You have only to cast your mind back 8 months, as Celtic tried to convince Ryan Christie to sign a new contract, to know the threats posed by teams in the English Championship to a Scottish club trying to retain their players.
Hard cash is required and not just for the one player you are trying to convince to re-sign, there is an entire wage structure to consider. There are a multitude of reasons Newco needed to beat Celtic on Sunday, but for their players, no issue is more important than who they sign their next contract with.
Three of their starting line-up against Celtic are going into the final year of their contract: Kent, Aribo and Jack, as is substitute Arfield, unused sub Helander and injured Morelos. A further three of the starting line-up are out of contract next month: Goldson, Balogun and McGregor, along with loanee Ramsey and unused sub Davis.
McGregor (40) and Davis (37) will almost certainly retire. Balogun (33) is likely to accept any contract. Goldson has made it clear he will leave next month, while the other six will look for improved contracts or be prepared to run the clock down on their time at Ibrox.
Champions League qualification would resolve all these problems. Instead, they face a rebuild. This is not impossible. Between Edouard, Ajer, Christie and Frimpong, Celtic raised over £40m, money which filled the cashflow gap with enough left over to buy a title winning squad.
Newco are trading at a substantial deficit, money raised from the sale of Patterson and departure of their management team will go some way towards this, but there is unlikely to be anything left over to build a squad with. They either sell at the top of the market and buy incredibly well, or downsize. Or, of course, just keep spending until an ‘event’ happens, like Oldco.
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Jhb
25% of 3 year olds – definitely some on here
TIM MALONE WILL TELL on 6TH APRIL 2022 4:01 PM
As far as I can see, The Rangers have largely relied on Bosmans in recent years
I can recalll that they paid a transfer fee for Kent – but who else have they actually “bought” over the last few seasons?
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I recall they ‘swooped’ for Barisic for 2.2 million Eur or pounds
An T (and others)
Re squad improvements ….
My uninformed tuppence.
Retaining Maeda and CCV is a must.
I think the first will be simple, the second less so.
Have just got a nagging feeling Jota won’t happen. No science or logic.
Goodbyes to Bolingoli, Barkas, Soro and Ajeti in that order of need.
Stick or twist on Julienne.
Scales out on loan.
MJ out on loan.
New signings in priority order
Someone really good up the spine of the team – either a CB or a defensive midfielder
Left back at Juranovic level.
If Jota leaves, another tricky dicky in advanced position (possibly the Iranian lad?)
If Julienne, leaves another CB
Just a quiet transfer window !
Christopher Jullien is an egnima.
Time will tell.
greenpinata
Jools is an enigma, a riddle inside a mystery
Wrapped up in cotton wool
WinstonCSC
Could we not club together to keep Kent, Aribo and Jack?
Maeda was a 6 month Loan with a Compulsory Purchase at the end,
Normally it’s optional purchase but in this case we HAVE to buy Maeda.
It’s an unusual one but I assume it suited one of the 2 Clubs to have the purchase pushed into this fiscal year.
So there are no worries regarding Maeda .
We have an option to buy Jota & CCV at agreed prices, however I presume that the players themselves have to agree Personal Terms, so the ball is in their Court.
ERNIE LYNCH on 6TH APRIL 2022 3:39 PM
AN TEARMANN on 6TH APRIL 2022 2:37 PM
The culture of Protestant supremacism and triumphalism in Scotland predates the Union.
==yup,the culture of protestantism was causing genocide throughout the UK Ernie,long before 1707
Your union harnessed it well,Protestant genocide was not unique to Scotland,it was raping and pillaging and marauding throughout the the British Isles and for the aspiring protestants and UK establishment the beginnings of empire built on the slave trade.They had been doing so since union of crowns.Your Protestant supremacist attitude was rife in England too, empires best export was its racism,division and genocide=
The huns did not invent it.
=Union establishment did,both in crown and parliament.still law today as crown is head of church.
And as such is protestant
By the time their original club came along as a vehicle they were rich pickings as Primrose Ure showed,after Irish home rule bills rose in pressure==
I can’t believe I’m having to point that out to you. It’s like you know absolutely nothing about Scottish history.
==Your not pointing out anything other than your a unionist Ernie.and being a unionist history you are selective and enables amnesia to settle. That works thro to today,look at how Blair is looked on today
Now away and read your Edward Spenser and other post(so called) enlightenment authors who covered the genocide wrought all over British Isles and globally
‘by the divine hand of God’
HH
Had a lazy day on you tube watching clips from the weekend, a few Hun video blogs from Sunday came up as suggestions
Brilliant viewing for anyone interested 😉
Editing was not bad, managed to cut out most of the dodgy words but the bile was there.
There was a clip of several huns holding up names of convicted pedophiles on plastic banners, how sick can they actually be.
I know they are bad but wtf. HH 🍀
Back to Basics
As your post implies decisions to be made.
Jools is an odd one.but does not seem to fit.
Hopefully Alan at cbn may do a who’s who on potential
additions,like the young Bayern player mentioned last week.
HH
there was a very good interview with the west ham ladies team “sleep coach” (no kiddin) on talk sport as I was driving yesterday.
now a specialism to get your best athletes performance that sleep is monitored, controlled even, 40 minute naps regulated through the day and blah di blah
sports science and all that.
but there were questions from josephine public who asked about screen time for the weans and was it damaging to their health and the new research says no, more stimulus for the development, more learning available, good habits can be input to the routine, and indeed it falls back on the parent to give routine to the activities,
all very interesting.
by the way, none of the pre-school kids in our family have thier own devices but they do have access to game consolsing and learning tools,
as an aside one in four people in the world is chinese.
Saint Stivs
as an aside one in four people in the world is chinese.
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In Partick it is more than that. They are an asset to the community.
one in five of Celtic’s top 20 players is Japanese. they are an asset to the club!
GREENPINATA
What was the most difficult of the two games.
The Tony Macroni
Grayskull.
Both gave us three points, but one game prompted parties all over the place.
Let me guess.
The game against the team who were only 3 points behind us in the fight for the league title as opposed to the club who were 39 points behind us.
I’ve never had more confidence in a coach’s ability to target talent in the way Ange has done to date. For that fact I’d lose no sleep if CCV and Jota didn’t sign as I think we’d get tremendous value with the budget we would have.
Maybe even younger and with a greater sell-on value thrown in.
Great position to be in.
HH
Big Wavy
I agree I would love Jota to stay but pretty confident that Ange will have someone else in mind if he doesn’t.
On the hun signings, I think they do well from the free/Bosman market… but the players seem to drop off in quality within a few months and consequently they can’t sell them on.
One in three Sevco Supporters are as stupid as the other two.
AN TEARMANN on 6TH APRIL 2022 5:00 PM
That account is yet further evidence that your man was right when he described nationalism as an infantile disorder.
SFTB 😂
Is it the ones called Sammy?
SFTB, taken from a sample of 3? 😂
Another call to the Dublin bhoys
I have 2 tickets to Peadar Brown’s knees up on the 17th if anyone wants them. Gets you in to watch the game and then 2 rebel bands
Apparently great craic in there but i’ll be at the game
ERNIE LYNCH on 6TH APRIL 2022 6:14 PM
AN TEARMANN on 6TH APRIL 2022 5:00 PM
That account is yet further evidence that your man was right when he described nationalism as an infantile disorder.
Ernie
It’s not nationalism I am correcting.its your selectivity in history. amnesia.its like goin over Lab party history.we differ,but the selectivity and amnesia are on show are the same.
It’s your belief that protestantism was the sole right of Scots,when history shows your farting in the history of these Isles.it wrought terror prior to exporting its racism and its civilizing genocide on a global scale.
Infantile is your denial of that,your selectiveness and your ongoing amnesia.
It’s hard posting history to someone who skewers his history to include this bit,ignore that bit,oh OK use a wee bit of that,but not that bit, for a political end…..its the history and everything is in it. You view history diff from me imo you selectivity and amnesia enables clowns to deny famine.sod that,:-)
Back to Celtic
HH
Who what and where is Peadar Brown ?
Coneybhoy??
It seems to me that the Ibrox club is in constant life-support mode, and has been since its inception… so how come two things have happened seem to conflict with this?
First there is the European progress in recent years, far and away more impressive than ours, and the majority achieved when there was absolutely no success in domestic competition.
Secondly the title-winning performance of last season. Of course our surrender from de-facto quadruple treble winners to also-rans in all three competitions couldn’t have been forecast, and was a contributing factor.
Could the answer have been good player recruitment, better than ours, on a much lower budget?
It has been said earlier that Christopher Jullien is an enigma, I would not disagree, but surely so are the current club playing out of Ibrox. We can inflict another barren domestic season on them in the next few weeks, but will it make any difference to their outlook and modus operandi?
It seems as if they are staying alive waiting until something happens – maybe a buyout, e.g. keep the business maintained in working order and we may be able to sell and recoup our investment.
After a successful season🤞, will Celtic invest heavily from a position of strength? How will(can) Ibrox respond if we do? The next few months should provide some clues.
I make no apologies for talking about Ibrox – it is the one thing that stands in our way of domestic success – ergo relevant.
AN TEARMANN on 6TH APRIL 2022 6:44 PM
Scatological gibberish.
WITS
A pub about 5 mins down Clanbrassil St from Christchurch
They put on gigs during Celtic games and it is always ticket only due to demand. Wasn’t on my radar but i ended up with tickets by mistake
A long shot that they may be of use to someone
Celtic F.C. v St. Johnstone F.C.
cinch Premiership
09/04/2022 3:00pm Celtic Park
Referee:Andrew Dallas
AR1
Sean Carr
AR2
Jonathan Bell
Fourth Official
Alan Muir
Good evening all from Heraghty’s. Gerrintaethum Celtic!!!!
BIGRAILROADBLUES on 6TH APRIL 2022 7:01 PM
Any sign of the Urban Voltaire?
My last post was for the huns and St Johntone. I get confused. 😂
BRRB
that’s a blast from the past, Heraghty’s. No girls toilet and my sister hated it due to living round the corner in a ground floor flat!
Ernie, haven’t seen him for some time.
angeball …………….
well steinball
1977
https://twitter.com/i/status/1511758132078268419
Coneybhoy, it’s not changed much. 😂
3 weeks ago today I started moderating CQN
I hope I have made a difference
I am one man, with a young family and a business to run
I do this voluntarily as I was sick of scrolling through endless nonsense
There is only so much I can do in the time that I have
Thank you all for making this easier than I thought it would be
That speaks volumes for the character (and characters) we have on this blog
In Ange we trust
Hail Hail
By virtue of his consistency and by always being available for selection, Carter-Vickers is my POTY. Would love him to stay, but, does he want to ? If no, then we can forget it.
Tottenham might still make the top four, so that would not help our cause. Would Conte want him back anyway ? Only time will tell.
The big fella is guaranteed a game with us, would that be the case back at Spurs, or elsewhere.
Jota is a talent, without a doubt. Has not been quite so effective since returning from his hammy. Young guys do tend to blow hot and cold. Thought Bassey got the better if him on Sunday, to be honest. The SPFL, and the delights of Dingwall and plastic pitches may not what he has in mind for the next stage of his career.
As with CC-V, only time will tell.
Moderator – yes you have (made a difference) ….
… For the better.
Thank you
JHB on 6TH APRIL 2022 6:49 PM
First there is the European progress in recent years, far and away more impressive than ours,`
I probably can`t really argue with that but for the sake of perspective, did we not win more points than THEM in the Europa League Group but we failed to qualify?