Henry Onyekuru, the wide-attacking 20-year-old Celtic targeted in January, looks set to join Arsenal from Belgian club KAS Eupen. The player had a tremendous season for his newly promoted club, alerting Celtic, and prompting a walkout by the player, when his hope of a transfer in the winter window was rejected.
The moral of this story is that it has become increasingly difficult to sign even 20-year-olds who had no pedigree a year ago, when Arsenal can bid £6.8m for a player who is likely to sit for most of the season in the stands.
For Celtic, the Onyekuru experience should be informative. The player came to Belgium from the Aspire Academy in Qatar. He joined the Academy’s Senegal training facility as a 13-year-old, before moving to the Aspire Football Dreams (AFD) project at the Qatari capital, Doha.
The AFD is a humanitarian project, allowing promising kids the best opportunity to develop as footballers, while receiving an educational scholarship. As you would expect from a Qatari project, it is not underfunded.
KAS Eupen were bought by the Aspire Zone Foundation five years ago and are the Qataris route to Europe for their Academy graduates.
Processes like Aspires costs money and takes time, perhaps a decade, to bear fruit, but the money involved isn’t beyond Celtic’s grasp. As we continue to look to innovate, this case study is worth contemplating.
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GuyFawkes
Completely agree mate. Celtic supporters were always going to buy tickets to watch the team.
https://twitter.com/Celtic1888News/status/879016371362856960
Rangers then, Sevco now, Hun scum forever.
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I tell you this
No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.
I find it deplorable that we have nitpickers nosepickers and the sanctimonius looking for this and looking for that to see what can be deleted when the most egregious fraud perpetrated on all CQN bloggers by pretending to be Tommy Gemmell in a CQN Q&A session to boost sales for their own benefit is allowed to stand and pass without comment . While the great legend was still alive and gravely Ill.
GIRFUY
Big Packy
Francis Burns from Glenboig?
Margaret McGill
The CQN musicians panel have decided that Radiohead are chancers who cant even dance, and that Patsy Cline is far less dangerous to the human psyche.
So your last post should be deleted shortly:)
HH
Margaret McGill
Who fraudulently passed himself off as Tommy Gemmell on CQN to boost sales of a book he was promoting?
TT
Big Packy
Frank Koppel
Margaret McGill
You can imagine the reaction if i had the brass neck to mention Stravinsky:)
That would send the Al Jolson mob over the edge:)
HH
Celtic is much more important than Brendan Rodgers…
Austerity!
Magic money tree?
A billion bucks for bigo-TREE
No 10 secured…
for Loyalist coin
Butchers apron and the Boyne!
Theresa
A sane govt.
Unsupported by the drug addled youth of Glastonbury.
Thank God.
Macjay1
Drug addled youth.
Im sure David Cameron and George Osborne, and their friends in the Bullingdon Club could tell you about that, no?
Be balanced please,
You can do better than that.
HH
Mike in toronto
Lurkin tim
Mike I hear myself get up now frilom chair lol.:-)
LT
Its tape recording.you recall like the old C90s with 45 mins each side
HH
Macjay
Mmmm, now i wonder how the market for illicit drugs in Britain was established. Maybe it was something to do with Jeremy Corbyn.
No, that cant be right surely.
Now, let me see.
Could it possibly have anything to do with the East India Company, or the Opium Wars. Maybe even that fine Scottish company Jardine, Matheson.
I mean the Opium Wars were very lucrative for the investors, just like slavery…..Amber Rudd would probably think that was good business eh
A sane government you say?
I think not.
HH
Ah…I see the rather restrictive conservative ideology espoused by our friend, seems to have vanished.
Following your funny wee barb about drug addled youth, shall i remind you of the narcotic habits of various Tory grandees through the ages.
How about Clive of India, or William Wilberforce?
You see, that’s the problem when you meet your match in debate, you cant get away with nonsense.
I blame Kafflik schools:)
HH
I will now retire for the night.
And in the words of General Douglas MacArthur, “I shall return”:)
HH
TGM
He who fights and runs away ………………..
:-)
Sadly Corbyn is current.
Clive is not.
AN TEARMANN @ 1:34 AM,
Hope all’s good…
Haven’t done this for a good few years so I’m sure there is a much more elegant way of doing it now but here’s how I used to record tapes onto CDs.
Get a phono to Jack lead.
Plug the red and black phono connections into the Aux Output of your Tape player.
Plug the jack into the mic input of your PC/Laptop.
Open your sound recorder app.
Play the tape and record on PC/Laptop.
Save the file.
Put in a CD-RW into your PC/Laptop, burn the saved file onto the CD.
Hail Hail
Macjay the DUP loving Tory…. UDA man!
MWD
Frankie Boyle Absolutely Destroys Theresa May In Savage Monologue…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6-d4F1ZqxHc
Brexit…………………………….Bad losers.
Donald Trump ………………Bad losers.
Theresa May………………….Bad losers.
Lying King………………………Bad loser.
Frankie Boyle…………………Bad loser.
MACJAY
The first four you mentioned are terrible winners.
But all five are a joke,only the latter intentionally so.
I wonder if, the reach of the DUP’s…..
toxic tentacles, will find its way….
into the Supreme Court ?
Hmmmm……said the mhan.
Anyway,……..
who would keep John McGinn oot the team ?
Anton Rodgers ?……Hmmmmm…..?
Cronyism ?
Cliques ?
Complacency at the weekend fae…..
LG ?
and,…..
SS, who is virtually invisible, withoot big Moussa ?
Second Season Syndrome ?
PLC complacency, because the waiting list is back ?
Every Celtic manager, in the history of the club….
has been shafted by, every Celtic board…..
Mr Rodgers will be no different….watch this space.
Anyway,……
……off-oot.
Respects to The Huddle’s Tom Waits post @ 10:05 on page 5
When All the World Is Green
Just a thought…
Celtic are going for a magnificent seven in a row. Glibby demurs,insisting we are on for three in a row.
Does that mean we can achieve ten in a row this coming season?
Cheers,Glibby-I thought it would take us till 20/21 to do that!
Loved the footage, gotta luv the commentary –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCu46R_m1SE
Johnny Cash – The first time ever I saw your face
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdSIlVZhsDw&index=9&list=RD5Dqbv8a1Qtg
No money to pay nurses but £1bn to pay NI terrorists is sane government
Well I never…
Big Packy
Francey Burns, Marnoch.
Who was the ex-Rangers captain who lived in Glenboig?
BLANTYRETIM IS PRAYING FOR THE KNOX FAMILY on 27TH JUNE 2017 6:53 AM
No money to pay nurses but £1bn to pay NI terrorists is sane government
Well I never…
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I take your point.
One billion , however , is a small price to protect the U.K. from the Labour`s Front bench amateurs .
Diane Abbott ?
John ( Murderers, he cried ) Mc Donnell ?
You seriously want their ilk representing UK in Brexit talks ?
Surely not.
As opposed to all those lovely Tory professionals?
Those who put greed and profit before caring for people and looking out for people’s safety?
Oh yes, you know best from the darkest throws of your antipodean Shangri La.
Macjay
And the queen deserves her 8% increase in state funding
We are all in it together remember
MACJÀY
Yes,you’re right. Thankfully we have the peerless Boris at the helm.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EL2ajeCPvBY
Or May,who a year ago refused to allow the offer of permanent right of residency to EU nationals,prior to reheating it last week.
Or Liam Fox,who frankly would be better employed in a circus.
One thing is for sure,my low opinion of the tories and yours of Labour is only matched by the disdain in which they are held in Europe.
Which means we are FUBAR’d.
hi bhoys god morning from a wet and miserable west cheshire. the original sadies bhoy and fin 15 sorry i missed you last night. it was francie burns and the ex rangers captain was jock shaw. had a newsagents shop in glenboig. hail hail.
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KTF
A very happy hoopy birthday to ANGELGABRIEL of this parish.
Have a great day F!
HH!!