Having signed two wingers in season 2022-23 (Jota – on a permanent contract, Haksabanovic) and four in season 2023-24 (Palma, Kuhn, Yang, Tilio), Celtic cut back on their most persistent transfer fix and limited the arrival of wingers to Jota during the season just finished.
We are again reported to be in the market for a winger; there are reasons. Jota is out injured until the end of the year, Daizen Maeda has two years left on his contract, which he has so far declined to extend. While Nicolas Kuhn will attract more attention than anyone else in the squad, in particular from his native Germany.
With Kuhn and Maeda under contract, Celtic have a degree of control ahead of the Champions League qualifiers in August, but that is not complete control. Players who are attracting attention seldom perform at their best near deadline day. Even if we resolve to keep both players for the season ahead, at this stage of the summer, there is reasons to be concerned about how focussed parts of the squad will be in August.
More wingers is one way to mitigate the risk.
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Stivs
You may have seen this video about the work in and around Celtic Park.
https://youtu.be/rW5oEgFx5bw?si=
Sir Paul67 got knighted for his services to Tim bloggery – by King George VI I think going by how long CQN has been alive for.
It caused a schism between him and his mate Lawwell at the time, who thought he should have been knighted for his services to whatever it is he does.
horse called Daizen running at hamilton today.
but its 28-1 so nae chance.
should dress our Daizen up in a horse costume and sneak him in place of it and he will romp home.
do kit men/women , support staff get paid in the close season?
if the horse Daizen looks suspiciously like Dobbin from Rentaghost and neighs in Japanese when it gets loaded into stall 2 in the first race at hamilton then lump on it!
bigrailroadblues on 15th June 2025 12:13 pm
aye ta.
why cant celtic plc do these type of updates themselves.
here computer programmer, can you do this for me –
make sure Celtic are playing away after their european games.
and make sure it is against the top 5 (not 6) from the previous season
and make them play on plastic pitches
and the furthest away
and at pittodrie on boxing day
and ibrox on the 2nd january
that will show them,
Fixtures published next week
2025/26 schedule will be released next Friday…
A reminder that fixtures for the 2025/26 SPFL season will be published a week today, Friday June 20, at 9.00am.
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The play off , most important games of the season –
Play-off round 19–20 August 2025 26–27 August 2025
we will have league fixtures on saturday 16th august – and saturday 23rd.
If the league computer is rigged we can expect away games at Boca Juniors and Auckland City.
I would suggest all 5 teams if still in europe will be postponing match day 3.
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New policy to help Scottish clubs in Europe
Plan to assist teams in UEFA Play-Off action
The SPFL Board has approved a new policy which will allow William Hill Premiership clubs to postpone one specific league match next season to enhance preparations for UEFA Play-Off round qualifiers.
The move allows clubs to postpone their William Hill Premiership fixture in matchday three, which is scheduled to take place on the weekend of 23/24 August, between the first and second legs of the UEFA Play-Off round fixtures in the 2025/26 season.
The SPFL’s Competitions Working Group had been exploring how the league could best support clubs aiming to reach the league phase of UEFA competitions amid an extremely congested fixture calendar, due to the additional dates required for UEFA club competitions from this season.
The Competitions Working Group – which includes a number of top flight clubs – has now unanimously made a recommendation to the SPFL Board to introduce a policy allowing any club participating in a match in a UEFA Club Competition Play-Off round to apply to the SPFL for a postponement of its William Hill Premiership round 3 match without the consent of its opponent. To date, any such postponement would have required the agreement of the opposing club and the league.
The Rangers defend John Brown corruption comment.
– Well they would know wouldn’t they.
The SPFL uses specialized software from a company called GotSoccer to generate its fixture lists. This software helps the SPFL create multiple fixture options based on a “fixture recipe” that outlines the league’s requirements. GotSoccer has experience with other European leagues and even other sports like MLB and NBA. The SPFL then reviews these options and selects the most suitable fixture list.
Here’s a more detailed explanation:
“Fixture Recipe”:
The SPFL provides GotSoccer with a set of rules and constraints, known as the “fixture recipe,” which includes factors like team pairings, stadium availability, and broadcast requirements.
Optimization Software:
GotSoccer uses its proprietary software to generate numerous possible fixture combinations based on the recipe.
Review and Selection:
The SPFL then reviews these generated options, considering factors like fairness, logistical feasibility, and potential for exciting matchups.
Finalization:
The SPFL Executive ultimately approves the final fixture list.
the cumputer blender
https://www.facebook.com/reel/477278738006113
Efficiency suggestion for the new exec team.
Just issue the same statement every time …
“No one likes us. We do care”
…. and be done with it.
Features are already done as my mates a cop and working the night of the Ayrshire derby.
Saint Stives….
The SPFL makes an effort to ensure fairness in the fixtures. Well, too a degree.
Every season, they try to figure out who will most likely be in the top 6 at the end of the season. If they get that right, everything falls into place in terms of top 6 clubs playing their post-split opponents twice overall home and away.
You will notice that for Us and them, one has a tougher first phase (in terms of home/away).
Last season, in the first round of fixtures:
We were at home to them, Aberdeen and, I think, hertz.
This would mean AWAY to these clubs in round 2, home in round 3, then away in round 4. If the qualify. Hertz didn’t, thankfully.
The one area where the powers that be can give us grief is… pre and post European dates. They seem to get us travelling as much as they can.
Cheers,
Weeron.
This season, it will be the opposite. We will have the toughest away games in the first round
AT – You have said many times that Mr GG would call me a racist for saying what I see – well actually he agrees with me, AND, he’s surprised that there have not been even more Ballymena types of protests all over Britain!
Mall D – Educator of far out of touch yins who have been wildly wrong about Everything over the past 5 years.
Not just Wrong. But putting your Comrades in danger, level of wrong!
@MallyD12
4h
Replying to @jomickane @georgegalloway
“Just wondering…would George Galloway..firebrand…be a better representative of the people as Prime Minister than the wet traitor in No.10? He certainly has a handle on the boiling kettle that is Britain..and a voice/presence to go with it.
Common sense or not?”
Jun 15, 2025 · 9:20 AM UTC
https://x.com/MallyD12/status/1934179232911073554#m
What are people even NI Huns supposed to do when politicians respond like this?
https://x.com/KSCUBKEE/status/1932698625957650740#m
It is you AT who is on the wrong end of the stick as usual!
Saying this with your fingers in your ears makes you learn even less.
https://nitter.net/pic/media%2FGtPZDIBWQAAMgfF.jpg%3Fname%3Dsmall%26format%3Dwebp
why cant our greedy plc do the same for our fans ? we are cash rich we dont need to keepmilking it.
those newcastle prices dearie me –
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Man City reduce matchday prices by up to 43% in major win for fans
Manchester City have taken steps to make matches more affordable for their supporters in order to improve the atmosphere.
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/man-city-reduce-matchday-prices-31848646
Be interesting to see when we go to Ipox.
I assume we will be at home in week 1 to unfurl the flag and it can’t be week three if a club can postpone that week.
Will they hold it back to later in the first quarter to allow the new hun manager to bed in or make it early and hope for a new manager bounce continuing into week 2?
Of course Chic”k the “spfl computer” is random, neutral or a St Mirreen fan, so all of this is just mischief making on my part.
GGH
Who asked you anyway?🤔
Well done to those Americans in every state who got out there yesterday in opposition to Trump’s actions…
‘No More Kings’*
ApartfromBilly,Kenny&HenrikCSC
There’s only one King Billy.
That’s McNeill. 😉
ex dup leader ?
i looked closer at the rangers non champions pathway.
martin is in for a rough time.
Stivs
Wur hearts bleed. Fook em. 😂
can’t touch this
Enjoying Father’s Day. I expect a few tasty signings this week.
In Brendy I trust.
HH
Racist multi moniker
Its hardly suprising,Grifter George moves towards your racist point of view,the grifter of immigrants i heard vomit bout human beings being illegal,i suppose when his workuz party is cancered with bigots,lodge members and racists like you,all gravitating to the right wing agenda.
The grifter is wrong about Ballymena where there is
Zero
Nil
None
Zilch
Of these immigrants he snd you deems ‘illegal’
Common sense to have the grifter as leader of his cabal of racists like you, he would never handle being prime minister as his constituents of his last few seats there was nothing behind the Gaza shillack he coated the electorate with.
Tumbleweed as a reaction to local needs but he took his oath to tongue the monarchs arse so a nice little earner being an mp was til he was voted out at first opportunity,not even gettin ra stoap ra boats boot boys at Bexley could save him,ah well he can always fall back on saps like you to send him some of your disability money.
Repeat not common sense just a grifter playin out to his populist and and racist,like you base.
Shame now he is harvesting the same bigots and racists his immigrant folks fought against
Ni huns respond by wanting notification of all sex criminals in there locals do they.
Prepare to riot outside the 3 white guys charged with rape in the last week then,go on racist protest and smash that racist trope/ shite you vomit about fornurz harmin your wummin(not your woman kev we know there will never be one).
As stated all immigrants have a right to be in Ballymena,its well dodgy folk who dont mention jeffrey Donaldson or David Tweedy,both white when seeking retribution
Ballymena shows unionism in its last throes,flailing its insecure identity about,it used to be Catholics were the ‘them’uns’ now its anyone alien to their,and yours racist kultyir….wonder what yir grifter pal would say there,as he seems to be without oxygen and set in his way regards scotland,its why Scotland left his grifter self serving unionism behind.its about the topic not him,his day is gone.
Re your wee definition
.you are just a racist
Nowt to do with right wing or left wing
Or any of those factors
You racist freaks dont handle any form of sexual conversation well,as i said before dont see any riots outside the 3 whitemens houses,nothing outside Donaldsons,nothing outside Tweedys,
they are white,immune from the hostility you show to those who have a different skin pigment.
Maybe time to get a wee racist girlfriend,jeez interacting with a real human would be a first.
Take your racist self and all your racist monikers and ‘invade’ some other space,you cant be racist and follow a club borne out of refugees,especially with some of the deliverance banjo stuff that only shows you to be a shallow racist.
An Tearmann…
Kev has you hook, line and sinker. He posts, you grab the bait and he throws his head back and laughs. Result!
Why else do you think he posts? You make him relevant. So many have previously said starve the guy of oxygen but unfortunately, it would appear you can’t. You have to fight back against his racism. It’s a battle you won’t win. And in the meantime the blog suffers the consequences of your toing and froing…I for one am extremely bored by it and I’m sure others are too.
An Tearmann
Kev the rat turned up at a CQN night in Blantyre many moons ago ,I shouted over at him
( feel guilty now) he’s more to be pitied .
HH Big mhan
Sort of looked in to see how things are……
Oh my god … us men just can’t get on with each other……
We talk about Israeli’s, Arabs, Palestinians, even Protestant….
It looks as though we can’t even get on with fellow Celtic supporters…
Very , very , sad ..
Won’t be back till 2 days before new season…
FFS lighten up !!!
I never tire of good times. I really can’t get enough of them. Celebrating the magnificent Glasgow Celtic has given me so much joy. Time for more good times the wonderful Glasgow Celtic!!!!
Test
I had forgotten that Rory had written a song about the hun.
https://youtu.be/nlEfyMoR49M?si=c35x0axWAhxSH8TH
Renee Rapp,looking stunning on the Red Carpet,wearing her Celtic zipper.Adidas will be delighted.Another beautiful Tim.
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WBC.8.25
Kev has you hook line and sinker buddy,not me.
He posts to promote racism.
You ignore if you wish and let its poison go unapproached,you would be better of posting the same imo.
But i take comfort that you highlight its racism,that is more important than the toing and froing.
And wbc not lookin to win any battle,just as you did,highlight its racism,if no one countered this place would soon have every trope getting repeated and played out in a German Quick news 30s style and that would lead a lot more boredom as the blog suffers from racism and that would be sad on many levels,prime one being a club founded by refugees.
Hope your well
HH
Voguepunter.
I think the same thing hapoened at a FAC demo
Thanks,yon leggy fella had a few classic pics of your mirrors from the pub recently.Class 👍
Ta to all who texted
HH
Hayate Inamura is quite tall
Bob MacIntyre still in with a shout at the rainstorm delayed US Open at Oakmont Pittsburgh PA. One behind, five in front of him, none of whom seem to be picking up any shots.
Tough course, and you know what BRRB says…..when the going gets tough
thetoughgetgoingCSC