Expensive lesson for football

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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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  1. tim malone will tell

     

     

    17:45 on

     

    16 January, 2013

     

    Dont know what all the fuss is about with the horse DNA in the Tesco burgers.

     

     

     

    Had a few last night too and felt just Champion.

  2. good luck istanbul celt…hope your safe……naw I’m no a hun as stated…or a squaddie as stated….im a wee tim sparky fi falkirk…who had the misfortune to be dragged up in kilwinning…..before deciding kabul might be a good place to go and work…(tbh…..kilwinning could be twinned with this hole)……being 1 of the few tims from kilwinning….my da and uncle most likely know the other kilwinning tim iv seen on here…….appologies for grammar, spelling etc

  3. Two burgers in the fridge today. Asked the wife what was wrong wi them. She said their off.

     

     

    Weefra HH

  4. This deserves a repost every day for 125 days (may 5th)

     

    10p a day £12:50, 20p a day £25:00.

     

    A fantastic gesture I’M IN :)).

     

    Vmhan

     

    10:48 on

     

    6 January, 2013

     

    While its quiet I’ll repost Kitalba’s message from the KANO 125 CFC fundraiser:

     

     

    kitalba

     

     

    11:15 on

     

    28 December, 2012

     

    Kano got sick one night, very sick. If it was not for so many Celtic Supporters, from so many places, then Kano would be an ornament in a sterile hospital room. That is not nice because Kano still breathes and he still thinks and he is still a Celtic Supporter to his very core.

     

     

    A lot of money, by a lot of people, was raised to take Kano home. He can’t ever balance the books, but he’d love to.

     

     

    None of us gets more than one go on the roundabout of life.

     

     

    Celtic is celebrating their 125th Birthday and indelibly stamping it into their history by encouraging all to embrace the simple ethos of the clubs founding… let’s try and help those who just don’t have more than the air that they breathe.

     

     

    A lot of Celtic Supporters are doing a lot of different things to raise money for to help those less fortunate than ourselves. To a lot of people that is no big deal.

     

     

    I’m determined to help Kano pay back the kindness shown to him by the Celtic Support by supporting my club to help unfortunates. No big deal.

     

     

    There are some from here who have said they will help me to help Kano to help Celtic to help others.

     

     

    I give up the bevie for 125 days and I give up posting on here for 125 days as of the 1st Jan.. No big deal really, Kano has done both for the best part of four years.

     

     

    I ‘m going to put a wee bit aside for each day that I don’t drink or post and forward it to Celtic to hopefully fill a belly that needs a feed or to make an unfortunate hope where only darkness is their dawn.(but maybe I can have St. Pat’s day off so I can share a day with some good Tims)

     

     

    I’ve only one life and when I’m gone I soon be forgotten but if I’ve ever managed to feed one hungry person, if only for one day, then my life was worth something.

     

     

    No big deal to me or you but the person I fed, he/she will never know where the food came from and they won’t ever be visiting my grave to put some pretty flowers at the base of a head-stone, they’ll be too busy worrying about tomorrow.

     

     

    I can live with that and like Kano, once I’m gone, I’ll know that I never changed the world, hardly left a mark, but still I took to Celtic and I did something to try and ease the pain of others… sort of the Celtic way.

  5. Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire on

    Vic wanyama just tweeted

     

    Good to be back in Glasgow, intresting

  6. Atticus Finch

     

     

    Very kind offer, hopefully I’ll have mine sorted tomorrow but I’m sure theres others out there that’ll be wanting to take advantage of your offer.

     

     

    HH

  7. South Of Tunis on

    voguepunter .

     

     

    Hah !

     

     

    That cinema was great for characters .

     

     

    I can still see the usherette steering 2 West London Hyacinth Bouquets oot the theatre as they exclaimed ——-

     

     

    “This is not what we expected! ”

     

     

    The movie in question was ——Reefer Madness

  8. My dear,dear,dear,friend… The Singing Detective..

     

     

    Hiya,palomine.. Great tae Greet ye

     

     

    Lasy coupla days and nights… hiv ye noticed that

     

     

     

    .. this site is sinkin faster and Faster intae Ennui and Tedium.

     

     

     

    Well.. Ah hiv..

     

     

    Puns by the Pound , ur a sure Fire Recipe fur Blog Suicide.

     

     

     

    Anyway..

     

     

    Moving oan..

     

     

    Kojo

     

     

     

    Yer pal…who thinks ye swell.

     

     

    Still, Laugnin.

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  10. Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire on

    Ber,

     

    Looks like one of kojos betting tips, from a few years back

  11. Marrakesh Express on

    gawd almighty…snyde reaching new lows by phoning Stockport to discuss sevco moving to blue square. Where does it end?

     

    snyde aff

  12. My dear,dear,dear,friend.. The Singing Detective..

     

     

     

    Noo.. that Celtic hiv managed tae Corral..

     

     

    Toro…

     

     

    Ah wanta see Neil.. go oot..and

     

     

    Tie up.. Agudelo..

     

     

    collie, says.. Juan, is a Great Prospect..

     

     

    His Fitba Skill Stats are quite remarkable..

     

     

     

    Neil..are ye listenin.??

     

     

    Kojo

     

     

    Yer pal.. who reads everything that ye write, wi’ relish

     

     

    Still, Laugin’

  13. Total agree..MT..long time lurking has taught me that its the first accusation thrown at any new guys………being from kilwinning…moving to falkirk…and out on the NATO mission at present…..Id be accusing me too if i wasn’t me…thankfully….cant get snyde out here….and reckon I’m just about far enough away from craig burley.

  14. Marrakesh Express

     

     

    The Chairman of the Blue Square League said that his members ‘could’ discuss SevCo joining the league.

     

     

    Note the ‘could’. Not ‘Yes it will be under discussion’. He then went on to say that it was ‘highly improbable’ due to FIFA, UEFA, Football League etc granting approval which was unlikely.

     

     

    Delusional Sevconian Fools

  15. Doctor Whatfor on

    Marrakesh

     

    Need clarification. Does not compute.

     

     

    snyde – What?

     

    Stockport – Where?

     

    sevco – Who?

     

    Blue Square – WTF?

  16. My dear,dear,dear,friend… Teabhoy

     

     

     

    Nice tae mak ye acquaintance.. pal.

     

     

    May Ah Congratulate ye?

     

     

    Ye hiv goat yersel a real.. Stachey… Pseudonym.. there.

     

     

    It his the Kojo Recommended..

     

     

    TWO SYLLABLES.

     

     

    Yep… It is

     

     

    Neat and Sweet… Ah like it.

     

     

    Kojo

     

    Yer pal..who likes ye ..already.

     

     

    Still, Laughin

  17. Oh and ps, anybody recommend any ‘wow’ accommodation in St Lucia? Silver wedding and all that.

  18. lionroars67

     

     

    Jabba’s marketing department obviously not on the ball – love the use of the word despite!

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