New contracts are Champions League dividend

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It’s great news that Celtic have secured three first choice players, Charlie Mulgrew, Adam Matthews and James Forrest, on new long term contracts.  It allows the players to forget about long-term career issues and concentrate on team matters and the manager and scouts can worry about squad recruitment efforts in other areas.

This news is a direct consequence of Champions League group stage qualification.  Not only do Celtic have funds to increase wage budget, more importantly, aspirational football players, who want to reach the very top of the game, have a reason to be here.

The same is true of Fraser Forster’s England call up.  Scottish football has long been regarded along the lines of lower division football in England, but with Champions League football, the English national team have endorsed our football.  It will be easier to attract the next wave of recruits as a result.  One day Kris Commons [stand out Player of the Year candidate]can only hope his own national team will regard his productive displays in the same manner.

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  1. 67Heaven ... I am Neil Lennon..!!.. Ibrox belongs to the creditors on

    james forrest is neil lennon! we are all neil lennon!

     

     

    16:00 on 6 October, 2012

     

     

    It’s absolutely hilarious ……. Elbows gets booked for simulation (of a gorilla)

  2. McCall latest

     

     

    ” they are running out of ideas, they have too much of the ball”

     

     

    Whit!!

  3. Power cut?

     

    I remember, when we were young and could say few words to describe us , edit our profile, Pablophanque’s profile was like a website. He told there what he liked and what was his job. His last words there were: If there is Power cut off in your area, don’t blame me.

  4. *THE KING VIC 67* on

    Can any fellow CQN advise what time the business class hospitallity opens at tomorrow Return HH

  5. northbhoy ... \o/ on

    HO

     

     

    Refereeing team at Stirling reportedly unless he was invited to the wedding

     

     

    Bobby Madden

     

    Craig Young

     

    Thomas Clark

     

    SFA site.

     

     

    So don’t get too excited there is still time to award the Zzzzzzs a pen.

  6. Snake Plissken on

    I think they got that wrong about Elbows

     

     

    First half Aird was booked for a late tackle and unless McCulloch was also booked it might be a mistake.

  7. Saint Stivs

     

    16:19 on

     

    6 October, 2012

     

    Dalziel reverting to type by urging Rangers to return to a physical approach, like the Souness years, as the way to “batlle” it out of this division.

     

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    When ,did they (old and new) ever play football?Always have been physical

     

    and any strains of thems will carry on the same.

  8. whats happening bhoys is it still 1 nil??????????????????

     

    refuse to listen to radio

     

     

    Hail Hail

  9. garygillespieshamstring on

    Dalziel on Snyde “ally mccoist standing here watching a club he loves to death” . I thought they were dead already. Great stuff

  10. Been very busy with rugby final at old Trafford just grabbed a quick break between jobs there has been no mention of the sevco score on 909 pls someone tell me sneaky swallys 11 are still behind ….. :-)

  11. Dalziel now says that if Sevco get beat Fat Sally should take a baseball bat to the players.

     

     

    wtf

  12. ‘If Rangers lose to the worst team in Scotland, Ally McCoist should go into the changing room with a baseball bat’ Gordon Dalziel

     

     

    whit?? lol

  13. garygillespieshamstring on

    Hope sevco don’t blow the big chance to go top! It would be so sad. You just have to feel for poor Sally

  14. remind me of the fantasy rules , can zombies be deaded by baseball bat is it that simple ?

     

     

    should have been 2-0 Albion

  15. TwoTunTimfromTeddington on

    Did I just hear right Dalziel suggesting McMoist deal with his players with a baseball bat!

  16. well done celtic (including the board)

     

     

    who’s this kris commons paul ? some irrelevant bit part provincial player , I presume

  17. saint stivs

     

     

    16:36 on

     

    6 October, 2012

     

    Dalziel now says that if Sevco get beat Fat Sally should take a baseball bat to the players.

     

     

    wtf

     

     

     

    You paraphrase shoorley lol daft hurtin huns

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