You can be sure Peter Lawwell was not working on contract renewals for Scott Brown, Jozo Simunovic and Callum McGregor last month, as the transfer window reached is climax, but 14 days after it closed, all three have signed new long-term deals.
Scott’s keeps him at the club until he turns 34 in two years. Jozo is contracted to 2021, when he will be 27, while Callum this morning also agreed to stay until 2021, when he will be 28.
Callum is a fascinating case study in player development. After making a substantial impact on the right wing, his form faded, but he has been reborn in central mid. More than anyone else at the club, he has an ability to instantly bring a difficult pass under control. This affords him that valuable commodity: vision.
I’m not going to tell you Callum is as good as the PSG players we saw on Tuesday, but he is the only player we have in the mould of their midfielders. They also fire the ball around with precision and control. Aiden McGeady had this ability in abundance (none of his Celtic contemporaries did). I’d like to have seen the Green Garrincha in a central role.
My sense is that we may have struggled to re-sign Jozo if questions didn’t hang over his knee. His ability is comfortably worth an eight-figure transfer fee and far higher wages than Celtic could afford. The player’s proverbial Achilles heel may bestow long-term stability in Celtic’s defence.
Celtic gambled on signing him two years ago – and let’s not forget the comments pages here were full of angst, as a regional Guardian journalist expressed astonishment that we’d gone for what he viewed as such a limited talent. We are in a place where we need to take a few chances. This one paid off.
I fully expect Scott Brown will sign one more Celtic contract to see him through his mid-30s, when thoughts at the club will turn to succession.
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Big Jimmy
Yes yer right mate…”not proven” was a feckin joke !
I hope some on here will forgive me as due to my age…I sometimes have a wee bit of dementia and tend to forget things ?
When I am drinking however….I don’t forget how to BEHAVE myself, unlike others.
HH
Really ??????
My apologies if I got this all wrong.
Seemed to me a few on here wanted the lad hanged, drawn and quartered.
I prefer holding out hope he might turn his life around.
PUFFNSTUFF on 14TH SEPTEMBER 2017 9:02 PM
Big Jimmy
Yes yer right mate…”not proven” was a feckin joke !
I hope some on here will forgive me as due to my age…I sometimes have a wee bit of dementia and tend to forget things ?
When I am drinking however….I don’t forget how to BEHAVE myself, unlike others.
HH
Really ??????
……………………….
NAW feckin REALLY !……………especially when I am a customer and supporter of Celtic FC.
SIONNACH ABU on 14TH SEPTEMBER 2017 9:04 PM
My apologies if I got this all wrong.
Seemed to me a few on here wanted the lad hanged, drawn and quartered.
I prefer holding out hope he might turn his life around.
Dae ye,Aye.
THE_HUDDLE
At least we agree on something then :-)
HH
FFS…its still happening ” this boy/lad”…BULLSHIT
What part of being 22 years of age and Society and the Law views you as a MAN…an ADULT….A feckin GROWN UP do some on here not get ?
At the age of 22…theres only a couple of things that I can think of at that moment that legally you would NOT be allowed to under Law……….
Get a free Bus Pass cos of your age.
Get an OAP Pension.
In other words…yer a MAN…..or woman !
Mike in Toronto/Dublin/Belfast/Glasgow/Mid-Atlantic/Middle Earth
Due to my incompetence with Gmail, i cannot work out if the email I sent you to meet at 12.00 on Saturday has actually gone.
let me know if you got it.
AFF OOT…to feckin assault a Hun OAP….I will no doubt be forgiven due to me liking a few beers now and then ?
Hopefully Moussa and Edouard will be on our bench at least on Saturday plus Dedryk gets some game time aainst Dundee next week,
Villareal beat Astana 3 1earlier
TURKEYBHOY on 14TH SEPTEMBER 2017 9:08 PM
There’s nothing like living in hope (unless you’re an Armenian waiting on an apology for genocide).
Hamiltontim. Sent you a copy of an email I sent to Laura Anne at Hospitality and John Paul. First one was returned so I hope the second attempt got through.
Give my regards to Helen.
Fholks trying to “defend” this prat; amazing! He is a MORON end of. Needs to stay under his rock and not darken the doors of Celtic Park …. ever.
Wow, what a goal for Cologne.
Connaire 12
You’re a terrible Mhan ( wee smiley)
Regarding Cologne, l stayed there before the Bmg game and attended Mass in the Cathedral on all saints day, on leaving the High Altar was being prepared for the Cardinals visit to Celebrate The High Noon Mass, a beautiful sight with the bells calling everyone to Attend.
MIT you are now a MIB until you arrive in Glasgow when you become a MIG
BIG JIMMY
If you head up through London Road wi your jack boots on you’ll blend in wi the huns at Brigton Cross and our esteemed constabulary a little further on.
KEEP THE FAITH
A young man made a mistake.
It will probably cause repercussions for the club and support.
He will pay a price for his drunken stupidity.
A far kinder and wiser man than me said . HE WHO IS WITHOUT SIN.
FFS
Was looking at Koln @ 6/1 due to all the changes the arse manager has made, went for a pee and they score, the odds arny worth it now.
Thanks for the replies, guys.
Whatever happened to that book he was doing with Charles Green?
Must be due out any day now!
okay bhoys trying to not get involved. can see mwd and big jimmys points. also someone mentioned maybe a medical problem with this guy .if a medical problem id agree with mwd if not big jimmy has a point. its celtic football club that will suffer not this lad so let the punishment fit the crime.
Hrvatski .. got it and replied. See you there pal.
Dallas … MiTwwidbinibaigtg (mike in toronto who was in Dublin but is now in Belfast and is going to Glasgow) is a bit of a mouthful
And I think that might be a swear word in welsh… could be my first deletion… and I didn’t even mean it!
MIT / MIB
Don’t you be going down the Lower Falls
Night all
Cologne at Arsenal tonight. Currently 1.0 up
Up to 20,000 fans arrived at the Emirates to see their first game in Europe for 25 years.
Last game? 1992/93 at Celtic park. Celtic 3 Cologne 0
Must have put them on a real downer if it has taken 25 years to recover.
Scotland have moved up 15 places to 43rd in the latest world football rankings after World Cup qualifying wins over Lithuania and Malta. But Gordon Strachan’s side remain the lowest-ranked British Isles team.
*and that last sentence just about sums up how scheidt Scottish fitba is. A country that has produced some of fitba’s greats FGS, don’t forget when the Italians first came calling on the UK, it was 2 Scottish lads, Denis Law and Joe Baker, who they coveted first.
Where are the Johnny Maddens the father of Czech football, the Tom Donohues and Charlie Millers who taught the samba boys, the Alexander Huttons “father of Argentine football”
The US team that shocked the world by beating a star studded english side 1-0 was managed by Edinburgh born William Jeffrey and captained by Greenock lad Ed McIlvenney who on signing for Manure after the WC was labeled “The Yank from the Tail of the Bank”
What about the Alex Jacksons, Hughie Gallachers and Alex James of the Wembley Wizards. The Bill Browns, Dave Mackays and John Whites of the Tottenham double winners, first of the 20th century, or the Frank McLintocks, George Grahams and Eddie Kellys of the Arse side that emulated them 10 years later.
The Billy Bremners, Peter Lorimers or Eddie Grays of the very very good Leeds team of the year before or the Eddie McCreadies and “Bonnie Prince” Charlie Cookes of the Chelsea side that beat then in the FA Cup Final replay.
The Paddy Crerands, David Herds and Denis Laws of the manure EC winning squad. I could go on and on and on.
Every successful english side had a least one Scottish player in their ranks. Not now. We have a national side that if you take out the Celtic players from the squad it’s a bunch of no name bengal lancers.
As for Celtic, the invincibles, the best team in the land by a country mile. In the last year we were humphed in Barca, had poor results in Beer Sheva and Astana and had our proverbial erses felt 2 nights ago.
It’s not just us though Benfica, Feyenoord, Juve and porto all EC winners lost although I’ll not shed a tear for the latter two a cheating diving shower both of them, while Liverpool tied at home. But at least the home countries of these teams are all still favouring relatively well.
Our clubs are the laughing stock of Europe and parts of Asia and the Middle East. Why, well we all know that, a mendacious and voracious rugby supporting rag and bone man who disnae have a leg tae stand on (pun intended).
Those custodians at hunden whose highlight of the season so far was Tuesday night should be hunted if not for the ebts and their part in it, but the state of our game, there’s a special place in Hell for them.
Cologne record against Scottish Clubs:
Dundee 1962/63 – lost 8-5 on aggregate
Dundee 1791/72 – lost 5-4 on aggregate
Rangers 1978/79 – won 2-1 on aggregate
Rangers 1982/83 – won 6-2 on aggregate
Rangers 1988/89 – won 3-1 on aggregate
Celtic 1992/93 – lost 3-2 on aggregate
Big Jimmy
Once again. The bhoy would not be in my house as I don’t know him and don’t charge strangers £38 to sit on my couch while cordoning off my coffee table to stop him getting a beer off it.
If he was in my house he would be an unwelcome their breaking and entering. A real life crime.
I also wouldn’t be employing stewards and police to stand outside my house to stop him getting in to sit on my couch at a charge of £38. But if I did I would expect employed stewards and police to stop him getting into my house and especially getting in to steal my beer off my cordoned off coffee table. If he managed to get past my employed security staff and police I wouldn’t pay these groups their contracted remuneration for their services.
I don’t view my home as an arena were I can charge people entry fee.
MWD extrapolating silly analogy. Your welcome.
Jobo- got it free about 4 years ago, not a scam
Big Packy
I’m not arguing against punishment fitting the crime. I’m arguing against excessive punishment over and above that that the courts will hand down to the bhoy.
PUBLIC FLOGGING, violent retribution a couple of days after the event, hanging, civil lawsuit, stoning. Those sort of things.
The old guys anger at the time is understandable for me as I was calling him all the c’s and f’s and b’s under the sun at the time. But two days later. Seriously!!!
Some people need to calm down. It was a low level crime.
I don’t remember the same when the other bhoy tickled the big Italian goalie a couple or few seasons back.
MWD
Arsenal v Cologne has a proctological ring to it. ;))
BABASONICOS71 on 14TH SEPTEMBER 2017 9:57 PM
Care to expand on that ?
:-)
right ross county bring it on !
Mike temporarily not in Toronto, I hope your trip to Glasgow this weekend is as good
, if not better , than it as been over the water.
I’m sure the likes of Delaney’s Dunky will look after you well when you meet up with them on Saturday
Banbasonico
That’s a tripe joke.
MWD
“Care to expand on that ? ”
Well the Arsenal manager is Arse and the Koln manager is Schmadtke
So there has been a Scmadtke on the Arse
As the Dutch say
Bhoys and Ghirls thanks for all the advice re cavity wall insulation. Mixed reviews but I think the ‘no’s’ have it. If it aint broken, etc. By the way I did know that it wasn’t a scam and is apparently government funded. But the line that swayed me was ‘the cavity is there for a reason’.
Time for the first of the 2 more sleeps….
Thanks , SFTB.
I thought there may have been some connection with the Spanish for that part of the anatomical world.
Hopefully not ” Eau de “
Goooood Evening CQN
Reagan, Dickson & Bryson, still in their roles at FtSFA ? Go get them Celtic
And while your at it, time to also look in-house at our security operations dept, which in my view is failing us as a club miserably
Mr Hawthorne needs replacing, before any more damage is done to our reputation.
Root Cause for me ?
mwd no problem mate .just trying to balance things up. both you and big jimmy are big tims dont like to see good celtic fans arguing.keep the faith brother and as td67 would say lurkin huns gtf.