Celtic await ratification of Guidetti’s transfer by the SFA. The player travelled to Glasgow yesterday afternoon and quickly concluded a deal with Celtic, but it took until late in the evening before paperwork arrived from Manchester.
Aware of the delay, Celtic applied to the SFA for an extension. The SFA authorised the extension and subsequently received all relevant paperwork, Celtic believed they were over the line, but I understand we are in new territory with respect to extensions, so the SFA have asked Fifa for guidance.
Paperwork was submitted considerably before Manchester United completed the 2am signing of Radamel Falcao, so there is reason for hope, but it’s not clear in Glasgow what discretion the FA used to register Falcao. The same may or may not be available to the SFA.
There are also time constraints, player lists for Uefa group stage competitions need to be completed by 23:00 tonight, and we can’t add the player until Fifa issue guidance to the SFA.
If Celtic wanted a more complicated transfer than Guidetti they surely found it with our Serbian striker, Stefan Scepovic. Transfers involving influences across multiple countries are often difficult……
One thing Celtic are clear about is the endurance of the player, who had to sit through difficult hours in order to make the deal happen. He kept his nerve as others tried to sell him to Getafe – who were under no Financial Fair Play restrictions.
We’ll do a wrap-up of the window tomorrow.
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See if the Guidetti deal does go through I hope someone is on hand to show us the FF rage at Peter Lawwell running the SFA, SPFL, UEFA, FIFA, The universe etc.
Gary67
I didn`t get my own seat. Upper sections being closed will have a knock on effect.
JJ
Bocchinbhoy@12.13
I mentioned that last year when I was trying to demonstrate what a complete numpty Willie Frazer was mistaking the Italian flag for the Irish tricolour.
Went on to say could you imagine willies palpitations if it had have been an Ivory Coast delegation lol.
Think BMCUWP said he had a nice Ivory Coast top
SuitsyousirCSC
Meanwhile, in the corridors of Scottish football power;
C O, “Sandy, gonny tell UEFA about that Guidetti deal”
SB, “Ok boss, I’ll post it on the way home tonight”
CO “Remember not to leave in the car overnight, like Brother Farry did with Cadette’s!
SB ” You kill me Campbell, so ye pure dae”
HH
End London rule. YES
mccourt for 7
Thinking he may play Guidetti in behind Scepovic with Wakaso and a fit Forrest down the flanks, could be lethal. Especially if we can get two big strikers in the box with crosses coming in. You’re right though, RD has a rigid system that he’ll live or die by and LG could ver well have made the difference. Saying that we should have never waited until the last seconds of the transfer window to sign an all important goalscorer, just seems senseless.
HH!
Ach got my seats in preparation for last min Euro goals in mind ahah.
Will try and get some central ones now
Any news on Guidetti?
BRTH
I will browse those articles when I have some time but what I really, really want to read about is how the EPL is doomed financially and that it will all come crashing down around them and the sooner the better.
Nothing personal against them, of course even in this scenario the well run clubs will be ok so I don’t think this is a nasty vindictive wish to harbour:)
What we have is a situation where TV is now distorting the sport to a ridiculous degree. Though I suppose the question is- what is a reasonable degree for TV financing to influence proceedings? I don’t know but its certainly not the state of play we have at the moment.
We are at least 10 times bigger than some of the clubs we are struggling to compete with in the market at the moment. Something has to give.
HH
Frank ryans on the whiskey
What will you do with nowt to pin your bigotry to?
And bigotry it is.
I would say irish politics has left your hate behind, never mind what you fart about scots independence.
And you are farting frank.i know of no volunteer who would support the union, under any circumstances.but you support the same union.
Your posts only serve to show how bigotry and hatred are static.
As a scot I am proud of my roots and proud of their part in contributing to this country.like a lot we have a sense of history that is dynamic and all encompassing.not the back to the past guff you spout
Apologies but posts like yours are the past
HH
Jonny the Tim
14:29 on 2 September, 2014
Meanwhile, in the corridors of Scottish football power;
C O, “Sandy, gonny tell UEFA about that Guidetti deal”
SB, “Ok boss, I’ll post it on the way home tonight”
CO “Remember not to leave in the car overnight, like Brother Farry did with Cadette’s!
SB ” You kill me Campbell, so ye pure dae”
HH
End London rule. YES
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Sorry, I’m confused.
Is Scottish football ruled from London?
KDC
I had conveniently forgotten about Mo Bangura, but he was from Sierra Leone not Sweden! (had to google that just to check!!!)
HH
CTTC
How many Sky subscribers are there in Scotland.
James Forrest is praying for The Unconquerable Oscar Knox
14:15 on 2 September, 2014
Now if you did indeed leave the labour party fair play to you sir but you are in a tiny minority. I would simply refer you to Mr Salmonds ‘Blood of our Blood’ speech. I am utterly convinced this view is held by a great many other Scottish politicians – those who could potentially be running a country. All the discussion regarding the dawn of a new Socialist era in a post independence Scotland is just that discussion there is little evidence to support that contention otherwise ‘Show me the money ‘ . There is just as much chance of a newly named SNP franchise winning power and that worries the bejaysus out of me as much as all hypocrisy being spouted about Scottish independence annoys me
traditionalist88
14:37 on
2 September, 2014
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I’m getting more comfortable looking on at the way this is going in England. I don’t think there is a solvent club in the 1st Division in Spain.
At one point (believe it or not), there was saturation coverage of Snooker and darts, folk just got bored and deserted.
I think this will happen in football.
I consider myself realistic, neither a pessimist nor optimist, but I am worried a tad re Guidetti and his playing record over the last year or so. On loan at stoke, never made a start, on subs bench and never scored. I know the lad has had health issues but nonetheless I can see the connection re Sweden/Holland and our King of kings.
Wouldn’t it be great if, oh , here we go, dreaming again.
Best of luck to all our new bhoys though.
Queen Lubo said to me today she’s like to see bg Viduka back as she thought he had nice legs! Well there you go then,eh!
KINGLuBO
An Tearmann
14:38 on 2 September, 2014
Frank ryans on the whiskey
What will you do with nowt to pin your bigotry to?
And bigotry it is.
I would say irish politics has left your hate behind, never mind what you fart about scots independence.
And you are farting frank.i know of no volunteer who would support the union, under any circumstances.but you support the same union.
Your posts only serve to show how bigotry and hatred are static.
As a scot I am proud of my roots and proud of their part in contributing to this country.like a lot we have a sense of history that is dynamic and all encompassing.not the back to the past guff you spout
Apologies but posts like yours are the past
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Well i know many who hold the same views as me. As for guff – see above
James Forrest & quonno
How about we vote to stay unseparated in a union but we change the flag to something less divisive? Would you then change your Yes vote?
I doubt it and neither you should. Therefore, the Union Flag is an irrelevance to the vote as is the voting preference of the orange order and the BNP and UKIP. This is about creating a grouping of 5 or so million people because they stay within a defined border area that existed as a national state within its current boundaries roughly from 1300 to 1700, as opposed to sticking with a stable (?) state that has existed from 1700 to 2000 withstanding a brief national-religious conflict early on.
You either believe that is a worthwhile aim that will bring benefits or you consider it an unnecessary or harmful change which will not be of great benefit. All else is moot. No one really knows if we will be impoverished or enriched financially post-independence or whether we will be much as we are. No one knows if there will be religious or political conflict increased by a new state or more of that created by staying the same. It all depends on how people react and several unkown knowns.
It really does smack of desperation and Project Fear this conflation of No voting with the OO/BNP and UKIP. It is also a deeply counter productive electioneering argument which will lose you more votes from your side than will be gained. And finally, it is deeply insulting to our forefathers as Celtic fans who managed to fail to spot the natural connection between SNP voting and being Celtic men. They have had the opportunity to be SNP backers since 1934, as Scottish Independence was their main policy back then too, and those men were closer to the events of 1916 than we are.
Now, I have no problem with Celtic men choosing to identify their left wing politics with a future Independent Scotland. Hell, I have no problem with right wing Celts supporting Independence. And I am staying put here whatever the outcome.
But I will not stand idly by and hear good Celtic men being traduced as being as bad as the OO and BNP because their votes aligned. As 16 roads stated the other night, the BNP voted to stay out of the Iraq war. Do you consider yourself to be tainted by that co-inciding of their views with yours and mine?
It really is time to stop this nonsense on CQN. I am broad-backed enough to tolerate the jibes personally but I am mightily pissed off when I know the character and nature of good Celtic men who are being taunted with this nonsense.
P.S. I saw a Yes vote stall at a Burnside supermarket at the weekend. For the first time, I saw one person wearing a Scottish Labour For Independence T-shirt. She shared a stall with 4 SNP activists. I know there are somewhere less than that 20% in proportion to the Yes campaign, but there are a sizeable proportion of Labour voters on the SNP side, however it remains largely an SNP campaign. Why, then is it so difficult for some on here to admit they are SNP men? They are not a shameful party, per se, though the OFaB Act was shameful. In the same way, I can still be a Labour voter but disprove og=f the Iraq war vote and other welfare policies. The SNP Celts should have no problem in declaring themselves as lifelong SNP voters or people who have voted SNP for 20 or 30 years. If Independence was so important as an outcome, why have they not been voting SNP for all the years they have been offering it?
timbhoy2
Aprroximately 1,000,000, – 50% of those subscribe to Sky Sports.
Ernie
Nice one. Tres subtle!
HH
End London rule. YES
Timbhoy 2
Just checked “Wings over Scotland” they state:
Sky TV has somewhere in the region of 1 million subscribers in Scotland, of whom approximately 50% will also be Sky Sports subscribers.
Assuming all subscribers, both Sports and non-Sports, have the most basic package available (£21.50/month without Sports, £42.50/month with), that means Sky’s gross domestic-viewer revenue in Scotland is roughly £32m/month, or £384m/year.
The deal Sky signed with the Scottish Premier League for live broadcast rights over the next five years will see it pay the SPL around £1.3m/month, or £16m/year.
To borrow a phrase from Balotelli
‘Why always us?’
Has any other club’s ever had to wait til the following evening before being told if we have signed a player AFTER the deadline
‘Only Celtic’ indeed
Never a dull moment
B-)
Ellboy – I am Neil Lennon, YNWA.
Agreed re: the last minute deals. We are where we are with regards to transfers, we are seen as a minor improvement on the Spanish 2nd Division to some players agents. Our only option is to invest in youth and build our team the same way as clubs in Holland, Belgium, Denmark etc. do. Relying on the transfer market is folly when our manager and CEO themselves say we won’t get any good deals until the last hour of the final day, when players agents have exhausted every other option!
Went to bed last night and we’d signed two strikers wakened up today and we’ve only got one……..arrrrrggghhhh.
setting free the bears – great post
timbhoy2
14:40 on 2 September, 2014
How many Sky subscribers are there in Scotland
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Ask sky?
Bawsman
Brian Clough was convinced, on learning that Beckham was on 100k a week, that it would all end in ‘tears and bankruptcies’ for many top clubs. They are all now so reliant on TV money it is scary(for them..or at least it should be). Those being funded by the Russians and the Arabs will have addditional problems.
We are now seeing players on 3.5 times what Beckham was on. When Man Utd signed Andy Cole for 7m the football world was rocked! We were signing Alan Stubbs for around 3.5m in those days.
Surely the current rate of inflation of fees etc has to end soon?
It is pretty disgraceful that if we are bringing in 40-45k people to see a match we can’t compete with clubs bring in less than half that.
I see some Crystal Palace fans made a point about it last night and I hope it hits home,
HH
Brogan Rogan Trevino and Hogan
Thank you for that reading material.it will keep me going tomorrow as I travel to my ancestral home (me moniker)
I guess the term ‘hingmi’ may be side letters lol as conversations in the blu room included the phrase
‘Don u be wurryin bout that sun jeest sign the hingmi’ :-)
Little do they know once hector wins it will hing thum!
Okok I will get me coat
HH
Paul67, any idea how long this process will take and is there any fast tracking that can be done?
It just with the EL deadline being tonight as you mentioned, it could be a major factor in the completion.
Cheers!
HH
/Bishop B
“why have they not been voting SNP for all the years they have been offering it?”
Because we aulder ones have seen behind the mask, sometimes it slips. Edinburgh courts of ‘justice’……….Kenny McKaskill’s love of a party song, Mrs Grahame’s ‘evening – up of arrests. How many Catholic Ministers in the SNP? (I have no religion).
shoonsky
14:48 on 2 September, 2014
‘Just checked “Wings over Scotland” they state:’
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Do ‘they’ ( it’s actually only one guy) state how many Sky subscribers there are in Bath?
I would have thought that would have been of more interest to him, as that’s where he lives.
Setting Free the Bears@ 14:45
Thank-you.
Afternoon Timland from a seriously hot hun free mountain valley.
A bit of a clusterfeck re the Gudetti deal.
Simple answer is for Man City to free him, we sign him, doubt that will happen tho.
Some amount of ar*eh*les on the blog today, and JF ain”t one of them.
HH
kdc
14:13 on 2 September, 2014
We had a lad called bangura….
He was anything but mein fuhrer
A turncoat he was, but a kick in the baws
From Kayal, whose next touch was poorer
bournesouprecipe
14:51 on
2 September, 2014
Went to bed last night and we’d signed two strikers wakened up today and we’ve only got one……..arrrrrggghhhh.
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Least you got a good sleep ffs, 2.51pm;)
HH
https://twitter.com/tedermeatballs/status/506792888127488001
TET
Just today?
bournesouprecipe
14:51 on 2 September, 2014
‘Went to bed last night and we’d signed two strikers wakened up today and we’ve only got one……..arrrrrggghhhh.’
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Hence the Yiddish proverb
‘If you want your dreams to come true, don’t sleep’.
Guidetti
Never heard of him till yesterday
Hearing is name awe the time noo
Our TV deals are notoriously bad value. The revenue our game receives per viewer is a fraction that other countries achieve – it would be interesting if someone had a source on that but I’m sure I’ve read figures from other similar sized countries with double the revenue coming in.