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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What’s Onion’s Belt?
And why would you look up to it?
ACGR
I like ceremonies.
I am not religious any more, but at funerals, weddings, baptisms, I find the ceremony attractive.
I would love a pagan religion like in The Wicker Man, but without the burny bit.
I know the trees huvny got souls, but I would enjoy playing at it if there was bevvy.
Greig, Ogilvie et al in their blazers (wummins knickers underneath) toasting an old tourist attraction in England?
Why not?
A CEILER GONOF RUST
THE TUBES,wow. That must have been a bit of an eye-opener for a young impressionable lad,haha!
And that stage show must have had you popping off to the toilets regularly,blaming it on the beer………
ULYSSES McGHEE
Ooo-er,missus……
Hail hail all the obit was a disgrace the og wis a gift… Just about To go to ma pit watchin the Green Bay packers batterin the Vikings when it occurred to me that the only reason I support them was/ is because of the fact they have green in their name an my ma bought me a sweatshirt with their name on them in 1978 before a skool disco ( D M HOYES clothes shop ) Partick circa 1978 lol
Hail hail ………
A Ceiler Gonof Rust
02:23 on 6 January, 2013
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?
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That isnae any Church or Cup.
That is deception.com in full effect.
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I’m thinking of Rascar and a lot more now. I sense real kindness without ever knowing him. The Fantastic Bhoy from Ireland has always held him to be a HACKER, a TROJAN, a bad Apple.
Let the bad gui’s zfuck up in his own TIME.
I’m so very sorry for being a bellend to you previously
The best song I have heard recently is goog ol Tom Waits, a favourite of Rod the Mod. Lyrics are the bees knees.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BX3XqIJ6KxY
BMCUWP, I would have been shocked had I not seen this first. My first experience of punk in Glasgow and a first elusive sighting of the fabled Jack n Danny.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjnFTpp79Ko
Made me the well rounded individual that I am today, so it did………………..:-)
Putmeinastraightjacket.com
If the huns had a fashion show it would look like this……………………but the music would be more of a marching drummy type.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqCp_cmQ-IE
Huns?
Rascar Capac
I can devour another 3 squares.
Vodka and Soda and water.
I cannae gee you any mair praise than to advise the Phatbhoy Leader when he embarks on a new initiative to HELP others.
philvisreturns, when he emphasised my low carbs wis ugly special. philvis was really talking from the bottom of his heart that day.
That PODIUM that philvisreturns posted was MONUMENTAL in so many ways.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xW1fXL3s7bk
Another song the hun loves to hate.
My favorite city is richer for this offering from a couple of baldy tims
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebNbh_kIvnY
Oh Yeah!!
A CEILER GONOF RUST
I remember strolling along the beaches of Cornwall early summer of 77 hearing The Stranglers for the first time. It was the guitars that got me,not the sentiments-honest!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdpxR0SO7G4
From then,though never a punk fan,I was more open to different types of music…….
P.S. ACGR has no issue with baldness, even in wummin. In fact, ……..ach, I better not go there.
HH
Whit,Hue and Cry…….BALD?
FFS,this is not good at all.
Anytime I listen to their stuff,my mental image is of 20-25 years ago.
Young fellas at the top of their game,smooth as……..
Might as well be David Crosby without the moustache now!
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
03:10 on 6 January, 2013
A CEILER GONOF RUST
I remember strolling along the beaches of Cornwall early summer of 77 hearing The Stranglers for the first time. It was the guitars that got me,not the sentiments-honest!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdpxR0SO7G4
From then,though never a punk fan,I was more open to different types of music…….
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7R7q1lSZfs
please remember I am A NOVICE and very lippy when drunk. ;))
PETEC
I’m with you on PHILVIS,I think he is a superb part of this site.
Allows us a glimpse of the opinions of others,far different from the majority on the site,and usually with good humour and elan.
But he’s at his best when the mask slips that tiny wee bit,and lets it go both barrels!
A sight for sore eyes when he is in full flow,and doesn’t suffer fools gladly.
Still disnae make his opinions right though-or even palatable-but I enjoy the way he delivers them.
PETEC
That’s not a problem,bud.
You’ll be on the water and soda on the 18th-you won’t notice,trust me!
Bob M, ratus norvegicius and the summer of 78 was a great time to be alive, I’m not sure if it was a good time to be a tim but I knew I was living in those days of mushrooms, and excessive access to free drugs and poontnag.
I slipped in my support for my team in that era and am now paying my personal price by making up the support I should have provided then.
I should talk to Petec about this.
Wastedyouthhaha.co.uk
Petec
Nobody ate refined carbs in the past.
Through hundreds of thousands of year of human evolution.
Some don’t to this day.
They also don’t have the “Western Diseases”.
Funny that.
Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMZDEgrtbKk
I don’t
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
03:20 on 6 January, 2013
If you could have Kojo or philvis at the inaugural, who would it be?
I love both of them because they are BRAVE as Lions and I think they have the Holy Spirit within them no matter what anyone says.You know me, I will explain my thinking then.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfUYuIVbFg0
A CEILER GONOF RUST
Indeed,youth is wasted on the young,but getting wasted then is so much easier to recover from than now.
And a damned sight easier to explain………
What the hell,only young once-and intending to stay that way!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usZF2467UUw
Rascar Capac
03:26 on 6 January, 2013
Petec
Nobody ate refined carbs in the past.
Through hundreds of thousands of year of human evolution.
Some don’t to this day.
They also don’t have the “Western Diseases”.
Funny that.
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No really wanting to advertise things but get yer sexy arse to the horseshoe bar on the 18th so we can talk deeply about the above comment. I have never been more annoyed about medication, I am in AWE of the medical techniques but TOTALLY DISGUSTED about the Medication of the populace.
PETEC
Probably KOJO.
If I want to meet PHILVIS,I can drive for 20 minutes to Witney and ask for him.
Shouldn’t be too hard to find with his luxuriant titian locks……..
Another classic. Words we should all appreciate. It is a pleasure to be of this world.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B4CN7TM1iQ
Amen to that Bob M:-)
I’ve a birthday next week and mrs ACGR is thinking of putting me in a home, should I break out the claw hammer?
It’s a tough one, I’m no sure which one of us is mair mental. Off oot tea the tool shed noo. Nothing wil be decided until after the game on the 19th v the bus ticketless huns visit to paradise. Then there’s the Juve gem. After that the current mrs ACGR better watch out who she plays the piano with.
Sinister cat patting laugh dot com
Sorry,folks-but you really have to click this link.
It is the most awesomely boak-inducing headline and article for some time.
Not sure if it’s a spoof,tbh.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2257758/Im-giving-child-benefit-today-children—arent-saddled-debts-forever-says-Chancellor-George-Osborne.html
Ach Bobby, wee Georgie is a sweetie by comparison to some of his predecessors, The bitch thatcher would have eaten her own young for a headline like that.
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Merry Unorthodox Christmas to Aiden McGeady..
Summa
WILLIAM KENTIGERN67
Excellent stuff-I first heard him when he was wit THE REPLACEMENTS,thanks to a lass from Minneapolis/St Pauls I was seeing twenty-odd years ago now.
Being a drama student from there,she LOVED this……
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3WXi-GOkRM
You have to concentrate on the breathy spoken lyric to understand why,though!
A special nighthowler treat for those amoung us who like to howl.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgkLhfiGIqY
Parental adivice should be sought before being subjected to the content of this link.
bark bark bark whoooo haw haw haw:-)
A CEILER GONOF RUST
Aye,that she would……
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
03:29 on 6 January, 2013
A CEILER GONOF RUST
Indeed,youth is wasted on the young,but getting wasted then is so much easier to recover from than now.
And a damned sight easier to explain………
What the hell,only young once-and intending to stay that way!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usZF2467UUw
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1eU1K0eXTI
Love always….
You brought the ipod thingy up for Aidan but I will be taxing it all like a Conservative. ;)))
We know the Cons and Libs will f us, it hurts when the Peoples parties f us 2.
Dicke will become more popular but his underlying stuff is very dangerous and is the EXACT same as people who will try to……….. email for the rest……thats a wee joke.
ok so no miki 67
Nope Philvus politically is not acceptable as a Celtic supporter IMHO. His only excuse would be that he is a fascist Tory loving schizophrenic . Of course he may be normal and has formed his opinions living on a council estate when neds have stolen his colour TV that he was first in the neighbourhood to have or his Atari or his etc etc.
Happens to lots of nobodies.
ok on the philvus note let me say one thing in his defence. Margaret Thatcher wasnt completely AWOL. awe grooan groan groan I can hear you.The one redeeming characteristic of Maggie is that she did not belive in a written constitution but in a true democracy (TV and all). To which I concur living in America.
Why? I hear you ask.
Well here’s why.
Who interprets the written constitution?
In the American analogy its the Supreme Court.
Whats supreme about them?
Er nothing really.
They are not elected but selected.
The selection is usually politically motivated.
So usually you have a bunch of nobodies (see above) trying to be all intellectual an stuff ken aboot 18th century wisdom ken.
when in actual fact they are TV loving whores (see previous posting).
Resulting in, for example, the Al Gore/Florida debacle in 2000 when they stated that
a recount in a general election was unconstitutional. So if Maggie Thatcher had had her way in America in 2000 Al gore would have been president instead of that murdering Bush thicko who never read a book in his life that Blair followed.
Just saying likesy.
Ken
Better times ahead by gum
As Charlie (Chuck) Darwin might say its a case of natural selection and your survival as a species depends on the continual replication of your environment
A Ceiler Gonof Rust
03:51 on 6 January, 2013
A special nighthowler treat for those amoung us who like to howl.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgkLhfiGIqY
Parental adivice should be sought before being subjected to the content of this link.
bark bark bark whoooo haw haw haw:-)
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Children gu*d*nc* should be sought before watching this Sh*t.
;))
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz43hBjrk1A
Lost information……………………………………………..
Woohoo.csc
BMCW
Great song. Don’t have it. I have The Fingerprintz album on vinyl and a couple of Silencers on CD. Jimmie O’Neil still touring.
SUMMA OF SAMMI
You been in London recently?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2257646/Blundering-skipper-wedges-500-000-pleasure-cruiser-Chertsey-Bridge-Thames-misjudging-river-swollen.html