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.
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gold coast tom
11:17 on 31 May, 2014
!!Bada Bing!! –
That’s 3 times you’ve posted that.
So you read it 3 times and couldn’t reply? If you want a debate,have the courtesy to reply,and we take if from there.
BSR- I should have specified,new ST holders if/when RK comes.He is probably second to Henrik on potentially attracting ST sales,which seems the motive IMO.HH
Kitalba –
Thanks.
I lived in Edinburgh for 15 years with my then wife and my sons. We travelled by car or on the Edinburgh No 1 bus to games, so I know what you mean about wearing the colours.
I’ll definitely get in touch in January for that beer.
Delaney. Was in Stevie oneils hoose in alderman rd in knightswood a few times when he was helping to run the club before the split to Lisbon lions He and i organised the busses for rapid Vienna I lived round the corner from Gerry white. I was the young handsome chap
Cowiebhoy
12:14 on
Never really fancied trews as my waistline tends to expand then decrease at varying intervals during social events. Kilts seem to be much more accepting of copious amounts of food and beverages.
If ye know yer history……………
NTV’s George of the jungle played for a team called the sickie psychos who used to get hammerred by the Winchburgh punks.
Seemingly Ra Bomber is telling the hun hordes ,Murray Park has been sold.
Squire we had 2 busses to Nottingham. One stayed the night before in derby ( I was on that one) and the other went down and back
We were quite lucky in that we used the goverment grant to register 120 members with supporters association and thus we got a large no of tickets
So let’s see if I have this right.
If Celtic go for an exciting, box-office manager, his appointment is purely about putting bums on seats.
What if they appoint an unimaginative, talentless, unmotivated manager? Will that meet with the approval of the moaning minnies?
Or is it a case of, as I believe, if they appoint the former, they will have nothing to moan about? Probably.
teuchter ár lá. George was called “sheep sh@@er shanks” due to his east coast accent. Met his brother a hertz fan one. He is on my Facebook page and posts some immense photos of Scotland
I used to work with a guy who had an absolutely brilliant put down when he thought someone was talking crap.
“Away n lie in yer pish!” he would say.
I am reminded of those words when I read Bada Bing’s constant moaning at me.
FFS you responded to my post. Whoopy-Doo! So is it some sort of unwritten law that I have to reply to your reply?
G-E-T O-V-E-R I-T
Tom
An “exciting, box office manager” is one who delivers the goods on the park.
From moo_ted via twitter
A message from the sponsor from TSFM: the SFA , condescending and in self defence mode! RT far and wide.http://t.co/KNp5vbpQML
Eddiegoldtop says:
May 31, 2014 at 10:24 am
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Following my last letter to the SFA ( which you can read here ) http://www.tsfm.net/an-honest-game-convince-us/comment-page-2/#comment-16425 , I have now had a reply from the SFA and copy it here for your information as promised ;
Dear Mr X,
Mr Regan is aware of your letter and he has asked me to confirm to you that we do not enter into correspondence or dialogue with third parties on sensitive matters relating to our member clubs. As such, we will not be replying to your letter.
If you wish to identify which area of Scottish football you are a sponsor of, Stewart would be happy to discuss this exchange with the relevant party directly.
Kind regards,
Sandra Buchanan
PA to Chief Executive
Scottish FA
Tel – 0141 616 6004
Mob – 0771 xxxxxxx.
So there you have it , the SFA hiding behind third party confidentiality to enable them not to have to answer some of the most relevant questions that not just the sponsors of Scottish football , but the supporters of Scottish football deserve to hear.
I wonder how often this 3rd party confidentiality gets used by them in their attempts to refuse to face up to the truths ?
So what now for me I hear you say ? What are my options ?
If you have read my letter to SFA you will have no doubt seen that I Intimated that It would not be my preference to speak directly to the owners of the club I sponsor for obvious reasons. Mr Regan has no doubt picked up on this as the last line of his reply basically says ” tell me who the club are and I’ll talk to them directly” .
Yes I’m sure you will Mr Regan , I’m sure you will !
So do I walk away now that I’m faced with the truthful fact that the SFA are not allowed under their rules to discuss to 3rd parties , information on member clubs ?
I’m sure that’s what Mr Regan desperately wants , but the answer to that question is….not a hope in hell !
I will indeed bite the bullet and go direct to the owner of the club and sit down with them to go through my letter and my concerns and hope that they will be helpful towards me and can take up my case on my behalf and ask the very same questions that I have . So largely , the fate of my letter lies with the club that I currently sponsor, I hope that the fear of losing a substantial 5 figure sum in sponsorship next season may swing it in my favour and persuade them to help .
Now here’s another thing that has come to my attention in the last couple of weeks regarding my club approaching the SFA on my behalf.
Some of you may already have picked up on this , what are the probabilities of the club I’m sponsoring deciding to support me fully , then going to the SFA with the questions , then getting the same reply as I did with regards to 3rd party confidentiality ? I’d say the club almost certainly will get the same reply simply because as has previously been identified, certain people within the SFA are now in totally self defence mode and will stop at nothing to hide the truth so as to protect their own failings.
So what next if even the club cannot get answers when they go to the SFA ? Does that mean curtains for me and you and our quest for answers and for truth and transparency ?
Well actually no it doesn’t . And here’s why .
My lawyer just happens to be a very well versed man in sports law and on discussing this matter with him a couple of weeks back he assures me that there is a part of the UEFA regs which states that if the club is not happy with the ruling body’s decisions or behaviour they can go direct to UEFA and ask them to Intervene . I have not read up on the UEFA regs myself so will trust that one of the regular posters on here can help with the relevant regulation which covers this .
So all is not lost if SFA play their next card as expected, there is a further avenue to explore. And the question would need to be asked at that point , would the SFA want UEFA looking into their internal dealings ?
Of course, going back to the original point, it all depends on whether the club has the appetite to take things this far . Time will tell but one thing is for sure , this man will not give in until he is absolutely certain that every option available to him has been explored.
I get a very uneasy feeling about our governing bodies the more and more things that come out of the closet . Recent revelations on twitter from guys like Celtic Research and Paul Larkin do not make for good reading . I was also aware of a twitter spat between the SFA’s Darryl Broadfoot and the twitter account Moo_ted in which Moo_ted asked a simple question to Broadfoot ” when can the sponsor expect a reply to his letter”? , to which Broadfoot replied ” what letter? What sponsor”? . When all along Mr Broadfoot knew exactly what letter and what sponsor as he had discussed it only days before with Angela Haggerty of the Drum prior to Angela running with the story in The Drum. When this fact was pointed out to Broadfoot he then became very condescending towards the questioner .
It is these type of things which make me feel very uneasy and suspicious of the ruling bodies and I think that is mirrored across the whole of Scottish football. The fact that they cannot see the need for the questions to be answered tells it’s own story.
I will look forward to the meeting with my club and will update you on any developments .
As I have said previously , if we don’t do anything then nothing will happen. If we do something then something might happen.
Wish me luck.
BSR – was hoping to move to the ole South Stand after 18 years in the Upper North. It was either change or give up season card and pick n choose games. Think they are open until 5pm, so I’ll probably head back to the ground later.
HH
TTTT
I was in the queue first this morning for the TO opening. One gentleman beside me was looking for a seat in the Main Stand for for his grandson. He was told before going in by one of the TO people that there are very few tickets available for there.
~SPF~
CAN YOU FEEL THE LOVE ?
Unless it’s prayers then?
Another blog Drama Queen.
The ole Shawshank Redemption was a box office flop.
TBB –
Surely box-office means good for ticket sales, even before the season starts. BTW that wasn’t my choice of words anyway. I was quoting the people I was getting at.
squire danaher
12:15 on 31 May, 2014
Just dropped in and see discussion if Glasgow Yoony bus
I and two mates went as non members with the bus to Nottingham.
What I remember was that there were 10 non members on the bus without tickets. The Bhoys, by hook and by crook, had every one sorted with a ticket by the time we stopped at Wetherby for “refuelling”.
A crackin bunch of lads.
They are but unfortunately they took us Milton bhoys to Cologne……A trip they will never forget.
DrinkanddrugsandrocknrollCSC
Tony re books & Joe C re Greenock tickets have emailed you both but still waiting replies.
Yours in Celtic
Logging off now.
I don’t normally sign off, but tonight I feel it necessary, lest I upset someone by not responding to some banal piece of badinage.
Goodnight.
There’s the faux outrage….
Gold Coast Tom @ 12.34
Was the guy you used to work with an Orc?
Keane and Fenlon as number 2 thoughts anyone?
SPF – thanks for the info mate. Started painting the garden fence, so I might not make it back to the TO!
It’s Magners weather!!
HH
TTTT
CowieBhoy, kilt every time.
Trews are for those feart of wearing a Kilt:-)
voguepunter
12:39 on 31 May, 2014
LOVE :))
Back to the grind, thats what I get for making the schoolbhoy error of telling she who has to be obeyed “I’m feeling alot better today”
The civil war continues between the huns, it’s getting dirty now…
Sons of Truth
2 hours ago
Quite disgusting behaviour from Sons of Struth and their followers. Last night i was made aware that a number of them were “onto me” and that they had been searching in my archives, history and settings to trace my “real name”. Some of it was written on here which you will all have read and some of it conducted privately.
For the record, my real name is John Wallace. Well part of it is. The truth is, that is my first 2 names, and i have a 3rd AND 4th name as well.
As i have stated in the past on here, right at the start, my friend, a real good blue-nose, 25+ year season ticket holder, helped create this page for me and has no idea what im posting, but he is now concerned given the comments last night that he has left some sort of trail to his account on here.
I most certainly dont want him to get caught up in anything or getting the blame for anything i write, not that he doesnt trust me and not that i have anything to be frightened of in my writing anyhow.
So, your blackmail attempts will not work. Your private threats of “be silent or else we will reveal” will not work either.
Reveal what you have found. If you have tracked down my real surname only, then it stays. If you have tracked down my friends name, then this page will be closed for good.
Reveal away and while your at it, try and justify why you are attempting to silence someone only wishing to get the facts out there, by blackmail.
And if anyone is wondering why i put my first 2 names and not my surname up, then you only need to read the comments elsewhere and this attempt to get at/blackmail me to understand why.
Isla Deuchar and 6 others like this.
Can I have raspberry
Can you email david@cqnmagazine.com re books and Greenock query and I will sort
sipsini
They started with thousands marching on Hampdump and yesterday Bomber and Huston handed their petion in by themselves:))))
Sydneytim
Knew George from Kirkliston where I was winchin’.
A member of the Winchburgh CSC -good lad.
His brotherTed the hertz supporting brickie , done a great job on my mates wa’ – still standing.
Sometimes you just hear a name and wonder how they are doin’.
I’ll give you a shout next time down in Sydney.
HH mate
Roy Keane – just my view:
Obviously a Worldwide respected footballer – no question one of the best and one of us ( at the end of his career) so there is suggestion that we should be happy to get him
But he is not my first choice for the following 3 reasons
1) He got Sunderland promoted but his management style “bullying – publicly criticising players and removing himself completely from the players” – meant he lost the respect of the players/dressing room – it was only ever down hill from there
2) Ipswich no impact at all again no relationship with players – nobody would die (metaphorically) for him
3) He just looks like a miserable bastard – nobody seems to like him – how many people come out and say what a great guy good with young player etc – also not sure I would fancy a pint with him – I’ve never seen him smile
So if he is to be our Manager he gets my 100% support (I had a few issues when Lennon fist became our Manager – but I supported him) but my message to Roy Relax a bit Smile Enjoy the occasion FFS Roy lighten up – get a positive atmosphere going
Roy when some people walk into a room with other people a light comes on (metaphorically)
Roy when some people walk OUT of a room with other people a light comes on
Don’t be the latter
If it is to be – Welcome back good luck and lets have fun
67ECW
winning captains
I have a photo of some Lions ,I will get the wife or daughter to email it to you as I have absolutely no clue how to do it :)))))))))))))
Personal pronoun abuse agogo
HH
leftclicktic
Didn’t get the chance this week to say congratulations to your daughter on her recent success. I know you’ll be well chuffed.
Hope to catch up during the summer.
Regards.
Gorgeous Samaras…. a true Celtic Legend
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZ3AtLBx_V0
B-)
Awe_Naw_No_Annoni_Oan_Anaw_Noo
10:50 on
31 May, 2014
Kit
For the record. He had been raging since he felt that everyone ignored his new baby announcement.
Made up pish to allow him to adopt an aggressive stance
I was one of those that didn’t believe it
HH
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Awe naw
I probably shouldn’t stick my nose in but i do remember when bould bhoys made the post about his son and then making another post a wee while later about how unhappy he was that nobody had offered any congratulations to him on such a momentous day.
I pretty much just lurked at that time and i did not say anything to him, although i did feel bad when he made his 2nd post.
It was a while ago…..cant remember exactly…..time just flies and the ole memory aint the best…..maybe about 2 years ago….not sure exactly and i had forgot about it until he mentioned it all recently.
He did come on here and tell us that he was now a proud father but did not get any response.
Anyway…..sorry for butting in but it might help a wee bit if you believe that did happen and could still be a sore point.