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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Goooooooooood morning
New day new start :)))
Just looked out back and the boss is “airing” the lawnmower & hedge trimmers shed for ME :((
Iknowmyplacecsc
Have a great day one and all ,if you get a chance to do a good turn take it:)))
I may be gone a while.
Can’t understand how the Keanoshafters on here think his imminent appointment can be anything but good for the fans who like to watch a decent standard of player.
Remember…..Keano is negotiating from a position of strength here…..DD wants him more than RK needs Celtic at this point.
Anyone who thinks that Roy Keane will not demand and get a large wedge of spondoolies to bring in quality to Paradise is playing the man and not the ball here……Something we don’t know, is possibly going on here, with Celtic moving to a bigger and better environment and needing a marquee type manager to be the front man……Keano will walk all over Peter Lawell and take no shoite from him.
My money is on RK at Paradise this time next year and PL gone the same way as the poor guy Lenny that he shafted this season…….Lenny is an intelligent guy and got out before Lawell could damage his reputation as a manager any more……….
Lenny will be remembered as a decent Celtic manager by our historians in years to come.
Lawell will be added as a sidenote to a long line of biscuit tin custodians.
Keano?…..Who Knows…..But I cant wait to find out.
StrapyourselvesinCSC
Hail Hail the Celts are Here :-)
Lovely morning in Bannockburn, and great being a Bhoy :-)
Will accept Roy Keane, but needs a very good number 2 with him
Wouldn’t mind Petrescu, even better if he had Clarke with him, that on paper would be an exceptional pair ( did they play together ?)
Anyway let’s get behind whoever the choice may be – the treble in Scotland and last 8 of Champions league is the target
Hail hail
Bmcuw
Right wing propaganda from the Scotsman.
Have a lovely day out and about and I’ll call you Monday AM.
Weather glorious hear in North Ayrshire: which makes a change
Why don’t you lot cease with the fake drama and stop being so righteous judges and just get on with your lives and let others get on with theirs, no wonder so many people want to put their fingers down their throats and puke, all the crap of last night started with a misunderstanding and all the subsequents was a result of a guy letting his emotions and empathy getting the better of him as he stood up for what he perceived to be a victim, albeit a victim of misunderstand.
Edinburgh Juries have competition when it comes to you lot. So the guy swore… and you have never sworn… never? Yet you Pilate your judgements. I’d rather drink with him rather than you lot, at least I’d get undiluted truths.
pfayr
How do you rate tonight’s boxers compared to the Eubank, Benn and Watson era?
I enjoy boxing, especially at that level, just don’t get to see it now
lionroars67
07:32 on
31 May, 2014
Anyone who uses Aussie John Pilger as a source of information is already converted and enjoys being preached to.
Leftclicktic, never got a chance yesterday
So Very Very Well done Miss Leftclicktic, and Congrats to all the family, including the very proud parents :-)
Nice
BILLYBHOY 05
Shucks,did the findings of an independent body not fit your agenda?
Kidding,bud. I’ll call you on Monday,about 130?
ernie lynch
09:29 on
31 May, 2014
6. It does however beg the question: Why would NFL have become so disenchanted that he was looking elsewhere?
Apart from never hiding his desire to eventually manage elsewhere, one of NL’s first utterances as manager of Celtic was that he reckoned that the job had a four year shelf life.
Sun splitting the trees in ole G72, reminds me of past glories. As I ‘labour’ in the garden I’ll mostly have this song in my head:
Hampden In The Sun
Chorus:
Oh Hampden in the Sun,
Celtic 7 Rangers 1,
That was the score when it came time up,
The Timalloys had won the cup.
I see Tully running down the line,
He slips the ball past Valentine,
It’s nodded down by ‘Teazy Weazy’,
And Sammy Wilson makes it look so easy.
Chorus
I see Mochan beating Shearer,
The League Cup is coming nearer.
He slams in an impossible shot,
The Rangers team has had their lot.
Chorus
Over comes a very high ball,
Up goes McPhail above them all,
The ball and Billy’s head have met,
A lovely sight the ball is in the net.
Chorus
Young Sam Wilson has them rocked,
but unluckily his shot was blocked,
Then big Bill with a lovely lob,
Makes it look such an easy job.
Chorus
Now here is Mochan on the ball,
He runs around poor Ian McColl,
Wee George Niven takes a daring dive,
But Smiler Mochan makes it number five.
Chorus
Down the middle runs Billy McPhail,
With John Valentine on his tail,
With a shot along the ground,
The cup’s at Parkhead safe and sound.
Chorus
Here comes Fernie, cool and slick,
He ambles up to take the kick,
He hits it hard and low past Niven,
The Tims are in their Seventh Heaven.
Hail Hail
Kit
the bould bhoys was cursing and swearing and calling people out earlirr om in the
Week
he would have been banned years ago and yet he comes on a ciuple of days later with the same bile…
no excuses…
Couple of weeks until the real football starts again … just think how dull it would have been if we hadn’t had a new manager to talk about.
Kitalba
If you put things up on a blog you invite comment
Personally, the inappropriate language doesn’t bother me…my comments related to the other nonsense
However, the language is entirely unacceptable and unfortunately repetitive….
Behave as some did last night …comment will follow
Borgo
Froch is as good as Eubank ,Benn and Collins …not to forget Cattley
Calzage was the best tho
IMO
BT
Hope young Marco is coming along great ?
A wee update would be nice
Hail Hail
Kit
Why did the bould bhoys verbally abuse the peacenakers ?
HH
Just one last thing…..as Columbo used to say……
If Roy Keane decides not to take the Celtic job, and it will be his if he wants it,the path followed in the next 5 years will be downsizing and a race to the bottom to meet and compete with Sevco.
Happen to think this should be obvious to anyone.
blantyretim:
I don’t know what went on earlier in the week, I never see it to read. I don’t condone his words of last night but I do have empathy with the emotion that ignited his tirades.
I did not read any harm from Petec at all, and I thought weefra should have known better, God it was worse than Tom and the Intercontinental concrete mixers threat.
Has anybody on here got the concern to contact the bould boy and ask if everything is okay with him; not in a nosey way but sort of in a concerned way, like brothers do for brothers in a family.
Or do we just don the black cap and damn him without thought. Remember who he was standing up for and against.
they rightly jail this pr**k but its alright for our lenny to take it!!!!!
in fact one such attack on him, millions saw it!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-27638800
Cowie
just finished his o grades or whatecver they are now,
posted couple of weeks ago that his consultant said he was an inspiration as he is walking unaided.
thanks for asking
pfayr
Thanks for the reply .
Agree with you about Calzaghe. He let himself down a bit after retiring but seems to be sorted now.
BT
That’s brightened the day even further
All we need now is our manager to be announced :-)
Hail Hail
Just scrolled back.
Wish I hadn’t.
Good day to you all.
Awe_Naw:
I can’t answer that for the simple reason I’m not him, I don’t know. It was a drama made in nowhere.
http://image.wikifoundry.com/image/1/Nkqyv_nAPNHD1yKcJl5DeQ87167/GW635H476
I wonder if we’ll see this again…
HH
Kitalba
The language is constant…has been for a few years ….under various monikers
Also controversy is sought out and when ignored , random abuse is dished out
I have avoided the individual for a while now ….notwithstanding that……I was subject of some abuse…fairly innocuous ..but completely unnecessary …
Does a man swearing really offend you that much… really. How do you get through a game?
PFayr:
What was “the other nonsense” you allude to?
Borgo
I think like all fighters …he struggled to fill the void after retiring ….brings champion boxer is a lifestyle not just a job
Kit
The reason for his demeanor is that nobody on the internet could believe he fathered a baby. Thats a tough one to readdress.
Good luck with it.
StoneColdSoberCSC
Kitalba
Preaching , law suits ..etc
Thought it would have been obvious ……I’ve no desire to perpetuate it..
Good morning bhoys from a very pleasant Beal Feirste.
AWE NAW
Low,and unbecoming.
You are capable of far better,mate.
PFayr:
I’ve been verbally abused by the best of them in my time, a long time ago awe-naw gave me dogs abuse, I didn’t think it was justified at the time but I never let it dictate my feelings for him. He’s one of the ones I admire most on here and yet I could so easily have gone to war with him. And do you know what is was over, it was about 8 years ago, a boy in Thailand didn’t know who John Lennon was.
Do you think we are family? I do, I really do, and I unfortunately believe in the near years to come we’re going to need each and every one of each other; even the swearers who stand up against wrong, perceived or real.
Hi ho
KTF
CowieBhoy, where’s yer ambition?!?
It is a lovely day in Bannockburn though, and I’m off to enjoy it.
Low,and unbecoming and the truth and look a didnae use sweary words and on stone cold Sunday morning sober.
HH
Awe_Naw:
I have no understanding of what that last post was about. What it had to do with him standing up for another Celtic Supporter, albeit putting a few other Celtic Supporters noses out of joint is beyond me.
And with that I am not going to continue this anymore, I am bringing undue attention to an non-event and I think there are other real issues much more worthy of my time.