Celtic are keen to stamp on speculation for players this summer, including right-back Josip Juranovic. Josip has made no play for a move, he is the model professional, back from injury and ready for the new season.
You and I both know the reality is that even full-backs born into the Celtic family move when the right offer comes along. If, as reported by Sky, Atletico Madrid are interested in Josip, it would be naive to think he would not reciprocate. For Celtic, the question would be about money and backfill. Atletico paid Spurs £20m for right-back Kieran Trippier three years ago. A year earlier, they paid half that to PSV Eindhoven for right-back Santiago Arias.
Atletico are one of Europe’s most successful clubs, not one of their big spenders, so a Trippier-like fee for another right-back may be beyond them and an Arias-like fee would not meet the player’s value to Celtic.
I’m not convinced Atletico have the budget to spend on a right-back to make this happen, but I expect Celtic will be scouting right-backs across several continents right now. We are in for a long two months before the window closes. Remember, our business model depends on bringing players in, achieving success, selling them on at a significant profit and reinvesting. These dealings are part of that process.
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Why would Celtic announce it, he is not under contract with Celtic unless his loan deal runs until Thursday?
TMcL @ 4.35
Stick to the cricket.
ERNIE LYNCH
Agreed. After Jota and Bernabei are signed, all we need is a CB and a defensive midfielder.
A heavy metal classic. And sums up the huns and the terrified SFA, SPFL and SMSM.
https://youtu.be/8MBVgvCdM0E
The Lawwell Loyal will be delighted, when he’s announced as the new Chairman
DESSYBHOY
Why would Celtic announce it, he is not under contract with Celtic unless his loan deal runs until Thursday?
Because Celtic have openly negotiated and agreed terms with Benfica. If Jota had said no to Celtic, it would have been all over the media and of course Celtic and/or Benfica would have said so.
Also, would he be posing for pictures on holiday with a Celtic top if he wasn’t coming?
MADMITCH
Unlike you I can multi-task.
BADA BING
Keep dreaming.
Mo Johnson was in a Celtic top inside Celtic Park with Billy McNeill, it means nothing until he signs a contarct with the club, I hope he signs, time will tell.
Deary me
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Loving the Betamax / BSB / Nokia / Polaroid / Blockbuster level of business analysis.
All of those companies operated in a free market whereby their endeavours were rewarded commensurate with their success. They all merited their period of success and they all deserved their failures too because they could have done something about them.
Celtic do not enjoy that privilege. We are not allowed to do multi-deals over £20m- £100m to bring in players. We are not allowed to pay them £100k+ per week. We do not sell our fringe players for £10m plus or our untried reserves. We do not get a fraction of the TV money we could generate because we do not have a free market (Bosman, TV money and Big League hegemonies etc; etc;)- you know all those factors you consider to be excuse making or just plain ignore
Never mind that the world is moving on and changing at an increasing pace — we need to hunker down and do what we always have done.
The world has always moved on. Change is inevitable. The people who disagree with you are not stick in the muds, failures to get with the programme, or incapable of big sky thinking. They are just sensible enough not to want to swallow the Kool Aid.
No desire / no confidence / no progress — just listen to the long standing PL mantra and everything will be OK.
It’s a projection of your mind towards the alternative(s), and that wee s is hugely important. It’s not a question of your way or failure. There are several ways to improve and our policy-ies have shown that. The approach of Walfrid and Glass was not the same. Stein did not carry on the work of McGrory. Fergus McCann was not a big spend fantasist. The Fergus who reluctantly spent big on the 3 Amigos was also the Fergus who starved Lou Macari of playing funds, forcing the recruitment of 2 sojers as first team men, because the money was needed elsewhere in the club.
The running of a football club over time cannot be reduced to a simplistic binary of Build Big or Die. There are times when it is right to make the outlay and there are times when it’s right to be cautious and even skinflint. There are times to be radical and times to be consistent and you need wisdom to discern the difference. Most people here cannot accept that it is your spend Big or Die compared to a “whole lot of wrong” in the way Celtic have been run in the past. We are a hugely successful club from a small country in a peripheral and poor league. We are immensely proud of that but we are not buying the Snake Oil marketing of “Dream Big- achieve Big”. A dream is not a plan. It does not become a plan just by detailing projected costs, certainly not if all you project is increased revenue and increased success and increased status. If you do not consider the remote possibility of white elephant spare capacity, un or underused stadia, retail and diversification mistake, then you have not planned, you are just dreaming and shilling for bucks.
The T/O number will be £70mill if we are lucky / £50mill if we are unlucky forever more — What could possibly go wrong?
What could possibly go wrong was the mantra of Leeds and the Ould Rangers. Wee Davie Murray bought the Thatcherite dream wholesale. Spend Big, reduce tax liabilities, even by illegal means and while the market is up- nothing goes wrong. He won 9iar and nothing in Europe, despite their claims about a EC semi against Marseilles. Aye but we we would do it better somehow.
Most projections show that the full cost of Covid and Brexit, and maybe Ukraine and a separate Scotland are waiting for us down the pipeline. Many are projecting a severe recession. You sure this is the world in which to launch huge debt funded infrastructure? You sure that that glass ceiling can be breached by a more gallus attitude and a wee dose of arrogance? There’s many that can see flaws that you refuse to recognise. Pardon me! but I would prefer to hitch my wagon to a realist and not a dreamer and your marketing technique of yelling “scaredy-cat” does not convince me that I am wrong.
Thank heavens AP turned up last season — breath of fresh air.
Yea- the AP who was greeted as the cheap option and evidence that PL was still pulling the strings. Now you are trying to portray yourself as one who saw all along that this was a revolution and a change of approach. Unfortunately for you, there is such a thing as a historical record and there ain’t enough air freshener to erase the smell of what you previously said about what you now claim to laud.
SFTB
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Good evening all from the International Bar. By jingo, SFTB has certainly sharpened his scalpel. 😂
Cage Status ; Well and truly clamped
Good evening all from the Sheep Heid. Guinness is the dog’s bollocks.
Larsson Jnr,available on a Bosman….
No one mentioned Jordan Larsson is now available on a free…..
Dammit Bada lol
“What saddens me is that some money was spent on me and I didn’t feel the investment. I didn’t feel I was an important part of the team. But it may not even be the team’s fault. It was a Covid year, everything was different. The first six months I didn’t know my teammates, we were in different locker rooms. Celtic is a huge club, but I wouldn’t recommend a goalkeeper to come here.”
If Barkas said that he should expect a wee fine.
Good evening all from the Laurieston Bar. A wonderful pub owned by a lovely family. Long may they thrive.
Love it rail road – monday in a quiet pub with lovely pints😺
Moderator- seems Elyounoussi is on a Bosman too….HH
The excitement the Celtic Monopoly gamers get at the thought of a sale is quite something… whilst itd be dull if we all were the same, sometimes I’m actually glad that all I have in common with some is the love for Celtic
Off CQN for a week, who knew that Internet is still to reach the refined 2nd home rentals in the Cotswolds, we rented a house that is on an unnamed road according to the sat-nav, and the postcode of the gate house was given in two seperate places, still the second homers taught me a wee trick, phone signal and hot spots available on the balconies of the houses, as the steel frame interferes with signal and connectivey,
however i digress …………..
back on CQN and the person that is MM is typing shite about infrastructure , turnover and player trading, while ignoring all basinc business fundamentals about the size of the market the business operates in.
I am certain of one thing though, I bet James McCarthy gets more game time this season than scott brown does ……….
wah wah wah.
does anyone know the status of Jordan Larsson ?
SETTING FREE THE BEARS FOR RES. 12 & OSCAR KNOX on 27TH JUNE 2022 5:16 PM
sooperb hat doffed
BADA @7.43.
Re Elyounoussi, I think I am in a wee minority, but I was never overly impressed by him. And I don’t think he would fit in with Ange’s style. Who would he replace, Jota (???), Maeda, even Jamsie?
SS- 🎣
Jackie Mac, busy as usual. Lovely pints though. Clancy family are real stars.
Home time for this elderly Tim. As my pal AT would say- racists are not welcome in society. And certainly not anywhere near Glasgow Celtic. 💚🇮🇪
Evening all.
EMERALDBEE \O/ A DOUBLE NINER!! on 27TH JUNE 2022 8:04 PM
For what it’s worth I agree.
Brian
BIGRAILROADBLUES on 27TH JUNE 2022 8:11 PM
Home time for this elderly Tim. As my pal AT would say- racists are not welcome in society. And certainly not anywhere near Glasgow Celtic. 💚
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Vale bhoy
Remarkably stupid thing for Barkas to say, if true, as he’s contracted to Celtic until 2026😕
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He did say it. It’s a direct quote. Strangely, he started off defending the club due to Covid restrictions and how it was a bad situation for everyone, then went on to say he would recommend any keeper not to sign for Celtic.
Was he perhaps attacking our goalkeeping coach?
Bizarre.
Not sure about fining him, but he certainly has some explaining to do.
Goalkeeper wearing the hoops, several of the earliest legends of the club, what a beautiful find.
1907/08
now, who is the trainer ?
BathgateShamrock1888
@BathgateShammy
Celtic 1907-1908
It’s enough to make your heart go …
https://twitter.com/BathgateShammy/status/1541235057163210752/photo/1
SAINT STIVS
Superb
SAINT STIVS on 27TH JUNE 2022 8:33 PM
I could listen Ange all day long
Brian