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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Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire
Deja vu all over again, for the followers of the Titanic team
Googybhoy , only saving grace is a train change @ Preston in 15mins. Mind you , that gives me access to the bar.
Vmhan , speechless ?! Nah. Last time I saw that , Derryghirl was asking about the money she gave him for new trainers for the BMH 10k .
TTT , ovenpride
OG,
Fair play, I understand. Would we be correct in assuming that the news regards our former rivals and that it may have negative consequences for the new club in SFL division 3?
How much are you allowed to reveal?
scotlands shame
Agreed. What`s the point of telling us a story is going to break but we cannot be told what it is until it has been broken?
JJ
I’m glad Hooper stayed but I think it must have been a close call.
I can’t see us sounding out Doyle if we hadn’t considered selling Hooper.
The most important thing now is to find a replacement for Hooper before the CL qualifying rounds.
Thought about the Phil Mac story about Tinkerbell voting on the SPL proposal,
din any of the other clubs get two votes ?
Sally vote against the proposal and his colleague voted for.
That looks to me like their involvement required neutrality, thus any vote must be discounted one way or another, giving them two votes which must be cast as to cancel out any Tinkerbell influence.
O.G. That sounds like it can only mean one thing!
Good enough for them.
Scotland’s shame , good call.
Except , wheres the fun in that?
OG has his moments . Let’s wait and see
Damp squib it is, Sucks dudes, total anti climax after a great build up. O.G. any idea why it never broke today?
KLV
scotlands shame
17:38 on
1 February, 2013
Can we have a new rule on CQN, if you have a story say it, if it’s not yours to say then keep it to yourself, dont drop wee morsels to keep people hanging and when those whose story it is choose to break it then we can hear it then.
………….
You have just barred OG.
great post paul67, I can’t see the woods for the trees in this strategic stuff, thanks for clearing it up
Scotlands shame.
naw!
The wee morsel’s are all part of the CQN fun. :-)
If O.G. hadn’t posted I would not now be looking forward to some sort of announcement (in a favourable way) in the next day(s) or so re oldco.
HAIL! HAIL!
Token
Will it mean the huns getting punted to OVD Central League 3?
Dinner time and nap time to shift this virus, thanks anyway for the ride O.G. I may check back later on to see if its popped out.
KLV
I got sequestrated there….
Ralston & CorkCelt
We are regular visitors to the island and always watch all Celtic games in ha’ penny with Sean and Fiona. We were there for 2 weeks at christmas and got back on the 8th Jan. Watching the games there and sitting outside after , on the beer terrace in the sun , with those fantastic sea views , and the rebel music blaring , takes some beating.
Administration!!!
BB
Players being asked to take wage cuts ?
Sanna,
Homepride is more your thang……going by the size of ye
:-)
HAIL! HAIL!
Token
kevinlasvegas, 17:42
No idea at all and I don’t know if it not appearing means the story has changed.
Doc is Neil Lennon 17:42
Rats, sinking ship
OG Rafferty,
If not now, when? If it hurries the demise of their new incarnation, I will be only too happy to hear it, from whoever spills the beans. But please don’t drop hints like that again and not feel able to follow through. Doesn’t do my wonky ticker any good.
goggybhoy @ 17.42
That drink has sharpened your humour 0:-)
JJ
I’m not barring anyone, I’m a nobody, just find a non story like that frustrating and seen so many times.
I also think if it is something you arent allowed to say and not yours to break then its quite wide to splash on a site visited by hundreds of thousands (unless the owner of story has allowed this)
Hopefully this will break tonight I’m off to Belfast tomorrow for a party…. Could be even messier.
News just in….
Sevco players – not been paid for 2 months ?!?!?
Sack The Sevco Board
…well if O.G. can do it….:o)))
Che,
apron packed?
HAIL! HAIL!
Token
O.G. More walking away, by foreign investors, makes sense Phil was talking about it the other day, so perhaps a double dunter, walking away to the administrator.
Look forward to confirmation.
Keep them coming O.G.
is it about some of thier backers??
jungle jim
17:49 on
1 February, 2013
goggybhoy @ 17.42
That drink has sharpened your humour 0:-)
Cheers mate. I will get funnier as the night goes or at least I think so.
Few lines from an enormous ranting missive published on Sevcomedia (obviously before Sevco FC released a second statement indicating it had had its knuckles rapped re the bigotfest):
“Rangers Football Club and the Rangers family have and continue to embrace a multi-cultural policy and as Scotland’s largest football club, and indeed one of Britain’s, the Remembrance Day activities are eagerly anticipated by and engaged in by the club, it’s supporters and, most importantly, our men and women who serve in the Armed Forces…..
Remembrance events and significant historical dates are held throughout the world, not only by our allies but by nations that were formerly our enemies. These are often a mixture of solemnity and celebration for example ‘Bastille Day’ in France…….
I would re-iterate my comments of the Rangers family being a multi-cultured one that respects all regardless of beliefs, creed or colour and take this opportunity to state that for many, service personnel and fans alike, at Ibrox on the day in question, celebration is the ‘letting go’ of the loss, pain and angst they suffer.”
their… sorry KB error ???
En
Is that 405 crispy rolls and 406 square sausages
kevjungle – murdo macleod – 4-2 – cheerio 10 iar :o)
O.G. Has been on the money enough times before now.
You on the other hand………
Good evening friends and to those who are as lucky as me and are staring their weekend, a big Friday woo-hoo!
Parkheadcumsalford, 17:48
I was told it would go up at 3.00 – that’s why I posted earlier. I want confirmation too so the serious drinking can commence
monaghan
it’s like when the argies are economically knackered they go for the malvinos angle. CG – ‘right, we are not in the big time now, our future is fubar, roll out the dead soldier line’
Doc is Neil Lennon
17:54 on 1 February, 2013
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Aye – put yer pistol back in it’s holster
Btw, the KevJungle head-hunters queue
is forming roon the block…yer welcome
to join them….