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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Lennybhoy
Hope you have a fantastic day at your sisters wedding, and enjoy celebrating your 21st
Hail Hail
Tell ye there’s some water coming down that Bannock – the burn
Im sure its got something to do with the 19th century Russian Anarchists, who have infiltrated the blog, and are circulating devious plans to usurp CQN.
They will stop at nothing.
And I would not be surprised, if the inscrutable Fu Manchu was involved.
Took much of this kind of nonsense on CQN.
Unmask these Fiends.
HH
On cliques.
I don’t go to Babbity’s , the New Blane Valley or CQN corner (it might help if I knew where it was), I don’t exchange mails and have not met anyone from CQN face to face apart from one , maybe two , that it so happens I knew a long time ago before CQN existed and who it transpires are posters.
My sporadic posts are sometimes ignored and have , on occasion , been ridiculed and openly derided. I’ve never sashayed from CQN let alone flounced.
I’m not party to what has happened with Tom McLaughlin but my point is I still feel part of something rather than excluded because this site is a forum for disparate views and individuals who have one thing in common – Celtic.
Until I lose my interest in Celtic or CQN becomes SomethingElseQN I’ll keep dropping by and so , IMHO, should anyone else with an interest in Celtic.
cowiebhoy
09:17 on 2 June, 2015
Thanks mate and good luck on Thursday.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
BMCUWP
Its got to be give and take on the blog.
Usually…I give advice, then take pelters:)
That’s what its all about.
I mean, I remember not long ago…..several posters were enraged, because I called PL, the Blessed Peter.
But, I wasn’t being serious….just a joke:)
HH
The Battered Bunnet
09:17 on
2 June, 2015
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It’s the non Saturday fitba that snookers a lot of us TBB.
Sat 3 o clock KO’s I would drive up from Lytham, collect the Faither from Carluke have a blether with maw, go tae the game then drop him off home before driving south.
Sunday is family day.
4 games this season were 3 on a Sat, canny justify two season books on that return.
The club have decided to take the TV money rather than mine, that’s their decision.
the long wait is over
09:21 on 2 June, 2015
As you perfectly summed up, if you are interested in Celtic then CQN is the place to come and contribute to things affecting Celtic.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
They are still living in fantasy land. Read this rubbish from the Daily ranger.
Sport Football Football News Rangers FC
Gary Ralston: The race to rebuild Rangers is on.. but revamp should have been done three years ago
07:47, 2 June 2015
OPINION BY GARYRALSTON
AS 11 players are shown the door by Rangers GARY examines the size of the job facing the manager at Ibrox – whoever he may be – and says it’s Ally McCoist’s errors which have turned Gers into a timebomb.
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Rangers manager Stuart McCall wants the chance to rebuild the teamRangers manager Stuart McCall wants the chance to rebuild the team
OLD Father Time clapped hands at midnight on Sunday for the departure of a Rangers team more lamentable than lamented.
Now the clock is ticking louder than ever on an Ibrox project that has a year to restore credibility or be regarded as an irrelevance, maybe even for good.
Rangers released 11 players on May 31. Farewell – and not necessarily a fond one – to Steve Simonsen, Lee Robinson, Lee McCulloch, Bilel Mohsni, Steven Smith, Jon Daly, Ian Black, Richard Foster, Kyle Hutton, Kris Boyd and Sebastien Faure.
Old Bill Struth got it wrong. There are some Rangers players who have failed in the traditions set them, even though some of the departed are more culpable than others.
In the next 10 days Rangers will outline a programme of reform that will include season-ticket packages for another campaign in the Championship and, if they get their man this week, the
presentation of a new boss.
All the latest news from Ibrox
The sands of time appear to have run out on Stuart McCall, who tried valiantly with assistant Kenny Black to keep this Clyde-built vessel from foundering on the rocks of seasons of rampant greed and ragged management, on and off the park.
In the end it went down tamely over four days in the play-off final, all hope lost among the fans who stormed away from Motherwell on Sunday evening.
Motherwell Manager Ian Baraclough celebrates as his side win the Scottish Premiership Play-Off Final
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No one could have done more than McCall, who handled himself with composure and class, but the manner of the play-off loss appears to have cost him boardroom support.
Let’s face it if Rangers were convinced they had found the man to lead them into arguably the most crucial season in their history they would surely have said so before the first game against his former club in the hope the groundswell of goodwill would carry them some way towards the Premiership.
It was not to be and now any new management team have a year to complete a journey that should have been done in the relative luxury of three.
The bookies have made former city trader Mark Warburton favourite after he took Brentford to the brink of the Premiership with deputy David Weir, a visible figure at Rangers games recently, including the Glasgow Cup Final played by their youths.
Warburton once took Weir, his backroom staff and a handful of players on to the dealing room at HSBC in Canary Wharf to see the pressures of city trading.
He should try walking down the Paisley Road West, past the District Bar and The Grapes, after a Rangers defeat if he really wants to know about a position that comes with stress and strain.
Warburton and Weir may be well placed to replace McCall but they’re not out-and-out favourites and the remit of whoever gets the job will be simple – take Rangers out of the second tier as
champions then be in a position to challenge Celtic for the title in season 2016-17.
This new board will have to be ruthless, maybe even to the extent of demanding the Championship is in the bag before the management are allowed to take their team to the next stage.
New chairman Dave King has already promised to bankroll the club with players of Premiership quality next season and with only three transfer windows to get it right there is no scope for error.
Serious investment must be made in the coming weeks, boosted still further in the January window, before it is topped up with more significant funds next summer.
The new season starts in seven weeks and Rangers must move smartly if they are to emulate Hearts in the season just past, which will be not be easy as Hibs have already started tooling up.
Some ambitions may have to be sacrificed, maybe in the short and medium terms.
PARangers Kris Boyd reacts after another chance is missedKris Boyd is one of 11 players on his way
King and his board are fans of the director of football model but that may have to wait for now.
It would not come as a surprise if plans for capital projects and stadium redevelopment are not exactly put on hold but not considered a priority as the focus is fixed on the first team alone.
A narrative has emerged in recent years that Rangers have been appallingly mismanaged off the park since the arrival of Charles Green in 2012.
In fact, Rangers have been brilliantly manipulated by a string of corporate money merchants who have shamelessly and knowingly enriched themselves at the only time in the club’s history it has never had to fork out serious money to challenge Celtic.
Their £6million playing budget, paltry by standards of the past, was a lavish sop to supporters and should have been more carefully invested by Ally McCoist who went too often for a quick fix.
Rangers fans are entitled to weep at the poverty of player in recent years, including the likes of Kevin Kyle, Emilson Cribari, Anestis Argyriou and Arnold Peralta.
The new manager must invest more wisely and, in the aftermath of such a heavy defeat by Motherwell, some fans are even arguing the Championship is the best place to rebuild.
Maybe they should go the whole hog and go for Nick Knowles and his team from DIY SOS.
The more perceptive Rangers followers might have a point. Let’s face it, their team in the top flight next season, outside the top three, maybe even struggling to finish top six and miles off Celtic’s pace?
It would hardly inspire a revolution of the rank and file behind their club.
Time waits for no one. Rangers must set some pace in the months ahead if they are to even dream of catching Celtic anytime soon.
In fact…its not generally known….but there is a surrealist-anarchist clique on CQN.
Im the only one in it…but you are all welcome.
HH
THE GREEN MAN
Which Thatcherite referred to her as The Blessed Margaret?
Btw for aw you smarties it wisnae Tony Blair…
twists n turns
09:00 on 2 June, 2015
Can someone with a better grasp of deciphering gobbledygook than me please provide an idiots guide to what Fifa are saying in their statement this morning re the 10 million dollars being investigated? Serious request. I cannot make head nor tail of it.
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I think that’s the purpose of the statement….
The Phantom Flan Flinger has got a lot to answer for, that’s all I will say.
Marxist Malcontents, Russian Anarchists, The Angry Brigade….and now
FlounceGate.
We should be told.
HH
the green man
09:29 on 2 June, 2015
In fact…its not generally known….but there is a surrealist-anarchist clique on CQN.
Im the only one in it…but you are all welcome.
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Splitter
Clique = the likes of Delaney the Donkey and all the rest of his knitting bee.
Anyone who argues that there is not a CQN clique, is also a clique.
I will not change your sheets again Mr Cannamannafanna
BMCUWP
Peter Lawell:)
HH
Champions League .
” Saw Buffon stating that Rube have a 1 in 3 chance of beating Barca.Guess that means they have only managed to bribe 1 of the Officials ”
– the Inter mad ole codger from down the valley 1 6 15.
BMCUW.
Norman St John Stevas
Bumped into my wee mate Alistair down the allotment last night, he was telling me his wee pal Stuie has cut him in on a few pound Stuie has come into as a result of Motherwell staying in the Premier league. Alistair seemed dead chuffed, he reckons with the few extra bob he will be able to finish off the rockery he started in February with some nice bedding plants. He also said that he is starting to build a Pergola in the garden similiar to the one his pal Kenny has been working on this past couple of months. I just nodded at Alistair, had’nt a clue what he was on about….
BMCUW
Norman Sin Gin Steven.
A well-known Kafflick as well.
Shame on him!
HH!!
Stevas!
Sad news about Charles Kennedy – he’d a been just before me at the oull’ Uni but saw him at debates in the GUU – a stout performer there and in the beer bar afterwards. Old before his time and far, far too young to pass away.
Makes ye think, eh?
…………..In ither news, the latest storm-in-a-pint-pot has a familiar ring to it ,tghere are other personal issues at play, beyond the reach of social media imo, and anyway I’m with PJ Bhoy – he’ll be back, yer man’s a bouncer not a flouncer.
As for the “clique” thang………..can I put my name down for the Gardenin’ clique? We’re posh tho’ an’ call it a…………..cloche!
:)
HH.
Bawsman
Fair comment, and reflects my own experience – I was able to attend fewer than half home league matches this season due to Sunday switches – I coach on a Sunday.
The Europa League was unavoidable, but the 2 games that we elected to postpone in August and January knarked somewhat, and the TV switches canot be justified on the basis of the paltry revenue they generate versus the impact on attendance.
Poor value for our 3 season books.
Saying that, I coached my last match on Sunday past, and have now totally flounced the youth fitba’ scene.
Life’s looking better already.
morning all from Lower Saxony …warm but grey today…..bit like a few of us on here ….hehehehe….off to do a bit of pro bono work for my old German neighbours …and then get spoilt rotten on the best that the region has to offer…could be a late one ….
giveandtakeCFC….
braw
SOUTHOFTUNIS
TALLYBHOY
Thanks,lads.
Maybe I need to move to Italy to keep up wi things here!
Another thing about CQN-ask a question,someone will know the answer.
quonno
22:53 on 1 June, 2015
You did prove Neil had said he would tell all. You also said he is morally obliged to tell us for that you are mental and as I said. Anyone who thinks he is morally obliged is also mental.
Celtic Official Club Statement
CELTIC has opposed the Offensive Behaviour at Football and Threatening Communications (Scotland) Act 2012 from the outset as evidenced by our submission to the Justice Committee in 2011.
We believe that the Act has the potential to discriminate against football supporters.
Celtic continues to oppose the Act and, as a contribution to the Scottish Government’s review of the Act, met recently with the Scottish Government to explain our position.
We proposed that at a minimum certain offences under the Act should be repealed. Celtic also recently met with Fans Against Criminalisation to discuss how to take this issue forward.
We wait with interest the findings of the forthcoming review and trust that it will be the full, transparent and in-depth review that football fans expect.
Mr Pasty
Are you referring to me?
Could you elaborate please?
Who are you???
CORKCELT
Good news indeed.
downforsam 09.27
That article reads like something found on zombie media.
Deluded Huns !
HH
Sad to hear of the passing of two good men.
Father Noel Barry and Charles Kennedy R.I.P.
corkcelt
Great statement by the club.
LB
Looks like Jerome Valcke is toast:
http://t.co/b0yKBPRAcA
BMCUW
You are welcome.
Just ask the Italian clique.
HH!!
TALLYBHOY
What is Italian for clique?
Omertà?(!)
Good morning from a very hot and sunny Malta.
Calibhoy
Welcome to CQN
Really interesting article on Socc….sorry football in the states.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-32956824
LB
My friends in Celtic,
Many of wanted a club statement re the club’s stance on the OB act 2012.
Well we have one and it seems pretty unequivocal to me.
HH.
BMCUW
The Italian for clique is ‘Cosa Nostra.’