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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Definitely off to bed……..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6A-ucLv44Y
tiocfaidha ar la
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS go easy on KevJ.
And KevJ keep going hard on anyone you want to.
I’m right behind you, well perhaps not for the next 12 hours……………. ;)))
petec
07:28 on 6 January, 2013
Definitely off to bed……..
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Me too M8.
I apologize to you for my exchange of view’s with BMCUWP.
Off oot
God Bless
Hail Hail
laters…..
KevJungle – MURDO’s 30 yds Title Winning Boots 1979
I know you just want the very BEST for Celtic and you are like perfecto http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yx0CMhjL-9U for a blog that is to develop.
Hehehe…from KDS.
Rumour on twitter the Elgin lad was sent off so he could have a look at the roof
KevJungle – MURDO’s 30 yds Title Winning Boots 1979
When you keep diverting the jibber jabber towards Celtic ……. well you will always do for me.
This Blog is fantaaaaaastic and at the HEART of all our thoughts is Glasgow Celtic.
efe nitely out this time
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3pTT3AjN4A
Efe is the Ki.
Has everybody fallen asleep ?
I take it everybody’s away tae 8:00 Mass.
Away to read back
HH
Good morning Valentines, think there’s a winter break on :-)
HH
Gourock
I read back when i woke up… Thirty minutes of my day off wasted by the nightshift squabbling …. Lesson learned
Only just come on so don’t know if the Elgin goal from yesterday has made its way on to here.
PURE COMEDY!!!!! Here ya go:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2pCPySvKLk
Rothboy…
It was the subject of mirth on cqn last night.
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Jinks..
Takes me Aboot 6 Hrs to read the Day Shift Squabbles when l wake Up..:-)
Summa
Ps..You don’t know Russian for..No You Hang Up..Ha
What’s the story about the roof at Ibrox?
Morning,
Fat Sally begging investors not to sell up.
I wonder who put him up to that?
HOUSEOFCARDSCSC
Morning all. No sign of sunshine here at the moment, although it is very mild. Oh to be in Spain, now the Tic are there.
Has the Compliance Officer cited Stevenson yet for that lunge? I take it the meeja is demanding it? Nah. No chance. He doesn’t play for Celtic.
Cheers Boy Jinky – I’m going to have to have a look back then!
Greenlion2
Is this what you were looking for last night?
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BfX-s4dcYBg
Morning CQNers from a dull but mild East Devon, this new I phone 5 is the dogs bol##clks.
Hail hail
the boy jinky
09:10 on 6 January, 2013
Gourock
I read back when i woke up… Thirty minutes of my day off wasted by the nightshift squabbling …. Lesson learned
Just caught up, tame compared to some nights last week…. Still that’s what makes it what it is.
HH
ianbhoy929
09:48 on
6 January, 2013
Morning CQNers from a dull but mild East Devon, this new I phone 5 is the dogs bol##clks.
Hail hail
My upgrades due next week and was looking at the iPhone 5. Think ill wait another couple of months for the galaxy s4 due to be announced soon. Wonder what they’ll call the next one :-)
HH
Robin Van Persie scored a pretty fine equaliser yesterday. Great control – I think he has been watching Gary Hooper.
Not sure who Neil Alexander has been watching. We’ve all talked about goalkeepers throwing the ball into the net, but that’s the first time I’ve ever seen it done for real.
Just woke up and the house is a bombsite, a mini BEE’s birthday yesterday. Nor been on CQN since Friday and are the new huns? ex huns? Zombies, whatever they are called now guilty of match fixing?
A lovely bright and dry morning in old EK today. Which is nice.
Can I nominate that new club’s goalkeeper for the awards tomorrow, the Baloon de Orcs I think it is called.
Was out at the rugby yesterday …..catching up on the football
Yet another red card for the zombies opposition ….this must be getting embarrassing even fo them …who was the MIB ?
As for Alexander ……comedy gold
Playing 45 mins against a ten man team of part timers….jeez they must be pants
Morning Celts, that’s 7 days off the bevy for me, put on about a stone in weight as I fill my mouth with comfort food :>(
I’m not reading back on the nightshift cheers for the heads up Jinky.
V
Have the zombezies set another world record of playing against 10 men every week yet?
Bobbyrussell
In all seriousness you’ll not be far wrong with that suggestion
I’m not sure of the stats but its becoming a weekly occurrence
gourockemeraldbhoy
10:04 on 6 January, 2013
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Upgraded from iPhone 3 to iPhone 5 in Dec, bigger screen but not much else to write home about tbh, I’m paying the same monthly and it cost only a few quid as a one off payment if you send your old phone back. The galaxy will be as good if you can get a good deal.
V
Good morning from foggy Manchester.
Anyone heard of this guy???
The Celtic boss is pondering a January move for Nigerian defender Juwon Oshinawa. (Scottish Sun0
Watching SSN …just saw the Elgin sending off …scarcely a booking
The MIB will have difficulty squaring the decision re the Stevenson tackle in the Hearts game …no booking …with a straight red yesterday ..for what appears to be a less serious tackle
PFayr
The ref was a J.Beaton
Having just seen the tackle and Black’s play acting, he is obviously a name to watch out for in future
vmhan
10:31 on
6 January, 2013
Morning Celts, that’s 7 days off the bevy for me, put on about a stone in weight as I fill my mouth with comfort food :>(
Well done I am one day behind you on the giving up the booze. You keep eating like that you may have to join the Fat Bhoys slim Club.
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Lunny has until 3pm tomorrow to cite Stevenson for his horror tackle the other night
I hear Gary Hooper is more than happy to stay at Celtic Park.
In fact it’s what his preferred option is, but his agent is dropping stories of interest from England in an effort to secure a bigger wage.