Two players arrived during this transfer window: Rami Gershon and Tom Rogic, with no first team players leaving the club. I don’t know what Neil has planned for Rami but his loan deal and stats at Standard Liege suggests he is here as cover. I expect to see as much of him as we saw of Pawel Brozek last season.
20-year-old Tom Rogic is different. He joins the club on the same runway as Victor Wanyama, Beram Kayal, Adam Matthews, Mikael Lustig and Emilio Izaguirre. I’ve refused to watch his YouTube clips but there is every reason to hope he will be as successful a recruit as our other recent acquisitions of a similar profile.
I’ve been banging on about Asset Management for years. The mantra being – they all have their price and if any club fails to grasp this reality they will underachieve. Against this backdrop, Gary Hooper will either sign a new contract in the coming weeks or there is a good chance he will leave for nothing when his contract expires in June 2014.
A fundamental problem prevented a deal being done for Gary last month. His value to Celtic, not necessarily in this season’s Champions League, but in the same tournament’s qualifiers in July and August, is far greater than his value to any suitor. In other words, his value as an asset is not measured by transfer fee alone. This squad should have enough to reach the Champions League group stages next season, worth the best part of £20m to Celtic. Any deals have to be measured against this target.
The kind of transfer decision Celtic made yesterday, a profitable club holding onto a player and at the risk of losing him leaving for free, is so much healthier than the scenario we previously faced, in an arms race with a rival who was prepared to spend money they could not afford in order to beat us. What a mistake that whole ‘Old Firm’ thing was. Glad to see the back of it.
The ‘big clubs’ in England didn’t come looking for Gary. Instead, a well-run club made several attempts to acquire a good player on a price appropriate for their income. No harm in that, you have to give Norwich the respect any yokel deserves trying to hook up with a beauty queen (nothing implied about people from Norwich, or Gary as a queen!).
There is no guarantee the same club will be playing top-flight football when he becomes available, or that a club with a greater income, or with a more flamboyant approach to spending, will move for him, so there is every chance that Gary and his new agent will figure out that an extra year on his Celtic contract for a hefty wage rise is a decent option.
There is an interesting side plot to the Hooper non-transfer. Victor Wanyama is sitting on an offer of a substantial wage increase to extend his contract from 2015 to 2016. Unless someone comes in with an offer greater than his value to Celtic in Champions League campaigns he’ll be here until 2015.
Chances of both players signing new contracts in the coming months has to be a wee bit higher today. All those meaningless scripts about Celtic being a selling club floating around various places will have to be shelved for another time. We are a selling club, but only at the right price and the right time, just as it should be.
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Chairbhoy.
I learned from that experience…never stray from the pack.hail hail
O.G.Rafferty
16:36 on 1 February, 2013
KevJungle, It’s a real story all right
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What a change that will be for me then
reading REAL stories :o)
HH
come on o.g.rafferty
spill ……..before the server goes down :-(((((
Che
16:36 on 1 February, 2013
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Yeah, it might he a history making day
in more ways than you could imagine :o)))
HH
kevjungle – murdo macleod – 4-2 – cheerio 10 iar :o)
16:33 on 1 February, 2013
OG – Is it news that will make EVEN me smile ? :o)))
They have sacked the Celtic Board and put you in charge.
kikinthenakas
How very remiss of me!
Please convey my very best wishes to Mrs K on her birthday!
How old is she btw?!
It’s my birthday a week today, incidentally!
HH!!
O.G.
Come ON!!!!!!
Eldest daughters b’day tomorrow and we in middle of usual pre-birthday purge getting house ready for family etc coming tomorrow.
Mrs TTT is vesuvius-esque just now with my contstant running into check PC and hitting f5!
Help a brow-beaten man oot will ye!
HAIL! HAIL!
Token
O.G. Person? Place? Money? or something else/new?
KLV
Off oot – before I hex the news…
laters…
Tallybhoy – I’m off out for lunch and i will pay homage to the great lady with a chianti or 2:)
OG – i hope upon my return from lunch that your wee bomb has dropped, thanks for alerting us all:)
slainte
tony
Marrakesh Express
12:57 on
1 February, 2013
Monaghan1900
Unless the FF article was meant as a wind-up, it only serves to present the Sevconian in an awfully bad and embarrassing light
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No wind up – from the body of an article by the “Grandmaster” himself no less!
BREAKING NEWS!!
Kev Jungle joins the Celtic plc board!
The other board members have resigned en-masse in protest!
HH!!
O G Raff
I demand to know the name of your source!
HH
lol.me too Token Tim, the house is decked by the flu and everyones crabbit and sick. so it better be worth the dirty looks all day.
; )
KLV
O.G.
Have to nip oot …………….hold on tae the story for a bit.
googybhoy ♥ Celtic
16:40 on 1 February, 2013
kevjungle – murdo macleod – 4-2 – cheerio 10 iar :o)
16:33 on 1 February, 2013
OG – Is it news that will make EVEN me smile ? :o)))
They have sacked the Celtic Board and put you in charge.
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Whit ?
A Cellic supporter in charge ?!?!
Naaahhhh too far :o)
Although – If i was given the reigns of Celtic FC…
…I would pass them over to more recent contributors
to the club. I’ve been lapsed for too long now.
Still in love but – lapsed.
I would do the honorable thing – CSC
HH
Tallybhoy
16:43 on 1 February, 2013
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Lots of llllllooolllll :o))))
HH
Super Ally’s Sooper-Dooper Deathly Quiet Transfer Window.
Now they’d have been worth a listen down at the ole Howff !
Anyway….got to stick to the plan…
Off oot – before I hex the O.G. news…
laters…
blog died? went quiet? sally demands to know which?
KLV
Adam Mathews goal is on the vote for Goal of the Week onSSN.
Cheers GoogyBhoy, going to vote for it now.
kevinlasvegas
Think OG has cleared the blog with his rumours.
GlassTwoThirdsFull
13:57 on
1 February, 2013
hen1rik 12:07 on 1 February, 2013
Might be more worthwhile looking for any possible links between James Mure who represented Oldco and Kenneth Mure who gave them a “not guilty” on the BTC. Maybe it’s just a common name in legal circles……
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Don’t think the two are related. They called at the bar twenty years apart. James (Ichabod Crane) bears no resemblance to Kenneth. What I have heard from more than one source is that both Kenneth and his sidekick Rae have pretty well known allegiances and are not shy about them. I know it’s the kind of thing that’s bound to be said in the circumstances but worth a wee bit of digging in the discreetest of fashions.
doc is neil lennon
Just sat down for my first pint in a pub this year.
Mmmmm lovely. The posts will start to go down hill now.
it seems he has googybhoy.lol
KLV
Googybhoy-enjoy.
o.g.rafferty
14:01 on
1 February, 2013
I hear there may be some interesting news coming out about the Great Undead, after 3.00 this afternoon.
Where are those lifeboats again …
o.g.rafferty
14:39 on
1 February, 2013
!!Bada Bing!! 14:37
There may well be liquid filling up our glasses this evening
ffs is the message getting sent by dead parrot mail
ah know i will give murdo a call ….if he does not know then chico willl…..;-)))))
Enjoy the beer mate!
!!bada bing!!
17:05 on
1 February, 2013
Googybhoy-enjoy.
Cheers mate I wll
come on O.G. the blog is dead, long live the blog………….
KLV
Is the breaking news story broke?
Was in the ha’penny on Wednesday for Killie game did not see you mr corkceltic -Sean was saying he has tried for ages to get on this site without success seems similar to last year when a whole batch of people got their e mail on the same day-his pub is indeed the only place to watch the game on the island
newradbhoy
17:12 on
1 February, 2013
Is the breaking news story broke?
Nah I think he may be called OG for a good reason,
Big Fraser is fit to start on Sunday, good news.
There will be no news tonigjt as the hordes are ibrokes tomorrow to watch the telly and will wreck the place if Chuckles has done the dirty.
IF there is news it will be Sunday/Monday.
Still think it is the selling of and lease back of ibrokes.
no newradbhoy, nothing yet mate!
KLV
Looks like Sevco signed a Brazilian yesterday. Noticed on SSN something about Sevco signing Embargo for 12 months. Is he any good?