At the start of the week our man in Poland sent me a link to the Croatian outlet who interviewed Nikica Jelavic. I mentioned the player in an article yesterday and recalled his earlier comments, which I referenced as background information. This ‘news’ was subsequently carried by today’s radio and print outlets in Scotland.
It’s maybe a low blow to bring out the ‘Lazy journalism’ point on the day Scotland’s formerly-largest newspaper shed journalists, although the point is perfectly illustrated, but lazy journalism always found its place in the past. The real problem has little to do with the standard of journalism on offer, it’s about business models in the old media. News doesn’t pay unless you can tax consumers or bundle it with paid-for football channels, which is not a good thing.
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It’s a bit weird a celts fhans seem resigned to the fact the we wont spend 6 million for one player
Even though we seem to be okay to receive this amount for a player
Now don’t get me wrong, every player has is price and I too would have sold Aiden For 9 million and would also jump at 6 million for Ki (but I rate particular rumour that along with the so called £8 million Newcastle bids for scott brown)
It means that every time we sell a big player we need to go out and buy a cheaper player and hope he turns out “better than he cost”
In practice though, that very seldom happens and for every Henrik we have found at £600k we have found 50 great pretenders
Last season we sold aiden for 9 million to break even
Do we need to sell someone this season to break even again
The greatest Scottish vinyl album of all time was by Roberto Bernardi, aka “Mr McCool”. (thumbsup)
Mad Vlad
He is Fecking Hilarious!!
C’Mon The Monkeys…
http://www.heartsfc.co.uk/articles/20120105/vladimir-romanov-statement_2241384_2567380
Voguepunter.
Your jumping the gun a bit there buddy.
How do you know Jim is Fat?
C’mon! Seriously.
If your gonna welcome somebody to this dear green place then please refrain from awe that fat stuff.
MWD Thanks.
starry
Agree, think the Black n White adds something.
Expensive camera but so worth it for the ole Artists.
Anyone remember that clown Sutton skulking around Stamford Bridge week to week either not playing or failing to score? Bit of a laughing stock as I remember.
Anyway, Jay Bothroyd. Complete numpty. Skulking around Loftus road, not playing or failing to score.
Or maybe trust several years of scouting and the reputation over his whole career?
My dear,dear,dear,friend…Johnn Doyle
Thanks, pally, fur the nod.
So..
Ye wanna know, if Ah hiv Chinged My Opinion, aboot..
Sammi…and Broonie…??
Well..
Sure, Sammi is noo Back in Ma Favour… and his Bin..
Fur his Last.. NINE GAMES..
Aye. coont ’em…
NINE games in which he has Conducted himsel wi.. Ah wiz gonna write…”Aplomb”
But, let’s face it ,pal.. that wid be Larding the Pan.. a wee bit too Much!
Anywey, Sammi is noo daeing jist fine..and as long as he continues tae dae that..
Ye wull hear nae Gripes fae , Kojo..
Howevahhhhhhhhhhhh
Regarding MA opinion o’ Broonie..
Well , that is a whole different Kettle o’ Fish.
Broonie is a Bum.. and Ye kin send him up the Lum!
Look.. the guy is jist no Celtic Class..
He canny be relied upon .. he jist hisnae goat it.
Tae get an Idea of how bad.. Broonie is..
Listen tae this..
This Morning, Ah read in the Newsies that Aston Villa .is chaffing at the Bit.. jist waiting tae mak a bid fur..
Kayal..
Noo, as ye know.. Kayal his only played a relative FEW GAMES fur us..
COMPARED TAE how Miny.. Broonie his..
Right?
And Kayal has noo attracted a Host of Suitors fur his Boots.
So , thereby hings the evidence, Ma Lord..
Fur After Four Years.. of playing fur us..
Broonie.. didnae Manage tae attract
WAN SOLITARY CONCRETE BID fur his services!
Even, Sammi.. managed tae dae THAT!
Right?
Right..
Ah rest Ma Case, Mi Lord!
Yep Broonie is a Bum.. and kin send him Up the Lum!
Kojo
yer pal.. who thinks ye’re pure Gold.
James Traynor says:
5 January, 2012 at 16:06
Apologies.
You put a bit of beef on over the holidays?:O)
OMG ! Do the Orc actually believe that succulent lamb and fine wine…. Deliverer of £700m super casino stadium etc is pro- Celtic ???
Bwaaaaaaahahaha
They have just lost a high mediaprofile lap dog poodle
Bournesouprecipe
I wouldn’t scoff too much at vinyl. They charge a whack for vinyl albums these days.
I was looking through my old vinyl collection to see what I could sell on ebay and someone has stolen my Pixies Surfer Rosa album. I wonder why they did that but not my Bossanova album?
I don’t think CD covers had the same impact as vinyl:-)
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Sky Sports understands that a host of clubs from Scotland and England are ready to move for Hearts striker John Sutton, after the club told him he could leave.
Sutton is understood to be one of the club’s highest earners after they won the race for his signature in the summer, signing him from Motherwell.
But Sky Sports understands that due to their current financial predicament, which has seen them struggling to pay wages, they have now told Sutton to find a club to join on loan.
Hearts are ready to let him join a rival SPL side, and it is believed five teams in Scotland would like to take him.
But there is also interest in the Championship and League One for the 28-year-old, who could seal his move away from Tynecastle within days.
ASonof Dan
I fear a cut price Diawara. Sutton Impact – The Return.
Ole Raquel Welch coming up complete with her furry bikini – Film4
Bothroyd on loan, I would accept that.
To be honest, I just want Bangura to get a wee run of games so he can be properly judged.
Billy’s Bhoy
Wish I’d kept some of mine, especially The Holy Ground of Glasgow Celtic and other beezers with The Coatbridge Accordion Band
and the guy that sounded like a Scottish Ronnie Hilton.
See eee aye tee aye see – Celtic
Bounce game in ole black and white
Squire-ess back at work today
Squire has therefore decided that as I am making the dinner, the woman of the house will be treated to a fine ham roast dinner, with big buttery potatoes and cabbage.
I of course will be having some as well ………………
over and out
Just for you BSR!
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=E4C1I0JY
1. Hail, Hail The Celts Are Here
2. The Johnny Thompson Song
3. We’re All Off To Dublin
4. The Soldier’s Song
5. Medley: Hail, Hail The Celts Are Here/The Wearing Of The Green/When The Celts
6. Celtic Is The Team
7. The Celtic Song
8. Sean South Of Garryowen
9. Holy Ground
10. Medley: Kelly’s The Boy/Feed The Bear/We’re All Off To Dublin
Sorry bhoys been very busy today. No time to peruse
Jabba got the sack ?
is that right ?
Was it for his last opinion piece ?
Please tell me they kept Hateley and Jackson on PLLLLLLLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
I really don’t see much wrong with Vlad’s Statement, its not coherent but the jist of it is spot on…por cierto.
DBBIA
Ha ha
Memo to SFA: Don’t sack Burley – he’s a genius
By jim Traynor on Sep 14, 09 08:27 AM in george burley
It took a while for the truth to register but now it has you just have to hand it to George Burley.
No, not his P45, but credit. And pots of it, too.We were wrong about this man all along, you know. Burley just might be a genius.
No, don’t laugh. This is serious. Please, just give this some thought and you, too, will see what a glorious mind hides behind this man’s bland, sometimes mumbling, delivery. It’s all been a sham.
But Burley’s cover has been blown. The truth is out there in the open for all to see.
Just look at the way he has manipulated and coated events of the last couple of weeks to cover up completely everything that had gone before. Somehow Scotland’s manager has persuaded a fair number of the national team’s fans his campaign didn’t fail but that is was merely a warm-up for the next one.
Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. The man is a star.
And today I say this to the SFA: Burley must stay.
Don’t waste any more time and lock him into a new contract right now because his talents, now they’re out in the open, will make him a target for any business, organisation or even leader looking for a fresh start.
In fact, if Gordon Brown wants to remain in No.10 he should get Burley on his spin team immediately.
For a start, with a Burley makeover the PM wouldn’t turn up at the despatch looking as though he’d slept in his suit and sounding like a big, dour Fifer.
Burley, though, has shown himself in a new light and although this next bit might leave him speechless he has to be kept on by the SFA. He must not be sacked.
The president, George Peat, chief executive Gordon Smith, Campbell Ogilvie and Alan McRae will meet him, probably tomorrow, with their axes concealed inside their jackets, but gentlemen we implore you to think again. Don’t do it.We need this man.
There has to be something special about a man who can rise from the rubble of another chaotic ScottishWorld Cup campaign with such support from the streets and the country’s broadsheet papers, especially the Sundays.
Normally they just take the opposite view from the real papers because they can’t be bothered to think for themselves but this time they’ve listened to Burley and come away impressed.
The fact Scotland didn’t qualify for the World Cup Finals, even though they were in the easiest of all nine groups, has been forgotten.
Clearly Burley has identified it’s much easier to manage them than it is to deal with international players.
As I say, genius, and anyone who can spend so long looking like a lost boy out of his depth in a big, bad world to cover up his real game plan must not be lost to our game. Soon, Alastair Campbell and Max Clifford will be worshipping at Burley’s feet.
Seriously, Burley is 53 but he’s managed to convince a following he’s still learning and getting better all the time.
Just think, by the time he’s 73 he’ll be good enough to manage Brazil, but to prevent that we have to make him sign a contract so tight he’ll be with us for the next 20 years because he is a one-off.
The SFA have to realise he’s a rare gem and when they sit down to grill him about the ill-fated and mismanaged campaign they should start by thanking him.
Get him on side so he doesn’t walk because we need this man more than ever.
And let me state I am not ashamed to admit I was wrong about Burley.
And neither am I unwilling to apologise for writing Burley off. George, I am so sorry. Please don’t go.We need you and if the SFA are thinking straight they’ll offer you a job for life. That’s the least your talents deserve.
Burley’s own crisis management makes him the obvious candidate to replace the outgoing Rob Shorthouse, the SFA’s head of communications, who has done a spectacular job. When he leaves next month to join the police the association’s slow thinkers will be left even more exposed than normal but this is where Burley becomes a God send.
Having managed to fool so many into believing theWorld Cup campaign wasn’t really a failure and that none of the errors or problems were his fault he’d have no trouble at all in presenting Smith and the others as sophisticates.
Clearly Burley has an immense talent for taking what’s in front of everybody’s eyes and making the truth appear as whatever he chooses it to be and that is a powerful gift.
Fans and media people have come to believe him when he says the campaign wasn’t too bad and there are reasons to believe everything was about to click into place and you have to admit the way he is attempting to wriggle off the hook is quite special.
A small band of players, we are now being told, undermined him. They weren’t pulling for him and didn’t believe in him.
Yet just after the Record had told you all there were players who had little or no respect for Burley the manager declared that to be nonsense and the dimwits in other papers wrote we were trying to cause trouble by fabricating stories.
Burley used these papers for his own ends and now he’s admitting we were correct all along.
Yet these same papers have just written up stories of dressing-room unrest as though they are revelations.You have to feel sorry for them, the poor sods.
But this was another thing Burley learned quickly, that you can fool all of the fools in those rags all of the time.
And he also believes that by allowing these papers to write he’ll axe Steven Pressley and Tommy McLean from his backroom staff he should be allowed to continue as manager.
Somehow, it must have been this pair to blame for the shambles that unfolded over the last 18 months when in fact old wee McLean has more tactical knowledge than Burley and Terry Butcher combined.
As for Pressley? He was warned not to take a position alongside Burley and Butcher because it would do his future career no good and he would be the first to fall.
But then, what do I know about any of this? I thought Burley would have been dismissed because he failed to do his job, which was to get Scotland to theWorld Cup.
Now the chances are he’ll be allowed to carry on and ruin another campaign unless Peat sees sense and gives him that PR job. The man’s a natural.
Inter v Celtic on ESPN Classic in 5 minutes
And, if you are a fan of pitch invasions or anti-Soviet, you can see Alex McDonald and John Grieg kick Russians whilst their fans try to lend a hand immediately afterwards at 6 pm
paulsatim
Brilliant – downloading tonight
“The Burley Agenda” = Walter needs a job por cierto….
A perceptive rant .. well done to Vladimir
Vladimir Romanov statement
05.01.2012
“As soon as Hearts moved closer to the third spot the monkeys start to squeal, lie and create conspiracy plots.
I thought I had expressed myself clearly – I am selling the club and I am not going to give any more money away. It is pointless to support show business, not football. Hearts is now living out of its own budget.
Everyone knew, including players, media and SPL that the wages are going to be paid as soon as the money was received for Eggert Jonsson, who was sold last year. But media still tried to create conspiracy plots about the team and managed to get a prompt and unwise decision from the SPL meeting, which the club asked it to postpone until next week in order to get opportunity to pay the wages.
As such I have not cheated anyone. The monkeys tricked the SPL, fans and themselves and showed who is in charge of the football mafia. They will continue to cheat as this is their job.
I am used to their lies. I remember when the fight started between two people at the end of one of our AGMs and all the cameras were there as they were expecting it. Later that episode was covered by all major stations as backdrop of the AGM, trying to portray the club as a mess.
I feel sorry for the poor monkeys. Mowgli is asking to work for the publicity of the Old Firm, that’s why they have to lie and tell tall stories.
But there is no future for Scottish football while these media monkeys are in charge. Not just for football, but for the whole country. When people tried to protest in the streets, media turned it into chaos, demonstrating masked instigators and hired gangsters in front of the cameras.
I have nothing to prove. Seven years ago I proved that there was no football, but only show business. When Kaunas threw Rangers out of the competition you switched your TV off to avoid embarrassment. Fear takes away the wisdom.
I am going to reiterate once again – I am not going to gift the club money anymore. The only thing left for the club to do is to develop its own youth and attempt to enlighten people who have been deceived and held as part of a stupid crowd by Mowgli.
The progress is there – Mowgli is under prosecution and in exile. But until they open a zoo for the monkeys and keep them in cages, they will keep jumping on people who are straightforward and not afraid to speak.”
Mowgli=Sir David Murray
Hail Hail
Por Cierto
Mad Vlad makes the old classic Levein/Thompson mistake.
When he is wronged by decisions that favour Rangers he refers to an “Old Firm” conspiracy.
He is just covering his Erse as he tries to extract himself from the money laundering operation which is Hearts FC.
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Anyone Who Hears a Rumour of Sammi Getting Sold..
email me @ BhoysOfOz@gmail.com
Thank You..
Summa ft AnthraxTheBarStewardsCSC
ASonOfDan says:
5 January, 2012 at 16:27
Ah but who has the peanuts?
I see that some french mob offered 500.000 for M Edu ,anyone know how long he has to go on his current contract
hail hail
My dear,dear,dear,friend.. A Son o’ Dan
Pal..
Let’s talk.
Bangura, is .. whit we call in the trade..no tae pit . too Fine a Point oan it…
“A Poacher”
And ..as such..
He hiz managed tae Score.. FOUR GOALS, in Two Appearances fur the.. Reserve Team!!!
Yep..it is a Pity. but .. Mo’s Talents are Jist NO SUITED , tae the wey.. The CELTIC FIRST ELEVEN.. play. the Beautiful Game.
Unless, our Playing Strategy… well. Chinges.. RADICALLY..
Mo. and any ither . .”POACHER”, like RASMUSSEN, fur instance..
Will NEVER be a success , Playing Fur Us.
Noo..
We dae hiv a Young Fella Me Lad.. oan oor Playing Staff.. right at the Moment.. who
]
COULD and WOULD find .. Startling Success . wi’ us .. Playing fur the Foist Eleven..
and his Name is…
TONY WATT..
Yes, Virginia.. Tony Kin play ..
THE LONELY LINWOOD STRIKER . with skill.. and.. APLOMB..
He is the Complete Package.. and his is Built or wullz be.. Eventually, in a Coupla Mair Years of Growing..
Like a Sherman Tank~
Ah wonder when Lenny, will tak notice of this Young Man.. and Gie
HIM A SHOT..?????
Nice Chatting ,palomine.
Kojo
yer pal…who likes ye alaoter.
Awe Naw
Something’s just don’t require the Awe Naw – Awe Nawing. Mad Vlad is número uno. In fact I think even you may have been teeched by ‘m.
MWD
Awe Naw
When he refers to Mowgli, he is talking of the Scottish Press. He is also lumping Celtic in with Them Hunnies.
SFTB
I think he refers to the boards of the two clubs por cierto..
Moonbeams WD. Kano 1000 \o/ Supporting Neil Lennon 100%. says:
5 January, 2012 at 17:01
Do you think Vlad is Awe Naw
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
hail hail
SFTB
Money laundering ????? Can´t see it myself
He is quite right to lump Celtic in with the huns we are the old firm after all. Two birds with one stone. If I was in Vlad shoes I wouldn´t want to refine my target either.
The monkeys are the press Mowgli is Minty
Hail Hial
Vladimir Romanov or Craig Whyte?
Only one of them has money.