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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Weefra
Delighted to hear the good news about your mum. ;-))
TET, it’s all a Timmy conspiracy!
Brilliant.
Chairbhoy
I saw that, incredible how stupid they really are.
I am actually quite amazed at their thickness, another wurld record beckons me thinks >}
HH
Doc
It would be funny if it wasn’t so serious, ah feckit, it’s hillarious >}
HH
Thought they might prefer this type of Brown instead of the Brigadier:
Bomber Sauce
1-28ounce can of whole tomatoes. use a good grade. I use Trader Joe’s Whole Tomato’s.
1-Bunch of flat leaf parsley. About a cup’s worth.
2-3-Cloves Garlic. As always use fresh. you might want to start out using 2 cloves at first. it gets really potent.
A good glug of Olive Oil, Salt and Pepper to taste.
Throw it all in a blender or food processor and puree away until all of the garlic and parsley are uniform in size. Store in an airtight container. Although instantly ready to use. It is better and of course more potent the next day.
Sometimes I will throw in a few Basil leaves too. Make it your own style.
On second thoughts maybe too much garlic for the undead.
Oscar Knox is my Hero – RWE They are talking when the board goes up with mins on it
and start shouting for someone to “slaughter a sheep” to stop us winning ,oh and we must be cheats because we always score right at the end :)))
Good night sir if you know anyone with my email
BMCUW or Lennybhoy I will send you it but although their hatred and language is head shakingly brilliant :)) I feel its not for here
tosb
Thanks for that. The support on this blog has been unbelievable. And I mean tears at times. We really are a family and the closest on the planet. How proud I am. :))
Weefra HH supporting Wee Oscar
Paddy Gallagher ,
My comments were directed at Ogilvie.
To see opposite him the CEO of the most vibrant and powerful club in Scottish Football , Celtic , will cut him to the bone.
He aided and abetted the worst excesses of the old ibrox club and unwittingly contributed to their ultimate demise. His legacy is their liquidation. Behind that smarmy, false smile is a guy who knows he has failed and his time is up. He will retire quietly and soon be forgotten to be remembered as an administrator.
With Pedro in place and people like Rod Petrie present , there is some hope the SFA will move into the 21st century , away from the bowling club sub committee approach and drive the necessary change at all levels of the game in Scotland.
Within 10 years we could see a dramatic change with Scotland appearing regularly in Euros / world cups and Celtic an annual fixture in the CL.
Pedro is not the only change required on the SFA board. Half of that shower of degenerates should be sacked and others appointed. Personally I would find a seat for Turnbull Hutton who showed his worth during all the shenanigans.
Campbell Ogilvie I salute you for your personal contribution in the demise of RFC. I admire your back breaking efforts in support of the tribute act. Its funny to see an SFA President be an unconscious incompetent.
Pedro don’t teach them too much!
Come on you bhoys in Green!
And we’re out to show the world what we can do.
doc is supporting oscar and mckenzie.
22:35 on 3 September, 2013.
Ha Ha…
No problem at all.
Ten minutes on the phone to a broker canamalar recommended.
Cost depends on what you want to lay out.
A £40 fee which includes your certificate.
Mines will be getting framed…as a reminder to any Huns what their defunct shares certificate would look like on their wall. HH
leftclicktic oscar in our thoughts
22:26 on 3 September, 2013
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 :))))))))))))
a few very obvious timposters in there methinks :-)
I now have an image of John Reid sitting in a big leather chair stroking a white long haired cat and saying
” Come een Meester McCoist I’ve been expecting you”.
WeefratheTim
22:36 on
3 September, 2013
The fundraising is stopped for Wee Oscar, as there should be enough (?) money for the treatment that ironically MacKenzie has now started, thanks to the intervention of the Scottish Government. Horrendous for all these kids that suffer and rely on charity to save their life. BRTH petition is very important.
The problem for Wee Oscar, whilst clear of cancer, he was not strong enough to get the immunization treatment and nearly passed away in Philly, on several occasions. The specialised hospital probably is the reason he is still with us today, as they undertook pioneering treatment to save his life when his lung collapsed. Also the willpower and the determination of Wee Oscar and his family with many nations and friends supporting in my view cannot be underestimated. The family survive on this. This is there outlet never to give up.
So after a couple of months of normal (?) family life and a fabolous trip to CP, the cancer came back with a vengeance, but the family stays strong and determined and so does our Celtic Warrior . So the family has to start the fight again with more risk and more danger.
However, all during this, there was nothing financially to support the family to pay bills, the mortgage and enjoy Christmas, birthdays etc with no income. The Wee Oscar4Life campaign (and CQN amongst others) recognised this and raised money direct for the family during this harrowing time.
The “changing the moniker” campaign we had recently raised a further £1100 to support the family and we will send something special to the family with all the names very soon, once I have worked out what this will be :-).
Sorry to witter on!
HH
CRC
Sipsini, do you have the contact details of the broker?
You can send them to The Boy Jinky if you don’t want them on the blog, he can forward them to me.
Nearly put a H in there, would have been in trouble.
Ta.
tonyd67
You talk some P sometimes!!! <:0)
TET
When I heard in the radio today that PL had been co opted onto the board
My first thought …Huns in apoplexy …seems I was right
Hilarious …they called us paranoid …
leftclicktic
Thanks.
No I’ve never met any CQNers other than Paul67. Live in the States.
CRC has my email add for the predictor though.
As does sannabhoy.
HH as always
tonydonnelly – you are a sad sad individual!
If you haven’t watched Charlie Wilson’s War, I would recommend this true story …… An ‘eye-opener’….
Doc is supporting Oscar and McKenzie.
22:38 on
3 September, 2013
what you thinking?
HH
CRC
Magnificentseven supporting Oscar all the way
At first I thought there was a few voices of reason among them ,then it dawned on me your right :)))some deep rooted sleepers in there :)).
Good night all
Thank you for being here
A special congratulations to Peter Lawwell I may not agree with his actions and plans sometimes but make no mistake he is changing the face of Scottish football and doing it from the inside unheard of for one of ours.
IMHO of course
thelonggameplancsc
latchford
The one thing that needs changed, in fact, the only thing that needs changing……
Is to have a transparent refereeing system, make them accountable for their decisions, have an honest and open refereeing board, a board who will promote and demote referees who don’t act fairly, and consistently.
Have an open meeting after every round of games, where questions are asked of the referees, why did they do this, why did they do that, etc, etc.
Let the footballers play football, consign the hammer throwers to the past, in the grave with their former lovers.
A level playing field on the park will benefit all of scottish football, it will benefit the future generations.
If Pedro can achieve this, they can cheat all they want off the park, it will matter not a feckin jot.
All we should insist on is changing the referees, the rest will follow, it will be inevitable.
HH
67H
When whers that on??
PAUL67
GET LENNY TO CHECK OUT
A NEW
NUMBER 7
YOSSI
LOOK AT HIS 1 IN 4 GOALS
INTERNATIONAL RECORD
GET IT DONE
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yossi_Benayoun
Maybees meet at the West for a wee beer or two prior to getting a cab to CP, Could suggest it to the others going, might be up for it, 5ish?
Fat Shally says ” Forshesh Shaushesh? Thatsh eashy fur you tae shay!”
crc
Get my moby from BT. I will most certainly contribute. :))
Weefra HH supporting Wee Oscar
More facile asinine comment from the usual suspects
Points puerile and extremely immature
crc
Or TBJ. :))
Weefra HH supporting Wee Oscar
Leftclick@ 22,53
Talking about the thread on RM when it went into added on time on us v karagandy.
Have just seen it myself from the barman in my local. You’re right, it’s not for here, far too much bile, seearys and hatred. ( surprise surprise) hilarious though. One of my favourites which I can repost is this one
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Horrible, a result that helps them pull away from us.
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Noshitsherlockcsc
Thank you Jude, I am not worthy.
PFayr
Maybe they are learning from us, our biggest problem was we weren’t paranoid enough, it’s wonderfull to see the roles reversed.
HH
Neganon2
This is the important bit from the response to asonofdan (and good on him for making the effort)
“On inspecting our records, it would appear
that Glasgow City Council does not hold
any minutes or correspondence where threats
were made by the Safety Advisory Group to
revoke the Club’s safety certificate. Neither
does anyone else hold it on our behalf.
Therefore this information would be exempt
under Section 17 of the Act. This is because
no such correspondence or minutes
exist within the Council.”
Does this mean that a) the meeting was minuted but there was no mention of revoking the safety certificate or b) there was no minutes taken at all?
If a) the club are hung out to dry on that one. I read it as b) there was no minutes taken at all, which is convenient for the protagonists and leaves us in a state of he said/she said.
I find it hard to believe that the meeting wasn’t documented in some form or another, but at the same time it wouldn’t surprise me with GCC.
The Hun Mayan Calender which ended on the ,21’st of Dec 2012 is beginning to take place
It is the beginning of the end
Your Children will be Supporting Celtic
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Neganon
Relax, be happy Tim, should try it , it’s good fun.
Doc.
I sent the details to TBJ last night.
He’ll sort you out.
Anyway bed time, good night Tims,