The general reaction to reports that a £1m bid has been received for Leigh Griffiths is that the figure undervalues the player. Early in the season the story was different. Leigh, who joined in January last year, was behind new arrivals John Guidetti and Stefan Scepovic. His perceived value was close to zero, alongside most players sitting on the bench or in the stand.
We were panicked on 31 August last year. Having signed Amido Balde and Teemu Pucki a year earlier we were desperately short of a striker, the arrival of Scepovic, then Guidetti was cause for celebration. Neither brought much to the club, we would have been better, with more money available for the next window, if we’d prioritised Leigh and given chances to a youth player.
If Celtic choose to sell Leigh this summer, it will not be for £1m. He’s worth much more than that, probably more than Leeds United can afford. He’s under contract, first choice and scoring goals. But Celtic will also put a great deal of effort into recruiting a striker in the coming weeks.
There are no guarantees Leigh will get an extended run in the team next season. Celtic should sell players at peak value, when they have reached the point they are no longer developing, before they become an overhang on resources. Leigh is probably at peak value, and unlikely to further develop, but he’s no overhang. That scenario won’t happen until a couple of new pretenders have proven they are better fits than Balde, Pukki, Scepovic and Guidetti.
Keep an eye on Frank McGarvey’s 1985 Scottish Cup Final shirt, which is being auctioned to benefit Maryhill Food Bank. It closes just before 8pm tonight.
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Petition Pedlars?…rather harsh I would say, get your point through by all means, but name calling fellow Tims, turns my attention away from your point, easy tiger.
Hola ya nest of vipers ye. I jest. Peter has cancelled the crazy world tour and told him he doesn’t need to sell anyone he wants to keep. For a club accused of penny pinching I think both those things are a great sign of backing do you not? Pete missing out on Vvd 10m ➕ 3m to get beat around the globe.
KLV
KevJ –
It doesn’t matter how many lawyers Celtic throw at it, the OB act is, as its name suggests, an Act of Parliament.
Of course it is an insidious act and needs to be challenged, but Celtic FC is not above the law and, like the rest of us, can only voice their opposition, which Celtic have done, and lobby for change, which is what the petition is doing
Thankfully, money and the ability to hire the top “legal eagles” doesn’t change Acts of Parliament, otherwise what would stop the Orange Order from abolishing Catholic schools?
Tom McLaughlin
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It’s an act of parliment but, the rail leads back to the ‘Shame-game’ and, Celtic FC’s meek acceptance of….the blame!
Had Celtic FC done what I suggested at the time and, called their own media conference…national media only…no SMSM welcome…like MO’N had to do in the Nou Camp when, he tried to tell the world what type of place…nice little Scotland really is…well, for me…Celtic’s hierarchy bottled-it BIG TIME.
The genie would have been out of the bottle before this bill was passed in parliment.
Now the fans are prisoners in their own stadiums!
Sack The Kow-Towing Board
kevinlasvegas –
Well said.
Also, Ronny earlier said he wanted new signings in prior to the CL qualifiers and confirmed that the board had told him they will back him on that.
It is on record that Deila, Collins and Lawwell met up with Boyata a few days ago in an effort to lure him to the club.
Obviously there may well be one or more signings on the final day of the transfer window in addition to players brought in earlier, but many targets don’t become available until the final hours of the window.
I am pretty sure that without the need to issue threats, the board know that Ronny would walk if they refused to back him on reasonable requests for support.
Sack The Kow-Towing Board
Then what?
Aff oot to purloin a phrase.
HH jamesgang
Tom McLaughlin
Thank goodness another voice of reason.
Either RD is being clever or Peter has agreed with him either way he will get what he wants.
KLV
Tom McLaughlin
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I’m not a religious person but…re: yer last bit in your point about the schools.
Well, I’d be more concerned about….the £millions that the church is throwing at, the cover-up of all the bad stuff….who donates that money for the hierarchy to ‘blow’ on a cover-up?
For me…local OAP’s putting the penny’s that they are able to scrape together and, put them into the collection plate and, guess what happened to the collection money…?
Bishop Devine ‘blew’ £2k of it on….fireworks for his rich pals at a party in his private home built by the collection money.
F### the church and, all the liars who run it….I say.
jamesgang
09:14 on 18 May, 2015
Sack The Kow-Towing Board
Then what?
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Then appoint Jeanette Findlay in total control of Celtic Football Club.
No more PLC….Robin Hood’s in reverse.
Tom MacL have you clocked our weather belles? If Jobo looks like any of them, then you may have a point!! H H Hebcelt PS anyone got contact/link for tickets for the Lisa Hague do this Saturday night in the Kerrydale? Thanks
kevinlasvegas
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The board backing Ronny?
I hope yer right.
But, Celtic signed SA & GMS because…the park was half-empty.
Why did they not sign these two players at the start of the season?
Hail Hail
Striker wise they can all go apart from Griffindor. Also Specovic isn’t making the bench or he never gets off it. Not the mark of a 2m signing. Panic buy? Who knows. He can go.
So we need at least 2 new strikers. The 4 going should see us bring in quality over quantity.
KLV
Kev?
First the Celtic board.
Second the Celtic supporters
And third The Catholic Church
Hmmmmmmmmm, very strange.
KEVJ
I’m in utter awe. Everyone in any position of authority abuses their position? No-one should be rewarded for success? All the above to wear sackcloth and ashes as a mark of their exalted station?
I like it. Total anarchy. What a concept. Genius,that.
Oot n aboot in Sciacca.
Big notice on the door of one of the Rube Social Clubs re an emergency meeting tonight – much anger re the arrangements for getting a brief for the CL Final..Perception is that the glory hunting rich will get the tickets .-
Warm and grey – way down south.
I’m wondering what’s in the letter, and laughing too, .
STUART MCCALL will deliver a team talk from Ibrox fans against Hibs as he bids to lead Rangers back to the brink of the big time.
The Light Blues set up a play-off semi-final showdown with the Easter Road club with a 3-2 aggregate victory over Queen of the South.
Gers skipper Lee Wallace grabbed an equaliser on the hour to cancel out Derek Lyle’s first-half opener as Gers battled to a 1-1 draw.
Rangers fans’ group, the Union Bears, delivered a letter to McCall before the game against Queens highlighting just what a victory in the play-offs would mean to supporters.
But he was so impressed he decided to save it for the first leg against Hibs.
McCall said: “I’m leaving it for Wednesday night. It’s a fantastic letter.
“The basis was that today was a must-win but it wasn’t. I’m not saying Wednesday is but there’s a lot of good stuff in it and I’d already done what I thought was right for the players against Queens.
“Listen, it’s a fans’ perspective and we know how they’re feeling. Hopefully, we’ve sent them home happy and they’ll be back on Wednesday with their voices ready to go.
“We’ve proved a lot of people wrong. Many would have been looking at us at half-time, a goal down, and thinking: ‘Oh, Rangers have bottled it again.’
“But we have creative players and knew we’d make chances. Over two games no one would deny we were the better side.”
KevJungle
Hey Kev, nice name. Both players being great additions so far. But I think if the board were wanting players to fill CP then they would have bought more glamorous than Utd. No offence to them. I think it showed Collins influence for me and maybe RD working together better. Just my 2 bob.
KLV
tonydonnelly67
08:55 on 18 May, 2015
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Yer right pal…that was a bit on the heavy side…I apologise to all the petition folk…I know that their only doing what they think is best…but, I stand by my view that…they shouldn’t have to be going through al this and, it’s important that they know who let them down…BIG TIME!….imho.
Tony, yer the real-deal of Celtic supporters…I used to be just like you…maybe that’s what is eating me?….it’s a big part of it.
One of the things that I want to do before I die is – go for a good few long over due Celtic-beers with TonyDonnelly67….that isny bluster…it’s heartfelt…we have alot of stuff in common…some of it good…some of it deperately sad.
Anyway…Hail Hail to you fella.
TD 67
@9.25
I think you’ve noticed the underlying pattern there amongst all the other guff hh
kevjungle
08:55 on 18 May, 2015
Kev do you like Celtic, the football team ?
Without trawling back as I very rarely even read a page back are you now standing up for Ronny, I might be incorrect but seem to remember you putting the boot in even though he was pretty new to this gig, tomorrow is a new day and the past will always be in the past, try and enjoy being a Celtic fan it is actually quite good, by the way are me & you now in this clique thing you type about
Gerry&KevJcsc
“Gonnae sumbdy puuw that kurtain doon oan ‘at Glesga Empire turn, eh !?”
Francie’n’Josie, CSC?
Canamalar,
I have listened to a lot of Russians, some from the Ukraine, about the whole mess. General consensus, if that is possible to discern (!), is that Crimea was/is Russian but it was taken back in the wrong way. I met separatists and their supporters as well as some friends who feel Russia must also be accountable.
Overall observation I could glean was that it is hurting many and it bewilders them that the two are fighting. The Soviet generation, especially,cannot comprehend that their people are fighting one another and that fascists are being helped in the battle.
kevinlasvegas
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Hail Hail Kevin
Yer right about the John Collins input…he is massively under-represented in the good stufff on the pitch this season, I think that Ronny took to long to listen to JC…maybe seeing him as a threat to his position…who knows?
But, I have this feeling that…Ronny has been tapped-up and is letting the board know that, if he doesen’t get a fair crack of the whip then, he might be tempted away.
Paranoid Android – CSC
Kev, hope you have evidence about that?
Kevj loves Celtic Gerryfaethebrig. I am kevfaethebrig mate.ML5 mate. He just sometimes needs to filter his thoughts better and think things through more. He is very passionate and that’s no a bad thing.
Not digging Kevj just an observation after reading your posts for a while.
KLV
KevJungle
Yeah the board will need to keep him sweet especially if he does well this season in Europe. Back to Jackie mac and Hartley rumours.
KLV
The hoops in Paris
https://www.facebook.com/Celticsupportersfaithfulthroughandthrough/photos/a.545741985435805.127453.366609070015765/967035803306419/?type=1
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART
When The USSR broke up,the obvious solution to a definite problem was to have The Crimea as a quasi-autonomous region of Russia,but allowing Ukrainian access.
The Crimea was not historically part of Ukraine,as you know. It became so while both were part of The USSR.
Unintended consequences.
And as a result,Ukraine has lost parts of its own territory.
Russia’s actions were wrong. And still are. But it isn’t easy to reconcile being part of a country with which you have little in common.
Meanwhile,innocent people die,The Great Game continues.
Gerryfaethebrig
09:36 on 18 May, 2015
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Gerry, I at 1st thought that you were a novelty on here…a poster who hadn’t been ‘dipped’ in clique-juice…until, you returned from CQN11…and, Jekyll and, the Hydes came oot tae play.
An assortment of wee needly-cheap-stab-at-the-end-of-a-post…types of retorts…it was almost as though you were trying to impress yer new watching ‘masters’….and, ye let yer mask slip last week with yer…”Shhh, don’t mention ‘Jungle'”…comment…took yer eye off the ball there my good fellow :)
Gerry&Kev…?…aye, if yer surnames McNee? :)
Hail Hail – My glass is half-full of….masks.
KevJ –
I agree with you regarding the so-called ‘shame game’.
When you go onto YouTube and watch the highlights, you cannot help but think – how the hell were Celtic pulled up for this? – until you see Neil Lennon react to the rat McCoist.
Now let me be very clear. I am not criticising Lenny here. I have no idea what McCoist said to him, so will not judge him either way.
All I will say is I really wish Neil had bitten his tongue and confronted the man out of the public gaze. Regardless of the justification for it, Lenny’s actions let Rangers off the hook.
They had deployed rough-house tactics; physically abused the referee on more than one occasion; had a player who left the field to remonstrate with Lennon and had 3 players red-carded. Celtic were in the clear and Rangers were the bad guys . . . Until Neil Lennon lost his cool.
Again I emphasise, I am not condemning the guy. As I say, I don’t know what words provoked it. I merely state that it threw Rangers and the SFA and the SMSM a lifeline. A get out of jail card. Both clubs were now in the shit.
In that one moment, Lenny’s actions took the moral high ground away from Celtic and opened the door to what followed.
How could Celtic now claim to be the innocent party? How could they tell Holyrood to take a hike?
I make no apology for repeating that I don’t blame or condemn Lennon. As I have said, it is more about wishing he had bit his tongue and saved it for later, away from the worldwide TV audience.
As news worthiness goes, having 3 players red-carded pales into insignificance when compared with a manager aggressively confronting his opposite number at the end of the game. I know because I was in Australia at the time and saw the TV reports and read the newspaper headlines.
Hail Hail
Kitalba 04.28
No matter how many times I watch that clip, it makes me sad, angry and inspired. Somebody should post it every day. A necessary watch, thanks for posting.
Captain Beefheart
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Evidence about what?
Tom McLaughlin
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Celtic could have offered the clip of Sleekit trying to get into the Celtic dug-out.
Kev I can assure you the only tune I dance to is the wife’s, you are correct about CQN11, it was a total pleasure putting faces to monikers and fair play if that’s not your bag but again a lot of money was raised for charity and trust me events like that do more good than bad
Hail Hail amigo
Bobby,
Yeah, the ordinary people now suffer. Anyway, just thought I would give an unscientific summary of views from a tiny portion of the people.
Kev, the points about the church.
BMCUW.
Best laugh I’ ve had in ages came from a Crimean Tatar telling me that Putin was Nigelski Fararski with nuclear weapons.
TOM McLAUGHLIN
While you are undoubtedly correct-and I know you are at pains not to blame Neil for losing his cool-there is one wee point in his defence.
Well,a big one to be honest.
It is unlikely we will ever know what that piece of shit said to Neil. But his reply was…
“That’s my f…..g family!”
I think most people are of a similar mindset,say or do what you like to me,but leave my family out of it.
This isn’t a criticism of your post,Tom. Just a reminder to all of why Neil reacted as he did.
tonydonnelly67
09:25 on 18 May, 2015
Kev?
First the Celtic board.
Second the Celtic supporters
And third The Catholic Church
Hmmmmmmmmm, very strange.
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If it takes me to point out the obvious and, get kicked up and down the blog as a result….to open a Celtic supporters eyes or, an auld wummin or man…scraping their last pennies to put into the collection plate only to see some charlatan having a party with it…well…if any good at all comes out of it then…it’ll have been worth it.
But…I know that in the grand scheme of things that – apathy will prevail
I might be styooopit but, I’m no daft – CSC