Celtic’s pillage of Yorkshire’s young talent continued yesterday with the arrival of 20-year-old Dutch player Osaze Urhoghide from Sheffield Wednesday. Osaze is a central defender and arrives a few days after fellow Wednesday graduate, midfielder Liam Shaw.
Sheffield Wednesday are in turmoil. Their most recent published accounts, to June 2019, showed a trading loss of £17m on a turnover of £22.8m – horrendous, but an improvement on the previous year’s trading loss of £23.7m. They sold Hillsborough for £38m during season 2018-19, switched the accounts to a £19m profit, but they are now a club without a stadium-sized asset on the balance sheet.
Since then, a bad situation has gotten considerably worse. Despite being the biggest team in the Championship by some margin, the finished bottom of the table in May; at least one season of third tier football awaits.
In short, Osaze and Liam may read about Celtic’s supposed turmoil last season and kick into the Monty Python Four Yorkshiremen sketch:
“You were lucky. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down t’ mill, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home Peter Lawwell would thrash us to sleep wi’ his belt.” I’m pretty sure that’s how I remember it.
Football is a zero sum game and where one giant club disintegrates, others see opportunity. Young players with talent and options will not stay.
Celtic were able to use the arbitrage permitted to them with not being bound by transfer rules between two FA member clubs. That money, perhaps in the region of £5m a piece for Shaw and Urhoghide, went on wage offers outbidding clubs from England. It’s a rerun of the Dembele deal from four years ago.
I have been saying for years the Championship is the most dysfunctional league in the world. It also causes Scottish Premiership clubs more trouble than any other. Where Wednesday have gone, others will follow. It is a morality tale in the making.
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FB
Brilliant in my mind of course
I keep hearing the commentator say Matt Bianco
Am I pissed?
31003 on 3RD JULY 2021 8:43 PM
I keep hearing the commentator say Matt Bianco
Am I pissed?
AYE!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
31003-I know who you mean.
I have liked Richard Bland for over a year now 🤷🏽♂️
I just watched him one day and he was just a steady Eddie and never got excited.
I was over the moon when he won the masters. It was only after that that I read his back story.
And it’s a Tim that coaches him😉
Win Win 🏌🏻😉
Bravo👏 they were indeed talking about fat Boyd.
To be top of the class, who made that ludicrous comparison.
Rest in Peace Macjay ya auld cantankerous git ;-))
OpentoallCSC
H.H.
Final clue – he once described himself as a ‘pseudo intellectual’ (which pretty much sums up his intelligence).
Spiers
At the end of the day….International teams that reach the quarterfinals of a major tournament must have decent players. We should be scouring their leagues for talent
The Blogger
Definitely Fat Boyd
Have we forgotten that the Ukraine is presently being annexed by Russia…fuk imperialism…c’mon the Ukraine
H.H.
Gary Lineker and his neutral co hosts are on fine form
The Lurkin Tim
And not for the first time
Is it Gavin Rae ;-))
Yes Boyd, not Spiers.
31003
You would’ve thought they would have had a Ukrainian fan on the panel – most Scots would fill that brief
Thank you
https://twitter.com/Poneil69/status/1411395776727617537?s=07&fbclid=IwAR0dJ9ZD7VWyJx8t3iTRZt-yZ-hMP6FJsrxcuGADpgLpSeCCgkbm8eBtHxw
first half hour england,ukraine more into it.
looking strong,sterling and sancho do play well.i enjoy watching.hope the ukranians go for it,tho that may be their downfall.good game to watch :-)
hh
Gene
If they only have English pundits on when neutral games are played you have NO chance of alternative views on Glorious England games are on. It’s the BBC after all
Fourstone…
lol and wow….will share
H.H.
1-3 England.for fun.wouldnt know how to put a bet on tho
hh
FOURSTONECOPPI
That sounds like an English dude singing that
England 2 up
Think England will win now 😉
Aye scouser
67ECW
I saw the mix’s up training session as an effort by Dom McKay to improve communication between club and fans and little more than that. Communication has sadly been deplorable for the last season and Dom, new into the club, is trying different ways to improve matters. It gives us a flavour of Ange and how he wants the team to play and not much more. It was enjoyable for fans to watch.
Oh dear
Made in manure
I see 2 of those who could have played for Ireland have scored.
barstewards now 2 up ffs
Told an English pal it’ll probably be 3 or 4 nil England….just to ease his fears….I need him to phone me now to say 4-2 Ukraine just to ease my fears
God help us
31003….Liverpudlian…so close ;-))
OpentoallCSC
H.H.
3 nil….. let them have their moment. What i saw last night is that, if they meet, Italia will crush them.
If Ukraine don’t score…and Rashford comes on and scores…I’m up £90
Sorry
Betfair free bet
🎶You got to do what you want to do🎶
Ironic that the only team that have caused engerfacist problems so far is Scotland!
Sound off….let’s hope next round is their last….unless we want to see them getting beat in the final ;-))
Always thought the Sevilla/Ukraine strip, with a subtle green collar and cuffs, would be a perfect Celtic away strip….not so sure now