News that Hull City had a £6m bid for Robert Snodgrass accepted took the wind out of my sails this morning. Snodgrass was one of the outstanding performers for clubs in the bottom half of the English Premier League last season, so it’s easy to understand his ticket price, despite only having a year left on his Norwich City contract.
He is a Celtic fan and has not hidden his desire to play for the club, but Hull City (good grief) are now bidding £6m for players from relegated clubs, after spending £8m on a Spurs squad filler.
This all begs the question, can we afford to compete with Hull City? Probably, yes, but we can no more afford to splurge £14m on a couple of players than Hull, who a year ago were reporting debts close to £80m.
We’re operating in an environment where indirect competitors for players are spending unsustainable amounts of money, pretty much like Rangers did for 20 years under Sir David Murray. For a few years after Fergus left, we played the same game as Rangers, running up millions of pounds of losses year after year, before pulling away from the edge, while they kept the pedal to the metal and careered into liquidation.
The decision not to match the Bank of Scotland money flowing into Rangers cost us trophies, and caused a great deal of dispute in the Celtic family, but story ended sweetly. So, so, sweetly.
The crash may never hit England, but the job for Celtic is to find a way of remaining competitive in the Champions League while matching income to expenditure.
Visit the CQN Bookstore to get Tommy Gemmell to sign your personal copy of his book, All the Best.
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Betting suspended …must be a result
Now on ads
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TT..
Aye Ross and Wee Mick..Mick was the Better player.. Ross had the Bottle..and Speed ;-)
Summa
righr = right
:((
good night all
TSFM a site that doesn’t allow views that deviate from their accepted view.
NBRS
Do you think that the Scottish Stazi pulled the plug?
Go On RICKY
Norwich sign Lafferty …FFS ..
Wtf the boxing, switched over to “I belong to Glasgow ” an eye opepener.
Summa
What was Mick’s second name?
I know it was of Irish decent,but can’t recall.
TT
Back on ….round ten
For once and for all, yur deed ….!!
http://scotslawthoughts.wordpress.com/2013/05/14/the-death-of-rangers-fc-guest-post-by-johnbhoy/
….pfayr supports weeoscar
23:04 on 27 June, 2014
Your having a laugh?
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
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TT..
Re;Pool..
Went down to darkest East London with Ross, Mick and their Manager as Ross was challenged by a Guy called ‘Scotch Alex’ who even looked the Higgins (Hurricane)..l was asked to Ref for our side first to 21 frames for a few quid..Nearly wetting myself l was 21..
Ross beat Him 21-2..
Had a few Shager Landys thon Night..;-)
Summa
Today has been renamed
Feck You Friday
So
Feck you, you fecker
Summa
There is a video of them playing in the world championships circa 1984 along with Charlie Shaw,and a very young Pat Holtz.
There is a young lad from Lanarkshire who also is in the you tub clip.
His first name was Martin.
TT
Lennybhoy
Straight up
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McGoldrick..
Summa
TT
All Irish names are Decent. ;))
How do you score a fight that you have not
seen…well only half seen.
eddieinkirkmichael
23:01 on
27 June, 2014
TSFM a site that doesn’t allow views that deviate from their accepted view.
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It is a site with a particular focus that wants to stay focussed.
“In my fathers house there are many blogs” Modern day Social Media Bible. :)
Nye Bevans’ rebel soldier
Ask Wullie Collum
Summa
Ross had a Pool/snooker hall in Dunfermline.
I think he had to close it down about a year ago.
He coached a very good semi-pro player from my home town,called Paddy Moir.
TT
Summa
McGoldrick,that’s it (:-)
Phew.
TT
Tiny Tim
Did you catch my response to your post earlier today regarding their retention of titles?
Its at
http://www.celticquicknews.co.uk/?p=15559&cpage=3#comment-2213896
Nye
Whatever the result
Another poor show from Ricky
The other guy has little finesse …swinging like a wean in a playground at times
Nae luck Ricky!
SOAL…smiley face thing.
Beat
Time up Ricky …..a couple of years ago Ricky would have boxed rings round this guy
Is it safe?
Or is macjay still arguing about the colour of shite?
Time for Ricky tae chuck it…..
Nye
Aye…three fights too late
Auldheid
Why aren’t these teams asking these questions ?
Goodnight Timland.
TT
English blackball rules.
Are you tryin to fire up an indy debate?
Acgr,
After reading Tiny Tims posts about pool, you’re dumped…TT, you looking for a doubles partner…I’m yer man.
im sorry to interupt lhads, just wanted to post this link of simple minds and our jinky, it had me in tears :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JY7KNtF5KjE
Summa
The year of the video clip was 1994.
The other players were Derek Murphy and Martin Shades.
TT
Aiden Bhoy
23:24 on
27 June, 2014
Auldheid
Why aren’t these teams asking these questions ?
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Perhaps they are, or perhaps they now will. I certainly would be looking for assurances .