We can convince ourselves we have players who can fill the right back role, and this may be true for a few more weeks, but Mikael Lustig was one of the frailties that cost us against AEK last August, and we don’t even have him now.
So far the transfer window has gone well, but a team is as well as its weakest link. Failure to get a right back who can stop crosses into the box has to be avoided.
That night in Athens is all the motivation we should need.
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BSR…@ 11.00…a sunny winter’s day…and a big wide pavement…
I was in Chapman’s when the photo was taken…
WBC @ 11.19
It’s 2.30 on the ole clock
” The arms were granted on April 4, 1889.
Rutherglen was created a Royal Burgh by King David I between 1124 and 1153.
The arms are based on the devices on the oldest known seal of the Burgh from 1357 and 1493.
It has been said that they show three things characteristic of Rutherglen: her ships, her seamen and her church. The ship and mariners, from the obverse of the seal, recall that for a long period, the town was the chief trading and commercial centre on the lower part of the river Clyde.
The Virgin and Child and the angel supporters come from the reverse of the seal; the twelfth-century parish church, of which only a stone tower of later date remains, was dedicated to St. Mary the Virgin.
The motto is a free Latin rendering by Professor G. G. Ramsay of Glasgow University of the local saying “Ru’glen’s roon red lumsreek briskly “.
WeWereHereFirst CSC
Hello again all you young rebels.
Are you all in bed? as usual i’m late to the party, seem to be sleeping
longer these rainy Melbourne mornings.
Can’t wait till the clocks change to get on the same page as the rest
of you CQN’rs
So where are we? how many monster 7 ft thugs have the stickies signed?
Should we cower in fear?
How many taxis are waiting on Kieran?
Looks as though even the CQN sidebar is trying to punt him.
Kieran must stay.
Aff oot to look for a right back, preferably 7ft 6.
H.H Mick
Eight in a row, treble treble £10M spent , signings to come, aye it’s sh&te being a Tim.
NITOL CSC
BOURNE.
LOL, Yes it’s really tough, still remember trudging through the Gallowgate
early sixties wondering if we would ever win a game never mind a title.
But we still had wee Jinky, Bobby, et al to watch, all we needed was a
manager.
H.H Mick
Can someone please come up with some lyrics for Boli Bolingoli Mbombo to the tune of la bamba :)
Jim White, yer talkin’ shite
And O how I wish you’d stop talkin’ pish.
McGonnigalCSC
Campbellbhoy
I think i’d need to go to speech therapy before i could sing a song
with Boli Molongoli Mbombo in it.
Boli.. Boli.. Geez a goal, thats my best.
Maybe you could get together with Teuchter Ar La he seems to have
a good grasp of those lyric thingys.
Gilbert & Sullivan CSC. 8-))
H.H Mick
No, try this one out.
Its to the tune of Rupert the Bear (lovely irony too)
(You know “Rupert, Rupert the Bear – Everyone knows his name”
“Boli, Bolingoli – Bolingoli Mbombo”
Night
Noticed this list of fixtures on the BBC.
Next weeks Uefa Champions League qualifiers SECOND ROUND Fixtures.
TUESDAY 23rd JULY
Viktoria Plzen V Olympiakos
PSV Eindhoven V FC Basel
TBC V Dinamo Zagreb
TBC V FC Copenhagen
TBC V Maccabi Tel-Aviv
TBC V Apoel Nicosia
I take it this means that all the named teams above have all got a greater co-efficient than Celtic and have gone straight into the 2nd Qualifying Round accordingly.
We have to play on July 9 & 17 for the honour of going onto the same round of fixtures.
Bonkers CSC
FOOL TIME WHISTLE
Some very tasty ties in there.Some very good teams going out.Be interesting to see who fills the TBC gaps.
http://celticbynumberscom.ipage.com/sarajevo-satisfaction/
Lennon gambled with selection and formation, but ultimately there was satisfaction in Sarajevo. Quality and fitness told despite inauspicious circumstances.
So Tommy Smith signed for Stoke, eventually, sadly shredding to pieces the myth that we can blow Championship clubs out the water whenever we like for players.
Lot of clubs in that league prepared to take crazy risk to give themselves a shot at promotion.
HH
CBN……………..
Thank-you.
HH
FTW
I think you have listed what they call the League Path to qualification in CL i.e. for teams that did not win their league (Basel and Plizen were both runners up in their league but, unlike Scotland get a chance of 2 or more qualifiers for CL).
It is not a great position to be in because qualification from the League Path might be harder than from the Champions Path where we are placed with other clubs from leagues that only get their Champions into the qualifying draw (our SPFL runners-up are in the Europa). The League Path is harder because these teams (Basel, Plizen etc;) will play against teams from leagues that are good enough to have more than one attempted qualifier for CL. We just have to beat the Champions from diddier leagues
At the 3rd qualifying stage they will be joined by Porto, Kiev, Krasnodar, Brugge, Basaksehir & LASK (Aut) – 4 will qualify from that group at Play Off stage.
In the Champions Path- all the teams so far have played in Q1(some played a preliminary round) & winners will play in Q2. The Q2 winners will be joined by Ajax (despite last year’s heroics- they have to qualify despite being Dutch champions- PSV as 2nd get to enter at Q.2 stage) and PAOK at q.3 stage (that is where they enter the fight) and at Play-off round by Young Boys (Swiss) and Slavia Prague who are Champions of their higher rated leagues.
Like the League Path, only 4 will qualify from the Champions Path to the Group stage.
Clear as mud, eh?
But definitely corrupt.
TRADITIONALIST88 on 16TH JULY 2019 8:24 AM
So Tommy Smith signed for Stoke, eventually, sadly shredding to pieces the myth that we can blow Championship clubs out the water whenever we like for players.
Lot of clubs in that league prepared to take crazy risk to give themselves a shot at promotion.
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You’re right – lot of clubs look at the shiny shiny and believe it’s worth the gamble.
But gamble it is…!
FOOL TIME WHISTLE on 16TH JULY 2019 3:31 AM
The reason that some clubs enter the competition at a later stage is due to their country rankings, even if their club co-efficient is actually lower than Celtic, e.g Zagreb 29.5/Celtic 31.00
Once into the draw the club co-efficient determines whether they are seeded or unseeded.
NATKNOW on 16TH JULY 2019 9:07 AM
Exactly. Wage to turnover ratio at some shockingly high. Its paid off for Villa (though not at first time of asking) but others wont be so lucky…Bolton, Sunderland have shown none of them are too big to get relegated again!
HH
CQNers
Start the online search for Uruguayan Right backs please…..
He’ll be hard as nails. That’s how they make them over there…
Is there any substance to Uruguayan links ?
Its the 3rd or 4th time this morning I’ve seen Uruguay mentioned.
Shhhh, no one tell Dudu!
HH
Another defender knock back .that us down to sixth choice now . Anyway there will be no more signings till they punt KT . Getting a bit concerned about getting 9 never mind 10 .
TRADITIONALIST88
Don’t forget that clubs like Stoke and WBA will be enjoying parachute money from the EPL for another season or two – this ‘free income’ still dwarfs Celtic’s telly money by quite a distance.
Throw in the likes of Leeds, Derby and Forest – who all still see themselves as ‘big clubs’ and will spend money – and you start to see why luring good players away from the Championship can be difficult.
TIM MALONE WILL TELL on 16TH JULY 2019 10:16 AM
Exactly mate, and why its a myth that getting players from that league or beating clubs in that league to players is straightforward. Its not, for many reasons. Doesn’t mean it can’t happen of course. One thing that would tip the balance in our favour is group stage CL football but that is far from guaranteed. I suppose we can point to the fact we’ve qualified for the group stage 10(?) times but 4 qualifying rounds increases the chances of slipping up. And the cutting short of summer holidays to fly to far flung Eastern Europe or Linfield for qualifiers is hardly a selling point.
HH
Transfer Style Guide updated 2019
(33) Rainjurz in talks with players shall be referenced as ‘secret talks’, but ALL of these transfers will be so secret, that the transfer fee will be described as £4.25 million per MINIMUM regardless of the nature of secrecy. After the secret talks are widely unsecret via copy etc, and Gers have swooped, said previously unheard of international star, who has jetted into Bearsden, the unknown fee will suddenly become ’UNDISCLOSED’ ( move right along Timmy )
Note: Should Chinese clubs be interested in having secret talks with any Gers stars the secret fee will start at £11M (minimum) and a top journalist will always be required to say, they’ve seen the secret talks email
Not just luring them away from the Championship,getting them to move to the SPFL,is a big problem,IMHO.
No big upheaval moving from His present club to Stoke.No ties to Celtic,so what does he care.Just a well paid job for these guys.
I mentioned a few days back, about talent pool throughout Europe.
Czech Republic : Slavia Prague, Sparta Prague, Viktoria Plzen
Croatia : Dynamo Zagreb, Rjeka
Austria : Salzburg, LASK, Austria Vienna
Poland : Legia Warsaw, Gdansk
Switzerland : Young Boys, Basel, Lugano
Serbia : Crvena (Red Star) , Radnicki Nis
Belgium : Genk, Club Brugge, Standard Leige
Romania : CFR Cluj, Steua Bucharest
Are we scouting these leagues. Are we scouting the top teams within these leagues.
Because there will be talent there. Not just talent, but affordable talent.
Bypass the English market. There will be a right back operating at one of the teams above, who will be superior to Tommy Smith , and potentially purchased for much less than £4 million, and £28k per week
Concerned that Tommy Smith signed for Stoke, no. Concerned that we went for him in the first place, yes.
For many footballers, especially the younger ones. Playing football in Scoddland now wont be on the radar. Clearly they want to be as near to the money bags as possible………..
If it wasn’t for Celtic the game here would be totally humped.
When the Stevie G caravan has been, nicked / set-on fire / moved on…………………..the dugs wull still be barkin’.
Given the environment we have to operate in, I’ve no idea how we survive.
HH
The name Tommy Smith sounded like a Britian First activist.
It’s a no from me.
Not Uruguayan enough.
Ruggyman
I agree regarding scouting. To be looking in the English market is crazy.
RUGGYGMAN on 16TH JULY 2019 10:38 AM
Club Brugge have a RB called Dion Cools (€2.5m) who looks like their backup to Clinton Mata (€4.5M)
They also have a DM called Marvelous Nakamba (€6.5m).
I’m sure Celtic know all this.
If we signed all of the above we’d probably be chuffed. Far from easy though.
[Valuations per Transfermrkt.com]
HH
RUGGYMAN,,
Still a minefield dealing in these countries.Sevco signed a few players from there,who looked good against them.Barisic,Grezda,Katic.All 3 have flopped,especially the first two,in Scotland.All have International experience to a degree.I know what you mean,but I think the best of the players these countries produce,are hoovered up by bigger European neighbours.
Turkeybhoy
Agreed – as compensation, we can offer a decent signing-on fee – but any positive discrepancy in our favour probably works better for projects rather than established players who have other options. It is very difficult.
There is a right back who is available around £6m. He has Bundesliga experience, and has been Capped by Germany at Under 17 level through to Under 21. He is only 24 years old, so is at the peak of his powers.
Jeremy Toljan embdy?
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I see at Queen of the South they are complaining about the shite on the seats…haven’t heard anyone complain about the shite on the seats at ibrox…
For the folks at QoS….https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOJeMv1zNDY
Jim White? Had his tongue so far up King’s arse, it was only surpassed the time he interviewed Sourness before he became manager. A zombie snake given a platform to talk utter shite about his team.
Sorry to say I’m thinking KT will go (assuming fit). We must spend a fair chunk of the transfer fee, if it happens.