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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67Heaven
Cheers mate, I’m the same, I think in general everyone is, or will be
HH
67 @ 09.00
We dont know what happened at that meeting, if you ask kojo he’ll tell you Lennon bailed out on us, personally I think otherwise. But something happened, and not in our best interests
kitalba- thanks a lot mate, just firing up the old ZX Spectrum so I can have a play on words.
Bobby- is that an E/W bet? I used to be into horse-racing……but the buggers were too fast! :-)
Hat, coat, etc…
Good news that out two full back have extended their contracts to remain at Paradise.
I can`t help feeling that any announcement to leave would have drawn a much greater response than has accompanied the positive news of their remaining.
Unless our new manager is an instant and wonderful success, watch how much Neil Lennon`s stature increases in his absence.
My hopes for my dream team of Dan Petrescu and Steve Clarke are fast fading (and they were never substantial in the first place 0:-) )
JJ
PS Good morning from a calm and mild Arbroath.
Crystal Meth must have been taking a hammering last night
FFS …I posted Bedlamquicknews about 9pm …in jest
How prescient of me ..
67heaven
I’ve been engaged in a monologue re Lenny’s notice period ….he had a 12 month rolling contract
As I understand it the notice period is 12 months
Either our custodians knew he was going last year or they have agreed to waive the period
IMO they would only waive the period if something developed …..
I remain puzzled by the whole thing …Mjallby’s leaving serves to complicate it further
junglejim
I too would welcome Dan Petrescu and Steve Clarke as our new management team.
Highly unlikely ‘tho – sadly.
HH!!
Pfayr- how U doing?
Aye you’re right. Had to look out the window to see if there was a full moon last nite.
Not the blogs finest night, but today is a new day and a new dawn.
Off oot…..hedges to cut:-(
Lionsroar 7.25
So Kojo is Graham Spears.
Just about sums it all up.
Tallybhoy
As you say, highly unlikely. The `dream` aspect of my preference is just that , I fear 0:)
Too nice to be on a PC so a wee bike ride for a Forfar Loch picnic with the lovely Caroline beckons .
Cheerio for now.
JJ
AOW
Fine mate… Gardening for me too…grass to cut …wee bit of weeding …in a couple of hours tho … Grass too wet just now
Then …racing ….
Then of to brothers for a night watching the boxing …..we’re all boxing mad ….and armchair experts …although other two fought as amateurs …with varying success…
Is it worth reading back then?
bobby murdoch’s curled-up winklepickers
08:52 on 31 May, 2014
What’s not to like…:)
Right I’m off.
Until we meet again…
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
….PFayr supports WeeOscar
09:16 on 31 May, 2014
1. We don’t know for sure what the terms of the contract are. ‘One year rolling’ might be a crude summation of something a bit more nuanced.
2. Either way it would be an implied term (if not explicitly stated) that NFL would have to be fully committed to the job, wouldn’t be looking elsewhere, and wouldn’t decline to give an undertaking not to leave.
3. If NFL has been looking elsewhere and wasn’t prepared to give a commitment not to leave then he’d probably be in breach of contract.
4. That then allows the club to mutually consent him, because that in effect would be what was going on, a mutual agreement that things weren’t working out. Negotiated settlement, no toys out the pram, and everyone being mature about it.
5. That suggested scenario fits what we know of what has taken place and I don’t think either party could be criticised.
6. It does however beg the question: Why would NFL have become so disenchanted that he was looking elsewhere?
So Alex O’Henley reckons DD is meeting Roy Keane again this weekend……to discuss what?
Flies in the face of PL’s rather highly dubious statement of “interviewing between 5 and 10 excellent candidates.” That sounds like PL being wrong footed by DD, I’d have thought stating that Celtic were interviewing several high profile candidates would have sounded more plausible.
Why would anybody put themselves forward for interview if DD has decided that he is going to appoint his favourite pet monkey to the post.
Correct me if I am wrong but DD does not own Celtic he is just a shareholder, albeit the majority shareholder, and should not be able to bypass what should be an interview process to select the most outstanding candidate for the job? Aye right!!
Naïve”r”uscsc
Off oot for a haircut.
€15!
Could buy 2 bottles of gin for that.
Or 6 bottles of wine.
Or 12(large) bottles of Moretti!
HH!!
Pfayr- cool.
Only boxing in this hoose will be me an the missus if I don’t get a move on. :-)
Is it the Froch ficht the nicht?
BT, if you read back you might come to the conclusion, wrongly, that you had OD’d on the old opiate analgesics.
PF AYR
You trying to tell us you didnae do some amateur boxing too?
Maybe not under Marquis of Queensbury rules,mind.
I’ll do a wee Ayrshire rain dance for ya,bud. You can get the missus to cut the grass during the week!
Ernie
I agree with you
However…I can’t see a contract to manage CFC having less than a 12 month notice period
No criticism of either party …but…something a pissed Lenny off …IMO
Team,
I just wanted to give you an update on something
During April, had received some communications from the folks at NCCA, neuroblastoma children’s cancer alliance
these are the folks that we worked closely with on the #weeoscar4life campaign
Cutting a long story short I have agreed to take part in a cycle from london to Edinburgh, onto glasgow then Belfast
As part of the cycle, the Cycling Santas will also deliver some joy to little kids like wee oscar in hospitals, by delivering presents also
The reason for my message !
We are still looking for more folks to sign up for all or just some of the legs 4th to 8th December 2014
This is a nice way to remember wee oscar and to create a positive legacy
Additionally looking to raise some funds for NCCA, link below
http://www.justgiving.com/cyclingsantaspaulmuldoon
looking for any help you can….
1. Passing word on about neuroblastoma , NCCA
2. joining cycle
3. or even just tweeting above link
All help is sincerely appreciated
@67mouldy67
#teamoscarforever
ART OF WAR
Just looked at the odds.
Best price a skinny 3/1.
Heyho…
It won’t be Dan Petrescu if a Middle East team has already offered him 2.5 million Euro/year.
MOULDY67
Good luck with it,bud.
I’m afraid that,as with LENNYBHOY’s initiative for St John Doyle memorial,best assistance I can offer is financial.
Although I’ll do my best to spread the word too.
BMCUWP
Too short
My youngest bro is 6 foot…he was the u18 Scottish captain ….multiple title winner ….he’s still feart of me….I hope
The other one is only 5’2″…much slighter build ….but bad tempered :-))
Pog
read some, saw that the bould bhoys was using his colourful language last night.
more worrying for me was reading weefra was feeling threatened, that I do not like. A nicer honest man you could not meet.
Pf
he didnae looked scared at cq10…8)
Maybe Lenny is serving 12 months PILON which clearly suggests why he’s not in any hurry financially to move.
Perhaps he was cheesed off about something but in a context of 4 years in a job who isn’t.
The next guy will be at some point too. That’s life….why should football be any different.
AOW
aye
BT
Defo not….not unless you take some mescaline before hand…otherwise you’ll not understand it
BT
Sadly not
He defers out of pity now …
There definitely is something fishy about me….off for a wee swim AGAIN…:)
Working today then bbq before watching the fight..
no opiates for me today…8(
BMCUWP
You got a tip ??
BT, a bad day when you feel threatened but I think some people need to think before they post.
I’ve not met weefra but I can see from what he posts that he is a good lad. I don’t know if last night was drink/drug fuelled but I honestly thought that last night’s blog was the weirdest I have ever read.
I was chilling out watching bbc4 last night, aw well onwards and upwards…
Was lurking on here last night.
It was a cross between being in a parallel universe and a bad avante garde movie, while listening to the song ‘Panama Red’ by The New Riders of the Purple Sage.
Good song ‘tho – imo of course.
HH!!
HH!!
Would you resign if you went to the big boss holding the purse strings and the power as no2 saying you would be the man if/when your no1 said he was chucking it only to be told no chance mate?
MWD says Aye
MWD
Yes
You may also resign if you’re told to and your boss makes it worth your while