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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MWD- it’s full of Gs and Ws?
Pogmathonyahun
It was frequently raining, and they always used their cagoules for goal posts.
setting free the bears supports res. 12 & oscar knox
14:02 on 30 May, 2014
Sydney Tim
“9 of the players who started against hertz were inherited from Mon”
And most of them left at the drop of a hat when the wages were tightened.
Gordon came in the summer of 2005.
Petrov asked for a transfer in April 2006
Sutton left in Jan. 2006 (unfortunately injury meant he could not serve any club well)
McNamara left summer 2005
Hartson left summer 2006
Neil Lennon left summer 2007 and was by then not an effective player e.g. Pars SCF
Agathe left in 2006 having hardly played for us
Valgaeren left in the summer of 2005
Alan Thompson left in Jan 2007 but again barely featured latterly
Bobo left in the summer of 2009 but rarely played in those final 4 years (28 apps. in 05/6, and thereafter, 6, 4 and 0)
and Mjallby and Larsson were already gone
WGS did not get a lot of service from MON’s stalwarts getting the fading embers of Lennon and Hartson’s efforts and the benefit of Stan’s transfer fee mostly. Bobo and Sutton were unfortunate for different reasons but WGS got no real service from them and the achievements he made were with his own team.
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Interesting stats,and there is little doubt that we had seen the best of the MON team that Gordon inherited.
It is not necessarily true,however,to say that we were left with players who were past their sell-by date.
Gordon came in with a remit to enforce discipline and cut the wage bill. To do those things meant reducing the influence of the senior players,and punting them if possible.
It also meant that youngsters had to kowtow or eff off,witness David Marshall and Charlie Mulgrew,for example.
Martin left him with an ageing but experienced squad which needed rejuvenated,and the kids with which to do it. He pissed them all off,apart from Aiden and Stephen McManus. Wrecked their careers,in fact.
And you know what? He did the exact same with most of the senior players he inherited.
It’s nothing personal with him,btw. I looked forward immensely to him as a manager.
Titles and cups,magic.
Wrecked careers,not for me. A disgrace in my opinion.
And boring to watch anaw.
Don,t understand the criticism of Adam Matthews ,he,s one of our top players,unfortunately badly injured by that orange thug playing for the well,last season,Adam is better defensively than Lustig and can play on the left as well
Pogmathonyahun aka Laird of the Smiles
I only considered it as his old boss was in town recently in the company of a powerful Celtic man
off oot, going to go play counterstrike global offensive (a Competitive game) and converse with 4 Europeans (and this includes Russians) who will be in my team, working as a team wins games, being ignorant and idiotic does not win games.
I love the game itself and the concept, the unwritten rule in competitive gaming, no matter what the game is, is that people speak in English. There is a function to disable your own teams (individual players as well) voice communications so it really detracts from the team play.
Back in, in an hour….
Win, Lose or even Draw
MWD is every line an anagram of, err, every line?
DBBIA’s
that is correct but not the answer i am looking for.
It is way more clever than that.
MWD says Aye
Petec,
I have on more than one occasion been mistaken for one of the Brethern, it is apparently something to do with my handshake, lol.
I love winding them up.
bmcuw…
WGS…a disgrace????
Too too much.
I think a bit strong. Actually more than a bit.
The football was NOT always boring and at the most boring similar to MONs most boring.
Hope u followed that…I’m not sure I did lol.
HH
JUSTAFAN
I disagree. He wrecked people’s careers.
And the football bored the pants off me and others.
Not long off the ‘phone to Ms Tally who informed me that someone from BBC Scotland is coming round to audition her and Mrs Tally with a view to possibly appearing in a documentary about the upcoming referendum.
They both have a vote but I dont.
‘Lights, camera action!’
HH!!
TALLYBHOY
Their view will come across loud and clear.
Crystal clear,in fact.
Tallybhoy
why do you not have a vote – out of intereset while your wife and i presume daughter do?
MWD says Aye
BMCUW
Very well put.
Tbh I’m more interested in who our next manager will be.
There! I’ve said it!
HH!!
First signing Kieren Westwood?
Just got a message there Huns doing a tour of the US and Canada in July canny beeeeeeee?
Anyone else hear or get that?
Is there goin’ to be an ole referendum?
Jings, they kept that quiet.
No doubt hopin’ to slip a yes vote under the ole radar.
Assumin’ the ole radar still works, what with all the bloomin’ ole wind farms.
TONYDONNELLY67
That’s smashing,just in time for your arrival.
That’ll stop you getting bored,at least.
Paul67
Happy that Emilio and Mikael have signed new contracts but in the absence of a manager and an assistant manager who has decided that they are part of the managers plans for the future? I believe them to be good players and valuable assets but will the new manager believe the same. Or will the new manager not have a say on signing policy and just be a first team coach?
Just askin….
Now watch us be linked with the majority of the Ireland squad.
Shane Long anyone?
Lefty
Well pleased for your daughter,good on ye.
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I see the motley crew ( CRC DOC ACGR & BMCUWP) having a dig at me
whilst I was nightshift helping the citizens/denizens of Glasgow get home safe and sound
to their beddy baws…grrrrr
ACGR telling fibs on me, it was Hope st I drove up and it was meant as a compliment :O)
Just thought of a new game…
MSM Bingo:
Each player selects 10 footballers’/managers’ names, places them around a grid. As each player is mentioned as an ‘exclusive’ target in the rags, you start utliising your dobber!
Just a thought from someone who yearns for footballing progress on the park
Big Johan decides to leave
Roy offered his job
Neil doesn’t want him
PL/DD say yes
Neil say no chance
PL/DD still say yes
Neil walks
Roy now number 1
PL/DD job done
IGC
Not quite sure what you have in mind there.
Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire
15:13 on 30 May, 2014
Petec,
That kind of question screams sleep depravation :o)
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Your Love
I have still not went for the Global Offensive Competitive game, BOBBY phoned and if you have not spoke to BOBBY for a while, well the talk is lengthy and that is without even anything starting really.
I am off to School and hopefully, learn a lot from my new 4 team m8s.
I am determined to start a CQN CSGO team, the outreach is remarkable.
Back in soon.
Darren O’dea?
Think anagram!
MWD says Aye
DBBIA
Those Better Together footshooters are missing a trick. If wee Johann Lamont was to promise to scoot round the hills and valleys of the D&G badlands talking the ole turbines into submission the NO vote would be home n dry.
tonydonnelly67
15:45 on
30 May, 2014
Just got a message there Huns doing a tour of the US and Canada in July canny beeeeeeee?
Anyone else hear or get that?
It was on SSN the other day. They must be stowin away on a boat.
The Battered Bunnet
15:56 on 30 May, 2014
IGC
Not quite sure what you have in mind there.
Apologies, mispelt ‘dauber’ ;)
Sevco’s opponents in their upcoming glamour friendly, Victoria Highlanders, seem to know a thing or two:
‘[Sevco] FC, a soccer club from Glasgow, Scotland with one of the largest and most loyal fan followings in the world, will play the Victoria Highlanders in an exhibition game July 21.
“Everybody in the football world has heard of [Sevco],” said Highlanders striker Blair Sturrock, a native of Scotland.
The friendly will be played at Centennial Stadium. Highlanders GM Mark DeFrias said he expects a capacity crowd of 5,000.
“Rangers have 6.3 million followers in 660 supporter groups around the world, including two in Vancouver and ones in Seattle and Calgary”…. said DeFrias….
Among that diehard fan base is Steve Paton of Victoria and his 19-year-old son Cameron Paton, the latter who just returned from touring Ibrox and its storied trophy room. Paton said he fully expects fans in Celtic green to be at Centennial Stadium for the sole purpose of rooting against Rangers.
“This will be massive,” he said. “Almost everybody born in Scotland doesn’t live there anymore….. . . I don’t wear anything green,” added Paton’
“Huns doing a tour of the US and Canada in July”
-Are they rowing?
No excuses for this guy but you can physically assault the manager of Celtic FC in front of thousands of witnesses and walk but get 12 months for this?
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-27638800?
Every day is a school day
The sonnet Washington Crossing the Delaware was written in 1936 by David Shulman. the poem refers to the scene in Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze famous painting Washington Crossing the Delaware.
every line of the 14 line sonnet is an anagram of the title.
A hard, howling, tossing water scene.
Strong tide was washing hero clean.
“How cold!” Weather stings as in anger.
O Silent night shows war ace danger!
The cold waters swashing on in rage.
Redcoats warn slow his hint engage.
When star general’s action wish’d “Go!”
He saw his ragged continentals row.
Ah, he stands – sailor crew went going.
And so this general watches rowing.
He hastens – winter again grows cold.
A wet crew gain Hessian stronghold.
George can’t lose war with’s hands in;
He’s astern – so go alight, crew, and win!
In an Independent Scotland we will all be better eductated. :-)
MWD says Aye
kojo
15:18 on 30 May, 2014
The Battered Bunnet
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A Guy that Ye widnae wanna be ALL
Alain wi..in .. A Life Boat,after yer
Liner hid hid jist Hit an Iceberg,n .
Sank..
Jist Him N You.. naebuddy else ..oan
board..
in the Mid-Atlantic..in the Winter
time. N. Ye hid No Food or Water.. fur
three Days.. n.. well..
Wid Ye?
No me,pal. No Me.
Nice Chatiing.. as Alwiz
Kojo
Still,Laughin
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Right Enough,Petec…
Ye Widnae Want Tae Be Drawin’ Lots..
Tae See Who Gets Eaten…FIRST !
Up The HOOPS..!
BMCUW
“It is not necessarily true,however,to say that we were left with players who were past their sell-by date.”
No, they were a mixture of guys that were past it, guys who did not fancy WGS, guys who WGS did not fancy, and guys who were being paid more than they were worth.. Only one player went on to have a career elsewhere and we got big money for him.
“Martin left him with an ageing but experienced squad which needed rejuvenated,and the kids with which to do it. He pissed them all off,apart from Aiden and Stephen McManus. Wrecked their careers,in fact.”
Interesting attribution.
If none of them made a career elsewhere, was that WGS’s fault? Did he sabotage the confidence of Jackie & Charlie at Wolves or was he right that Jackie was not worth a rise in pay (Wolves, United and Aberdeen suggest the latter) and Charlie did need to sort himself out before he eventually rediscovered form 3 clubs after Celtic? It took David Marshall a few years but now he is an Arsenal target . Some career ruin???
Did he ruin Didier Agathe’s career or did the same faults WGS detected in him become evident to MON at Villa who also let him go and the Blackburn manager who did not take him on?
Was Chris Sutton’s career, already threatened by injury, terminated by his eye injury or was he already struggling to perform?
Bobo is a complicated one. He was obviously still good enough for us but, by the time he left, was a 3rd and 4th choice centre back for two lowly French teams.
Alan Thompson had no career after us. Did WGS cause that or were some of Alan’s habits catching up with him?
How does a manager whose personality pisses off so many senior and junior players, allegedly, manage to promote a last 16 CL defence out of the journeymen Caldwell & McManus, kicks on improvements in Aiden McGeady (a player who fought him as he helped him), forges a solid midfield out of the journeymen Robson & Hartley, and promotes youth and fringe players like McManus, McGeady and Maloney get it so wrong?
We kicked on as a team. We got two last 16 CL places, not by luck, but by being a team. We were not great to watch but we had a team ethic that kicked us on from being CL group makeweights and UEFA cup runners up and quarter finalists. The wee man proved the begrudgers wrong and is still doing so.
Tim Tanium
15:50 on
30 May, 2014
Paul67
Happy that Emilio and Mikael have signed new contracts but in the absence of a manager and an assistant manager who has decided that they are part of the managers plans for the future? I believe them to be good players and valuable assets but will the new manager believe the same. Or will the new manager not have a say on signing policy and just be a first team coach?
Just askin….
I asked a similar question earlier. Who is making these decisions?????