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Mistakes in the transfer market are more costly to a club than any mistake made on a football field.  It’s too easy to spend millions on a transfer fee and commit to the kind of contract you or I will never see in our lives.  After contracts are signed you need to hope the player settles into the squad, and the city, sometimes hope he learns the language, and assume he can cope with the weather.

So how do you offset this?  In recent seasons Celtic have tried, when possible, to agree a deal in principle, but front-load the transfer with a short-term loan deal.  This gives the club six months or a year to ensure all the boxes are ticked before they commit the kind of resources which would have an impact on multiple seasons.

Miku is a case in point.  Glasgow is a long way from his native Venezuela, and as different from Madrid or Valencia, where he spent most of his adult life, as you will find in Western Europe.  He is a almost certainly a better player than we have seen since he arrived at the end of the summer transfer window, but it would be foolish to suggest he has settled well at the club.

If Miku doesn’t cut it, he will return to Spain in the summer, or sooner, and Celtic will have conserved millions.

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  2. petec on

    A Ceiler Gonof Rust

     

     

    01:27 on 6 January, 2013

     

     

    Petec, going by your 12.33 post, I’m a fool.

     

     

    But you knew that already:-)

     

     

    I’m sure you and I could talk for days about that opinion of yours, but instead I’m going to look at the stars, have a smoke and I might even have a wee howl at the waning moon.

     

     

    I do admire your single minded pusuit and devotion to your beliefs.

     

     

    Hail Hail Bruv.

     

     

    ______________________________________________

     

     

    You keep me sober, you are a sort of WeieieieieeieiRD angel. I think you are a VERY good Angel, BMCUWP like FFM and the VERY BRAVE RASCAR.

     

     

    There is nothing more certain when things are CERTAIN, that GOD, the ALMIGHTY, WILL, test you every time yo……………………………… byre

  3. celticrollercoaster loves Wee Oscar, our Celtic Warrior on

    Margaret McGill

     

    01:34 on

     

    6 January, 2013

     

     

    point 2 in poor taste, hope Paul67 deletes

  4. Margaret McGill on

    A Ceiler Gonof Rust

     

     

    01:35 on 6 January, 2013

     

     

    Now Carnoustie Golfer..thats the kinda discrimination Im talking about!!

  5. celticrollercoaster loves Wee Oscar, our Celtic Warrior on

    The Spirit of Arthur Lee

     

    01:39 on

     

    6 January, 2013

     

     

    Couldnae fit him in to the photo shoot and it was wide lens as well :-)

     

     

    HH

     

     

    CRC

  8. Margaret McGill on

    celticrollercoaster loves Wee Oscar, our Celtic Warrior

     

     

    01:40 on 6 January, 2013

     

     

    whats in poor taste?

     

    I’m telling you whats newsworthy on TV

  9. The Spirit of Arthur Lee on

    CRC

     

     

    My Brother n law gave me his photo with both Henrik and Peter

     

     

    What a gay

  10. Margaret McGill on

    The Spirit of Arthur Lee

     

     

    01:46 on 6 January, 2013

     

     

    Your sister must be pissed off by now??

  12. A Ceiler Gonof Rust on

    Rascar, I’m seeing orions belt but no moon, I’ll have to find something else to howl at.

     

     

    I’ll start at this emty boatil of Ameroni. hoooo hooooo whhaaaaaaaa.

     

     

     

    Drams, will put this situation right, or maybe some of petecs toons.

     

     

     

    Hoooowwwwwwwwoooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!

     

     

    ;-))

  13. BOBBY MURDOCH'S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on

    A CEILER GONOF RUST

     

     

    What you on about,a football site?

     

     

    I was told that if I logged on here,I could find that new boat I was looking for……

     

     

    More of that disinformation I keep hearing about,I suppose.

     

     

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPe0hhyUCx0

     

     

    Legendary 1975 OGWT show was repeated last week-magic!

  16. celticrollercoaster loves Wee Oscar, our Celtic Warrior on

    Mags-Thought this was a family site! Appropriate content, newsworthy or not?

  18. celticrollercoaster loves Wee Oscar, our Celtic Warrior on

    BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS

     

    01:48 on

     

    6 January, 2013

     

     

    Moonhowlers time. Off to my kip

     

     

    Nite, nite

     

     

    HH

     

     

    CRC

  19. Margaret McGill on

    miki67

     

     

    01:38 on 6 January, 2013

     

     

    Murray International Holdings…hmmm. I dont understand that. Good find! Maybe someone else can explain.

  20. Margaret McGill on

    celticrollercoaster loves Wee Oscar, our Celtic Warrior

     

     

    01:49 on 6 January, 2013

     

     

    Nope. Celtic site. Consider it like a Celtic roller coaster up and down round and round..well you know what I mean…

  21. BOBBY MURDOCH'S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on

    CELTICROLLERCOASTER………

     

     

    Stick around,bud-it can be fun,enlightening,infuriating!

     

     

    Sometimes we even just post left-field choons instead of arguing all night,haha…

     

     

    Glad yu enjoyed the night with Henrik-I’m confident a goodly amount is intended for charity as he won’t need the money.

     

     

    Hopefully,Neil will invite him to Marbella to work with our strikers. Henrik likes the sun on his bck,IIRC.

  23. BOBBY MURDOCH'S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on

    MAGS 0152

     

     

    Reading back,concensus is the information has been got at.

     

     

    However,if TET were on,he would say it is an example-again-of hiding in plain site.

     

     

    You pays yer money,you takes yer choice……..

  24. petec on

    Margaret McGill

     

     

    01:34 on 6 January, 2013

     

     

    ____________________________

     

    The biggest citizen army in the WORLD mut be disarmed.

     

     

     

    I, I R, A.

     

     

    WOLD, I dinnae even have any comprehension YET.

     

     

    The Irish militia is nothing.

  25. A Ceiler Gonof Rust on

    Rascar, huns drink of the loving cup on an anual basis. They drink monkey spunk (or some other vile hunnish fluid) from their sacred jug in the hope that their horrid ruddy complexions will disappear and they can return to normal society.

     

     

    It doesnt work, look at Craig Whyte / jardine / greig et al.

     

     

     

    The Loving cup…………………………Ha ha ha ……………………..funny hun traditions!!

  30. Rascar Capac on

    ACGR

     

     

    I just wondered if I’d missed a running gag.

     

     

    Read a wee bit about it, seems harmless.

  32. A Ceiler Gonof Rust on

    Maggie, there’s no discrimination here. I like my huns deid and ma wumin big titted and willing.

     

     

    Other than that I’m an easy going sort of tim.

     

     

    Havin said that mrs ACGR is of a hunnish persuasion, but I can deal with that with ma claw hammer, should the need arise.

     

     

    Hmmm, thinkin.com

  36. A Ceiler Gonof Rust on

    Rascar, it probably is harmless but the loving cup ceremony is hilarious. I’ve no idea what these backward imbeciles are drinking from that bowl, I just hope it’s not a good quality malt. Given the current state of the huns its probably Dewars or W&M.

     

     

    Who cares, as long as they keep providing the comedy.

     

     

    They mock the catholic church and it’s ceremonies and then they give us this pagan drivel every year. Now I’m not a great fan of religion but if they want to deride the ceremonies of one church, WTF is the loving cup about?

     

     

    Huns, who would have them?

  38. BOBBY MURDOCH'S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on

    MARGARET McGILL

     

     

    Cheers,one of my fave debut albums,that.

     

     

    I couldnae believe it the other week when you and RASCAR waited till I’d gone to ma cot before trading ELLIOTT SMITH songs,ya perra sods……

     

     

    Have this one,even more stripped-down than usual!

     

     

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2sfwky4RqQ

  40. BOBBY MURDOCH'S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on

    ACGR,RASCAR

     

     

    I’m just naturally suspicious of ANY ceremonial stuff that lot and their ilk get involved in.

     

     

    Usually,and historically,with good bloody reason!

  42. A Ceiler Gonof Rust on

    Bob M, here’s one for you I know you’ll enjoy. I saw the band on their tour here in 78/79 or 80……….memory is a fickle faculty.

     

     

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDfCiETC9I4

     

     

    I posted this a few weeks ago because I couldnt remember who the support band was. CQN, being the fountain of all knowledge reminded me that the support that night was Squeeze with the brilliant Jools Holland.

     

     

    I was convinced I saw ms polystyrene that night, that must have been another night….haha:-)

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