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. gillian i scream on

    Plucky newcomers Sevco’s world record breaking unbeaten run in SFL Division 3 comes to an end on the Battlefields of Stirling

     

    Oh Dear !

  2. Oh my good ghod…….. We live on beautiful times now a Celtic / barca double tomorrow and I’m taking Monday aff!!!! Lol

  3. Jobo,

     

     

     

    Clyde is serioully funny, go for it.

     

     

    they are in mourning, someone will say sometime soon

     

     

    “they arnt the real rangers”

  4. Oh Yes!!

     

    I’m glad to be wrong….

     

     

    Although, ever since I lived for a while in the Raploch, I’ve been of the opinion that even a zombie could score in Stirling :-)

  5. Better shut all the pubs in Stirling – and lock up your wives, girlfriends, daughters…!

     

     

    The zombies are in town – things could turn ugly!

     

     

    HH!!

  6. Sixteen roads to Golgotha

     

     

     

    I will need to put a wee disclaimer next to posts from now on.

     

    ‘ I’m at it’

     

    Hail hail well done

  7. FOOOOOOOOOOOL

     

    TIME

     

    STIRLING 1

     

    SEVCO 0

     

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  8. come on bhoys its their first season in professional football

     

     

    give them a chance !

     

     

    fatsallymust taycsc

  9. tomtheleedstim on

    mhark67 – I think they’ll need those ten points tonight mate. They surely can’t keep defying form in this final like the last few years. Mind you McGuire’s back so you never know.

  10. 67Heaven ... I am Neil Lennon..!!.. Ibrox belongs to the creditors on

    kevinlasvegas

     

     

    16:57 on 6 October, 2012

     

     

    PAYBACK TIME, BIIIIIIIIGTIME …….

  11. Joe Filippis Haircut on

    I think it will be inevitable that we will lose big Victor and super Hooper to the English premier league that is where the big money is however,we should get more than 20 million for the pair.That kind of money will secure Celtics future for years to come they will leave in my opinion at the end of this season.In big Effe we have a ready made replacement for Victor but we need to find a replacement for Hooper mind you Tony Watt might be the man. H.H.

  12. Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire on

    Barrach….,

     

    I’m sure theres antifungals available for that

  13. I hope Neil has a laugh up his sleeve today after everything thing that rat put him through with the whisper. This week defines them as men, Success for 1 in Russia and failure against the worst team in the country who’s manager isnt even there for the other. Fate like Karma is also a bitch ali. ; 0

     

     

    KLV

  14. FAVOURITE UNCLE on

    And Rangers travel to play Stirling Albion. Now we all know what happened the last time a bunch of Little Englanders with ideas above their station over-confidently arrived at Stirling expecting to lay seige

     

     

     

    from e/tims yesterday

  15. Lol,

     

     

    Follow Follow‏@Follow_Follow_

     

     

    Congratulations to Stirling Albion: before today the worst team in Scotland’s bottom division. RFC players/coaches should be ashamed.

     

     

     

    Retweeted by SpongeBhoySP

  16. FAVOURITE UNCLE on

    first englishman killed at battle of BANOCHBURN .sir henry de beau hun.i kid you not.

  17. Wonder if meeja are going to put a wee bit of pressure on newco

     

    regarding terrible record in away games in bottom division.

     

    Gave us pelters for away Champs league games.

  18. theglasgowcelticway on

    Real Madrid and Barcelona must be shaking with fear at Chucks plans for Sevco.Today Stirling,tomorrow the world.Wwwooaahahaha.

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