Christopher Jullien was 26 years old when Celtic paid Toulouse €8m for him four years ago. We paid PSG even more a year earlier for Odsonne Edouard, then 20. It is France, not England or Japan, that Celtic feel confident enough to spend their highest transfer fees.
Compared to England, Germany, Italy and Spain, Celtic possibly see better value in France. €8m would get you little more than a huge gamble in some of these markets. The possibility of returning to France for a player valued in the same bracket as Christopher and Odsonne, who matches our age and development opportunity profile, makes a lot more sense than picking up players on Kieran Tierney’s wages.
The English FA responded to a mistake in the Manchester United – Wolves game by their Video Assistant Referees last night by the Head of Refereeing apologising to the Wolves manager and suspending both VARs. They acted in a similar fashion last year.
Mistakes happen, referees and VARs are fallible, it is unnecessary to pretend otherwise. The SFA would walk VAR technology off a cliff rather than hold their hands up to a mistake made in review.
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GENE on 15TH AUGUST 2023 3:48 PM
Logic says you are correct but I STILL have this wee feeling :-))
TOM MCLAUGHLIN on 15TH AUGUST 2023 4:04 PM
Stranger things and all that.
Oh, bugger it…..5-0 Servette :-))
SCULLYBHOY on 15TH AUGUST 2023 2:15 PM
Big Jimmy on 15th August 2023 2:12 pm
SCULLYBHOY on 15TH AUGUST 2023 2:07 PM
Maybe there was a Bar in there….with BRRB propping it up ?
LOL
HH
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😅 😂 🤣
I hope you are well.
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Cheers mate, I am reasonably okay but Ive got some hospital checks starting this week.
Ive been AFF the Drink for a wee while, but I hope to resume the Beers very soon ?
HH Mate.
GARYGILLESPIESHAMSTRING
I know McStay played many a great pass, but I take it the pluralisation of my moniker is deliberate, given the context!!
FWIW
Sevco were 1/6 yesterday to go through; today they are 2/9.
This NON Drinking Caper is BAD for ones health
HH
Anyway, it`s a cheerio from me.
Cheerio.
I haven’t had a drink since 30th June when I met BRRB, BRIAN M, THE LURKIN TIM and CARPE DIEM in Edinburgh.
See what they did to me?
Rangers 11/10 with Paddy Power.
TOM MCLAUGHLIN
Don’t beat yourself up, you’ve done well to remember anything about it!
There’s nothing in the US constitution debarring a prisoner from running for President. However, if he’s in prison for insurrection, electoral fraud and threatening election officials, he won’t be allowed to run. Not a chance.
PAULSTHROUGHBALL88
TOM MCLAUGHLIN
Don’t beat yourself up, you’ve done well to remember anything about it!
Remember anything about what?
TOM MCLAUGHLIN
The wee session you referred to in Edinburgh.
Oh, wait. . . . See it now, Doh!
PAULSTHROUGHBALL88
🤣👍
As kick off approaches is anyone having a moral dilemma over hoping Sevco go out given that the Swiss are breathing down the neck of Scotland in UEFA coefficient stakes?
Nope, me neither!😂
Mind you, if they manage to make it through it does make it a bit more palatable – as long as PSV aren’t as charitable as they were at this stage last season!
Tom McLaughlin
I am assuming the 11/10 relates to a win in regulation time tonight whereas the 2/9 is about going through ?
£7m at stake in one game tonight.
£5m re qualifying for next stage guaranteed.
£2m revenue from the PSV tie gate receipts.
A huge kick in the knackers psychologically though if they lose.
The upside if they win is a trip to Ross Co and a home game with us either side of going to Eindhoven to get gubbed. This could see them a fair bit behind us domestically if their eye comes off the ball playing for CL qualification.
Cantwell is a red card candidate tonight imo.
ESP if they don’t start too well
Not many of their guys have had much success in Europe. Even in their great Europa run they did nothing away from home.
Tonight might be interesting but the bookies seem to see it differently.
Good evening all from the Pig and Whistle. Monsoons in the Gorbals. How I suffer for my art.
BURNLEY78 on 15TH AUGUST 2023 4:57 PM
“£7m at stake in one game tonight.
£5m re qualifying for next stage guaranteed.
£2m revenue from the PSV tie gate receipts.
A huge kick in the knackers psychologically though if they lose.”
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A bird in the hand, and all that. . .
I think the Swiss team can score, as long as they don’t make emmentalery mistakes at the back, they just might do it.
BIGRAILROADBLUES on 15TH AUGUST 2023 5:06 PM
“Good evening all from the Pig and Whistle. Monsoons in the Gorbals. How I suffer for my art.”
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Not as much as Tom McLaughlin suffers for it, apparently!
Then he made me suffer with a ‘whoosh’ moment!
TOM MCLAUGHLIN on 15TH AUGUST 2023 4:32 PM
Who would stop him from running?
They could convict Trump on war crimes but if they did then they’d have to lock up Bush, Obama, Clinton, Bush Jr etc etc as well…
While I may have one eye on the coefficient, I remain narrow minded and petty.
I want any version of the huns to lose every game.
That said, they have an oddly effective European style. Long balls and buying cheap fouls around the box. Wouldn’t be surprised to see this particular turd float this evening
Astonishing decision to overturn the ban on Owen Farrell.
If ever a guy was bang to rights with previous record of similar offenses it is this guy.
Unbelievable and totally unfathomable that the governing body have overturned his red card.
He is shit anyway but quite honestly the pro English bias in rugby both media and governance is even greater than that for the Govan mob in football.
The draw with the top 5 teams in the world in one half and only 2 semi final places to knock each other out for vs the other half which literally gives England a bye into the semi finals is a complete farce.
As if this isn’t enough today’s decision makes a complete mockery of attempts to make the game more safe…….all to benefit the aptly named RFU (not the ERFU) the RFU which a bit like the FA doesn’t get an E prefix for engerland.
Anomaly to the Rainjurz
PTB
😂
Wish I could say yes but I have to be honest and own up to a typo.
I have always been a big fan of Roger Federer, Ursula Andreas, Paracelsus, Le Corbusier, Martina Hingis, Carl Jung, HR Giger, Hermann Hesse, Jean Piaget, Daniel Bernoulli, Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, Paul Klee and Jean-Paul Marat.
I would probably be a fan of DJ Bobo too if I was familiar with his works.
So- it stands to reason I’m a Serviette supporter.
SFTB
Ramon Vega
Toblerone is my favourite chocolate so it’s Servette for me
I like curtain wearing weans outsmarting Nazi postmen and escaping to high peaked freedom.
There’s only one team for me tonight.
Stephane Henchoz.
I get all my deliveries from Yodel, so Servette it is. . .
Sevco will have a mountain to climb
Expect an avalanche of goals.
I’m banking on a 3-0 Servette.
HH
My focus tonight will be on Vale at Blackpool – no Millon’s at stake just 3 points – would take a draw