By all accounts, Virgil van Dijk has had an excellent season for Southampton and now has a trio of the Premier League’s wealthiest clubs on his tail. We knew he was a player when he left as a 23-year-old two years ago, but you don’t really know how a player will measure up in a new environment until he gets there.
Scottish club have suffered from this previously, as players with decent EPL experience under their belts have not cut it herem even Bundesliga players, in the case of Teemu Pukki. Virgil’s success, and that of Victor Wanyama and ‘England’s number one’, reflects on everyone in the current Celtic squad.
You and I watched Celtic bridge the gap between selling our players in the £4m – £6m bracket, to selling between £10m and £12m. But we have hitherto been unable to fetch the kind of money the Portuguese regularly get for their top players (well into the £30m category).
If Virgil van Dijk leaves Southampton for north of £50m, not only will Celtic earn 10% of the fee, at a stroke it will increase the value of our playing squad, whenever the next EPL club comes asking.
Within just over a year of leaving Celtic, I have it on excellent authority that Virgil increased his wages by a factor of 10. His next move, by necessity, will see him earn over £100k per week. Celtic will not compete with those wages; players will not reject them to continue to enjoy our special club. We live in an era where Celtic players can one day aspire to earn £20m over a four year contract (elsewhere).
The migration south will continue, but if it is appropriately compensated, the opportunity for growth at Celtic will not diminish. It could even improve. Good luck to you, Virgil.
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Farewell to Efe – was part of the record breaking clean sheet defence with Van Dijk. And a lovely guy. All the best and HH.
TimJim on 1st June 2017 8:05 pm
The Huns are in meltdown on FF. Three down six to go. Pedro’s appointment a master stroke by Dave. It’s going to be number 55. Fecking clowns
Sounds like last pre-season all over again, hun in work going on about all the players they had signed and we had signed nobody, didn’t like it when I reminded him that the transfer window wasn’t open and they were just signing guys that were free and available, groundhog day
Well you would call your self packy,and he is in my opinion a soup taker,no to mention never a good goalkeeper,at least not for Celtic,no offence:-)
fairhill boy i agree about the souptaker bit but its not my fault my names patrick and my irish grandad called me packy no offence
BIG PACKY- my middle name is Fitzpatrick,no offence taken
fairhill boy we are all tims hail hail
We’re all Celtic supporters
MARSPAPA- if your about,looking forward to that beer pal
HT
Great news about Billy. Thanks for informing us of his safe return home.
It is , indeed, good news about Billy. He really is a smashing bloke.
jJ
Pog
Was great to meet you in Lisbon. Hope we catch up again soon. I have a happier stomach this week. :)
VFR800 IS NOW A MONSTER 821 on 1ST JUNE 2017 7:04 PM
However, i do think it’s unlikely that all 6 teams above us will qualify as Sevilla, Napoli, Liverpool, Ajax etc. will all come up against each other so a few will undoubtedly drop out.
I’m still pretty hopeful we will go into Pot 3.
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Sevilla, Napoli, Ajax, Kiev and Liverpool are all seeded mate so won’t play each other. The other team ahead of us is Olympiakos who are seeded in the Champions route with us so we can’t play them. We need 3 of those 6 to drop out to make pot 3 if we get there. You never know but it’s a tall ask.
The greatest tragedy is that Trump will destroy this planet before we hit 10 in a row…
Further proof that football is in a Lewis Carrol type of madness.
I see that Sunderland , relegated this year earned £94m last season. That fact is bad enough , however that is nearly £1m more that Leicester earned when they won the EPL in the previous season.
Can this madness go on?
Another thing, too many on here assume we will qualify and all we debate is if we will be pot 3 or pot 4.
Lot of work to be done.
Well they are going all in
ScottishFootballNews @Scotfootball17 20m20 minutes ago
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Rangers to complete the signing of Norwich City midfielder Graham Dorrans in the next 48hours.
I would take Pot 4 every year…i think Dortmund were in Pot 4 a couple of years back?
THE EXILED TIM
He’s played less than 40 games since 2014??
I will be delighted if we qualify
Starry
Didn’t know that, still they are gambling big time, they shouldn’t have bothered, the gullibillies are that thick they think the league is a realistic target, they will swallow anything, polishing turds springs to mind.
HH
THE EXILED TIM
I wouldnae know the guy if he walked in my door right now, I never watch English fitbaw, had a quick look Wiki, seems strange he’s played so less fitbaw!!
It’s the huns what could possibly go wrong:))
When big Stuart puts pen to paper, I think we’ll see the ole Paradise revolving doors swinging roon merrily!
HH
Starry
Either would I, just thot he had a decent reputation, seems that Norwich want him off the wage bill, the huns are hovering up a fair few has never beens, magic :-)
I have faith that Brendan knows what he is doing.
HH
One thing still puzzles me about this season
How did dembele miss that penalty in Barcelona ???
Graham Dorrans has averaged a goal a year for Norwich i.e. three in three years for an attacking midfielder
thats pretty poor even by Sevco standards
SevcoFreebies CSC
BOURNESOUPRECIPE
I like him more and more as I get to know him better.))
It’s the hope that kills them
BSR
There you go now, I thot he was a nailed on superstar, am in the Starry camp with this one now :-)
HH
STARRY
He’s from Bar Lanark and ugly to boot
Exiled
I hate gloating
Pride comes before a fall etc
Also my old ( lapsed) Catholic guilt kicks in.
Have they not suffered enough? ?
Stars
I would never gloat, take the piss aye, but never gloat.
HH
TET
Flotsam :-)
Sevco hold the world record for ‘signing’ players when the transfer window isn’t open
DanielCousin CSC
Gloat. ..goat …scape goat
Have we signed a new one
Every team needs a scape goat. .We never had one this year
There’s another thing, I thot the window opened today
JMCCORMICK on 1ST JUNE 2017 9:06 PM
“Further proof that football is in a Lewis Carrol type of madness.
I see that Sunderland , relegated this year earned £94m last season. That fact is bad enough , however that is nearly £1m more that Leicester earned when they won the EPL in the previous season.
Can this madness go on?”
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No, Scottish Football has the exclusive rights to Wonderland.
Those sums are staggering, but they’re real.
Up here, with the official backing of the football “authorities”, we’ve got a 5 year old club which has “won” over 100 major honours, including 54 top tier titles.
Truly, we’re in a league of our own.
Was saying to Mrs. Lennybhoy tonight as we approach our 23rd Wedding Anniversary this weekend…how’s the love of my life…
Quick as a flash she replied pretty good as they’ve won a treble…she knows me so well…:)
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
BOURNESOUPRECIPE
And never shall one be found:))
Good Evening fholks
A few of us are thinking about going out for some beers in Glasgow on Sat 17th June, starting early afternoon and ending……
You are welcome to join us, so none of your rubbish that you weren’t invited :-)
You can contact me at celticrollercoaster@yahoo.co.uk
HH
CRC