I’ve seen nothing of Stefan Johansen but I’m delighted we have signed a central midfield player. Deficiencies up front are glaring, especially in the Premiership, but in Europe, the critical area is central mid, where we need to control more than we did this season.
Central midfield protects your defence and provides the foundations strikers stand on, it has been an important area for Celtic to strengthen since losing our top man last summer.
Conversely, Scott Brown is playing his best football since joining Celtic in 2007 but, as his European adventures were nullified by disciplinary action, the gap was unbridgeable. Honourable mentions should go to Charlie Mulgrew, Beram Kayal and Joe Ledley, but in the case of Charlie and Joe, they were asked to play secondary, or tertiary roles, while Beram was promoted from well down the pecking order to a Champions League starter.
Please observe the usual caveats when a new player arrives. New club, new city, new tactics, team mates, match officials and game atmosphere, Stefan has a lot to assimilate in the coming weeks. It took six months for Victor to settle and at least as long before Mikael, Scott and Joe looked their best.
For Stefan and Holmbert Fridjonsson the primary objective of the next six months is to prepare for Champions League qualifiers, closely followed by a Scottish Cup tie against Aberdeen in three weeks.
Welcome to Celtic, Stefan. You have a fantastic opportunity ahead.
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iBhoy
“Nir Biton has the number 6.
Max Oberschmidt (‘keeper on loan from Fulham) has 28.”
Appreciate the up-date as I was relying on a website that had not added Nir Biton or Teemu Pukki
Anyway now that he ahs chosen the 25 jersey, I am hoping that he is able to emulate Naka and Lubo rather than the injury record of the last wearer of that jersey.
Okay, seems the number 25-shirt is reserved for Norwegians?
Good enough for me, Stefan is a good box-to-box-player.
Almost having hopes for him in Glasgow, he was instrumental in Strømsgodset winning the league last season.
I bet a few Rosenborgers are happy he’s gone…
HH and enjoy Glasgow, the best wee city in the World IMHO
iBhoy
P.S. Do we still have Oberschmidt. I thought he was here just for the CL Youth League season and we are out of that now. There does not seem to be a Europa league for our youth to drop into.
welcome stefan
did anybody see the report on stv sports news
last night where the reporter was shoving the
microphone under stefans nose and demanding
to know if there was a problem on signing.
3 times he asked him
the boy had just came from his medical and looked
at the guy as if he was an idiot.
i suppose it gives him an idea of the type of reporting
that we are all used to
Bcw,
Celts v st mirren Scottish cup game midweek cold and wet, about 40k in the ground. Fantastic game fantastic atmosphere.
Wee Johnny Doyle RIP scores the winner in extra time and place goes berserk.
No one minds the cold and the rain. Brill . Late 70’s or early 80′ methinks.
Hail! hail !
Can anyone explain why it’s ok to have two right footed midfielders but not two left.
Could it just be that Neil doesn’t fancy having joe and Charlie playing together?
Delighted to see Peterborough pumped oot the FA Cup by a lower league side last night,the Chairman rubbished us big time on SSN when we bid for Lee Tomlin
Allthesmallthingscsc
Bada bing the other day La Ralston appeared to have a hole in her figure hugging top (just about where her heart is), and had that just got out of bed look! Which she carries off rather splendidly.
She nearly brought precipitation to my house.
estorilbhoy
replay at ove st, ash wednesday, frank mcdougall broke his leg, we where down to ten men before we got into the statium..
police horses tramping all over us in way into game, bedlam
Estorilbhoy
Cup replay at Love Street? JD got two – both brilliant solo efforts. Feb 80 I think. A night when the exact capacity of the ground turned up. Some watched it from the pylons.
Jimbo67 supporting Oscar Knox
I was pleasantly surprised last night that the BBC news clip showed Stefan scoring a goal after a mazy run. This is groundbreaking….whit happened to the falling over their own feet or tamely passing back to the opponent goalkeepers clips?
J67- the Shortbread monkey’s final question at the airport to Stefan “is there any reason you won’t sign for Celtic..?” Desperate hurting huns.
tim tanium-The Cumulo Nimbus Goddess.
setting free the bears supports Res. 12 & Oscar Knox
14:32 on
15 January, 2014
iBhoy
P.S. Do we still have Oberschmidt. I thought he was here just for the CL Youth League season and we are out of that now. There does not seem to be a Europa league for our youth to drop into.
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Good question – I thought he was on loan for the season but not entirely sure.
Susanna Reid is my favourite!
Mmmmmm…lovely.
!!Bada Bing!!
Agree and hope Adrian Dumbass gets it tight on his Drive-time programme from the Arsenal supporters tonight!
Estorilbhoy
great shout was that not year of Hamdump riot ?
On another note heard them mention on SKY last night that Chris Maguire
formerly of Sheep had scored last night for Peterboro ?? maybe
He was another that many on here thought we let through our grasp.
ah said
The finest example of the union,its corruption,its wrongdoing,in all its various bigoted identities sits at Ibrox.
Ernie Lynch
I think you’ve got that wrong, old chap.
The wheels only started to come off the show when control of their bank account was transferred from Scotland to England.
Only then were they treated the same as other businesses.
For some reason that wasn’t the case when matters were being dealt with in Scotland.
Ernie I actually take your point about the lending policy of BoS/RBos and any other bank under the Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling tenure.
Alas This policy of loaning stupid monies,accelarated under Gordon and Alstair.I accept totally the banks where negligent but alas the son of a tax dodger was one of many worldwide who took part in this simple transfer of monies from poor to rich.
We,you and I bailed the banks out and continue to do so( if their obscene bonus requests are anything to believe).Banking policy harmed society at large and that was steered by Gordon Brown and Alistair
Rangers not the bank decided
1.Tax/corporate Policy
a)As you know Ernie The Discount Option scheme,(GUILT ADMITTED) was conceived,developed,introduced and rolled out by RFC DEAD,
b)E.B.T’s once again conceived,originated,introduced and implemented by RFC DEAD no one else(under B.Quinn we followed Hectors advice)
both these schemes pre dated the banking crisis of 2007/8
as far as i recollect H.M.R.C rejected the CVA not B.o.S due to Hector being the main creditor
and to suggest Hector would not have pursued the broken identity is incorrect and a little disingeneous me thinks.
I accept that Banks doled out as i say,in the case of the Charlotte Square cabal,The monies given to minti and his myriad of companies,shell companies,off shore companies and highly complex intercompany accounting.
Murray was a ‘lever’financer from the early to mid 80’s long before gordon and Alistairs welfare state for the rich was introduced,he operated on the proviso imo that
if i owe my bank £1 its my problem,if i owe a £m its the Banks, and the complex structure of MIH and all intercompany accounting allowed him to do it.it allowed him surf gordon and alistairs policy beautifully
The company with which his name was built on,which gave him kudos in the world arena was the same one whose CVA failed on the 14th of june 2012.
RFC DEAD.
RFC death by tax policy not a banking policy that was overseen by Threadneedle St
hail hail my friend
Best games? far to many to list.
Worst: Inter-Cabel-Tel (away) -)))
Jc2-he’s on loan at Sheff Wed and scored in last couple of games.
So…nothing on SKY from the CP press conference???
ParkheadcomesSalford thoughts with you my friend in Celtic on your recent loss
justafan
sky are are among the worst on reporting
anything celtic.
wouldnt give them a penny
Stefan Johansen,welcome to our club my friend,I hope you go on and write a page or two in our striding and forward looking history.I hope to see you on Saturday at Parkhead
Hail hail
Good comment on the Hootsman article about Wallace & Gromit:
This is a new club that does not have a bank overdraft facility. The FD predicted insolvency by April. The share price is in freefall. They can cut all they want but the VAT on 36,000 season ticket sales equivocated to a nett income or circa £7M with another £500,000 in sponsorship and a similar amount in TV revenue.
From that £8M pot there is £300K per each of four executives on the board of the holding company and two at £300K for the new club. Then add The Three Stooges of management at £1.2M and McCulloch at £950,000 and Lee Wallace at £850,000. That’s outgoings circa £5M on directors, managers and two players.
So to break even, they have to pay 28 players and staff a share of £2M. However 10 of those players have contracts that guarantee £650,000 per year, i.e. £6.5M. So even if they let 30 players go and made all the staff redundant, they would still be losing £4.5M. The real figure is probably double that, if you include employer’s PAYE tax.
They will need an investment of £9M to meet basic needs. However even if investors were stupid enough to shell out on a company whose shares have nosedived from 70 pence to 20 pence (try selling that to your FD), the legal costs of defending actions against two former directors will expedite insolvency.
There is only one outcome here. Ally has been allowed to run riot and the new club will go under.We look forward to Third Rangers in SPFL2 next season.
I wonder if they will still have 5 stars on their strips. One star for each £10M walked away from. S’amuser
j67…
Agreed. When the seasons over its gone for ever!
Why do we allow the laptop loyal free access to any of our players , never mind guys who have just arrived and have no idea what these peoples real agenda is . Another thing be wary of this Reagan , don’t think his helping hand has been withdrawn from them .
An tearman
A well constructed blog and also enlightening
Praecepta,14.05,
I like your list but they were the Huns then.
They are Sevco now, post June 2012.
Got to be consistent.
HH
EC67
Tim Tanium
14:40 on 15 January, 2014
I was pleasantly surprised last night that the BBC news clip showed Stefan scoring a goal after a mazy run. This is groundbreaking….whit happened to the falling over their own feet or tamely passing back to the opponent goalkeepers clips?
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Aye, but they’d already got in there with wee Rhona opening line
“Celtic look to have secured their first signing of the transfer window”
I feckin’ hope big Fridjonsson is a goal machine, sickin the feckers!
HH
/Bishop B
richie
third lanark rankers coming to a stadium near you soon…
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Jimbo67 that St.Mirren replay at Love St,did we not get a man sent off?
An Tearmann
At the risk of re-igniting politics
“Banking policy harmed society at large and that was steered by Gordon Brown and Alistair”
You think the banks listened to those two? Tony Blair had already surrendered control of the Banks to their “independent” managers. He did so as the price to be paid not to have Rupert’s hounds making them unelectable. Gordon Brown made many mistakes as Chancellor but I have no doubt that his intentions were far removed from creating a casino economy. In his case, and Darling’s, it was much more cock-up and powerlessness than design.
“long before gordon and Alistairs welfare state for the rich was introduced”
Nice soundbite but it again suggests a design that was far removed from Gordon Brown’s intentions. He was trying to re-distribute wealth but he had little access to the controls. It was a worldwide banking crisis and not a UK specific one. We could have done better but I would rather blame the puppet masters than the puppets.
Any thoughts on our starting 11 for the Well game?
Hmmmmmmmm? This is a new club that does not have a bank overdraft facility. The FD predicted insolvency by April. The share price is in freefall. They can cut all they want but the VAT on 36,000 season ticket sales equivocated to a nett income or circa £7M with another £500,000 in sponsorship and a similar amount in TV revenue. From that £8M pot there is £300K per each of four executives on the board of the holding company and two at £300K for the new club. Then add The Three Stooges of management at £1.2M and McCulloch at £950,000 and Lee Wallace at £850,000. That’s outgoings circa £5M on directors, managers and two players. So to break even, they have to pay 28 players and staff a share of £2M. However 10 of those players have contracts that guarantee £650,000 per year, i.e. £6.5M. So even if they let 30 players go and made all the staff redundant, they would still be losing £4.5M. The real figure is probably double that, if you include employer’s PAYE tax. They will need an investment of £9M to meet basic needs. However even if investors were stupid enough to shell out on a company whose shares have nosedived from 70 pence to 20 pence (try selling that to your FD), the legal costs of defending actions against two former directors will expedite insolvency. There is only one outcome here. Ally has been allowed to run riot and the new club will go under.We look forward to Third Rangers in SPFL2 next season. I wonder if they will still have 5 stars on their strips. One star for each £10M walked away from. S’amuser
An Tearmann
Yes we did. Tom McAdam I think. Fairly early on in the game I think
Jimbo67 supporting Oscar Knox
That post above was from the Scotsman , not by me.
Welcome Stefan.
For those wanting him to start on Saturday, a word of warning – LASLEY.
He’s already crocked one of our players.
RetributionawaitsAdamCSC