I’ve been looking for signs for an inflationary bounce in English football. The next Premier League TV deal is still 12 months away but at this stage before previous TV deals kicked in, clubs started spending ahead of themselves as they looked to secure a piece of the lucrative new deal. In particular, I’m keen to see how central defenders are valued.
Today news broke that West Brom agreed a deal with newly-relegated Hull City to sign central defender, James Chester (26) for £8m. Chester has 11 months left on his contract at Hull. Three years in the English Championship and 45 Premier League games over two seasons was enough evidence to induce modest West Brom to pay the asking price.
It would have helped that three other Premier League clubs, Southampton, Aston Villa and Newcastle, were also reportedly interested, but no one is making false claims for a lad who has not troubled the scouts of England’s top clubs. He’s a modest player who is able to sign a pre-contract in January. This is a spectacular fee, passing between two modest clubs, for a central defender.
Consequences for us? We’ll see.
I’m doing a State of the Club article for Friday, as we do the day before the league campaign starts. So far there’s a flow to the words. A solid result on Wednesday will reaffirm that, whereas a reversal would, frankly, deem a satisfactory assessment inappropriate.
So much turns on these next few games, Champions League qualification, squillions of pounds, and sure, the State of the Club. We’ve come through a few iterations of acceptable levels of performance over the last 20 years, since winning our first trophy in six years. Younger readers will never appreciate how precious a 1-0 Scottish Cup win over Airdrie could be.
These days it’s all about the treble and Champions League group stage qualification. The loss of a cup would be an annoyance, but Celtic need to be part of the Champions League.
Our friends at Magners have offered a pair of Premium seat tickets for the Jock Stein Stand at the opening league game of the season on Saturday. To enter, all you need to do is email me with the name [IN THE SUBJECT LINE] of who we play that day, celticquicknews@gmail.com
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now checkin to the ross county seating available for saturday ………. looks like thats a 50,000 + day ………
we should do pay at the gate as well.
Cheers voguepunter, HT is on the blue smarties. Hard core.
HH
embramike says “the Huns are Deid”
20:20 on
28 July, 2015
Celtic Gossip @CelticGossip 55s56 seconds ago
Gazzetta dello Sport is reporting that Celtic have made enquiries about Genoa left back Luca Antonini
…hmmmm … guy’s 33 in August – not our usual target type
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if he is as good as his brother is a judge n stricly come dancing, then why not.
we havnt had much drama since paulo.
CB,
Its only my opinion, but I dont believe heads should role if we don’t get past this leg. The whole landscape has changed. We often dont have the resources to compete against teams that, previously, we’d never heard about.
Anyway, we’re gonnie spank them
Ram the old dissonance
Embramike, there is a story in newsnow Celtic also re Antonini.
We already have had an Irish Anton at left back (god bless him) now we may sign the Italian equivalent of the name Anton.
Tomorrow will possibly be a nervy night for us but it would be nice if Qarabag think they have travelled forward in time to November going how bad our weather is the now.
C’mon bhoys, let’s do it to them before they do it to us. Copyright Sergeant Stan Jablonski of the Hill Street Greens CSC.
just cos i am perusing the ticket site, i always wanted to go and sit with Rod in the directors box, belt out a few croaky tunes, have a wee greet, and just feel special.
its only £100 .
but the dress rules put me off ………….
you cant wear a celtic tap, but you need to wear a collar.
celtic kinky supporters club.
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blantyretim.
What are you doing tomorrow,I’m booking in around 2.10pm
Paul67 et al
It is funny, is it not, how, but not why, some posters on here are unable to grasp the subject of the discussion, namely inflation. They seem to be getting it confused with deflation, a related subject to be sure, but one with, let us say, a different meaning. I’m being charitable there of course.
Elsewhere, one of the best things that could happen, apart of course of Celtic progressing to the CL, would be for new Dutch manager, Danny Blind, to bring Virgil into his next squad, which is probably early September. Helping us into the draw for the group stages might help in that regard. Starting tomorrow.
Talking about charges
Bought one of the kids a tkt for Paulo Nuttini £45
4:50 service charge
2:50 processing FEE
WTF
About 3.30 Oldtim
Call you in the morning
ps.
is Mike Ashley turns up at celtic park with either of his teams sometime, or if delia at norwich turns up, will they both not be allowed in.
wearing fitba taps
What times the K Off 2 morro night?
3 0 at least to-morrow evening ,anything less could be fatal in the return match,and all this from the bbc about us struggling to sell tickets,does anyone know how many fans that are season ticket holders,im sure plenty of celtic supporters were hoping sevco would return to the premier league ,before buying a seaon ticket. Personally the way our club is advertising it self on celtic supporters taking up a season book,tells me they are struggling ,and if thats the case that tells me that here will need to be big changes at the top, wether sevco return or not,
blantyretim.
Are you going to the game or are you just coming into the BV.
Nice of Paul to confir, we are selling VVD.
Just BV
Panathinaikos currently the ONLY Home team leading in CL Qualifying games!!
JJ
neganon2
Should we keep him if he doesn’t want to stay ?
Hail Hail
jude
7.45
Reading King statement there’s no way Huns shifted 9,000 season tickets through a public sale…no chance!!
http://videocelts.com/2015/07/blogs/latest-news/king-no-more-investment
If anyone has an interest
BBC2, great ormond street
Brain tumor in children
T R
Ta
Awe naw no Antonini annaw noo.
jude
Did you have any success speeding your laptop up?
Teuchter ár lá
21:06 on
28 July, 2015
Awe naw no Antonini annaw noo.
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well done slaps foreheid and says why didnt i think of that.
Cowiebhoy…..errr….yes….
Could someone please point out where Paul67 confirms the sale of Virgil Van Dyke? I have read the article and still cannot find that bit.
Maybe it only appears on the screens of those who cannot see the blog contentedly posting about Celtic, life, the Universe and everything in between without coming on to manufacture a controversy.
Stupid is as stupid does I suppose. Me that is of course, or resident saviour is only trying to edumacate us less intelergent folks who cannot see how badly Celtic are doing.
saint stivs
Think of it?
I am finding it hard enough to say it!
Owen
VVD. Will be sold …fairly obvious
Cowiebhoy
We shouldn’t keep unhappy players
We should however spend all the money generated from their transfer
We are continually advised that we don’t need to sell ….
neganon2
We will need to disagree on that one :-) which ain’t a problem
If he wants to go, which I believe is the case, based on what I have watched in his play this season to date, then let’s ensure we can get as much as possible for him
I have no problem with that
We need to be sure we have covered the bases though before allowing him to go
Hail Hail
Is the cash gate for upper tier where the banners are
pfayr if he is sold do you think it will be with or against his wishes?
My point was more about the deliberate attempt to cause discontent than the message.
If Virgil leaves then it will be because he and his agent have agreed a deal with a mid table EPL team who have offered Celtic enough money. It will not be because Peter Lawell is featherbedding his wage packet or because Celtic are colluding in the return (sic) of the huns.
In my opinion of course. I am sure our sage of the ages will correct me since I am wrong.
Hail Hail All,
Apologies if this was talked about previously but I just jumped on. It looks like the game
outside the UK won’t be live on CelticTV because of a rights issue, but will it be shown
on delay via CelticTV?
CaliBhoy
Night All.
Pfayr
I have no problem with your comments, if he doesn’t want to be with us, let’s get the best deal for us,
Look like a slight change in direction under Ronny, so let’s see who is lined up ? To replace
Just a personal opinion, I am happier with a smaller squad, so let’s improve quality of such, and we should be able to improve package to attract better
Makes sense to me anyway :-)
Hail Hail
Owen
VVD will be sold because he wants to leave
I can only hope we reinvest the fee we receive in the squad ……
Can anyone tell me where to see Celticon TV tomorrow night?