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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LOLocaust at Mordor!
Wonder if big Eck has paid back his EBT loan money yet?
stevebhoy
16:55 on
5 January, 2013
He’ll settle for £1……. After all that’s the value of a Scottish club which recently died…
I almost deleted / stopped following this one, but….until I saw this it hadn’t even occured to me that they’d be playing
Celtic Are A Newco @CelticAreANewco
McCoist out! 10 ****ing part timers!!!!!!
Celtic Are A Newco @CelticAreANewco
Chance of a record D3 points total now mathematically beyond us. Simply not good enough. We are Rangers. These teams are dire! Shocking.
setting free the bears @ 17.01
It’s 79 caps, not 78! Don’t disrespect Lubo ;)
The Spirit of Arthur Lee
feels like that!
lol
KLV
79Caps
Wiki says he had 80 caps, 42 for Czechoslvakia and 38 for Slovakia
So Sevco can no longer achieve the “world record” for points for a Scottish Division 3 title- would this have been added to the world records for the number of referees hand picked for their games- or for the number of arrests of supporters of a club in its first year of existence?
HH
The god of karma reappears at last..
Following god karma on feb 14 th, and various other dates last yr, I was feeling short changed this yr.
What with Sevco pr in overdrive, dodgy results and singing In every game but esp QP, unpunished tackles , shocking paper articles, take your pick.. And of course Chucklesmedia..
Unchallenged, unfounded but given air time..
And finally The Heralds shameful “settling old score” Hugh Adam obituary.. Today.
Karma just had to get involved ..
Magic…
Roll up , roll up … Suckles and Chally at the helm of titanic 2..
HH
Anyone got a link to the Elgin goal …… Will add to my Saturday night delight
on loving cup day as well
her maj will be fuming
Bouncy bouncy
Bouncy bouncy
Ha ha ha
Is the ManU game on the telly….?
We ate not defined by Sevco but we can have a laugh.
Zombie Apocalypse!
Zombie LOLocaust at Mordor!
I meant to say.
Watching the poor man’s dart’s
World Championship
dreadful.
Lordluvrocket……..many thanks for that statistic. It makes a Gretnabhoy like me very proud
Meant to add- world record for number of opposition players red carded early- they really do hold a number of these world records
67heaven … i am neil lennon..!!.. ibroxbelon gs to the creditors
17:13 on5 January, 2013
ITV England – 853 on virgin media
Don’t know the number for sky
Valentine’s Day
Aye one of the players couldn’t hit a double with a handfull of rice
In One
HH
ok, you ve forced me.. I ll listen to SSB and Shortie tonight…
Champions League(last 16) we are having a laugh
….what is it wi’ the….tha’ ranjurs………???
There seems to be an awful lot of opposing players being… erm….err….. red ‘white and blue’ carded when the chips are down.
Hmmmmmmmmmm.
No problem Gretnabhoy :)
Read the live commentary extract below, seems like quite a few minutes just proir to halftime where ref must have had a call in the earpiece to get a grip.
40 minRED CARD! HARKINS (ELGIN)
41 minThat’s harsh on the visitors. Paul Harkins is shown a straight red card for his challenge on David Templeton. It was certainly a reckless tackle from behind, but surely a yellow would have sufficed? Anyway, Elgin are down to 10 men and have it all to do.
42 minYELLOW CARD: Play has continued for a good couple of minutes since tat sending off, but Mark Nicolson goes into the book for dissent.
44 minYELLOW CARD: The cards are coming thick and fast now as Emílson Cribari is shown a yellow for a poor challenge.
45 minHALF TIME: RANGERS 1-0 ELGIN
3.53pmThe referee blows the half-time whistle and Rangers lead Elgin City 1-0 at Ibrox thanks to Lewis Macleod’s ninth-minute strike. Elgin players surround the referee as he walks off the pitch as they remonstrate with him over Paul Harkins’s red card towards the end of the half.
setting free the bears @ 17.07
Oh no! I don’t want to change my blog name.
Jeff Stelling ‘You were looking forward to seeing the Pope(Port Vale player)
Charlie Nicholas ‘I was looking forward to seeing the Pope, I always am’
charles kickham
17:19 on
5 January, 2013
Thanks M8 ….. Got it on Sky 973
1-1 at home against ten part-timers!!!
What’s not to like!
rit of Arthur Lee
17:20 on
5 January, 2013
Valentine’s Day
Aye one of the players couldn’t hit a double with a handfull of rice
In One
couldn’t hit a double with a hedgehog.
Good to see that boy McCoist finally found his level
Burghbhoy
16:54 on 5 January, 2013
Crescendo if boos by the Sevconians at the end!!!
Why are they complaining ? They got in for hee haw!!!!
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It was a tenner to get out……..
Paddy off to America…?
Funny, but very few South Americans settle well in the UK, especially Scotland. Take Raphael Scheit as an example. The guy was as much use as a one legged man at an arse kicking contest, but IMO he was a class act. Saw him in a friendly at Celtic Park and he was a stand out. Pelters expected!!!
Does anybody out there think we could get Drogba!!???
Just a thought!
KINGLuBO
Didn’t know Sevco were playing. Ah well, a wee laugh for RobertTressell this evening. Ha ha.
Possibility of 2 SPLs being muted now..?
Cleverley taken goal
Man u 1 up
From FF…
A view you will not hear reflected in the MSM…
“Some go on about how marvelous the journey is or will be. I am not enjoying it, it has been a nightmare season with awful performance after awful performance. Any criticism of this leads to accusations of you not liking McCoist (probably the best liked Ranger of all time).
This season was going to be about avoiding humiliation and getting out of the Division as soon as we can. We are not avoiding humiliation but we will of course get promoted. We should demand more than simply seeing our team, with a resources millions of times better than any of our rivals, get promoted.”