The mood around Celtic Park was a bit sombre when Virgil van Dijk was scouted by Southampton. Virgil looked like he was scared to break a fingernail in the capitulation against Legia Warsaw; we lost out on Champions League qualification, although the player was heading south anyway.
With Stuart Armstrong being measured for a red and white outfit, there is significantly less stress at Celtic. Stuart delivered for Celtic during his three years at the club, but he left unable to command a regular starting place in the team. We are selling a fringe player who has one season left on his contract for a fee which reflects the inflated English transfer market.
Celtic have managed this playing asset very well. Consequently, they have more money available to invest in the team. It is also worth noting that we could have sold the player a year ago, but resisted as Brendan Rodgers did not have back fill. The manager has been preparing for this scenario since. This should be an enjoyable summer for the Celtic support.
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GREENINBINGLEYINOSLO on 25TH JUNE 2018 5:55 PM
Glad you were able to get safely home.
That was outrageous what was going on in Leeds yesterday and the Police action/inaction appeared to make it worse, certainly for the likes of yourself.
Hail Hail
WBC
Do you know different ?
HH
I agree with the clumpany’s podium sentiments about SA
diappointed to see armstrong go. when fit i thought he was a very geed midfielder especially going foeward.
cant blame him for 40kw.
Obviously the “article” about Celtic’s financial problems is nonsense, but a serious question. With the amount of inside information/bloggers/rumours could Celtic get into financial difficulty without us finding out? Can you hide that kind of mismanagement, especially with a press looking for any hint of a negative story?
FAO MIKE IN TORONTO.
i’m glad to see you posting, as there was a “suggestion” on here a few days ago, that you MAY have taken umbrage with my earlier Rant in relation to that Chump BP and his make believe talking Dugs ?
I did post and wished you and wee “Seamus” well etc, and I also offered up an explanation that in NO WAY was my rant about talking Dugs was dircted at you or anyone else, but that it was soley directed at the afore mentioned Chump.
I hope this clears matters ? Yes I did read your post about my ” Geratric Dalliances”, but I of course took it as a bit of banter.
Hail Hail.
SAINT STIVS
I’m in the first photo!
I’m the wee runt second right from the great man at the back. Still wearing my school blazer – St Patrick’s PS, Troon. Aged 11.
Thanks for that!
HH!!
Tim- I have been told a few of our guys are on 30k a week plus, 40k a week in EPL is about the average age.
Players come and go and we’ve had a year knowing that Stuart Armstrong would go. He did offer something different from our other midfielders, mainly pace. He’s hardly irreplaceable. The only player who would leave me upset if he left is KT (Scott Brown aside, who we know will retire a Celt). I’m still hopeful of bringing in another two who would walk right into the first team. Every team needs a wee bit of churn and while it’s good for us to maintain a strong core, it’s imperative to add some new blood.
Expect amstrong to do ok down the road and i wish him luck. His preformances for us were a mixed bag and if reports are to be believed boyata may be following him out the door and His preformances are of the same variety to date.
mcginn is not my cup of tea, lots of energy combined with little game control or technique, but i Would be happy to be proven wrong if we do sign him.
No player should be allowed to leave under freedom of contract if possible, its not good management its common sense.
Also not keen on bringing anyone in who is not better than what we have because we have enough projects
HH
Tally
You huvnae changed a bit C. ??
Armstrong will apparently get 5% of the transfer fee as per his contract agreed last summer. A tidy signing on fee and £40k a week will make him a rich man.
If it’s true that he gets 5%, makes you wonder if that is Pedro’s latest trick to incentivise players to drive up their value.
Some comments about Leeds. Most people in the old Yorkshire mining areas are very friendly. Leeds city centre mind you, make Glasgow look positively genteel and that’s just the wummin :)
DD
Thanks G!
I was a wee quiet, well behaved bhoy back then…
…then I went to a Catholic Secondary School in Kilwinning…
…and things changed!
Became a bloody bampot!
But I’m allright noo!
HH!!
Tally
Two of my nieces attended Saint Michael’s High Kilwinning. Both are in great careers after graduating from University.
I blame the schools.
YNWA
Don’t Mention The Bus… https://theclumpany.wordpress.com/2018/06/25/dont-mention-the-bus/
Bada
Bigbhoy
Cheers. I just thought his agent(s) were maybe putting it out there how much they can do for their clients (or potential clients ?????)
Although Celtic probably control what goes into public domain with our signings/players thrh cant when a player moves on.
C’est la vie !
Tontine Tim
Yeah I was keeping a very close eye on Pele and Bremner in that game. Think it was one of BBs early caps .He was told to shadow the great man. I have never before or since seen such a man-marking job (and neither had Pele). I dont recall Bremner over-doing the fouling he just stuck to Pele like glue for the whole 90mins and never allowed Pele a sniff of the ball. And he rounded off his performance by skilfully dummying the Brazilian. Billy Bremner was an awesome player with a never-say-die attitude . Wish he had been in the hoops.
Morrocco 1-0 Spain…………….
1-1
Haven’t & won’t read the offending article from the pawn of the darkside…but from those who have & commented..
This paraphrasing of a great put down might apply…
“Davies Left Peg post merits reading as the quintessential Davies Left Peg, leaping from nonexistent fact to blanket ad hominem without even a pause for a reality check.”
A good quote that has multiple applications if you insert your preferred stenographer/ club chairman/ Level5 person’s name.
……………
As for the departing Stuart Armstrong – I wish him well & believe he’ll be a success wherever he goes because his attitude, fitness and football brain is better than most players’.
He will also be a success off the field for pretty much the same reasons & as others have said he is undoubtedly a good man.
Sell On CSC
Imagine if Dedryk just done that
THE EXILED TIM on 25TH JUNE 2018 7:26 PM
Imagine if Dedryk just done that
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Watching Portugul Iran
TET,
Morroccans feeling aggrieved about their bookings. Personally, I think they were meritted but I think Spain (Ramos?) might have been red carded in the opening minutes for a 2 footed lunge which he got away with. Spain’s defence is pretty poor. Boyatta would shine in it.
PCS
It was Pique, if fairness to him he got the ball and yer man made a meal of it, he was hardly touched, but I agree some refs would have taken a harsher view.
Morocco have some very decent players, I also didn’t realise that they have only ever played each other twice, they are trying to rile the Spaniards.
HH
D17
I hope Iran go through
HH
tally you might know these guys,
the picture of the real stevie c is cracker as well.
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/football-fan-relives-day-met-3162156
https://www.scotsman.com/sport/golf/troon-nurtures-sporting-nobility-1-538770
1-1 h/t. Very entertaining game.
The zombies drink water from wheelie bins in Spain.
Nobody mentioned Ronaldinho yet?
Talking about defenders, how good was Alessandro Nesta?
HH. ?
TET,
I agree with you that Pique barely touched him but he was stupid. You’re right too about the Morroccans. They are trying to rile the Spaniards.
Pique red for me, 2 foot tackle caught his left ankle
pique lucky
https://www.facebook.com/talkingbaws/videos/1641746259227058/
MON telling Engerland the truth…
16roads
Baresi is the greatest defender I have seen.
Thou shalt not go past me was his mantra.
Class, but Nesta was excellent too, along wi Maldini. Italian defensive theme developing here. All three World Class.
You heard the im portent stuff here first……..
Jamie McCart, free to Inverness Caledonia Thistle, Jun 2018 [Good portent for Celtic signings]
Nadir Cifti, released, Jun 2018 [Good portent for Celtic signings]
Erik Sviatchenko, £1m to FC Midtjylland, May 2018 [Good portent for Celtic signings]
Anthony Ralston, (loan) to Dundee United, Mar 2018 [Good portent for Celtic signings]
Jamie McCart, (loan) to Alloa Athletic, Jan 2018 [Good portent for Celtic signings]
Scott Allan, (loan) to Hibernian, Jan 2018 [Good portent for Celtic signings]
Liam Henderson, undisclosed to Bari, Jan 2018 [Good portent for Celtic signings]
Erik Sviatchenko, (loan) to FC Midtjylland, Jan 2018 [Good portent for Celtic signings]
Nadir Cifti, (loan) to Motherwell, Jan 2018 [Good portent for Celtic signings]
Kundai Benyu, (loan) to Oldham Athletic, Jan 2018 [Good portent for Celtic signings]
Jamie McCart, (loan) to St Mirren, Nov 2017 [Celtic]
Nadir Cifti, (loan) to Plymouth Argyle, Aug 2017 [Good portent for Celtic signings]
Leo Fasan, free to Bury, Aug 2017 [Good portent for Celtic signings]
Emilio Izaguirre, £1.25m to Al-Fayha, Jul 2017 [Good portent for Celtic signings]
Gary Mackay-Steven, undisclosed to Aberdeen, Jul 2017 [Good portent for Celtic signings]
Bailly, Logan, free to Royal Excel Mouscron, Jul 2017 [Good portent for Celtic signings]
Saidy Janko, undisclosed to St. Etienne, Jul 2017 [Good portent for Celtic signings]
Kris Commons, released, Jun 2017 [Good portent for Celtic signings]
Kolo Toure, released, Jun 2017 [Good portent for Celtic signings]
Ryan Christie, (loan) to Aberdeen, Jun 2017 [Good portent for Celtic signings]
Scott Allan, (loan) to Dundee, Jun 2017 [Good portent for Celtic signings]
Efe Ambrose, free to Hibernian, Jun 2017 [Good portent for Celtic signings]
Eoghan O’Connell, free to Bury, Jun 2017 [Good portent for Celtic signings]
Efe Ambrose, (loan) to Hibernian, Mar 2017 [Good portent for Celtic signings]
Nadir Ciftci, (loan) to Pogon Szczecin, Feb 2017 [Good portent for Celtic signings]
Michael Duffy, undisclosed to Dundalk, Jan 2017 [Good portent for Celtic signings]
Joe Thomson, (loan) to Queen of the South, Jan 2017 [Good portent for Celtic signings]
Leo Fasan, (loan) to Port Vale, Jan 2017 [Good portent for Celtic signings]
Jamie McCart, (loan) to Inverness Caledonian Thistle, Jan 2017 [Good portent for Celtic signings]
Ryan Christie, (loan) to Aberdeen, Jan 2017 [Good portent for Celtic signings]
Kristoffer Ajer, (loan) to Kilmarnock, Jan 2017 [Good portent for Celtic signings]
Eoghan O’Connell, (loan) to Walsall, Jan 2017 [Good portent for Celtic signings]
Kris Commons, (loan) to Hibernian, Dec 2016 [Good portent for Celtic signings]
Saidy Janko, (loan) to Barnsley, Aug 2016 [Good portent for Celtic signings]
Charlie Mulgrew, free to Blackburn Rovers, Aug 2016 [Good portent for Celtic signings]
Stefan Johansen, £2m to Fulham, Aug 2016 [Good portent for Celtic signings]
Darnell Fisher, undisclosed to Rotherham United, Aug 2016 [Good portent for Celtic signings]
Aidan Nesbitt, (loan) to Greenock Morton, Aug 2016 [Good portent for Celtic signings]
Scott Allan, (loan) to Rotherham United, Aug 2016 [Good portent for Celtic signings]
Paul McMullan, (loan) to Dunfermline Athletic, Jul 2016 [Good portent for Celtic signings]
Michael Duffy, (loan) to Dundee, Jun 2016 [Good portent for Celtic signings]
Stefan Scepovic, £1m to Getafe, Jun 2016 [Good portent for Celtic signings]
Carlton Cole, released, June 2016 [Good portent for Celtic signings]
Colin Kazim-Richards, free to Curitiba, Jun 2016 [Good portent for Celtic signings]
Anthony Stokes, free to Blackburn Rovers, Jun 2016 [Good portent for Celtic signings]
The difference between the commentaries on BBC4 and Spanish channel Telecinco couldnt be more different.
I haven’t a clue what the Spanish commentator is saying but the excitement in his voice at every attack is really entertaining.
DD – Totally agree mo chara.
Three of the greatest ever, and all more or less same generation.
I’d say that as far as Celtic is concerned, the club has two genuinely world class footballer in Kieran Tierney and Moussa Demble.
HH. ?
What a moment for the Iranian keeper, saves pen from CR7.