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. garygillespieshamstring on

    I think it is unacceptable in this day and age that a reporter should advocate violence with a baseball bat towards any zombies. I just wouldn’t want my grandson to hear that on a radio station. What about it mr Kevin’s?

  2. Just how brass is the neck of McCoist, surely he has to offer his resignation.

     

     

    Sincerely hope not.

  3. there getting excited now, just missed a chace, There’s a problem there! aye there is . Ally, the ex club of liars, cheats, thieves,. the old cheating starting 11/12 mins added already, late KO. funny how no one mentioned it at HT. Liars Cheats and Thieves

  4. 67Heaven ... I am Neil Lennon..!!.. Ibrox belongs to the creditors on

    *the king vic 67*

     

     

    16:26 on

     

    6 October, 2012

     

     

    It’s usually at 11am

  5. no way ally will walk never done a decent thing in his life, not going to start now. Horrible wee Fat man.

     

     

    KLV

  6. tomtheleedstim on

    Mhark67 – looking forward to the game. What do you do there mate (if you don’t mind me asking)?

  7. *THE KING VIC 67* on

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

     

     

    Never ever get mrs king vic to type for you!

     

     

    “RETURN then HH” I said,

     

     

    She didn’t quite get the jist of the return bit!!!

  8. Comedy gold on Rangers (Sevco) Media website:

     

    Shocking from us,too many players with the wrong attitude, if you don’t want to be here and

     

    don’t have the stomach for a fight then pack up your boots and get to fk,fans deserve better it’s a fkng privelege to play for us they should fkn remember that!

  9. Magnificentseven on

    Saint Stivs

     

     

     

    16:43 on 6 October, 2012

     

     

     

    morton 3 thistle 1, a big defeat for our old rivals

     

     

     

    hopefully they can still win the league…. it will be good to have a Derby match next season :-)

  10. hope swally gets to look every one of the 704 stirling fans which attend on an average day. And this defeat is looking like an average day for swally.

  11. Patrick Thistle off the top of the first division. Hope they get back to winning ways – be nice to have a Glasgow derby again next season.

     

     

    Still, Queen’s Park could be staying top of division three tonight.

  12. Watching this new club sevco on a livestream in Dubai , seems like they are out of their depth in Div3. Its on the comedy channel known as Rangerstv, what an own goal by Green, first live tv experiment or something like that and he’s trying to get a share issue from 500 million fans!!! what he should be doing is looking for a news blackout…..

  13. Paul67,

     

     

    A good article and everything is looking good for the near and long term future of Celtic.

     

     

    I’ve just heard the zombies score. LOL

  14. Sixteen roads to Golgotha on

    That Aberdeen team are looking like a half decent side now that they have found their scoring boots.

  15. Super Ally is exactly the manager the zombies deserve. I hope he is there for years. And to think the hordes were praising him despite a shocking performance last season.

  16. Fassreifen

     

     

     

    16:45 on 6 October, 2012

     

     

     

    The twitter loyal suggesting Question of Sport should take the fat one back pronto. :-D

     

     

     

    hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahhahahaahahahhahaahahha

  17. garygillespieshamstring on

    Did celtic not lose 1 nil at Stirling and then go on to win the European cup the following season? I wonder if sevco can manage to emulate that? Oh no, I am forgetting, no Europe for at least 3 years.

  18. Humiliation is complete.

     

     

    Sevco beaten by the worst team in the land, says it all really.

  19. 67Heaven ... I am Neil Lennon..!!.. Ibrox belongs to the creditors on

    Hunbelievable ………yyyyyyyyeeeeeeeesssssss……..!!!!!!!!!!!!!

     

     

    Paradise will be bouncing tomorrow …..that is wonderfully incredible …. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

     

     

    Reorg.?….it’ll need to be some reorg…..!!!!!

  20. Tom the Leeds Tim

     

    I don’t work at the stadium mate sorry of I gave that impression I am a humble cabbie in the Manchester area

     

    Enjoy the game have a flutter on Leeds with a 10 start mate it will be tighter than the challenge cup final I think

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