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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Some downpour here in the East End of Glasgow!!! por cierto
monsoon season
Jackson Irvine
The only danger to my club Celtic is from the right wing cranks who post on here, and who are in the boardroom of the club I love.
Quislings all.
RON DIP on 4TH JULY 2021 3:07 PM
Sid 1888 @ 12.22
Don’t let the door hit you on the arse on the way oot.
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Are you a hun?
RD
that was some downpoor, i hope some oraginas got caught in it.
AT
Of course he is a hun.
Unfortunately there are a few huns who post regularly on CQN.
JHB the most obvious one.
Selling our prize assets. Captain to replace. Losing most of our first team squad and who are we replacing them with? League 1 standard players from Sheffield, including the boy Baldock who appeared on our scouting list in 2019. Returning to vintage scouting lists for Hickey. Extensions for Griff and Ralston.
Geez a break. What has the scouting operation been this past year? Did Director of Everything Lawwell take his last year off? As it all turned to manure after Ferencvaros?
Yeah, we were really lucky to have such a God-like CEO 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Lawwell’s legacy. PLB.
We should be so grateful to have had Pete to almost destroy our great club.
He should be doing time in jail.
So anyone who thinks differently to you is a hun?
And objecting to the bizarre protests which hurts the Club also makes you a hun?
But midnight racist taunts….that’s okay?
Just like everyone who didn’t vote for Indy is the enemy too…….seems to be a trend….
DELANEYS DUNKY on 4TH JULY 2021 4:34 PM
You okay?
Martim
I know you are not ok.
I am fine thank you.
Are you a hun? I suspect you are.
DELANEYS DUNKY on 4TH JULY 2021 4:41 PM
I’m good thanks , but it’s like you’re self destructing.
Do you think PL is a hun? Who else? P67?
Lost it pal.
You are projecting hun-like tendacies.
Reads like you perceive yourself superior and blaming everyone else.
DD and AT
I ain’t no Hun, lifelong ST holder and member of the CST but I can’t support a board that thinks it’s ok to cheat their customers and in turn to be cheated by our rivals and enemies . As Auldheid says it’s moral hazard and the game’s a bogey but hey ho keep the infantile jibes going
DELANEYS DUNKY on 4TH JULY 2021 4:18 PM
‘Quislings all.’
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No need for that.
Donaldsons would be more appropriate. We are in Scotland after all.
JHB on 4TH JULY 2021 3:20 PM
‘David Low is an astute businessman.
David Low reason for quitting the CST has been given as “pressure of work”. Could it possibly be the pressure of dealing with a bunch of mischief-makers who have a politically-driven agenda and don’t care what damage they may inflict on the club. Together with the GB they are a ‘militant tendency’ – a small but potentially dangerous faction posing as real Celtic supporters.’
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David Low knew exactly who and what he was getting involved with, and wouldn’t have been fazed by any of it.
And he’d be cooler with any militant tendency that you might assume.
Sid
The jibe wasn’t aimed at you but your detractor. Apologies for the confusion.
Martim
Self destructing, lost it.
Are you my shrink?
You haven’t a clue.
Desist making a complete fool of yourself.
DELANEYS DUNKY on 4TH JULY 2021 5:02 PM
I am really not the one making a fool of myself.
Ernie Lynch
That was mildly humorous from you.
Martim
Yes you are.
DELANEYS DUNKY on 4TH JULY 2021 5:04 PM
Take care😉
Martim
You look after yourself.
DELANEYS DUNKY on 4TH JULY 2021 5:06 PM
Random last word🤣😂😂🤣
Afternoon all.
Spent the last hour or so browsing Swiss Ramble and Bert Lassies.
Interesting and informative.
I’d recommend both.
Next season the gap between participation prize money in Champions League and Europa League widens further.
Interestingly, not much of a gap between prize money in Europa and Conference Leagues.
Looking at the CL qualification routes?
I reckon the odds are against any Scottish team making it.
Sevco’s is tough.
Ours is tougher.
PS … (not political ! ) ……..
Since the SG announced a week ago a plan to lift restrictions from 09 August …
….. which prompted the “full stadiums from 10th” headlines …..
…. the data has gone the wrong way.
I wouldn’t be surprised if SG pulls back from this.
Hail hail
Keep The Faith
Bert Kassies
https://www.humanosphere.org/basics/2013/08/map-of-the-day-where-the-brits-never-invaded/
These countries should not be allowed to benefit from football coming home.
MARTIM1980 on 4TH JULY 2021 4:35 PM
-So anyone who thinks differently to you is a hun?
no.
i asked as i have never seen the poster post before.Have you seen the poster before ? i havent? the moniker(may have(multi) may have even been a shite bag i suspect. i have seen Sid1888 comment his view for many a year.it is his view but to be answered anonymously the way he did deserve the question Are you a hun?
AN TEARMANN on 4TH JULY 2021
That was for DD.
Aware of the blog meet and greet…
BACK TO BASICS – GLASS HALF FULL on 4TH JULY 2021 5:12 PM
Would be very funny if we qualified and they didn’t though.🤣😂
The pitches at the Greg were excellent, drainage was top class
Been away for the weekend and just read back that MACJAY1 had passed away.
Absolutely shocked and deeply saddened by this news.
Pretty sure I met John at my first HOOT some years ago and he seemed a decent lad.
Pretty sure his lovely daughter was with him.
Prayers said for those who remain.
RIP MACJAY1
however it seems that a significant proportion of our electorate is too dense to realise this and blindly support an administration in disarry.
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Come on – percentages, please – remember how you gave us the figure of 60% of Celtic fans being stupid and blinded by sectarianism.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/12/the-uncomfortable-truth-about-britains-imperial-legacy
But then again, they did give us football.
The hurt from the abject way we gave up the ten hurts and will do so for a long time. I can totally understand some fans who want to hold this board to account over it. I also understand that each Celtic supporter has the right to do as he or she wishes. If they decide not to buy club merchandise then that is their choice, works the other way too.
Endures, not hurt…