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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Tallybhoy/marspapa…cool dudes…;)
bankiebhoy1
Ha I asked him that too! He wasn’t impressed.
Bye bye Hamburg .. Haha
YYYYEEEESSSSS!
Hamburg 0-1
There goes the hose pipe ban for another year
Hamburg 1-0 down… 78
Bad couple of days for Der Hun
Goan the Karlsruhe !
Are the smsm secret agents ? I’m beginning to like them – they’re still spouting the same nebulous nonsense to the proles – nobody is asking any questions which may result in action to sort out sevco, despite being journalists they are not directing investigations at any one single person – just trite clichés which mean nothing- all of this lets the incompetents bleed the place drier ! love it – keep talking crap hhugh
https://twitter.com/celticrumours/status/605381622121132033
Scottish giants Celtic had sent scouts to watch the 21-year-old last season and are still weighing up a move. Burnley, Sheffield Wednesday and Rangers have now all joined in the race.
Thon Newsnow is better than merry mac’s fun page LoL.
Max Power? mair chance of Sevco signing Max Bygraves. Come to think of it Max Bygraves could teach Cammy Bell the words to ‘you need hands’………and Moshni anaw!
Heart attack stuff. Hamburg miss a sitter. Good!
This will be some last 10
Mins , hamburg missed a sitter
Sometimes You Just Cant Get a Song Outa Your Head..Allday ive Been Singing Away……”Everybodys Doing A Brand new dance now, Cmon Baby Do The No Promotion”……………Saw it on Twitter…………All freakin Day…..Laughing…
Armageddon !!!!
SPFL Transfer News @SPFLTransfer 4h4 hours ago
44,000 Season tickets have been renewed/sold so far for Celtic FC @celticfc
calibhoy
Hail! Hail!! My sister been in Sonoma County for 15 years now, lovely place called Sebastopol. Envy your weather…..Jobo just sent his thunderstorm over here..
John Wayne needed in Karlsruhe – a bit like the Alamo at the moment.
jmccormick, I work in Sebastopol. Small world. If you are ever in town let me know.
jmccormick, We have a small club and show all the games.
Doo Doo
https://twitter.com/BiggusMannus/status/605424635727998978
JFH
from earlier
This is the pic I referred re McCall. Looks like it was the follow on fight after the initial scuffle.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10153045075588049&set=p.10153045075588049&type=1&theater
HH
CRC
Karlsruher riding their luck big time. Just as well Hamburg are no’ very good. Might even see a Mohsni the way things are going.
Watching the Karls/Ham Bundesliga promotion decider…………………
No chance of any crowd invasions there – massive number of riot police and stewards at the away end.
Mibbery in Karlsruhe
Ard Macha. Will it not be Del Bhoy. H.H. :- )
The refs a Craig Thomson. Unbelievable handball on the edge of the box
Never a handball and that’s a sickener 1-1
Thunder in dunblane.
HH jamesgang
Crap!!
Mibbery one day too late
Scum burg score 1-1 ;(
Sips
Ibiza … More chance he’s away to Millport
Corky
The zombie horde will be welcomed to Greenock .. It’s not a million miles from t4s domain
Ft 1-1 ! Et now !
Mon the Karlsruher !
calibhoy
One day hopefully…I did send her a link to the local CSC, sorry to report that her hubby and my nephews are utterly sports phobic apart from baseball.
Hope Hamburg can get late winner.
Hamburg game.
Referee explains that arm wasn’t at side. That was why he gave free kick. Total bollocks.
Funnily enough he doesn’t mention the Rolex he will get if Hamburg stay up.
ron bacardi
19:54 on 1 June, 2015
Why?