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Celtic exploit Wednesday collapse, a morality tale in two players

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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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  19. bankiebhoy1 on

    Dear Lord……………………….

     

     

     

    anyway……

     

    …..In ither news

     

     

    wee bully’s maw………..aye.

     

    …….oh aye.

     

     

    Imagine the scenario if ( pardon the expression ) The Boot was on the Other foot?

     

     

    Thur would be carpet-bitin’, berserkin’ rage……….

     

    The House Un-American activities committee would be convened pronto and the fullweight of Plymouth Rock would be hurled at the offending Timmed-up heid.

     

     

    Oh aye.

     

    This wee “example” is the poster boy in scoddland for more than just the fitba.

     

     

    …….And Scotland is happy enough to go along wi’ it.

     

     

     

    The Wearin’O’The Green CSC

  20. Turkeybhoy on

    Expecting a few big signings this week.Vuscovic,Hickey,and the odd surprise.They had better,time has run out.Has not got any faster with the wrenching of the purse from PLs fingers.A Herculean task,I would imagine,but now he has gone,I would expect a big week on the transfer front.

  21. Big Jimmy on

    DAVID66 on 4TH JULY 2021 12:02 PM

     

    Good morning all from a very clammy and overcast Garngad

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Big Jimmy – Hope you are well. 16th Good for me.

     

     

    …………..

     

    DAVID66…Ive not read back yet …but Ive got TWO Names for our Day oot on the 16th July……..YOU and ME !

     

    Maybe others will decide to make an appearance and let me know on here asap…if not…the show must go on ?

     

    LOL

     

    I had a wee day oot in my local yesterday ( Sunday), so ma heid is a tiny bit sore this morning.

     

    HH Mate.

     

    HH.

  22. Back to Basics - Glass Half Full on

    Good post last night from Tonyrome.

     

     

    Before posting, took the precaution of checking the story online to confirm it’s provenance.

     

     

    I actually feel sorry for Billy Gilmour.

     

     

    Imagine having a parent like that?

     

     

    Won’t touch green?

     

     

    And says so publicly with pride?

     

     

    In this day and age?

     

     

    An absolutely pathetic human being.

     

     

    To be pitied rather than condemned.

  23. Back to Basics - Glass Half Full on

    As for the SMSM’s chuckle response?

     

     

    Says everything about them

     

     

    IMHO …..

     

     

    .. They should be ignored totally.

  24. bankiebhoy1 on

    B2B…….

     

     

    that wee meeja chuckle is an important message that the huns goat ooot.

     

     

    Our footballing dominance and financial position meant hard times for hundom, especially the Laptop Loyal………..

     

     

    wee bullly and indeed his wee maw are just currant symptoms and not the cause………

     

     

    HH

  25. Big Jimmy on

    SETTING FREE THE BEARS FOR RES. 12 & OSCAR KNOX on 4TH JULY 2021 3:46 PM

     

    Big Jimmy

     

     

     

     

     

     

    I can mangae a visit on the 16th but not on the 23rd as I am down south then visiting family.

     

    …………………

     

    SFTB…

     

    Magic…so glad that you can join DAVID66 and me on the 16th july. The Three Amigos.

     

    There maybe others but I havent read on from page 15 yet ?

     

     

    Thanks to the other posters who also attended St Gregorys…AND maybe Blessed John Ogilvie Primary.

     

    I may be the ONLY one on here who went to BOTH…The OLD GREG…and The NEW Greg….coz Im an auld geezer.

     

    LOL.

     

    HH.

  26. Big Jimmy on

    SCULLYBHOY on 4TH JULY 2021 8:02 PM

     

    Sportske have tonight reported Hadjuk Split left Mario Vuskovic out of the starting XI against Greek opposition in a friendly on Sunday because the defender is ‘preparing for the transfer to Celtic’.

     

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    lets hope that he soon becomes ” SUPER” Mario ?

     

    HH.

  27. Por Cierto on

    Re Mrs Gilmour, I’ve just ordered a Blue Car! A Club Open To All! por cierto.

  29. Big Jimmy on

    I can NOT possibly be a Hun….cos Im far too handsome/ good looking ! Well, so my wee granny used to tell me.

     

    So there !

     

    LOL

     

    HH.

  30. bankiebhoy1 on

    ….from the peepul who (attempted) to introduce Kentucky Bluegrass to the Toilet Block mouth-breathers……………

     

     

     

    aye.

  31. PeterLatchfordsBelly on

    Observing the immense body if work to be undertaken by Ange and Dom in the space of a few short weeks begs the question – did Lawwell simply take the last year off as a jolly?

  32. quadrophenian on

    Aside from not grasping the arithmetic sense around failing to buy a player for 1m one year then pay 3x times that the next, are we trying to assemble a team of the nicest lads in world football – like Osaze and Aaron?

     

    I hope Ange’s signing policy includes a bit of mongrel.

     

     

    A guy we could be looking at is ex-Sheff Wed Adam Reach, who needs a mentor to help find his way back to his best: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_77MAhOMio

     

     

    Lots of energy, can play as wing back and sweet-scoring left peg on him. ‘Never stops grafting’ they say.

     

     

    Mon Celtic; gie’s some signings to get excited by!!

  34. st tams on

    Still no centre half or right back signed.

     

    So it looks like Bitton and Ralston for Midgie

     

    game

  35. Philbhoy on

    BIG JIMMY

     

     

    I went to the Greg 1960-66.

     

     

    Ouch!!

     

     

    Hope you are good Big Ghuy!

  37. glendalystonsils on

    Big Jimmy

     

     

    I was at the auld Greg too , 61-67 ,at the Rigby street annexe in first year .

  38. celticforever on

    Having went to the new GREG from 1977-1982 its been years since Ive been back

     

    in Cranhill

     

     

    Does anyone know if our old catholic chapel St. Maria Goretti in Cranhill is still

     

    standing as the school is long since been demolished

  41. Je Suis on

    BIG JIMMY on 5TH JULY 2021 9:43 AM

     

     

    Yes former Ogilvie & Greg bhoy here as well – think you’re a wee bitty older than me as I only went to the new Greg starting in 1972

     

     

    Interesting pedantry point – The school was known as Ogilvie primary, the chapel was Blessed John Ogilvie. Something to do (at the time) with schools only being named after fully paid bon-fide Saints not mere punters who were at the beatification stage

  42. RC on

    Expecting a few big signings this week.Vuscovic,Hickey,and the odd surprise

     

     

    regarding hickey hope he has grown in size by the same amount has his transfer fee , no any better than Taylor.

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