It’s difficult to analyse Celtic’s performance last night. For much of the game the players were clearly enjoying themselves and should have been rewarded with more goals, but Dunfermline were incredibly porous in central midfield. Ki and Commons were able to stage a passing master-class which was pleasing on the eye.
The fact that the deluge of goals didn’t come is not particularly concerning. Celtic don’t make a habit of profligacy in front of goals, making chances is more of a problem, so it would be a mistake to read too much into one game.
While Dunfermline were out of the contest for most of the evening they also retained two strikers, something we seldom see from SPL visitors at Celtic Park, so that fact that they were able to construct an attempt at goal five minutes from time was not surprising.
Celtic got what they needed from the game but Danny Lennon, who brings St Mirren to Celtic Park on Saturday, will also have seen enough to let him form a decent game-plan, especially if Celtic play a 4-4-2 with two wingers, as they finished the game yesterday.
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Indian forwards Jeje Lalpekhlua and Sunil Chhetri are expected to arrive in Glasgow today for a trial with Rangers.
They going to pay their own transfer fee as well…
HH
South Of Tunis –
Thanks for that.
Bliddy hell. Sion are from Switzerland, as are UEFA, so I thought they all spoke Swiss!
:~)
TLK – 86 players in the last 4 seasons?
Imagine if you were an agent acting on behalf of Celtic Football Club….you would make a helluva lot of money in fees, eh?!
Or is that side of things handled in-house?
TTTT
The Lizard King says:
25 November, 2011 at 10:11
It’s like the part in The Two Towers where Theoden, faced with almost certain death at Helm’s Deep, poses to Aragorn: what can men do against such reckless hate?
Tom
Seventy per cent of Swiss speak German,like Sepp.
Or should that be Switzerlandish?
ASonOfDan says:
25 November, 2011 at 10:17
I wonder court that trial will be in.
Oh, you mean a trial involving the orcs that isn’t at court? Strange days, strange days.
Morning bhoys, cool but still hun free.
I will tell you something, that craigie whyte is some business man.
macjay –
I know :~)
Man Utd: Van der Sar, Neville, Ferdinand, Vidic, Heinze (Evra 87), Ronaldo, Carrick (O’Shea 87), Scholes, Giggs, Saha, Rooney.
Subs Not Used: Kuszczak, Brown, Richardson, Fletcher, Silvestre.
Not only have ManU 6 players still there, a lot of the the guys that have left actually retired. I know what you are trying to say but there are a few factors involved…
a) The Mancs have had ONE coach for a quarter of a century – our recent high turnover has meant each new manager coming in and changing the way the team plays to his own view and needing (in his mind) different personnel to work in that
b) ManU is one of the richest clubs in the world. Players don’t leave there for money per se – not for transfer fees and not to improve their lot (not even Christiano Ronaldo IMO).
c) The EPL (and Italy/Spain) is where top players want to play. The guys we can afford are by and large on their way up (Boruc) on their way down (Graveson), or not good enough to play in those leagues.
Thanks for listing the team though, just spent an enjoyable 20 minutes looking up a few on wiki – am pleased for most of them they have returned home are still kicking a ball – Magic seems to have been a lucky mascot for a couple – winning titles in Cyprus (not the best league but the weather will have been nice) and reliving his glory day by winning a title at Wisla Krakow, Naka back home as he intended…
ASonOfDan says:
25 November, 2011 at 10:17
Indian forwards Jeje Lalpekhlua and Sunil Chhetri are expected to arrive in Glasgow today for a trial with Rangers.
Anything to do with Rangers non exec director Charan Gill?..not sure if he is still involved with the club though.
Tom McLaughlin: 25 November, 2011 at 10:09
“I know next to nothing about Aluko, so cannot comment, which means I won’t come on here bad-mouthing the guy just because he has signed for the Huns. If he has paid a lot of money out of his own pocket to secure his dream move, then he is to be lauded rather than ridiculed.
“Do we have to hate EVERYBODY who has anything to do with Rangers”
Who is bad mouthing Aluko? Who is expressing any hatred towards him?
Sone Aluko and his family have had to pay compensation to Aberdeen. This has nothing to do with any ‘dream move’. It is down to the fact that Rangers are in the embarrassing position of being unable to make any financial contribution.
The Huns deserved to be ridiculed for this don’t you agree?
Morning all,
Took my mum to the game on Wednesday with the itison deal, she loved every minute. She had high praise for the Green Brigade and wondered why they were getting such bad press. Never had the heart to tell her it was the papers she loves to read.
Heading to the boxing tonight at Ravenscraig on a VIP ticket, free booze the lot. Getting used to the hospitalty stuff!!
Hic
How did the second half of the U19s game against Barca go last night?
Managed to watch the first half before my 9-year-old commandeered the PC, announcing that she had far more important things to work on. This turned out to be a letter to Santa extending to over 2 pages!!
I see the usual suspects are at it again.
Nobody is ridiculed Sone Aluko however much some characters on here would like to paint so that they rub their hands with glee if he scores against us.
It’s ridicule of the dignified,for every fiver club not the boy himself.
He actually deserves credit where credit is overdue.
Awe_Naw –
Don’t flatter yourself.
You’re at least third on the list.
:~)
Mort: “Has anyone had any expeirence of anything similar and if so, were you able to get the money back. the most galling thing in this is that the bank allowed this withdrawl to go well overdrawn without even contacting us before hand to see if it was us who made the transaction.”
Think that’s probably the reason why they are going straight for refund. Most problems I have had have been to do with credit cards – travel a lot and have an AmEx card that is usually just for hotels/restaurants – got a call from them asking if I’d been in Italy – yeah, couple of weeks back – “did you buy 2 TVs on an Italian internet site? Thought not”. Money back. And MBNA credited me back for some blank credit card cheques that I never asked for and never received but were made out to cash ffs….
Financial institutions will wear the costs of these type of frauds but you are probably in a especially strong position in that the transaction was not the normal type that was assocaited with your account. Just bang on about risk management practices – they were at fault for not checking….
Good luck :o)
Has,can.
Sorry,cant believe any player would pay £200k for a 6 month contract.Specially not a team who could go bust very soon.
Tom McLaughlin: 25 November, 2011 at 10:09
I feel like saying “what were you thinking” to all victims of scammers that end up giving away their life savings in the pursuit of easy money.
What do we know about Aluko?
He has given away his savings and the savings of his parents in a lump sum. He has pledged years of his future income in order to play at the top level in Scotland and get easy money. It is in the public domain that rangers are on the brink of administration and not in a position to pay the easy money that Aluko thinks he is going to get.
What were you thinking Aluko?
Tom—–
Sion’s case relates to the meaning of some of the words used by UEFA when Sion were originally sanctioned for signing a player “illegally “.
Sion argue that UEFA have constantly tried to obfuscate the issue by playing games with language —-eg ——-conducting proceedings in one language and then publishing the transcript of those proceedings in another. Sion allege that they attended meetings with UEFA where the participants spoke 4 different languages and UEFA then produced a transcript in a language which had not been used at those meetings.
Sion have claimed that there are many translation errors in a lot of the relevant documentation.
Sion allege that UEFA speak with forked tongue.
And my ridiclue of “the dream move” was more about the treatment of the story by the laptop loyal than the criticism of the boy himself. So his dream move is actually to use Rangers as a stepping stone? Isn’t that what Celtic are for Mr Jackson?
Mort – final Q: where did the money go? Was it to another account, so they can trace it, or to cash or what? Either way, they must have had authourisation which again they should compare against your details (signature on file for example) if they were doing their jobs correctly.
jocky bhoy at 10:32
Cheers for that. We don’t even have an overdraft facility so I don’t think I’d even be able to make that type of a withdrawl. I’m sure it would come up insufficient funds.
I think I’ll be changing accounts as the other online banking I have sends you a text message when you add a new payee and doesn’t allow tranfers without using a card reader they supplied.
Mort
Destables = Detestables but of course CQN readers already knew that.
I’m fluent in typonese.
Barcelona youngsters, some team ethic, eh?
I once saw an interview with Xavi on TV when he said that the thinking and most important thing they teach is, never give the ball away, the first thing they teach!! It , he said, was virtually a hanging offence to do so, and if you did give it away then you had really to bust a gut to get the ball back. Simple stuff really.
Wonder if we can get a few of the Barca young ghuys on loan now that we are pals. Nice thought.
Hail Hail
KINGLuBO
So Sone Aluku signs for 6mths with a possible extension of 2years, pays Aberdeen 50K up front from his own pocket with a further 100-150K to be paid over next 2 years from his salary.
Am I missing something or are Aberdonian’s really stupid?
Also heard Ian Currant Bun speak this morning telling all that there is money to spend in Januebruary. How much? He wasn’t sure because Mr Whyte hasn’t told them if there will be money to spend in Januebruary. So there you have it.
Craig Whytes fortune is OFF THE SCALE.
MWD
Morning CQN (re-post from early hours)
Religiously Aggravated offending Stats Question
288 of 694 victims were Police
400 of 694 were derogatory towards RC
How many of the 288 offences against police were also derogatory towards RC. Answering this will let us know out of the 406 offences to general public, how many were derogatory towards RC and IMO provide a more accurate picture of the actual problem.
This would be a very interesting stat if available. I am going to send an FOI request for this, but if anyone is aware if that stat has been provided, would appreciate pointed in the right direction.
hh
bjmac
Tam McLaughlin
I have stated before that I do not believe the jokes are trying to ridicule the lad. Fair play to him.
The ridicule is aimed at Rangers and the media.
Rangers for not paying the compensation.
The media for trying to spin the story to the gallant young man. They are the ones who have put these facts out without any criticism of Rangers and Craig Whytes millions.
jocky bhoy at 10:38
Mort – final Q: where did the money go? Was it to another account, so they can trace it, or to cash or what? Either way, they must have had authourisation which again they should compare against your details (signature on file for example) if they were doing their jobs correctly.
That was my first thought but they were being very vague about it. It was the wife who was on the phone to them and they didn’t really say anything other than their investigations team will look at it and refund the money within 72 hours. Fingers crossed that it happens.
Mort
The lizard king
A very interesting point that you make. I, for one, lament about our failure to beat rangers in their hour of bankruptcy.
Re the Sonny Aluko deal
From what I can gather, it seems that Aluko will be paying 200k to play for rangers. Hmmm sounds a bit strange. Now Im no accountant, but “something stinks in the state of Govan.” (I’m no literary genius either – I know)
It has been reported that Aluko has paid a deposit to the dons and that the balance will be paid by Aluko to Aberdeen in a “cooperative 20 week club” fashion, before his contract at ibroke expires in 6 months time.
So let me get this right then
£200,000 to be paid by Aluko to Aberdeen, in 26 weekly instalments of around £8,000 per week
Obviously Aluko needs to earn at least £8,000 from the huns to pay this back and he also needs to earn a living fitba players wage on top. So the huns would need to pay Aluko around £12,000 per week in order that he can do this.
However if Aluko needs to take home £12,000 a week he needs to get a top line of say £20,000 a week cover NI and income tax deductions
So Rangers would need to pay £520, 000 in a 6 month period to Aluko in wages.
Have I got that right? Aluko is on £20,000+ contract?
Yes Mr Aluko, I can assure you that it`s not a pyramid scheme. :-)
googybhoy ♥ Celtic says:
25 November, 2011 at 09:01
Vmhan♣ who Supports Neil Lennon says:
25 November, 2011 at 08:40
Morning Celts and a happy Friday to ye!
Good morning. Sunny and no wind in land.
…………..
Googybhoy 15ft high waves crashing in from the Irish sea, strong winds and rain heading towards ye, means you’ll be busy :>)
Got visitors down Fae the Port this weekend, they’ll feel at home.
V
googybhoy ♥ Celtic: 25 November, 2011 at 10:47
To be fair – ‘Tom McLaughlin’ is doing a sterling job spinning the story himself…
Mort –
If the bank has agreed to refund the money “within 72 hours” then surely they will honour all commitments from the account in the interim, without additional charges, no?
Reasons to be cheerful —-way down south —–
The standing ovation given to both teams after Milan 2 – Barca 3.
The overheard debate between 2 Grappa warmed oldies as they argued over the relative merits of the wondrous Xavi and the fabulous Gianni Rivera.
Ah —— Calcio !
Tamrabam
No. According to Snyde he is to pay it over 2 years.
How stupid are Aberdonian’s!
MWD
I’m Neil Lennon (tamrabam): 25 November, 2011 at 10:49 The lizard king
“A very interesting point that you make. I, for one, lament about our failure to beat rangers in their hour of bankruptcy.”
The Huns are so ‘bankrupt’ they have spent more than Celtic in the last four years.
Sone Aluko sealed his dream move to Rangers by making a one off donation to the Fleck Foundation for The Environment, which will enable John Fleck’s research group to complete their ground-breaking photochemical work on greenhouse gas remediation.
This work highlights the potential of using Arabidopsis thaliana LMM-1 in hybrid materials to create a photosynthetic bio-silicon matrix as a platform for CO2 mitigation technologies and might jolly well save the world.