Fixture symmetry, transfer speculation caution

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A quick check of the fixture list reveals that St Mirren are the first scheduled visitors to Celtic Park after 10 August, the date Clinical Director, Jason Leitch, said he hopes to allow capacity crowds into football stadiums.  St Mirren were the last visitors to play in front of supporters at Celtic Park, on 7 March 2020, which will be satisfying, for those who like their fixtures with a bit of symmetry.

Olivier Ntcham’s hopes to earn a rewarding contract appear to hinge on Celtic providing the player with a free transfer, one year before the end of his current agreement.  Deals like this were once regarded as rewards for players who gave the bulk of their career to a club.  Subsidising Olivier’s potential wages from AEK would be an extraordinarily generous move by Celtic.

The player really needs some football next season, if not, he will be 26 when his contract expires, having played very little football for two years.  I would rather pay him to remain the squad (with strict instructions to stay out of the Celtic penalty box) than lose him for free.

It’s great to see reports of talented young players on their way to Celtic, but we all know the script when it comes to transfers.  Confirmative press stories mean nothing, just ask Celtic boss, Eddie Howe.  If a player is on Celtic’s radar, he will be on a few others.

Speaking of Howe, his phone will have gone a bit quiet since four weeks ago.  He rejected Celtic within a day of Real Madrid sounding out their new boss, Carlo Ancelotti, then manager of his boyhood club, Everton.  Everton and Crystal Palace are both trying hard to appoint a manager who is not Howe, although he remains on both clubs’ lists.  Southampton and Newcastle retained their managers, against earlier expectations.

Shay Logan, weeks after posting the message, “You can’t polish a turd” below a photo of Scott Brown in an Aberdeen shirt, was arrested and charged with an offence under the Proceeds of Crime Act.  He remains as classy as ever.

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  1. !!BADA BING!! on 28TH JUNE 2021 7:43 PM

     

    Brilliant to see Murray on Centre Court, this might be his last hurrah,he probably thought it would never happen again after his surgery, the Greatest Scottish Sportsman of All Time IMO…

     

     

     

    Whityetalkinabootshirleyitsweebillygilmorethebestestsportspersoninthewurldsoheis…

     

    Absolutely…

  2. Just noticed that many of the line judges at Wimbers are standing like Kris Boyd , didn’t know his fame had spread to that part of the empire

  3. Andy Murray has just out Hibsed Hibs. 5-0 up in the third set and lost it 7-5.

     

    He was also 2 sets to 0 up.

  4. FAVOURITE UNCLE on

    Don’t ask SNPcult, they haven’t a clue about anything.

     

     

    From JHB type who watches tele all day hoping for a plane crash.

  5. GREENPINATA on 28TH JUNE 2021 7:49 PM

     

     

    Lot of assumptions there.

     

     

    The point is that the rate of infections is the thing that policy makers should be focussed on, not the rate of hospitalizations.

     

     

    We know that the vaccine modifies symptoms in most people. We don’t know what future mutations might do.

  6. prestonpans bhoys on

    BOURNESOUPRECIPE on 28TH JUNE 2021 8:42 PM

     

    ITV cut away from the streaker because there’s already two cocks commentating.

     

     

    👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👍👍

  7. What would have happened if France had scored there? Presumably it would have been disallowed.

  8. SS,

     

     

    Thanks for the info on the Herald. I would be sad to see it go but it has definitely taken an editorial decision in its sports section to support the deid team.

  9. Here’s a question that nobody probably wants to ask or answer.

     

     

    With the loan players to a man doing whatever they can to get out of the club and not return to fight for a place, what is/was going on at the club?

     

     

    Do they not believe they’ll get a chance (new manager so would say that’s a reach)?

     

     

    Bad atmosphere or dynamic within the playing and/or coaching staff?

     

     

    Poor management by the club in order to help them settle in a new country?

     

     

    The Scottish weather just THAT bad? Or Lennoxtown being so open makes it a horrible place to train in the colder and wetter months?

     

     

    The club just not wanting to keep any of them?

  10. In a parallel universe, Ajeti and Edouard could have been starring tonight.

     

     

    3-3 unbelievable, twice in one day a team has come back from 1-3 in last minutes of game.

  11. 😂

     

    MARTIM1980 on 28TH JUNE 2021 9:50 PM

     

    temps de cul qui couine 😉

     

     

    ….

     

     

    I don’t think I’ll google that one !

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