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.
Have you ordered your CQN Annual yet? Get it here!
You can read the latest edition of CQN Magazine free online by clicking on the double headed arrow at the bottom right of the graphic below.
[calameo code=000390171cc0c3617c8cc lang=en page=22 hidelinks=1 width=100% height=500]
823 Comments- Pages:
- «
- 1
- ...
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10
- 11
- 12
- ...
- 22
- »
ELGIN GOAL
HAHAHAHAAHHAAHAH
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
GIRUY
SEVCOZOMBIEHUNS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9pS8w8H09U
I imagine that scoundrel pl arranged the winter break to allow him and nfl to use up the inclusive minutes on their phones to call all and sundry and hawk all our players
Btw … whos Rangers ?
*the king vic 67*
19:46 on
5 January, 2013
http://t.co/ou90iFDM
Link to Alexander’s own goal (apologies if already posted)
What a howler!
Hail Hail!
Mama, take this zombie badge off of me
I can’t use it anymore.
It’s gettin’ dark, too dark to see
I feel I’m knockin’ on a zombie’s door.
Knock, knock, knockin’ on a zombie’s door
Knock, knock, knockin’ on a zombie’s door
Knock, knock, knockin’ on a zombie’s door
Knock, knock, knockin’ on a zombie’s door
Mama, put our tainted trophies in the ground
We can’t claim them anymore.
That long black cloud is comin’ down
I feel I’m knockin’ on a zombie’s door.
Knock, knock, knockin’ on a zombie’s door
Knock, knock, knockin’ on a zombie’s door
Knock, knock, knockin’ on a zombie’s door
Knock, knock, knockin’ on a zombie’s door
I’ve always found it a bit cruel when a goalie is noted as having scored an OG….
But in this case:
Bwahahahahahahahahahaha!
*the king vic 67*
19:46 on
5 January, 2013
I guess Alexander needed to pay for Christmas and had a wee wager on a draw……
LET’S ALL LAUGH AT SEVCO,LET’S ALL LAUGH AT SEVCO
HA HA HA HA,HA HA HA HA!!
:)
Sheik Yerbouti
You need to watch the video attached@madness at tonys,fekn brill.
Best piece of goalkeeping I’ve seen in a long time. Alexander for Scotland!
voguepunter
19:58 on
5 January, 2013
Sheik Yerbouti
You need to watch the video attached@madness at tonys,fekn brill.
——————————————————-
WHERE WHERE SEND A LINK
Just messaged that Alexander link to my son who is downstairs. I could tell by the howls of laughter that he had just watched it. Comedy gold.
The jibe from Rangers fans, whenever we shine light on their previous misdemeanours, is “youz are obsessed wi’ us”
The same jibe was used by Graham Spiers in his review of 2012.
Now, we have, supposedly, one of our own, whose first 2 posts have been identical making the same jibe.
It suits Rangers to have the searchlight turned off. They are trying to escape what is coming to them and it helps them to do that in the darkness where no one can see you shake hands.
So Al Johnston and Charlie Green cast doubt on the impartiality of Lord Nimmo Smith.
Ally demands to know names, just in case like, you were maybe thinking of punishing us. Some of our boys might not be too happy with that and we know where you live and work.
And their fans in the press and on TV print the lies:-
Rangers were proved innocent
EBTs were proved to be legal
The EBTs were fully declared in the accounts
There were no dual contracts just inconsequential side letters.
Celtic had one too.
David Longmuir should run the game because we need one of our own to give us a free pass.
They have been punished enough and talk of stripping titles is a nonsense and vindictive (except if it is Marseille we are talking about).
The Scottish game needs a strong Rangers so you better let us off.
And it seems some of our own are in sympathy with that view.
hmmmm! Guess what I smell?
Alexander had waited patiently with the oldco ….. The zombies laud him as a legend while mcshagger jumped from the sinking ship.
That was one of the funniest goalkeeping own goals ever… They really are good entertainment value and worthy of the extensive tv coverage
Harkins brothers getting sevconians all wound up!!!
Paul Harkins @PaulHarkins88
Hope Ian black made it to hospital ok after the game today…
And his brother, the Killie player.
Gary Harkins @garyharkins1985
Seen some shocking referees in my time but this joker at Ibrox takes the biscuit!! Not sure black has stopped rolling around though! #fanny
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOX-pXTRsWA&feature=endscreen&NR=1
TRY THIS,typical Wishy
Counting zombies on the wall,that don’t bother me at all…
Now that own goal DID make me laugh out loud!
Laird of the smiles
Do you keep your son in the cellar :)
Sheik Yerbouti
Sorry mate ,last post was for you .
voguepunter
20:06 on
5 January, 2013
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOX-pXTRsWA&feature=endscreen&NR=1
TRY THIS,typical Wishy
———————————————–
AAHHAHAHAHAHAH
MAGIC
Alexander. I think he was doing the zombie arms out thing when the ball came to him and like all good revenants he could only flail them about and usher it into the net.
Pure kwality man know!
At least Bruce Grobbelaar didn’t try to make it obvious that he had a deal with the Southeast Asians ;-)
voguepunter
20:06 on
5 January, 2013
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOX-pXTRsWA&feature=endscreen&NR=1
TRY THIS,typical Wishy
fruit loop,
so descriptive,
the boy jinky
20:07 on 5 January, 2013
Laird of the smiles
Do you keep your son in the cellar :)
————————————————————————————-
Aye, well I do live in Germany, which of course has close links to Austria ;-)
Just checked paulharkins88 tweet…. Its got a real quality picture if ian black ( Housepainter and decorator) attached
Thinking the zombie flesh eaters will hunt him down
them harkins bhoys.
port/greenock crosses. thats whit happens
Laird of the smiles
Seen some pretty cool cellars around bavaria …. Has he got beer on draught down there ;).
I picked this idea up from a Huddleboard poster.
New lyrics for Jabba
“Start spreading the spin
I am leaving the Record
I want to be a part of them
New Orcs, New Orcs
These brown broguey shoes
They are longing to stray
Right through the very heart of it
New Orcs, New Orcs
I want to wake up in that city
That lets you cheat
And find We’re kings of the hill
Top of the heap
My lbrox Park blues
Nearly melted away
they made a brand new start of it
As a Zombie
If I can make it up
I’ll make up anything
To help the Blue
New Orcs, New Orcs
New Orcs, New Orcs
I want to wake up in that city
where fenians lose
And find I’m king of the hill
Top of the list
Head of the heap
First on the Goat
These Ibrox Park blues
Don’t do walking away
They’ll make a brand new start of it
With Chuckles Green
And you bet baby
If I can make it up
You know, I’m gonna make up just about anything
Hello, Hello,
New Orcs, New Orcs, New Orcs
Good evening CHAMPIONS
sftb. Brilliant.
Weefra HH
Neil Alexander…..shoved by the unseen Fenian hand!
The more I watch the OG – the more I expect the referee to blow his whistle and just plain over rule the rules.
The spasm legacy
The twitch ultimatum
The muscle memory memorandum
2 points for the link…
u
Rip television, itv splash
jjjbt
we go from trying to discern the best of television to seeking Saturday solace in ‘less shit’ television.
Splash – the pitch must have taken seconds – lympics, 6 pack, jumpin’ inna watter…
God save us…
u
Utter excrement
SFTB
Great post.
…..Lets keep that mob under scrutiny.
HH.
the boy jinky
20:17 on
5 January, 2013
Laird of the smiles
Seen some pretty cool cellars around bavaria …. Has he got beer on draught down there ;).
—————————————————————————
No, but I have! I hate to say this but I am an avid beer drinker, Oktoberfest every year, and he hates beer :-(
I ask you the youth of today? BTW he’s just found his way upstairs to empty my wallet so he can go out tonight.
As I’m still obsessed by the cheating undertaken by the regulators of the league my team plays in- can anyone tell me if there is another league in the world where the governing body select referees specifically for one team in their league?
By the bye, did I miss it or has Green not demanded an apology from our Club about our saying in effect that thon team fae Govan are deid, deid, deid? Has he tacitly accepted that wee incontrovertible fact? Hmmmmmm.