The annual raft of idle speculation unsettling Celtic’s playing and managerial resources is well underway. One newspaper headline today proclaimed, “Celtic boss wants Canaries to approach him”, based on Neil Lennon when talking about moving to England saying, “There has been no offer, there has been no concrete phone call or anything like that, so I haven’t really had a decision to make on it”. Countless others have followed in a similar theme.
Neil Lennon has not really hidden the fact that he would like to manage in the FA Premier League one day, but none of the journos with pages to fill have any notion on his thoughts of dropping a division in England. In the real world, Neil is showing no reticence in pursuing team development plans for next season. We’ll be involved in Champions League football two months from tomorrow, the manager is busy on the matters in hand.
Best wishes to John Brown for his inspired attempts to take down Newco Rangers. More power to you, John, I hope you have any many lemmings lined up as possible. Some months ago the plotters had a notion that they would starve Newco shareholders into handing over the club for zilch, or £1 less than Rangers were sold to a liquidation expert for. It remains possible that Sevco will starve, but notions that there will be an outcome for the plotters which is more desirable than an existence under the current crew are fading by the day.
Don’t forget, we’ve Tommy Gemmell, live on the blog, on Friday between 13:00 and 16:00. He’ll be here to chat and answer your questions.
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squire danaher
16:33 on
14 May, 2014
fanadpatriot
The SSM will not be paying the thick end of £6m for Finnbogasson when he could have bought him 2 years ago from Helsingborg for £500k
End of.
The same Celtic scouting team watched him there as well.These scouts should be bound,gagged and kept in a dark room when we are looking for strikers.Midfielders,defenders,no problem.Strikers?.One success,Hooper,out of around 10 attempts.Pathetic,and costly.
The Alfie boat has sailed.We should be pulling out all the stops to bring back Hooper.A terrific striker who would hit the ground running.No gamble.
GM/Trad88
Apologies work got in the way!
He got on the same train that BMCUW gets on and will ne’er be seen again in these parts!
My Grandson Patrick aged 9yrs just came in to show me his his new Clark’s trainers. I said these are like the football boots called Stylo Matchmakers that George Best used to wear.
“They’re called football shoes now Grandpa”, he informed me, “can you show me a picture?”
Found a picture on ebay with side lacing, second hand sold for almost £200. wow
Hooper would only come back as a last resort, I’m in the No camp for that one
!!Bada Bing!! 16:52 on 14 May, 2014
“steinreignedsupreme- knew he had Scottish roots,Embra maybe but didnae know that mate.”
Aye. I heard him talking about it on the wireless one day. Luckily my wife was able to confirm what I had heard.
It’s a good quiz question. Throw in a few clues and most people still don’t guess right.
Yogiy
My first boots ……the ole style matchmakers.
The English won’t negotiate terms until we have put a noose around our necks and they have us by the balls.
TT
Tiny – I think I saw that video once mhate. Just don’t be telling my ma’ !!!
I’m altogether more sanguine about the whole thing. And the uk govt would never prenegotiate a deal on an outcome they’d prefer not to have happen. Old Dave C may look like a 50 y:o puppy schoolboy but he ain’t stoooopid! ;-)
QueSeraSeraCSC
HH jamesgang
Now the Edinburgh Evening News tells the truth too! Two newspapers in one day! What’s up ??
Budge remains totally convinced by Levein’s model for running the club and said she has learned lessons from the financial problems at Rangers. Having been liquidated in 2012, the Ibrox club posted losses of over £14million for the last year due to excessive spending.
Really hate to say this but at the moment,Lenny is acting like a dockside whore,standing with her skirt up fluttering her eyelashes at every sailor passing bye.
It is totally demeaning to Celtic.To even consider a club like Norwich to ours,is a disgrace.
Before anyone says it is all paper talk,has he ever denied he would go?.”Its very flattering”his last comment.If you want to go,fekin go.We have a far too important pre season coming up to go hunting for a new manager .Two months until the 1st qualifier.
Nicholas Parsons was born in 1923 in Grantham two years before Margaret Thatcher was born in the same place and, spookily enough, they both did Sale of the Century albeit her version featured national assets rather than barbecues, trouser presses and 2 berth caravans.
His father was the Roberts family’s doctor. That Hippocratic oath just gets in the way sometimes
I see Vince Cable is trying to ban Craigie as a director http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-27408184?
Anyone know if this could affect his ongoing fight with Charles over Sevco 5088?
They keep striking off/reinstating his directorship through Companies House. I just wondered if he is struck off by Cable it is game,set and match the large handed Yorkshireman?
I don’t think it’d take much negotiating for an independent Scotland to use the pound. Ireland used it for 60? years.
Monetary union is a different kettle o worms.
Bill Bhoy 05
thanks again for the feedback at 16.13.
I think you ought to be able to work out that from what I say that personal insults are not how I work.
Till tomorrow, but I think you might reflect on how your own comments, be they about intelligence or bitterness or other stuff, are in themselves personal insults. Veiled and not directed personally, maybe, but passive aggression is still aggression and feels like aggression to the victims.
HH
BMCUW
Just for clarity on the issue about Campbell Martin, Bob.
I was able to deduce from the dialogue between the two of you that you had met up last week sometime and that another friend of Billy’s, a nationalist politico, was also there.
I had no idea who, where, how etc.
HH
For those who missed the first news source (STV) …
Former Rangers owner Craig Whyte is subject to a move to disqualify him from being a company director.
The businessman, who bought the Ibrox club in 2011 before taking it into administration and then liquidation, could be banned for up to 15 years.
Turkeybhoy
17:12 on
14 May, 2014
Where has he said he’d consider the Norwich job? I haven’t seen that. I’ve seen him say he hasn’t responded to them, because he hasn’t been asked (or words to that effect).
Personally I don’t think he’d go to the Championship. Had they stayed up, maybe. I can appreciate that fighting relegation might be more of a challenge than doing what he does here, and potentially get him more plaudits too.
Indy stuff.
KeepItLightAngelDelightCSC
The more given the gravity of the decision. I’m on the other side of the fence from my old boy and I still love the old, misguided wise old fool of a man that he is!
Failing that, stick to fitba.
eg Hooper. Prob no from me. Def no from him I would suspect?
HH jamesgang
Embramike – you any ideas whether it could affect the Whyte/Green Sevco 5088 battle?
Hail Hail,
After watching Trophy Day at Celtic Park this past Sunday, May 11, and seeing Samaras’s genuine emotion on scoring his final goal for the Bhoys, I was moved to create a tribute video. It was a labor of love. Feel free to tweet it, Facebook it, or otherwise pass it on or embed it:
Full Screen: http://www.youtube.com/v/79pfeeadvQ8?modestbranding=1&autoplay=1
Normal Size: http://youtu.be/79pfeeadvQ8
Yours in Hoops,
kingsnake
Daily Mail
“Neil Lennon would be interested in switching Celtic for Norwich City – but only if a concrete offer was on the table.”
Neil Lennon quote to justify the above
“There’s going to be a bit of to-ing and fro-ing over the next few weeks,’ Lennon said. ‘When I’m asked I say I am pretty happy where I am. I’m pretty stable.
‘There has been no offer, there has been no concrete phonecall or anything like that, so I haven’t really had a decision to make on it.’”
Green Whyte and Mustard involved at Sevco shenanigans ..is this a plot by Dulux?.that,ll be them on the banned list then….
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I suppose they use “Crown” paints anyway…hh
…my point being that the quote does not justify the Mail story
fortheavoidanceofdoubt CSC
Geordie Munro
15:16
How long can you keep a chicken in the freezer for?
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Only until your fingers and toes turn blue, pal.
(I hate it when I miss the good debates)
The Independence Vote is over 4 months away, for those who are passionate about it and wish to influence others surely it would be better to keep your powder dry and launch your campaign in the last few weeks before polling. Obviously being Irish, I am just an onlooker, I hope the Yes side win but I expect that they won’t. Might change my name to ” corkcelt would if he could vote yes” but will wait to Sept.
twists n turns My first boots ……the ole style matchmakers.
Lucky you, I never could have afforded them. The other boots I remember wanting were Pele boots which somehow had a flap to cover over the laces.
Turkeybhoy 17:12 on 14 May, 2014
I think you need to calm down.
Turkeybhoy
17:12 on
14 May, 2014
Really hate to say this but at the moment,Lenny is acting like a dockside whore,standing with her skirt up fluttering her eyelashes at every sailor passing bye.
It is totally demeaning to Celtic.To even consider a club like Norwich to ours,is a disgrace.
Before anyone says it is all paper talk,has he ever denied he would go?.”Its very flattering”his last comment.If you want to go,fekin go.We have a far too important pre season coming up to go hunting for a new manager .Two months until the 1st qualifier.
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Most clubs in the EPL are now cannon fodder for the clubs spending the silly money(someone elses money of course) and it is often a lottery which 3 of them go down.
To join one that has already gone down to a division in an even worse financial state would be ridiculuous.
Stay and who knows what can be achieved. He has already put us back on the European map in a competition better than anything on offer in England.
HH
NL could have said they would be wasting their time, but he didn’t.
From now on the Press will have Lenny & 75% of our squad transferred the length and breadth of Britain. We should be mature enough not to react.
Kingsnake
Excellent but you have just destroyed Celtic’s plans for the Christmas money spinner DVD!
Hamiltontim is praying for Oscar
17:01 on
14 May, 2014
GM/Trad88
Apologies work got in the way!
He got on the same train that BMCUW gets on and will ne’er be seen again in these parts!
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He was sitting beside that Lawwell a couple of nights earlier in the season;)
I’d be all for it, can never have too many goalscorers – if he came back there’d be a good chance he’d be here for a good few years having tried the EPL relegation battle and probably having no desire to do it again!
HH
tomtheleedstim @ 17:20
Embramike – you any ideas whether it could affect the Whyte/Green Sevco 5088 battle?
Not sure, but maybe changes at the SFA this summer (CO replaced by say Rod Petrie ??) may open the “5 way agreement” can of worms as it might be ‘found in a drawer’ and appear online?
Maybe just wishful thinking ….
RWE
Bunnet doffed.
Hrvatski Jim: “Excellent but you have just destroyed Celtic’s plans for the Christmas money spinner DVD!”
Thanx. :-)
Hey Lawell, if you are listening, I’ll still buy the DVD …
Seville v Benfica ITV 4 or Cowdenbeath v Dunfermline on BBC ALBA…….. decisions, decisions….
Billy bhoy still spreading lies and misinformation I see. And still bullying whomever he can while saying that personal insults are wrong.
So far billy bhoy has said he looks forward to getting rid of the likes of me when Scotland is independent and compared me with the BNP.
You are a joke billy bhoy.
Bada Bing: The beeb. Gotta see who will be whipping Hun arse next season …
Put it this way, I don’t think Lenny will leave.
For those English papers to link the Manager of GLASGOW CELTIC with a move to Norwich is a complete joke and an insult to our club.
They need to be told.
Do they not know who we are ?
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