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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Hope you lose yer bets 31003…not sorry ;-))
H.H.
They are well worth their lead 🥴
An elderly man living alone in Manchester wanted to plant his annual tomato garden, but it was very difficult work, since the ground was hard. His only son, Paul, who used to help him, was in prison (strange ways) . The old man wrote a letter to his son and described his predicament:
Dear Paul,
I am feeling pretty sad, because it looks like I won’t be able to plant my tomato garden this year. I’m just getting too old to be digging up a garden plot. I know if you were here my troubles would be over.. I know you would be happy to dig the plot for me, like in the old days.
Love, Dad
A few days later he received a letter from his son.
Dear Dad,
Don’t dig up that garden. That’s where the bodies are buried.
Love,
Paul.
At 4 a.m. the next morning, CID officers and local police arrived and dug up the entire area without finding any bodies. They apologized to the old man and left. That same day the old man received another letter from his son.
Dear Dad,
Go ahead and plant the tomatoes now. That’s the best I could do under the circumstances.
THELURKINTIM
No harm now in one more (Rashford) goal
I’ll be up £90 and England’s (false) confidence will be sorted next game
Hoorah
Everyone a winner
Can’t remember the year, but it was when BBC Scotland had rights to cup competitions.
They were covering the liquidated Klub v Dumfermline.
During the preamble, when they big up anyone who plays in red, white and bloo, none other than self confessed ‘pseudo intellectual’ Pat Nevin gave his insight on a goal scored by fat Boyd – “there he is, playing one the shoulder, just like Schevchenko’”.
Plus ca change….,
But…we’d need to buy their central defenders to improve…Engurland really are just better than average
FOURSTONECOPPI
Luv it
F F S
Erm….forget that idea about signing Ukrainians
I was desperate
THE BLOGGER FORMERLY KNOWN AS GM
Surely I’ve won the £1,000,000
I’m not a fan but Engerland are deservedly well ahead in this game and will no doubt be in the final at Wembley with a great chance of winning it.
Fourstone…VG 😂👍
oldgoldCSC
H.H.
Decisions decisions
Do I watch and listen to Gary Lineker and co at full time…..or do I paint the garden shed in the dark for two hours……
Answers great fully received
HEADTHEBALL
Get a bloody grip of your self man
England deserve it
I’m gripping so hard it hurts. :-)
31003 (earlier)
Sorry watching the game – I have no problem in answering any serious post.
I ignore all the abusive tripe – unable & unwilling to get down to that level.
No wonder Ukraine are getting pumped
6 of their team play in the Ukrainian league
It is a mismatch in Rome. When you are three, then fours goals up, you play without fear of losing.
England will have to beat Italy to win the trophy – they won’t do that!
JHB
Thank you
1st question (of 3)
Why do you make political statements on a football blog when no one prior to that statement are mentioning politics but are simply discussing football…..particularly Celtic?
Any good films to watch?
Scullyboy
Stay on board
I’m expecting no reasonable answers
31003
I’ll hold the torch
31003🎣
MARSPAPA-I didn’t know Inverness was 3hrs drive away 🤷🏽♂️
Scullybhoy-Gone Baby Gone is a good film 👍
SCULLYBHOY on 3RD JULY 2021 9:38 PM
Any good films to watch?
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Pretty sure there’s a few in each catagory you could think of ;-))
H.H.
SCULLYBHOY on 3RD JULY 2021 9:38 PM
Any good films to watch?
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depends on yer mood….glad to help ;-))
H.H.
Hav yae tried Watchmen ;-))
31003 on 3RD JULY 2021 9:35 PM
Firstly, that’s simply not true. As I stated earlier – at that time at least 75% of posts were not concerned with either Celtic, or, football. Politics, as we all witnessed played a major part in the fortunes of Celtic and Celtic Supporters.
Now a question for you.
What right have you to ask that? By all means you can ignore, or, disagree with anything I post, that’s your only prerogative.
FAIRHILL BHOY on 3RD JULY 2021 9:44 PM
MARSPAPA-I didn’t know Inverness was 3hrs drive away 🤷🏽♂️
Hope Ts driving, 3 hours without a drink 🤣
Looking for a film?
The Departed is on Amazon Prime
Dropkick Murphys 🍀
https://youtu.be/Ldf7T6TlV-o
well done england.merited.pity kanes volley didnt go in,would have been some goal.
comin’oam tsunami building tho.:-(
so Billy Sloan and some sounds til
uruguay play 11.45
hh
Favourite line from The Departed and lets face it…there are several….
“I’m the guy who does HIS job, you must be the OTHER guy” with a Boston accent.
Perfect.
JHB
That’s simply not true
1) I asked you if I could ask a question. You said yes. Why are you now questioning that question by asking me “ What right have you to ask that?”
Your answer is wrong as far as today goes. Political statements/questions may have been muted yesterday but today was all football until you made your political statement about the SNP and Covid numbers
Question 2
Why, when posters tell you they are bored to death with your political statements and questions, to the extent they tell everyone they are logging off, do you persist with your political diatribe, particularly when you know this is a FOOTBALL and not a POLITICAL blog?
31003 on 3RD JULY 2021 10:17 PM
Just for balance…..have you asked these questions to (some, not all) Indy posters who’ve done the same since before 2014?
Really not attempting to point score, but in balance hope to see the same challenge….😉
MARTIM1980
With all due respect
The answer to your question is no
There have always been politics discussed on the blog.
Never though, to the extent of attempted brainwashing, and never to the extent where it totally took over the blog. Posters, on occasion, let their vies be known, but never attempted to brow beat their counterparts into submission. Mostly, it was always about football, and mostly, about Celtic
Vies=views