If you aggregate the nods, winks and rumours around Celtic this week you might be inclined to think we’re in the market for a target-man striker with a few years’ experience under his belt. I agree with the principle that we need a target man and I’m also of the view that short-term deals are not nearly as desirable as permanent contracts, but as we know, it’s too easy to load the club full of squad players who cumulatively cost a lot of money but scarcely trouble the first team.
Hooper, Stokes, Samaras, Bangura, Rasmussen and Murphy are all under contract for next season and we cannot be confident of attracting bids for any of those Neil Lennon might want to move on. If we add a seventh striker, his name better be on the team sheet before Gary Hooper’s. Signing an exotic version of Daryl Murphy would add spice to our week but would only consume scarce resources. I’d rather not.
Co-opting a media partner works in theory. It’s always better to have good relationships with the media than the kind of relationships Celtic perennially have, but what happens when your media partner plays with a straight bat?
Rangers media partner, STV, today report Nigerian trialist, Michael Uchebo, boarded a plane out of Glasgow a few hours after arriving (Michael, they have taken you away….) as the VVV-Venlo striker with 8 career goals to his name had “a poor first impression of” Rangers.
Michael, you clearly have a rubbish strike rate but you’re a remarkably perceptive individual.
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BT
How are you gonnae watch the fitba when the high heid yins (plural mind …… smiley) will be watching the big brother finale!
Vinny
HH
TopCorner says:
27 January, 2012 at 19:40
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Heard your point being read out M8!
Well done.
Hail! Hail!
Stringer Bell says:
27 January, 2012 at 19:34
I think, if another game v them is played at Ibroke, there should be several thousand (obviously) fake bank notes printed off with Hector’s visage in place of the parasite’s.
Lardo66 says:
27 January, 2012 at 15:32
I’m afraid I had a similar experience with an ipod that got wet.
Thought I’d dried it out and it seemed to charge until I connected it with the computer and got the, “very low charge” message.
Sent it off to a repair place which informed me that it wasn’t worth fixing.
That, of course, may have been bs, but I just left the darned thing in their possession.
They’ve probably since sold it as a refurb.
Not what you wanted to hear, I know.
Hope your story works out better.
Hail Hail!
Keevins is a press rat, he knows his anti-Celtic stance keeps him in a job.
Lower than a badgers baws…
On a Swedish chainsaw –
‘Do not attempt to stop chain with your hands or genitals.’
(Oh deary me….was there a lot of this happening somewhere?)
Kev
I coached Dylan, yes the family are Tims but the bhoy was always more interested in playing the game as opposed to watching.
That’s different from Judas who proclaimed his undying love for our club and recounted tales of his trips to Celtic Park.
Stringer Bell says:
27 January, 2012 at 19:34
Remember the Huns used to wave cash at us? Just remembered that.
Kind of Harry Enfield thing, for those of a certain age.
I remember a whole bus of them on the M8 waving Tenners.
I think they valour karma.
Marvellous.
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I remember shouting back ‘have you seen a handsome Hun ? No , No’
And although things change, they still remain the same, and I still haven’t seen a handsome Hun :-)
^^ obviously these fakes will be chucked about with the same reckless abandon they threw around the real stuff.
:-)
THE EXILED TIM
Hi m8,
I’m going to do a different type of bet tomorrow and it will either be a combination (5 game accumulator) of
2 games over 3.5 and 3 games over 2.5
or
3 games over 3.5 and 2 games over 2.5
I should get over 65/1 or over 120/1 depending what one I go for.
Bhoy67 says:
27 January, 2012 at 19:42
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Re: HamiltonTims question…I would say never could I sign for the huns! Never!
I was trying to establish, who where the biggest villians at that particular juncture in our history….
the Celtic board who would have seen us relegated just so that they could stay in power or, Mo Jo who, imo, was forced over into kicking back at the board for, leading Mo up the garden path re: his tax bill of £150k which, the board promised to pay just to get Mo to sign for us and, paraded him in a sort of hood-wink style! IMO!
Hail! Hail!
St Stivs @19:24 ,
thank you Sir. All I’ve done is recount exactly what happened – that’s what made all the funnier.
When/next time we meet i’ll fill you in on the grave digging/filling in , the wake and the follow-up funeral back in dumbarton (i kid you not).
Sanna
Jihlday
Thank you.
Think I’ll take it up to Buhanan st tomorrow with a mealy mooth and see what happens. BTW it didn’t get wet.
Good evening CQN
Been a hectic week, however with some much needed help from CRC the FRIDAY NIGHT QUIZ will go ahead as normal at 9pm
hh
bjmac
Buchanan
KevJungle says:
27 January, 2012 at 19:51
Bhoy67 says:
27 January, 2012 at 19:42
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Re: HamiltonTims question…I would say never could I sign for the huns! Never!
I was trying to establish, who where the biggest villians at that particular juncture in our history….
Kev the two things are not mutually exclusive, Both were culpable, you can debate who was worse, nothing suprised us about the old board at the time, biscuit tin etc.
But Johnstone new what it meant to do what he did, and went ahead, 150k tax does not change that
He will never be recuperated in my eyes.
but hey ho. only an opinion
Hh
Mike
OAO live until 10pm
TopCorner says:
27 January, 2012 at 19:15
the old Jim McColl card
Who is Jim McColl?
petec
Send them to me.
Always interested in what others see how things are.
I went on to an old bet365 account on tuesday, there was 12 euros in it, I decided to do a wee acca with a couple with the goals thing, never done it before the last week or so, the 12 grew thanks to your good self, this was what I did
Cardiff @ 4/6
Sheff Wed @ 6/5
East Fife @ 5/6
Over 2.5 @ 5/6
Over 2.5 @ 8/11
Anderlecht @ 4/6
Six-Folds, 1 bet * €5.00 24/01/2012 20:33:07 5.00 177.40
lennon’s passion
he’s the fella rfc fans want to invest in their club
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_McColl
KevJungle says:
27 January, 2012 at 19:10
Hugh Keevins didny get invited to the, Murray lapdog succulent dinners because, Hugh dizny wear an apron of the magic circle club! IMO!
Hail! Hail!
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You sure about that kev. if he doesnt, then he is trying dam hard to get into the circle, and i think this uncle tim gets too much publicity on here, along with the other uncle tims , walker, nicholas, martin/ mcguire, duffy etc! . See if we had a fair and proper media in this country it would have gone a long way to harnessing the honest mistakes, it would have went a long way to highlighting the bias that was evident against the other football clubs in scotland in favour of one club , and it would certainly
Evening bhoyos
Are there any trialists left over at Camp Runamuck?
TC
thanks
watching Watford Spurs on ESPN..
Kevjungle gies a break mate, I have a pint with his father in law, still can’t say the name..
he is and always will be a wee..TCB….
Vinny..
family have been paid off by buying them an indian meal… they are in bed, I’m on the vino tinto…
Wats Eidur Gudjohnsen up to these days? Always been a fan of his reckon he’d do a decent job for us
TC
Jim McColl
are the huns hoping it will all be rosey in the garden…? or was that Jim Baron?
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A striker is nearing Celtic but nothing can be said until pen is put to paper. Unfortunately things change in football every half an hour.
BT
Beechgrove Tim
tommytwiststommyturns says:
27 January, 2012 at 19:01
Or Le Petit Merde
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
BT Good move, didnae think they’d have fell for that wan……. carry on sir hic!
Vinny
HH
sorry pressed send by mistake.
jimtim says:
27 January, 2012 at 20:07
KevJungle says:
27 January, 2012 at 19:10
Hugh Keevins didny get invited to the, Murray lapdog succulent dinners because, Hugh dizny wear an apron of the magic circle club! IMO!
Hail! Hail!
share
You sure about that kev. if he doesnt, then he is trying dam hard to get into the circle, and i think this uncle tim gets too much publicity on here, along with the other uncle tims , walker, nicholas, martin/ mcguire, duffy etc! . See if we had a fair and proper media in this country it would have gone a long way to harnessing the honest mistakes, it would have went a long way to highlighting the bias that was evident against the other football clubs in scotland in favour of one club , and it would certainly see them report the ongoing affair across the city honestly . share
hail hail
jimtim
bjmac
thanks
lookin forward to it
nosh, beer, OAO and quiz
lovely
:)
From an earlier link. Look , in particular, at Ivaylo`s assessment at the bottom!! : ( This is quite an enjoyable read in a sadiistic sort of way! )
Craig Whyte profile: The Scots billionaire on the brink of taking over the club he loves
Nov 18 2010 Keith Jackson
Craig Whyte started playing the stock market at the age of 15. By the time he left school he had more than £20,000 in his bank account.
Today, aged just 39, this financial whizzkid from Motherwell stands on the brink of pulling off the biggest deal of his life – and finally bringing the curtain down on one of the longest-running sagas in Scottish football.
Record Sport understands self-made billionaire Whyte has entered into the final stages of negotiations to buy control of the club he loves from Sir David Murray.
And he’s still one year younger than captain Davie Weir.
A deal worth around £30million is now believed to have reached such an advanced stage that sources say Whyte, a high-roller who splits his time between a home in London and the idyllic Castle Grant in Grantown-on-Spey, could even have the keys to Ibrox in time to fund a major refurbishment of Walter Smith’s top-team squad in January.
The news will delight Rangers supporters who have been fretting over the future of their club ever since Murray first slapped a For Sale sign on the front door of Edmiston Drive around three years ago.
As the club’s financial health deteriorated to such an extent the banks moved in to control the purse strings, a series of false dawns came and went.
First, a consortium headed up by South African-based tycoon Dave King came to the fore only to fail to meet Murray’s asking price.
Then, in March this year, Londonbased property developer Andrew Ellis emerged as the frontrunner and was granted a period of exclusivity in order to get the deal done.
But Ellis, now part of the consortium, did not have the financial clout to back up his bold promises and his bid collapsed, leaving Rangers firmly in the grip of the Lloyds Group.
Exiled Glaswegian King was then talked up once more as the possible saviour but he was also engaged in a long-running battle with the tax man and while those issues remained unresolved, he too looked l ike an increasingly unlikely white knight for a club now engulfed by crisis.
But yesterday, quite out of the blue, Record Sport learned a new man is at the table and that a deal to end Murray’s 22-year reign is ready to be completed.
And that man is a relative boy.
By the age of 26, Whyte was already Scot land’s youngest self-made millionaire. Now, 13 years on, and in charge of a vast business empire, his wealth is off the radar.
Whyte is a venture capitalist who has made his millions from playing the markets – a skill he secret ly began honing in his third year at Glasgow’s Kelvinside Academy. In one of his few interviews he revealed how he immediately regretted going to the private school – because he despised playing rugby.
He said: “I hated the discipline of it. It was a rugby-only school, which I didn’t play as I was interested in football.” Whyte worked weekends for his dad’s plant hire firm. And he saved up his wages to fund his habit of gambling on Stock Exchange.
It is said that, by the time he left school, he had more cash in his bank than many of his teachers.
At 19, he was in charge of his own hire plant.
Now he owns his own castle – one of the most historic buildings in Scotland. And very soon he could be adding Rangers to his portfolio. It remains to be seen if Whyte’s move to capture the club will f lush any other parties out of the woodwork because – despite their failure to strike a deal with Murray – King and his consortium have yet to throw in the towel on their own ambitions.
They had put together a package worth around £18m but this was flatly rejected and Ellis drove the price up when he agreed to pay Murray more than £30m.
The club’s debt has been reduced by around £10m since then but the selling price remains the same.
Now, quite clearly, Whyte believes he will be able to close the deal and the young gun must have said enough to impress Murray, who has stated all along that he will only sell the club to the right people – men with enough money to take the club forward.
Who knows? Murray may even regard Whyte as something of a kindred spirit.
After all, Murray was himself aged just 37 back in 1988 when he launched a takeover of the Ibrox club.
It was the beginning of one of the most successful periods in Rangers’ history but Murray’s aggressive pursuit of European glory eventually saw him writing the kind of cheques that his club could simply not afford.
Now Whyte is bringing his money to the table but it remains to be seen if he will adopt the same scatter-cash approach as the man who has owned the club for the past two decades.
But if he brings in even half of the number of trophies Murray delivered then the fans are unlikely to be complaining.
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One can only hope the saga is coming to an end, as the bhoys brains are becoming confused having to deal with Corrie on Euro nights as well as Rangers financial footing.
18/11/2010 8:14 AM GMT on dailyrecord.co.uk
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Gersboy1972 wrote:
Reading posts on other footy articles, a few punters have mentioned this item is also being reported in other papers, Sun, Guardian, Herald (so much for DR exclusive) and I have just watched Skysports news also giving it a mention, with a live report to follow. So, is there possibly something true in any of this? Happy days (maybe)
18/11/2010 10:38 AM GMT on dailyrecord.co.uk
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Ivaylo wrote:
Only time will tell if the story above is right.Rangers look much better now off the field than same time last year and things can only get better.
WATP
18/11/2010 10:49 AM GMT on dailyrecord.co.uk
JJ
TopCorner says:
27 January, 2012 at 20:04
lennon’s passion
he’s the fella rfc fans want to invest in their club
Interesting quote from McColl
However, McColl later told BBC Scotland that he had no interest in any personal financial involvement but was providing finance advice to the Rangers Supporters’ Trust.
HH
Mike
JJ
its Friday night..
6 cider, 6 solpadol and now on the red wine…
don’t go putting up a post of more than two lines please…
THE EXILED TIM
No problem m8 I will probably email it through later on tonight once I’ve had a look around.
I went very close last night to a 110/1 on a 4 game acc. 3 x 3.5s and 1 x 2.5. So because it is the FA cup this weekend I thought I’d give it another whirl with UK football that I have a better understanding off. ;)
BT
Cutting back i see
Been watching the news every night this week and it seems that waving a banner saying F*ck the Hvns requires a young man to be remanded in prison, while stabbing your boyfriend 20 times warrants being left in your own home- the accused couldnt have been a tim eh?
soal
don’t get paid till nxt week mate..
well, told WDH thats my excuse for not paying him for his fire walk…