Anchoring to a distant geographical base is not intuitively how you would expect a football club to recruit but Celtic are clearly working their contacts in Israel these days. Beram Kayal has worked out well in the two and a half years since joining from Maccabi Haifa, as has Nigeria international, Efe Ambrose, who joined from Israeli club Ashdod in the summer.
Neil Lennon recently mentioned he needed cover for left back (despite right-footed Adam Matthews performing heroics there against Barcelona), so it is no surprise that Israel international Rami Gershon is in town today. Gershon has played less than a dozen games for Standard Liege since leaving Israel three years ago, although he was a regular pick for loan club Kortrijk. Should he sign he will be a low-risk addition to the squad but he has almost certainly received commendation from the same sources who recommended Kayal and Ambrose.
Best of luck to Rabiu Ibrahim, who left for Kilmarnock after promising much but delivering little as a prodigy at Sporting and PSV Eindhoven. He was the low-risk addition of last January. You’ve got to kiss a lot of frogs……
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o.g.rafferty
That “Four Men Had A Dream” sounds unputdownable.
What a collection of dopes the whole bunch of them are.
Thanks for sharing the comedy.
Clear your diary for a date with Billy No’Well on Friday the 25th of this month in The cross keys Wishaw.
Details will be posted in here soon.
I would take the 800k fee for Gershorn with a pinch of salt,given where he is playing now and the amount of games he has played for a Belgian club.
Huberta
you will do well to get oor Wishae mob out of the Teser..
Highly temperamental and sexed Huberta
I used to frequent the Keys on a Sunday afternoon for some community singing about 10 years ago. Cracking wee pub.
LB
!!Bada Bing!!
16:16 on 4 January, 2013
Probably includes loan fee and one year’s wages.
as i thought .
Porta Nuova ?
Rather seedy ————-prostitutes / hustlers / dealers and small time criminals . A very noisy part of the city .
Such stuff is common in the areas surrounding all major train stations in Italy.
Valentine’s Day
It’s unusual to see such sweet innocence and naivety on the blog these days.
Bless.
I’m Neil Lennon (tamrabam)
My stage left take on the season book reduction problem is that as a support we have to stop thinking that watching Celtic should cost more to do if done one way than another.
I get as much if not more satisfaction (at my age) from watching on a screen rather than at the game. I think that will apply to others as they age.
Spending the winter away from home I was able to sign up to Celtic TV and for around £3.50 a game I could watch EVERY game Celtic play from the comfort of my temporary home. What a friggin deal.
You will probably have read about the Overseas Season Book where I elected to pay near the same conscessionary SB price of £300 (£7.90 a game) as I did last year wherebye the difference allows someone to attend a home game in my absence.
The way forward has to be a levelling of the price to watch Celtic across the global support and finding ways to enable the support to do it once they buy into the underlying reality that the cost of supporting the club through watching a game can no longer fall mainly on SB sales.
For those overseas the model now exists. For those in the UK broadcasting restrictions mean watching live is not possible although watching later is available. It would be wrong to expect folk in this position to pay the same as those overseas, but it would not be wrong to ask those not able to attend but who watch live in a pub or streams to become a non SB viewer by paying something like £50 to £60 a year for which they also get the Celtic TV offering for UK residents.
Even if it is never used, rebranding the Celtic TV service as one for Celtic supporters who live in the UK but cannot attend, as a means of making up for the shortfall in SB sales (and so enabling the quality of player to be maintained) is an avenue waiting to be used.
All it takes is for the support to change its mind about how each one can support Celtic financially and the club making the means available once this idea of sharing the load across the full supporting spectrum is owned by the support as a whole.
One of the biggest obstacles to the acceptance of this idea is that somehow this is helping Celtic as a separate entity from the support governed by a Board whose mission in life is seen by some to screw the support.
However in effect, when we argue against a broader sharing of the support load for this reason, it is not the Board that suffer but ourselves as a support and individually, as the quality of player we can afford drops.
That is not to say that complaints against the Board are not always valid but it has to be recognised that we ALL share the same aim and that is that Glasgow Celtic flourish, and when they do everyone one of us a supporter benefits.
pigalle,16:14
I felt obliged too – collectively delusional on a scale you couldn’t imagine.
They are beyond parody.
valentine’s day
So the club are sitting on their laurels are they now ?
Give it a rest LOL
Kayal 33-You’re hopefully right mate.HH
To, not too…
South Of Tunis
16:20 on
4 January, 2013
as i thought .
Porta Nuova ?
Rather seedy ————-prostitutes / hustlers / dealers and small time criminals . A very noisy part of the city .
Such stuff is common in the areas surrounding all major train stations in Italy.
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Sounds right up my street. Ha
HH
I see Kev is now garnering support. God loves a trier.
I was talking to my auld Dad today about the stories of some of the support being happy to sell the likes of Hooper and Foster. He just shook his (almost 90 year old) head. “Some Celtic supporters” quoth he, ” have no idea. I don’t think they read the game”. Dead right, Dad.
Auldheid geez peace.
Same to watch on TV as going to the game?
Are you Dermott Desmond’s love child?
neganon2
13:52 on
4 January, 2013
I get asked some really daft stuff at times but hats off to Steviebhoy for the following:
“I sometimes buy a bovril and a pie, and that might be regarded as ‘exploitation’, as I am charged for these before being allowed to consume them. Perhaps neganon2 can point me to another club who provide free refreshments for their supporters.”
And followed up with a – perhaps Neganon shouldnt be a Celtic supporter.
Nice one Steviebhoy
neganon2…
Sorry, was out at hospital all day with my wee mammy.
I see that you don’t address my point about the “rubbish” you pay good money to watch. The season book holders who sit beside me have been praising many aspects of the team this season and certainly have never even hinted that they felt they were witnessing ‘rubbish’. That was why I suggested that, since you complained about paying £600 to watch what you called ‘rubbish’, you might want to consider paying less to watch another team who were not rubbish. You are, after all, a consumer who expressed a concern that you were being “exploited” by Celtic.
I’m a supporter. Sometimes my team is better than others, but I don’t regard the transaction between myself and the club I support as a contract guaranteeing a particular level of either success or entertainment. It’s the cost to see my team win, lose or draw.
You also fail to address my suggestion that your criticisms of the club would be welcome at other clubs elsewhere, some of them within easy travelling distance.
See you, yer comedy gold, man!
Yours in Celtic
Hail Hail!
Deary me……what are you lot like
The hun’s went bust because
they followed the party line.
Canamalar,
Your reply noted: I’ll do my best (& if not this time, then next).
BMCUWP,
Comment noted!
It’s only the 4th of January and already the Slugger o’Toole article on the “flegs” dispute (see O G Rafferty’s post @ 15.38) is a contender for most surreally funny article of the year.
valentine’s day
16:10 on
4 January, 2013
As a club we are sitting on our laurels.
Time to push on.
>>>>>>>>>>
I would put it to you that we are doing exceedingly well on all fronts ……..though, you wouldn’t think so, by vitue of the LL agenda-driven ‘reporting’ …….KTF
Got my mate coming through tonight and I think we will hit the folk pubs in Edinburgh. Usually a decent night in auld reekie!
LB
Has Vincent Lunney been on the phone to hearts yet to charge Ryan Stevenson over his dangerous lunge last night.
I emailed the sfa but has anyone got an email for Lunney
Not been on from last night
To be greeted by a John McGlynn interview when I log on is becoming a highlight. The man is Mr Positive and I think he`s also the voice on the Hearts, Hearts, Glorious Hearts song.:-)
Respect to John!
67Heaven … I am Neil Lennon..!!.. Ibrox belongs to the creditors
I don’t give a rat’s a##e what the LL think
and neither should you.
ianinascoli
John McGlynn looks like a janitor. He appears to manage like one too.
LB
leftclicktic-I think as Collum seen it (I know,I know),and dealt with it,i.e did nothing,he obviously thinks it’s a good tackle.Scary actually.HH
Come on LiviBhoy, :-)
I quote, `he was all over the pitch making tackles…everything you want from a Hearts Player`. (Just stopping short of serious assault.)
Auldheid
Great stuff, as per.
I like this line in particular: “The cost of supporting the club through watching a game can no longer fall mainly on SB sales.”
It makes me wonder if we might have scope in the near future, if not now, to do things this way.
Properly run and properly affiliated CSCs get a new deal. They buy a block of SBs in the club’s name, not the individuals’. They get priority on away games, European games and in-demand cup-ties. It makes no difference how their members get to Celtic Park.
As part of the deal, if they buy a minimum number of SBs (30 if you are in Scotland, 20 in England?), they get permission to show the Celtic TV video coverage back at the CSC. Members can alternate, and share the cost. One week you’re at Celtic Park, the next you make do with watching with your pals at the club.
I think this would breathe new life into a lot of CSCs, perhaps especially in England.
Well “BLOW ME DOWN WAE A FEATHER”
Talk of the devil and he’s sure to appear :0)
I just got a reply email from the SFA saying my message would be passed on to the “appropriate department”.
ianinascoli
Aye, sounds like the janny who managed our school team. He was a Geordie and put me off Newcastle Utd from a very young age. Was always reeking of drink and fags and told us to kick everything that moved!
LB
LiviBhoy,
happy days! :-)
Celtic First
I attend away games on a supporter’s bus but usually make my own arrangements for tickets.
I’m sorry but I can’t accept that simply because you take a ticket as part of a collective body that should give you greater entitlement when tickets are in short supply.
I think we have to make a few sections pay at the gate.Going in to CP at 2.50 on the 2nd,the queue for the ticket office was down to London Road.Then probably another queue to get in the Park.We should be making it as easy as possible to get guys in to the game.Not everyone can afford a ST.
ianinascoli
We just picked the team and had the team talk. He couldn’t remember anyones name anyway. he never noticed the team was different from the one the headmaster had picked due to classroom performances. We had a great team spirit and never any arguments over selection. The janny was an amusing distraction and provided some much needed referee and opposition player intimadation.
LB
Bada bing
When I walked past the ticket office at about ten past two there was a very short queue. Many we’re probably still in the pub at that time. If it was me, I’d get my ticket before going for a pint.
But I do agree that we should encourage supporters as much as possible.
Hail Hail!
LiviBhoy,
Brilliant!
stevebhoy-You could be right,but asking people to queue up twice isn’t great.HH