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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BT
Thanks bud.
Canamalar
Brilliant answer
What a few hours on CQN, some want to bomb the bastards, others denying that bombing the bastards didny cause any harm.
And they call themselfs Celtic supporters.
Nothing like any Celtic supporter I know, thankfully.
Rascar.BGFC
Sorry to hear of your sad losses.
May they both RIP
BGFC.
Condolences to you and your loved ones in your time of sadness.
Off oot to the beach .
Radio news claiming that Manchester City have offered Rube 90 million euros for Pogba.
Watched Some Mother’s Son last night with Helen Mirren,had never seen it before and quite enjoyed seeing the elation of the Nationalist community when Bobby Sands got elected.
Since Sunday is film and documentary day for me I might have a ‘The Troubles’ theme today in my viewing,I don’t tend to get involved with it all,to any depth anyway but some posts over the piece lately have annoyed me,hun opportunism.
The most interesting aspect of most announcements emanating from Sevco central is what they don’t say. Today is no different:
Quote from the Herald story on Deloittes walking away…:
In a separate letter to shareholders James Blair, the RIFC company secretary said: “The board is disappointed that Deloitte has chosen to resign due to acts which occurred in 2013 and 2014 whilst RIFC was under different stewardship.”
Whilst the current Ibrox regime put out such statements in and attempt to say “it wisnae me” it in fact declares the reverse to be the case. The followers of the current regime are the most likely candidates to have delivered the threats which drove Deloittes out.
hamiltontim
11:04 on 5 July, 2015
That’s the joy of football mate everyone sees things different. To me Charlie slows plays down then tries a Maldini type 60 yards pass With 1 out of 10 being successful. Actually think there better players in the squad. Just think the money could be well spent else where. Like his song though :-))
THE EXILED TIM
Bomb who?
Rascar and BGFC
Sincere condolences for your sad loss.
south of tunis
11:22 on 5 July, 2015
Cool 65 million how the other half live.
Latest statement from RIFC:
“Wisnae us. Some big b(h)oys done it and ran away! Honest!”
HH!!
NatKnow
09:13 on
5 July, 2015
http://www.aspeninstitute.org/policy-work/agent-orange/health-eff
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Thanks for that.
Civil answer to a civil question.
lennon n mc….mjallby
If you can watch the film H3.
lennon’s passion
Opinions indeed sir :-)
I know what you’re saying about slowing play down but I think that play can be speeded up by passing the ball quickly and accurately which Mulgrew has the ability to do. Don’t get me wrong I wouldn’t have him in the starting 11 but I think he’s worth keeping.
Morning all. Iffy sort of day down here. Better than yesterday morning by a long way but not particularly warming by any stretch of the imagination.
My condolences to BGFC and Rascar on their losses.
Can’t fathom why Charlie Mulgrew is being offered a new contract. I would have thought the one major attribute our manager looks for is pace. Charlie is seriously lacking in that department. Can’t see him featuring in any CL game unless it is an emergency.
Lubo of the lamp
Maybe that was their response to a man made problem? I admire the sentiment more than many individual decisions made. Politics is a dirty business with less humanity and more vested interests than a horse can shite, we probably can agree on that.
Love your mother
http://youtu.be/KlfKJ_84qFs
HH
Slan_Abhaile
The Muslims and the Vietnamese
HH
BGFC condolences on your loss
There was a post earlier re JFK sending troops to Vietnam
It was when he realised the troops would have to get out of there that played a big part in costing him his life
Hamilton
Cheers bhud,will watch it today if it’s on Google Play.
I’ve never seen Michael Collins either so…
HH
@1133 THE EXILED TIM
The radical Muslims are a real threat to a spineless decadent West.
I would go after them.
Mulgrew is a useful chap to have about the place. Comfortable in several positions. A left back by trade, centre half by experience. Decent delivery of a dead ball. Experienced. No brainer for me to keep him. He’s the forgotten man since his injury. He is also capable of doing it during ‘big games’.
Morning all
Firstly condolences to Rascar on the loss of your mum. May she Rest in Peace.
Been skimming the blog since last night. No idea what you do with IS but dropping bombs – aerial terrorism- seems unlikely to achieve anything beyond more unnnecesary deaths -or to use the newspeak expression ‘collateral damage’. A frightening scenario is unfolding and something that any western involvement beyond the humanitarian is likely make worse. But I suspect that the West will sooner rather than later do what it always and send for the B52s. ( and not the band which sang Rock Lobster)
As for the singing of songs in support of the IRA (Provisional or otherwise) I have to say I hear very little of it at matches these days although on buses and in bars they still get sung quite a bit. I rather like some of these songs and have been known to join in on some. It is part of our support and I hope it remains so- I am sure Canamalar’s responses to Thompson Twin were slightly tongue-in-cheek but I know I would not wish Celtic to become a Glaswegian Hibernian and to look on our name and colours as something to be slightly embarassed by.
Have a good Sunday all of you and sorry for chuntering on so much
Jimbo67
Ah,Dean Lennox Kelly,seen it,very good.
J j jb t
Ayr races
Mysterial 230
Advance 335
Finn Class 4 10
All convincing winners last time out.
JFK.
By a twist of fate the first Kennedy to enter the White House could have been his elder brother Joseph Patrick Kennedy -JPK – who was killed in WW2.
JFK would have been next in line.
HH!!
Haven’t bet for donkies years.
Rainbow Quest, Comanche Run, Barnbrook Again… brings back memories
Slan_Abhaile
11:44 on 5 July, 2015
@1133 THE EXILED TIM
The radical Muslims are a real threat to a spineless decadent West.
I would go after them.
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Here’s a mad idea – let’s stop doing what has led to the rise of militaristic militant islam rather than repeating the thing that accelerated it’s rise and progression in the first place.
Seriously, and sorry to drop a cliche here, but doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results is madness….
How about the West spend whatever they were going to spend on murdering people, destroying towns and infrastructure and shore up what’s left of the moderate Islamic world by spending it instead of building infrastructure, feeding people and doing some genuine good for a change. People don’t want to live under religiously repressive regimes. But imagine living somewhere where the actions of western military firstly killed your friends and family, destroyed your life as you knew it and left behind corrupt puppet government. Who would you see as the bad guys?
I am fed up with selfish, greedy bar stewards destabilising the world in their own narrow self interests.
Enough.
RobertTressell
You cannot reason with these madmen. They don’t do negotiation. Sure: foreign policy causes problems, but these radicals get their drive from a book that no amount of foreign policy can change.
Crusades FC
Slan_Abhaile
I agree 100% with what Robert Tressell replied to you.
Isis are a western creation, the west are responsible for what they are doing today, no one else.
Just as the Taliban & Al Queda were before.
It’s all about the money.
HH
ISIS don’t care about money. They car about an oppressive Islamic State to be universally distributed across as wide a geographical area as possible.
SA
Of course the care about the money, they can’t do feck all without money.
It’s no the money they want I am talking about anyways, it’s the resources the west want, the money and power that brings.
Just like you can’t reason with the madmen that bomb the crap out of Iraq, Libya, Afganistan, etc, etc.
And they want to bomb the crap out of Iran next, WW3 just around the corner maybes, IMO, it would be folly to try, but you can’t reason with madmen, Can you.
It’s all about the money.
HH
Anyone have any idea what kind of money Charlie Mulgrew would be on a week at Celtic.
ET
Money for ISIS is a means to end.
For the faceless 0.1% of the West it is an end in itself.
Lennon’s passion @1213
Too much!
jimbo67
11:49 on
5 July, 2015
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Having Irish grandparents from Donegal & Sligo respectively, I have no problem with us celebrating Celtic’s Irish roots.
However the PIRA thing should be dropped – The six counties now have universal suffrage – the power now lies with the people – it was not always so.
ThompsonTwin
The PIRA thing should never have started.
Br. Walfrid was a man of peace and community.
If you want to sing Provo songs, go for a holiday to Andersontown or Beleek.