Yesterday we discussed how Brendan, like Jock Stein before him, liked to control the news agenda in the week of a big domestic game. Within hours Craig Gordon’s new contract, which was agreed some time ago, was announced.
This is genuine good news all round. The keeper has a new multi-year deal to look forward to. His manager has just out a substantial amount of confidence in him, in the shape of money. Brendan doesn’t need to worry about his others unsettling his goalkeeper.
Events like this impact on the dressing room too, in the opposite way to when a striker cannot get his contract extended beyond June. Newco’s refusal to give Kenny Miller a new contract is totally understandable, but it will demotivate the player, and possibly others.
Miller’s agent moved for a new deal after the winter break, but the former Celtic striker has scored only six goals in 27 league games this season, two of those came when he had fresh legs in August. Moussa Dembele scored as many in one and half games last month. The stats don’t justify investing in a player who will be 38 this year, so I doubt that news management route will be open to Newco this week.
Still, I’m sure they’ll announce the appointment that director of football they have been briefing everyone about for weeks. Failure to land him after being so open wouldn’t just be embarrassing, it would cast doubts on the board’s competency.
Lisbon Canvas Raffle Alert
In honour of Billy McNeill, who last week we learned is suffering from Alzheimers, Celtic artist Barry McGonigle (@BarryMcGonigle) has made this magnificent creation available for raffle in aid of Alzheimer Scotland. Works like this are seldom open to raffle, instead they can reach over £1000 at auction, but it is such a magnificent piece, that we would like as many ordinary fans as possible to have a chance of winning. Bertie Auld signed the canvas.
A few points:
The raffle is open for five days only – FIVE days! So you stand an excellent chance of winning.
We ask for a minimum donation of £5.
You can enter through this MyDonate page, with the money going straight to Alzheimer Scotland.
Please make sure I have contact details from you (email me at celticquicknews@gmail.com with the word “Canvas” in the subject, just in case) to make sure I can get in touch if you win.
I can deliver in central Scotland, at Celtic Park, or by collection in Lanarkshire.
It looks great online but trust me, the impact when you stand in front of it is substantial. What a great present or keepsake for someone.
Good luck!
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BMCUWP,reading back, I’ve had two emails like that today,one at 3:30 this morning
Dos Barca.
Barca get a 2nd. Provided they don’t concede they must be in with a real chance!
2-0 Barca…. Getting interstesting.
What an atmosphere at the Camp!
JFH: Best wishes to you and your wife. KTF
Well done ref books PSG player for gesturing to get a Barca player booked
Raith Rovers managing to hold the best team we’ve played domestically this season to a goalless first half.
PSG tactics awful. Playing into Barcelona’s hands.
Need to use the length and width of the pitch. Short passes into the middle where the receiving player is outnumbered and loses the ball straight away – why???
Think we might see Di Maria.
Barcelona are unquestionably capable of being a fantastic football team….
But Suarez, and particularly Neymar are despicable cheats.
Shame.
The Barca teenyweenys 2-0, if any team can turn a 4-0 deficit it’s the oompaloompas.
Ps. No offence to any wee blokes on here. :)))
Doc
I went to visit Charlie at the start of the year as he’s been poorly. Had a right good blether with him. He was on CQN the night Leicester won the league and it was a great Q&A session.
Pretty sure he talked at length about both corners that night!
Glass 2/3
PSG doing well to keep the score down. Barca pressing them all over the pitch. If they open up Barca will kill them. Trust me Barca are unplayable in this mood.
JFH, the prayers will continue.
A few we prayers to St Paddy as well as the (good) news will come on his Feast Day!
KTF
Lineker absolutely wetting himself. Embarrassing.
Good read on the modern football landscape and a bleak future for the game as sport.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2017/03/08/madridification-barcelona-barca-went-mes-que-un-club-just-another/
TheTimReaper
Agree up to a point, but when PSG have the ball they are giving it away far too cheaply and in dangerous areas. If they keep playing the same way they will go out.
Bayern Arsenal 5-1 1-5
Madrid Napoli 3-1 1-3
PSG Barca 4-0 ……
Prefer Barcelona to lose. And as many as the rest of the likes of Arsenal, etc who want to restrict the CL to themselves.
WC’s, I’m sure he did, I really enjoyed talking about it with Charlie, a real gentleman.
Best part of the story was going back to share it with my Dad, he really enjoyed the fact I had told Charlie how important he had seen those corners as. Actually they both knew how important they were, Charlie did, in his humble way know he made a contribution, without the first would momentum have been gained?without the second…………….
Unthinkable.
But they both happened.
And the rest, as they say, is history.
Barca ball boys and girls are the best on the planet. Poetic.
Uefalona!!
3-0 Messi pen
Stonewall penalty that the referee didn’t give but official behind the goal did
That awkward moment when you’ve only beaten Barca 4-0 at home.
VFR
I will get your number off Al on Sunday and phone you next week.
HH
Never in a million years was that a Penalty
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
RON BACARDI
It is no longer the peoples game.
Now it is like the American sports franchise model a vehicle that rich men can make huge profits from.
The game as a sport is finished.
It struck me on Sunday vs St Mirren that our bellboys and ballgirls were slow at getting the ball back in play. Was there really only one ball? Is that how bad things are at the SFA?
Neymar is one diving b…..d
Bizarrely, Barca need to close this game up a wee bit, it’s too open now!
Should have had Neymar at the Oscars.
2 rapid fae Dortmund 3-0
FAN-A-TIC
Very true and pretty much in line with what I have said for a while and this new BT deal is further evidence.
Incidentally I do think that was a penalty and I think PSG will score. Let’s just see what unfolds…
Ya beauty!
PSG completely knock the stuffing out of Barca there. Just the 3 more Barca goals needed then!
DESSYBHOY
Neymar is a diving board?
:)
There you go…