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. With our away-win in Moscow on Tuesday, Sevco obviously felt that they too should be involved in a historic match.

  2. 67Heaven ... I am Neil Lennon..!!.. Ibrox belongs to the creditors on

    Awe naw, they want sally sacked………NOOOOOOOOOOOO, please

  3. Snake Plissken on

    Irvine Welsh ‏@WelshIrvine

     

    Love idea of Stirling manager being at wedding. @Donaldson007 “You boys can sort this on your own. Text me at HT if you have any problems.”

  4. Silver City 1888 on

    Joe Filippis Haircut

     

     

    And we’ll need a replacement for big Efe lined up too. We’ll need, if you’ll pardon the expresion, a conveyer belt of talent. Each in turn will do their bit for us (and vice versa) and move on.

  5. tomtheleedstim on

    Hehehe – one of the threads on hunmedia…

     

    “is Ally manger (sic) material?”

     

    Yes. Yes he is manger material.

  6. 67Heaven ... I am Neil Lennon..!!.. Ibrox belongs to the creditors on

    pauloantony

     

     

    16:57 on

     

    6 October, 2012

     

     

    Brilliantly hilarious……..!!!!!!!!

  7. Lol, another cracker from Matt McGlone

     

     

    matt mcglone‏@MattMcGlone9

     

     

    The Stirling Albion manager wasn’t even at the game today as he was attending his own wedding, quality or what? #allydemandstoknowwhereitis

  8. Joe Filippis Haircut on

    Congraulations to my home town team winning at home against The Rangers Albion are owned by the fans and are lucky to get 500 fans at home games Oh how the mighty have fallen.H.H.

  9. garygillespieshamstring on

    Is this the worst result in the history of club or is the result chuck bought against Berwick

     

    in 67 worse than this?

  10. Slug Keevins

     

     

    I will never call for the head of Sally

     

     

    Good man, Good friend, call me unprofessional if you want

     

     

    Celtic are correct to ban this unprofessional clown

  11. Follow Follow ‏@Follow_Follow_

     

    Inadequate. Lamentable. And let’s be honest: bordering on contemptible garbage. Unacceptable doesn’t do it justice.

  12. 67Heaven ... I am Neil Lennon..!!.. Ibrox belongs to the creditors on

    doc is neil lennon

     

     

    17:08 on 6 October, 2012

     

     

    Someday did die ……. Now a ZOMBIE, like that other liquidated lot…

  13. Snake Plissken on

    And STILL the media don’t call for McCoist’s head. It is the fault of the players.

     

     

    I LOVE IT.

     

     

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

     

     

    500 Million fans worldwide? Most fans of a comedy act since the Marx Brothers.

     

     

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

     

     

    Online millions to be made – aye as number 1 comedy show for Celtic fans worldwide – only problem Chuckles is we won’t pay for it and neither will your Loyal fans you Yorkshire Pudding

     

     

     

    HAHAHAHA

     

     

    I cannot stop laughing

  14. The sound of thuds and screaming heard emanating from the (walking) away dressing room at the Forthbank Stadium – shortly after Ally McCoist was spotted wealding a baseball bat in a threatening and menacing manner!

     

     

    Hahahahahaha…thud…wallop…oohyah…stop boss…!!!

     

     

    HH!!

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