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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My understanding of sell on clauses is it’s the agreed percentage after initial fee. Ki sold for 6million resold for 15million. So Celtic get 20% of 9million.
Pfayr/Doc/Leftie
It’s bad enough that we need to endure the ever increasing number of Orange walks but this is a mental decision.
Tom spent years on here as a multiple personality poster. Self confessed. I consider that weird from a Tim on a fair minded civilused
CRC
Deal between who?
Doc. I know you don’t!
Arsenal should have been Victor’s destination in the first place.
burghbhoy – ‘you talking to me?’ If so I agree. But mibbee that’s cos I used to have a wee temper on the field and Jnr looks like he has one too!
Tam Mc. Don’t be a stranger.
HH jamesgang
prestonpans bhoys
22:02 on 1 June, 2015
I spoke to 2 older guys on the train on the way back – explained to them the significance of the banner & the loyalist crap & they were shocked and pretty embarrassed by it
That was some away game all the same 8-)
It is HT.
HT
Labour and OO
I will check out tomorrow if this was part of BT campaign ( not get Blantyre Tim a fritter!) as I suspect.
HH
CRC
….Blig.
He was calling me out yesterday trolling and unprovoked. Twice and only yesterday. Not that anyone noticed.
I try and scroll past hiim and kojo.
Troills as far as I am concerned
HH
How comes there are secret e-mails doing the rounds slagging off other CQNrs and I don’t get to see them?
Who do you have to sleep with to get on the cc list in this clique?
I see the clique accusation was flying around freely earlier.
As far as I can see the CQN definition can be worded as :-
A clique is two or more posters disagreeing with my sincerely held view.
However, two or more posters who agree with my view are merely a fine collection of independently minded human beings.
Individualists of the world unite!
HT
Email sent(I think) :)))
Good night all
Hrvatski Jim
20:20 on
1 June, 2015
Sad news tonight that Father Noel Barry of St. Agnes’ Lambhill died today after a long and courageous fight against cancer.
He had embarked on a major renovation of the church when the cancer struck but battled on as best as he could despite obvious lack of health.
RIP
****
I didn’t know Fr. Barry, but St.Agnes’ was my parish from 1953-1970.
Many happy years.
May he Rest in Peace.
Well good night Bhoys I hope your dreams are what you would wish them to be and you awake refreshed in another new morning that the Good Lord has blessed you with.H.H.
I will always ‘rise to the occasion’, even, in fact because, some people ‘turn up the heat’
I am to cover everything when the stakes (& kidney) go up
As my dear late dad used to say ” the Brylcream is on the top shelf in the cupboard”
SFTB
Me too, feeling as empty as I did after the fritter fiasco.
Tom
We have been in contact for ghod knows how long. I just luuuvd your GCT posts. You once commented that I was one of the best Celtic Supporters you have spoken to. Whaow, ma heid wiz blown. Tom, your contribution on this blog is very much appreciated by the majority of Celtic Supporters on the blog. For our sake, Tom, please rethink and get yer ass on here. YNWA.
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
Ok, if 20% of £9m, it is still £1.8m to us, that is Celtic
If same with big Vic, he goes for £20m then 20% of another £8m gives us another £1.6m
So we have £3.4m for starters, great Management by Big PL :-)
I am also reading Bolton hoping to get Gary Hooper ? Do we get anything for that ?
And next season Big Fraser could be sold
All good stuff :-)
Hail Hail
SFTB
A fairly succinct definition of of the fabled CQN clique
Don’t worry I haven’t seen the email either
crc @ 22.08
Are you still parading that fantasy about the OO and Labour having a secret agreement?
That they wrote down an aw and showed to people who gabbed about it so that you would find out?
The flaw in that Scot Nat fantasy is that Glasgow Labour, and only Glasgow Labour, ever bothered to challenge the proliferation of OO parades all over our land. Glasgow Labour then got its arse kicked by our independent judiciary for interfering with the OO’s inalienable WATP rights. The courts told them to go back and be nicer to the OO and stop trying to ban them.
Meanwhile, our Scots Government in Holyrood says not a word on the subject so it can never put a foot wrong. Even when it had a chance with the Dr. Morrow report on sectarianism, it chose to put the soft target of football sectarianism, ludicrous definitions and all, in the forefront.
On parades, it basically said:- -“Aye, it’s a shame there are so many but what can you do ,eh?”
But, it would not do to criticise our shiny new La La Land in Embra.
My time is up. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzs on ma cot now. KTF yawl.
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
james forrest
21:54 on 1 June, 2015
What are you on about?
Of course we should leave;
bankers to police bankers – FSA
journalists to police journalists – IPSO
police to police police – PIRC
MPs to police MPs – PCS
That’s how we do things in Britain. We police our own, dontcha know?
Wreefratim,
and tell him to stop flouncing :-)
It unmanly :-)
HH
Just watched the latest video of the mis-behaving yesterday (it’s on video celts)
I see 2 inspectors led Moshni off the park, do they not know the law ? I didn’t see any handcuffs
Hail Hail
setting free the bears for res. 12 & oscar knox
22:17 on 1 June, 2015
Hail Hail to that
For all the people here comparing moshni to jar jar have a thought to how jar jar feels about being compared to him
BT, you still not got over that Fritter
Well Well I never :-)
Awe naw
That’s mhanly coming fae you ya nutter. How ye doin’ kiddo, hope you and the family are all superb. :-))))
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
LiviBhoy
21:58 on 1 June, 2015
Sell on clauses eh?
Who thought those up?
Hope there is a bidding war. Forster probably has one too and unless someone pays over the odds up front so will Virgil. Smart business
———–
Absolutely.
Someone has clearly cottoned on to the fact that transfer fees between EPL clubs are crazy.
Worth taking a wee hit up-front to get more back later on.
Jamesgang:
I rest my case (delivered in a passive aggressive demeanour)…
:-)
CentredroastersCSC
Hooper would be off his heid to go to Bolton career wise
Mid table obscurity at best
Unless Alex Neil has told him he has no future there
Cowiebhoy
I didnae get to the size I am now by getting cheated out of a fritter by an Orc 8))
I see che won the Kano foundation player of the year draw
Weefrathtim
That ‘s the spirit :-)
Still laughing at yesterday. Shunning images in my mind of Cammy Bell to prevent hysterical giggles. Aye you’re right. Mad as a brush. No Old Firm. Yet…
HH
Awe naw
We sing off the same hymn sheet. Feck them. Hahahahaha. You take care buddy. :-)))
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
CRC
Cheers I’ll look into that.
Tom,
In cyberspace as in the real world, there is always tittle-tattle and bitching going on.
Anyone who thinks that they are above being slagged behind their back is deluding themselves.
It is not the “back stabbers” that cause the hurt, but the “friend” who feels it is their duty to inform you of the gossip.
Personally, I coast along on here, assured of my universal popularity and esteem….and I’ll throw a wobbly if anyone tells me differently!!
It is that time of year again, when we start counting up the mythical sell-on fees.
setting free the bears for Res. 12 & Oscar Knox
22:17 on
1 June, 2015
It is really up to you what you want to believe, as long as we are both happy with our own dreams and reality.
Take care.
HH
CRC
Tom
Come back
Because that leaves me as the most popular CQN bugger