp in Ardoyne.”
13.54 leftclicktic oscar in our thoughts
Cheers bud see you at Gate1 Saturday
cavansam \o/
13:56 on 20 November, 2013
Spot on…..
Cavansam……yawwwwwwwnnnnnnnnn
Think yours is more lazy…
Henke……World Cup experience…..established player….release clause of 650k in his contract
Moravcik……was ready to retire…..persuaded by JV to do a swan song…..well known established player in far better leagues than SPL
Wanyama cost a million, Ledley out of contract and established player.
Quality generally costs money mate.
Better to be lucky than lazy too.
There is an interesting Venn diagram for the spiv strategy/idiot overlap.
It’s centred on G51.