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Balde, Hooper, summer challenges

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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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  2. Margaret McGill on

    Peter Lawwell and a zombie went into the undertakers. “Id like to order a coffin for a friend of mine who has just died,” said PL. “Certainly, sir,” said the undertaker, “but there was really no need to bring him with you.”

  3. Fortunes Favour Mibbes on

    Mags,

     

     

    SFA Pension Plan??

     

     

    Error is in the word “plan”, ….and “pension”.

     

     

    :)))

     

     

    Those are last things on ole CO’s mind just now…

     

     

    PS Why you been posting so little?? Canamalar needs you. WE…need you.

     

     

    Selfish bollocks.

  5. Murdochbhoy, yermanfromMK on

    Good morning CQNers,

     

     

    Fortunes Favour Mibbes 04:19

     

     

     

    The video captures perfectly how a solitary act of aggression against a tide of thuggery and intimidation was all that was required to focus the wrath of the Scottish government and the SFA against NL, Celtic and its supporters.

     

     

    Probably sums up the whole sorry scene in Scotland I’m afraid.

     

     

    Anyway……a wee tune from bygone days that I came across recently…..

     

     

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVNeAFx4FlM

  8. Fortunes Favour Mibbes on

    Sir David,

     

     

    Can you make my Gran’s great Auntie come back to life? Nae moonbeams, come on, just pure simple stuff mate.

     

     

    Cheers Pal. I’ll send a positive review to wacko jacko.

  9. Fortunes Favour Mibbes on

    Murdochbhoy

     

     

    Aye, it was the photo they used as we know, of Lenny reacting against it.

     

     

    There’s tons of other videos on that out there. They’re focusing on removing the proof of the cheating,

     

     

    We’re really up against it.

     

     

    But tis okay to post Vimeo here, eg, :http://vimeo.com/21781980

  10. Margaret McGill on

    Fortunes Favour Mibbes

     

     

    05:31 on 15 June, 2013

     

    Very disillusioned. Our education tells us that FIFA is corrupt. It is. UEFA too. SFA too.Its not a sport.

  11. Margaret McGill on

    as for Campbell Ogilvie..he could retire tomorrow and be vastly solvent.

     

    The whole thing stinks.

     

    But. Wait. Hold on. Celtic just signed a 22 year old Vitoria Guimaraes reject. He could be another Henrik Larsson.

     

    i think I’d rather have a wank.

  12. BOBBY MURDOCH'S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on

    MARGARET

     

     

    They won’t be the first to discover that their pension plans have been constructed around empty promises and undermined by shameless crooks.

     

     

    Few deserve such a fate-I’ll happily allow this as an exception…..

  16. Fortunes Favour Mibbes on

    …and if such a plan existed, it would explain the “sanitisation” of the Celtic support. To be fair, wee Fergus always wanted that as well.

     

     

    Do we? This is the big question for any supporter now. Sadly, i think sanitisation will win.

  22. crowbhoy on

    bt sorry to hear of your loss,to be absent from the body is to be present with the lord,take care fella,ynwa,

  24. lionroars67 on

    kiberaceltic

     

     

    @kiberaceltic is the official twitter site for a football club based in Nairobi, founded on the principles of Celtic FC in Glasgow. Many Tribes, One Team…

     

     

    kibera bhoys in a early morning training await the tomorrows game against Nairobi stima

     

     

    Good luck to our Kenyan cousins

     

     

    We may not be able to change the world of football within Scotland, but we are making a difference and continue to be Scotlands best in many ways

  30. lionroars67 on

    Murdochbhoy, yermanfromMK

     

    06:22 on

     

    15 June, 2013

     

     

    loved that wee video, all shapes and sizes oh the innocence

     

     

    flowerinmyhair.CSC

  35. lionroars67 on

    Spending money you dont have……………………………………

     

     

    “Due diligence isn’t going to be quick,” Murray said. “To be honest, we’re worried about opening some drawers – and worried about what we might see in them.

     

     

    The quote above from Hearts foundation chairman Ian Murray

     

     

    ONE of Heart of Midlothian’s greatest ever servants has described senior officials at the club as “despicable” while stressing that, other than manager Gary Locke, there is no-one in a position of authority at Tynecastle who can now be trusted.

     

     

    Gary Mackay, who made a record 640 appearances for Hearts, has had his run-ins with the Romanov regime in the past, and now he has extended his criticism to include nearly everyone involved in the running of the imperilled club.

  36. BOBBY MURDOCH'S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on

    MARGARET

     

     

    A better mind than mine pointed out that an IQ of greater than 200 is not allowed.

     

     

    No,I dunno how it works….

  37. Brogan Rogan Trevino and Hogan supports Kano 1000 on

    Good Morning,

     

     

    Thanks to all those who helped organise Aberdour yesterday– Blantyre Kev, Taggsy, Johnnyboy and everyone involved.

     

     

    Great day and great fun— yes I know you will all still be in your beds… and why not?

     

     

    BRTH

  40. lionroars67 on

    The Suns political editor has excelled himself in todays edition with classic old firm whataboutery, my paradise match day experience based on reality is a lot happier and safer than the grimm fairy tale PR guff he has put his name to today

     

     

    Hasnt the Sun not learned anything from J96 and Leveson?

     

     

    Conspiring with the Police to paint unrealistic picture of Celtic fans with lies and damned statistics, tabloid’s have long outgrown their sell by date

  41. bankiebhoy1 on

    Hiberno deluge this fine fresh mornin’ – even the cows are cowed in Corcaigh.

     

     

    Latest score : Weather 1 – Gardeners 0.

  42. celticrollercoaster on

    winning captains

     

    23:23 on

     

    14 June, 2013

     

    A wee treat for CQNers for the weekend.

     

     

    As most of you will know one of the most respected posters on here – Setting Free the Bears – is currently taking a 125 day long break from posting. The blog is all the poorer for his absence.

     

     

    Anyway we encouraged SFTB to write for CQN Magazine and he set about the task of writing not one but two articles for the current issue. However the first article submitted arrived just too late for the current edition, which we hope you have all enjoyed!

     

     

    So rather than let the article sit around all summer – and by the time the next issue comes out SFTB will be back – we thought we’d publish it as a stand alone feature.

     

     

    And it’s all about you – the CQN internet bampots.

     

     

    So as written by Setting Free the Bears here is AN A TO Z OF CQN INTERNET BAMPOTERY.

     

     

    (Please use the arrows pointing right and left positioned at the bottom right to scroll up and down)…

     

     

    http://www.calameo.com/read/000390171a8f403272a8d

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