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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Sorry…I meant Pr*ck, of course
‘the bould bhoys’
04:03 on 31 May, 2014
catholic
Thindimebhoy
03:59 on 31 May, 2014
If I told you i was a monkeys uncle would you
a) understand
b) do some research
c) bless me father for I have sinned and call the cops?
Just askin. ken.
Well….its been fun outing you all..
God Bless the true Tims
Nighty night
‘the bould bhoys’
04:07 on 31 May, 2014
is a true Tim a catholic?
tbh,
As i said, goodnight.
Whats the 3rd brother up to these days?
Don’t think Ill be able to sleep tonight now……
Hmmmm
Mags
Not necessarily…..
Do you need to ask?
BTW
Im not a Catholic
the bould bhoys
I fully realise that, accept that we were cheated at the time, still doesnt make him a good manager. I’m starting to sound anti-Mowbray here, not the case, just think he was lucky to play for us and very lucky/unlucky to manage us. Im starting to argue wi myself here, time for kip. Bottom line for me tbb, I think of every past year in terms of how the Hoops have done, someone mentions 78 to me I cringe, that sort of thing. I have three grown up kids and should have got out of this by now, but it afflicts us all. I enjoy your posts and appreciate your frustration, but ffs keep posting, Ive said to you before, it will be a duller site…..
HH
Margaret McGill
Monkey is an insult to an Africans intellect not the colour of his skin
A bit like Paddy and the thick Irish
Just tellin. ken.
‘the bould bhoys’
04:11 on 31 May, 2014
If you find out let me know. The 2nd one too. No idea.
I ran with “2010 never again” as part of my moniker for 18 months on here due to the extent of the cheating we endured as a Club.
Indeed Kit
Tony Mowbray is a decent man. I seen what he had to endure as manager of Celtic and we as a support. There are no words to describe what that man had to go through.
And then along came Neil Francis Lennon and the Unseen Fenian Hand and for that I will be forever grateful.
They still don’t know to this day who done them.
Hail Hail to the UFH
‘the bould bhoys’
04:03 on
31 May, 2014
Mags
Are you (and your bros) non-Catholic?
“non-Catholic” as per your link…..
Are yous?
‘the bould bhoys’
Im not a Catholic
Why not…?
ThineDime
Neither am I…..Or did you miss that/
Enough from me….Said enough.
As usual itll all be for nothing.
Adieu Adieu to you and yoo and u
there has been shock recently and an abundance of angst among right thinking people, when several supermarkets and restaurant chains admitted they’d been selling meat with traces of prayer.
“The fact that I’ve been eating dodgy bits of piety from faiths that may be past there sell by date makes me quite angry” said one fulminating Scottish OAP.
“My body is a temple, and the last thing it needs is putting prayers inside it.”
Thindimebhoy
04:13 on 31 May, 2014
I’m glad your up to date with all the latest racial epithets. Personally, I cant keep up.
Well to me there are 2 possibilities why Celtic look shambolic again in the manager Cheaplechase
1. PL had no idea that NFL was leaving even though Mjallby would have been a red flag to anyone who had a modicum of sense in this risky business.
2. they dont give a rats vagina who the manager is as they’ll find someone to keep the fans at bay while they calculate the dermot algorithm on risk averseness
Just saying as a shareholder. ken.
as theres not many left posting now, what about a new topic ?
Who do you think our new manager will be ?
lol and goodnight fellow Tims
HH
twentyfirstofmaynineteenseventynine
04:33 on 31 May, 2014
A bit coy on coyle
No to keen on Keane
As for Dick Byrne I’ll keep my opinions to myself.
ok so youre gone too now.
ok see ya all tomorrow.
Canny wait.
Margaret
I was honestly saying it a bit tongue in cheek, as you probably sussed ,but I have to go for Clarke.
Ive got a score on him
Who knows ? We’ll end up taking what we’re given, as always
HH
sorry Margaret, takes me at least 3 mins to reply at this time of night/morning due to inebriation problems
HH
twentyfirstofmaynineteenseventynine
04:40 on 31 May, 2014
I understand. personally I think the manager is secondary in the PLC vision else they would never let our beloved Neil leave. Anyway after all the superlatives have run their course we will have a lucky guy: a la mode of MON WGS NFL or a howler: TM
Either way the board dont give a shit. they’ll just re-iterate if its a howler.
Do you remember how keen they were on signing NFL in the first place?
Howler? Unsuitable? No use?
The board are always thinking HUN.
Mags,
When the Lisbon stand was opened, six Celtic supporters sat together…I was the only catholic.
Speaks volumes to me.
Margaret McGill
I’m glad your up to date with all the latest racial epithets. Personally, I cant keep up.
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Instead of genuflecting you are deflecting…:)
Racism and sectarianism and how they are treated in law is the issue
Surely you agree one is as bad as the other…?
I expect if you are racist your very likely to be a bigot as well
Agreed!
Speaks volumes to me too!
Margaret McGill
We will find a coach and we will love him
It is written…..
Thindimebhoy
04:53 on 31 May, 2014
Yeah but how do you distinguish sectarianism from racism?
sectarianism is:
“Sectarianism, according to one definition, is bigotry, discrimination, or hatred arising from attaching importance to perceived differences between subdivisions within a group, such as between different denominations of a religion, class, regional or factions of a political movement.’
To me racism is different its based on appearance. Irish dont look different from Scottish. We are the same gene pool.
The law is clear on racism. How can it be on sectarianism? By what songs you sing?
Gordon64
None of us are better than anyone else
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Well said big G,,,but monkeys are better than them huns.
Mags,
Give the people something to hate and deflect from their own strife, has always been the answer to the ones in power…ukip!
Vp,
Trust you :))
Margaret
Not a big fan of our board, never have been over last forty years, theyre getting it right (fiscally) but dont think they give a shit were supporters are concerned. However I have you to ask you about Hun ? Dont see were youre coming from there but interested to hear your point of view
twentyfirstofmaynineteenseventynine
05:06 on 31 May, 2014
They believe in the Old Firm!
Margaret McGill
To me racism is different its based on appearance. Irish dont look different from Scottish. We are the same gene pool.
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By appearance I expect you mean the colour of a persons skin and not any resemblance to a monkey
Black people are a race monkeys are not of course
The Irish and Scots gene pool comes from a time when we ran about bollock naked painted blue eating sheep raw
We wear clothes now and the gene pool is so mixed there are Scots and Irish living all over the globe in various skin colours
I do think calling someone a fenian * should be as unlawful as calling someone a black *
The trouble is how do you jail a crowd
Seems like the more its said the more its accepted and by default the harder it is to deal with
Thindimebhoy
05:20 on 31 May, 2014
Black people are a race monkeys are not of course
Wait a minute. Are you tellin me the whole premise of this conversation was that black people look like monkeys?
What is going on here?
Ive been up all night (decorating and drinking) viewing the aggro on here and now Im getting my were’s and my where’s mixed up. this cant go on, I have work in the morning. I love the craic on here but lets not get too personal, especially not talk about law suits ffs. End of the day we’re all Tims (not necessarily catholics) and we’ve all got our own opinions, surely what the sites all about ?
Margaret 05.19
I hate that phrase, always have done, but I believe we as a club have bought into it down the years, maybe we still are ? Dont think for a minute it means they’ll select a “hun” as our next manager. I really dont care what religion our new manager is, just as long as its the right man. And I dont think youre a bigot, no way, or a racist for that matter
HH