A quick straw poll suggests we’re happy with £2m for Adam Matthews, although Sunderland will be happier, having signed what is likely to be a first team player for what is a bargain fee in the English league. For Celtic, the player had only a year left on his contract, and was not first choice when Mikael Lustig was available. On other occasions we would struggle to get £500k.
A few factors supported Adam’s marketability and price. He is part of a successful Wales team who are likely to reach Euro 2016. Scouts from all over Europe watch Wales and it’s unlikely you’d be able to sign any of that team for less than £2m.
There’s also the Joe Ledley and Victor Wanyama effect. Joe and Victor were Celtic contemporaries of Adam and both are solid performers for EPL clubs. Don’t even ask me about what’s going on with Daryl Murphy at the moment, as it beats any rational explanation I can come up with.
Having 20 hugely wealthy neighbours comes with lots of problems, but if we are going to lose players to England, it’s better to lose them on our own terms – when we are in a position to start a fresh building process, than have events overtake us, as appears to be happening at Tannadice this year.
Enjoy events this afternoon at New St Mirren Celtic Park.
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@PzFeed: BREAKING: ISIS forces children less than 10 years old to execute 25 Syrian soldiers http://t.co/JbxJR6Xl59 http://t.co/UbeqzCFzLP
The sooner the west neuk these sub human beings the better. These people MUST be stopped or humanity will come under real threat. Unfortunately, civilians will suffer, how many are suffering now. Just IMO.
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
Pf ayr
Hughes is an enigma. An excellent jockey on his day but so many times he leaves it too late or gets blocked
you have to wonder of course if any of these horse men are in the pockets of the bookies
How much did ruby falling off Annie power at Cheltenham save the bookies
Tour De France .
Day 1 – Individual time trial .
Won by Rohan Dennis ( Australia.) Did the 13.8 km in 14 minutes and 56 seconds .An average speed of 55.446 km per hour. Fastest average speed in Tour De France time trial history !
Off oot for a takeaway pizza and then the sofa for Chile v Argentina.
Isis would appear to be evil incorporated
But they exist because of the west’s constant interference in the region which goes back to the carve up of the ottoman empire at the end of W W 1 ( and probably further). The Americans were to arm and train the mujahadeen when the Russians were the enemy, the chickens unfortunately are coming home to roost
* sorry missing word
Last post should read the Americans were happy to arm and train etc
My ST sent to my old address, Ticket Office said to ring next week re Sjtarnan matches, but do you bhoys know if I have to email to change address and if I get new season books etc?
Hh
The love for Andy Murray is pouring out on SW19.
Patrick27
Your old one won’t work on the new gates, so you need to get hold of the new card, either at your old address or a new issue type.
Ooopla !
Scorched brain syndrome @ 19 22.
Implies should not be there.
Meant to write better and more quickly.
Isis exist because of the fear they put in to any civil society. They rule by fear of execusion and as soon as they are wiped off the face of this earth, is too soon. PSYCHOPATHIC MURDERERS ALL OF THEM.
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
Bhoys and Ghirls, what’s the score with the police carrying guns as a matter of course?
I am in a curry takeaway (in admittedly not the best part of Dundee) being stared down by two armed cops.
WTF ?
Weefra
Nonsense
patrick27
19:37 on 4 July, 2015
Try e-mailing them mate, they are usually quick at replying. Suggest you put your client code in subject field.
celticfctickets@celticfc.co.uk
Or phone them 0871 226 1888
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Couldn’t care less about friendlies to be honest.
One game we are world beaters, the next we’re imploding.
Ronny’s comments after the game hit the nail on the head.
ClawHammerCSC
WeefratheTim
And if somehow it were possible to ‘neuk’ a terrorist group we wouldn’t be murderers also?
BSR
Can’t get to my old address before September (old uni address moved places), hope I can get sort out the new tickets – I think they may deactivate the current ones that have been sent out.
Lennybhoy
Cheers, I’ll send them an email tomorrow, wasn’t quite sure what the address was! We drive up for the CL game with not too much time to spare before KO so hopefully they can get something sorted for the game, and the season tickets in general
HH
Wits
So your an Isis supporter then. How many more atrocities do we have to witness to think, er, what do these guys want. They are ferrel animals and the sooner they are wiped out, the world will be a safer place. You must be quite happy to witness the beheadings and this latest report of kids executing army personnel. Sicko.
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
Patrick27
If you explain that to the ticket office they should be able to sort out new cards, whilst deactivating the ones sent out, no problem.
BSR
Absolutely not. Why did Japan admit defeat in WW2. FFS violence can only be met, and defeated with violence. I really appreciate your posts my friend.
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
Go on seppi
WeefratheTim
And mine yours.
But you are angry ( not without cause ) but you’re not thinking it through, but you will.
BSR
Excellent news, many thanks for your help
HH
Weefrathetim
Poor commentary friend …..
BSR
Thanks for your important response, but my mind is aghast to think of what these children have been subjected to. Surely any sensible person would agree. Unless you, er…….. Sup wits.
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
Andy Murray nearly slips to being Scottish.
BSR
I’ve turned it off
Think i was jinxing the poor guy
If our players had half Murrays commitment we would do ok. An incredible athlete and quite possibly the greatest sportsman we have ever produced from Alba. Makes me proud whenever I see the boy in action. Wept like a child when he won Wimbledon.
LB
murray will win this set comfortably 6-1 maybe
pfayr
Your opinion, appreciate the response, but if you are quite happy to contain this situation, get more body bags out.
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
Wits @ 19.35
IS aka M3 are much more than any post WW1 western involvement in the ME / Arabia.
It is childish second rate nonsense to blame everything on the West.
The trouble started with the Mongols.
They destroyed the Arabian dominated Caliphate in the 13th century.
That then developed into a Turkic expansion which destroyed Constantinople.
The belated Arabia reaction to this was the House of Saud and their hardline theocracy.
IS / ISIL are are funny construct.
They have all the basics in place to be a Western self constructed bogeyman.
Something to scare the plebs fartless and split the aggressive fundamentalist vote.
It is no wonder that they are in full competition with AQ.
Saudi wind up / AQ enemy / Sunni rallying point against Tehran — the list is endless.
This charicature is so complete that they are almost always going to be suggestions that they must be a Western construct.
However the issue is now that they have grown legs and have started to generate their own momentum. The worrying thing about their growth and success is the groundswell of support they are generating and the various strands of opinion that are flocking to their flag.
If they weren’t around another element of fundamentalist thought would have developed to harness this world view. The one thing that seems to link all their elements of support is a hatred of the modern world and an inability to deal with the social complexities that have developed in 1400 years.
The great irony here is that modern Western civilisation owes a lot to the academic and intellectual freedom that came with Islamic expansion. Consequently if IS win and they turn the clock back 1400 years they will be fighting against the forces that made the Caliphate strong in the first place.
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Now that was the easy bit …
The hard bit is what do we do with the LB situation?
Got to be honest,WEEFRA is on the button. IS are not looking for negotiation and dialogue.
I dunno how we deal with them short of giving them both barrels. And then some. They have no fear nor shame because of their interpretation of The Koran.
It’s difficult to fight people who are not afraid to die. It’s virtually impossible to fight those who aspire to it.
Wits did you also read Robert Fisks “pity the nation”?
Great work from a knowledgeable source
His father was going to be sent to France in 1916 until the rising so he has a lot of affection for the fair city
GINGER
Fisk writes some good stuff.
Weefra
If you read my post. .The first line was. .isis appear to be evil incorporated
That hardly makes me an isis supporter
They are probably the greatest threat to civilisation since Hitler. ..but the western invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan have helped spawn this frankenstein
BMCUW
So you want to ‘neuk’ as well. ( No backing down now that what he posted )
Where would you like to start? – and on whose innocent civilians and children? – precisely.
Ginger
No I didn’t read pity the nation
I like fisk and have read a lot of his stuff
BMCUWP
That’s an understatement
Livibhoy
Agree re Murray …I’m a big fan