Over the last few days of the European transfer window I was keen to find out what business Ajax would be able to complete (what Milan and Barca did is of scant interest). Between Friday and yesterday Ajax lost two players, Danish midfielder Christian Eriksen moved to Tottenham, and yesterday, Belgian defender, Toby Alderweireld joined Atletico Madrid.
Both were big players for the Dutch champions, who could realise €20m from the sales, but attempts to sign Ola John from Benfica and Eljero lia of Werder Bremen failed, instead they paid Heracles Almelo €2.5m for midfielder Lerin Duarte.
The Amsterdamers had a frustrating final few hours of the window. No doubt potential targets were worried about having to face three huge teams in the Champions League. In a difficult group, this is what counts as a break for Celtic. Only five games into their league season and without Champions League qualifiers to use as a yardstick, the group stage will come early for Ajax.
Living adjacent to an over-monied behemoth has considerable drawbacks as even our top clubs struggle to retain teenagers in the face of English lower league competition but such a rich market can also bring enough transfer income to make the difference between feast and famine.
The English Premier League spent £445m on transfers outside England but apart from Celtic and Hamilton Accies, who between them will earn around 4% of that total, I don’t think anyone else in Scotland got a piece of the action.
Nurturing and selling talent to England has to be a strategy for dozens of clubs here. Paying (for them) top wages to players who are no longer able to gain employment in England can only be considered a waste by comparison.
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WeefratheTim
Yeah! PL and the troops stormed the Bastille (Hamdump) today and ran up a Tricolour!
Glad your mammy is on the mend.
They need some shelter,..
Just ask Paul Brady & his Forrest Rangers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGQTVNMXbLs
They know what to do, sing it son.
Bould Sons of Anarchy.
WeefratheTim
good news re: your mum
With the sauce news does this mean they have desserted Mr Custard?
Last sauce joke (maybe)
Micky Flanagans tomato sauce joke!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=5pkU6MYHPek
Weefra
Great news in your mammy!
Someone shoot clunks
WeefratheTim
All the best to you and your mum…
Goodnight all.
Weefra
Sounds like your mum is a little tougher than you gave her credit for??
Glad to hear it
Weefra
Great news about your Ma.
HH
CRC
YA WEE TUBE,! I’ll do it tomorrow .hh
Weefrathetim
Great news. The prayers DO work.
WeefratheTim
Such good news
Deidco have a new range of liquid condiments that they featured with pictures on their fishel site.
Forces Sauces is the brand, and they have two flavours so far.
Brigadier Brown and Corporal Ketchup.
They also have a big crown on the label.
If genuine, it is so dignified….
If not, it’s a fine wind up…
Oscar Knox is my Hero – RWE
&
67Heaven … I am Neil Lennon, supporting WEE OSCAR..!!.. Ibrox belongs to the creditors
Just back in no it was a Rankers media thread
Knock em bandy karagandy,
But thier bile does not belong on these pages
although their pain when master Forrest stuck the 3rd goal in the pokey is a joy to behold :))))))))))))
What is the Stars
22:21 on
3 September, 2013
Someone shoot clunks
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Found the sauce that sevco should mass market!!!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shito
Thanks guys, your support has been overwhelming on here and it is very much appreciated as I have been telling you from day one. God bless everyone on the blessed site, you really can bring comfort in the most testing of times. Hail Hail to the lot of yez. :))
Right, wits this gravy thingy?
Weefra HH supporting Wee Oscar
Yee Ha!
PL is now in the inner sanctum of the SFA.
We don’t have a time server “buggins turn” rep in the SFA now. Watch now bhoys! I bet CO does not get re-elected again.
WeefratheTim
22:14 on
3 September, 2013
Delighted with your news on yer Mum.
I am also drinking trying to get CQN predictor land onto online predictions. They are trying very hard.:-)
HH
CRC
Aaagrghhh no more sauce jokes you bunch of nutters……
RWE
It has to be genuine, if their site had been hacked…..Awe Naw whit you doin ?
Weefra
http://www.rangers.co.uk/news/club-news/item/4966-serving-the-nation-with-pride)
dd, indeed they do. :)))
rwe, that clears that one up then. Hahaha Cheers for that. :))
Weefra HH supporting Wee Oscar
Weefrathetim,
Good to here your mums doing well.
Text tbj earlier, got sorted with the shares. HH
Weefra
Good news abt your mum. Power of prayer and that reeeesult last week maybe?
CRC, sounds more like they are very trying:-0)
WeeFra, good to hear your Mums feeling better.
Sipsini, was it easy and was it expensive? Getting shares that is.
Can Cammy Bell no’ wear goalie gloves like everyone else?
Weefra
Good news and god bless
crc
How is the Wee Oscar appeal going. I hope, because the scottish government donation to the fund has not diminished donations. That would be a tragedy. We MUST keep this campaign going till we beat this horrible disease, or at least, go a long way to doing so.
Weefra HH supporting Wee Oscar
TET @ 22;31,
Like the news item below the main article….
“ALLY McCOIST doesn’t expect to do any business before the transfer deadline tonight ”
Hail Hail
Doc is supporting Oscar and McKenzie.
22:34 on
3 September, 2013
Doc
They will all be experts by the time I have finished with them, but will still be split into two camps
1)happy computer clapper camp and
2)mine shafting this computer hates me camp
HH
CRC
CRC, well put, I like that.
No early beers on Saturday?
Reports just in.
CL Group of champions are now promoting sauces
Ajax – Hollandaise
Milan – Milanese
Barcelona – they are stuffed!!
You will all notice that the moaners ( all the usual suspects) don’t like the condiment jokes, cause no one. Is arguing, and we are all heaving a wee laugh, strange that eh ?
leftclicktic
I have watched the 2nd leg again and we were so good.
JFs goal was so good, but now it is on a different level.
Knowing that as we leapt out of our seats, shouted and danced…
they were hold their guts in place and moaning.
Beautiful & thanks for being so discreet with the link.
HH
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keithgersbear, on 28 August 2013 – 08:51 PM, said:
We will be back, don’t worry.
Yes we will be back but we are going to have to rely on hunger, desire and great management to take the top place back because our main competition will be sitting on a gold mine in Scottish football terms.
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gazz74’s Photogazz74
28 Aug 2013Fuck me hope david murray has a slow agonising death because it wil be 10 years before catch this shower o cunts
:power_of_anguish:
This made me very happy…girfuy manky deid gobshoites
Thanks again you guys.
sipsini, will contact TBJ tomorrow and get the details. Might as well leave the family some kind of legacy. Lol Oh and thanks for your welcome best wishes as all the others are. What a family we are. :)))
Weefra HH supporting Wee Oscar
Deluded or deluded, quality from the follow, followers.
But we all know it’s true, don’t we >}
Last piece of the jigsaw in their 5 year plan
This Lawwell decision is the final piece of the jigsaw. A 5 year plan initiated by Peter Lawwell and one John Reid the politician who set the ball rolling with his dirty war before getting out as quickly as he got in so not to damage his political career I wonder.
It was Murray who first signalled this when he said ‘There is an unwritten rule among Old Firm chairmen that you don’t criticise Rangers or Celtic, but I do find that this has changed since John Reid arrived,” “He has taken a few shots at us. We have not responded because there has been an unwritten rule between Rangers and Celtic that you show respect, and I will continue to do that. When you are the chairman of Rangers or Celtic, you have to be very careful. There is a strong argument, especially in the west of Scotland, that for a politician to become a chairman of a football club could be verging on being a bit dangerous.”
Reid’s response: ‘In any case, no one should be under any illusion that in defending the welfare of Celtic and our supporters I will continue to comment when appropriate, without fear or favour
It was this year that Lawwell and Reid suddenly postponed an old firm due to an ex players death who’d been bit part to say the least only to allow a game to go ahead months later when their own assistant manager passed away. A year where they falsely claimed they had a Japanese tour in order to force us into playing 4 games in a week all in a calculated effort to win the league
In 2010 Stuart Regan is then appointed to the SFA but who appointed him? There was the rather suspicious link between Kevin Reid (guess who’s son he was) and his best buddy Paul Nolan of Nolan Partners (who helped the SFA to recruit Regan) and we now know of course that Regan and Lawwell worked together during their time as employees at Coors Brewers. We also know that Nolan Partners is still a business supplier to Celtic, and that the SFA committee tasked with finding a new Chief Executive was headed by Eric Riley, a prominent Celtic director.
Still In 2010 Reid addressed his disgruntled AGM members with ”We don’t seek special treatment for Celtic,” he said. “I have never claimed we are better than anyone else. But we won’t be treated as less than anyone else – those days are gone.”
We all know what happened next with appointments such as Vincent Lunny, Paul McBride and Rod McKenzie the low level paper gatherer.
Illegal embargos, Blackmail, fines and then to keep quiet when approached by Traynor re Whyte’s failure to pay the PAYE. But that’s another story of corruption
Todays decision to allow Lawwell on the Rangers hating board is no surprise to me. This is now 5 years since Reid made his comments. Their plan has worked. We will recover on field but what set up will we have off field and who will be there to take on our enemies that have gained their positions of power
Suitable sauce for Cadaver FC