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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Wow. Half the defence of the worst club in the English Championship is worth £10. Makes you wonder what Scott McKenna must be worth.
JACKIEMAC on 2ND JULY 2021 8:05 PM
who the hail do you support when italy play belgium ?
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Shauns team obvs
mon the belgiums ss
forgot that, ffs
sly one for the italians
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/57698507
weird one
RIP Macjay. Never agreed with him politically but like me, he loved the ‘Tic.
Ar dheis lámh Dhé go raibh anam John McGowan
Oh bhoy, didn’t pick up on that earlier. So sad.
often read macjay. will be missed. Rest in Peace cqnpal.
Ange will resurrect griff! I know it.
gottz be ok
Italians looking up for it 3-0 tin hat on
that’s the green and white
oh shi*
R.I.P. Macjay
Ernie Lynch on 2nd July 2021 1:52PM
CorkCelt on 2nd July 2021 5:48PM
Big boots. Don’t stop stomping.
I interacted with Macjay1 across the years on this blog. He dismissed all my contributions as ill-thought, second-rate, leftist gibberish. Who could blame him?
His political opinions to me ran the gamut from unpleasant to obnoxious. Even so, I never doubted for a second, his love for the Celtic was, at least, the same as mine.
Let Macjay1’s family find peace and happiness from the love this blog sends to them.
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Time for a song which Macjay1 would remember.
Rossendale in England is putting together a three day community arts festival this summer, Waterford Wakes. Hope it pans out.
You could be walking round a corner, look through a fence to see Cocteau Twins singing under a gazebo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhl2PaekrOM&ab_channel=JoanTheWadMusic
Just watching the Italian game just now, they will be hard to beat IMO, anyways yer man Federico Chiesa at 13 was just about to give up the game cos he was too lightweight, his DA who was also a footballer and played for Italy persuaded him to knuckle down and go for it, it just shows you what you can do if you put your mind to it, crackin game BTW.
Spain were so so blessed.
Gonna be an interesting second half.
EK Bhoy
Aye, good one…👌🤣
HH
Fancy Italy to win the competition, although I would prefer Belgium.
Besides the quality of football on display, what really impresses me is the quality of the refereeing. Oh to have some of them in the SPFL.
I love our positive outlook.
Good feeling for season….ahem….deep breath.
HH
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/57698498
respcted the mini- good luck Z
PCS
You are allowed to dream :)
HH
TET,
Oh, do I know……The very idea would have Chick Young foaming at the mouth.
PCS
Aye, how right you are :)
Who to support? Tricky one.
Combination of Italian and Belgian talents would make the ideal blend.
Italian salad, pasta dish and main course with wine …..
… followed by Belgian chocolate and beer.
Perfect.
Angel’s job is to put a team and a structure on the pitch to win matches and as part of that strategy celtic would like the players to develop and improve individually.
Of what 3 or 4 hours of coaching we are seeing small snippets, it does not show team shape or tactical stuff but it does highlight ange is hands on and he expects quick passing football, direct football, hard pressing of team and tireless work rate.
All the things that were sadly lacking last season. listening to ange I dont doubt he will drop anyone not playing as he expect either and I suspect there might be a few.
Onwards and upwards
HH
I probably would have gone for Sunderland’s Wyke before handing Griff a contract, reduced terms or not, he can not be relied on.
Alongside Ralston getting a deal and our only additions to the first team squad being free agents, great potential and good business but free agents nonetheless, it begins to look like our rebuild will be one done on a tight budget.
Btw, Paul67, using the site on a mobile phone is near impossible most days. I can’t even read your articles now without pop up’s blocking the entire screen.
Italy play the way Ange wants us to play. Absolutely relentless. They are destroying Belgium in all areas of the pitch. Should be further ahead than 2-1, hope they don’t get sucker punched.
Piccolo insignia is a joy to watch
Imagine having a defender like Giorgio Chiellini, Big Billy would be the last comparison IMO.
Jan Vertonghen complaining about big tough guys feigning injury.
How do you say Irony in Belgium?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-57697124
Thanks Tim for the comment couldnae believe it when Corkie named me, I though everyone liked me, well that is except Mrs TT, lol.
For all the talent & quality they possess, the Italians are still the masters of reducing the beautiful game to a farce when it suits them.
Tontine, I decided to pick what I regarded as the biggest pain in the arse and the nicest ghuy on the blog to try & make my point.
Obviously the point of my post was serious & sincere,
And as by magic,
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-57700365
“CORKCELT on 2ND JULY 2021 10:12 PM
Tontine, I decided to pick what I regarded as the biggest pain in the arse and the nicest ghuy on the blog..”
TT nicest guy on the blog??? What about the mild mannered gentility of ernie lynch ?