The success rate of Celtic’s player recruitment strategy in recent years has been exceptional; pound-for–pound better than any period in our history. Forster, Mulgrew, Lustig, Matthews, Izaguirre, Wilson, Ledley, Wanyama, Commons, Kayal and Hooper have arrived for limited outlay and have propelled the club into the latter stages of the Champions League.
By contrast, Mo Bangura failed to impress on any occasion tested. At another time it would be easy to write him off but it seems unusual that the current system for scouting and assessing footballers has led to a striker who only yesterday recorded his first goal for the club.
In all honesty I suspect Mo will not get a chance to turn things around at Celtic, there are several strikers ahead of him in the squad and our scouts will forever be working on fresh recruits, but this doesn’t mean he is a bad player. It’s more likely that his induction into Scottish life missed a crucial step.
Did you see the story and photograph about Michael Johnson yesterday? The 24-year-old was paid-off by Manchester City near the end of his £40k per week contract. He was unfortunate with injuries but there is a lesson for football to learn in his demise.
The day anyone, young or old, clever or stupid, signs a £10m contract life can become one long party. ‘You don’t like my attitude/weight/blood test/friends? I’m on a multi-million pound contract, deal with it.’ How can football deal with this issue?
For the record, there is absolutely no connection between Mo, whose attitude has been first class, and Michael Johnson’s demise.
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South of Tunis
That Chanteuse from North Fife came from Lanark “Horse MacDonald” (although driven out by homophobia and she recently got married there to a lovely lassie.
Fine voice she had as well.
Miki67 @ 14.02
Saw the master a couple weeks ago, really didn’t enjoy it, however I thought the performances of Phoenix and PSH were great. Another of Paul Thomas anderson’s films I’ve seen recently was hard 8. Worth a watch
HH
Aaah…..funk it, with mc honky:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZSSic77BcA&feature=youtube_gdata_player
BTW I think all these horsemeat jokes have been made up off the hoof!
Bada Bing
It was November!
Tim Tanium
You can’t cross a ball at head height across your own box when there is a striker there.
Riseth was a Hearts or Hibs standard player at best.
I didn’t rate him at all.
LB
hen1rik
13:33 on
16 January, 2013
Just HAD TO post the detailed comment from your post, for anyone who didn’t open the link ……Brilliant
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Posted 13 January 2013 – 12:58 PM
dayork, on 12 January 2013 – 04:11 PM, said:
Your right. We SHOULD have been forced to CHOOSE.. we never got that option, you lot chose for us. NEWCO.. get em tae **** i beleive the term was. Cannot have it both ways… wipe our history and call us new.. yet extect us to pay for the oldco’s debts.
As it stands, we only owe HMRC now, and whether that is morally correct or not, lets face it, it’s not… we have no obligation to pay the government under UK law. No business and i do mean NO business is going to volunteer to pay out millions when i legally has no obligation to.
All the organisations recognise us as old rangers, it is sadly scottish footy fans that don’t, but hey any excuse to hate the big players right?
And for proof that the organisations will recognise us as oldco… ECA invite informed us as such in writing. UEFA, FIFA, SPL, SFL and SFA would all create a shit storm if we spouted about our history if we had none. Like or not that is the truth and you lot are simply bitter.
I wonder how you will spin it if you guys ever liquidate and reform? Same club? New club, new club with previous history? Pay ALL debts, or do what we did, pay ALL clubs and companies and avoid the MASSIVE government payment. Only time will tell and if it happens is the ONLY time i will get a TRUTHFUL answer.
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Jesus Christ. And you describe yourself as a reasonable-minded Rangers fan? You are, quite literally, deluded – the definition of a delusion being a fixed belief which continues to be held in the face of all evidence to the contrary.
Please stop this idiotic drivel about Rangers being hard done by in some way. Sorry, but not on this planet. You wonder why everyone was so down on Rangers? Could it be because you had been lording it over the rest of Scottish football (Celtic excepted) for decades, whilst cheating financially on a staggering scale to ensure your position could never be threatened? Everybody likes to see a bully get their comeuppance, and Rangers were one of the biggest bullies in football history.
Having been found out, Rangers then showed zero remorse (still haven’t, in fact) and have continued to behave with unbelievable arrogance even as their club collapsed around them. Had it not been for the utter lack of humility shown by the club, other people might have been more sympathetic, but that’s the Rangers way, isn’t it?
Then the unthinkable happened – you actually went bust. And contrary to what you appear to think, every authority in Scottish football immediately began to do everything in their power to ensure that you had as soft a landing as possible. Administrators are supposed to act on behalf of the creditors, to get them the best deal possible. That’s almost the exact opposite of what happened in your case. The company’s largest assets (Ibrox and Murray Park) were not sold off to the highest bidder to pay off the creditors. Instead, they were placed out of the creditors’ reach by selling them to NewCo for a derisory sum (about £4.5m, IIRC – when Ibrox alone had been valued at £100m in Rangers’ own accounts!) This was allowed to go unchallenged. Was there a fire sale of players? No. In fact, Green threatened legal action against players who exercised their right to leave.
Then we come to the question of where NewCo would play, and the shameful shenanigans that went on to try to prevent them from having to follow the rules. As a new club, NewCo should have had to apply to join SFL3, like any other new club would have to. But instead we were treated to the spectacle of the SPL and SFA seriously considering reinserting them into the SPL and pretending nothing had happened. It’s hardly surprising the fans of other clubs were screaming blue murder – the authorities had thrown away their own rule book and were making things up as they went along, because this was Rangers, and the usual rules don’t apply to OF clubs.
Fortunately, sanity prevailed and the SPL clubs voted against this madness, which really and truly would have made Scottish football a laughing stock around the world. Then the focus went on to the SFL, who were pressurised into putting NewCo into SFL1 – for which there was even less justification than keeping them in the SPL, since the latter is a separate body. But this failed too, amid dire predictions of doom and apocalypse (which have failed to ensue). So NewCo went to SFL3.
Then we started to get this nonsense about ‘we’ve been punished enough’. Complete twaddle. You weren’t punished AT ALL for anything you did. The ‘demotion’ was anything but – instead of having to reapply to the SFL, you were allowed to keep OldCo’s membership and bypass the application process. It was doing NewCo a favour. The only ‘punishments’ dealt out to Rangers were a miserable fine, a transfer ban which was carefully arranged to cause a minimum of inconvenience (it didn’t start till you had already signed players for this season, and will end just in time for you to register players for next season!) and a requirement to pay ‘football debts’, which was trivial in comparison to the series of favours you had received.
Then the new season began, with Rangers in Div 3, but still owning Ibrox and Murray Park, still having much of their squad, still having all their coaching staff, having made virtually nobody redundant, and claiming somehow to be both a new club (hence debt free) and an old club (hence with all the Rangers history). No attempt has been made to challenge this at all. Next thing we know, ‘Rangers’ – who are supposed to have gone bust and returned as a new entity – are signing players from SPL clubs and paying them bumper SPL wages to play in SFL3.
Is it any wonder that your club are resented? The scale of the heist you have pulled off is breathtaking. You were cheating, you were found out, you went bust, and yet you have been allowed to carry on as if nothing had happened. Your ‘punishment’ has been a slap on the wrist at best. And despite all this, you honestly think you have been mistreated! If Hearts go to the wall, do you think we will get ANY of the special treatment you did? Not a chance in hell.
Michael Johnson asks to be ‘left alone to live the rest of my life’ after revealing to the Manchester Evening News the tortured battle with inner demons which has led to him being released by Manchester City.
The midfielder, once tipped to be an England captain and hailed as ‘the new Colin Bell’, says he has been undergoing treatment for several years at the Priory Clinic, which specialises in dealing with mental illness, alcoholism and gambling addiction.
Asked whether he had a message to City fans, Johnson, a product of the club’s academy, says: “I am more disappointed than anyone but that’s the way it goes.”
Hamburgers is an anagram of shergars bum
Tim Tanium @ 15 22.
Many thanks. !
Clashcitybhoy
Dr Joe is 114 years old now.
TT
as_i_thought 15:22 on 16 January, 2013:
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Aye. Paul Thomas Anderson is not to everyone’s taste. I loved ‘Hard 8’….seen it often. I recently bought ‘Magnolia’…not a fan at all of Tom Cruise….but the film is excellent.
However, I hated ‘Punch Drunk Love’…..lasted 20minutes and walked.
‘The Master’, I think , is a masterpiece…not because of the story: that is merely the vehicle for the best performances I’ve ever seen from Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Joaqin Phoenix.
Me & the mrs. were both blown away.
At least I got one thing right in this life: I married the right woman, the best human being I’ve ever met.
(Aw shucks….)
The Huddleboard@huddleboard
Celtic statues at dawn/sunrise courtesy of Hargibhoy http://flic.kr/s/aHsjDdAJ2C Absolute Class!
European football body Uefa’s website has announced their 2012 team of the year and for the first time, it features no players from the Premier League.
Football’s governing body said a record 5.3m votes had been cast, with eight players named from clubs in Spain’s La Liga.
Team of the year: Iker Casillas (Real Madrid), Sergio Ramos (Real Madrid), Gerard Pique (Barcelona), Thiago Silva (AC Milan/Paris Saint-Germain), Philipp Lahm (Bayern Munich), Andres Iniesta (Barcelona), Xavi Hernández (Barcelona), Andrea Pirlo (Juventus), Mesut Özil (Real Madrid), Lionel Messi (Barcelona), Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid).
Edinburgh Napier Uni@EdinburghNapier
@alextomo & @markdaly2 21st Jan @Mediamondays : ‘The #Rangers story’. Limited tickets available, please book here: http://www.screenacademyscotland.ac.uk/content-32
Interesting trivia (to me, anyway) regarding ‘Hard 8’ :
When Jimmy (Samuel L. Jackson) and Sydney (Philip Baker Hall) have their confrontation, Jimmy mentions that he knows Sydney’s friends Floyd Gondolli and Jimmy Gator. In Paul Thomas Anderson’s next movie, Boogie Nights, Philip Baker Hall plays Floyd Gondolli. In Anderson’s followup to Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Philip Baker Hall plays Jimmy Gator.
miki 67
the best human being I’ve ever met is currently moaning her face off because we should be in Catania but we aren’t cos it’s way too wet to drive .
Her major gripe is that unless it stops raining ,she is going to miss out on her favorite street food —— A panino filled with bits of horse steak / chips and mustard . Me -I like it with tomato sauce rather than mustard . Her favorite wee shack[there are lots ] is near the Catania fish market —-the guy who mans the grill looks remarkably like Tony Soprano ——– dirty sleeveless white vest / fag in mouth /litre bottle of Heinken to hand.Not a popular place with UK tourists.
Coming down the home strait now..
its Jabba Jibber on the inside…
by a length from Fat sally…
stretching away now heading to the finish line
but wait on the outside its tesco extra with a late attack
and by a nose its tesco extra!!!!!
lionroars67 – 15:43 on 16 January, 2013
Interestingly, if you click through on the link the page claims ‘TV led the way in exposing the goings on at the club.’
I’m sure that’s not how RTC and many people on here remember events.
S
I’m Neil Lennon (tamrabam)
15:20 on 16 January, 2013
Off the top of my head – think your figures are out by circa +£4M:
Izzy – £600K
Wilson – pre-contract
V67 – £900K
Commons – £300K
Celtic mac-Touche’ my friend.
I’ve had absolutely nothing better to do today than mooch about and rattle on in here.
Thanks for your time.
And all the luvvly burgers.
Gotta go do some real world stuff.
HH!
Graham Hunter – just tweeted
BAYERN get Pep.
bit left field, didnt see that coming.
play4dg
south of tunis 15:46 on 16 January, 2013:
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Aha….wan las’ waffer theen word…
…we are looking forward to re-vsiting Malta…..fish off the dock and straight into a pan.
Some we know call the place, ‘scruffy’….what do they know? ( I imagine Sicily to be similar)
It’s beautiful.
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shady:
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Have you done all yer packin yet?
HH!
If you don’t fancy Tesco’s horse Burgers
try their meatballs…. their the dogs bollox!!
HH
New Years resolution down the drain…I vowed not to eat burgers but I’ve fallen at the first hurdle!
@OliverKayTimes: Wow. Bayern Munich confirm Pep Guardiola will coach them next season. Three-year contract. See @FCBayern
Can anyone remember if anyone from Celtics coaching staff actually went to see Bangura play before signing him.Or was it just on Henriks advice.
If memory serves, paardvlees (horse meat) is a delicacy in the Netherlands.
mmm
Football reporter on the 4pm radio news quoted someone from Bayern stating that the Pep to Bayern story was ” nonsense “
Had the misfortune to hear big Eck this morning talking about WGS.
He managed to avoid mentioning WGS’s Celtic career and his 3 in a row and both last 16s.
He said about WGS’s career some very positive things but ended, and I quote, with, “culminating with his time at Leeds”.
He then went on to comment on how badly Scottish football had treated Bjorn Again.
Total ……..
EC67
67Heaven … I am Neil Lennon..!!.. Ibrox belongs to the creditors,
the one thing that stands out there for me is we have agreed to
play in a reconstructed league under the very same people who were involved in the old rangers and new sevco farce and rule bending/breaking,to me this is a far bigger crime as we have done nothing to get rid/clean up this cesspit that masqerades
as fit governing body or bodies,i think i am not being to unkind
to our club leaders in pointing this out, they have been cheating for years they know it and we know it,so what have we done about it genuinely what have we done to try and remove them for the real and honest good of the game? the fact that even campbell olgivie is still there is scandalous and beyond a joke and to even acknowledge him as the leader of the sfa is disgusting and a betrayal, ps and our leaders wonder why some people wont buy season tickets,to mr lawell and fellow board leaders some will not let this be brushed over as it is tantamount to being complicit and accepting their rule of corruption, it does not matter what proposals they put forward
until they are removed its tainted by their presence to accept it by turning up is collusion as we know what they have been doing and are still doing and worst of all i suspect so do our leaders otherwise why not call for their heads, remember fans who buy in to season tickets for this farce also contribute to
this anti celtic cabal as it needs money from clubs to exist,
so i say again why have no spl clubs in particular called for resignations in all of this?
SoT
On SSN as a done deal …..Guardiola that is
Delighted that Pep turned down the bloated, overhyped EPL.
A massive coup for Bayern and a huge PR boost for imo Europe’s second best league
miki 67 .
Malta ?
A 30 minute drive and a 90 minute ferry away .
Never really taken to the place but [ unlike Sicily ] you can buy Ginger Beer and custard powder there .
Tonyg
I have doubts about the veracity of the statement that Bangura was signed on HL’s recommendation
It has been often stated….I haven’t seen a direct quote ….maybe one exists ???
EC67- That fud McLeish had better enjoy his last job at a decent sized Club.He will be lucky to survive til end of the transfer window.Forest were 7th when he took over,that will be their highest position all season…….unless they bag him and get a real Manager in.
TMWTL
Correct
The EPL is soulless