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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Ole Bomber’s honcho makes Bomber look like George Clooney.
voguepunter
15:52 on 30 May, 2014
mob rules ok! :-)
HH
CRC
Reference to a few posters asking why emilio and mikel signed new contracts and they might not know who the new manager is and who does this benefit.
I have said it before, we are a business and if you look at it from a business point of view it makes perfect sense.
Izzy and mikel are two of our top performers and it makes sense to get them signed up regardless of the managerial position.
If the new manager wants them, job done. They are signed up till 2017 i believe. Good business.
If the manager does not want them we can command a higher transfer fee for two champions league, international class fullbacks. Good business.
From the players point of view. They will have signed on good terms and they now have their future sorted for the next few years. Good business.
From my point of view its a good deal for both parties and one that makes a lot of sense.
Looking at it from a negative point of view, have they signed on bigger contracts to get the deals done and announced to boost season ticket sales? Either way, good business.
Happy for them, especially izzy as he is now the first honduran tim. I believe he is and he has earned it. He gets us and we get him.
As for mikel, he is the angriest player in our team. He gets really angry when badly tackled and it is a quality i like aloater (cheers kojo)
He is in a long line of swedish tims.
Petec
Point of Interest..
Ah spoke tae a Hungarian Acquaintance( Na.. it wiznae Zsa Zsa.. this time!)
n.. She told me..
That..
Dracula, is Called Dracu.. in . well. Hungarian..
n.. Dracu , means.. The DEVIL.
Ah thought that that wiz interesting. fur she went oan tae say.. the word Dracu
comes fae the Word..
Dragon..
n Furthermair..
A Dragon, is Sometimes referred tae as .. a Snake. a Big Wan.. of course
n she Continued..
As Everybuddy Knows.. It wiz the Snake who Caused the Whole Magillah.. in the Foist n the Second Place.. that led tae the Fall of Man…
Man.. that Gal .. Sure Knew Her Onions.. which, of course has not Much tae dae wi whit we are talkin Aboot..
But.. Ah jist thought that Ah wid throw that in!
Jist hivin a wee bit Fun, wi ye pal…
Nice Chattin. as Usual.. with Ye.
Kojo
Still,Laughin’
Fourth tier Canadian ice hockey will give you a game, but fourth tier Canadian ‘soccer’?
CQN 5s select would give Ventura County Fusion a game.
THis is huntundraguffery.
Accordin ‘ to ole online English- Hungarian dicitonary ‘tépõfarkas’ is Hungarian for devil.
Maybe ‘dracu’ is Sevconian ?
Kojo
17:10 on 30 May, 2014
Petec
Point of Interest..
Ah spoke tae a Hungarian Acquaintance( Na.. it wiznae Zsa Zsa.. this time!)
n.. She told me..
That..
Dracula, is Called Dracu.. in . well. Hungarian..
n.. Dracu , means.. The DEVIL.
Ah thought that that wiz interesting. fur she went oan tae say.. the word Dracu
comes fae the Word..
Dragon..
n Furthermair..
A Dragon, is Sometimes referred tae as .. a Snake. a Big Wan.. of course
n she Continued..
As Everybuddy Knows.. It wiz the Snake who Caused the Whole Magillah.. in the Foist n the Second Place.. that led tae the Fall of Man…
Man.. that Gal .. Sure Knew Her Onions.. which, of course has not Much tae dae wi whit we are talkin Aboot..
But.. Ah jist thought that Ah wid throw that in!
Jist hivin a wee bit Fun, wi ye pal…
Nice Chattin. as Usual.. with Ye.
Kojo
Still,Laughin’
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Whit aboot Appollo?
Appollyon, Abbadon.
Some might Say, cue a song.
I would try to reverse engineer at the first name.
Abbadon — A Bad one, who Am I to Judge anyone.
Celtic. Great, Smashing, Super.
And that is the bottom Line.
Quick,Quick….!
Canamalar’s Choking On Them Prawn Sanwiches !
HeimlichCSC
Evening all
Just drove by the Celtic way and I can exclusively reveal I have no exclusives :)
James gang
You would think, and the thing is all the Tims in Brampton are down in New Orleans at the NACSC CONVENTION, lol. Oh dear.
thunder road
16:54 on 30 May, 2014
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Sorry bud, never heard of a rivercobbler…. but as they say every day’s a school day!!
Wouldn’t fancy eating one though, gives the impression as tough as old boots!
HH
petec – can’t think of any mellow techno links at the moment but the recent-ish album by Public Service Broadcasting isn’t bad.
The word Celtic does not appear in Roy Keane’s autobiography
My dear,dear,dear,friend.. The Singing Detetive
Mark McGhee..
Who is He?
Nice.. it even his a Rhyme tae It..
Na.. Ah am Afraid the Answer Must be Nay
.. Ah Canny see That He wid Bring Anything of Value tae oor Dressing Room. ( How aboot that Rolex that he is Always. Ostentatiously, Checkin’ every five Minutes?.. ed) ( Man,ye hiv a Point there.. Never thought aboot That.)
Ach … Ah still canny see Mark As oor Manager..
Noo.. the Ither guy ,whom ye suggested..
Diznae Hiv a Rolex.. Ah believe he Sports a Timex.. which is A sign o’ Him Eethur…
Bein’ a Nice Unpretentious Type o’ Guy..or..
It is a Sign that he is ,instead.. Merely…. An unfortunate n Impecunious Wan!
Yes.. Stevie Baby, diz hiv Qualities.. well Hidden of Course.. but Ah sure that he Hiz them.
Ah widnae be Averse tae Preferring Hiz Selection over that o’ Mr. Keane’s.
Anyone, in fact.. wid be Mair Preferable tae Mr. Keane..
Anyone?
Well… Actually, No.. jist ..Anyone..
So.. Who then?
Ach . let’s Drap the whole Thing!
Anywey.. Mark Ma Words..
If Keane gets the Post..
He wull Damage the Club.. No a jist… wee Tate. But a Hellava Loat!
Nice chatting, Pal. as alwiz..
Kojo
Still,Laughin’
Mullet
Please by assured that by Tim -I meant that I believe that he is a CFC supporter
His religion means absolutely nothing to me
I do think he would get more money to spend on players than the likes of OC or most others because he would be DD’s pick
Would he spend it wisely? – who honestly knows?
Every manager makes mistakes in the transfer market
For sure he has far more experience as a manager than Lenny had when he was appointed
I tend to think that only us or MU would really engage him – however as I said earlier I don’t think he will want to uproot his family and we cannot have a manager who is only here part time. That would be unfair on all parties!
HH
Bomber was sporting a neat pair of shoes in the photos:)))
Tooting Tim – why does that not surprise me?
tootingtim
17:28 on 30 May, 2014
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Neither do the words managerial genius ;-)
I hope you are keeping well.
Aff oot – the lawnmower beckons, but will a good excuse for a few beers later!
Bomber,Huston ,”the glib & shameless liar” & tinfoilheid Graham
The motley crew they have assembled to do battle with the Spivs:))))
Don’tBrakkbackin Anger..
Hiya,Pal..
Nice tae Chat wi ye.. Long time..
Well.
So She Lied..
But, then Ah am No Surprised.. Ye jist canny trust those Hungarians..
Fur anithe Acquaintance done tole Me..
“As long as Ye hiv a Hungarian fur a Freen. ye wull Never Hiv tae Look far. Fur an Enemy,”
N.. He Is Hungarian, an Awe!
Nice Chattin ,Pal.. as alwiz
Kojo
Still,Laughin’
TootingTim
17:28 on 30 May, 2014
The word Celtic does not appear in Roy Keane’s autobiography
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Look in the section where he talks about topping up his pension fund ;)
more than a touch of the Ronald Villiers in those Willie Vass photies……….
Sharks’n’ThePrivateJets CSC
weeminger
17:26 on 30 May, 2014
petec – can’t think of any mellow techno links at the moment but the recent-ish album by Public Service Broadcasting isn’t bad.
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Thank You.
Not sure what is coming in this upcoming Sonic that I have just pressed PLAY to.
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/international/asdas-wearable-england-flag-for-world-cup-looks-like-kkk-outfit-9461627.html
The good old DR is flying a headline about Irish fans turning on the traitor RK because of the possibility of him joining Celtic.
They don’t waste time in inventing an anti-Celtic story out of nothing, do they?
I’ve been trawling the archives to read up on the furore that broke out in the MSM when the cardigan dumped Scotland to join the team then known as Rangers but strangely enough…….
Leftclick, I know where that will sell very well.
Italian midges – mosquitoes with teeth – starting to bite.
Dont tend to bother me too much – usually feast on the wife n wean when theyre over.
Alcohol in the bloodstream seems to repel them.
HH!!
Director : “Okay Ronald – Pick up the petition and leaf thru the pages, you know, kinda nonchalantly, –
…….. ACTION!”
Ronald : Whit?
ahm no ready yit,……………. aw the pages or just a couple? Whit aboot Bomber wit’s he daein?
……..CUT!
Happy new moniker Friday,am no a hun
and fine yees know it….I used to be valentinesday
but am no anymare…….no need to worry my post’s
will still be the same old same old….the ramblings
of a sometimes bevvied, sometimes no bevvied
working class thicko philosopher……btw have we
got a manager yet?
Season-2005/06
Wed 5th April 2006
League
Celtic……………………..1-0….Hearts
John Hartson-4min
Artur Boruc………………………Craig Gordon
Paul Telfer……………………….Robbie Neilson
Bobo Balde………………………Panagiotis Fyssas
Maciej Zurawski………………..Andy Webster
John Hartson…………………….Edgaras Jankauskas
(Dion Dublin-69min)……………(Michel Pospisil-54min)
Mark Wilson………………………Paul Hartley
Neil Lennon……………………….Roman Bednar
Stilian Petrov……………………..Saulius Mikoliunas
Shunsuke Nakamura…………..(Rudi Skacel-62min)
(Stephen Pearson-58min)…….Deividas Cesnauskis
Shaun Maloney…………………..Christophe Berra
(Aiden McGeady-82min)………Julien Brellier
Stephen McManus………………(Calum Elliot-85min)
unused subs……………………….unused subs
David Marshall…………………….Steve Banks
Alan Thompson……………………Bruno Aguiar
Stanislav Varga……………………Martin Petras
Ross Wallace……………………….Ibrahim Tall
Celtic go 20pts ahead of Hearts
win the league
with 6 games remaining
Tue 09th May 2006
Roy Keane Testimonial
Manchester United……..1-0…….Celtic
Cristiano Ronaldo
Thu 11th May 2006
Alan Shearer Testimonial
Newcastle United………..3-2…….Celtic
Albert Luque………………………….Shaun Maloney-pen
Paul Lawson-og……………………..John Hartson
Alan Shearer-pen
hail hail
Have not read back. Apologies. No time.
Deeelighted to read that Emilio und Michael have signed new contracts.
Now get the same thing done for Matthews and Commons. Broonie too.
Tell FF and VD your here for another year or at least until we have qualified for the CL.
HH
Good evening
Sky sports and a number of newspapers keep referring to Dermot Desmond as Celtis’s majority shareholder.
How accurate is this? My understanding is that with around 20% of the clubs shares, DD is the biggest single shareholder but not majority shareholder, a position I presume would require > 50%.
Lazy journalism or am I missing something?
Incidentally, Kojo, what purpose would quitting the blog serve in the event of RK getting the gig?
HH
Herald today has surp itself with regards Irish bitterness. Let’s not forget MON and big Suttys part in their downfall. Their pain is our pride.
HH
Any live football on tonight ?
HH
Surp=surpassed
Awe_Naw_No_Annoni_Oan_Anaw_Noo
Ingerland v Peru, itv London.
Nye
Lovely that will do nicely.
Thanks for the response.
HH
desertbhoy
17:22 on
30 May, 2014
thunder road
16:54 on 30 May, 2014
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Sorry bud, never heard of a rivercobbler…. but as they say every day’s a school day!!
Wouldn’t fancy eating one though, gives the impression as tough as old boots!
HH
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You may recognise their more commonly used name……basa(could have been another pun earlier!)?
They are actually pretty good……was looking for something for the dinner 1 day and bought some as the price per kg was very good.
Kinda like cod but not as good and hence a cheaper product, but when there are 7 mouths to feed…..cheaper products can be all you can afford!
It was boneless and when breaded and fried everyone enjoyed it and i thought……good stuff…..will get it again another time.
When i googled it later on to see what the heck a rivercobbler looked like, i read some stories about concerns over the levels of toxins in the fish as some were fished from polluted Vietnamese waters.
There doesn’t seem to be any damage done, except that my jokes have got even poorer!
I remember reading something about them years ago