Occasionally an innocuous comment left here can stay with you for years. The day following the 2005 defeat in Bratislava someone wrote, “I suspect we’ll find an injury in Nakamura’s fitness test”. The player was scheduled to sign imminently, but with Champions League income looking unlikely, doubts emerged that Celtic would pay the money.
Soon others expressed doubts that Shunsuke would want to come, but within 48 hours of that defeat, he was sitting in front of the media at Celtic Park. I was there, among a gaggle of Japanese and Scottish journos, when one of the locals asked why the prospect of being without European football didn’t put him off.
Shunsuke handled the question perfectly, “I am not here for six games of football, I have signed for Celtic and hope to play here for many years.” Rumour has it that not everyone in the dressing room back then was equally as enthusiastic about life in Glasgow.
I’ve heard lots about Wakaso Mubarak in recent weeks, he appears to be a genuine talent, as well as being spirited. What is most appealing about him is that he wants to be here. This deal would not have happened if the player was not absolutely committed to coming to the club, and making his stay a success.
Back in August 2005 we didn’t know what we were getting with Naka, and I’m not going to burden Wakaso with a comparison to a player who turned out to be a transformational legend, but we need players with big personalities who can walk into the dressing room with the determination to be there, just as Naka did.
Welcome to Celtic, Wakaso. Be yourself and you’ll love Glasgow; Glasgow will love you too.
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setting free the bears for Res. 12 & Oscar Knox but saying no to CQN racists
hmmmmm …. champions league types (lets exclude the billionaires with debts that would frighten a small country though) so for example lets say Arsenal or Porto (to take away the EPL money issue – although for a selling club their £35m seems like it was well spent) …. or maybe Maribor
That lead article just reads like pure propaganda to me.
Sorry, but it tells us the square root of nothing.
I noticed that there is no mention of how much this new signing cost the club, or how long his contract is for, what sort of money is he going to be earning etc.
So I then went on to the NewsnowCeltic site, only to read that the player is here on a one year loan deal fs.
Disappointed.
HH.
Falkirk sold another youngster to Nowich for 1m – another one we should have been looking at?
Richie
Just a little bit.
I am amused by the usual political attribution:-
When my enemy’s side raise items of worry or anxiety, they are scaremongering.
When my friend’s side do the same, they are performing a public duty in highlighting worrying situations which should, quite rightly, raise legitimate alarm in all of us.
CorkCelt
Paul67 is his own man. A lie repeated often enough that he’s Peter Lawell’s Director of Digital Propaganda is unfounded and of course repeated often enough it becomes the ‘truth’.
ernie lynch:
See, we both jumped the gun there, didn’t we, old son?
I have posted an admission that I screwed that one up.
James Forrest is praying for The Unconquerable Oscar Knox
14:59 on 28 August, 2014
There’s nothing unusual about. The fact that there’s four home associations has been a contentious for years.
In any case if a no vote results in it being easier for us to get into the EPL what’s the problem?
james forrest
Yet another example of the cheating that goes on in Scottish football in favour of Old and New RFC , the surprising thing is it doesn’t seem to bother people going by the lack of replies to your post .
I thought FIFA wanted to keep politics out of football.
Corkcelt
Paul has disagreed with the board on every managerial appointment except the most recent one!
“Former Labour and SNP MP Jim Sillars told RIA Novosti questions were bound to be raised if there is a No vote in three weeks’ time, when Scotland holds a referendum on independence from the UK.”
PFFFFFFFTTTTT!!!!!!!!!1
Nat gets it wrong…………..shockeroony.
big wavy
15:04 on 28 August, 2014
Has there ever been an article on here that’s critical of Peter Lawwell?
Can the same be said for any other Celtic site?
Ernie Lynch
Aren’t they on record as saying we have a stand alone policy?
Is it easier just to ignore that to support your point?
Those who won’t go back becuase of the huns have lost the plot.
Aberdeen fans stooped to the huns level last season, will all these people be in attendance on 13th September when they’re back?
What about Hearts in the League Cup?
Newco were put into division 3, the chance of them gaining consecutive promotions was always there.
We will deal with them like Dundee United did twice, as and when required.
Their situation should not result in Celtic being punished.
HH
There’s a video going around of Michael Portillo claiming that Cameron will use “fear tactics” to win the EU vote just as he has in the Scottish Referendum.
Here is a question:
Answering yes or no would you be happy with Celtic playing in the English Championship?
ernie lynch:
Well first mate, I am very much in the Yes camp, so there’s that …
And secondly, I’ve never supported us playing in England. I wholeheartedly don’t. I want no part of that swollen, overblown, overhyped, morally bankrupt, financial basket case.
A European league, or gutting it out here in Scotland …
I already think we’re a club that’s lost part of its soul. God help us all if we ever end a bit-part player on that particular ship of fools.
winning captains
And it looks like he may be wrong again. Still, you never know.
HH
JF
“FIFA appears to be sticking its nose into a constitutional debate going on here in the UK.”
And yet, the official named FIFA spokesperson said nothing of the sort. It was an un-named guy that was raising the alarm bells. And what would Jim Sillars be doing in providing quotes to a story planted by the No campaign? That don’t make any coherent sense.
Yogii
“things like this are surely much more of a concern for No voters”
And yet it was you who spotted it and raised it.
Are you one of those dastardly No voters?
Livibhoy
Agreed – there has been an over-obsession with sell-on value. Sometimes you have to look at what a player can bring to the club while he is here (see Lubo!). An experienced head can be the difference on a big occasion.
Brogan Rogan Trevino and Hogan supports Oscar Knox, MacKenzie Furniss and anyone else who fights Neuroblastoma:
Not even slightly. Not under any circumstances.
As I said to Ernie, I might well be the last Celtic fan who doesn’t want us in the EPL far less its slightly less bloated younger sibling.
Brogan Rogan Trevino and Hogan supports Oscar Knox, MacKenzie Furniss and anyone else who fights Neuroblastoma
15:07 on
28 August, 2014
Yes.
We are treading water.
Whilst we have sold the life jackets,and the senior members of the crew.
We are hoping that The Rangers can get into our league before the intake of water sinks us.
Utterly depressing .
TT
Brogan Rogan Trevino and Hogan
Whats the point of this kite flying unless there is substance to it, which I don’t think there is?
HH
Brogan Rogan Trevino and Hogan supports Oscar Knox, MacKenzie Furniss and anyone else who fights Neuroblastoma
15:07 on
28 August, 2014
No.
Catman/Lennybhoy/Anyone who has any info in the prolonged absence of Ayrtic
Is that us then for the window, baring any departures?
Talking of Jim Sillars, I was reminded of him when Salmond said that a yes vote would be a mandate for him demanding a currency union.
Jim Sillars will vote yes.
Jim Sillars has said, repeatedly, that the idea of a currency union is ‘nonsense on stilits’.
So his vote can’t be regarded as an endorsement of Salmond’s position.
The same goes for Alex Bell, one of Salmond’s former advisers. He reckons currency union would result in the bank of England controlling the Scottish economy.
I’m beginning to think Salmond might be a bit of a chancer.
To be fair though, he has lost a lot of weight, so the referendum hasn’t been a complete waste of time for him.
Ernie – No idea but I stand by my comment.
Don’t want Celtic anywhere near an FA run set-up. Northern European league or some-such is a different matter.
Brogan
Absolutely. Bite your arm off for it.
Tom
No I will not be going. Not here to start …you said so therefore sh*t.
Watch my keyboard…………I will not be going to games involving them.
Got it. End of..
“Setting a new Gers best no Jig deal to me – Lee plays down becoming first Ibrox star to score in all four leagues plus every cup”
Amid the starkly contrasting headlines offered to Celtic fans in today’s DR (don’t ask how I got a copy let alone look at it) comes this peach.
While long suffering Bhoy readers get:
Virgil van doubt
The chosen one or the cheapest one
Kris of death
Delia pal: Celts not up to it
The bastion of all things pro-zombie has a double page spread of the unenviable record Elbows could make if he gets of the mark in Scotland’s second teir.
I am sure Greg, Johnstone etc will be crying into their pies at the thought of missing out on this stoater.
Who knows, maybe a jealous Sleekit Sally may strategically place some dripping near Elbow’s locker to deprive him of the feat.
Coming to think of it, Sally doesn’t do strategy.
Welcome Waka……
(it’s all I’ve got.)
HH
Setting free the bears, i was referring to this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIQ8VVn8AJA
after viewing it, would you really be happy voting No and staying with UKOK?
BRTH
A resounding yes.
As long as we leave sevco behind us in our wake.
BRTH, Make it happen:)
HH
We aren’t wanted in England. Waste of time debating it.
Ernie
I’m beginning……..
:)
ernie lynch:
Salmond’s written his own political obituary come what may, and he realises it himself.
I don’t think he’ll ever be Father of the Nation. I don’t have any personal animosity towards him at all, indeed I respect him enormously and I’ve always been glad Scotland had someone like him swinging the hammer on its behalf …
But I’m hoping (fingers crossed) that by the time the next Scottish elections come about we’ll have an independent Scottish Labour Party with the right people at the helm and the right manifesto … and then I’m going home, at last.
I admire the man hugely and I think he possesses special skills … but I am never gonna love the SNP, although I’ve come to respect them a little bit too.
Come 19 September, my heart will belong to the next phase of the struggle, and that’ll be to recapture the political party I joined at 17.
Brogan
Should have done it 10 years ago when it was offered