I suspect we have not seen the best of Daryl Murphy, who has proven to be a solid Championship and fleeting Premier League player in England but has been unable to retain a place in the SPL, but his hamstring injury, suffered after the long flight to Pennsylvania, will be a blow on two levels for Celtic. They are denied a squad player for the crucial Champions League play-off round against Helsingborgs and are likely to unable to loan him out, easing more pressure from payroll.
Daryl was singled out for credit (here) for the way he changed the shape of Celtic in our opening league game of the season against Aberdeen. He would have been useful to Neil Lennon this coming week.
News that Helsingborgs have lost their top striker is welcome but is not quite ‘like signing a new player’ for Celtic. Let’s hope they haven’t lost their Kenny Miller only to find their Jordan Rhodes.
There can seldom have been more financially important games to the club than the Helsingborgs tie. Celtic accounts are usually released mid-August (16th last year) but I don’t anticipate any rush to publish this year. Last season’s accounts could well see the largest loss in our history as the club chased their first league win in four years (insert standard lecture on financial responsibility program, avoid urge to run legacy Sir David Murray malware).
I expect the figures to show Celtic are operating with a Champions League budget (and that’s without evading tax). Football finance lessons are clear, if you have a Champions League budget you need Champions League income. Time for this team to step up to the challenge. Get along and pack the place out on the 29th.
No regrets this time.
Bed early tonight if you are off to Dingwall in the morning. I hope we see a few of the young lads.
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macjay1 for Neil Lennon
12:35 on
17 August, 2012
Zbyszek
12:04 on
17 August, 2012
Thanks again for your consideration.
My early years were full of stories about WW11.
My family used to speak about the horror of Katyn.
My comments yesterday were simply in response to your opinion of Australia,it`s past and current day attitudes.
Believe me,my fellow Tim,this country,Australia,strives very hard to care for it`s citizens.
Irrespective of their colour or ethnicity.
The past is immutable,and Australia unquestionably,has it`s fair share of skeletons,but be certain,every effort is made ,at the highest levels to ensure a “fair go.”
ie: equality for all.
Last year,my son went to Auschwitz as part of his history course.
Incidentally,his comments on return,typical of his age group, were that the best looking women on his travels through Europe were Polish.
Some education.
Kind regards.
Hail Hail
Zbyszek – You said:
United Kingdom and USA are as well guilty of the tragedy that happened in Warsaw
That’s the bit I disagree with.
Maybe I misunderstood what you were trying to say. (thumbsup)
Paul67,
I’m very pro-board and waiting until we get into the Champions League before we spend money on players. However, I don’t understand how we could make a major loss last year. This was something you hinted to at the end of the transfer window last summer. In January 2011 our debt figure was 9M. This was reduced to 0.5M in August 2011 and the figure in January 2012 was 7M (2M less than the same period the year before).
In addition, we had group stages Europa League last year which we didn’t have the year before. We didn’t really spend any money on the purchase of players as Bangura (2.2M) and Wanyama (0.9M) was offset by Maloney (1M) and Hooiveld (1.5M).
What am I missing…..I should have paid more attention in accounting class!!
macjay1 – the best looking women on his travels through Europe were Polish.
You should have sent the young bhoy to Prague. (thumbsup)
ASonOfDan – Just you wait till they get their hands on the Ramsdens Cup, Timmy. Your face will be priceless. FACT. (thumbsup)
Australia has apologised for Russell Crowe on several occasions. (thumbsup)
philvisreturns
12:32 on
17 August, 2012
Chris Killen is doing not too badly at Chongqing F.C. (thumbsup)
___
I watched New Zealand get beaten by New Caledonia (a place I’d never even heard of) back in June. Chris Killen and no-one else in that New Zealand team looked very good.
Theer was something of teh Henrik Larsson about New Caledonia’s first scorer Bertrand Kai, it may have been the dreadlocks.
1 minute and 21 seconds into this clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-cAyLRrA4Y
GM
I think Championship clubs can sign players outwith the window,hopefully Murphy can get fit and move out.As bad a “striker” i’ve seen for Celtic,woth the scoring record of a centre half.
We were very fortunate at Celtic in the 90s in one regard – we had three of the finest midfielders Scotland produced in a long long time plyaing for us but not always at the same time.
Apart from Paul McStay who was the greatest Celtic player of his generation and greatest Scottish player who was hurt by years of poor investment, mis-management being dragged down by carrying all our expectations on his shoulders against a financially doped up opponent, we had John Collins who won us many matches and was the best technical midfielder in terms of technique and commitment to improving his technique I’ve seen. We could do with him or someone of his ability in the Celtic team now. Not just for the great free kicks and brilliant goals but for his awareness and his ability to pull something out of the bag like Naka did so many times when we needed it.
And of course we had the World class Paul Lambert who Zico no less claimed after the opening game of World Cup 98 was the only player in the opposition who could have played for Brazil. What an accolade!
We have been very blessed with midfielders down the years who are cultured, classy and overall blessed with extraordinary football intelligence.
Both McStay and Collins deserved more from their careers but the love we all have for Paul McStay is there simply because he stayed with Celtic through the dark times and was our beacon of hope. He could have strutted his stuff anywhere on the planet at any team and had the accolades foisted upon no marks like Gary McAllister but he stayed with Celtic because he loved Celtic as we do. He will always be the celt I most admire because lesser men would have gone for the money or the fame and fortune or the easy way out.
That he didn’t when he could have and many would say should have says it all.
Paul 67 – galaxy tab 2 not sure why but last one or two letters missing from majority of lines (all posts).
Anyone think that Man Utd are taking a huge gamble in signing RVP,
if the wages reported are correct the its costing them about £75 million
over 4 years for a player that has spent a lot of his time at Arsenal
on the treatment table
…….you should have sent him to Airdrie!
I loved the Maestro but I loved John Collins more.
philvisreturns
Maybe they will get a Gold Star for it on their Jersey.
lol!
greenmaestro – It wasn’t too long ago the New Caledonians were mad keen on the old cannibalism. Sort of like Airdrie, but with nicer weather.
Chris Killen was probably worried that his carthorse-like turn of pace wouldn’t be enough to get him out of there if they felt especially peckish. (thumbsup)
Lower league sides do not have to adhere to the transfer window.
Murphy might be off to Ipswich again before long but I’m not wishing the guy out the door. He has heart which some other forwards at the club should take note of.
Zbyszek——–
Karski’s Stories from A Secret State is a searing admonition of the moral fog of war ,politics, self interest and genocide .
I read that it is going to be made into a movie by the people who did The King’s Speech.
philvisreturns 12:48
Could you read my post at 12:43 full again, please.
Is this not about Warsaw and ghetto ?
Paul 67
Dont share any of the optimism about Daryl at all. The bhoy Watt looks more threatening than Daryl or the £2! rated Bangura fellow
Zbyszek – Yup.
The USA and UK aren’t guilty of things that happened in your country under German occupation in the 1940’s. (thumbsup)
Anyone else hoping there is some truth to the Zigic story.
ASonOfDan. What is the Zigic story pray tell ? H.H.
Joe Filippis Haircut
Daily Mail ran it last night and then pulled it. We have supposed to have been in for him to take on loan but he is on £50/60000 a week and we were struggling to come to a deal.
So the MSM have widely publicised the orcs ‘record’ re 4th Division attendance.
Well, how about this record:
When Celtic played Aberdeen on the opening game of the season, we became the World Record holders for consecutive years playing in the top division*, competing in every top level season since 1890/91.
*shared with two or three other sides who, until quite recently could not be relegated due to the restrictive size of their league system.
philvisreturns 12:58
I think there are few possibilities of missunderstanding.
My English is much weaker than I think.
At12:25 I posted something that I did not want to.
You are trying to make a fool of me.
Could be few other possibilities.
This is like few options with the truth.
There is holy truth.
There is truth as well.
There is sh@t truth.
I saw the Zigic story and cannot see anything coming of it, even if he had to half his reported current wages I don’t think he would be worth it. I also see there are rumours linking us with Goodwillie from Blackburn, however think his off-the-field antics would be enough to scupper any deal and I don’t think he would cope in the Glasgow goldfish bowl.
philvisreturns
12:47 on
17 August, 2012
macjay1 – the best looking women on his travels through Europe were Polish.
You should have sent the young bhoy to Prague. (thumbsup)
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The wee lad has been cursed by an Ozzie Jesuit education and blessed by being a Celtic supporter.
I wooed his mum,the ” Spanish assistant” in High Coats flats in your old stamping ground.
It used to be upper class in them days.
She tells me.
Zbyszek – I think your English is very good.
I’m not sure why you seem to be obfuscating here, you made a very straightforward point, which I disagreed with.
Nobody’s trying to make a fool of you. (thumbsup)
Zigic ——–
Italian transfer rumor mongers ——–
Have him earning 60 k a week at Birmingham / refusing to sign for Mallorca and an unnamed Istanbul team .
One web site quotes him claiming——
” I have a 4 year contract at 60 k per week ——- I am going nowhere for less than that “.
Big lump / Birmingham City / 60k a week ——— Madness !
Talking of McStay, can you imagine him with Lambert and Lennon alongside him, Larsson and Sutton before him and big Dolph and Bobo protecting his backside?
Fat Sally has decided to contest his Nottice of complaint for demanding to know those on SFA panel – @stvkeith.
philvisreturns
12:52 on
17 August, 2012
Australia has apologised for Russell Crowe on several occasions. (thumbsup
Mate,he`s a Kiwi.
He would ,however,like to be Australian.
Well,who wouldn`t?
macjay1…
…….me!
:0)
zbyszek12:25 on 17 August, 2012
>>>>>>>>
Got that loaded for later viewing. I’ve always been transfixed by the madness that erupted in Europe in that period.
If my memory’s correct (dubious) didn’t most European countries close their borders to refugees from Nazi Germany in the thirties?
Another glossed over ,shameful chapter in that awful time.
HH!
Tony Watt.
Celtic Football Club @celticfc
NL on players out for game:”F Twardzik, Dylan, Murphy, Stokes, Bangura, Ibrahim, McCourt, Brown, Forrest and Hooper is a doubt as well.”(MH)
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Looks like Watt will be starting then. And no Ibrahim :-(
I am so glad I’m Irish.
Now, who’s gonny say somethin’ bad aboot the Irish?
Embdy?
dirtymac » fast forward to the G.O.D
13:11 on
17 August, 2012
And as this post from KDS shows, the DR haven’t bothered to do much research into the issue:
“Football league 2 play off final in 2007 had over 60000 at wembley between Bristol Rovers and Shrewsbury. That’s 4th tier. The 2009 final had over 50000 between Gillingham and Shrewsbury.
It’s good to see the DR is keeping up it’s tradition of dingying research.
So what they are aiming for is a Scottish record for an attendance at a 4th tier football ground.”