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Has this been our most successful transfer window ever?

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It is not like Celtic to have no one to parade on deadline day, just as it is not like Celtic to have us glowing with contentment at the business they did early in the window.  Reo Hatate (24), Daizen Maeda (24) and Yosuke Ideguchi (25) arrived from Japan, where today Daizen made a 68th minute appearance from the substitutes bench in a World Cup qualifier against Saudi Arabia.

Matt O’Riley (21) arrived from MK Dons, in the third tier of English football.  Matt has played one year of first team football, clearly a productive one.  His early Celtic performances reinforce the encouraging signs we heard from EFL watchers.  Johnny Kenny (18) arrived from Sligo Rovers as a development prospect.

Maeda scored within minutes of his debut, then watched Hatate steal the show and deservedly grab the Man of the Match award.  Ideguchi came on as a late sub against Hibs before being brutally injured at Alloa.  The early form of all three is encouraging, especially as they cope with living on a new continent, among new coaches and teammates.

We retained all first-choice players, with some on the fringes going out on loan.  The major disappointment was that none of our well-paid bench sitters left.  Has this been our most successful transfer window ever?  Stay tuned to find out.

All the noise in town yesterday came from across the city, where Newco acquired a midfielder who has made seven 90-minute league appearances since August 2017 (only one since going to Italy in 2019).   A friend suggested this was a classic Hail Mary move, although I’m sure that is not how they look at it at Ibrox.  Not all intercessions happen.

Later this month we face Raith Rovers in a Scottish Cup tie.  As things stand, they will field David Goodwillie, whom they signed last night.  Goodwillie was found to have raped a woman at a civil trial in 2017.  Fair play to Rovers fans for their overwhelming opposition to the signing.  They have a fight on their hands for the character of their club.

The Japan – Saudi Arabia game is due to finish around 12:10 UK time.  Hopefully by the time you finish reading this Daizen is in a taxi on his way to the airport.  There will be a good hour in his legs tomorrow night.

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  2. Turkeybhoy on

    Bada,

     

    I was thinking that myself.The boy Atkinson,as somebody mentioned earlier,a very decent looking full back.Will need their CHs back,but I can foresee a very hard match.

  7. Back to Basics - Glass Half Full on

    Very little comment at the weekend about the reaction of Jordan White after scoring against Sevco.

     

     

    He looked distraught.

     

     

    Compare and contrast with elbow swinging thuggery against Celtic.

  8. Back to Basics - Glass Half Full on

    Football on BBC1 just now.

     

     

    What does it say about football’s morality …

     

     

    ….. that a convicted, drug dealing, money laundering felon

     

     

    ….. having wreaked absolute misery on communities with his wretched trade

     

     

    .. can be found “fit and proper” by the SFA?

  10. An Tearmann on

    Back to Basic

     

    re write off of covid contracts,no claw back then eh,all those Billions going to embed in the next generation of the British caste/class system,oh we will have enquiry after enquiry but it won’t matter,the poor will pay as you say

     

    jeez how I wish I bid for and got a covid contract,with no company set up yet just like wee Michelle money,most of the cabinets friends did,and what a lucrative business covid has been for them.

     

     

    They have had their eyes on various pension pots for years,inspired by the likes of Maxwell,then the ex bhs owner who saw his staffs pension pot as his play thing and when his company went down a wee transfer of ownership to his Mrs meant millions went away.

     

    Spivery of the highest order but when the bills settle it is a transfer of wealth as you refer to from poor to rich.

     

    Maybe this is what Liz(of the 500k plane flight) Truss meant when she said “we” have to pay for covid.yeh have a party and we all pay for them

     

     

    HH

  11. Jinkyredstar on

    Bankiebhoy

     

     

    Special restaurant- Two Fat Ladies at the Buttery

     

     

    Historic location, lovely staff and good food – an occasion destination

  13. Auldheid on

    QF on 1ST FEBRUARY 2022 9:13 PM

     

    Auldheid

     

     

     

    Thanks for the spelling correction but you may have noticed I got there first. My ASN teacher checked it for me – just as well.

     

     

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    Had I spotted your correction I would not have commented.

     

     

     

     

    You don’t realise this but you are no longer able to view this dispassionately. You are too invested. That’s why you use the very recent admin/ liquidation laws to dismiss the good old “bankrupt” Hibs. Same thing and you know it is.

     

    ————————————

     

    I love it when someone else tells me what I don’t realise, as in how the feck would they know?

     

     

    The narrative I point to is totally supported by evidence and the result of hard work keeping track of it.

     

     

    Don’t you realise the difference between fact and fiction?

     

     

    Did Hibs in 1893 put the rest of Scottish football in peril when going insolvent?

     

     

    Did Gretna a few years ago?

     

     

    Spot the difference.

  14. Back to Basics - Glass Half Full on

    An T @ 11:46pm.

     

     

    Nice one. Thank you.

     

     

    Don’t recognise the gentleman at the dispatch box but thought he spoke very well.

  15. Auldheid on

    QR

     

     

    I missed this bit of misinformation.

     

     

    ” The 5 way agreement is a standard process which allows a reincarnation of an old club to proceed as long as no football debts are left unsettled. It happens under FIFA guidance all over the world. The only difference in our backwater is we set up tribal sides – same club/new club – and anyone questioning that – reincarnation of an old club – is a hun or fenian. Depends who you talk to!! ”

     

     

     

     

    FIFA treats insolvency of a club on a case by case basis.

     

     

    UEFA treat it according to a set of rules applied to all clubs in Europe the result of which meant when Rangers went into liquidation their SFA membership lapsed in 2012 and Sevco (renamed Rangers) as a new club were ineligible to apply for a UEFA licence until they had been member of the SFA for 3 years.

     

     

    After 3 years they became eligible and could apply submitting the new clubs latest accounts to SFA to obtain a licence.

     

     

    It was on the basis that Rangers FC PlC in liquidation no longer existed as a club as UEFA define one that allowed Traverso to justify not investigation events in 2011 i.e no club left to apply football sanctions to.

     

     

    You are on the wind up, you have to be or are just ignorant as in you don’t know what you are talking about.

  16. IniquitousIV on

    BACK TO BASICS @ 11:17

     

    Excuse my ignorance-I don’t get the BBC – who are we talking about?

     

    Thanks.

     

    HH

  18. iljasb on

    NOTTHEBUS on 1ST FEBRUARY 2022 12:44 PM

     

     

    “However I cant think of a single recent “box office” transfer/loan thats ended happily in Scotland . We have had our share Juniniho, Lunbreg, Bellamy, Keane (both).”

     

     

    Robbie Keane and Bellamy made good contributions I’d say. But they hadn’t been out injured for long periods nor were their careers grinding to a halt and needing rebuilding. Joe Hart could fall into the “box office” category and that’s turning out pretty satisfactorily. But in general I’d agree with you.

  22. TheLurkinTim on

    Everthing av read says Putin will hold off till after the Olympics…then will hav to back down…massive economic sanctions will bankrupt Russia…who are close to it already…his stance on Ukraine is posturing that he can’t afford to back up

  24. TheLurkinTim on

    Am I nervous for tonights game…no, not really…and that scares me ;-))

     

     

    3 nil and top of the league after 90 mins

     

     

    H.H.

  26. JHB on

    I am amazed that the Res 12 is still churning away on the blog.

     

     

    I have followed it over the years and believed that some of those who invested time and effort were genuine and honourable in their intentions. Of course there was no shortage of ‘barrackroom lawyers’ – some are still practising.

     

     

    However I have to say that the subject now bores me and after ten years surely enough is enough. In my opinion it rumbles on merely as a convenient vehicle to carry those who wish to batter the Celtic board and anyone else who goes through the door of Celtic Park wearing a ‘suit’.

     

     

    Celtic were right to stay well out of the farce that engulfed Ibrox. It would have been splattered and soiled in the ongoing sh**-storm had it not. There was no immediate, nor, long-lasting damage to our club, we wouldn’t have been parachuted into the CL that season in any case. In fact from 2012 on we proceeded to enjoy the second-most successful period in the history of Celtic.

     

     

    Although the handing out of formal punishment by the football authorities against Rangers FC was ridiculously light, the consequences of the wrongdoing was not – it was deep, far-reaching and fully deserved. That might not have been the case had Celtic, on its own, decided to get down into the hole that Rangers were digging and pick a fight on certain issues, either with a disintegrating Ibrox, or, the SFA & League. Public opinion and the attitude of other clubs in Scotland played in big part in the fiasco & Rangers were treated as a pariah by most. That may not have been the case with overt & targeted Celtic involvement. In such a scenario the press/media would have had the opportunity to work the ‘Old Firm’ angle and other clubs may have had second thoughts.

     

     

    In the wider football world we would have been recognised and remembered as the world-renowned club that kicked its greatest rival when it was down…..we didn’t because we are bigger than that. Those running Celtic would have been acutely aware of this.

     

     

    The lasting lesson must be that we are more vigilant, and so hopefully in future will not have to rely on the English Police to uncover corruption in Scottish football.

  27. Big Jimmy on

    On a LIGHTER Note…

     

     

    Mr JELLY BEAN goes to the Doctors…

     

    DOC asks …” What can I do for you” ?

     

    Jelly Bean replies…” Doctor, I think Ive got VD”.

     

    DOC asks…” How can YOU possibly have VD….You’re a JELLY BEAN” ?

     

     

    Jelly Bean…” Ive been SLEEPING with ALL SORTS” !

     

    LOL

     

    HH.

  30. Big Jimmy on

    JHB on 2ND FEBRUARY 2022 8:04 AM

     

    ……….

     

     

    YOU were slaughtered on here a wee while ago by Guys who KNOW a whole lot more about RES 12 than YOU will ever know, and how Celtic shareholders were LIED to at an AGM, by the Celtic Board……

     

     

    Now just go away and ” Throw Shite at the Moon”.

     

     

    P.S. Ive worn numerous SUITS while attending Celtic Park over many years, so your ” Generalisation” of how Folk wearing SUITS are VIEWED by others just reinforces my belief that YOU are….” A THREE Year Old….with a TWO Year old BRAIN”.

     

    CHUMP…of the Highest TORY/UNIONIST Order !

  31. Big Jimmy on

    THELURKINTIM on 2ND FEBRUARY 2022 8:18 AM

     

    Big Jimmy…

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Does that include Oddfellows lol

     

     

     

     

     

     

    H.H.

     

    ………….

     

    NO Mate…I do NOT think that Mr Jelly Bean was Gay……He enjoyed being with the Ladies… ( As far as I know ) ?

     

    Maybe he WAS Bi Sexual…I really hadnt thought of that ?

     

    LOL

     

    HH Mate.

  34. timmy7_noted on

    JHB on 2nd February 2022 8:04 am

     

     

    The king of the cut n paste unionists is up bright and early battering the control key.

     

    Arrogant self important garbage as ever.

     

    One of the forelock tugging status quo gang.

     

    Know your place Tims!!!

     

    Don’t be asking difficult questions of the establishment, you’ll be wanting an education next FFS.

  36. Big Jimmy on

    The Telegraph is reporting that ” Bonkers Boris DID ATTEND the Party in his Flat”

     

    With ” Partygate” and the latest news that this TORY UNIONIST Government have ALSO written OFF just over £14 BILLION that was spent on PPE for Covid, and that much of that PPE was NOT ” Fit for Purpose” for one reason or another, and NOT forgetting the MILLIONS that Boris and his Cohorts made sure went into the pockets of their RICH Pals for PPE Contracts…can this TORY/UNIONIST, UNION JACK Waving Mob sink ANY LOWER ?

     

    This CHUMP Boris and his Cohorts should be Feckin JAILED for the Corruption and the Wastage of Public Money.

     

    Well done Mr Ian Blackford of the SNP for calling out Boris as a LIAR in the Commons on Monday, and Prime Ministers Questions should once again prove to be very interesting Today ( Wednesday), which I will eagerly watch on TV.

     

    HH.

  38. TheLurkinTim on

    Big Jimmy…it used to be that MP’s deservered the honorific of “Right Honorable” and would fall on their sword if necessary…now they’re a bunch of shameless money grubbing arseholes who wouldn’t know the meaning of honour if their lifes depended on it….

  40. RC on

    read on twitter

     

     

    Bobby Madden has refereed 17 Glasgow derbies. So far he’s given:

     

    Penalties- thems 5 Celtic 0

     

    Red cards- thems 0 Celtic 4

     

    Yellow cards- thems 14 Celtic 43

     

     

    You couldn’t make it up.

  42. FrankTerry on

    BIG JIMMY on 2ND FEBRUARY 2022 8:19 AM

     

     

    ” Throw Shite at the Moon”

     

     

    Very good :-)

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