Minutes before the stock of Japanese football rose to unparalleled levels, Celtic confirmed the signature of their fifth player from the country (subject to clearance). Left sided central defender, Yuki Kobayashi (22) will join when the transfer window opens in January.
Yuki was first choice for Vissel Kobe in the season just ended and spend 18 months in the topflight when Ange Postecoglou was in Japan (a year of which they were city rivals), so he is a player Ange will have personal experience of.
Celtic fast becoming the easiest place for Japanese players to settle west of the Sea of Japan, so the normal caveats of a young player moving from a different continent, not even sharing an alphabet, should be tempered. Still, he is at least two years younger than any of our other Japanese’ were when they arrived in Glasgow. We all need time to settle.
He becomes the youngest of a young central defensive pool. Stephen Welsh is six months older, Moritz Jenz is 23, Cameron Carter-Vickers is 24 (for another month), leaving 27-year-old Carl Starfelt in what would be considered prime for a central def. He is also the only leftie, a clear advantage.
My one concern from his stats is his height: 6’ 1”, the smallest of a relatively small CD population. Let’s hope he can leap like a Newco commercial contract (unerringly from file to Court of Session). A decade ago we went into the Champions League as the tallest side in the competition – and qualified for the knockout stage. Am I alone in being concerned or has football moved in a direction I’ve missed?
It is highly unlikely Yuki will see into too much strenuous action before the title is secured this season. Ange often tells us how new arrivals need many months before we see the best of them. The challenge will be to find his way into the starting line-up as next season kicks off.
Delighted for Daizen Maeda and his Japanese teammates back in Glasgow on their historic national team win over Germany yesterday. They might want to chill their jets before facing Spain, we don’t want too many scouts looking east.
Another day, another day in court for Newco. Elite Sports went to the Court of Session to force Newco to disclose sales figures achieved by Castore since 2020 in a £9.5m action against the club for failure to perform a retail deal signed in 2018. Elite, themselves, failed to perform their retail activities for Southampton, who ceased thier partnership on Monday. Perhaps as a consequence, Elite were unable to meet their obligations and went into administration yesterday. That £9.5m will be eyed by administrators seeking compensation for creditors (and their own fees, of course). An Elite director secured a floating charge over the company assets in September.
Dave King was the man in charge when the Elite contract was signed. Douglas Park must wonder what the world would be like if his “She’s a lovely runner, Sir” charm could be extrapolated across thousands of football fans. £9.5m on top of the £8m recently noted for Sports Direct, jeez! I think we should shamelessly join the campaign to get Dave King back in charge.
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This game is more enjoyable without the insufferable Foghorn Leghorn McCoist bumping his gums.
Ss
That is a good point by Spence. The SNP portraying a vote for them is a vote for independence has been debunked by everyone, including SNP supporters who claim the surge as Socialists not happy with Labour
The nippy sweetie has run out of Scotland mined fuel
Interesting to see who will be next leader
I think selfstyled Glasgowmurphy is making things up.
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Goal to Brazil
VAR Scotland would have disallowed that for dangerous play…..if Celt had scored it :O(
Great 2nd goal for Brazil.
The kind of goal you see the kids on the Copacabana scoring
SAINT STIVS on 24TH NOVEMBER 2022 6:58 PM
Teachers on strike today.
Sturgeon having to say they won’t be charging people for using the NHS.
Why don’t they just get on with the day job?
IT’s like they’ve given up as it’s all too much for them.
Brazil getting into their stride.
All Samba twists and turns now. Last 20 mins have been the best football of the WC so far.
I think we ought to have those green and yellow hooped Brazilian jerseys as our second strip. Far far better, imo, than those black monstrosities we seem to have inflicted on us regularly.
If any of you watch via a Firestick and have access to channels from around the world, I’m watching on RTE2 as an alternative to the BBC&ITV coverage.
PARKHEADCUMSALFORD / was thinking the same. As an aside, as a youngster I was desperate to get the classic Brazil kit for my Christmas. It never happened. Wasn´t so easy back then to get replica kits.
Ray Houghton is not the most animated co-commentator, nor the easiest to understand.
DENIABHOY on 24TH NOVEMBER 2022 7:46 PM
BIG JIMMY / DId you not say before the Spain game you were betting on 3-1 for Costa Rica?
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Np, not me.
I think you have me mixed up with some other handsome Guy ?
LOL
HH.
Bigjimmy
Heard your cutting bout in a securicor van ;-)
Good to hear the bookies taking a hit.:-))
Enjoy Saturday jjimmy .
HH
Here was me thinking BAP was something English people put square sausage in.
Just post a link…..
Is it this B. A. P.?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.A.P_(South_Korean_band)
or the British Association for Pharmacology.
Seriously, this sort of stuff has been going on for years. George Brown and Denis Healey received CIA funds via Encounter Magazine back in the middle of the last century. It is done openly in plain sight and there’s little sign of this having major effects. It’s the carrot part of the US Foreign Policy to influence foreign governments to keep friendly relations with the USA. We should start worrying about what they are funding on the stick end of their approach.
DENIABHOY on 24TH NOVEMBER 2022 8:48 PM
If you watch it on the bbc iPlayer you can get the 5 live commentary instead of the tv one. Chris Sutton co commentary tonight 👍
DENIABHOY on 24TH NOVEMBER 2022 8:48 PM
I forgot you’re not in the UK 👍
But I switched at half time this evening and it was much better
RC asking if Yuki’s arrival will expedite Moritz’s return to his main club…
Wouldn’t think so and hope not.
IMO he’s getting more comfortable in his role with more appearances. His distribution is generally safe and he doesn’t mind a half-surging run a la Kris Ajer. Likes snapping in a leggy tackle or two, too.
Moritz genuinely seems to be loving the club and his time here.
Also, this is an interesting piece [albeit from a Qatari backed source] with a different take on Qatar’s hosting of the WC:
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/qatar-world-cup-sustained-condemnation
Bada Bing
Here is the link.
The article amongst many other things lets us know.
Tony Blair had FIVE cabinet ministers who were members of BAP’s
To the poster who posted the link to the Qatar article.
David Lammy was recently kissing the arse of Oman who i believe are still participating in the genocide in Yemen
https://declassifieduk.org/the-secretive-us-embassy-backed-group-cultivating-the-british-left/
SETTING FREE THE BEARS FOR RES. 12 & OSCAR KNOX
It’s the carrot part of the US Foreign Policy to influence foreign governments to keep friendly relations with the USA. We should start worrying about what they are funding on the stick end of their approach.
The carrot and stick are used together, the war in Iraqi, i would suggest that 5 members of Blair cabinet being members of BAP would have been instrumental in Iraq having been bombed back to the stone age
Don’t mention the war …..
Wee Murdo back home with his family 👍
Anyone want a workaround for bypassing paywalls of popular news sites like the guardian, financial times etc
I have recorded a video walk thru – dead easy, promise
email me at cqnmod@gmail.com and I will send the video walk thru…..
Mod88
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Mod 1888
Likewise .
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Much obliged .
J.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/nov/23/michelle-mones-ppe-denials-v-what-we-know
There are so many decent human beings on this earth (and this country).
And there are a minority who would screw anyone to make a buck.
And there are those who, in return for kickbacks and promises of faux consultancy gigs and sinecures after they’ve left office, will happily facilitate theft of our public money.
Dalriada Bhoy
Too many members of that Cabinet voted for the illegal war. We would need to know if all those who voted against were Non-Bap people and that all who voted for Blair’s war did so because of BAP.
Most of what BAP do and what Encounter did before it was out in the open and easily discovered. I think the conspiracies happen elsewhere in places that don’t publish agendas and keep minutes.
SETTING FREE THE BEARS FOR RES. 12 & OSCAR KNOX on 24TH NOVEMBER 2022 11:57 PM
Hail Hail Look declassified uk up and Matt Kennard.
If the US Government wanted to know of Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi had WMD’s they only needed to check when last they or the disunited Kingdom or France had sold him some mustard gas attacks on Iran, the Kurds. The Supergun manufactured here to lob massive shells into Iran only stopped by a Customs officer who wondered why the massive pipe he was standing up inside of had rifling inside
In 2019, Kennard and Curtis founded Declassified UK,[17] a news website that concentrates on military and foreign policy. The website is hosted as a sub-site by the South Africa-based online newspaper Daily Maverick.[18]
In June 2020, Kennard published an investigation into a GCHQ schools programme run by the UK National Cyber Security Centre.[19] The investigation was critical of the programme and the GCHQ stopped responding to his enquiries. Kennard lodged a request for information under the UK Data Protection Act to see if the GCHQ had decided to stop dealing with him because of his report on the schools programme. Press Gazette said that the emails Kennard obtained appeared to “show he was blacklisted” by the GCHQ press office for writing a “negative long-read”. Kennard commented that “I find it outrageous that the country’s largest intelligence agency—funded by the British public to the tune of over a billion pounds annually—just stops engaging with a journalist because it believes his stories paint GCHQ’s operations in a ‘negative’ light … It’s doubly worrying in this case because the programme I wanted some basic information on involves thousands of children. In a system that calls itself a democracy, we have a right to know what these types of programmes involve”.[20]
In August 2020, Declassified UK contacted the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) for a comment about a British soldier who had protested against the war in Yemen. The MoD provided no information and a press officer for the MoD eventually commented that “We no longer deal with your publication”. Declassified UK’s lawyers wrote to the MoD to advise it that the MoD’s attitude could be a breach of Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights and against the Civil Service Code. National Union of Journalists Assistant General Secretary Seamus Dooley supported Declassified UK and said “The NUJ would be extremely concerned at any unilateral ban by a government department on questions from selected news organisations or publications”. A Council of Europe media freedom alert was filed over the issue. The UK Ministry of Defence apologised and pledged to treat all media outlets, including Declassified UK, “with fairness and impartiality”.[18][21][20]
Good morning all CQN’rs across the Globe.
Bring back the Celtic games.
Oh and U.S.A. U.S.A U.S.A
D :)
Hello again all you young rebels
From a scorching Port Douglas, but I’m not a happy Timmy.
Princess said “ Mick, you’ll need to come with me to the laundry
this morning “
“ Whit ??? nae chance, that’s a wummans job “
“ We’ll, if you want a Cellic tap for tonight , you better”
“ How come ?
“ yiv got them all covered in beer and wine “
Things I do for my club, so there I was carrying a basket full of
washing down to the bowels of the ship, now I know why they
call them steamers 🤪
Imagine my surprise when I entered what I thought would be
like a Chinese laundry, with all the hoops and shamrocks about
it was more like an Irish laundry lol.
Obviously the other bhoys on board needed washing done as
well ☘️
Still all that ironing makes one very thirsty, off to one of the 12
bars on board, 🍺 🥃 🍷
H H. Mick
Morning DAVID 66
H H. Mick
DENIABHOY on 24TH NOVEMBER 2022 7:46 PM
BIG JIMMY / DId you not say before the Spain game you were betting on 3-1 for Costa Rica?
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NO….I dont believe that I did, although IF you want me to trawl through my Bets History I will.
There are any number of reasons WHY I would NOT take Costa Rica to beat Spain by 3-1 ( Correct Score)…
As I KNEW that Spain were overwhelming Favourites for that game, that is why I placed TWO Bets on the game of 6-0 and 7-0 Correct Scores ?
UNLESS, I had a SENIOR MOMENT and somehow had taken Costa Rica to beat Spain….it would NOT have been by TWO CLEAR Goals as you claim ?
IF I had taken Costa Rica to beat Spain in a Correct Score, it would have been MOST LIKELY a 1-0 or maybe 2-1 at a push…..ASSUMING that I had suffered a MOST SENIOR MOMENT ?
The bottom line was/is, I fancied Spain STRONGLY to score a few Goals, hence my winning Bet of 7-0 @ 50/1.
I can only assume that you have me confused with some other intelligent, handsome Guy on here ?
Portugal v Ghana……
i had the Correct Score of 3-2 to Portugal @ 33/1, although I have to say ( NO….My name is NOT Jimmy McCoist), that I thought Ronaldo DIVED to win that Penalty.
Ronaldo CHEATED Ghana, and I was his accomplice, as his DIVE helped me CHEAT the Bookie.
I feel so GUILTY…..NOT !
LOL
HH.