Celtic were looking for a right back throughout the second half of last term, but in the early weeks of his tenure, Brendan considered Mikael Lustig and Saidy Janko sufficient for the season ahead. Mikael is four years into a successful Celtic career but his fitness issues are of a persistent nature. We’ve reached Peak Swede.
Saidy missed lot of last season, also through injury, but he showed potential in his early outing this term. Aspirations for the lad crystallised in Israel last week, but not in a good way. I’m not going to defend him, because he was unquestionably poor, but agreement only exists on his poor showing because he was prepared to receive the ball so often. Not everyone in black that night was as keen to get on the end of a pass.
That opened the door for Cristian Gamboa, 26, second choice right back for West Brom. We’re very keen, apparently. West Brom manager, Tony Pulis, is less in need of a full back whose key attribute is getting forward at speed. Horses for course, I suppose, West Brom face different challenges than Celtic.
Two rumours have circulated this week: Celtic are looking for a midfield player and James McCarthy’s position at Everton is less secure than it was a year ago. Whoever has been linking these two facts has overreached – or made them up. Celtic have no idea where this one came from but were clear, there’s nothing in it. Getting the right midfielder remains a task in hand, but usual caveats apply. There are no guarantees we’ll land all our targets this summer.
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Hello this is WEE BGFC. The cadillac three: im southern https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ftQBO8DVPog
HH
WEE BGFC
PCS
Thanks mate,
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Assets certainly being worked to the max.
Squad being shaken to generate cash.
Interesting to see where this ends up?
Hopefully more will follow out the door.
Don’t post much….so if you don’t read this,no offence taken.
I know David Marshall fairly well and his family.great lad and fine family.
Glad for him that he has a move…I think he has been underated for to long!
Think he was left to hang out and dry when wearing the hoops…was a young lad and needed a rest.should have been better managed
MADMITCH
Emptying the piggy bank and selling some assets to fund one big, record transfer, signing?
Perhaps they want more than a loan deal for the Castlemilk bhoy!!
£3 million from Jozo sale will pay Jack Wilshire’s wages…
Weeminger ….
Not wanting a debate on Ockhamism… nor, I am sure, does anyone else on the blog…
for me, it is pretty simple…. our club had a duty to the fans and shareholders to, at a minimum, to state that they are a new club. I think there are legal and business reasons for doing so, but, more importantly, there are reasons of ethics and principle for doing so.
Like you, I dont believe Celtic will ever do that, and in fact, we now have Celtic referring to the new club as the old club….
the question is why Celtic seems prepared to go along with the lie.
If the reason is as I suspect – it is all about the money – then, in my opinion, the fans and the Club deserve better people running our club ….
Gene Wilder
Gene Wilder made it impossible not to laugh. Sometimes it’s as simple as that — a gift that keeps on giving. So even as we mourn Wilder’s death at 83 from complications of Alzheimer’s disease, we remember that talent he had for reducing us to helpless giggles.
From ‘Willy Wonka’ to ‘Blazing Saddles’ Waco Kid, we remember the beloved actor’s best work
How did he do it, this bullied Jewish kid, Jerome Silberman, from Milwaukee, the son of a Russian immigrant father and a mother who thought military school was a good idea for her sensitive son? In the army, he served as an aide in a psychiatric unit, putting him in close contact with the madness he would later turn into comic gold.
No one did hysteria like Wilder. It started slowly then built to a crescendo of raw terror. Even in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, an iconic performance that grows in nuance the more you see it, Wilder gave us a Candy Man with a barely concealed contempt for the selfish brats he invited to his factory. You simply do not forget the delicious impurity of his smile when the gluttonous Augustus Gloop nearly drowns in a river of chocolate and his mother demands that Wonka, do something. “Help. Police. Murder.” — he says the words in a delicious, deadpan whisper. It’s the essence of Dahl and pure Wilder, a comic wizard who brings the joke so close to reality he actually scares you.
Wilder gravitated first to drama, studying at the Actors Studio and longing to create something real. Then he met Mel Brooks. In 1963, Wilder was playing the chaplain on Broadway in Mother Courage and Her Children, starring Brooks’ soon-to-be wife Anne Bancroft. She introduced them and something clicked. Brooks thought Wilder would be perfect to play the mousy, nervous and fearful accountant who was given to panic attacks he can only subdue by chewing on a childhood security blanket. When Max mocks him, Leo screams the words “fat, fat, fatty.” And in that moment a star is born. His slow build to frenzy is priceless.
Wilder would work with Brooks again in the 1974 smash Blazing Saddles, playing a whisky-addled, shaky-handed gunfighter (a riff on Dean Martin’s alcoholic cowpoke in Rio Bravo), but their peak as collaborators would happen that same year in Young Frankenstein, in which Wilder played the grandson of the original creator of the mad monster. To hear Wilder scream, “It’s alive! It’s alive!” is one of the unalloyed joys of movie comedy. Both Brooks and Wilder would work separately after that, but never with the same impact. The actor brought discipline to the filmmaker’s unleashed bravado. It’s one of the reasons their work together still resonates strongly today.
Wilder had hits with Woody Allen (Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex but Were Afraid to Ask) and especially with Richard Pryor (Silver Streak, Stir Crazy and See No Evil, Hear No Evil), but it’s Wilder’s teamwork with Brooks that will stand the test of time. Many of his fans feel frustrated that this trained actor never grabbed the dramatic role that would have taken his career to another level, as it did with Bill Murray, Eddie Murphy, Jim Carrey and Robin Williams. But what never waned in Wilder was his generosity of spirit. When his third wife, Gilda Radner, died of ovarian cancer in 1989, he helped found Gilda’s Club, a network of support centers for women with cancer. There was something in Wilder that translated from real life to the screen and vice versa. Radner said it best: “With Gene, my life went from black-and-white white to Technicolor.”
Thanks to the Wilder performances that will live on after him, we all know the feeling.
@rollingstone
Paul 67 are you managing expectations again?
Simunovic brings the outs to about 8 million with spend about 6.
Great that we have reached the promised land but again we reach d day before any of our plans crystallise. There are hundreds of potentially suitable midfielders now that we have dropped the age criteria constraint yet we seem to be going down the list of targets.
I expect a plus 90 million turnover. There’s no point in arriving at the party under dressed with no chat up lines. You just come away with the ugly guy getting the prize having learned nothing but what ridicule feels like.
Catman or LennyBhoy,
What is the latest? Who are we working on getting in?
HH,
CaliBhoy
Good to see a seasoned RB who can do the basics first – defend!
Lightening quick and hoping a role model for the young team in development squad.
Great to see such diverse lists of novels: I need to devote more time reading ‘the novel’ and going to create my own wee list from the excellent suggestions above. Great topic!!
Here are 10 books to keep you out of mischief…
1. Yeats, The Man & The Masks – Richard Ellmann
2. The Happy Prince & Other Tales – Oscar Wilde
3. The Rise & Fall of the Third Reich -W.L. Shirer
4. Ulysses – James Joyce
5. The Pedestrian – Ray Bradbury
6. In Time of War: Ireland, Ulster & the Price of Neutrality – Robert Fisk
7 Absolute Truth – Edward Stourton
8. The Story of the Celtic – W. Maley
9. The Confident Hope of a Miracle – Neil Hanson
10. Slaying the Badger: Le Mond, Hinault & Greatest Ever Tour- Richard Moore
SpecsaversCSC
Guys a mad Tim ffs, a knew that.
http://www.celticfc.net/news/11192
SFA citations are a joke. No mention of pyro, sectarian singing, fan violence.
Another affront to the rest of Scottish football.
Damage done to the pitch, goal posts, advertising hoardings are the focus of the charges.
Am I missing something?
It’s absolutely rotten.
In from work,switched on SSN to see what’s happening,
that Natalie Sawyer is worth a 2 hour penance.
Away for a read back.
mit
did the other clubs come out and stated that they were a new club.
If DD was really peeved with the SEVCO boards behaviour in the Cup SF, then maybe he will pull out the stops for a marquee signing with BRs approval in time for the 10th.
You just stick to blogging James, if Brendan needs you he will give you a call :) but when he becomes a blogger then get into him.
http://thecelticblog.com/2016/08/blogs/with-the-simunovic-money-celtic-has-the-cash-to-bring-in-a-big-name/
Big Georges Fan Club – Hail, Hail, Wee Oscar on 30th August 2016 5:23 pm
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Quality stuff, wee man. Good heads-up.
Proper authentic Southern Rock – could easy see them in the 70s sharing a stage with Skynnrd or the Outlaws.
Enjoying the youtube mix.
Big George’s fan club – not often blackberry smoke get a mention. Great band. You checked out their acoustic stuff on YouTube? Great musicians, singers and writers. If they’d been about in the 70’s they’d have been huge.
Sandman – great minds and all that!!!
MULLET AND CO 2 on 30TH AUGUST 2016 5:33 PM
Paul 67 has a hotline to our board (CQN announced BR before MSM)
Sometimes he gets a bit of direction from the hotline either in the form of news or to manage expectations
Today Paul 67 put to bed the McCarthy link – I read he will not sign for Celtic in this window
Paul 67 did not say that our business was done in this window
The point of today’s notice is forget McCarthy – shame but I get it (and thanks Paul67 for the update)
Then again !!!!!!!
67ECW
MULLET AND CO 2
I expect a plus 90 million turnover. There’s no point in arriving at the party under dressed with no chat up lines. You just come away with the ugly guy getting the prize having learned nothing but what ridicule feels like.
If we do not address the weak central area of our midfield you will be prophetic.
The team should be a priority.
With such a huge increase in income it will be unfathomable that weaknesses on the field are not addressed.
We will know tomorrow what our board has as a priority?
If it’s purely profit then our future is negatively impacted.
I was absolutely slated on here around this time last last year when I pointed out my concerns about Simunovics being a potential crock.
Not one of them have the decency to come back on and say that my concerns were at least justified.
TT ( Bitter CSC) (:-)
kirsty at the transfer centre.
sore eyes
TT
I remember you shouting over at me when he was playing last year, I was expecting your post ☘
https://youtu.be/88lEWTEk3jg
Can I join the blackberry smoke party?
FAN-A-TIC on 30TH AUGUST 2016 5:47 PM
You sound like a man that when you get paid on a Friday you are hell bent on spending the lot before Saturday !!!!
We are into a 3 possibly 5 year term with BR – we cannot get anything and everything we want immediately
Patience my friend – so far so good – rejoice
67ECW
Let’s not get too excited. Jozo hasn’t passed the medical yet.
Phil ripping the pesh oot it
http://www.philmacgiollabhain.ie/sevco-showing-how-they-do-transfer-business/
BT
(:-)
TT
Big George s fan
Blackberry smoke
Awesome band discovered them at
Download 2015 was going to see godsmack on the 2nd stage
Walked by the main stage they started And me n the wife stopped watched the whole Done a killer version of led zeppelin babe I’m gonna leave u
Remind me of the black crowes
What happened to Soar?
Off the radar.
Griff and Kieran pull out of the Scotland squad (McArthur and Kevin McDonald too).
Lee Wallace and Tony Watt added.
I think this is going to cause all sorts of meltdown.
Auld Tam
There in lies the problem.
We should cut our losses if the opportunity arises.
TT
67 European Cup Wnners@5-51
WHY?
I have never suggested spending all our money.
the central midfield area is a problem that won’t fix itself.
With a huge increase in revenue it’s inexcusable if we do not attempt to address.
In all European away games we struggled in this area.
Not asking a spend beyond our budget.
The footballing landscape is changing and if we want to be part of it we have to be a modern competitive team not just European cannon fodder .
A small net spend is surely not to much to ask
Im not sure about the Brazilian Celtic are rumoured to be trying to sign from Juventus we have had no real joy from any of the Brazilians we have signed before.The dark winter days and freezing cold weather does not appear to agree with them if we sign the player I hope we have better luck this time. H.H.
have to say , I’m happy with the transfer window but would be over the moon at the purchase of quality to sit in front of the CB
My books
1 Ulysses JJ
2 Finnegans Wake JJ
3 Swann’s way Marcel Proust
4 Light in August William Faulkner
5 Blood meridian Cormac McCarthy
6 Jerusalem Bible dunno all the authors
7 Brighton Rock Graham Greene
8 Ethan Frome Edith Wharton
9 The House of Spirits Isabel Allende
10 A long long way Sebastian barry