Spanish football, like its economy in general, in mired in difficult financial times, which, apart from one or two well-funded clubs, has restricted the budgetary scope of a large number of teams. I had hoped all summer to hear we were on the case but it wasn’t until the final day of the window that solid opportunities materialised.
Marseille-born Tunisian international Lassad Nouioui is a complete unknown to all of us but his profile, earned at Deportivo La Coruna, fits the bill. He scored a handful of goals as Deportivo finished 18th and dropped out of La Liga in season 2010-11 but hit the heights last season as they secured promotion. It would be practically impossible for Celtic to sign a striker with the equivalent profile in English football, despite the apparent gap in standards between La Liga and the English Premier. I’m also delighted to hear Levante, who finished 6th in La Liga last season, were so keen to capture him.
There is also something I like about the port-town mentality the people of Marseille have. It’s very Glaswegian. Lassad should flourish here.
I’m not sure what Phil Mac Giolla Bhain’s reaction was when The Sun called asking for an interview about his new book, which details the mainstream media’s failure to report the demise of Rangers. “Are you joking?” may have been appropriate. I had no prior notice they were running an interview yesterday and couldn’t believe the promotion they gave to a book detailing the failure of their industry.
This was not without consequences, of course, and The Sun got themselves into an incredible mess, today trying their best to backpedal, which is pretty much what the theme of the book predicts (irony #1). Meanwhile there is a book publisher in Glasgow who cannot believe his luck. Thousands of unwitting critics and a leading newspaper have ensured Mac Giolla Bhain, who would struggle for a platform without the anger of others, has a bestseller on his hands (irony #2).
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A lantern by Salvador Dali
If he had made lanterns CSC
Eurochamps
I would be interested to hear what was actually said but the thought of listening to Radio Shortbread fills me with dread.
Snake
That’s what the Celtic research page was suggesting. It makes a change from the usual Sevco love-in which seems to be the MSM’s default position.
ibleedgreenandwhite1
13:05 on
3 September, 2012
What happened between Jim Spence and Jabba on Sportsound???????
Aye my nose is twitching too …. anybody got a link
Hail Hail
I missed the game on Saturday due to a college American football game being played in Dublin between Notre Dame and Navy.
It is probably the only chance I’ll ever get to see the Fighting Irish live so I had to go.
We had an absolutely fantastic w’end!
What a tremendous show was put on at the Aviva Stadium by the bands,cheerleaders and fans of both teams.
Dublin was buzzing all w’end with 35,000 Americans jetting in for the game, and lots of Mayo fans down for the semi v Dublin on Sunday.
A couple of things came to my mind on the way back home yesterday.
If Celtic tried to link their image and history to Ireland as much as ND do, we’d get slaughtered for it!
It says a lot for this country that you’re not allowed to celebrate your club’s historical roots without being tarred as terrorist supporters and plastic paddies.
If some of the MSM were in Dublin at the w’end they’d have been frothing at the mouth at all the proud Yanks with ND shirts on adorned by tri-colours and shamrocks.
To sum up how much of a backwater country this can be, on the boat back from Larne to Troon, we ‘enjoyed’ the company of a loyalist flute band and it’s entourage from N.Lanarkshire.
The word ‘filth’ does not do justice to describe these people.
They are sub-human species.
They are degenerates.
I have always maintained the notion that we are on so many levels above them, they cannot even see us.
That notion was undelined in spades yesterday.
I repeat what has often been said on here, we need to amputate anything that links us with those people and their new franchise club.
SPF
L/Pool’s best player yesterday? A 17 yr. old called Sterling.
Ernie
Yes, I was disappointed to see the Sun was involved.
http://glasnostandapairofstrikers.wordpress.com/2012/08/30/where-now-for-the-judicial-panel-protocol-3/
HH
Awe Naw
I believe the “exchange” was deleted from the iplayer version.
hoopeddreams
Why is Chic Young forbidden to speak at half time on BBC Sportsound ?
Hail HAil
England ‘move up’ to Nike as company plans to cut Umbro adrift
LONDON: England will be relying on the the Greek winged goddess of victory after the Football Association switched its long-running ties to parent company Nike from next spring.
The American sportswear giant will design and manufacture kit for both the men’s and women’s teams at every level. The contract runs until 31 July 2018 and replaces the deal with Manchester-based Umbro which Nike bought in 2007 but intends to sell.
The deal includes sponsorship rights at the new National Football Centre and Wembley and the supply of match balls for the FA Cup.
General secretary Alex Horne said: “I am delighted that the FA has secured this new wide-ranging and comprehensive partnership with Nike. It is an extremely exciting time for both parties with the opening of St George’s Park this year and The FA’s 150th anniversary in 2013.
“I would also like to place on record our gratitude to Umbro and their significant contribution to the game, the FA and England teams, over a 60-year period.”
Nike Brand president Charlie Denson added: “The pride and passion of England fans is renowned throughout the football world and we are delighted to partner with the FA. We look forward to supporting England teams at every level with innovative product technology and playing our part to help develop the future of English football through our support of St George’s Park.
scotpatsfan13:08 on 3 September, 2012:
>>>>>>>>>
Too right. I grew up in Glasgow; Irish roots. Lived here there and everywhere. A wild rover, if you like, as so many of us have been.
The best holiday I’ve had in years was 18 days in The West Coast of Ireland a few years ago, just after Easter. It was amazing and my wife and I have the best memories from it.
I was telling a friend of mine ( a Tim with similar background) about it all and how much I’d felt so at home in Ireland.
And he just looked aback at me and said, ” Of course you did. They’re your people. ”
Obvious.
HH!
Awe Naw
Because his presence on this planet offends humanity?
Someone should tell Matt Lindsay of the Evening Times you are not allowed to buy players in September…
GUTTED Ally McCoist has warned his Rangers squad will be stretched to the limit after he failed to land a host of crucial targets.
The Ibrox gaffer had hoped to bring in up to five players before the club’s year-long transfer embargo kicked in on Saturday.
But despite David Templeton arriving last week, Coisty is concerned about the season ahead.
He said: “I’m not happy. I said last week that I wanted to get four or five bodies in and we got one or two in and one went out.
“I know we are thin on the ground in defensive areas. We will have to carry a bit of luck in terms of injuries and suspensions.”
The Gers gaffer is waiting for international clearance for Francesco Stella, who has previously played for Italian Serie A club Siena. But with captain and centre-half Carlos Bocanegra joining Racing Santander on loan for a season, his squad is thin.
And he will now be unable to buy a player aged over 18 until September 2013 due to the 12 month embargo.
McCoist, who saw new boy Templeton net a debut brace yesterday, said: “It just didn’t happen for us. There was no shortage of players we were interested in.
“Neil Murray, our chief scout, has been great. Kenny [McDowall], Ian [Durrant] and myself had a list of players we wanted.
“Unfortunately, it just hasn’t happened.
“It was a combination of a lot of things, but there is no use going on about it now, we just have to get on with it. At least we know where we are.”
I tweeted once ,when I was at college,but I didn’t inhale
WG
Fantastic stuff my bhoy.
And hopefully To Be Continued……
WG’sM was always legendary – as well as being blessed – and it’s good to know she’s no changed……
7 x 7
Siven Past Niven
7 is such a magical number in our history.
7 x 7 is like Henrik squared to the power of Jinky……
Need to lie down……
More power to ye (…and yer maw)
tully
His autobiography, I’m Not The Only One, was published on 28 April 2004. The book’s title is a quotation from the song “Imagine” by John Lennon. Armed Forces Minister Adam Ingram applied for an interim interdict to prevent the book’s publication. Ingram asserted that Galloway’s text, which stated that Ingram “played the flute in a sectarian, anti-Catholic, Protestant-supremacist Orange Order band”, was in bad faith and defamatory, although Ingram’s lawyers conceded that for a year as a teenager he had been a member of a junior Orange Lodge in Barlanark, Glasgow, and had attended three parades. The Judge, Lord Kingarth, decided to refuse an interim interdict, that the balance of the arguments favoured Galloway’s publisher, and that the phrase “sectarian, anti-Catholic, Protestant-supremacist” was fair comment on that organisation. Although Ingram was not and never had been a flute-player, the defending advocate observed that “playing the flute carries no obvious defamatory imputation … it is not to the discredit of anyone that he plays the flute.” The judge ruled that Ingram should pay the full court costs of the hearing.
http://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/minister-fails-to-stop-galloway-sectarian-claim-1-523531
ibleed
I did not hear the whole exchange but the small section I heard on RS was on the topic of future league reconstruction wherein Jabba was stating that there would have to be quick reconstruction because Scottish football could not survive without the riches of Sevco fans in the top flight.
Jim Spence challenged that orthodoxy by saying that he had talked to SFL chairmen and they would not vote for reconstruction because they all “wanted a bite” of rangers and Div. Two chairmen would not accept being by-passed in this process.
Jabba tried to say that such objective research was nonsense and that they would get rewarded with crumbs for being by-passed because money talks and the chairmen would have to listen to their bank managers.
Spencie chose that moment to remind Jabba that that is what he predicted the SPL chairmen would do (“They’d only listen to their bank managers; fans don’t count”) and he was proven wrong then. Jabba did not take kindly to being told he was once wrong and proceeded to try and re-write history by saying that 4 SPL chairmen did mount a last minute effort, prompted by their bank managers, to save Sevco from eviction from the SPL. That they failed did not interest him; the fact that they tried, allegedly, proved his theory (even though it doesn’t).
He spent the next few minutes shouting everyone down, his tried and trusted technique, and Spencie seemed to just accept that there was no point in debating with a moron. Sevco fans seemed to have interpreted this as a victory for Jabba and their position.
That was the 5 minute section I heard. There may have been more.
hoopeddreams
LOL only at half time ???? ;-)
HAil Hail
How many times can a club playing at the tax haven go bust before it runs out different ways to use the name of the original inhabitants?
First we had the ‘Glasgow’ version,now we have the ‘The’ version so how many times is it possible a club over there can be liquidated whilst using the English language to name themselves?
Glasgow-check
The- check
Potentials-
‘A Rangers’
‘Ibrox Rangers’
‘Rangers’
(In being serious here)
‘New’
It must be a nightmare being a hun to think that in the next millennium they might have to introduce French,German (or Dutch) terms to identify the club they support.
Awe Naw
Double LOL!
Jabba said the league would be reconstructed to accommodate the zombies. He said money would persuade the sfl clubs.
Spence attacked this theory and told Jabba his previous proclamation that sfl chairmen would listen only to their bank managers and allow thems into sfl1 was proven wrong.
Jabba denied saying this, despite it being broadcast. Spence leathered him.
The malign influence of loyalist masonic huns in Scotland is on a par with an infectious disease.
The cure?
Exposure to light.
winningemmell,
Brilliant, just brilliant.
Árd Macha
re FFP
For the first time, in a long time, Spain Primera Division made a net gain on player disposals, with Barcelona, Real Madrid, Sevilla and Valencia, being the only clubs to make significant investments (£10m+) in their playing squads.
Of those four, there was a net spend of around £24m, which was made up (and then some) entirely of Barcelona’s net spend of £28m.
Notably, no other club in La Liga had a net spend over £4m, with only Getafe (strangely enough) just skimming that figure.
Half of that league made, on the face of it, a profit on player trading.
Source
Who keeps Jabba in his job with the BBC ?
HAil Hail
Jabba is a PRESSTITUTE and the hun is is his pimp.
Someone I know has started a donations page for the An Gorta Mor memorial.
http://www.bloomvc.com/project/Glasgow-Hunger-Memorial
Just passing on.
Isis? What’s she got to do with owt?
: > ))
Lennon n Mc….Mjallby – Some suggestions:
Rangers 2: The Legend of Craigie’s Gold
The Rangers Experience (imagine 40,000 chimpanzees flinging their own feces at a giant screen, forever)
Rangers History X
Rangers 33⅓: The Final Insult
(thumbsup)
WG
Supeb as always
Awe_Naw_No_Annoni_Oan_Anaw_Noo – Who keeps Jabba in his job with the BBC ?
Who keeps Atlantis off the maps?
Who keeps the Martians under wraps?
(thumbsup)
TMWTL – As the article suggests EPL income from the TV deal is set to increase dramatically from next year, and as transfer fees are paid over a number of years they can smooth out the expenditure in the accounts.
However it’s mostly a moot point, the FFP rules are doomed to failure as the big clubs will find a way to ignore them. Can you imagine UEFA denying Real Madrid or Man Utd entry into their flagship competition?
What time is the “draw” by the way?
The Final Insult,brilliant!
Afternoon bhoys, warm again, but hun free as ever.
Is there any chance of this game being televised…
Celtic v Sporting Lisbon (Firhill Stadium) Time tbc..
http://glasnostandapairofstrikers.wordpress.com/2012/08/27/where-now-for-the-judicial-panel-protocol-1/
http://glasnostandapairofstrikers.wordpress.com/2012/08/27/where-now-for-the-judicial-panel-protocol-2/
http://glasnostandapairofstrikers.wordpress.com/2012/08/27/where-now-for-the-judicial-panel-protocol-3/
interesting read
Hail Hail
Overseasbhoy
2.00pm.
They’re just warming the balls up as we type.
Re Shortbread spat between Jabba and Spence
jabba was spouting that league reconstruction would happen by start of next season when Spence interupted him saying that his sources were saying differently and that he(jabba) had ‘form’ in this regard as he had previously said that clubs would only listen to their bank managers and not fans when it came to vote on where sevco would play this year – Jabba went pure radio rental at this – absolute comedy gold !!!