13 June and Celtic have signed a striker! Do we have some important games coming up early in the season? 6’4” Amido Balde joined Sporting Lisbon three years ago but never made an appearance for the club.
After three loan deals he joined Vitoria Guimaraes a year ago, where he caught the eye of Celtic scouts. At 22-years-old, he is right in the sweet spot of Celtic’s recruitment strategy: fully developed physically, old enough to be considered prime first team material but with many years of prime football ahead.
Playing for Celtic is quite different than playing for Vitoria Guimaraes, so it may take Amido a period of adjustment to settle into life as a Glasgow sporting celebrity, but he is clearly the man Neil Lennon and the scouts wanted. Based on that, I’m happy.
Despite what could be described as cover, and the fact that the player has declined a new contract, I’m still not happy to sell Gary Hooper. We have lots to do this summer before that moves up the agenda.
Welcome to Celtic, Amido.
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John O Neil
17:59 on 14 June, 2013
No problem Kev. Look after yourself.
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U2 M8 :)
I’ll be – Off oot noo – My spider senses detect – a storm on the horizon :)
Oh, before I go – Jeanette Findlay on the telly there – you speak for me babe :)
Off oot noo – laters…
John O Neil
I’m a proud and vindicated ‘paranoid’ Tim, events and inactions have proved my pessimism was never in vain or vanity.
One day you may grow to share my shame, then again, one day you might grow to not.
Such is life.
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Next Point of Interest.. Fur Me..
Ah hasten tae Say!!!
Fur Me!
Is
Wull Celtic, Next Reel in.. Esmael Goncalves?
Celtic, hiv had contact with his “People”. a few weeks ago.
Wiz he jist a Back-Up …if Amido, didnae Bite?
Could Be..
But,Ah like tae Think.. NA..it Wiznae.
Interestingly, Esmael, comes fae the Same Neighborhood as. OOr .. Amido
Namely.. Guinea Bissau.
So that makes them..practically…well… Kissin’ Cousins.
Esmael, turns,only.. 22 ,in a Few Days.
So he fits the Celtic Template, Au Jour.
Young, Has Heaps of Potential..and is …well.. Cheap!
Ah saw him Playing agin us For St.Mirren..and He was Very Impressive.
Yes.. Ah widnae be too Pit oot..if..
Neil.. Brought his Services tae
Parkheid oan the Clyde.
Kojo
Still.. Laughin’
Twists
I only pray to Paddy Powerfor some respite these days.
Hilarious mate.
Dont let me influence you.
I think you should.
Yeah ….are you in Holland still ?
I remember your brother G very well. My mother would hold him up as an example to us. When you see the wimmin I have slept with it didnae work ;-)
I think resting players is a real help in the CL. I rate Matthews and thought Ambrose was a great acquisition and Forster was immense in Europe.
Really looking forward to this season in the CL if we get there … A kris commons with an engine would be good.
HH
Aw Knaw Annoni,
First of all, your morning post about the disabled investor in Sevco was despicable.
To answer your question, it is excruciating to read some of the nonsense on this site which portrays us as weak victims being bullied by masons and the rest of Scotland. Celtic are prospering. Celtic’s core support has reached just about every level of society. We have had establishment figures like John Reid on our board. This evil, masonic conspiracy is so powerful that it could not prevent the death of the huns – that suggests that either they are not powerful or they are actually useless or that they never cared for the huns.
A stor
I agree with your post earlier. We have put up with inequality in a variety of arena’s for far too long (social, sport, work etc etc). It is getting better but not quick enough.
However without a dedicated long term strategy, with intelligent forward thinking people strategising we will get nowhere.
If we don’t think before we act it will turn into a physical fight. One we can never win and one which will turn us into them.
A Stor. I don’t follow your point about shame.
Found a “Pro v1” golf ball in the back yard this afternoon.
What kind of fe@kin drivers are yous using over there?
Tinhatdefinitlyonnowcsc
clunks:
I’m not one for telling scarry monstor stories, but if you are at all interested go back a few pages and I posted links to what the Mexico masons tried to do to the Catholic (and others) church.
Take from it what you may if you chose to take the time to see what I have been getting at.
Bottom line being – if somebody is out to get you, and you are too shit scared to stand up for yourself – then who are you going to blame when you’re got?
Kojo,
do you think the St Mirren player is better than what we already have? Surely Tony Watt deserves more chances providing his attitude is right?
John O Neil
If I did nothing in the face of intimidation and instead let it fester so my problem became the problem of others who came behind me… then I would die in shame.
Do you need me to explain it any further?
John O Neil
18:16 on 14 June, 2013
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Maybe the masonic shapeshifters manouvered the huns oot the SPL for what ? 3 years?
Out of the top league for 3 seasons – all to avoid paying – 140 million quid to creditors ?
Aye – the masons have gone away not!
Hail Hail or Hail Mary ?
Off oot – laters
A stor
History is littered with such stuff. You don’t have to look far to find it.
As Petec will no doubt tell you the world we know is hanging by a thread. It won’t take much to turn Scotland into an ethnically cleansed Serbia. Am sure the Serbians didn’t see it coming until it was too late either.
We are not at that stage yet. But we are in the minority.
John O neil 18-16
I think Minty was a loose cannon with such a firm grip on things at Ibrokes and the MSM that the even trooser lifters were taken by surprise .
The goat worriers though are coming into their own now that Hector has been dispatched and hundreds of other unfortunate creditors .
The outcome of every damning case against the old club has been so illogical that the only reasonable answer is corruption on a grand scale .
Toxic doesn’t even come close to it .
My only hope is that our club will be itemising every verdict and compiling a dossier to use to escape this set up ASAP .
A Stor, I will look for the article you posted. Thanks.
john o neil
That was a cop out. No surprised there LOL
But a good answer for a goldfish in dirty watter to deny the evidence that is now being exposed on an hourly basis.
As for my comment about disabled hun major share holders I thought it was precise and accurate on a psychological and medical basis. Lets have a debate on it.
Now making a quick nick out of expoiting the dumb huns or setting up a charitable trust in your clubs name to be used as a defacto bank account while your on the Top 100 list now thats despicable in my book. Not that you would notice.
Or are you not a fan of Elvis ?
;-))))))
HH
Nick=buck
Bernard Ponsonby was questioning Frank Mulholland Scotlands Lord Advocate On the Offensive Behaviour Bill, Mr Mulholland when pressed admitted that Having an Irish Republican identity is possibly illegal under the Act.
If your lurking Frank (as I am led to believe you do) that was one helluva admission to make.
Credit to Bernard Ponsonby for his persistence in questioning.
One Scotland Many Cultures First Minister?
They are in the process of liquidation, and will be liquidated at the end of that process – but they are not liquidated yet (unfortunately).
Kevj
Centenary season who was at the helm of
our club?…….you loved it, my point is it’s our
club, player’s, manager’s director’s come and go
but it’s still our club.
John O Neil:
The link I posted will take an hour out of your life, the movie it regards to will take two more, the books that are associated would maybe take you a couple of months at least if you are a speed reader. I hope you have the energy.
Awe naw
The info coming out is dynamite no doubt about it.
But the way it is being down defeats the point of it. It cannot be used except to gossip and laugh at them. Until it can be used it is just hot air.
You need to find a way to make it legitimate or use a source with a big enough following who don’t care about the legal ramifications.
What we have is the mike Tyson of proof. A snarling angry beast of an animal. Before we led him into the ring though we have blind folded him.
Get the blindfold and you can sit back and watch him tear heads of with the truth
Kev Jungle: do you really think the masons cared about the huns? Are they not too busy running the earth? If they really did yield such power here, may I congratulate them for their good work in ‘helping’ Celtic to defeat our old rivals.
Fergus: we shall see. Sometimes truth is more prosaic than we wish it to be. Thanks also be to David Murray for his splendid work in helping Celtic to win the football war.
Clunks: most people in Scotland do not have any interest in religion. Those who dislike the Catholic church likely do so because of reasons other than the traditional ones.
John O’ Neil
Tough question,pal.. Real Tough wan!
But.. Ah wull Answer it,anyway.
If that question wiz put tae oor Scouts..
Then.. Ah am soiten that they wid ..look in ASKANCE tae the Questioner.
But,hiving said awe that…
Ah wull Proceed tae Answer that Question,of Your’s..
Sure, Ah believe that Esmael is Better than Some of the guys that we already hiv.
Tony Watt,is,of course.. One of the exceptions.
Ah jist Luv . Ma Tony!
He is ..in Ma opinion..oor Best Striker.
Bettah than.. Hoops.. Bettah than Stokesy..and Yes.. even Bettah than .. Sammi..
He has it Awe.. and a wee bit Mair.
The only thing he needs is.. Mair Seasoning
and
If Neil, keeps oan Hauding him Back.. by rationing his games..
which Ah fail tae understaun..
well..
Tony, may.. rightly, in Ma Opinion.. Begin tae think that he could dae a Loat bettah fur his Career..
Somewhere ,else.
Noo.. Esmael.. is a guy who kin.. Rumble wi the Best..he kin
score the goals..and he is very Skilled In his chosen trade.
He is a real.. Strong and Intimidatin’ type.. Something like Tony.
And Esmael..kin play as a Left Winger as well as a Striker..
A real Versatile Guy.. Who will only get Bettah, and Bettah and.. well.. Bettah.. as he Matures..
again.. Something like.. Tony.
Yep.. Ah wid Grab Esmael.
Ah like the Kid, aloater.
Kojo
Still, Laughin’
John ONeil- I saw John Reid on the day after Mike “Simply the best” McCurry cheated Dundee United out of a win at Ibroke (Craig leveine said this so it must be true) and John Reid was absolutely raging- we might have a few supporters in powerful positions but dont doubt that there is a brotherhood with significant power in Scottish society
John O Neil
You are the one that asked the question and then ignored my answer so I’ll post if again and see if I get a pertinent reply: (but by all means, in the interim, check out how the masons in Mexico massacred the Catholics in Mexico)
This was my reply to you that you declined to respond to….
If I did nothing in the face of intimidation and instead let it fester so my problem became the problem of others who came behind me… then I would die in shame.
Do you need me to explain it any further?
Awe naw
No I’m back in Shropshire. About to go climb the Long Mynd to get some exercise and fresh air. It’s the wee village gala day tomorrow , though I won’t be going up, but I’ll save anyone looking for a jobo weather update tomorrow. It’s the gala day, so, rain is a cert. As Kev says…off oot, or, off oot and up in this instance. Later mate.
Awe_Naw_No_Annoni_Oan_Anaw_Noo
07:22 on
14 June, 2013
I see another wheelchaired supremo is about to gain the love of the Ibrox hoardes. Can you not get a tablet for this condition ?
Why must I be so lonely?When so many people pass me by I’ve been waiting for oh so long now And yet I’m unable to answer why I can’t be made to give up now Can you find room for me in your heart somehow?I wanna be loved I just wanna be loved I guess I’m a victim of loneliness But why should this be my destiny?A foolish man for a lot of my life Shouldn’t there be someone Someone for me?I hope and I pray some happy day That I’ll be around to hear you say I wanna be loved I just wanna be loved
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Let us debate that.
Clunks
Its all about timing for maxiumum impact.
Charlotte has been confirmed by the SFA as we can see from Chucks departure. It had nothing to do with his Paki friend comment.
Tom British and Britney have both authenticated the Media house manipulation.
I wonder how ST sales are going down Ibrox way. Certainly does not help.
So momentum is building until a high profile and anticipated serious event such as a court case takes place.
It will I agree blow over and Scotland will remain the same but we will get concessions …if Its not goodbye then its same old same old
HH
john o neil
Most people in Scotland don’t care a jot about religion. Correct.
It takes a small number to agitate the majority and there is a groundswell of negative opinion. It’s already happening. I don’t believe every on at ibrox that sings the songs behaves like that outside ibrox, this also is a fact.
Am not sure of the experiments name but here is roughly how it went. Volunteers were asked to push a button that would send a small electrical charge to another chap in a chair. The wires weren’t connected and the chap in the chair was in no danger. The voltage was slowly increased until it was apparent that the chap in the chair was in serious pain. Most people continued to press the button knowing they were hurting the other chap.
The point of the experiment was to see how many people would refuse to press the button.
The result was not many people refused to press the button. Everyone knew it was wrong but did it anyway.
Social dynamics being as they are it does not require many people to care about religion for it to ramp up.
They just need the right people in the right place saying the right things.
Gotta get A Hitch..Mitch
See.. Ya
Kojo
Still..Laughin’
estorilbhoy
With all due respect I would suggest that Gary Hooper still has a very long way to go before he can be spoken of in the same breath as Bobby Lennox and Stevie Chalmers.
I am old enough to have seen these two wonderful players – numbers 2 and 4 in the all-time scorers list – in the flesh.
HH!!
Yes that
Is John o Neil Jack Irvine in Russian ?
HH
A Stor.
Sorry I did not answer that. Well, it depends on what one considers ‘intimidation’ to be. Who is this intimidation aimed at? Are you saying Catholics feel intimidated?
Steirheed: the powerful and evil forces have been so efficient that they have helped Celtic to become the most powerful force in Scotland. Thanks be to them.
Hi Clunks. Have you been around Scotland? The idea that there are vast amounts of people just waiting to power up their bigotry towards Celtic supporters is in my experience nonsense. Only in a few places does a Celtic shirt potentially cause problems for the wearer. Most people do not care. I have encountered bigots all over but I do not believe we are heading for ethnic cleansing. What nonsense.
John O Neil:
I never said anything about Catholicism and intimidation… you seem to have made that link all by yourself.
Would you care to explain why?