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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💎 I am … I said
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wDmChGZVSQ
Everything
SuziDent.CSC
Canta Libre
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t69AfvF6N7E
Petec
Wee tune for you, me and every Celtic supporter on the planet just now.
We need to Unite and support Ange.
This guy is the real deal.
https://g.co/kgs/Sfhu1a
Garry, we are All nothing but Everything in Our Lord & Saviours eyes.
I’ve only met Ryan Sofar frae yer Scooby Scooby Doo (crew).
Dandy is trying to get back home and see Dad frae Switzerland.
CELTIC of Glasgow owned Scotland.
A wee tune for my auld pal fae Knightswood Drew 1967.
Had a wee flashback last night, to a concert we attended together in 1982. Was some hash we had that night, so I will forgive you if you don’t remember BC gig. 😁😂🇯🇲
https://g.co/kgs/pHNBjr
12:27, isnae working Bro.
DELANEYS DUNKY on 5TH JULY 2021 12:06 AM
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Doesn’t seem that long ago we would argue the living day out of hell but sing a few shared songs during an evening or two. Never met the man in person, I enjoyed his company on here all the same.
Requiescat in pace MJ
Rio Grande – Down By The Glenside
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jwPVe_sWa8&t=14s
Sionnaigh,
Going by his Blog comments he was an absolute Gentleman.
Most have lost the plot at some time or other but I cannae ever remember macjay1 going off on 1.
Thats to his Great Credit especially as he’d normally be dealing with the Nightshift CQNers.
One of the happiest most joyous days was 3 weeks ago in Blackpool with my daughter and two grandweans. My granddaughter Leah made her First Holy Communion in Saint Ninian’s Knightswood 6 weeks ago.
In Blackpool, Leah aged 9 said to me, “Grampa, I feel special now because I have Jesus in me now. Will you take me to Mass every Sunday with you now please.”
I nearly started greeting.
My daughter calls her Mother Theresa.
Leah adores Jesus Christ.
PETEC on 5TH JULY 2021 12:47 AM
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He did have age as well as wisdom on his side. Not as judgemental as some.
Petec
MacJay had loads of intelligence.
Wish you had met him.
John and Peter would have got on like a house on fire. Shame it never happened.
Let’s leave MJ in peace with the angels. His place is of a better world now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuafmLvoJow
G-Thang
Magical
I was allowed to let a Young Dude know that Jesus was a Jew and his Name is Yeshuah.
Madness.
He Thanked me and I know he has went checking it out. I’ve linked him some of the best Ever mixes I’ve heard…. Dropped them on here before….. but more in Support of the Neil Francis Lennon.
Neil was Incredible for Celtic.
Thank You Neil.
A new Era.
Newco are Mentally being massaged to heights way beyond their Station.
Petec
My daughter Patrice thinks seriously that my granddaughter Leah will become a nun.
I would be happy if my granddaughter devoted her life to God.
Garry,
Noone knows anything.
These are prophetic Times howevaah Big chap.
God Bless all the possee.
It makes me wonder Pete.
Why is my 9 year old granddaughter, whose parents have no interest, so into her Catholic faith.
I blame her grampa and Saint Ninian’s Primary Knightswood teachers. 😁
Its real…..
Sorry for distortion….
I’m such a lucky man
G-Thang
Sonics Magical
Lucky Man by the RA, is one of my favourite ever songs Pete.
I believe I am truly Lucky and Blessed.
Got an excellent guardian angel my brother.
G’night Y’all,
Garry – No Doubt you are Blessed. God Bless Brother in Rhythym.
A Sonic thats Legendary
What a Dance Tune in the Saltcoats Metro in the Future by Lennox.
Petec
This is for you my friend.
You proud Fenian of Rock.
Like Clydebank, we have no Orange Walk in West Dunbartonshire.
Our forefathers stopped the Orange Bastards in Republican West Dunbartonshire.
https://g.co/kgs/oiMabD
Wee tune for Tontine Tim.
My favourite poster on CQN. 🍀💚
https://g.co/kgs/UDvfuP
Garry, both your links urnae working.
Richard Ashcroft wrote this beautiful song about his dying father in hospital, getting pumped full of drugs that don’t work.
The Drugs Don’t Work.
Covid vaccine included.
https://g.co/kgs/jiqP2y
I had to do a robot check to get to the Song.
We are Donald Ducked – Sorry Garry.
Dos músicos de Glasgow (Escocia) interpretando una melodia tradicional. Música Celta que se “pasea” por todo el mundo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPWB6cs3yxQ
Garry,
Dandy (ma wee Bro) disnae want to take the vaccine but he is gonnae to be able to come and see Dad as he is Tchaicovski. I was never good at Skiing anyway. Governmental controls are scarey now.
Native American Words of Wisdom.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idSCW3WOFLE
Petec
I will never be injected with this vaccine.
Fuck that, getting jagged with an experiment.
DELANEYS DUNKY on 5TH JULY 2021 2:05 AM
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At the very least, show some respect for those braver than a coward of a man.
Sionnaigh
Sorry. I don’t understand the words you just posted.
Please explain what the fuck you are on about please.
The children, women and men that have the courage to take the vaccine to help prevent the asymptomatic spread of the virus onto others less fortunate than themselves.
The Gullibles
I am happy to remain experimental vaccine free for the rest of my life, and place my trust on my excellent immune system.
The biggest con the devil has ever played on you with this Jag not Jab.
“Even a small mouse has bigger baws than you have”. Mohawk