There was a standing joke on here for years. On day one of the transfer window someone would write, “The transfer window’s been open 13 hours and still no news, get your finger out Celtic”. It mirrored the less jovial comments when the transfer window had 13 hours left, although “get your finger out Celtic” occasionally still featured.
It’s not just Celtic, transfer business is a deadline activity. Why sell your prime asset early when you know desperate clubs will pay over the odds to appease the manager who is demanding sufficient resources to meet target?
You need to work an angle to pick up prime cuts this early in the window. We picked up Virgil van Dijk for a paltry £2.6m in June 2013, which is remarkable, considering he is an outstanding player who was working in one of Europe’s heavily scouted leagues.
We got in early with van Dijk, who had been released by Willem II without playing a game before making 62 appearances with Groningen. A false start followed by a period with just enough form to tempt Celtic’s scouts, but not so much as to alert the slower footed.
So what do we know about Dedryck Boyata? He’s 24, three years older than Virgil when he joined, but has played around half the number of first team games Virgil had experienced. Dedryck was vacuumed up by City as a 16-year-old, part of the annual harvest major clubs make each year. He clearly had something about him to convince City to retain him, but first team outings were rare. When Celtic came shopping a year ago, City were prepared to live without Jason Denayer for a season, but not Dedryck, who went into their first team squad.
It’s correct to say that knowledge of Dedryck is scarce, even among City fans, but Ronny has spent time on City’s training fields with him, and had him watched extensively in non-first team outings over the last year.
Is he the answer to our defensive prayers? Time will tell, but the recruitment strategy which brought him here is coherent. All our scouts and management team have watched him to the extent that a consensus has been reached. His profile is not high enough to commend a fee which is out with our budget, and most importantly, we can bring him in now, making sure he’s embedded before the potentially lucrative Petrofac Cup Champions League qualifiers.
Welcome to Celtic, Dedryck.
Still laughing, in case you were in any doubt.
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I had a wee look in FF to see if there’s any talk about who the new manager might be and need to buy a new keyboard now…
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Stuart Baxter,leaves south African champions kaizer chiefs could he be our new man
Tricoloured Ribbon
16:27 on
3 June, 2015
http://www.u.tv/News/2015/06/03/Irish-Tricolour-erected-over-Stormont-38373
Another fleg protest? hahahaha.
Belter :-)
Tommy Sheridan eh…
The Romantic portrait would paint him in the light of a latter day Red Clydesider, campaigning for the poor so savaged by the cold human reality of Conservative and Neo-Conservative economic policy, and framed by the same political machine he fought against.
The Realist portrait paints the figure of a five and dime demagogue, dishonesty incarnate, using disingenuous street rhetoric to create an image of himself, for himself, by himself, viewed through the lens of his own aggrandisement.
The Surrealist would simply give you a postcard of Dali’s The Great Masturbator, and let you draw your own conclusion.
Jamesgang
I’ve got you an appointment for Specsavers. Lol.
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
Canamalar,
The ol saying about may and cloots has nothing to do with the month of May.
Uselessinformation csc
Geordie…,
Whose May then ?
An tearmann
‘Who had access to the fleg poles? We demond to know! Who are these people?!’
Fpmsl!
HH!!
the battered bunnet
16:39 on 3 June, 2015
Tommy Sheridan eh…
The Romantic portrait would paint him in the light of a latter day Red Clydesider, campaigning for the poor so savaged by the cold human reality of Conservative and Neo-Conservative economic policy, and framed by the same political machine he fought against.
The Realist portrait paints the figure of a five and dime demagogue, dishonesty incarnate, using disingenuous street rhetoric to create an image of himself, for himself, by himself, viewed through the lens of his own aggrandisement.
The Surrealist would simply give you a postcard of Dali’s The Great Masturbator, and let you draw your own conclusion.
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i’m not agreeing or disagreeing with any of that
but it remn
Canman
Ner cast a cloot till may is oot.
So cast away mi amigo :-)
HH
GM
An here’s me thinking it did, a bit like the thistle thing.
Cut a thistle down in may, it will be back the next day.
Cut a thistle down in june, it will be back soon.
Cut a thistle down in july, it will surely die.
EvenmoreuselessinformationCSC
HH
Canamalar,
Her….
https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTHWAaMTOgJXv5bghUvuhT9IFtP8j44qeyqH1IUHA193jQhHazmTg
It’s in reference to the Mayflower
HH
the battered bunnet
16:39 on 3 June, 2015
Tommy Sheridan eh…
The Romantic portrait would paint him in the light of a latter day Red Clydesider, campaigning for the poor so savaged by the cold human reality of Conservative and Neo-Conservative economic policy, and framed by the same political machine he fought against.
The Realist portrait paints the figure of a five and dime demagogue, dishonesty incarnate, using disingenuous street rhetoric to create an image of himself, for himself, by himself, viewed through the lens of his own aggrandisement.
The Surrealist would simply give you a postcard of Dali’s The Great Masturbator, and let you draw your own conclusion.
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as i was about to say…
im not agreeing or disagreeing with what you said
but for some reason that post reminds me of the Blackadder episode with Robbie Coltrane playing Samuel Johnston
a classic moment in tv
so i shall extend my pericombobulations on you post
and i will return interfrastically
TET,
It’s a bit cauld to be casting cloots just yet, I’m going to hang on to the cloot till June is oot.
Tet,
Never heard that yin before.
I remember it when I’m next on a thistle cull :)
HH
May= the flower of the hawthorn.
thomthethim for Oscar OK
hi there mate,just to say i loved your post last night,’ there was just us’ class and in my view that ethos has not changed.thanks for sharing.:-) and i hope your well.
good reading last night CorkCelt,Oldtim,shug,and others with their 67 tales
thank you all(those i missed)
GlasgowDave
good to see you post last night,i cant make it into the pub on friday but i am sure a good day will be had
have a great night Celts.
hail hail
So, during Tommy Sheridans trial, one day after he left the court, he realised he had forgotten his bag, so back to the court he goes, it’s empty apart from the cleaning lady, she askes him what he wants, to which he replied : ” I have come for my holedoll ” ah ffs Tommy, are you no in enough trouble.
I’ll get ma coat
HH
an tearmann,
Thank you.
As I said last night, it was good to pause and have a wee reminisce on my youth and the exciting, explosive era in which I was fortunate to grow up.
It will never be repeated, as it was the era when the world changed and everything that followed, for good or ill, came from that Renaissance.
Foghorn Leghorn
What, this?…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOSYiT2iG08
ContrafibulariousCSC
Don’t you just love transfer window journalism?
Celtic won’t pay the asking price for a player and are therefore miserable, tight fisted are baskits.
Brondby won’t pay the asking price for Pukki ,Celtic are therefore miserable tight fisted baskits…..
WTF?
the battered bunnet
16:56 on 3 June, 2015
Foghorn Leghorn
What, this?…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOSYiT2iG08
ContrafibulariousCSC
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“sausage?
SAUSAGE?”
ridiculously funny!!
More Blackadder.
“Permission to speak”
http://youtu.be/IDQ1ljlnSjU
It’s a well observed FACT! that the transfer window is not officially opened until Len Brennan has posted his first list of In/Out rumours.
glendalystonsils
16:58 on 3 June, 2015
Don’t you just love transfer window journalism?
Those statements are just as likely to be heard in here.
Reminder for all Dublin Tims.
Bertie Auld, John Clark and the Big Cup are in the Jervis Centre Celtic Shop tomorrow 5-6pm.
Hail Hail
hamiltontim
17:06 on 3 June, 2015
More Blackadder.
“Permission to speak”
http://youtu.be/IDQ1ljlnSjU
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HT
i think not on this occassion
anyway
im sitting in one of EK’s less salubrious pubs
just read BFDJ in the evening times saying hes raging that lee erwin only got a yellow card for his push on moshni
then i hear a guy in the pub, who is obviously a hun regular, say the same thing to the bar maid
so have i missed something or is pushing someone in the back now a jailing offence?
i feel their pain
only kidding, i dont, but i can smell it!!
Brendan Gleeson will make a great Sepp Blather in the movie of all this
Philbhoy and Olivia
Kindest regards and am sure you will be fine
and back to school with lots to tell your pals
in no time at all.
Blackadder – Ah, Old hag. Can you tell me where I might the find the wise woman?
Old Hag – The wise woman. The wise woman. Two things must ye know about the wise woman.
BA – Do tell
OH – First. She is a woman. and second she is ……
BA – Wise?
OH – Oh, you do know her then.
BA – No. Just a quick stab in the dark, which incidentally is what you’ll be getting if you don’t start being a bit more co-operative.
foghorn leghorn
17:20 on 3 June, 2015
Salmons a Leaping
leftclicktic
13:15 on 3 June, 2015
Big Shoe :)))
update
Off to xray
dept
docs odds
Broken foot 2/1
RheumatoidArthritis 1/1
metatarsalgia 1/2
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Should nae be a doc or a bookie :)))))))))))
Thats me home with my Broken foot ,
BigshoeCSC:))))))))))) or a moonboot as they say in the monklands:))))))))))))))))
ekbhoy
17:42 on 3 June, 2015
foghorn leghorn
17:20 on 3 June, 2015
Salmons a Leaping
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i cant say ;-)
LittleArrowsInMyClothingLittleArrowsInMyHairCSC
I used to get annoyed reading SMSM reports on things Celtic or indeed them ‘uns. Now I turn to it as a source of humour and rejoice in it. The SMSM (Sports departments) played a massive part in the inability of RFC Oldco fans and now Sevco followers, to organise themselves in any meaningful way to save their club. They continue to divide and conquer their own – to what end I really don’t know – and, by and large, unite the rest of Scottish fitba in a common distaste for things Ibroxian…..
Fair play to them.
While I’m on what else do we need for the CL qualifiers? Cover at LB? The elusive target man striker? Another CB just in case?
I’m a believer in at least one signing to freshen things up in the creative department. I’m looking forward to GMS and Armstrong getting a good pre season with us. As Hately would say our two new signings from DUFC will be like new signings. Only this time it’d be accurate.
We seem to have a lot of options middle to back with just that player we hoped pukki, scepovic, guidetti et al would turn out to be.
If I haev any complaints it’ this – how come Sevco can clear out 14 bits of dead wood so quickly and we canny? What’s that you say? Oh, I remember now……
No worries , I remember some old codgers years ago getting turfed out the snug for wearing football colours , EK Thistle
Pour vouz Leftie!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GwxfsOXq2w8
HH jamesgang
Foghorn – BFDJ and chums are a perfect example of the bull plop they create. ‘Woe is us’ ‘how dare they send off one of us without evening it up’….
There is a bluenose/ loyalist type attitude that seems to say ‘We know we did something wrong but we shouldn’t be punished for it unless someone else is found doing something and punished too……’ Again, the MSM have given them this ‘gift’, aided and abetted by the attitude displayed during committee meetings to help formulate the OBB that said ‘we need a law to even up the number of arrests’. One side has to be as bad as the other. it’s like a badly behaved child’s first reaction to getting caught at naughty stuff – ‘I wisny the only one’ they cry…….
Such a lack of self awareness is a dark place to be for any individual or group.