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In the immediate aftermath of defeat in Turin our manager was magnanimous towards his opponents, the television broadcaster and his players. Sky TV were thanked for their treatment of Celtic (note to others), Juventus were encouraged to win the Champions League, and Neil acknowledged some players may want to further their careers beyond Scotland.
Let’s be clear, most of the squad are happy at Celtic. Georgios Samaras could go anywhere in Europe but this Celtic team is his project, as much as it is yours or mine. Many of the others, including Matthews, Wilson, Lustig, Forster, Mulgrew, Commons, Ledley, Forrest and Izaguirre are settled at Celtic with plenty still to achieve.
Hooper and Wanyama have declined contract offers, so will be most likely to leave in the summer, but in the business Celtic are in right now, if they go, who they go to, is important. If we lose players to tier-one clubs it will make attracting others a whole lot easier. If you are a stepping stone to Barcelona, as with Larsson, you are a far more attractive employer than if you lose a striker to Norwich City (I’m friendly with a former Nigerian international who went on trial to Hamilton Accies the week after, and on the strength of, Brian Easton leaving there for the English Premier League).
Selling right makes it easier to buy who you want. Got to get the right price, keep them for the Champions League qualifiers, and make sure you sell to the right club.
See you at 7.30pm tonight at the Supporters’ Association Club on London Road for the Twists & Turns Celtic Supporters Club charity night. There will be Question and Answer session with me, John Fallon, Dixie Deans, Archie MacPherson, compared by Phil Agnew. Afterwards you can enjoy music from Foggy Dew.
Tickets are £10 and you can get them from Phil by calling 07811 178764. Profits are going to the Tommy Burns charity.
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Jesus I hate name calling but what an annoying little turd you are KevJ.
Bada bing
I was at Callas 18 yrs ago …I’m sure a lot has changed it
Given the same game time and opportunities as Hooper, Anthony Stokes will score more goals. Tony Watt will also score more as he gets more chances. When Hooper leaves I’d be more inclined to look for a creative attacking midfielder than another striker, providing we’ve still got Stokes and Watt.
PFayr ——previous thread .
Remember watching a TV documentary marking their move to the new stadium .
Players spend @ 30 hrs a week at the training complex —— training /gym / ball work / yoga /chi kung /tai chi/ jazzercize. / Alexander technique/ pilates..etc.
Studying / preparing re future opposItion .
A research Dept that accumulates relevant information..
Yes -they do research Referees…
They changed their style at Celtic Park. —-they defended much deeper than normal.. Early gifted goal changed everything.
Current mantra is -the priority is Serie A —–we are not one of the favorites for the CL but we’ll give it a go . Heard Conte and Buffon on the radio yesterday —- wee bit of banter re whether they were 5th or 6th favorites
Petition signed
Hail x 2
Mort. Hooper being in top 4 SPL goalscorers would be nice :)))))
Mort, I think we need to segment goalscoring with regards to the competition. League goals and Euro goals are the key for me. Scoring 5 against Hearts doesn’t equate to 1 v Juve eg.
……and another grenade lobbed in by Kev J.
Interesting statistics Mort, it shows how effective Hoops is if he has only been outshot by those players. Would Kenny Miller have bagged that opening goal against the Russkies at CP?…I seriously doubt it.
GARY HOOPER, bit of a Celtic legend.
PFayr-Ta,booked to go June/July.
Matri was on the left wing, outside Adam, when Hooper was dispossessed on Wednesday.
When his strike partner, Q, shaped to shoot, Matri had left Adam, looped around Q and was on hand in the 6 yard box to tap in FF’s parry.
That’s a striker.
Would Hoops have shown so much?
Gary is average, decent enough for SPL, very good at times, when he is up for it. I would much rather have him rather than others, but a major signing target, I doubt it.
EC67
Rimtimtim
Miller would probably have scored the one Hooper missed against Juve
Hooper is a good player …not a great player and should be signing another contract with us to allow him to develop further …
When all is said and done, Hooper came up here to further his career, and earn a few quid while he’s at it. We bought a player who we knew would score goals, and hopefully increase his sell-on value.
Seems to me that everyone’s a winner
If you do go Gary, thanks for your efforts and good luck!
HH
Kayal 33-the guy David Ngoo on loan to Hearts from Liverpool looks like a different striker option,a report linked us with him on Monday.I agree that a “No 10” is top priority.
From previous…
….PFayr 12:04 on 8 March, 2013
“If Ogilvie and Bryson remain in situ what is the point of Scottish football.?
“Confirmed cheating and partiality in favour of RFC …totally unacceptable”
I agree. But Celtic alone can’t take on the SFA under the circumstances.
And there is no point at all in resigning from the league until we have somewhere to go. That move would finish our club rather than Scottish football.
THE EXILED TIM 12:13 on 8 March, 2013
The club has issued a statement and Neil Lennon has commented publically on the matter. So Celtic have not been entirely silent.
Unfortunately we are limited to what we can do alone – this whole thing has been handled in a way that ensures that, but hopefully discreet moves involving Celtic and other clubs are on the agenda.
Mort
You missed out Joe McBride who is second on the list after Jimmy McGrory, with a ratio of 92%.
HH!!
!!Bada Bing!!
13:02 on
8 March, 2013
I fear that since we tried to get Kevin Doyle on loan in January, and he is a Bosman in the summer, then we will see him at CP next season.
Apologies for repeating this response to Parkheadcumsalford’s post which is of little interest to anybody else.
Paul67 caught me out.
Just scroll by….
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Parkheadcumsalford
11:44 on 8 March, 2013
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You are right to say that NONE of the 1000 ‘walks’ in Scotland is a CATHOLIC walk.
Not ONE, as far as I know.
You did though remind me of my childhood in the 1940′s when Fr.Michael Ward (later of St Mary’s in the Calton) was the PP at OHR in Clydebank & every year organised a huge procession from Dalmuir Park along the main road to the ‘chapel’, a distance of about 1.5 miles. The entire parish turned out. Led by pipe bands, every school in the area & every Catholic organization & every parishoner took part in what was an eagerly awaited event each summer. There was of course no trouble & it was respectfully policed by the local ‘plod’, at the front & back of the possibly thousands of walkers.
I can not remember any opposition being voiced to the event.
Fr.Ward also raised money throughout the year & took every school-child on a FREE trip to Saltcoats each Summer, which would be the ONLY trip of any description that most youngsters would ever experience in those harsh days.
Great memories.
Rest in Peace, Fr. Michael Ward.
SoT
They’re being coy re the CL
It’s working ..nobody is talking about them
Never mind selling players correctly and being trickier than it looks, the trickiest thing next season will be making up the blurb that’s going to get season tickets shifted. Me for one will be pursuing the club to offer half season tickets running from August until December as like this season the league will be over more or less by Christmas. As for cup games from january onwards I will buy these on an individual basis
Ps Now hearing 600 failed to gain entry to the stadium on Wednesday night and circa 15:30 hours at Glasgow airport yesterday a great deal of shrugging of shoulders from club officials
Off oot …as they say !!!!
SydneyTim
12:43 on
8 March, 2013
A wonderfull season by the the club, but Unfortunately we have 3 qualifying rounds due to corporate mismanagement by our CEO over the 3 years before
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Sydney Tim, our co-efficient and subsequently the amount of qualifiers we need to go through are not solely down to how we (Celtic) have performed. Granted ,Celtics results in Europe in recent seasons have been poor, but by far the greater effect is the consistent lack of any sort of progress at all by every other Scottish club who plays in Europe each season.
Whatever co-efficient points are earned by all teams are divided by the amount of participants from that country, so effectively Celtic would be better off if they themselves were the only Scottish representatives in European competition. Clearly this is not going to happen, therefore other teams who qualify need to pull their weight, or at least get past part-timers from Iceland / Faroes and the like!
I think we also need to appreciate the prudent plan that PL and NL are undertaking with regard to ‘the way forward’ and this is beginning to bear fruit now.
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Thanks. Got info quickly from Wiki and they didn’t have him on their list of Celtic players.
Mort
Kayal 33- I think Doyle is on big money and would get similar from a Championship /mid EPL club.HH.
Hooper –
For what it’s worth —-
I had a 90 euro middle classes ticket on Wednesday ..
My immediate neighbors were an elderly him and her[ fur coat / fur hat ] pair with a flask of hot chocolate and a wee supply of vanilla wafers. .
When Samaras teed up Hooper and Hooper didn’t get there —– Mr turned to Mrs and said ——“-troppo grasso troppo lento” [ too fat too slow]
Ehhhhhhhhhhh regards Gary Hooper where is all the talk from a couple of months back where some were almost demanding he should be first choice for England.
Hooper – probably leaving
Stokes – to be decided
Watt – disappeared
Mike – return to sender
Lassad – next season’s Bangura (loaned out till contract runs out)
could be a busy summer recruitment of striker, or Sammi is going to be knackered
ntassoolla
11:30 on8 March, 2013
Clinko is one of the names of a multiple poster on here.
……….
Let me assure you Mr Anagram
that I only post under the one name or derivitives of that name.
I dont go in for this subterfuge malarky or need an alter ego to give me a boost.
In fact very few respond to my ramblings and I am quite happy about that.
The only other poster I seem to have irked is The Swinging Dick.
So your in good company.
By the way. Why an anagram of an already anonymous blog name.
Does it offer you an extra level of anonymity.
Are you JOKO
Afternoon all
Petition signed.
Agree that Hooper has disappointed of late – as the goals have dried up his general play has declined markedly. I think he’s an excellent striker and along with Sammi is just about the only player we gave have who can pass the ball well in the final third consistently.
Suspect his best days with us are behind him though – shame but if you gave me the choice of him or big Vic to stay I’d take the big man
Jimbo
I
Steinreignedsupreme
Whatever way it’s dressed up, what the sfa were involved in was corperate fraud, theft from other parties allowing one club to benefit.
With the information that is in the public domain, they could be sued easily, all it would take is a few shareholders to do it, with the clubs silent backing, the club could take a back seat.
Gary did however cost us 2 goals in Turin; one for and one against. Against opposition like that, ye cannae dally and need to take the chances that come your way. Not sure clubs above the station of Norwich will be interested in him but let’s see what happens.
HH
Gerry
Belated condolences on the death of Higo Chavez, a Lion in a world of Jackals.
Rest in Peace.
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Congratulations to Francie Molloy & the voters of Mid Ulster.
Resounding win.
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Good Luck to Big Elvis at Coventry.
I’m beginning to think that some people on this blog lead utterly perfect lives with the exception of how Celtic impacts upon them.
I reckon they would be much happier therefore if they cut Celtic from those otherwise perfect lives.
Eveyone’s a winner with this one…..
Forster has been blabbing about moving to the best, greatest, most awesome, superbest, fantastic league in the world.
And Spurs are on about Forrest replacing Bale.
Spurs aren’t even a big club in London and how they beat Inter last night is way beyond my comprehension.
I seen SAF banned 2 papers today from his Press Conference over the Rooney situation,that’s the way to go.They are banned until they apologise.
SFA and corruption, its everywhere
Ex-police officer admits selling John Terry information to Sun
Whatever Gary Hooper decides to do good luck to him, he’ll leave me with an abiding memory of cushioning the ball past Davie Weir and sticking it past McGregor. Magic moments in the Hoops.