I know Ronny Deila was delighted Dedryck Boyata pitched up at Glasgow Airport last night. He’s a player the manager has known about for some time and one who was not on the Man City available list when we secured the loan deal for Jason Denayer a year ago.
The mechanics of the deal are interesting. It’s quite possible it wouldn’t have happened at all without the success Jason enjoyed in Glasgow. A year ago Jason was a complete unknown, below the pecking order than Dedryck, but we gave him a platform and now he’s a full Belgian international. The pitch we put to Dedryck was along the lines of “Look what Jason achieved here”. If we’d singed Dedryck instead of Jason a year ago, Jason would still be an unknown and Dedryck would be a Belgian international.
Assuming no late hiccups, Ronny will know his central defensive pairing for the Champions League qualifiers is sorted, allowing him to concentrate on other areas.
There are no guarantees in football, least of all with Champions League qualification, where we have three awkward knock-out rounds, but we’re starting the summer from a good place.
There’s so much to discuss about yesterdays’ Fir Park hilarity, the consequences of which will be profound. More on this later in the week, but a few points on Motherwell. For a team with such glaring shortcomings they deserved the scale of their victory. Barraclough took a squad who finished 11th in the league into two challenging games and out-thought his opponent.
However, if Celtic fans behaved the way Motherwell fans behaved yesterday your Government would be all over it by now. I’ve seen flares thrown onto pitches, I’ve seen pitch invasions (although I don’t remember seeing one congregating in front of opposition fans), but I’ve never seen a player smacked in the face and leg by a spectator’s flag, and I’ve never seen anything close to this entire repertoire from fans at a single game.
Who knows what the score would have been had Newco faced the team who finished 10th in the Premiership! Their attempt to emulate Grenta in winning three successive promotions always sounded like a tall order. They came close, but they’re no Gretna. Not. Nearly. As. Good.
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Soz
http://www.celticfc.net/because/overseas
san diego bhoy….
Fair play mate.
ACGR….
You would have loved it in the work today, zombies! My feck even a zombie puts up an argument, thems have had the stuffing ripped out of them, I reckon that was the final nail in the coffin yesterday ;)))))))))))))))))))))))))))
Gary67
19:03 on
1 June, 2015
Chick Young making complete twat of himself…..again.
Scottish football needs Rangers in top league.
The problem for Chico is that every year THEY are not in the top league proves that the top league does not need THEM>
bennybhoy
You should just ignore me like the rest of the eejits in here. 8))
BTW
gerryfaethebrig was in the priory Saturday afternoon
Sipsini, I am not a Tom nor a McLaughlin. Thanks for the warm welcome.
It reminds me of Fraternity hazing.
I think Chick is still hurting from when I asked him and a polis to sign the OBAF Act petition.
HT
At least the big yin at the end took defeat gracefully
Cheers Burgas Hoops
Are any of you Bhoys or Ghirls going to the North American Celtic Convention next
week? If so how about a meet up for a few drinks? I am bringing some good California wine with me.
HT
Did Chico sign it?
BBC news & sport , the sport was tennis & rugby news not one mention of the game yesterday why am I surprised ? Hurting huns
hamiltontim
19:14 on 1 June, 2015
Did any of them sign it ?
CALIBHOY
Wine?
Ffs,wi a moniker like that,we were expecting some Cali Special…
BT
True but he was the exception mate.
Calibhoy
‘Good California wine?!’
Och stoap it!
:-)
HH!!
Bt
Priory was good for the game pity it hasnt still got the old jukebox but suffered today mind you with a 6 am start
No Monday club for me ha
bankiebhoy1/Gerryfaethebrig
Na but it was worth asking.
Newco had two attempts to get out of the Championship,qualify automatically or via the play offs and they failed massively.Great int it!?
Hello
JFH.
If the Mullet explained himself better I wouldn’t have posted anything about him,
to me he didn’t do himself any favours, as for what he said about Moshni I wouldn’t read to much into that, as Moshni will never darken our city again,
the spin has already started blame the Motherwell supporters,
Happy Celticing
Do away goals count double in German play off ?
HT
Perhaps as a “St Mirren Fan” he felt it wasn’t worth his while?
;)
BMCUW, That can be arranged. I am not too far from the Emerald Triangle.
Poor wee smsm will still be numb today.
They will hunker down in a dark blue room this week and draw up their battle plans.
Lamb munching though smaller portions and goat fiddling will help them concoct their fantasies.
Can see them being told to repolish Mash’s reputation as he seems like the only hope for survival.
League reconstruction will be next while trashing the Spl as an unfair and uncompetitive competition.
It’s a toss up then between a firesale of Celtic players or a plethora of super
dooper hun signings.
Wonder if any of these brilliant scribes will have the audacity to mention Klopp as being very interested in this coveted job?
CIC.. Yes Hamburg 20 mins from relegation, fingers crossed
Shortbreid going on about ICT doing great for such a young club.
For god sake they are 21 years old.
How come they don’t give sevco the same credit? Three years old and pushing for a premiership place. That is a real young club doing well!
Hi all
I’m still here. In case any of you were wondering. Which you probably weren’t. But that’s OK :-)
sunny calmachie
the spin started last night, when the first Well fan stood on the pitch.
In the unlikely event that a Celtic player ever behaved like Moshni, I’d like to think our standards were such that Celtic wouldn’t come up with the “he’s out of contract bollocks”.
He disgraced Scottish Football, and were it any other club the press would be baying for his blood.
Corkcelt, Why should ‘lapsed’ posters do that
Tallybhoy, I can send you some Two Buck Chuck!
CALIBHOY
There are at least three posters of ill-repute heading your way,that I know of. And almost certainly another four that I reckon will be there.
Oh,and at least two good guys too!
calibhoy….
Just banter mate, enjoy the rhetoric on here, it’s a learning curve, like yourself, I lurked for a long time before finding the balls to post.
Just a wee heads up…
Jamesgang, lovely big chap, is prone to wearing dresses though.
ACGR, a whisky mhan, don’t get involved with him, while he’s on a mission…a bad idea:((
BMCUWP, read above.
HT/BT..Siamese Twins.
Oldtim/Delaneys/Petec….if you like a puff, that’s your bhoys.
TBJ…can fight like feck…don’t upset him.
Tom. A flouncer, get yourself back on :)
Now wee have Giants on here aswel… An tearman, Bada and Tall Tim, all play basketball in their spare time.
As for me, I’m up there with Ritchie, handsome bassas:)))
Update laters:)
Nice to see a few are still above ground level. Welcome.
Good Evening
Well the world didn’t end following Sevco’s failure to secure promotion. But the media is having a hard time dealing with it.
However the old tricks to insist we ‘need’ a strong Sevco are starting up again.
Here are some thoughts if anyone would like to read them!
https://theclumpany.wordpress.com/2015/06/01/the-mourning-after-the-night-before/
Enjoy the rest of the evening!
Thunder and lightening right on top of Chez Baldie here in wet and wild EK.
Thunder and lightning in EK
#joboistheman
San Diego Bhoy, I am north of San Francisco in Sonoma County. I went to your
supporters club in San Diego about 15 years ago. It is not around any longer right?
Ha ha,snap Joe….
Dedryck Boyata surely gets the nickname Del Boy.
Árd Macha