Great news that Mikael Lustig and Emilio Izaguirre have extended their contracts until 2017. Footballers’ careers flow on a few distinct tracks. Some are too hot for their clubs to retain, Victor Wanyama, who declined a contract renewal with almost 3 years of his initial deal remaining, fell into this category. Some, like Georgios Samaras, will represent diminishing value to their clubs, and attract only diminishing contracts.
I could make an argument that the players in the third category, who are highly valuable to their club, but are not so valuable that they are impossible to retain, are more important than the latter.
It’s important for Celtic to have outstanding achievers (especially up front) but clubs find it difficult to remain on-strategy if they have significant churn each season. Transfer income is great, and often needed, but ideally you would look at your squad around this time of the year and want to change no more than 3 players over the summer.
I reckon Celtic should be able to hold onto Lustig, Izaguirre, Matthews, Ambrose, Brown, Commons, Mulgrew, Stokes and Forrest until the club want to move them on. These players are the mainstay of our squad, hopefully Johansen will prove to be too. Forster and van Dijk fall into the same category as Wanyama and Hooper – they will have high paying options in England.
Forster and van Dijk will help get us into and compete in the Champions League, but two or three gems are useless if they are surrounded by players less polished bling.
The last 24 hours has been a salutary lesson on what will continue to happen until Celtic appoint a manager. The Daily Mail got the ball rolling when someone told them Roy Keane was leaving Dublin to speak to Celtic. This was good information, in as much as it was true, Celtic did meet Roy Keane, but the ‘paper put inappropriate weight upon it.
Soon everyone and their dog was reporting the deal was done. Which surprised Celtic.
Today’s news – there is no news.
‘News’ will continue to break and eventually one story will actually be the news we’re waiting for. There is value (reputation and advertising) in rushing out with a story before it’s confirmed or others are doing the same, and little consequence (zero damage to reputation and you get to keep the ad money) in getting it wrong, so stay tuned for the next instalment. Only this week, Pope Francis was talking about papal retirement, maybe he has another gig in mind.
London Calling
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Dontbrattbakkinanger 12:49 on 30 May, 2014
“Supedupercoisty has demanded to kno the names of the people standing in front of TV cameras outside Celtic Park giving the impression they know what is going on.”
I think we can safely assume he’s on first name terms with everyone of them.
That’s why they never ask him any difficult questions.
#Bumchums
GOLD COAST TOM
Nae offence,mate,but yer carping comment about carping comments re the new contracts signed by our first-choice full-backs are well up to your usual duplicitous standards.
Unanimous support on here for it. Go
Jobo
Funny, cant remember that bit in the film.
LeggyMountbattenCSC
HH
Is delaneys dunky lurking outside CP?
:-)
HH!!
Great news re Izzy and Lustig.
Izzy back to his best and Lustig will be a big player for us next season imo!!!
GOLD COAST TOM
Nae offence,mate,but yer carping comment about carping comments re the new contracts signed by our first-choice full-backs are well up to your usual duplicitous standards.
Unanimous support on here for it. Go on,prove me wrong by posting a comment which supports yer assertions.
Lustig is our best right back since Danny McGrain and our top CL performer. Izzy was back to his best last season. Great news both have signed on until 2017.
A lot of cod philosophy in these carping comments.
On Monday we are 3 weeks away from the CL qualifiers draw IIRC – get a wiggle on Celtic.
Jonny The Tim –
well it was! ;-). By the way, “The Film” is their support act tonight ;-)
Gold Coast Tom
03:39 on 30 May, 2014
FFM –
Reminds me of the story about the Glasgow man on holiday in Benidorm. Took his wife into the country to see a REAL bullfight and won the raffle, which was a meal in the restaurant and the prize dish was the slain Bull’s bollocks.
Jimmy and his missus absolutely loved the dish.
A year later they returned and would you believe it, he won the raffle again.
Back in the restaurant, they received the cooked testicles, but this time they were much smaller and not very appetising. Not wishing to cause a scene, Jummy and his wife devoured the dish but were left disappinted and still hungry.
“Excuse me Perdro,” Jimmy asked a passing waiter. “When I was here a year ago, the prize bollocks were massive, succulant and delicious. Tonight they were small, shrivelled and very disappointing. What happened?”
“Ah,” said the waiter. “Sometimes the matador he does not win.”
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As Rafa Benitez would say….
“Kwality”.
Dontbrattbakkinanger
12:56 on 30 May, 2014
A lot of cod philosophy in these carping comments.
It is becuase we speak from the sole
PL now writing the header for Cqn. ?
.
I knew Paul67 sometimes has to delegate but surely he could pick someone like jingle jangle to write these stories. .8)
Off oot. Big Malky still the man for me!!!!
Weeron. Got to laugh that you said Mon bought assets that ran down until they were worthless. lol
We bought 1st eleven players that stayed in the first team for 5 or 6 years and we did not have to waste money on projects
See Thompson , Hartson , Sutton etc
When are the players back for pre season ?
HH
jonny the tim,
Had a couple after coming off the nightshift, it’ll be bedtime soon for a wee nap and back to normal until Monday night.
Mind, if you fancy Aberdour or the pool the following day we can stay at my brothers…he’s got a pub pool table to practice. Mind bring your speedos though :)
After the Kayal/ Izaguirre experience is it wrong to wish for VVD to sustain a moderate injury ? ;/)
Once we’ve successfully negociated the Euroqualies, obviously…
Lefty
Great news re mini lefty..
TET
3rd of July Josh told me.
Weeron. Great deal for vic at first. But only if Neil got some of that cash to strength the side
If the end great deal for PL and Celtic PLC.
Poor deal for fans , Celtic fc and the manager
Modern management of blogger expectations regarding recruitment of football coaches and selling of star players is…..rubbish!
T4
Taking the whole CQN vocabulary to a whole new thingy
We’re going to sell FF and VVD then
Fine
So long as the money is reinvested in the playing staff
Otherwise instead of having a couple of diamonds with unpolished bling …we’ll just have a team of unpolished bling
We don’t need to sell ….if players want to leave. ….let them go if the deal is good enough …. But reinvest in the team …the players on the park
Perhaps the ambition of PLs to come out of every transfer window stronger could be met this summer …it hadn’t been met over the last few windows
No more Balde, Pukki , Boeriggter inadequates ….please
T4
Pure dead rubbish !!!
I see BBC is carrying “live” text from the 1966 WC final.
Someone at the Beeb is a CQNer.
I won’t post the link to protect the mental health of posters and lurkers alike.
philmacgiollabhain.ie/media-questions-to-sevco-regarding-major-staff-changes/#more-4726 …
Major staff changes at TRFC?
http://www.philmacgiollabhain.ie/media-questions-to-sevco-regarding-major-staff-changes/#more-4726
Speaking of fish have we resigned wee Darnell yet?
Yeah sure. Can you get me a sandwich. Feck all here
jude
Thanks
Loads of time to get the new manager in then >}
HH
SydneyTim
13:01 on
30 May, 2014
Weeron. Got to laugh that you said Mon bought assets that ran down until they were worthless. lol
Not sure what is funny about that. The feast was great. The famine, not so much.
As for Vic, a certain Neil Lennon said early on, that Vic was a one-off. He knew he had an outstanding talent. He also knew that there was little chance of finding another one of that ilk.
Virgil is pretty decent, though.
Trouble is, everyone of these ‘A list’ players know that they can get 4, 5 or 6 times the money down south. They won’t extend. We are stuck with that reality. The Club have to manage this as best they can
Leftclicktic,
Read back to see your post, a great achievement by your daughter, it gives me hope for my bhoy…I think that’s him just getting out off bed :(
Ignore that posters. Too many sites open
Could have been worse I guess :)
Pfayr. Agree 1000% mate. We don’t need to sell players
If we sell frazer and VVD , no reason why entire income can’t go to new manager
The vic situation was a fraud
Neil got zero of that money
IGC
12:59 on 30 May, 2014
Dontbrattbakkinanger
12:56 on 30 May, 2014
A lot of cod philosophy in these carping comments.
It is becuase we speak from the sole
I am left “floundering” at that remark……..
IGC
“Martin O’Neill’s team were a prime example of two or three gems surrounded by those of less polish.
Let’s think about this, IMO the gems ie ‘High paying options in England’: Messrs Larsson, Sutton, Hartson
One could argue Lambert and Petrov (given his transfer fee) and to a lesser extent Lennon and Thompson.
But the others? Douglas, Valgaren, Mjallby, Agathe, McNamara, Laursen, Sylla, Maloney.
I would argue that they were of the slightly less polished variety.”
A wee bit disingenuous categorisation to arrive at 2 or 3 surrounded by journeymen (which was what Paul said) when you list 5 to 7 yourself.
I would put them as:-
Level 1- Larsson
Level 2- Petrov, Sutton, Hartson, Lambert (CL medal winner), Lennon and Mjallby (Swedish Internationalist who had played twice impressively against England)
Level 3- Valgaeren, McNamara, Balde, Agathe, Maloney (soon to be POTY)- just a touch above journeymen
Level 4- Journeymen- Douglas, Sylla, Laursen, Fernandez
Level 5- Jamie Smith
Don’t forget we had Lubo and Juninho there two as well as two coveted (until they came to us) goalkeepers, Hedman and Kharine.
I think your attempt to downsize the spending and transfer fees capable of being commanded is unrealistic.
In contrast with the current squad we have
Level 1:- No one
Level 2- Maybe Forster and VVD
Level 3- Forrest, Ambrose, Lustig, Izaguire, Johansen, Biton, Brown, a late flourishing Commons, Mulgrew
Level 4 verging on 3- Griffiths, Stokes, Matthews, Pukki, Kayal
Level 4- journeymen and emerging- Henderson, Twardzik, Zaluska, Fisher, Boerigter, Balde, Rogic, Mouyokolo etc;
I think we have a stronger middle group without the extremes of MON’s squad at either end.
I dinnae think the people of Zaire are getting too excited about the Froch v Groves fight. A tattooed arm really takes away from the spectacle, IMO, not that I’m a boxing fan anymore but I was drawn in last Saturday night watching, what I thought was the actual fight tomorrow.
dejavu.csc
I have a big decision to make tomorrow night, I hope I make the right one.