Sky have reported that Celtic have accepted a £5m bid from QPR for Gary Hooper. Gary is in the final year of his contract and has declined to sign a new deal which has been no offer for almost a year now.
It will surprise some, perhaps including the player, that an English Premier League club have not made a move, but QPR have the cash to compete with most in the top flight, so the financial rewards for the player will be comparable.
For Celtic the proposition is simple, if the player is not going to extend his stay beyond this season, and an offer matching valuation is received, it is better they know where they stand as early in the transfer window as possible. We’ll know soon enough if the player wants to move. As we said about Victor, it’s always hard to lose a good one, but I’ve yet to meet someone who would walk away from a deal north of £50k per week, so fair play to Gary, whatever he decides.
Neil Lennon had never hid his admiration for the player but the Celtic strategy is clear enough. If Gary decides to move it’s all about finding the right replacement, they days of slavishly watching players run down their contracts are over.
Have you done your thing for 1254125 yet? The supporters group working with Celtic Charity proposed we get as many as possible signed up to running a 10k, hoping each person can raise £125. We’ve teamed up with The Great Scottish Run on Sunday 6 October and extended the scope a bit, to include those who don’t quite have the legs for 10k.
On Saturday 5 October, The Great Scottish Run also organise supporting events you can enter and raise your £125:
100m Toddler Dask (0-5 yrs)
1.5k Mini Run (5-8 yrs)
2.5k Junior Run (9-15 yrs)
Family Mile (Adults and children from 3 yrs)
If you are particularly fit, you can enter the Half Marathon on the Sunday. It is going to be a great family weekend. If you know a kid who is keen to participate and get involved in 1254125, let them know.
If the legs won’t support you for 10k, you can gingerly make your way along the Family Mile.
To sign up you need to register with The Great Scottish Run first. Register here if you are participating in the 10k or Half Marathon, and here if you are participating in the Saturday events, then register here with Celtic Charity (scroll down the page until you see Great Scottish Run).
Just over 10 weeks to go, get your application in and get every Celtic fan you know with a pair of trainers to sign up. I’m doing the 10k, so will be out running tonight…….
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Margaret Mcgill
Turn it off. Away back and clean yer bidders busses. Now, that was meant to be an insult. Probably remind you that have to shift yer butt and get the mops oot. If the boot fits??? I rest my case. Night night. Don’t bother responding, the battery on the ole iPad is just about oot.
Weefra HH
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So The SPL is Now..SP..Yea that’ll work..
The Bookies will Like it..;-)
Summa
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Just Googled..SPFL..
St. Paul’s Fellowship of Labor: SPFL is a nonrprofit organization …
To help the Convent complete projects that helped improve their beeswax candle shop and provide more trails for walking and talking.
and..
Suburban Parochial Football League. SPFL.
The Suburban Parochial Football League is a youth football program for Catholic Gradeschools in the Western Suburbs.
That will be the Ole SPFL on the FF Banned list..
Summa of SPFLGIRUYCSC
The old football thing is exactly like a soap opera.
The more you dip into it the more obsessed you get.
So when I saw, (for example) Joe Ledley, I thought, good big athlete, free, no brainer.
But I didn’t think much else.
I used to be excited by football, by players cleverer than my expectations.
Then Pat McCourt rolled up, a true artist.
And I loved that, that I could be thrilled again by a talent I could only dream of.
Wee James has some of it.
The big keeper too perhaps.
But the Rogic fella…
He has me excited all over again.
Nearer 58 than 57 and supported Celtic all my life, I’ve seen them come and seen them go.
Hooper can score goals of that there is no doubt but if he chooses to leave Paradise then Good Luck son your choice.
I realise the value for money his transfer will mean but to be honest that’s not my concern.
I think the sooner we all realise that nobody at Celtic Park is there for the jersey anymore is the day we move into the 21 century. They don’t have same feeling or passion as we all have.
I’ve often said that If I were lucky enough to win the Halftime Windfall draw I’d take my shoes and socks off before stepping on the hallowed turf just so I could feel the grass beneath my feet. That’s what it would mean to me.
Good luck Gary and thank yourself for the memories, they’ll never feel as good.
Summa Of Sammi….
As you may not be aware, The Initials S, P, F & L were banned in Scottish Football in 2014 when Celtic FC PLC won a court case to rename all Scottish Domestic Football Competitions as ‘Competions Excluding Loyalist Timhaters Including Charlie’
The CELTIC league’s still operate to this plasmaball traverse
Praise the Lawell!
To Infinity & Backwards
rotit j
Lullabies
Used to be Scots and Irish in a Celtic jersey, now there are few.
Genetically we are the same as Johnstone, Best, and Baxter.
Behaviorly, we are different.
I am often back in Whitecrook, where I grew up.
This used to be a dangerous place, with gangs roaming and frequent murders.
Twice I passed guys in the street carrying shotguns.
I said hello.
Now there is nobody on the street.
None playing football or anything else other than a playstation.
Computers have solved our gang problem, killed our football teams, and fixed the old crime stats.
Comatose neds playing Call Of Duty, or Elbows McCulloch on the streets?
Not sure what I want.
@greenpinata and sandman and weefra: great posts
Someone said earlier that even with Hooper we’d never have beaten Juve: hindsight is a false wisdom. At the time I thought he gave us a better chance, but then his slack pass just inside our half led to a goal. And Efe was – not as good as he should’ve been ;-). All water under the bridge but at the time I was (I think not unreasonably) optimistic that we could pull off an upset. It wasn’t to be and Lenny and the team will hopefully have learned from that.
If Hooper is for the off there is almost 0.01% chance that we will get someone in and INTEGRATED INTO THE TEAM before the CL qualifier, so I think Lenny believes the current squad should see us through. And that’s good enough for me.
BUT it is a sport, and part of the “fun” is that unfancied opposition can sometimes overcome more illustrious opponents (c.f. Celtic 2 – 1 Barcelona). If Elfsborg win I don’t think we can draw direct correlations between Wanyama or Hooper leaving, or failure to sign Saviola (or any other target) – football is more complicated than that. In Lenny I Trust. HH
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No more Complaining we have a Hard Route to Champions League Groups Stages..
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Pirlo Takes Aim at SFA on The Ranger’s Behalf.
Italian superstar Andrea Pirlo was asked recently what he thought of the Ex Scottish champions having to go through so many qualifiers to get to the Final of the wee Diddy Scottish Communities League Cup. The midfielder did not mince his words.
“It’s an insult The Rangers to have to enter the qualifiers this early on – It’s an insult to the One year history of the club and all they have achieved in Europe recently” lol
Alistair McCoist last week spoke of the disappointment of having to negotiate through these qualifiers 12 months after they competed in the last 16 of The Ramsden Cup.
McCoist said: ‘Am I baffled that a club that reached the Ramsden Cup last 16 has to play these qualifiers? Yes. I think it has to be looked at. I don’t think it’s fair considering the season we had and the amount of games we played.”
The seeding rules at present ensure a tougher route to the Scottish Communities Cup Final for any team that wins the Irn Bru Div3 which Pirlo again disagrees with –
“As champions they should not need to play other Wee Diddy Teams, it is not fitting for a club of their size.”
However with no plans for SFA to change the system any time soon, Oh Wait..!! The Rangers will have to get used to early starts to the season.
McCoist thinks the format is against Big Diddy teams..with The Coach (fearing) Burn Out.
Format
1. The Competition shall be contested by all Clubs of The Scottish Football League and The Scottish Premier League.
2. In the event that five clubs qualify for UEFA Club Competitions, those five clubs will be exempt from playing in the Competition until the Third Round. In any season where fewer than five Clubs qualify for UEFA competitions the number of exempt Clubs shall remain at five and the Clubs qualifying for the UEFA Club Competitions shall be augmented by the next highest placed Club or Clubs in The Scottish Premier League at the end of the preceding season.
3. For the First Round the thirty lowest placed clubs of The Scottish Football League and The Scottish Premier League at the end of the preceding season, which are not participating in the UEFA Club Competitions, will play a single tie on the ground of the first named club. This Round will be “seeded” and the “seeds” will be the fifteen highest placed clubs at the end of the preceding season. The fifteen winning clubs will qualify to play in the Second Round.
4. For the Second Round, the seven lowest placed clubs of The Scottish Premier League at the end of the preceding season will be inserted into a ballot with the winners from the First Round. This Round will be “seeded” and the “seeds” will be the eleven highest placed clubs at the end of the preceding season. Those clubs will play a single tie on the ground of the first named club. The eleven winning clubs will qualify to play in the Third Round.
5. For the Third Round, the five clubs, which are participating in the UEFA Club Competitions together with the eleven clubs qualifying from the Second Round, will then be inserted into a ballot. This Round will be “seeded” with the clubs occupying the eight highest positions at the end of the preceding season being “seeded”. These clubs will play a single tie on the ground of the first named club. The eight winning clubs will qualify to play in the Fourth Round.
6. In the event that six clubs qualify for UEFA Club Competitions, those six clubs will be exempt from playing in the Competition until the Third Round.
7. For the First Round the thirty-two lowest placed clubs of The Scottish Football League and The Scottish Premier League at the end of the preceding season, which are not participating in the UEFA Club Competitions, will play a single tie on the ground of the first named club. This Round will be “seeded” and the “seeds” will be the sixteen highest placed clubs at the end of the preceding season. The sixteen winning clubs will qualify to play in the Second Round.
8. For the Second Round, the four lowest placed clubs of The Scottish Premier League at the end of the preceding season will be inserted into a ballot with the winners from the First Round. This Round will be “seeded” and the “seeds” will be the ten highest placed clubs at the end of the preceding season. Those clubs will play a single tie on the ground of the first named club. The ten winning clubs will qualify to play in the Third Round.
9. For the Third Round, the six clubs, which are participating in the UEFA Club Competitions together with the ten clubs qualifying from the Second Round, will then be inserted into a ballot. This Round will be “seeded” with the clubs occupying the eight highest positions at the end of the preceding season being “seeded”. These clubs will play a single tie on the ground of the first named club. The eight winning clubs will qualify to play in the Fourth Round.
10. For the Fourth Round in either event, the eight winning Clubs will be inserted into an “unseeded” ballot. These Clubs will play a single tie on the ground of the first named Club. The four winning clubs will qualify for the Semi-Final Round.
11. For the Semi-Final Round, the four winning clubs will be inserted into an “unseeded” ballot and each Semi-Final Tie shall be a one match tie played on a date and venue decided by the Management Committee. The two winning Clubs will qualify for the Final Tie.
12. For the purposes of this Rule, in determining the highest placed Club, the Clubs in The Scottish Premier League shall be deemed to be higher than the Clubs in The Scottish Football League at the end of the preceding season.
13. In the First, Second, Third, Fourth and Semi-Final Rounds, if the scores are equal at the end of the ninety minutes, an extra thirty minutes will be played and, if still undecided, the winner shall be ascertained by taking kicks from the penalty mark as laid down by the International Board.
14. The Final Tie will be contested on a date and venue decided by the Management Committee.
15. In the event of the Final Tie resulting in a draw, an extra thirty minutes will be played and, thereafter, if necessary, the winner shall be ascertained by taking kicks from the penalty mark as laid down by the International Board.
16. If the Winner is banned for competing in UEFA Club Competitions. They will get a bye in The Ramsden Cup in the forthcoming season.
Summa of Route1690CSC
Rascar
Celtic will still be there long after I’m gone, maybe it’s me who should change.
I think I’m too old fashioned for the modern game,doesn’t mean I don’t care though.
If Hooper goes then he goes, seen it all before.
Don’t know who.? But somebody will take up his mantle and I’ll love him just the same.
Still would like to win the Windfall just to take those shoes and socks off and feel the hallowed turf.
Would die a happy man
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J Titor..
W..W..Wow..I was Just thinking of You about a Hour ago..
How have You been the Next few Years..:-)
Praise The Lawwell Indeed..
Don’t tell Ole SydneyTim tho..
Faith The Keep
ammuS
Ps..Bit Cold Down-Under so No Sausage Fly..
What the hell to we care
So if we get turfed out of CL and forgo about 30m because we gave sat on our ass and not used the big lump of cash sitting in our bank account , then that is ok
Corporate mismanagement that’s what that is
Summa of Sammi
The fly rides the sausage
is the best selling porno in the insect world
Watch the shelf on october 27th!
Praise the Lawell!
sannabhoy
22:55 on 24 July, 2013
Bhoys and Ghirls ,
Begging bowl time – not for money but an hour of your time .
We’re looking for volunteers to help with a Bucket Collection before the first league game of the season on Saturday 3rd august against Ross county .
As you know this is a 5:15 ko so it causes us (the fans) some issues but also gives us the chance to collect some well-needed funds to help us keep bringing kids along to Celtic Park.
So , if you’re interested AND can spare an hour or so pre-Match , can you drop me a line to contactus@thekanofoundation.com ?
Also, could someone do me a favour and re-post this every 4-6 hours or so if I don’t get to it myself ?
Hail Hail
Sanna
22:55 on 24 July, 2013
Bhoys and Ghirls ,
Begging bowl time – not for money but an hour of your time .
We’re looking for volunteers to help with a Bucket Collection before the first league game of the season on Saturday 3rd august against Ross county .
As you know this is a 5:15 ko so it causes us (the fans) some issues but also gives us the chance to collect some well-needed funds to help us keep bringing kids along to Celtic Park.
So , if you’re interested AND can spare an hour or so pre-Match , can you drop me a line to contactus@thekanofoundation.com ?
Also, could someone do me a favour and re-post this every 4-6 hours or so if I don’t get to it myself ?
Hail Hail
Sanna
Why are we selling our best players days before the most important games of the season
Why ??
We’ve sold our two best CL players from last season …brought no one in to replace them ….madness
We might muddle thro the CL qualification rounds …it’ll be down to good fortune and endeavour by Lenny and co
The money men will have covered their bases …twice
I really wonder why Lenny puts up with this unnecessary parsimony …
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….PFayr
06:34 on
25 July, 2013
We’ve sold our two best CL players from last season …brought no one in to replace them ….madness
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Now You know l am Going to Disagree with that Shirley..:-)
l Would even go as Far to say that Post was SydneyTimesque..
Summa of SammisDaMhanInDaChampionsLeagueCSC
PF
Most of us expected wanyama and hooper to leave this summer… thought it would be before the champions league qualifiers too
But I also expected it to be earlier than now and quality replacements signed up in time for pre season matches .
The strategy and timing of this has put this seasons success in jeaporady both on the park and in the accounts. Risky indeed
TBJ
My thoughts exactly
By all means maximise profits on the sale of players ….but don’t deplete the squad ..VW has been sold for weeks …no replacement …
A healthy bank acc is of no help to us against Elfsborg next week ..
Summa
It’s fact mate …our squad has been weakened before the biggest games of the season ….I can’t understand how this makes any sense
PF
Im not of the opinion that our board are stupid… plenty of solid business minds there.
And they have been around long enough to know the football business too.
Cant see why .. with the £30m champions league earnings … £20m season book income.. new deal with magners… new nike shirts selling very well.. AND player sales of over £17m….. they wouldn’t see player investment as crucial to repeat the results on and off the park again !!!!
TBJ
I’m agreeing with you too much :-))
Off to work….have a good day pal
HH
TBJ
When PF comes back can you ask him to explain how he knows about Lenny and the parsimony, I’ve read loads about Lenny and never heard anyone say he was vegetarian.
I expect to read of 3 new signings later, two World Cup winners and a champions league errr champion.
125 Years and Counting.
Off to the pool.
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PF..
I would blame Hooper far more than l would Lenny or Celtic..He should have 100% told Lenny he was Leaving and took His best offer..
Or What Sammi did to come to Celtic..take a Pay cut..
He sat waiting for a Bigger club that QPR..(cough)..He was sending out signals that he Might stay at the start of the Week..
l said 2 Months ago..that both he and Vic could have had a Gentlemen’s agreement to stay and get us in CL Groups stages and put themselves in the Shop Window..Both could have went to bigger clubs for Bigger fees..
Summa
Some of the criticism of PL is way over the top.
We have a sensible strategy: buy young, talented players and look to move them on at a profit. We should have been doing this years ago.
The problem is the calendar of European football works against us. Alone amongst last year’s CL clubs we are being forced to play critical games when everyone else is still on the beach. Sure, we’d like to sign players by the end of June, and move others on so we are ready for these July matches… but everyone else is still on holiday.
Despite that we have signed 2 (hopefully) good players – Balde and Van Djck.
I think sometimes people have a completely unrealistic appreciation of how UEFA’s structures work against us.
sannabhoy
22:55 on 24 July, 2013
Bhoys and Ghirls ,
Begging bowl time – not for money but an hour of your time .
We’re looking for volunteers to help with a Bucket Collection before the first league game of the season on Saturday 3rd august against Ross county .
As you know this is a 5:15 ko so it causes us (the fans) some issues but also gives us the chance to collect some well-needed funds to help us keep bringing kids along to Celtic Park.
So , if you’re interested AND can spare an hour or so pre-Match , can you drop me a line to contactus@thekanofoundation.com ?
Also, could someone do me a favour and re-post this every 4-6 hours or so if I don’t get to it myself ?
Hail Hail
Sanna
Good morning CQNers,
It beggars belief that some would believe Gary Hooper’s departure isn’t part of a planned strategy, if we hadn’t qualified for the last 16 he’d have gone in the last January window.
I’m looking forward to welcoming our new striker some time today.
I blame PL! Both Vic and Hoops begged to stay and rumour has it they were not interested in money. Imagine not being able to go to likes of Inverness at Christmas time. PL just wanted to get a big bonus!!!!
I’ve just seen the new SPFL logo, how long did it take for the marketing men to find the appropriate image that is backward looking and sticking its tongue out?
Is somebody having a laugh?
600?
Victor Wanyama declined to sign an improved contract, ditto, Gary Hooper. No doubt Celtic have a salary structure of some sort and were not prepared to put it aside to accommodate the monetary demands of those two players, if indeed money was their primary motivator.
Maybe both players just wanted to move on, it happens; maybe both players just were not happy in Glasgow, it happens; maybe both players just didn’t believe that Celtic could match their professional ambitions.
Players now are often nothing more than contractors, with a few exceptions. I don’t believe for one moment that any player at Celtic would have the arrogance to have it written into their contracts that they must be the highest paid player at the club. Can anybody really believe any club, or company, would humour such a demand, such arrogance, such stupidity, for even a second?
Both big Vic and the Hooperman were up front and honest in their dealings with Celtic and all credit to them for their honesty and bottle. In leaving, they have more than justified Celtic’s initial investment in them and neither of them did anything less than serve the club and the support with pride and pleasure. Pound for pound they were both more than worth it.
It is not their leaving that finds us wanting, they gave a long notice period, Celtic have not, to date, replaced either of them with inspiring signings. That is not to say that some who remain at Celtic won’t step up to the plate and that some that Celtic have brought in, or might bring in, might, with time, be proved better than those who departed.
Celtic is acknowledged as a young team. Young teams will do better with seasoned pro’s along side them.
Celtic is not skint. If Celtic get past Elfsborg then they will not have a banana skin waiting for them, they will have a competent football club to face whose sole purpose will be to knock Celtic out of the competition.
They will not be Cliftonville.
Bundles of cash in the bank will still be bundles of cash in the bank, and nothing more. No magic nights under the floodlights, no drunken marathons with the mates to write an incredible and indelible memory that will be passed, with pride and joy, to generations yet to be born.
The day I see a Celtic Supporter in a replica strip with “loads of money” emblazoned across the back… that’s the day I chuck it.
Hail! Hail! The statements here, what the hell do we care….
PFAyr
I was just joking when I said “me”…….!!
When Hooper refused the new contract offers it was time to have a replacement lined up.
We really need a genuine proven goalscorer to help progress in CL. Gambling on a project could cost CL revenue.
The “buy young and cheap” policy is good and has merit, but there should be the occasional exception.
Reading back a lot of animosity on the blog last night. The moonhowlers were out in force!
Lets see who we bring in today, Dorrans from West Brom would be a good acquisition as an auxilliary Kris Commons type player, the Baggies fans I know rate him highly.
Striker, anyone but Doyle please, non scoring strikers we don’t need thankyou.
The recurring theme about this liquidity (cash) CFC have in the bank is that we should “speculate to accumulate”……..
We tried this model under MON and although we had a measure of success it took us years to get our books in order…….
Just saying like……
Been listening to Snyde the last few weeks early morning whilst driving around, various news reports on sevco’s pre season results, 3,4 and 5 wins in a row etc
No mention this morning that they were even playing last night never mind the result.
Still being controlled by media house?
stillparanoidcsc
Morning Bhoys and Ghirls, long time no see.
I have a wee favour to ask sometime between now and the autumn next year I’ll be looking to take the ferry over and take my dad and one of his mates (who I also know and who helped me out recently with my first place) to do a bit of Salmon Fishing. And was wondering if anyone had any hints/tips/general advice. I literally am at ground zero when it comes to planning this (so no month/location) – I know he’d read an article last year about a river that was open earlier (possibly later but think it was earlier) than normal (feb I think) and from memor it was south east coast.
But if anyone has any general advice – would probably like about 4-6 days all in, so maybe 2-3 on one spot and another 2-3 in another – maybe one being value the other quality….
Cheers for any help
Morning all. Heavy rain down here for once.
Sad news from Spain from Compostela on today of all days.