Can you imagine offering £5m for the first-choice striker at any team on the Champions League knock out rounds? I’m less concerned about the forthcoming Juventus game, which will take care of itself, but Celtic hope to have three Champions League qualifier rounds in July and August. Many highly sought-after players don’t move until late in the transfer window, so the squad we finish the season with will, for the most part, be the squad we start that qualifiers with.
Asset management has been the mantra on CQN for years but when the value of the asset doesn’t peak above even the short-term value on the field we are better to allow a contract to expire than sell early. In short, I don’t fancy Norwich’s chances of acquiring some under-priced talent, no matter how keen others are to make a deal happen.
Russian sports minister, Vitaly Mutko, told journalists he was working on the CIS League project, which initially sought to combine Russian and Ukrainian leagues, but may also include others. Uefa are thought to be supportive of the deal while Fifa president, Sepp Blatter, sought to under-play it when in Russia this week. The regionalisation of European leagues is the way forward for clubs disenfranchised by powerful TV markets.
Mutko, a former Zenit director, is one of Russia’s ‘colourful’ characters, but he is organised, ambitious and well-connected at Uefa.
Kilmarnock have long endured life with the highest debt-to-turnover ratio in the SPL but they have managed to pay their bills when due, until now. News that a food supplier has taken legal action over a £16k debt is not surprising. These are hard times for many people but when you have not, or cannot, pay a debt, at least be gracious about it. Suggesting your creditor is seeking publicity by raising the action is very poor form.
Ironically, if there is one club in the whole of Europe who would benefit from regionalisation it’s Kilmarnock, who are stuck in an impoverished league with their remarkable infrastructure. If only they had some vision at the top….
Looking forward to the visit of United tonight; the two most skillful teams in Scotland on show.
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Big g
Martin Hayes
LiviBhoy
mixed the two of them up, cheers :) although both could be included in a worst 11
SFTB
Chicken George?
Tommy Johnson, – and his league winning clincher
big pierre……….would love to have saw him and larsson in the same team…..passed each other in the taxi rank ………..
Newcastle cannae score goals…..signing another defender …wonder if Collocini is for the off
BIG G
Tony Shephard was never ever a forward unless it was U9’s
Fernando D’Ornaleas played what ? 1 game as a trialist and scored I think.
Other than that mostly agree.
Neil Lennon @OfficialNeil
Another tough game tonight…pitch is in good condition and we are all looking forward to it
Neil Lennon @OfficialNeil
Am also looking forward to the press conf afterwards …ahem
Neil speaks to journalist wife who keeps phoning at his press conference. Funny.
http://www.101greatgoals.com/blog/lolz-neil-lennon-answers-a-journalists-phone-twice-in-a-presser-speaks-with-his-distressed-wife/
Gerard Pique’s baby will be registered as Barcelona club member, as soon as the baby is born.
At least the fee is a bit more realistic to his valuation in this. Source – Mirror
Tottenham are reportedly sizing up a £10million punt on Celtic contract rebel Gary Hooper – who they rejected as a schoolboy.
The prolific Bhoys striker is looking for more money from Celtic, not getting the right answer, and Spurs have joined the pack of Premier League clubs sniffing around, according to a report in the Metro newspaper.
Hooper is already being pursued by Norwich – who saw a £5million bid rebuffed at the weekend – and the likes of Liverpool and QPR have been mentioned.
The Metro report claims sources in Scotland say that Andre Villas-Boas has sent scouts to run the rule over the 24-year-old ace and had some encouraging reports back.
Celtic are likely to be looking for something in the region of £10million, with Metro reporting that Hooper’s former club Scunthorpe negotiated a lumpy sell-on clause when the player went north of the border.
A return to White Hart Lane could be top of Hooper’s favoured outcomes – he was snubbed by the North London side as a schoolboy, according to reports.
In 2010 – after he had joined Celtic from Scunthorpe – Hooper reportedly told the Scottish Sun newspaper: “I was released by Spurs when I was 14, I had been with them for seven years. I went on a 20-minute trial – just 20 minutes of one game and they said no.
“How they can judge you on 20 minutes I’ll never know.
“The rejection from Tottenham has motivated me a lot. I want to prove to them I can play at the highest level.
“The disappointment of being released by Spurs has never left me – and ever since I’ve been trying my hardest to show what I can do. Spurs didn’t believe in me and I think I’ve proved them wrong by joining Celtic.”
My Top 10 that I have seen
Lennox
Larsson
Kenny
McBride
Chalmers
McClair
Cadete
Judas
Dixie
Pierre
jc2
D’Ornaleas played twice for us, never scored. Agree on Shephard, wasnt a striker.
Speaking of trialists, did we not have Guardiola at Barrowfield when MON was manager?
I wondered where he got his football education!
LB
SFTB
Whit nae Atholl Henderson –????
JJ-It’s not Client Code -6 figures,it’s Client Ref -5 figures.
Tony cas? Good goal against oldco.
Kayal33 14:20 on 22 January, 2013
“Tottenham are reportedly sizing up a £10million punt on Celtic contract rebel”
Ruprecht Graham – Contract rebel? Why aren’t the mhedia investigating these links between Celtic and the IRA?
Tony Shepherd was sent off in the 1986 Scottish League Cup Final when the referee David Syme assumed he had been struck by Shepherd from behind. When the referee accepted that he had been hit by a coin and not by Shepherd, he allowed Shepherd to remain on the field.
*During the same match Rangers were awarded a penalty, when Roy Aitken said boo to Terry Butcher during an aerial joust.*
top team from my time watching the hoops
holy goalie
mjallby
rieper
stubbs
di,canio
lennon
lambert
petrov
lubo
pierre
larsson
subs
foster
mcnamara
mahe
big vic
sutton
few i was pained to leave out…thom…cadette……agathe…(great full back)…never really saw mcstay and collins live…and burley is an arxx
Tony cas for tommy Boyd, it’s up there as 1 of best transfers
bournesouprecipe
That 1986 final was my first Glasgow derby cup final.
Some goal by McClair that day.
LB
Kayal33
14:20 on 22 January, 2013
I think the words Metro and newspaper are the giveaway on that one
Just done Celtic questionaire thingy.
It has the “options” box as to what will influence you in buying
a season ticket next season.
My chance to confirm any fast tracking of our neighbourhood Zombies would not be appreciated by this season ticket holder of
approx 25 years.
joe_joe_john_bobby_teddy
I was at Broomfield the day Cascarino scored a hat trick.
Got him in the sweep. Ran another sweep on the bus and got Celtic 9 again. Big man ran riot that day and scored 3 and could have had another 3. He had finally clicked.
He ran off the pitch after a ball and clattered a police women who had to be carried round the track. She never worked again and big Cascarino went back to being poor.
The big man had no luck at Paradise.
I won £40 on the bus sweeps that day. My season ticket cost around £50 for the season in those days! I was a millionaire!
LB
Anyone heard how Istanbul Celt is?
Was he not involved in the Algerian tragedy?
Hope he is ok.
Ah – the ole 1986 Skol Cup final – I’m sure that was the day we were cruising to victory (an extremely comfortable 1-0 lead) when Big Billy took off Paul McStay, resulting in three tactical changes, and … the rest is history.
LiviBhoy – In a fit of rage, I smashed my National Health specs to bits right after Judas got sent off! Or maybe it was when Butcher dived for the winning penalty….the mind plays tricks.
Either way, that game was the start of their MIB-assisted dominance of Scottish football.
27 years later, Judas is an ex-Rankers player who’s hated by both sides and that mob are deid. Funny how things turn out!
T4
SRS – Davie Hay was manager! Aye, the mind certainly plays tricks…! :-)
T4
tommytwiststommyturns
I was only 8 and don’t remember much about the match except the McClair goal and the winner. I think it was in extra time.
The weather was awful and I got lifted over the turnstile. Hampden was a place that could look beautiful in the sun but god damn awful in the wet weather.
LB
Philbhoy- he just posted at 14.30
what about awnawnoanonniooananawnoo – where is he these days? At one time THEE most prolific poster on here – Paul threatened to ban him once – maybe he has. awnaw – if your out there lest us know your OK.
tommytwiststommyturns 14:40 on 22 January, 2013
“SRS – Davie Hay was manager! Aye, the mind certainly plays tricks…! :-)”
Details…
Must have been another League Cup final – was there a game when Paul Elliott scored the first goal? Big Billy was definitely the manager – I can still hear my auld man swearing about it right now.
Survey completed.
Told them
– food prices extortionate
– food quality questionable
– Stewards should be reporting unacceptable behaviour to the police (tommytwistommyturns sits in the same block as me in the North Stand and will know who I’m talking about)
– any help given to The Rangers to ascend to the top tier will see me cancel my SB immediately
– already peed off that The Rangers were allowed into SFL without meeting criteria of 3 Years audited accounts ahead of other teams who qualify
– price of SB is getting close to my limit. Especially with two boys over 18 as of next season.
Steinreignedsupreme
Big Elliot scored and I think Gough got the winner that day. Billy was manager and I think Judas played for them. My old man had a fiver on Elliot at 50/1 first goal.
LB
Completed survey.
In the final section, what would make you more likely to renew your season ticket next season, I told them
no fast tracking for any team or I won’t renew
no stupid reconstruction of 12-12-18
include domestic cup ties on season ticket
review of season ticket pricing
stop police harassment of celtic supporters
The first time (and possibly the only time?) I’ve ever seen a substitute substituted for performance related reasons, was when Billy McNeil put on, then took off wee Joe Miller at Hampden.
RagingKingBilly CSC
bsr@14:29
I still remember the ’86 LC Final well.
Wee Judas got a red card and blessed himself walking off the park. Syme got hit by coins due to his MIB goldstar performance. Huns got a penalty for Butcher dragging Aitken to the deck.
After the game Davie Hay said it was about time Celtic moved to another league due to the referee bias against us.
How times change eh? ;)