It always stings a bit when we lose a good one, and there appears to be universal agreement that Victor Wanyama is a good one, but there are compensations. We lost him for the asking price (a club and Scottish record) and lost him early enough in the transfer window for the cash to be put to good use. Technical note, £12.5m and freeing up a very small wage will not provide £12.5m for transfers plus wages for either a £12.5m player or a collection of players at that value. It will free up a lesser transfer budget and provide a higher wage budget.
Victor goes with our best wishes. He joins a club who signed Celtic fringe player (I’m being generous), Jos Hooiveld, two years ago, and who also employ former Celtic misfit, Danny Fox. It’s not a sexy move but Victor will be as well compensated as Celtic by England’s bling. There could be claims about the move being about football, but it’s about the money, honey; not that there’s a problem with that, Victor didn’t pack his bags in Nairobi hoping to end his days in Glasgow.
He only became a first choice player after Beram Kayal was injured so comprehensively by Elbows McCulloch and played less than 30 games and was a first team choice for less than a year before declining a contract extension for a substantial wage increase (several times the wages he was on). This, when he had almost three years left on his existing deal. There’s a lesson there for future negotiations.
If you are feeling less than happy about this development, I could suggest a reason or two. Back in the 70s and 80s Macari, Hay, Dalglish, Nicholas and McClair were sold for competitive fees but the Cavalry of reinforcements didn’t arrive. Instead Celtic hoped a new generation of youths would fill the gap. Those of us from that generation were condition by the experience.
Things worked differently when Jock Brown was in charge (aye, you read right). Within a few months we lost the league for the ninth consecutive season and sold the Three Amigos for a substantial amount of money. In August 1997 I was distraught but 10 months later the penny dropped. The challenge now for Peter Lawwell, Neil Lennon and the Celtic scouts is to outperform Jock and Wim………….
Easy, right?
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WeefratheTim
None taken Mate, I can’t listen to those other guys drive my blood pressure through the roof!!
Stokes is an SPL player only. Simply not good enough at this level. IMO.
We never get enough players forward at speed when we attack and always end up outnumbered or the guy in possession has no options, this team flood forward we amble!!
Stokes is Breaking up .. a lot of our Plays
Quite Ridiculous.
Kojo
Much more impressed with Rogic this time out. He’s demanding the ball now. Good quality when he’s on the ball
Starry
Good point, thank f@@k I’m on BP tablets. :)))
Weefra HH
I’d put young Irvine as our best player so far
Hoopy birthday, Kevjungle!
Slainte
Look Commons on his agin five Berliners!¨
Commons surges (?) forward then runs out of puff.
Brown needs some help. He’s alone in the middle…..
Watch out UB Sammy’s getting angry
gsu
Tonight is like Deja Vu, Can’t do the basics of the game. pass. tackle. shoot! Poor Fair again.
KLV
How Long is gone in the game?
WGS
Almost 40 mins
How many times has Stokes given the ball away now?
Good idea Tom skelp it!!
Ah am beginning tae relize
Stokes Canny Play in the Centre… eethur!
He is . A Left Winger..
Noo. Sammi is a Left Winger.. and Stokes is a Left Winger??
Like Ah said.. Baith these Guys tae be considered as Strikers..
Disnae Compute.
Neil.. Are ye getting this?
Kojo
Rogic shoots. Deflected. Corner.
Stokes is having an nightmare of a game
Rogic the class player for us. Like Irvine too.
Shot from Tom after 24 terrible pases
Rogic hhas a go deflected for a corner
Stokes doesn’t look like a player who want to stay, does he? Poor.
KLV
Rogic looking no bad the night
gsu
Playing a bit better now
C’mon Celts a goal before the break..
Starry,
Cheers
Another Corner Celtic
Izzy crosses, defender concedes corner under pressure from Sami.
Lustig comes close.
Doesn’t matter how rusty Stokes is. We need him to shake it off to be the main striker if Hooper is injured for the first leg next week.
I worry he doesn’t Kojo, it worries me alot. If it its down to Balde, Sammy and Stokes this season, we are in for a long year.
KLV
We’re hammering them on corners now
Like the look of Young Jackson..
Yep, Jackson Irvine is a footballer.
Keep losin ma sausage….vv frustrating!
Still to win a game with that new stupid strip
If Jackson Irvine continues tae play with such CLASS n ELAN..
Why..
Ah wid pit in As Wanyama’s Replacement..
Furgettaboot..
Kayal!
Kojo