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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Kate Hoey knows what she is doing, alright. After Unionists burnt a bus on the Shankill she said:
“As you know the media aren’t interested unless there’s violence.
“That bus being burned got all over Europe and that started the make the EU start listening and thinking, now, I don’t want that, but you can understand a young active sort of loyalist, who just sort of thinks, well hang on, why is it that Sinn Féin get everything.”
SCULLYBHOY on 3RD JULY 2021 7:14 PM
‘ do you agree with the halting of the enquiry into the Bloody Sunday massacre? ‘
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The Saville Inquiry?
here we go, a right chuckle will ensue.
https://c.files.bbci.co.uk/6789/production/_101050562_chucklebbc_cut.jpg
AN TEARMANN
Marspapa
During the war and for years after the stretch of water between those 2 places was a dump for ordnance/exolosives and other toxic material not used in the war.Beauford dyke.
its a pipe dream.
If it happens it could be a PIPEBOMB dream
FAIRHILL BHOY on 3RD JULY 2021 7:15 PM
MARSPAPA-I didn’t play the medal.You done a lot in 3days.We just went to the beer gardens 🍻😉
Its an age thing…. The older you get the more you try and fit in……… There’s just not enough hours in the day.
ernie lynch on 3rd July 2021 7:25 pm
Sorry, but I am obviously (as you know) referring to:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-57706900
HH
Now I am going to watch the country of my birth getting beaten.
JHB
May I ask you a question?
Sorry
That should be 3 questions
SAINT STIVS on 3RD JULY 2021 6:49 PM
I was a teacher in St Rochs’ many years ago and Steve and his wife came in for a visit (his old school). Me and a colleague got our pic taken with him…a true gent. I reminded him and his wife that as a wee boy (he used to live round the back from me in Easterhouse) i would be always up at his door wi ma Celtic strip to see if he was in and get an autograph…. happy days!
SCULLYBHOY on 3RD JULY 2021 7:14 PM
Maybe we could be in a pub on our way to a Celtic game rather than bore people here who really would prefer to talk about Celtic or England losing to the Ukraine.
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Well you brought up the Protocol & Bloody Sunday issues- perhaps you should take your own advice.
I said that Kate Hoey “knows what she’s doing” – I DIDN’T say she was right & I didn’t say I supported her.
I was aware that Saddam, Gaddafi & Milosevic ‘knew what they were doing’ – that did not mean that I thought they were right and I supported them.
I’m thinking of supporting England to win the tournament.
Thoughts are that it may stop all this 60 years of hurt and the coming home malarkey.
Then again probably not
Come on Ukraine.
FOURSTONECOPPI
If you don’t mind me asking, what school did you got to in Easterhouse?
Poor defending by Ukraine
MARSPAPA on 3RD JULY 2021 8:04 PM
Blessed John Ogilvie i’m an old dude!
MARSPAPA on 3RD JULY 2021 8:04 PM
before he wis a saint lol!
MARSPAPA-glad you and V had a good time mate.
We’re going to Inverness this weekend.
Don’t ask me why🤷🏽♂️
It would seem my 1/3 questions request to JHB has fallen on deaf ears
31003-why are you engaging with him 🤷🏽♂️
Don’t know if I heard right there, but, do 6 of the Ukrainian team play in the Ukrainian domestic league?
There’s 6 players we could sign better than we’ve got….and cheaply
FB
3 questions I and probably most posters would like an answer to
31003-yir only encouraging him buddy.Did you play golf today 🏌🏻
FOURSTONECOPPI on 3RD JULY 2021 8:15 PM
MARSPAPA on 3RD JULY 2021 8:04 PM
before he wis a saint lol!
🤣🤣🤣
SAINT LEONARDS for me…..
After 25 minutes, looks to me like there can be only 1 winner. Our neighbour to the south. What will Radio 4 be like tomorrow? It was bad enough this morning at 7 o’clock.
FB
Course closed Fri/Sat/Sun for very very very important amateur competition (apparently)
Ended up getting gassed in ye olde rugby club.
I play golf to Jerome sober (mostly) yetmylocal golf club is turning me into an alky
FAIRHILL BHOY on 3RD JULY 2021 8:16 PM
MARSPAPA-glad you and V had a good time mate.
We’re going to Inverness this weekend.
Don’t ask me why
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Is it wannae them Masonic doos?
You’re my trip advisor, let me know aboot the digs.
Jerome= remain
Ukraine passing from the back is awful
CQN quick quiz….
“There he is, playing on the shoulder just like Schevchenko’.
Who said it and who was he referring to?
Answer at HT.
31003-I had gave it up a fortnight ago,scunered with how I was playing.went out during the week and played (for me) bloody brilliant.In good company to 🏌🏻
The Blogger
a) Patriotic English Arsehole
b) English arseholian forward
FB
One day I can play brilliant
Next day shit
Give up for two weeks then come back and play like (my favourite player) Colin Marikawa
Clue – it was a SMSM pundit talking about a SPL Player.
Morikawa
The blogger
Hun commentator about some Hun forward
Can’t spell his name but he’s bloody good
31003- I’m lucky and grateful if I can play one hole brilliant 🤩 never mind one day😉
Getting warmer Gene.
Blogger
Fat Boyd
Fat Morelos