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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Dallas Dallas where the heck is Dallas
00:07 on 28 June, 2014
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Our headmaster at St Timothy’s in Coatbridge got the whole school into the Assembly Hall to watch the Sachsenring Zwickau match that afternoon.
You brought back a memory there for me! :-)
Fred C. Dobbs
Loving this clip… “We shall not be moved”….
Are you going to the Pool tournoi next week, I’d love to buy you a load of drinks.
The Lonesome Boatman
Sachsenring Zwickau match that afternoon.
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me and ian bradley skidged school. primary 6 , to watch the early afternoon kick off.
in his flat.
rebels to the core.
petec,
Alas no :O(.
Hope you all have a great time…I’m sure you will.
Hail Hail.
Fred C,
Emilio showed amazing skills whilst the Lonesome Boatman was being delivered.
Maximum Respect.
DD,
40/1 at bet Victor for your cheeky wee finalist prediction neebs.
so i read the most pishiest pish political comment yesterday/
the orange disorder says there is a good reason to retain the union
wait for it …………….
the green brigade are voting yes.
g i r u y.
thats ayes for me
Please watch from 6.20, it is Majestical.
The planner, the first leg of the Zwickau game was played on Ash Wednesday. My older sister and her pal took me to the game. My parents wouldn’t let me go on my own.
There were loads of half eaten pies lying about the Celtic End when some of our fans remembered what day it was.
Not a huge Sammi fan…..bad for my blood pressure. When great….awesome…when poor…frustrating.
BUT the goodwill he was brought to the Celtic Club with wee Jay is incredible. It is a real human drama story. What a man…..a true Celt, in the finest tradition. Some great CL performances.
PL does a terrific job……please find a way of getting Sammi back on the books
It feels good to be part of the Celtic family.
Good Night All
A Ceiler Gonof Rust
00:30 on 28 June, 2014
Fat Boyd is better than Henrik Larsson.
Various deluded hun poster on the 73 pager on hun media say it’s so, so that makes it a ………………………..
FACT. .
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Kris Boyd and Henryk Larsson being mentioned together should in itself instigate a Public Enquiry about Scoddish Football.
Dallas Dallas where the heck is Dallas
00:46 on
28 June, 2014
Delaney’s, loads I don’t know. Some of the posters on here who lived through the fifties and early sixties nightmares have suffered a hell of a lot more than us baby boomers,know a lot more than me.
*In September 1963 I was on a Boys Guild bus trip to Ayr (EDB might have been there), it was pouring down when we arrived…what else is new.
We were all happy as the day before although we had lost at hades we actually took the lead through Stevie Chalmers…why were we happy, well in the 2 League Cup games earlier we had lost each 0-3.
Our new “great white hope” Paddy Turner had not panned out while a lad from the “good and the bad” was their new star ripping a new one in our upcoming centre half.
On the bus that day our chaperones just shook their head at us being happy with scoring over there even though we lost.
18 months later the “latter day Christ” arrived and it was all good after that…I think the rain might have gone off in Ayr as well.
St Stivs, I read the article on e tims twitter earlier. Really hunbelievable even for the orange walkers.
The unsavoury Green Brigade a mouthpiece for the SNP, the implication that those of Irish catholic descent will vote yes to get more benefit. Its on a par with Ralston’s load of mince in the Record today.
I recall playing ujpest dozsa (sp)in Hungary, lou macari scoring, also an o.g when we won 2-1 away, mind gettin note home at 3 instead of 4 cos of teachers meeting. Kick of was at 4
HH
petec,
What about that BBC mob doing a Jekyll & Hyde job on oor Izzy?
Cannae even mind the guy commiting a foul since he arrived in Paradise.
What is wrong with these people?
Hail Hail.
Tontine, good post.
A Celtic goal is always a reason to celebrate lol
Fred C. Dobbs
01:20 on 28 June, 2014
petec,
What about that BBC mob doing a Jekyll & Hyde job on oor Izzy?
Cannae even mind the guy commiting a foul since he arrived in Paradise.
What is wrong with these people?
Hail Hail.
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It is a secret society doing what a secret society does, the tentacles are Everywhere.
Auldheid
Do you think it is coming near the time,when Sfa should demand proof a football clumpany has enough funds to carry out their fixtures and not bring our game into disrepute? (again)
As in a bond
HH
An Tearman. My dad picked me up early from school to watch the Ujpest Doza game on the telly. It was the last live game I remember watching where the coverage was in black and white.
That was also the time Richard Burton and Liz Taylor became fans for the night. They were in the same hotel as the teams and fans. There were photos of the celebrity couple wearing Celtic hats and scarves.
Dallas
Ma mammy thought that Jock Wallace was the devil incarnate. She has never allowed a game involving the thems in her house. My dad and I had to go elsewhere to watch the defunct Glasgow televised derby. In her words “I will not have evil anti catholic bigots in my living room.”
How the feck Fraser wasn’t in goal is baffling, a truly amazing achievement by Fraser to get to the World Cup, whilst playing for Celtic.
Chris Sutton would be in my team Every week, I’m not the English Coach however.
Again
petec,
I’m gonnae miss posting oor Neil’s Video.
(H)oops wait a Tic
Hail Hail.
Delaney’s, what a wummin.
My five am start this morning is catching up with me.
Good night.
Every picture tells a story, God bless the Celts & Jimmy McGrory
Delaneys dunky
Thats the game.i remember reading in papers next day.
Is your mam still making progress?hope so.
HH
Fred C. Dobbs
01:35 on 28 June, 2014
petec,
I’m gonnae miss posting oor Neil’s Video.
(H)oops wait a Tic
Hail Hail.
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Only 55000 views. Youtube is so manipulated it sickens me.
You keep posting one of the most amazing songs, whenever the fancy takes ye, I know I will.
We were Truly Blessed to have Neil as our Manager.
Bobby Womack has died at 70 Rip
PeteC 00.42.
I wont be praying for them, I find laughing at them fits better for me.
Four…………………………………..
RIP Bobby…..
Love is gonna lift you up.
robert prosinecki, was a sixty tabs a day man when he stood in the centre circle and hardly moved out of it at paradise and showed us how a ball should be passed.
Dr Socrates (not the auld wan) was also a hobby smoker.
Do our modern day players still like a puff?
Merely curious as to the smoking habits of our athletes. NFL likes the baccy,
A Ceiler Gonof Rust
01:48 on 28 June, 2014
PeteC 00.42.
I wont be praying for them, I find laughing at them fits better for me.
Four…………………………………..
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We are sailing, not absailing.
This isnae Detroit Techno but I know you will like this pair of shady Characters, it goes a bit Wonky at the end, Please forgive me.
Minimalistic Techno
saint stivs,
Also, according to the Orange order, the snp are pandering to the uneducated Catholics that bleed the benefit system.
If this was said in a way referring to the colour of your skin, it would be slaughtered.
Not that it should be said in any manner…religion, colour and creed.
Just an add on before the yes/ no’s start…I’m undecided as off yet.
A Ceiler Gonof Rust
01:58 on 28 June, 2014
robert prosinecki, was a sixty tabs a day man when he stood in the centre circle and hardly moved out of it at paradise and showed us how a ball should be passed.
Dr Socrates (not the auld wan) was also a hobby smoker.
Do our modern day players still like a puff?
Merely curious as to the smoking habits of our athletes. NFL likes the baccy,
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The esteemed poster, Estadio Nacional posted a lot about getting Juan Riquelme, I was too into the get everyone as fast and as fit as possible Brigade at that Time.
Having a guy who disney have to move whilst utilising the runners, well, I was very wrong in my thinking then. Get Riquelme or Ronaldhino in noo Ronny D, blow yer whole budget on a guy who doesn’t have to move to Win a game.
Fred C, you’ll need a new tune for our new Viking leader, how about this from the channel blah blah Viking program.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91_5YxmJ9Ic
I’d prefer if our new man changed his name to Olaf, Thorhammer,, Torief or such. FFS, who ever heard of a Viking warrior called Ronnie.
Durty protest season again for me
Acgr,
Forgot to ask, how did your bhoys night go?
Wan of the Greatest Albums ever, ever.
Sir Andrew Weatherall, Shirley.
Smokebelch