Results in preseason friendlies are (fortunately) notoriously unreliable indicators of results in competitive games, but Celtic will be alarmed at the scale of the deficit against Greuther Fuerth, from the German second tier, especially after reversals against Sevastopol and Cluj. Clubs from Ukraine, Romania and Germany are apparently organised, even during the summer months.
Next week’s game against Cliftonville is Celtic’s first test, but they will come thick and fast from now on.
Losing a friendly 6-2 brought an unwelcome feeling. Then I wondered how it would have felt to lose a competitive game by the same score to a major rival. Ouch. Made me feel a little better.
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cowiebhoy
No idea, we don’t even know that JP unearthed Vic. All we know is that the SSM signed all the duds.
Che
You’re welcome…..it might further please your da to know Fr Chambers is living in Donegal
Corkcelt, may I ask what your thoughts are about Celtic and the GAA? I am delighted that Celtic are maintaining our links to Ireland as well as doing good community work.
Don’t care about friendlies. Don’t care about Rangers.
I like Southampton, although previous posters are right with the talk if fianancial mismanagement. They’ve produced and sold some amount if players over the years for massive profit but it all seems to disappear down a drain.
Ferguson said last year that it’s the best an away team had played at old Trafford for a long time so I hope pochettino(sp) can keep up the good work.
Evening Bhoys and Ghirls If you get a chance watch on Iplayer a program that was
on last night called IMAGINE – Summer 2013 Rod Stewart : can’t stop me now.
A few bits in it showing the hoops and a really good bit with Rod and his 2 Bhoys
doing the GB !!! Magic.
Wanayama is Gone..
It was expected.
Whit?
Sure.. He is Mercenary.
and, He was Bought by us…
In the Fervent Hope.. that .
He wid Turn oot tae be a… Well…. Mercenary!
Ah Do Not Hate.. Soccer Mercenaries..in Fact.. Ah Like ’em,
They are the Fodder that keeps Teams,such as Celtic .. Who Play in an Environment that is
far Removed from the one, in which they SHOULD PLAY.
and whose Sale… when the time comes…enables them from expiring Soundlessly, owing tae the lack of the Wherwithal.. which they require in order tae.. well..
Remain in Buziness.
Wanyama, by Moving up the Food Chain, has done his Duty..
It’s a Win , Win, Situ…. for All concerned.
Celtic, will gratefully tuck away in the Parkheid Vault.. the Proceeds of Wanyama’s Well-Goatten Sale.
and..
Send it’s Scouts out .. tae Go and Search where No Man has Searched Before.
Searching fur.. You Guessed it..
Another.. Mercenary!
And… They Wull Find one.. Dinnae fear.
and the whole Process wull Start over again.
And that , Gentlemen is how A club like Celtic.. will Manage tae Survive,in this
Dog eat Dog world.
Celtic, of course, hiv no intention of Splurging Much ..if Any at all, of the W.W.
( Wanyama Windfall)
Because.. Celtic, hiv many ither obligations where Some of that wee Bonus… wull be pit tae far Bettah Use..
Like.. Rewarding the Players whom they expect tae Retain in thur Service..
By Awarding those Guys, with a few Mair Extra Spoonful’s of Sugar,in their New And extended Contracts.
and.. that is the way Ah see this Present Scenario tae Play oot.
Celtic, wull No Miss Wanyama.. wan wee Bit.
You will see.
Kojo
Still.. Laughin’
….pfayr
20:21 on 10 July, 2013
Why are so many posters excited about us making profits
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We have been brainwashed that is why.
5/6 years ago we were given a lot of baloney about ‘playing in the EPL’ in five years,
Now the propaganda is about a great youth system and buying young players to sell on at a profit.
The reality is we are not particularly good at either, and only completely inept management by the majority of our competitors makes us look good.
At a world level, the EPL has cleverly milked growing demand for online content and sold the rights for vastly inflated fees, but, that won’t last forever, particularly with so many badly managed clubs.
I have a mixed view on our current Directors – versus the football peer group they have done well,but versus other PLCs , we are a slightly better version of HMV, struggling to cope with the digital world.
There will be lots of talk right now, about who we should buy post Wanyama.
Personally, I would go for Carlisle – the club, not the player, or Hartlepool.
Buy them for £4/5 m, and use the excess to pay the legal bill.
Absurd that a club of Celtic’s standing is selling the prize asset to Southampton.
Southampton!
as_i_thought
20:34 on 10 July, 2013
SSM ? there’s most certainly been a few duds
Neither do I, buts its not many, and do not believe he deserves the talent spotter extraordinaire reputation.
Hail Hail
In 2015 wanyama will be remembered by us for bringing in £12.5m … and scoring the first goal against barca.
Thanks for the windfall …. count your medals son… the number wont change in the foreseeable future.
Celtic Mac
20:05 on
10 July, 2013
Natknow
You are right of course to take everything I say seriously, in which case you will not go too far wrong. BT or not BT that is the question! Think BT Vision may have offered Celtic TV or Setanta free a few years back, not sure now though. Not sure either if they are showing any SPFL Division one games or are restricted to Division three matches on a Friday night. Sky Sports will probably show all the televised Celtic matches, starting with the much discussed 5.15 kickoff for the League Flag day. Let us see what BT brings to the party, but no matter how much money they put in chances are we won’t see much of it.
I was thinking about their effect on EPL now they are able to show a certain number of games. The Sky/EPL deal, apparently, is what is having an effect on SPL kick-off times. Agree that we will only get drip-down of cash from it. Mind you, £12.5M is a reasonable drip. Relatively speaking however it does not solve the problem. The EPL business model needs to break before we will be on a level playing field.
I expect the profit will split between the Celtic triangle and a bumper dividend payout, exactly what supporters want to see on the park eh
Cowiebhoy
I think you have introduce an interesting debate regarding our much flouted scouting network.
JP IMO has not unearthed as much talent as I think the support believe,in fact if we look closely at good buys against bad buys I don’t think he will come out of it too well
I believe that he is a lucky man,who happened to go to Hibernian when most of the young talent ,who blossomed,we’re already there..
Clashcitybhoy
20:43 on 10 July, 2013
….pfayr
20:21 on 10 July, 2013
Why are so many posters excited about us making profits
———
We have been brainwashed that is why.
5/6 years ago we were given a lot of baloney about ‘playing in the EPL’ in five years,
Now the propaganda is about a great youth system and buying young players to sell on at a profit.
The reality is we are not particularly good at either, and only completely inept management by the majority of our competitors makes us look good.
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That’ll be the inept management by that Barcelona lot in allowing us to be the first team to defeat them last season some 3 months in on November 7th.
And of course eventully make it to the last 16 in the CL.
I’ll take that sort of ineptitude every season from our competitors until they wise up and give us the consistent poundings you’ll enjoy to back up your crazy conspiracy theories.
Then again, maybe my brainwashing will wear off – barring an Azrael Block – and I’ll see through the propaganda – allowing me to back up the proposition that spunking a few million on the purchase of a decrepit lower-league English mob then battling it out in court for a decade for the right to play in the Blue Square Premier is the sane option….
Power to the people. Stick it to The Man.
Come on, FFS…
Don’t care where Vic is sold to, Southampton or Southfork.
We have made good money on him, that is the nature of the beast, always was for sale at a profit if he performed, and he lived up to his end of the bargin.
The top clubs, in the financial sence will wait to see how he does week in week out against the best in the world….aye right, they will then happily pay way over the odds, and we should have a decent wedge winging our way again for nada.
As I said earlier, JP needs to get himsel over to Nigeria, there are diamonds to be had there for little money.
HH
Parkheadcumsalford
20:30 on
10 July, 2013
I think you might be thinking of the Belgian club Liam Miller went on loan to.
I’m still foxed as to why the Club never seems to have explored such an idea. You’d have thought that if they had then we’d be aware of why it isn’t a goer but it strikes me as so full of opportunity and potential benefit that I’m quite amazed that we haven’t tried.
Southampton. Jesus Christ, the world’s gone mad
fanadpatriot
20:53 on 10 July, 2013
Thanks, I am trying to start a debate.
Like you I do not believe he has achieved much, out with possibly Victor, if it was him ?
I have a very close colleague, who was heavily involved in another club where he was, not a good word to say about him, and his ability to identify any player, although fantastic administrator, who gets to know every players contract and situation.
Hail Hail
Lazio, Genoa , Lecce and eight players,
including Lazio captain Stefan Mauri, will face
charges related to match-fixing, the Italian
football federation said on Wednesday.
The federation said the charges include
rigging games and failing to report match-
fixing for two Serie A games – Lazio vs. Genoa
and Lecce vs. Lazio in May 2011.
The trial has been fixed for July 24.
Mauri faces a charge of sporting fraud, as do
Mario Cassano, Carlo Gervasoni, Omar
Milanetto, Alessandro Zamperini,
Massimiliano Benassi, Antonio Rosati and
Stefano Ferrario.
Mauri and Zamperini have also been cited for
violating two articles of the Code of Sports
Justice. That is concerned with the principles
of loyalty, fairness and integrity, and a ban on
betting.
If the charges are proved, the players face
bans while the clubs could be deducted
points. Reports say prosecutor Stefano Palazzi
could ask for a five-year suspension for Mauri,
who is facing the most serious charges.
Last week, Serie B club Bari plea-bargained
for a one-point penalty for match-fixing.
Bari was also fined 25,000 euros ($32,000)
under the deal made with the Italian
federation’s disciplinary committee for
arranging two matches, while several former
players also reached plea bargains.
At least 50 people have been arrested in Italy
for match-fixing since mid-2011, with
matches under investigation by prosecutors in
Cremona, Bari and Napoli.
This marks the third consecutive offseason
that point penalties have been handed out by
the federation. Four Serie A clubs were
penalized last season
derbyshirebhoy
20:55 on
10 July, 2013
Liam Miller went to Aarhus of Denmark on loan (Marc Reiper may have been on coaching staff). Think Celtic had a tie up with Oostende in Belgium a while back
The Boy Jinky
With few exceptions these guys have no interest in medals.
I thought he might have been one of those exceptions. I suspect he has been badly advised by his agent and expect him to richly disappear into football obscurity in a year or two.
I truly hope I’m wrong.
Henrik leaves to spend time at Barca and a promising young lad leaves to………
Enough said
The moaners really are annoying. They seldom say anything positive about our club. We ought to ditch the tag “greatest fans”. It is arrogant and untrue. Yesterday’s blog was excruciating to read at times. May Celtic prove the moaners wrong yet again.
Kojo, I enjoy your posts.
CowieBhoy, evening mate, hope all is well in Cowie:-)
Re- John Park, is he head of the Scouting Dept.?
If he is doesn’t he get the credit with all “discoveries” made by his Dept.
Whether made by him personally or not.
Just as he is responsible for the failures.
Ultimately no player is signed without the managers say so.
John Terrys old man charged with racially aggravated assault… hmmm
Wonder if JT will get in the picture when his father gets huckled into the paddy wagon
Cowiebhoy.
Great administrators get to the top in Scottish football….
TET
Do you think Celtic don’t have scouts in Nigeria? Serious question.
And if you think they don’t can you back up that up?
Celtic will unearth another gem this season that will have us talking about him for
years as we have done in past seasons you could make a list of players going back at
least 50 years one player a season, I remember a lot players. HH
Ah Doc, did you have a nice trip home & catch the Tennis ?
I told you previously what I knew, and my view has not changed
Hail Hail
Southampton have a very decent coach in Mauricio Pochettino.
Had them playing good stuff, as someone said earlier, swalex said they were the best that had played at OT.
12.5 mill is loose change for a team that canny handle their cash, we should have held out for at least another years bonus for the SSM.
HH
EDB
I have that opinion about most players we sign… they play for the filthy lucre … medals and trophies are only trinkets that enhance their ability to go eleswhere for a bigger wage.
Imho… most aint worthy of any ongoing interest once they leave the club
Obviously guys like henrik and kenny miller are exceptions :)
BT, looks like some now moving out of there FSFA
Hail Hail
I can’t believe the nonsense on here tonight about our scouting. We discovered a player for £900,000 and sold him two seasons later for £12.5MILLION.
That is every club’s in the world wet dream.
Sandman,
We will need to agree to differ.
However, I would offer, that at the time CQN started, if we had taken the plunge and bought a Gretna ( whom I think were in the English league) or a Carlisle , then instead of Southampton buying our players , it would be the opposite.
If we want to grow as a club, we are going to have to be brave, and not wait for the perfect storm.
Cowiebhoy/Fanadpatriot :
Debate is good. On what basis are you making your judgement on JP?
Personally I am not close to anyone at Celtic Park and therefore have neither enough information on JPs performance, nor indeed the criteria that are used to judge his performance, to make any definitive statement about his effectiveness or otherwise.
I’m guessing you both have clear criteria and stats to back up your view?
CowieBhoy, didn’t think I would, just adding to the debate, another point of view.
I don’t know if Park personally does spot the players, but he is HoD.
Only after he leaves will we be able to judge whether he was responsible or not, and as I said to you, administrators who know their stuff can be invaluable.
Whether it is Park or not, the model seems to be working well.
Credit to Peter Lawell for implementing it.
I did see the tennis highlights, proud of the young man, he did great.
Victor’s replacement? Mentioned on here (and elsewhere) a couple of weeks ago, Beram’s old team mate
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8K6kfKaWSM
ElDiegoBhoy
Having watched the Nigerian team at the confed cup the other week, I was pleasently surprised to see that most of their squad was made up of home grown players, who IMHO would walk into our team, and going by what most of them are transferred for they can be had for little money relativly.
As for answering your question,
I honestly don’t have a clue. it would seem that 99% of what we have bought have come from euro clubs, so I doubt our scouting system reaches the leagues in darkest Nigeria.
Good to see you back as crabbie as ever, still thinking of you >}
HH
iPaddy
Tough ole world 60,000 at Celtic Park playing Barcelona in the CL, or more money at Southampton, an infinitely smaller club, in an infinitely better league.
Celtic decided to cash in their chips, we could have done a Henrik and paid his kings
ransome.
But we didn’t, supporters will moan snipe and blame ad infinatum.
It’sABlog CSC