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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Bmcuw @ 20.12
Currently searching for an article on how Islam has dealt with the “death to everyone at any price” strand of thought.
IS and their worldview has been faced down by mainstream Islamic thought in the past.
If it hadn’t the religion would have killed itself out a thousand years ago.
The Islamic expansion / empire was all about growth and not thought purity.
Andy Murray……..British again
Nothing wrong with “neuk”…. SOAL lives there
Livibhoy cracking post last night or was it this morning.
Well I read it this morning,feckin drink
Gents
Recommend Fisk’s ‘In Time Of War’
Around Dev’s refusal to return the Treaty Ports during WWII
Interesting times
Andy Murray has a shoulder replacement on centre court, and is now hitting at 127mph again.
Phew csc
BMCUW
Thanks for the support. The Isis mob, and that’s what they are, the gangsters of the Arab world. They will execute and kill civilians at random. That is the fear they put in to any society they decide to invade. Selective air strikes and eventual nueks has to be the answer. Hiroshema must be the lead here. How many lives were saved due to this slaughter. Good to talk again buddy. Hahaha.
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
Ginger
Life is all about sharing. If that puts a smile on people’s faces I am happy to share. In bad times and in good i share my life. Helps me feel better.
LB
Madmitch
I think you have hit the nail on the head. Isis and Islamic extremism must be faced down internally by the broader Muslim community
The KKK are white and would claim to be Christian but there world view is not representative of the majority of white Christians
COME ON !!!!!
Weefra,
Neuking anyone is the lowest form of evil. I sense this is the road we are heading down. Neuk what or who though. I’ve lost what their cause is.
Has anyone actually spoke to whoever leads them. Has anyone had any dialogue whatsoever before people, children, animals, lands etc are destroyed for generations?
wits
Ye made yer bed buddy. Now I’m away to mine. Byeeeeeee
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
Weefrathe
You post that blood thirsty drivel and have the audacity to call me a sicko
Weefra,
Have you ever seen any of the results of Hiroshima?
Read the testimony of those involved?
Children’s shadows eternally burned onto buildings, disfigured, maimed, cancer for generations.
BOURNESOUPRECIPE
I dunno the answer,do we hold back because of a few innocents?
And spare a multitude of madmen who are hellbent on killing everyone who disagrees even slightly with their views?
How do you square not taking them out because of a concern about collateral damage with the massacres that they then carry out?
This isn’t a question of right and left politics,nor a question of blame. This is a matter of right and wrong.
Innocent people have always died in the pursuit of right over wrong,and they will do again. But every day? Barbarically? Sadism,every step of their way.
Yes,it’s easy to say that I am unlikely to be part of that collateral damage,of course it is. But if we continue to wring our hands we are on the hitlist.
Mullet
Isis are led by a megalomaniac …..no negotiation…fruitless
The modern world needs to focus on their extinction ….no trade ..arm and train those who are in direct conflict with them
‘Round them up in a field and bomb the b******s’
KennyEverett csc
Weefrathe tim. Your view in my opinion is much to simplistic trying to wipe out ISIS by force would also condem thousands of innocent men women and children to death.We helped to create ISIS when we decided to invade Iraq we had no plans for the country after the invasion and we left it in turmoil. The way to defeat ISIS is for other muslims to step up and condem them and not to support them in anyway.If we adopt the we are bigger than you attitude you would find Russia taking sides and a World war could well be the outcome.I can understand your anger but the best thing you and I can do is to pray to the good Lord for peace. H.H.
Ok you pacifists, anti neuk guys, please post one iota of a plan to sort Isis out. Dialogue, forget it. These people don’t do dialouge. So come on with your thoughts that can end this European and Middle Eastern conflict.
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
It would take three German infantry divisions less than a week to annihilate that Satanic death cult.
Unfortunately their defeat isn’t high on the list of Western interests at this moment in time.
As I have said previously – look to the Arabian Peninsula, Saudi Arabia in particular. This where Wahhabism was spawned and where it has spread from, funded by the petro-dollar.
They have far too much money invested in the West and consequently far too much influence.
First course of action would be to close down or demolish the mosques where the hate preachers are free to spout their hateful bile.
HH.
JOEFILIPPISHAIRCUT
If we don’t wipe out IS,many more thousands are condemned.
PFAyr
I was a sports fanatic as a child and tried all sports. My teacher at primary school was into racquet sports. We used to play badminton in PE and she spotted something. She started a short tennis club at lunchtimes. I was right in there. After a few months she entered us all in the Scottish schools championships which were held in Bathgate. Now short tennis is a sponge ball with a plastic racquet a bit like a swingball racquet. I duly turned up in full hoops kit. I was out of place by a mile. Kids there had their own gear and some had their own coaches. My teacher pulled me aside and said you can win this. I laughed. You are joking? These guys are like pros. Nervous first match but won easy against some guy with the whites on and a choice of raquets which he changed regularly. Miles out my depth but by the 3rd match my confidence was growing. I didn’t get troubled until the quarters but squeezed through. Semis. Left handed and he beat me fairly comofrably and won the tournament. I won the 3rd place play off and stood with 4 Sampras clones for the photos in the hoops much to the annoyance of all the tennis punters in attendance who wondered who this rough kid was with a green tennis racquet marked with the school initials on it. Felt very proud for my experience and individual tenacity.
Got home and showed my dad the trophy and the fact I had been approached by tennis coaches and had been given numbers for free tuition. He snorted and said nobody makes money out of tennis! Concentrate on fitba.
Never played a match again.
LB
mullet
You are having a laugh, after the attrocities the Japanese Military imposed on the Brits and every other enemy they encountered, er, maybe there’s a clue there. I’m a Brit.
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
LIVIBHOY
Had your life taken that turn,would you have the two wonderful people you share your life with?
Weefra
Here is a wee suggestion for you
Stop invading foreign countries, stop ripping off their resources
Read some history. If it was as simple as the guy with the biggest bomb killing all his enemies and living happily ever after wouldn’t it be great but every action has a reaction. Maybe the RAF should have bombed the be jaysus out of West Belfast and south Armagh, that would have shut up those pesky paddies.
a neuk in where ?
syria, ? iraq ?
who, where do we want to bomb ?
just the bad guys ? have we got that selective bomb ?
when shall we do it ? when the wind blows towards whom ?
what about the fallout ?
and the twenty year cylcle of cancers.
what an absolute idiot response , bomb ra lot of them.
what about the lambs ?
BMCUW
“neuk” and or hold back for ‘a few innocents’ – Did you read that back?
The Islamic world have a massive grievance that will not go away, and certainly not with a
nuclear bomb.
That’s my one and total contribution on world politics CSC
Coming back from todays match we seemed to bump into a lot of oranges, both kinds, pips and pip free,
They did show a lot more anger and defiance than usual, it was if they were on a alcohol fueled hunt for unorange persons,
anyhoo it got me thinking about stats, percentages and other mathematical words,
So would it be possible to compare our emergency services busyness today compared to St Patricks day, or us winning the league,
Maybe the powers that be could sort out some sort of marching law,
They could call it SIT ( shut it Timmy)
Or MAP ( move along pape),
Happy Celticing
livi bhoy,
you might not have caught it, but your post last night about time spent with your own bhoy was quite wonderful
keep it lit
Wits
Na na na, we are talking about NOW. Wit TF has invading countries be…….. er, wait a minute. Understand now your support for Isis. Got you kiddo.
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
Livibhoy
A sad tale….opportunity and the support and encouragement to take it ….
Wits
Pointless , circuitous discussion ….
Your wasting your time
Fieldofdreams- police Scotland were very quick off the mark about “guarding against complacency” in light of events in Tunisia.
House is a very dangerous person and is pissed off at the very public slap on the wrist from the Scottish government.
Not surprised that you saw armed cops today.
My post/moniker will probably have a marker put on it and reported back to HQ now.
Oh and I’m not joking!
BOURNESOUPRECIPE
Yes,mate. I did. And my fingertips burned as I typed. It goes against everything in my nature.
Killing innocent people,just to be putting the boot in to the guilty. Indiscriminately. It’s a horrible thought,and anathema to any right thinking person.
IS feed on the knowledge that we’ll do eff all if innocents are involved. Meantime they slaughter the innocents and display it on social media.
As I said earlier,there is no easy answer. We could go through an A-Z of solutions. But starting with A for Appeasement will not work. We’ll hit Z before they hit their stride.
Pf ayr
Agreed
It’s pointless and will only annoy people
I see the wee bitter bit come out against the UK at every wee sneaky turn. I am a Scot, and proud to be one, and have no, repeat, no connections to our friends across the Irish Sea. Born a Catholic, lived my life as a Catholic, and just adore and support the greatest football club in the world. ST arrived today. Wooooohooo COYBIG.
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
Weefratim – hope your rant tonight has been fuelled by too much of one substance or another. Stay calm and rethink. :)
Dearie me
The murdering bastards, that would be the septics