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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Morning,
Just catching up on the news.
Hooper for the off, New away strip, The Beast talking p1sh, Hounslow Chronicle still trying to blacken the name of Celtic and Kevin Doyle…
ernie lynch
11:12 on 25 July, 2013
Selling our best players is a concern but, up to now we’ve done ‘no bad’ in that respect …… I am confident this is the correct strategy….
PF AYR
No Club/ Manager/ Scout gets it right every time…
Cults
obviously
but there is a sorry tale of failure in our attempts to recruit strikers on the cheap
rt rev david hay
11:14 on 25 July, 2013
Far too much negativity on CQN at the moment…….we’re doing fine
Has Charlotte single handedly blown the Yes Vote out the water by highlighting how this ‘One Nation’ from the media right through to corporate business are all geared towards one goal in respect of ‘the peepul’
I wonder whether Mrs Lawwell is told to stick to Poundland and Primark,or whether she is allowed the odd wee excursion to Waitrose and M&S?
Second Helpings of Dumplings
wheres the comments from the beast
PF Ayr
Nial McGinn…?
Honestly I watched him 12 times last season. He has improved immeasurably. He is a more certain signing than Mulgrew was IMO. He has apparently always been prolific in training but now bring ing it in to his match play.
I’d sign him for £1m – confident he can do the job in SPL and fairly certain he would do it in Europe in a Celtic Team.
I realise it is a highly unlikely signing but watch him score next year..
Morning all,
I see a few bhoy’s like to put forward the full cost of buying a player, £3mil transfer and £6mil wages over four years, fair enough, but to keep in context they should also take into account what Celtic turnover is over a four year period, well in excess of £200 million. So buying a couple of proven players to give a better chance of reaching the riches of the Champions league seems a lot less of a gamble.
Please stop scare mongering by implying we only have one seasons income to cover the cost of a four year contract.
HailHail
CultsBhoy loves being 1st forever & ever
11:37 on
25 July, 2013
PF AYR
No Club/ Manager/ Scout gets it right every time…
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Thats very true but the list PF AYR listed is considerable and expensive.
I’ve watched Kevin Doyle down through the years and he was an excellent player at International level under Trapattoni, scoring many crucial goals and you don’t lose that talent easily and i reckon Neil is the man to reignite that ability.
It is not long since Doyle was being courted by some of the big EPL clubs but was persuaded by Mick McCarthy that Wolves were a club with a big future.
Wolves became a club in complete disarray and injury also became a problem for Kevin. There is no doubt that he is a far superior player to the flop Murphy and if Neil can get him at a good price then with his experience at top international level, would be a good aquisition and could help our younger strikers.
malarkey
of course we are in a terrible place re signings
due to league we are in etc.
but my point is that everyone, well almost,
now look at any potential signing and do not
expect us to spend over 2m and if it is flagged
wrongly in the press as being 3m+ we all go…
whoaaa, dont know, wait a minute thats a bit much
and too risky.
where did i say…buy buy buy and if its boring,
dont read it.
bottom line here is we have sold 2 of our big 4 or 5 players with no people in place to negotiate tricky
CL qualification.
we have sold wanyama and hooper for a tidy sum and well
done PL and the club.
but this money and the wages these guys were going to be
on must be re-invested.
67heaven
im not being negative, even if it sounds like it.
its magic being a celtic supporter and always will be.
its gift we should all cherish.
Hooper off to Norwich?
Old Delia must have promised to come round once a week and cook his dinner.
Kevin Doyle?!
Please – NO!!
Do we want another Darryl Murphy?
No disrespect to the guy, but I don’t.
HH!!
hankray
Which leading EPL clubs were interested in Kevin Doyle?
HH!!
PFAyr
Its an absolutely perfect analogy. They had about the same profile when bought.
Like every club we have had successes and flops. You have to be really obtuse not to notice it happens to every club in the world or that we have actually had a relatively good recruitment policy.
I could sit here all day and list expensive failures of impeccable pedigree bought by EPL clubs. I wont though because its a waste of time for such an obvious point.
re: Doyle
Would be wholly unimpressed if he pitched up at PH.
Firstly he goes against our entire signing strategy (young, cheap, lots of up-side) as he is old (ish), and has zero sell-on value.
Secondly – he hasn’t scored goals in a long long time.
The last 4 seasons he hasn’t scored more than 9 goals.
Would much rather stay with what we currently have than chase a player like him.
Doyle might not be bought for his goals.
Lennon might think he needs somebody that can make the ball stick up top and bring other players into the game around. Think Doyle will be seen as a partner like Balde with a new goalscorer in the moulf od Hooper.
Hello from Portugal
Is Adam fit yet
Just back from 5 great days in Donegal–St John’s Point.Mackerel were in a feeding frenzy on Tuesday night.Anyone who hasn’t eaten fresh grilled mackerel with a touch of fresh lime hasn’t lived.Just found my Yahoo account is banjaxed for some reason.Great.Doyle for the Celts? Yes please.Hasn’t the players round him at Wolves.Great movement and can score.Mick McCarthy is no fool,nor Trapittoni,and both rate him.We need a creative midfielder more though.
WGS
Is that not what Stokes does?
Wee Delia – – back in the day
Kevin Doyle 29 1:4.6 scoring record replacement for Gary Hooper 25 1:1.5 scoring record. …says it all. Celtic knew before the end of the last transfer window that Gary is leaving (with thanks and best wishes from me) so a contingency list should have been in place and replacement ready.
Will Souness be brought to task for his comments yesterday indeed why was he here he has no link to Scotland anymore.
Re the new club a lie’s a lie no matter how often it’s repeated it will never be the truth….the hope is that’ll we will relent…..not on my watch.
Good luck to Hibs and St Johnstone tonight.
HAIL HAIL
Tallybhoy………. Definitely Arsenal but Wolves looked like a club with a big future in the EPL.
celtictom
11:44 on
25 July, 2013
Morning all,
I see a few bhoy’s like to put forward the full cost of buying a player, £3mil transfer and £6mil wages over four years, fair enough, but to keep in context they should also take into account what Celtic turnover is over a four year period, well in excess of £200 million. So buying a couple of proven players to give a better chance of reaching the riches of the Champions league seems a lot less of a gamble.
Please stop scare mongering by implying we only have one seasons income to cover the cost of a four year contract.
Why do some posters talk in terms of Celtic ‘s income to cover the cost of signings. Income in iteself is totally irrelevant . What is relevant is the cost structure thats has to support the club . If income over 4 yrs is £200m and costs are £200m then nil profit
Sevco are losing £1m per month so who cares what their annual income is.
Thinking I had read on here that Radio Clyde never mentioned Sevco score last night
I had a quick look around the office and found DR.
I thought some mistake surely as no mention of deid club score in the back Pages.
However 10 pages in ……two page spread SHEFF WED 1 DEADCO 0
I suppose that is where we might expect to find a 3rd tier match report
paranoidCSC
rt rev david hay
fair enough – I didn’t mean to come across snippy. I’m pretty sure that over the term we will spend that money. We dont make profits or losses just
My point is simply that we are restricted in the way that we can spend that money. I’m interested to hear who people think we should take a punt on. ~£5m for Rudnevs sounded good to me, similar for Ibrahima Toure sounds good to me, >£5m for Hosiner sounds great too…
but i’m realistic that these people probably have other offers (Rudnevs reportedly didnt fancy Scotland) and after them I’m struggling to think how we spend that money.
I’m with you though that we should invest in a bit of quality if we can.
Hooper was sold on his move to Norwich after delia made a personal call – apparently she shouted:
‘ LET’s BE HAVING YOU!!!’
Could we afford Odemwinkie of West Brom., maybe on loan,not a bad player with plenty of pace.
67Heaven … I am Neil Lennon..!!.. Ibrox belongs to the creditors
11:37 on
25 July, 2013
ernie lynch
11:12 on 25 July, 2013
‘Selling our best players is a concern but, up to now we’ve done ‘no bad’ in that respect …… I am confident this is the correct strategy….’
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Yes but we are in a unique position at the moment, where we don’t have to worry unduly about the league and can focus on Europe.
In fact so far as revenue is concerned we have to focus on Europe.
There is a tide in the affairs of men.
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
On such a full sea are we now afloat,
And we must take the current when it serves,
Or lose our ventures.
quantum,
And this relates to Celtic…?
greendreamz
I realise what you are saying but it’s about balance. One thing you can never do in business is stand still or go backwards. No one is advocating we spend £30 on a couple of players. We have realised close to £20m in selling players, and with the revenue from last years CL, will have a very healthy balance sheet to report.
The argument from some of us is that it would be wise to invest some to try and reach the CL proper. If 2 signings would make such a difference, then it is foolish in the extreme not to go for it. Spending £8m to gain £20m+ makes absolute sense.
I recently increased my spend on a google key word campaign quite significantly. It has brought 7,000 new customers to the business. Customer feedback confirms it was the fact that our name appeared first on the internet. Sometimes you need to spend to progress.
If we don’t see CL, or European football at CP for a couple of seasons, it’ll have proved the wrong decision not to invest more heavily in the squad.
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Artjom Rudnevs sound Like a Modern Day Anton Rogan..
Who we Still all these Years later have Never Replaced..
Summa of ModernAntonRogansAreProbablyRubbishCSC
The Spirit of Arthur Lee
11:52 on 25 July, 2013
Hello from Portugal
Is Adam fit yet
I’d say!
£30 million 0f course!!
Raymac……… Agreed, it was pitiful to see him wasted at a club like Wolves that was in freefall. Kevin Doyle is a player with far more International experience than Gary Hooper and with the right support is a goalpoacher.
If we get £5.5m that is fantastic for Celtic, Gary and Norwich…..