Based on indications set down in January, Celtic expected the fee asked for Adam Idah to rise to £6m. When the clubs started discussions this close season, Norwich actually asked £10m plus add-ons. We are all entitled to a view on whether Adam is good or poor value at that level, but a £10m+ budget opens the door to many more options across the globe.
For that money, you could have practically any striker in the lower leagues in Germany, Spain and Italy, many in the top flights in those countries, and all but a few in the English lower leagues, where Adam currently plies his trade. That fee changes the consideration from what is Adam’s value, to a comparison with at least a dozen options elsewhere. Norwich and Celtic were both entitled to hold tight for a while.
We have not gone near a fee like that since our old pal Peter was in charge and he authorised a £9m spend (also plus add-ons) for Odsonne Edouard six years ago. Curiously, that transaction was also for a backup striker. The unexpected departure of Moussa Dembele a few weeks later elevated Odsonne ahead of schedule. I expect Michael Nicholson will be keen to authorise a big ticket spend on his watch.
Indications last night suggest the clubs are sitting around the Zoom table and a deal is close. Norwich can still sit tight for three weeks; Celtic will need a convincing alternate deal to conclude earlier. As always, try to block out the bed wetters [I never know if they prefer their status to be hyphenated; is it bed-wetters? It always feels awkward to ask them, that anxiety trigger seems so delicate.].
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setting free the bears for Res. 12 & Oscar Knox on 9th August 2024 1:21 pm
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I am also sad to see him go. I hope he has a great career, especially representing Ireland.
SFTB, shoorly it is ” … don’t EAT the yellow snow”?
Ave Ave
An Dún on 9th August 2024 1:27 pm
If anyone believes we were looking at other striking options as an alternative to Idah
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i do.
likely upwards of 3. but they will all have a value set.
As P67 says, if Norwich want 10 million for him, we can shop elsewhere at that price.
I bet there are left backs, midfielders and strikers who know celtic are interested and pestering their agents to get it done, but sworn to secrecy.
If Norwich did ask for £10M in the close season then that is their right based on what he did for us over the 4 months that he was here. Its also a consequence of our shambolic recruitment policy whereby no fixed fee was inserted into Adam’s loan arrangement come the end of the loan period.
We head into the weekends game (a venue where we struggle season after season) with 1 striker and 1 LB.
We are Waitrose run like a corner shop operation.
setting free the bears for Res. 12 & Oscar Knox on 9th August 2024 1:17 pm
i do find the terms “lawwellite” and “board apologist” quite funny.
Give Peter67 a break…
Fully appreciate that we have done brilliantly well over the last few years domestically.
The European ambitions always end with whoever the manager is at the time saying “we will learn”…
We know that investing in quality players will at least make us semi competitive in the European arena as clubs with much lower budgets than ourselves have proved.
Yet…..we continue to repeat the failure year after year but I’m sure Brendan “will learn” again this year if we yet again fail the supporters and not invest wisely.
Its also a consequence of our shambolic recruitment policy whereby no fixed fee was inserted into Adam’s loan arrangement come the end of the loan period.
Anthony Joseph on Celtic exchange said Norwish insisted there would be no “right to buy price” inserted.
It was a loan for a fixed term and that was it.
Should Celtic not have taken him then ?
Get the chequebook out Celtic 👍
Dominic Solanke is 26 years old and has scored 33 goals in 151 Premier League appearances. He has been capped once by England. Somehow, he is worth £60.
Drybedder 👆
The superior tone of this article is a bit rich from P67, considering his angst at the loan signing of Adam Idah in the first place.
The manager had apparently rejected the tried and tested ‘data driven’ approach and we were now very much ‘off-piste’ with Idah.
Thank goodness the manager did decide to go with his gut and that he got his way.
Year after year failure in Europe, at £180 a package.
and yet they keeo turning up.
HARRYM
Yes, Brendan “owned” that transfer window. And thank goodness he did.
Ten Men Won the League
‘It is also a consequence of our shambolic recruitment policy whereby no fixed fee was inserted into Adam’s loan arrangement come the end of the loan period’.
You can only insert a fixed fee into the loan arrangement if the Club holding the player registration, in this case Norwich City, agrees to it. I have no idea if this was requested and denied or never asked for. What would we have done if Adam came north, played a few minutes and really was not up to it, like many loanees before him, what then? Pay the fee for someone who patently will never be a first team player and improve year on year?
Damned if you do and damned if you don’t
Saint Stivs on 9th August 2024 1:41 pm
Its also a consequence of our shambolic recruitment policy whereby no fixed fee was inserted into Adam’s loan arrangement come the end of the loan period.
Anthony Joseph on Celtic exchange said Norwish insisted there would be no “right to buy price” inserted.
It was a loan for a fixed term and that was it.
Should Celtic not have taken him then ?
And who told AJ that glimmer of insight, someone covering their a** methinks…
SCULLYBHOY on 9TH AUGUST 2024 1:43 PM
Dominic Solanke is 26 years old and has scored 33 goals in 151 Premier League appearances. He has been capped once by England. Somehow, he is worth £60.
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If he’s worth £60, we’ll go to fifty and say we tried.
Seriously though I take it you meant £60M but he isn’t worth that but that is what players go for in the self proclaimed best league in the world.
Aye it’s lovely watching your team humped year after year aided and abetted by your board of directors.
Early reminder – around 25 or so punters to get their predictions in to Superbru by 3pm tomorrow
Again? Really?
Celtic and Norwich in advanced talks for Idah for around £6 million
Sky Sports News
Not sure about bed wetters, though this was uninformed pish:
“Deadline day and Norwich City’s Cork-born striker, Adam Idah, is set to join and reinforce Brendan Rodgers’ striker options. I also expect a left back, as backup for Greg Taylor, who will retain his place when fit.
At 6’ 3” Idah is 2” taller than Oh and will add heft to the squad, a quantity we discussed was lacking as recently as Monday. Stephen Kenny gave Adam his first cap for Ireland. The players biggest moment so far, he scored against the Netherlands in a Euro 2024 qualifier in September.
He is a curious signing for me. Unlike the recent arrivals of Lagerbielke, Nawrocki, Bernardo, Holm, Palma, Yang, Tilio and Kuhn, Adam was not automatic first choice at his previous club. None of the others were technically speaking “projects”, they were all being replied upon week-in, week-out, in leagues comparable to or better than Scotland.
Adam has started fewer than half of Norwich City’s league games this season, and has scored six goals from his 12 starts and 16 substitute appearances. Ross County gave us a lesson in how effective big raw lads can be in Scottish football, and we have also signed a winger who (by all accounts) can cross, so logic dictates we sign a target man. Let’s hope he arrives and batters a few goals in.
The summer window was one of transition. Strategy was prepared by a manager who left the building, Brendan chose who he wanted from a short-list already prepared for him (Nat Phillips was an emergency exception).
This window, Brendan has had complete control. As he made clear at the AGM and on a few occasions since, he signs the players. He forms strategy and he is responsible for the decisions. So that’s me reassured.”
Some of the new sports we are seeing in the Olympics these days are mightily strange.
I was watching the Speed Race up a manufactured Rock Face the other day.
Watching that would have you climbing the walls😀
It’s not easy finding £10m strikers on wages that will fit in to a wage structure that doesn’t exceed 70% of turnover in a Europa League year. (How many times have we won the qualifiers and entered the CL in the last 20 years?)
If we want to pay players more, increase our wage budget, then we need to increase our turnover. We may see some modest increases in merchandising, etc but to significantly increase turnover I ‘d say we’re looking at one or more of:
1. A consistent record of qualifying for Champions League access at least every 3 years out of 5.
2. SPFL signing a TV deal worth at least 10 times its current value. Both seem unlikely in, at least, the short term.
3. Further investment. Desmondo ruled this out back in the M’ON days so that looks out.
4. Increased stadium capacity. There is a locked waiting list after all. But without seeing any cost: benefit analysis, etc it’s difficult to know.
5. A significant hike in ticket prices might achieve the same uplift in turnover as increasing capacity. It would very probably see some/ many season ticket holders have to give up their books but these might well be taken up by the waiting list. I’d be surprised if this wasn’t at least mentioned as an option.
6. Move to/ create a new league with an increased TV deal, sponsorship, etc. This has long been on Desmondo’s wishlist but with the SFA holding a veto it has up until now been a pipedream. The ECJ judgment removed the veto & so changed this to merely improbable. An increase of infinity per cent.
Thoughts?
Dearie me
What an arrogant pr_ck – no wonder this site has tumbleweed blowing through it.
People tire of been spoken down to by this host and his cult followers and they tire of being told they are not supporters if you have ambition beyond Scotland.
A genuine concern about our method and lack of ambition is greeted with primary school name calling – and then the snuffling sycophants join the master arse licker in a race to Peters trough.
Laters……..but probably not
Bed wetters? Are other phrases/references to nocturnal emissions permissible? And would they include solids as well as liquids ?
SFTB 2.12
You’re getting worse. 🙄
The board, for some on here, are not to be criticised and if you do you are a hun or a part time supporter.
The arrogance of such uber Celtic supporters has been shared by the sheysters who run our club and whose ambition lies squarely within the west of Scotland the spoils of which are to be shared with our pals from Govan.
we do well to remember this
‘For that money, you could have practically any striker in the lower leagues in Germany, Spain and Italy, many in the top flights in those countries’
and yet he buys a season book,
Not a bedwetter but up 3 times a night, can’t get back to sleep for thinking about Celtic and lack of transfer activity.
Do I need a Catheter or counselling? genine question.
Genuine question that should be.
Yawn…
So much angst and posts about a player that struggles to get off the bench at Norwich and us.
That’s what £6-8 million gets you these days.
I hope Idah proves me wrong and plays and scores loads this season.
New goalkeeper only contacted after his team exits the Euros, one striker on our radar….the ambition shown by the guys at the top is off the scale.
Anyway – if the old guard had time at the moment to distil some random summer thoughts I’d be grateful
Football , at the moment is a funny form of capitalism
owners of the means of production – the board/ shareholders
producers/adders of value – you would be tempted to think it’s the squad and squad managers however they don’t produce a CP experience.
producers of the product – 50,000 ghirls and bhoys and the squad; some of these earn vastly more than others; many PAY THE OWNERS OF THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION to make the product (wt actual f) !
Those of us, and they are still here, who knew the lions and players before them; do you feel that footie was the same then or has it been colonised by capital or the new jeff bezos type of shi* (I think it’s called neo serfdom).
By the way, I appreciate the job the board, the club managers do. It is staggering the trophy numbers which have accrued under DD. I couldn’t organise a snog in a non-binary, gender fluid brothel so I’m not having a swing at the board just can’t put my finger on what football has become.
To those who keep lobbing “progress in Europe” as a stick to bash the board, would you be happy if that progress in years to come is in the Europa or Conference Leagues? – because that is realistically our level given our league and financial structure.
Trying to measure Celtic’s progress using the CL as a yardstick is just crazy.
AN DUN
Another one who thinks Celtic have the power to tell other clubs how to conduct their transfer dealings without having a say in the matter.
Meanwhile in the real world…