It is surely no coincidence that Norwich City accepted Celtic’s offer for Adam Idah, reportedly £8.5m up front with another £1m dependent on results and a 15% sell-on fee, within hours of the club being sold to an American investment group.
On accepting the deal for Idah, City added £8.5m to their balance sheet – approximately 12% of the club’s net book value. It was a deal outgoing major shareholder Delia Smith was clearly motivated to accept before City’s new investors arrived.
That deal is still significant. It will inevitably reach £9.5m, which, in time, will make Adam our most expensive signing ever. It is also less than the asking price Celtic were faced with until this week; the sell-on percentage is also less than it was.
Adam reminds me of Mark Viduka. Strong and skilful on the ball, he can control a long ball and bring others into play. Without Adam coming in on loan in January, I don’t think we would have got over the line in so many crucial games in the run-in. The league would have gone elsewhere, and who can forget his contribution in the Cup Final?
There is still a medical to complete before the deal gets over the line. Lots happened elsewhere yesterday. We’ll touch on Bosun Lawal, Bojan Miovski and others later in the week.
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I’ll say this if we don’t sign at least 3 or 4 quality players in the next 15 days , we will definitely struggle in the Champions league, if we have signed Idah ,why hasn’t he been paraded at Celtic Park,
We’ve found out BR is a great manager
We’ll probably never get to find out if clemente’s a good manager. The squad are ok in spfl terms.
Has he got a tendency to lose big games – there’s something his players’ mentality which shows up in big games – why did yefte plant his elbow into an opponent when he was already on a yellow.
The ross county game last year when they needed structure , they went missing (althoughpaul67 puts this down to not being able to squeeze anymore out of the squad).
some bizarre histrionics in games versus the champions.
He’s like a headteacher who comes into a failing school and calms it down but can’t get the best out of people.
Thanks all for a most enjoyable read back during my morning meeting.
I must be in a good mood as I didn’t even notice the sarcasm in Chairbhoy’s post at 5:01 AM that B78 and TLT noticed. I was nodding agreeing with most of the comments following “Still, the upside…”
As much as I think we’ve overpaid (if reports are to be believed) for Idah who I think has a few rough edges and can be inconsistent he has cost us Oh + free money thanks to Sevco’s failure to reach the playoff round. Puts a much happier gloss on it. Idah, like the team, also seemed to get better as the season went on so hopefully he picks up where he left off.
QB
Timbhoy163 on 14th August 2024 8:54 am
“if we don’t sign at least 3 or 4 quality players in the next 15 days , we will definitely struggle in the Champions league”
Even if we do sigh 3 or 4 quality players we will likely still struggle.
The draw is crucial – some really good pot 3 and 4 teams I’d like to avoid.
“if we have signed Idah ,why hasn’t he been paraded at Celtic Park,”
I’d guess formalities or news management – give them the morning press as its all negative then follow it up with positive signing for us?
QB
My friends in Celtic,
Loving the more entertaining style we are playing. Long may it continue.
Right now our team is good enough to win everything that domestic football has to offer.
Our main competetors will be f@ cked by Christmas. Hampdump is the opposite of the Carlsberg effect. It drains teams. It is horrible. The place, the pitch, the viewing experience and its location.
So. If and when we strenghten and rationalise it must be for a stronger, leaner and more practicable squad. More equiped for European football which must be our benchmark.
I would also want us to optimise our match day experience. Lots of family street and field initiatives . Be bold, be all you can be. Gently remind our elected councillors, MSP,etc that there are consequences for not playing ball. Holyrood elections are 2026 , council elections 2027. As a club we have power and influence. Maybe they need that gentle reminder.
Our requirement for infrastructure modernisation is only going to worsen. It is a matter of when not if we must act.
Our future has never seemed so bright. Opportunity awaits, but we must grasp it.
HH.
MARSPAPA on 13TH AUGUST 2024 10:19 PM
https://youtu.be/a_426RiwST8?si=Mo0Sg0-6aB5Px3PA
Love doing this wee dance after a hun defeat …..
I change the words …….
Oh oh oh oh …I’m a happy bhoy
Oh oh oh oh …I’m a happy bhoy
Every time the huns get beaten ….
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MELVIN UDDALL could turn it into a classic .
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Love the Black Keys and that’s a cracking song.
Leave it with me and will see what I can come up with. 😂👍
Anyone else have a permanent cheesy grin on their face that they can’t get rid of this morning?
😂😂😂
Beale must go..
The new champions league format where we play each other once will help us. Traditionally , the crafty continentals ( kyiev as an example) learn more from the first game and adapt their tactics.
We have 8 one off games to surprise the opposition , we need to be really strong at the start of games as I suspect pot 1 and 2 teams will throw the kitchen sink first 15 minutes.
Daysliketodayyoumissgoingtoworkcfc
It’s interesting the DR’s main article is about apathy – not blaming the ref !
Only watched the first half of the Dynamo Kiev game last night, that was enough. That Shifty Jifte was sent off in the second came as no surprise to me, in fact he could have gone in the first. Propper and Sooter could have followed him. The home team must have thought the referee was Scottish given the number of times they left the boot in. Kiev no angels themselves and not easily intimidated. Hampden is not going to work out well for the team from Ayebrokes, and neither is the fouling mentality instilled in every new player they sign.
More good news on the CL front, Mourinho is out and Lille move on to the next round.
https://www.celticquicknews.co.uk/kelly-move-delay/
So Daniel is leaving in January.
I genuinely bear no ill will to him.
I wish him well.
That said I don’t see the point of giving him space in the training group at any level … which could be used by another prospect who is staying with us.
I know the optics on this wouldn’t be great … but I’d give Daniel the day off.
90 times.
QUADBHOY @ 9:19 AM,
Yes, absolutely no sarcasm, absolutely no trolling, simply responding to an earlier comment….
BACK TO BASICS – GLASS HALF FULL @ 8:42 PM
Good chat re ownership.
Chairbhoy – from list provided by Saint Stivs – only the 7% owned by the two institutions irks me.
Based on current share price this is c. £14m worth?
A lot to buy out.
Maybe us ordinary fans can buy 1,000 shares from them … and repeat 7,000 times.
If we make a trade once a day it’ll only take around 20 years and probably no one will notice.
The Andy Dufresne project approach and timeline.
BURNLEY78 and TLT are coming from different viewpoints…
Guess the middleway approach doesn’t suit everyone:))
Just to clarify, the vision of supporter ownership of our Club is well worth pursuing even if it means the long haul.
In total agreement with your reply to Timbhoy163…
Hopefully a good UCL draw, we deserve one…
Hopefully a Celtic Park unveiling soon…
Hail Hail
Clements is an overhyped run of the mill manager.Only here is he feted,without any semblance of tactical nous.One dimensional football.Hoofball.Players brought in,lauded by our media,as stars,fooling no one except the gullibles,at least up until they take to the field,and they get found out.A media telling them that Barron,Diomande,Jefte,are going to make them ” Mullions”,as the deluded sit waiting for the first look of the promise,that never materialises.
All the sins of the father are now raining down on their,deluded,gullible,bigoted,sectarian,heads,as the realisation slowly dawns on them,that there is no salvation from this nightmare,wherethe future is green and white,And Glasgow really is OUR CITY.
THELURKINTIM on 14TH AUGUST 2024 7:31 wrote
‘If we wanna go in an upward spiral….it starts with investment in the team’
The Bunnet proved this wrong.
T
Hoofball – brilliant TB
“Cyriel Dessers slammed by Rangers fans after striker ‘lost the plot’ with punters during Champions League horror show
The frontman was less than pleased with the boo boys in the Hampden crowd”
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One week ago Dessers was their HERO for scoring a ” Sitter” from 3 yards out v Dynamo…..
HAHAHAHAHA..
LOL
HH
TURKEYBHOY on 14TH AUGUST 2024 9:32 AM
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The Hun inability to play any sort of easy on the eye football means their income from transfers is pretty poor , they may get lucky with the odd player (Bassey) , on the other hand their lack of style opens up more doors for transfers in for run of the mill big units.
They haven’t hit rock bottom yet.
Turkeybhoy on 14th August 2024 9:32 am
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Well said that man, although you didnt mention the ” MILLIONS” that they will expect for ” TODDERS”…
LOL
HH.
Re CL prospects
Going solely on the evidence of last two seasons, 2 points then 4 points?
We’ll struggle.
I’m feeling slightly more optimistic though
(Caveat: gut, not evidence)
The squad even in its current form is more settled, more cohesive and less injured than the group that played last season’s CL campaign.
Good point made earlier by EKBhoy about what the new format will do to the approach and psychology for games.
Right now I expect EVERY Pot 3 and Pot 4 team to be thinking exactly the same thing
– Go for it !
– Get 10 points from 12 against pot 3/4 teams
– sneak a point or two against pot1/2 teams
– Ta da ! 12 points. Play offs here we come
The best prepared teams with the smartest coaching teams who can slightly tweak their approaches are more likely to prevail IMHO.
I also suspect (again with zero evidence) the stretched approach to 8 games rather than 6 will see some, not all, richer clubs, managing fixtures differently … placing slightly more emphasis on perceptibly tougher domestic fixtures occurring at the same time as CL group games.
log in
“Fan ownership”. If that had even the tiniest whiff of what goes on here,we would be a bigger basket case than them.EG,
What a shower of miserable bassas this Board is,all that money,and won’t spend it.( Group A ).
(Group B),Right we will buy Bernardo,but try and get the price down
( Group A),Just how long are you miserable bassas going to spend trying to save a couple of million,tight as fek.
( Group B) Right we have signed Idah for 8.5 million.
(Group A),Whit ?that’s too much money to pay.
And so,like a load of Jewish scholars,they would retire to a room,and spend a year,debating every minute detail of the deal.
Fan ownership,my arse,as a funny man off repeated.
back to basics
No point in keeping Dan Kelly on the books now. He turned down a new contract, and apparently has signed a pre-contract with Millwall. Get on the phone and tell them we’ll take the £275,000. We are producing half decent players, Doak, Vata, Lawel, Kelly plus others, but some it seems want to run before they can walk.
And another thing let us forget about Owen Beck, put our faith in Mathew Anderson, while we still can, seems to have a better attitude than some of the others I mentioned.
Two thoughts occur about that 2nd yellow last night:-
Would the reaction be as vitriolic if the ref wasn’t Italian , thus carrying at least a whiff of “Roman “ about him? Genuine question.
and
From the hysterical reaction one might be forgiven for thinking that this was a club and a support that isn’t used to disappointing , even baffling , decisions going against them. Most other clubs accept that as part and parcel of the game and human nature. It’s almost as if it wasn’t something that happened to them in their domestic league with any regularity. Perhaps it’s the shock of the new. Who could say?
Anyhoo, still sniggering.
I’d like to be a bigger person but I’m just not.
Big Jimmy,
Or Cifuentes,who the media said was going to net them £ 4.2 million.Turns out,they had it the wrong way round,and its,£ 2.4 million.Then again,they could have said,£42 million,makes no difference,they will still get zero for the dud,but for a brief second,their was a flash of expectancy provided by the media for the gullibles,only to be extinguished like a fag end put into the dregs of a beer can.
TLWIO,
Too late.Already been stated on FF.
It’s not Clements they need it’s Cement
TIMBHOY123
if we have signed Idah ,why hasn’t he been paraded at Celtic Park
Nobody said we had signed Idah. The story that broke was that Celtic and Norwich had finally agreed on a fee + add-ons and the player would undergo a medical before signing. He still has to sign a contract before he is paraded. With the intricacies of modern day contracts, that can take days.
BIGRAILROADBLUES on 13TH AUGUST 2024 10:35 PM
I picked the wrong week to stop laughing at the smelly hun.
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Airplane CSC. 👍😂😂😂😂
I,m going with Mathew Anderson.Best prospect I have seen.Up against top notchers in the States,brilliant.Get him in supporting GT.
By the way,just how many goals has GT lost because of his lack of inches,at the fabled” Back post”?
Another Urban Legend.
Glendalystonsils from last night –
We will play two teams from our own pot (3) .
I hope we aren’t drawn against ourselves .
Nonsense CSC
Order of the day,😍
Chicken Kiev for mains followed by jelly and ice cream 🍨🪼 then copious amounts of my favourite cocktail 🍸 🍹 Sevco tears🥳
https://x.com/Swedleypops/status/1823615620329439667?t=Cypiv1VtMS4XUF8oNI-WRw&s=19
Back to Basics – Glass Half Full on 14th August 2024 9:58 am
“I also suspect (again with zero evidence) the stretched approach to 8 games rather than 6 will see some, not all, richer clubs, managing fixtures differently … placing slightly more emphasis on perceptibly tougher domestic fixtures occurring at the same time as CL group games.”
This is where the order of who we play when will be almost as important as who we draw. I’d much rather be playing Pot 1 and 2 teams later on (once they are safely through). That said, if we end up playing a team already out and with nothing to play for but with a tough domestic game coming up that might also work out – you just never know. Luck of the draw helps with what teams we face but the order in which we play can be a good thing one week then a bad thing the next!
Either way, at least its a little bit fresher – and 8 teams once rather than 4 teams twice even if some fans are confident “we’d beat Keiv home AND away if they made it through” :)
QB
What use to Celtic is our Academy.?
We need to have an uncomfortable pragmatic conversion as to its viability . Has it run its course?
Many English clubs are of that opinion re their own Academies.
HH.
TLWIO
Would the reaction be as vitriolic if the ref wasn’t Italian , thus carrying at least a whiff of “Roman “ about him?
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Roman in the gloamin with a red card in my hand….
Im sick of subsidising you spendthrifts 😠
The report estimates that spending per person in Scotland was £20,418 – £2,417 higher than the UK figure of £18,001.
The Scottish figure was up from £19,257 the previous year.
Meanwhile, revenue per person in Scotland was estimated to be £361 lower than the UK average
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Seems the crowd was 26k last night, they need 31k at Hampden to break even
Jack Butland will soon be an Elite goalkeeper….