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.
725 Comments- Pages:
- «
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- ...
- 20
- »
May Macjay rest in peace. I usually only ever lurk here. The politics that we usually see discussed on here are always put miles behind our common reason for being here. Celtic. Great blog where people like Macjay will be sorely missed.
Hello again all you young rebels.
Nobody up yet to welcome this new and exiting Ange dawn?
Great little trip down to the little republic of St Kilda last week, more
Irish and Scots in that small town than anywhere else in Oz, per capita
that is.
Got a few items from the Celtic shop and a beautiful lunch of Irish
sausage and mash in the FIFTH PROVINCE one of many Irish bars
dotted down the peninsula.
This bar’s name is a bit different from the usual Irish bar
names, like O’Neils, Macdades, O’Donnels etc, so without looking it up
can any of you history buffs tell me what the name implies.
H.H. Mick
Mm
A guess would be as Ireland has 4 provinces Ulster Munster Connaught and Leinster this would be a fifth where Irish abound, just a guess.
DESSYBHOY
You’re on the right track.
H.H. Mick
Expected ALMORE, CORKCELT, or TONTINE to be right in there.
Probably I’m too early for them lol.
H.H. Mick
G’day Mick 😎🍷🍷🇮🇪💚🍀
G’Day mhate, whenever you post I always think of the Celtic
club in Irvine a place I visited regularly when resident in the hun
enclave of Stewarton.
Hope you and E are well.
H.H. Mick
RIP MacJay.
He wasn’t my cup of tea and I tended to scroll past him, as I’m sure many do with me, but DD said he was a good Ghuy having met him personally and that is definitely good enough for me. Condolences to his family.
Hi Mick I’m in sunny Girvan mhate not Irvine although I do have a sister who lives there , I blame the rid biddy 🍷🍷😂😂
Good morning Mick,
I hope you and the family are well. I can’t believe more than 2 years have passed since we were In Melbourne.
I’m sure we would both have laughed our heads off if someone had suggested to us that an Aussie would be our manager in 2 years time. 😄
Re Fifth Province.
The Fifth Province is not anywhere,here or there,north or south,east or west,it is a place within each of us.
Good morning to all,especially those deserving of it.
STILL CELTIC
Fifth Province, Mick?
https://www.tadhgdevlin.com/thefifthprovince
Meath was the original 5th Province. In Gaelic it was called Mide or middle.
Some great answers there re the fifth province.
According to Wiki there was a fifth province in Ireland, MEATH which was
divided up between the other four which exist nowadays.
Now I don’t know why the owners called it that, but what a great excuse
for me to go down and eat more of those massive Irish sausages and
gravy lol, and find out, I think DESSYBHOY was probably correct.
PARK ROAD 67
Girvan, Irvine never was good at geography 8-))
POG
Two years, my goodness still feels like last week, and an Aussie as
manager now, phew??? lets get the seatbelts on lol.
Given time by the support, and that’s what matters, I think we’ll be o.k.
H.H. Mick
MM: the Irish for ‘province’ is ‘cúige’ (from the number 5) because there were five provinces in ancient Ireland.
Almore,
They had better reinstate the 5th Province, it’s the only way Meath will win a Provincial Title.
Hope Lynchiehoy isn’t lurking or I’ll be off his Christmas Card list.
CorkCelt: true about Meath football. And to think of the great rivalry not so long ago.
There we go, I knew ALMORE and CORKCELT would come through, but
must admit I loved BHOYJOEBELFAST and DESSYBHOY’s logic.
Now to find out the owners reason for the name as I’m munching through
those huge sausages and supping the black nectar.
H.H. Mick
8-))))))))
ALMORE on 3RD JULY 2021 9:13 AM
MM: the Irish for ‘province’ is ‘cúige’ (from the number 5) because there were five provinces in ancient Ireland
MARGARET says her mother used to say a RHYME about the 5.
It would appear that Griff’s fitness is not of the standard to allow him to train at Lennoxtown with the rest of the squad as yet. Perhaps he was given more time off and that explains his Lennoxtown non appearance to date?
However, if we head of to Wales next week and Griff is left behind once again then I’m afraid the decision to award him a contract is a shocker and Michael Stewart is spot on to have said it points to a stalled rebuild and a club with a lot of problems to sort out.
RIP Macjay
May he never walk alone
MM: Bet your thrilled with the Celtic Store?
Favourite Uncle: not sure if I’ve heard the rhyme. Can Margaret recall it?
The urgency to get players in is frightening !!!!!!!!!!.Vucjovic,Moore, Baldock.Just to mention 3.No idea what is going on behind the scenes,are we determined to get these guys or,is it just Newsnow Celtic guff.Dithering of monumental proportions.Again I have no idea if that is down to us,the players,their clubs.I hope,with whats at stake,European football of some description,its not us.Just scunnered ,every day,reading the same headlines.Hate this Summer window.
Good morning all from an overcast Garngad
Reading back, may Macjay rest in peace.
Seen Big Ange video, brilliant stuff, get them moving quicker.
16th is the date for the new beer frenzy fest, get your names to big Jimmy.
Big Man hope you and wee Rocky are well.
D :)
History is wonderful, very factual, and some of the bloggers on
here know their stuff.
But I bet theirs not many know why the hun always wants to destroy
Glasgow, especially when they’ve had a rare league win.
After reading all the answers to the fifth province, well it’s obvious, to
me anyway, and I’m a simple ghuy, it’s the GAELIC.
Why ? well Glasgow in Gaelic means ” The Dear Green Place ” feck me!
that would set any goat fiddler off.
H.H. Mick
Cardboard- Wyke has the same pedestrian style as Sheridan, scoring goals in the English 3rd Division…? Must be better out there…
Sorry to hear the sad news about Macjay
A fine poster and a finer man
Eternal rest grant unto him
ALMORE on 3RD JULY 2021 9:37 AM
It was from she was very young .She will ask her twin later and see if she can remember more.
Bada, agreed we can do better. HH
If we coulda had Hickey for 1.5mill from the jam tarts, but will now pay EU4m for this SerieA credentialed lightweight left-back just because he’s become a bit more Bolognese, sounds like utter mince to me.
Everything we saw last year showed we blanched in the face of any aggression from roughhouse teams.
Let’s sign some high-quality, ball playing hoodlums as well Ange.
What’s Japanese for ‘cultured ned’ btw?
Cardboard- expecting AP to bring a few in from where he’s been working HH
QUADRO
I believe the Japanese is very similar to the Gaelic for a big hard basturt.
Kikuminakkers.
It works for me 8-)))
H.H. Mick
Why is it that Scotland with a population density substantially below that of every other UK nation is by far the worst performing with Covid infection?
Scotland – 1 in 150 people infected.
England – 1 in 260 people infected
Wales – 1 in 450 people infected
N I – 1 in 670 people infected
These figures are staggering and are being covered-up by SNPcult and downplayed by their cowed & compliant Scottish media.
All we have heard from Sturgeon & her fellow comedians is calls for UKGOV to extend furlough and an outrageous attack on the people of Manchester whilst condoning an invasion of London by their Tartan Army Stormtroopers.
Strange Days Indeed!!!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-57677177
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-northern-ireland-57701074
Can we at least preserve a Saturday for Celtic/football chat?
Jhb same as I call out nats, it’s the same to you. Like them I am really unclear what you hope to gain from campaigning here.
Give it a break.
Awe here we go, just when the blog looked back to normal.
BYE.. BYE.
H.H Mick
Online ‘articles’ full on more snipes at us today.
I smell fear, God love them. 🍀