Neil Lennon’s comments that he will need to sell at Bolton Wanderers before making a bid for Kris Commons, or anyone else, are welcome. Celtic have four important games in the four weeks after this transfer window closes: home and away to Inter Milan, Aberdeen in the league, and a League Cup semi-final against newco Rangers. Commons will be vital for some, if not all of these games.
Inter will play on the front foot and Aberdeen have the players to take the game to us, as they did in the Scottish Cup at Celtic Park last season, but I expect newco to defend their 18 yard line in numbers, a bit like Ross County did last week, a scenario which will require someone with Commons’ craft.
Neil Warnock’s sacking at Crystal Palace was good news, as he wanted Commons, had money to spend and could offer the allure of top-flight football. Neil Lennon would be able to offer Commons familiarity, but with Bolton spending a total of £300k in the summer, their chances of being able to afford a bid for Commons that would raise Celtic’s interest are limited.
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KITALBA
I gather the tills in The Blane Valley were like jingle bells yesterday!
Pf I ACCEPT NOTHING.
THEY ARE AND ALWAYS WILL BE DEAD TO ME….
Doncaster the SFA CAN SAY WHAT THEY WANT…
Laugh…. move on…. you know the truth ….I know the truth…. even the Huns know the truth
NegAnon2
What’s this we, is there a formal group now seeking regime change(nice CIA term) and if so where are they located so we can see their objectives??
Is there now a campaign to inform the support of what’s going on apart from the usual sources, CQN etc etc.
Starry
Paulanthony
So we don’t buy players in case they’re no good
FFS man ….get a grip
Add the transfer fees fir Bangura,Pukki, Boeriggter and Balde together and a very good player or two half decent players could be purchased
We are chasing another Wanyama or Forster …..unfortunately wasting our money in dross along the way
IanBhoy929
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/seething-celtic-shocked-kilmarnock-knock-4915481
Crisis, crisis, crisis…..everywhere I look…..
Still in 4 competitions…
Yes we balance the books…. Motherwell,Livingston,Hearts, Gretna and Rangers are surely the way to go….
We have poor players at the last international break we had 28 players on duty…. We even had some playing at the last world cup.
Our under 20’s are cutting their teeth against European opposition on a regular basis…. but few go on to play for us on a regular basis….I consider two reasons for this the removal of the reserve league (we were about to go for ten in a row) and negativity from the stands….We have an opportunity to blood some youngsters but some can’t stand the thought of losing a game apparently.
The board are failing us….The same board that had to protect Neil, who’s employees were put at risk… I’d rather that change is achieved through consensus and that takes others to stand up too.
We are in the league we find ourselves…I get the impression that every effort is being made to change that….
I’ve attended Celtic games at home since the sixties. …I’ve seen good and bad times but if you want some perspective my sister packed her belongings into the family car as their home was threatened by the bush fires in Australia….
If your stopping going to games just stop don’t justify it again and again….
O
BMCUWP
Scurrilous speculation
Yesterday
Millwall 3 – Bradford 3.
Two crap teams.Very good diving header from the Moaning Marsupial.Ricardo Fuller still doing his good one minute, laughably bad the next , thing .
Crowd @ 7 k..Millwall end felt like an East End gangster convention..Lots of large men in overcoats,smart tin flutes and twin buckle Santoni shoes.Much abuse of the “******* northern proles.”
I meant to add…A lie remains a lie no matter how often it’s repeated….Rangers FC are gone…. what Rangers International FC become is still to be seen…
HH
pauloantony,
I’ve raised this point before on here but as an occasional poster it’s not always that easy to get a response but I’ll try again.
Most business circles tend to be very insular in that each company and it’s competitors have a good idea what goes on within each other’s day to day running. Football and Scottish football in particular would IMO be extremely insular and no more so than the two previous big clubs who would be very well aware of each other’s players contracts. Both clubs, and others, would have either been or would have started to become, very well aware of the impending disaster that was unfolding at Ibrox. In fact, Brian Quinn I believe, actually took one of our players off of an EBT contract due to the potential liabilities attached to such an instrument. Therefore our custodians would have almost certainly been aware of these contracts at the old RFC and yet said nothing while we surrendered league titles, cups and Champions League participation. Remember that Arsenal took steps to correct their EBT mistakes by paying HMRC several million pounds in a settlement.
Why did no one on our board speak up during that period?
AR
Paddy gallagher I do think it’s time for the celtic support to get angry and demand answers. C optic are simply ignoring us (as those of you who sent emails to celtic are discovering) and hoping that the more ostrich like celtic supporters will drown out any dissent.
Further celtics treatment of its support and in particular the GB has been done to remove any vocal group who could question what is going on.
Even on these pages we have been sold on an ever decreasing spiral of guff. From sustainable spend ( remember that debate), to every penny reinvested in the team( it’s now the club not the team. Mind being told the aiden McGeady money was being used to pay the electricity bill), now are are stockpiling cash and not being told why.
Meanwhile our CEO gets an extra bonus. On what grounds did he deserve that? That’s surely not good corporate governance?
Meanwhile the media tells us that celtic where involved in the 5 way agreement and celtic don’t refute it. It’s inconceivable that Peter didn’t know about it. That being the case celtic are working to reinstate the old firm and the cheating and the sectarianism. That’s further shown by doncasters deliberate nonsense on th club v company debate. Doncaster is a servant of the clubs and has done this at the say so of the clubs. Celtic are by far the most significant club. So lawwell signed up to this.
antipodean red
Could it be they foreseen the car crash coming, the final demise of our oldest rival.
The glorious balance sheet….
Have you played football before?…
The reason I ask is…NOTHING is guaranteed in football…
We were not entitled to win any of those games
You could say the same about us beating barca… man utd…
I noticed you never added free spending MON failures in European competition…. oh aye… that would make your point….
Er….pointless.
Now the answer for many of those losses are glaring at you…
New managers arrived… New ideas… loss of players… transitional periods …..
Followed by a season where THOSE mangers reached the last 16 of the champions league….
A Feat not achieved by Martin O’Neill…. and his side full of £6m players
May I add …. GS and NFL with our downsized club achieved more in their time …. that a multi multi multi million pound MAn city side did…
So….what is your point?
neganon2
It is time to get this all out in the open. January is going to be very interesting.
antipodean red
the player in question was junhino, brian Quinn quickly realised the obvious dubiety of the scheme, and paid it up instantly,there is also a story doing the rounds that brian Quinn actually called up minty to warn him regarding the ebt scheme and was given a short but sharp GTF ..
Starry no there is no cohesive group just those of us who want the truth to come out and for celtic to behave like a football club again.
Winnings I noticed you said it was all coming to a head in an earlier post. I have no impression of that happening, can you elaborate?
NegAnon2
It’s not going to happen on it’s own Neg, not a chance and if you had a poll at the next home game how many of the support would say yes to the huns back in the top division and there’s the problem right there, CQN doesn’t seem to represent the wider support, my own friends and relations can’t wait for Feb 1st…
exslaemuirbhoy,
If only we could have put the nails in the coffin but it’s starting to look like the monster is about to be revived again.
Spent many a summer down around Bouverie, Highholm and The Big Alley btw.
AR
Antioxidant red…..
Why interrupt your enemy when they are making a critical mistake.
What were we to do….
Come out …. shouting …. How are their players only paying so many pence in the £ on taxes…??
It wasn’t our place….
It wasn’t proven at the time to be wrong…
But who cares….. they died
and LOOK AT THE STATE OF THEM NOW .
I see the blog is thick with useful idiots again,
The only alternative to the current financial strategy is liquidation rangers style, ha ha ha ha, really ?
NEGANON…..
ACT like a football club again?
Listen to yourself…..
Head along to Celtic park
When I do…. finally enough…. I see a football side …..
Playing football
masty,
You are correct and judging by your response we would have known. Does this back up my point that we knowingly allowed them to cheat us out of leagues, cups and CL participation. My biggest fear is that having got away with it once, what is to stop it happening all over again? It’s in their DNA.
AR
#funnily enough
Proudbhoy
It is probably your screen timer that is switching your songs off, set your sleep to one hour,
Good luck
antipodean red
I would not say that no,you need to remember that the ebt scheme was not proven illegal at that time,
I just think knowing brian quinns back ground in banking, he obviously seen it dubious and decided against it,
pauloantony
I work with huns who have never accepted the truth. Teir version of the truth come from the compliant media.
The “people” have just been told by Doncaster, a senior figure in Scottish football that they are still the same repulsive club they always were.
We can’t rely on the other clubs to question this, IMO time for Celtic to ask questions. As my Raith Rovers supporting pals are always asking me “Celtic lost more than anyone with the huns cheating, why don’t Celtic do something about it”?
antipodean red
I don’t read the red tops here any more, so I’m not to sure what’s been reported in the “press”. Read on here something about £50million war chest for thems.PI*H.
Not a chance in hell anyone will part with that kind o Wonga for a Scottish lower league club. Especially a 2 1/2 year old club. Banks will not give them a bean so it’s unsustainable. Would be £50 million down the toilet.
a never ventured south o Bogglestone unless a wiz goin tae the baths followed by a bag o chips n gravy fae Saucy Sue’s
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS:
:-) Ding! Ding!
Proverbs:
9:7
Whoever corrects a mocker invites insults; whoever rebukes the wicked incurs abuse.
9:8
Do not reprove a scoffer, or he will hate you; reprove a wise man, and he will love you.
20:10
Drive out the mocker, and out goes strife; quarrels and insults are ended.
18:6
The lips of fools bring them strife, and their mouths invite a beating
pauloantony,
Remember when you played football as a kid, maybe you didn’t.
You play U13’s and the other team keeps turning up with 18 year olds, who incidentally keep winning the leagues and cups and rubbing your nose in it. Do you just keep turning up against these cheats every game or get your club to have a word with the local association?
I know what I would have done!
AR
pauloantony
12:25 on 4 January, 2015
NEGANON…..
ACT like a football club again?
Listen to yourself…..
Head along to Celtic park
When I do…. finally enough…. I see a football side …..
Playing football
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We’re you at the Ross County game ?
Back to a comment you made earlier a competitive league bringing fans back
The way we are playing, will Not attract fans back
Now I actually think, player recruitment is a major disaster area for us, we have for too long now been wasting millions on 2 nd rate players. Going back to same agents (Duda Duhan in Israel) etc, our success rate in signings is very very poor, hence we have apoor team, but still spend millions
Time we dealt with that first, then we may attract fans back
Hail Hail
paddy gallagher
12:06 on 4 January, 2015
IanBhoy929
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/seething-celtic-shocked-kilmarnock-knock-4915481
Many thanks for the link, disgraceful conduct from the Ayrshire Huns.
Pauloantony I do go to games and I see a team getting worse and worse with inexplicable decision making. I see the support dwindle as a result, also as a result of maltreatment from the club, from stewards, the police etc. it’s open season on celtic fans and our board are at the head,of the queue. Why? Dos they don’t want anyone to question their so called strategy and the definitely don’t want the truth about their involvement inthe.corruption to emerge…..
neganon2
It’s time to get answers and to bring all the strands together once and for all.
Off oot to the Zoo and then a final holiday hoot – A Babilondon night at the Brixton Ritzy .We hicks from the southern fringes of Europe need to stock up on excitement…
Buona Domenica tutti !
Pf
Yes …. we do buy players …
Within our means.
Times have changed…..
Fulham paid £11 m for Ross McCormack on £40k pw
We cannot compete with that…. and you you really like a Ross McCormack for fee and wages totalling £20m?
Pukki international from schalke and boeriggter from Ajax are not failures on paper when initially signed….it didn’t work out
Larsson from feyenoord for £750k or even lubo… could have ended up failures…. gambles that worked out.
You choose…. tell me what we should spend…. on X amount of players ….please…
I’m interested
Simple check on stats would have shown boerigter a sick note, a check on any Ajax fan website would have confirmed it.
Pauloanthony
Yes I have played football before and accept that there are no guarantees and the underdog occasionally has its day.
Hence my post looked at our European qualifying record since 2005. Elimination v teams who had less money and were lower ranked than us in 2005 (art media) 2010 x 2 ( Braga Utrecht ) 2011 (Sion) and 2014 x 2 ( Legia and Maribor).
That’s 6 defeats over 2 legs in qualifiers against teams with less money and lower ranked than us over the period 2005.
Only two years where we won through the qualifiers against teams with less money and lower ranked than us was 12/13 and 13/14.
I’d say 6 failures v 2 successes over a 10 year period can’t be blamed on one-off bad days, a bad year or bad luck.
It’s especially concerning given how much money these games are worth to us. From this year CL qualification monies would account for about 40 per cent of our income for the year. We should focus more on the practical steps we can take as a club to access that money – this does not necessarily involve spending money in itself but a good first step is reviewing the incoming player transfers over the last 3 years to address the mistakes made.
I’d much prefer out custodians took that approach other than you’re unambituous “the CL is out our reach approach.”
And by the way we won’t sign Radovic. He is 30 year old so has no resale value.