It was only a friendly and he took advantage of an error, but Patryk Klimala’s goal against Nice last night got rid of the onerous burden that comes when every striker joins a new club, he is no longer waiting on his first goal.
Patryk is still only 21, living abroad for the first time and has a whole lot of work ahead, but in these respects he is no different than several strikers who have successfully developed into top talents at Celtic in recent seasons. We know how to transform prospects into champions, if you want to make it as a striker, this is the place to come.
I know that you and me both have a lot of time for Leigh Griffiths. He has proven his worth repeatedly in the six years since he arrived at Celtic Park, most notably by scoring 40 goals in season 2015-16. Since then, he has played more of a supporting role, first to Moussa Dembele and then Odsonne Edouard and he returned from off-field challenges before lockdown with an impressive scoring rate.
High standards, which would have been unrecognisable as recently as Martin O’Neill’s time, have been set at Celtic in recent years. They have contributed to the club being the most prodigious collector of trophies in Scottish football history. Neil Lennon is the curator of those standards and he knows more than anyone the cost if he lets them slip.
Leigh has a master’s degree in the science of ‘Prove them Wrong’. He has been written off and returned to the top more than anyone I can remember, whatever weaknesses he has, this determination to recover is a strength many overlook.
If you think he’s finished, you’ve not been paying attention.
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BRTH
the emotional side of Desmond’s investment is from his sons; he’s more Man U
Great picture of the 4 Horsemen….!!
🤣🤣
Coneybhoy and Corkcelt – enjoy your evening swarrie.
Might invite a couple of bhoys in to watch the game later but then again a Saturday night, Celtic and the drink will be flowing…might just watch it myself with Mrs David66 and my wee grandson as I don’t know if I could handle another session. ☹
HH
D :)
The four horsemen of the metropolis…😜
Coneybhoy, I’ll avoid any fat yanks like the plague.
There were 30 or so homegrown idiots, who thought it a good idea to have a meet up in a couple of rented properties in Killarney and hold a few lockdown parties over a 3 day spree,
The word is one of them had been tested & was awaiting but still travelled & attended party. His test turned out to be positive.
There has been 5 positive cases in Kerry in past week.
So yes, we will mask up & have a bottle of sanitiser handy & take no chances.
Corkcelt – I took my own Lube😂😂😂 I mean sanitiser with me yesterday and used it quite regularly throughout the day/evening. Think other 3 horseman thought I was bonkers but soon we were all using it. It gave me a wee bit of a piece of mind.
Enjoy
HH
D :)
Coneybhoy, Desmond was asked one time about his Celtic Investment and said it was purely for emotional reasons, he said it was the only Emotional Investment he ever made.
He was asked at the time about selling and he said he couldn’t or his family would disown him.
Word I heard is that his Daughter Zoe was a big fan but I kind of doubt that.
She is or was a right looker but moved to London years ago, couldn’t see her as a footie fan,
Brett Desmond is the heir apparent. He is married to Andrea Corr,
Some guys have all the luck.
All The Corrs were good looking…………
even the vaguely blokish-looking one
CONEYBHOY on 18TH JULY 2020 12:07 PM
Yes I have heard that the Celtic fan in the Desmond family is his son and not Dermot.
However, I have been told differently by others who say that Dermot has become a genuine fan in his own right, and others who say that his interest has grown especially when he felt personally slighted at Hampden a few years ago.
However, I work with/for a very keen Golfer from London who is a member at a certain Golf Club down south. The guy concerned became very friendly with the assistant pro at the club and played with him regularly, went to his wedding etc etc .
The assistant pro left the club and went to work for Dermot’s Sandy Lane hotel complex which includes the ultra exclusive Green Monkey Course and he has worked out there for many years now. DD treats The Green Monkey like his own private course and entry on to the course while DD is in residence is restricted to two fourballs I think.
The Pro is one of those who is only too happy to repeat tales of extreme kindness and unbelievable personal help from DD in times of difficulty.
He has also told my pal that DD has added one additional rule to the USPGA rules which govern play at the Green Monkey and that is that no matter who he is playing with, what hole he is on, how he is playing or whatever, precisely 15 minutes before any Celtic game DD calls the golf to a halt, walks off the course and insists on watching the match in full.
Golf may be resumed afterwards or it may not, but a Celtic match is the only thing he has ever known DD to abandon the golf for and it is the only thing he will always abandon the golf for.
HT
Sorry earlier you ask if I was well etc and I was running out and forgot to reply.
I am grand thanks though troubled by a persistent cough and throat problem which is aggravated by talking to much on the phone each and every day.
I am told it will go away if I take my medication and give my voice a rest.
I take the medication faithfully ……………… and do my best with the other thing.
Bar that I am grand and hope you are too thanks.
BRTH
I read somewhere recently that DD was worth north of 2 billion pounds.
£2,000.000.000 plus.
How much money does he make from Celtic in a year?
And how can we no sign Messi?
GFTB
Congratulations Gerry!
Halfway to Paradise
songintheresomehwerecsc
https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/18591687.celtic-fc-takes-steps-continue-hotel-museum-plans-parkhead/
Fergus is touching 80, without being ageist, not sure what vision he would now bring in this very different world
He also left Celtic with around £50m in his pocket
How would fans feel if Dermot done likewise???
Philbhoy, he is worth circa 2 billion OK, maybe the pandemic might have shaved a bit off that but he won’t have to sing for his supper any time soon,
In addition to his Ordinary Shareholding he also holds some Preferential Shares, these shares unlike Ordinary Shares pay a Dividend of 6% .
I have no idea what this translates into cash but I expect it comes to a tidy figure.
CORKCELT
Indeed!
My shares do not pay a divi, but I’m happy with that!
Content just to be able to support Celtic.
Hope you are good!
Norrie………….
Re Dermot, and as with Fergus,…….I’d feel eternally grateful and blessed.
These are the Good Times.
HH
Dont really care that DDis a Billionaire.Sure he was not born into it.Dont really care that PL is our CEO.What I do appreciate,is the sustained success we have had under these two.Win the 10 and all records have been broken in a 10 year period.Some going when you consider the game is 140 years old.With the Hotel Superstore,Museum,now about to be undertaken,its staggering,the progress we have made since Fergus started it all off.Even our sponsorship deals have on a continuous basis,broken the record achieved from the deal previous.We are a fantastically well run club,no matter what the naysayers say.
Who’s who in the photo.Great pic.
GFTB
Happy Birthday Gerry!
I’m good Philbhoy, like Turkeybhoy I don’t give a fig about any of the Desmonds, They live in an alternative planet as far as I’m concerned.
However I do think we could be in much worse hands & as long as they do right about Celtic, that is all I care about.
celtic nice on freeview virgin 553 now.
“……but apart from the redeveloped stadium, Martin, Henke, Seville, second Nine, Invincible quadruples, commercially productive sponsorships,….. the Aqueduct; roads, irrigation, wine….medicine…and education….what have those Desmonds and McCann’s really done for us, eh!…Eh!”
Hello again all you young rebels.
Happy birthday to a great CQN’ r.
Have great day with your family Gerry.
H.H. Mick
By the way I see that the planning application has been lodged by Celtic for the hotel, retail and superstore centre.
Make no mistake Celtic PLC will not operate any hotel, nor will they build a hotel.
A hotel is normally built by a finance vehicle — like a pension fund — with the ground leased from the owner (Celtic) and the finished hotel is then operated by a specific hotel operator who pays the leaseholder for the privilege, and finally the operator enters into a brand contract with the likes of Radisson, Hilton, Waldorf or whoever.
What Celtic will get will be rent and possibly the construction cost of the retail units, the museum and superstore, plus it will enhance the capital value of what would then be “The Celtic Park Complex” for want of a better phrase.
Personally, I have advocated Celtic having a Celtic branded hotel for years and that such a hotel brand would be welcome in any and all major European Football cities. Such hotels would not only be used by Celtic fans of course.
However, if this hotel was a one off and you could give it any name you wanted I would suggest that it should be called ………. Hotel Paradiso!
And Happy Birthday GFTB — I saw you referring to the Bammy last night.
I never knew it was called that until my better half, who teaches at St Ambrose, educated me!
It was in there that I found out that copious amounts of alcohol could lead to me going blind in one eye and that a Buckfast De Luxe amounted to the raw product and ice, and cost 10p more than an ordinary glass of Buckfast.
Don’t ask me what I was doing in there as it was long ago and was just one of several lost weeks in Coatbridge !
HH
*cough*
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BANKIEBHOY1 on 17TH JULY 2020 10:20 PM
Hotel Paradiso
BANKIEBHOY1 on 17TH JULY 2020 10:25 PM
The Ritz Calton…………
:)
Radisson Green
or
The Four Seasons
@BRTH..Not to be scaremongering..But…
Had the same symptoms April 18 to April 19….
Umpteen visits to various Quacks…treated for everything from Allergies tae sinus.
Chance meeting with a Doc who got me an appointment with Consultant….
So after a year of this and that …Was Pharyngeal. Spent all last summer in the Beatson
two 12 hour shifts of Chemo..6 weeks of The dreaded mask for Radiotherapy.. every weekdays.Brutal..
All started with what i thought was minor ailment.So take care my fellow tim. I’m 11months into
an 18 moon recovery.. still on fortisips etc ..But still here ..4 of us in a ward and only one went home
May they rest in peace.
Drambowie Celt
Noted and thanks.
Stay well.
BRRB
Great photo 8 hours…………..big Jimmy🍻🍻.
Very good piece by BRTH as usual.
I made a few quid out of Man Utd shares but very few other clubs’ share prices did much,
Fergus did intend to make money but even he would be surprised how much he made – whether through luck or design, his timing in buying and selling Celtic was perfect.
BRTH on 17th July 2020 8:43AM 10:37AM
Good stuff, thanks for the reading material. Always good to have the conversation move along.
‘Writing on the wall for Celtic’ sounds apocalyptic, yet I draw the opposite conclusion to that one from the quoted Off the Pitch article. We’d be fortunate to have such Funds gravitate to us.
Luis Alvarez, the manager quoted, expresses the view taking a stake in a football club is a long term position not for quick turnaround. His Fund’s commitment to the three clubs mentioned are minimal and non-notifiable c1%.
The trigger to mandatory offer for an entire shareholding is 30% not 70%. Dermot Desmond at 44% has a waiver in place, approved at general meeting of the shareholders, to not buy all the remaining shares. This waiver would not transfer to any buyer of his shareholding without coming to a general meeting.
Remember, he keeps two aces up his sleeve with the convertible shares as additional protection against predation. The Preferred Ordinary shares convert two for one and DD has 8,000,000 of them. The Preference shares convert one for one when required.
The June article in Off the Pitch, highlighted as a relevant read in your link above, is a cracker; US investor: “Americans overestimate the ability to take over a European club and magically create huge sums of commercial revenue.”
Turkeybhoy 1.44. David66, Big Jimmy, Eddy, BRRB.
BRTH, your insights are always enlightening. Thanks.
Two points though. On the one hand you say the vision of 66% of Celtic being owned by the fans is a goner. Then go on to state that in fact the vast majority of Celtic share are Owned by… two Celtic fans.
Completely understand that their business persuasions will always overrule their Celtic affinity, but it is certainly better than being in the hands of non-Celtic fans.
Secondly, if Celtic become so attractive that others want to buy out these major shareholders as they foresee it a way of making money, then why wouldn’t DD et al hold on to them and make aforesaid money?
I fear Lawwell’s calls for Scottish football not to be left behind will go unanswered. Sturgeon has been very cautious throughout this pandemic and reaped the political benefits with opinion polls making for comforting reading. She won’t be seen to follow Boris and football fans in Scotland will be on their sofas while games in England and throughout Europe start getting back to normal.
AD- heard that muppet English having a go at PL,asking why he made a statement re getting fans into stadiums, top class journalist……