Our man Zbyszek joined a Krasnodar fan website last night to ask about Celtic signing target, Kouassi Eboue, from Ivory Coast. Here are some of the comments he got back:
“He has good technical skills, is fast and is good in the air. He’s shown to be comfortable in hard, dirty, games. At 19-years-old, he needs a good coach for his next step forward. I think the guy has a wonderful future ahead of him (or I know nothing about the game).”
Zbyszek asked why Krasnodar are selling Eboue:
“Krasnodar have a Financial Fair Play axe hanging over their heads. They have no money to strengthen the team and are in debt. They are also limited in the number of foreigners they have have in the squad.”
Eboue gave a recent interview to a Russian newspaper where he said:
“I’m always ready to play whichever position the coach things best, whether as a defensive midfielder or in the attacking zone. I feel I can grow as a player by becoming more involved in the attacking game, my coaching now concentrates more on this part of play.”
Kouassi grew up in a poor village near Dabou, in Ivory Coast. He first kicked a football at 5 and was invited to a local academy at 10. By 15 he received his first invitation abroad – Armenia, where he moved three years ago.
Krasnodar coach, Oleg Kononov, took an interest in Eboue, who trained with the club for a few weeks before making the move ro Russia formal in May 2014.
The player turned 19 less than a month ago, so his rise to an established first-team player in the Russian Premier League has been rapid. This has been a challenging deal for Celtic, a lot more so than scouting the best breaking through at Tannadice.
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Oh drat you’re not serious…
The last resort of the Celtically challenged:)))
Time you were up anyway!
The snow is falling fae the heavens and the valley is Green & White!
Morning Celts
Brendan is doing wonderfully well, although i wont be too impressed if he doesnt send me a birthday cake this year, as Peter Lawell totally blanked me last year:)
Who else are we signing:)
HH
Anyone think that this £15m player has a similar profile to our £2m snip?
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/jan/01/wilfred-ndidi-leicester-city-genk-transfer
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 5th January 2017 4:53 am
It was fifty years ago today…
The Doors release their self-titled debut.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fhGov2HQCLQ
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MAGNIFICENT.
Hope it makes Cowell’s eyes bleed.
The thing that does intrigue me around the johnjames website is he tells of mixing in high places. Travels a lot. Can move between expensive home counties and far east.
But then needs finances to run the blog.
He appears to have insider information from the Ibrox boardroom.
But then ask for money to keep the blog going.
Are the contributors being duped.
St Stivs reading back, I came upon your interest in all things Celtic, including the saints. Not sure if you also have an interest in other church sites and if so are you aware of those near bye you. Have you visited St Fillan’s Well which is on a road that backs onto Kilmacolm Golf Club? It can be reached from a side road in Kilmacolm or from the “middle road” from the Port. It was closed down in 1690 (yes, that date) because of people practising papish superstitions by washing at the well.
Houston also has a St Peter’s well. And somewhere along the “middle road” a Celtic Cross was in place for many years, but now rests in Paisley Abbey. It is said that the Cross marked the place where Alexander III heard Mass before going to fight the Battle of Largs.
Ears.
I meant Cowell’s ears. Bleed.
…Ach, both would do fine.
G’on theMorrison, Manzarek, Kreiger and Densmore.
O G RAFFERTY @ 12 25 – 4th January .
Andrew Mellon .
Ah -freshly baked soda bread -I’m tempted – few things on earth taste as good as freshly baked soda bread . I occasionally treat myself by baking my own .
Been a long while since I was there — last time featured Mrs S of T and a Vivienne Westwood crucifix winding up a neanderthal in a bar in Banbridge .
Young Rubicon the Third and I were speculating on the earliest date we may win the league.
If one assumes the Aberdeen and Sevco should win all of their remaining fixtures (18 and 17 matches respectively) the maximum points total they can reach is 91 points.
Should we win our next 11 matches we will reach the same total with a better goal difference and we’ll be champions.
This assumes our two rivals keep winning too. Anyhow, in this unlikely event, we’d win the league on Wednesday, April 5th at home to Partick Thistle, evening kick off.
Should they both drop points and we don’t, the celebrations will be earlier than April 5th.
Of course, we are likely to drop the occasional point so that would add to the variables.
Another way we looked at it was to apply a points total to Aberdeen and Sevco based on their performance to date. So far this season they have both averaged 1.85 points per game.
If this rate continued for the rest of the season they would both accumulate 71 points.
(As they need to play each other twice they both can’t hit the total)
In this event, we’d only need to win another 13 points to be champions.
However, we can’t be sure of this as the above calculation is spread over the whole season, i.e.
they could exceed their average in the latter part of the season.
So, no firm prediction from us but we had fun doing it!
new article posted.