Let’s get the badge kisser-thing sorted once and for all. We have seen enough of them come and go not to be taken in. You can set your watch by them. I don’t believe in a hierarchy of Celtic players, or supporters, based on proclaimed affinity. You are at Celtic because you want to be here, fan or player, and that’s enough.
Kieran Tierney has been a highly paid and respected professional for four years. He mixed with others of the same ilk, as well as some who know they are out of their depth at Celtic. The latter cherish the term of their Celtic contract, the former all wonder what level they will be able to reach in the game. All of them. To the best of my knowledge, no Celtic player has rejected circa £75k per week to remain here.
I don’t know what his medical advice has been, but if you read about chronic osteitis pubis, you get an insight into where an athlete’s head may be when he has a persistent injury that is not responding as hoped.
“Osteitis pubis is a painful degenerative condition of the pubic symphysis, surrounding soft tissues and tendons…. It is currently considered as one of the most debilitating pain syndromes for athletes. Although the condition is considered self-limiting, it often requires stoppage of sporting activities for several months, representing a significant problem especially for elite athletes.”
Kieran got this move coming off the worst season of his professional career. We will see if things improve, or go downhill, this season. Consider what advice his agent would have given him right now. None of this forms part of the public discourse, instead we got a clumsy social media comment about being out with his pals while Celtic are playing a crucial qualifier.
If we are serious about making progress as a football club, we need to take our player trading onto another level. That means everyone has a price and we should be ready with replacement options whenever a value offer arrives.
If you think selling your top player for £25m is a bad day at the office, imagine your challengers selling a single player for that sum, and how transformational this kind of money is. Trading is as much a part of success in the elite game as tactics and fitness. There are no sacred cows, because eventually, the most sublime talents perish.
We should always be ready to make a deal. See how it is done in Portugal. Or look at Ajax, who were going nowhere, then discovered how to trade, sold €72m of talent in 2016-17, €73m in 2017-18 and reached the Champions League semi-final in 2018-19.
Multi-treble winning Brendan Rodgers is not a talent spotter. He added Scott Sinclair (whom he had worked with) and Moussa Dembele (a John Park recommendation) to Ronny Deila’s squad. If we are going to spend significant sums of money this summer, better to have Neil Lennon with his hand on the tiller.
It felt like a bad day when Brendan left, but now I am sure it was for the best. There is no telling the damage Brendan and Lee would do with this kind of money. Kieran was great, the best left back in decades, and yes, he should have stayed for 10, but I’m already feeling pretty neutral about him leaving.
At Celtic, we love our history more than any others do, but football is all about tomorrow. Time to get busy writing the next chapter.
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Pukki is a Finn. Definitely …….. and I knew that. I must have been taken suddenly drunk. Hic!
Hail! Hail!
PS I did know that he was a Finn.
I did.
Scotland play Finland (and Pukki) in the Nations League playoff
Did I tell you alcohol affects memory………….did I tell you that alcohol affects memmory lol
And spellin it seems ;-))
…an’ speeelin……………..
:))))))
Bankie
Thank you. I knew that Kilbowie Kelt was an elderly distinguished gent. He used to post with old skool wisdom here. Much missed by me.
the_huddle on 9th August 2019 11:11 pm
CL or League??
Bury and Bolton are both about to go to the wall, be ruthless Celtic, buy one of them out and move us down there
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Thats a nasty tactic. I’d never go for that.
CELTIC
As long as Celtic is playing cracking fitba it disnae really matter when you think about it and where they are playing.
Desperate to get to a place where the obscenity is off the scale. I KNOW Glasgow Celtic is the Biggest Club on the planet. 1967 Proved it.
67 was such a monumental year in so MANY ways and not just to do with fitba.
Celtic is Numero Uno
Gold has been rising Big Style – Whats Happenin’?
Alcohol definitely affects my memory! Pukki fae Helsinki not Reykjavik! He should have had a hat trick tonight.
TOSB
I knew you knew that Pukki was Finnish no finished nor Icelandic. Drink?
What is David 17’s excuse for thinking he was Croatian?
DD,
I hope you are Good Dude. I’m sure Neil will deliver what we want.
Pete
Thanks Pedro mi amigo.
Hope NFL is given the tools by PLC to deliver.
Not convinced he will be.
BankieBhoy1…just behind snap lol 😄
Ona
aTribecalledquest.cSC
Delaney’s Dunky
Thanks for having more faith in me than I do! 😂
Aye! Croatian! Tee her hee! Whit’s David 17’s excuse? I’d like to know. Everybody and their granny knows he’s no a Croatian! :-))
The Huddle
You’re just rubbing it in! :-))
Peter Lawell said he was Croatian
That’s where the blame should lie :-)
On that note …. good night n god bless … hope wee Bolingoli is man of the match the morra
Hail Hail
MIT
I slipped it in about 12 years ago and was yellow carded!
The Hun Support celebrated Lenny getting the job.
Who knows Anything?
I know that I know Nothing but I know that Lenny will do his very best to Deliver as much as he can for Celtic Trophy wise.
Excitement @ Lenny getting what he Truly Deserves in Scotland.
The Man that Delivers Celtics 9th and 10th Title HOPEFULLY.
GFTB
Serves David17 right for believing everything that Peter Lawwell says.
Pete
US and KB. Magical mix.
Garry,
I dinnae ken whit it is but ever since she passed, Every Cranberries song has Incredible Power in it…
Incredible.
Lenny is the Man.
Powerful
DD 11.48pm
Even I don’t believe what any board member says :-)
Apart from silly Celtic arguments the thing I despise about CQN … in fact despise is too strong … I have never liked any Celtic board but sometimes I read back and I sound like a Tory Board Apologist :-)
GFTB,
I’m over the Moon that the Hard Right Tory is taking us out of Europe.
CELTIC is the Ki, Howevaaaaah.
Jinkyredstar….shocking….what wer j banned for saying?
People who would never dream of attending a Celtic game telling us what to think.
Night Bhoys.
Hail Hail.
MIT:May I suggest the new nomenclature fit Old Happy Clappers be ‘The Deluded’.
Appropriate for someone I know😁
Off to bed..Celtic to watch in 12 hours.
MIT….and you missed lol
Bloody autocorrect FOR not fit
Pete
Have always loved Dolores rip
Last single I bought was Linger.
Loved her voice of an angel.
F every Big Government.
Where are the checks and balances that keep the EU in check? NONE!!!
The Elite want the UK in the EU, thats obvious. ;))
James sit doon.
Pete…why have we no Czeks in our team
GFTB
They are only custodians. Peter Lawwell, however, is a huge Celtic supporter. Still don’t trust him though.
Rhetorical nonsence lol
Pete
Every government are only puppets for who really run the world. Boris and Donald do their masters work.
TheLurkinTim,
The East European and Scandinavian market is likely the best Value for Celtic for Real Value for Money.
If Nothing else Brexit should shake up the whole Corrupt Fitba Stratosphere that is corrupt as F.
The Best Value for Money is continuing to bring through the Bhoys frae oor own School. We are doing alright methinks.
DD….Boli might be our Tietney replacement…El Hameds Lustigs replacement….fills me with cynicism..oild b happy to be proven wrong….flatters to decieve
DD 12.11am
My oldest brother was usually playing football and didn’t attend as much as a youngster … he certainly didn’t get a lift over or jumped on a supporters bus … he knows Eric Riley pretty well and at his own admission he wasn’t a Celtic fan but certainly is now … as for Mr Lawell watch his celebration last season …. the ones that carry grudges wherever they go watch Mr Lawells celebrations whenever Celtic score … in Tim / CQN cyberspace “real Tim’s” are deleting posts waiting on when Celtic don’t score or Arsenal buy a product of our youth academy :-)