Celtic have activated a clause in their loan deal for Odsonne Edouard (20) with Paris Saint-Germain to sign the player on a four-year permanent contract. The deal will cost the club an initial £4.5m but the add-ons which follow will soon make the deal the club’s highest transfer fee paid.
To give some perspective, Celtic last broke their transfer fee record with the £6m purchase of Neil Lennon in 2000.
Watching Odsonne develop during his loan period has been an education. Brendan Rodgers put Moussa Dembele and Leigh Griffiths on the bench to allow Odsonne the game time he needed to grow. His early-season rustiness was history by March, when he came off the bench when Celtic were down to 10 men at Ibrox, brushed aside what defences there was, to score a memorable winner.
The last player to match our record transfer fee was John Hartson in 2001. Like John then, Odsonne is third choice striker, so the work does not stop here.
Great business, well done all concerned.
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I see that David Mellor was on brit tv spouting that if we were playing the huns he would support them cos you have to support the brits, ffs, did nobody tell him that we pay our taxes and they stiff her maj for fun, the mind boggles so it does.
Exiled
Dont forget to mention the magic words
Pub league
Happy days
Exiled
David Mellor
Ignore
Stars
Aye, but he is a bit of a toe sucker :-)
HH
Exiled
Toe Sucker….Our Pedro??
Never
Great game, might not be evryones cup up tea but we have 2 good relationships with PSG & Man City…
Stars
I am obviously wrong here, but in the deep recesses of the old grey matter I seem to remember that the bold David had an affair and it was plastered all over the media and one of the titilating bits was he and his lover used to suck each others toes for a turn on…yip, it boggled mi mind :-)
HH
Jeezo, it’s late, sleep well Timlad
HH and KTF
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No reason or logic to post this, but it’s just something that gets right on my nerves(ti*s)
Why does , if when an opposition player who is either (A) Feigning
(b) His teams players are waving their arms around for you to knock the ball out in disgust as you are being unsportmanship (obviously you are in an advantageous position) not knocking the ball out play because one of their players are injured?while you are in an advantage position!! ….
Why the F*$ck does ie
The Celtic player not pass the ball to the opposition player,to knock the ball out of the side of the park when it is THEIR player who is disadvantaged if it is that serious a situation, and if they dont do it, it is then passed unto them as unsportmanship ?
I might be being naive here and its young men trying to get a one upman ship on another human being.. but at some stage there should be a certain level of trust and respect between fellow athletes ??
I find it infuriating when there is a certain un level playing field through feigning ..pass the buck Celtic and make the opposition put the ball out of the field when it is in an attacking position….
As KEVJ says ..be cute
The footage from earlier 8.53 of pope Francis is humbling and inspirational.
A wonderfully appropriate representative of god on earth. ?
My kinda guy.
HH jamesgang
That Game tonight???
Two teams who are going to qualify – who beats the dregs by more Tops the Group.
T’was a sham.
Heh, guess who had about a dozen touches tonight and scored a hatrick????
ComeinyerainpantsCSC
Celtic FC – A look back at our #DoubleTreble winning season
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lxubl5Shex8
Trust me to post it during a big game. I have to admit I’m not big into international football.
But I trust the Holy Spirit to spread this around. The love of God. And The Love of God’s Servant of the Servants of God.
https://catholic-link.org/pope-francis-powerful-response-to-a-young-boys-question-is-my-atheist-father-in-heaven/
Our beautiful School of Art is again being ravaged by a ferocious fire.
Another disaster for Glasgow.
HRVATSKI JIM on 16TH JUNE 2018 12:27 AM
Our beautiful School of Art is again being ravaged by a ferocious fire.
Another disaster for Glasgow.
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Or, spend money on something useful.
Art or Foodbanks let me think?
There’s enough money for art and food and houses.
If we stop paying for war and corporate greed and corruption.
HH jamesgang
That was a fantastic game of football, 2 great teams playing great football and a wonderful performance from Ronaldo. Here’s hoping Messi will rise to the occasion. I’ll be sticking a cheeky wee 5r on that ???
CaltonTongues. Please don’t be a Philistine. God the Father in the Old Testament demanded a Temple, A Holy Of Holies , The Ark Of The Covenant.
Works of art, of beauty, precious metals.
This country is rich enough for both. Feed the hungry, take care of the needy.
There is trillions (£) floating around the City.
Ok
What happened to the odsonne money
WITS
Let Cifti go and keep French Eddy ????
: > )
Very interesting article from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Web site on our very own Wizard of Oz. It has a World Cup focus, as you would expect; more interesting, though, is the way they have used video within the article to highlight aspects of the storyline.
…And they show the Invincible Treble-Winning goal.
Enjoy:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-06-16/world-cup-socceroos-tom-rogic/9876416
Odsonne Edouard Welcome to Glasgow Celtic.
I saw a Powerful Striker, eventually, that moved constantly and really made things happen. WOW – Really Looking forward to seeing this guys upward trajectory.
The Auld Man was asking if Dembele is gonnae sign on for a bit longer. With Oli and Odsonne here, I really hope he does but I can respect if he wants to go St Elsewhere. Wan mair crack @ it Moussa…. you know you wanna. It will make ma Dad over the Moon about this Summer 0f 18.
A Great game between Spain and Portugal.
Ronaldo is an all time Great but his Self stuff makes me no likie him….. Efter the game he was obviously Looking up many Times to see when he was on the Big screen inbetween affording others attention after an Awesome game of football.
It was a nice pass to his CF that showed a lot of skill and technical ability and Teamplay – I really liked that.
Hopefully that game Last Night will ignite the Tournament and it is Enjoyment rather Tedium.
*than*
Apologies.
The Celtic Trio, The French Connection. Here is hoping.
The Number 7 is still empty after Odsonne taking the 22nd.
Fingers Crossed. ;)))))
DDOUGAN on 16TH JUNE 2018 1:31 AM
A great read, thanks for sharing.
Hail Hail
JAMESGANG on 16TH JUNE 2018 12:35 AM
There’s enough money for art and food and houses.
If we stop paying for war and corporate greed and corruption.
HH jamesgang
I couldn’t agree more.
A discussion I had with my son a while back. In fact if we looked after the disadvantaged in society properly, then food banks wouldn’t be necessary.
Hail Hail
Good morning good ghuys and ghirls from a damp Garngad
Well that Cr7 fella fecked up Ma wee treble yesterday.
I hope the big Wizard of Oz turns it on today for the socceroos.
Mon big Tam get your futsall skills on display for the world to see.
DDougan a great article.
Hail Hail
D. :) ????????????
DDOUGAN
Interesting article. I did not even know that the coach was considering dropping him for one of the more journeymen midfielders.
The one point I would disagree with were the reasons offered for Tom’s early difficulties with Celtic. It was not down to being played wide or “expected” to track back (Brendan has not given him a pass on those duties and Tom’s improvement started before Brendan came).
Tom had to toughen up from the less physical world of futsal in order to thrive at the 11 a side game. He had to learn better ball protection skills as, like Nakamura before him, he was easily dispossesed if he was met by a defender before he had the ball under control. Like Naka, if he had the ball tamed, he can make a fool of any defender that dives or barges in.
It is Tom that has improved and not his Celtic coaches who have suddenly woken up to a genius which was not always there. In fact, many Celtic supporters would have driven him to the airport themselves as he was one of those much derided “projects”.
JNP @ 7.09
‘Money is tight’ is in many ways the biggest lie of all. The world and the uk are awash with Money and resources. All but a fraction of which are owned by a handful of people.
HH jamesgang
The spectacular signings and flexing of muscle at Still the Same club FC has got me thinking.
How much will Celtic need to spend to narrow the gap ?
Jimmynotpaul, delighted ,like all of us , that we signed Odsonne . Great news for the team and our support.
My commiserations to Paddy and his team mates for their loss to Pollok on Thursday night. Hopefully they can go one better next season.
Terrible images of the school of art on fire last night. Another part of Glasgow’s history , going by how high the flames were, lost.
Devastating news on the art school………..big questions to answer regarding fire precautions/security etc.
Rogic starting for Australia.
18/1 FGS
CALTONTONGUES on 16TH JUNE 2018 12:31 AM
HRVATSKI JIM on 16TH JUNE 2018 12:27 AM
Our beautiful School of Art is again being ravaged by a ferocious fire.
Another disaster for Glasgow.
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Or, spend money on something useful.
Art or Foodbanks let me think?
Art is an expression of human emotion enjoyed by all…….foodbanks are a result/expression of greedy bastards, the gap between rich and poor.