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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HOT SMOKED on 15TH AUGUST 2023 4:11 PM
Anyway, it`s a cheerio from me.
TOM MCLAUGHLIN on 15TH AUGUST 2023 4:23 PM
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?
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I’ve been aff it since the first weekend in May. Think it was the Coronation weekend. We were out for dinner in Edinburgh with our pals.
Glad am off it tbh and doing me good. Lost about a stone and a half and felt a lot better without it. Been really tempted these past few days, but don’t think I’ll cave.
“De Bruyne scored 10 goals and provided 31 assists as City claimed the Champions League, Premier League and FA Cup last season”
Amazing stats.
Guy is a genuine MVP.
How does one replace 41 goal involvements?
Sevco would be a huge scALP for Servette tonight.
I reckon Newco are in for a torrid time tonight and will take a bit of a doing.
The Servette team will be a lot stronger and they comfortably held them at bay with 10men @ the hate factory.
BACK TO BASICS – GLASS HALF FULL on 15TH AUGUST 2023 6:14 PM
“De Bruyne scored 10 goals and provided 31 assists as City claimed the Champions League, Premier League and FA Cup last season”
Amazing stats.
Guy is a genuine MVP.
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One of my favourite players in the EPL and Man U is my English team too. 😳😂👍.
On last night’s showing, I’d love us to draw them in our CL group. Looked like they’d never played together before, like they were all still in pre-season mode and cannot defend against pacy counters. 😃👍
God help them when Liverpool, City, Arsenal, Spurs and Newcastle get a hold of them.
Some of the jokes on here have driven me to drink. 🍺
BACK TO BASICS – GLASS HALF FULL on 15TH AUGUST 2023 6:14 PM
“De Bruyne scored 10 goals and provided 31 assists as City claimed the Champions League, Premier League and FA Cup last season”
Amazing stats.
Guy is a genuine MVP.
How does one replace 41 goal involvements?
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With great difficulty. But if anyone can it’s the manager who won the EPL without a striker when Aguero missed most of the season.
Kevin de Murdoch, though. What a miss he will be. Foden has always wanted to play the position. Be careful what you wish for.
UNCLE JIMMY
I like curtain wearing weans outsmarting Nazi postmen and escaping to high peaked freedom.
There’s only one team for me tonight.
They were Austrians.
Tonight Matthew I’m going to be………..a Servette supporter
Tom
And it never happened
TOM MCLAUGHLIN
How do you know Uncle Jimmy isn’t supporting Sturm Graz??
Will Servette make a game of it tonight?
Don’t want to watch if they’re hopeless and make the huns look good.
I believe the Von Trapps emigrated to the States , don’t they own a bakery or vineyard ?
Anyway , 3-0 to the Swiss , Bealeball to get chased
Onlyafoolmakespredictionscfc
Podence from Wolves linked
Henrik’s bhoy scores for Copenhagen away at Sparta Prague after 18 seconds.
Watching on delay, so that’s not ‘live’ update.
TOM MCLAUGHLIN on 15TH AUGUST 2023 3:00 PM
BIG JIMMY One of my Favourite Comedy Actress’s was KIRSTIE ALLEY from CHEERS. Sadly, I read a couple of years ago that she is an AVID TRUMP Follower….I dont know if that is correct or not ?
No way of knowing if she’s still a TRUMP supporter. She died 9 months ago.
*she was a scientologist
Elyanoussi on young Jordan’s team anaw.
Just been told by Mrs EKBhoy that we have eaten Von Trapp Maple Syrup from Vermont !
Even though they’re not Swiss , it’s an omen 3-0 Servette.
Bettingsamugsgamecfc
TOM
Heard on the news last night if Trump is found guilty of racketeering charges he can’t escape jail……….don’t know if it’s true but have a feeling he will not do time.
Larsson Junior’s team still his goal to the good at the half.
The Dermot Desmond jet doesn’t shrink to fit inferior players.
And now only a worldie of a save prevents Junior making it two, 90 seconds into the second half.
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VAR will be properly implemented.
I also think the Geneva team will be raging about their player being blocked from playing (as they had so many players missing already).
They are not World beaters but I’m confident they will do Newco as I think they (Newco) have a fragile mentality.
I don’t think young Jordan winning tonight is a result which suits us.
TIMHORTON on 15TH AUGUST 2023 7:02 PM
TOM
Heard on the news last night if Trump is found guilty of racketeering charges he can’t escape jail……….don’t know if it’s true but have a feeling he will not do time.
*Mrs. TT’s the same but our 2 daughters with their political science degrees are convinced he will and then the US will revert back tae normal, only problem I see is thats a country founded on racism which has been silent on it for years but now that tangerine heid had unleashed the genie fae the bottle how do you get it back in again.
Oh and a wee bit of useless trivia here, the State of Georgia was founded by families evicted through the Highland Clearances so must be some good down there.
Got ma Serviette scarf , ma Alpenhorn and ma toblerone ready.
WilliamTell csc
BURNLEY78
Even as you speak…….
Danes lost best defender, and Sparta score.
VAR now, ref at screen, no goal, foul on former Celtic player Mo too.
We’ve wanted a CM for ages but the only thing we ever got was Soro
All the best in France 🇫🇷 Ismaila
SCULLYBHOY on 15TH AUGUST 2023 2:05 PM
Here’s David’s response….
I hate to say the Celtic Wiki is wrong because they are an absolute fund of knowledge, but I’m going to disagree with them here for two reasons, one of them being what The Scottish Referee says, and the other that there is not a game going to be played this day, otherwise there would be more people around and also there would be just the 11 players who were to play in the game. (The others would be away with the reserves or farmed out to a junior team).
It is definitely summer 1903 though because Sunny Jim is there having arrived from Bristol Rovers in May. I think it will be the pre-season squad photograph.
It is a brilliant photo – one of the best I have seen of the old pavilion and don’t you just love Maley’s panama hat?
David Potter
SCULLYBHOY on 15TH AUGUST 2023 2:07 PM
https://icdn.thecelticstar.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/GW680H505.jpeg
Mr Potter was on the top table at last years greenock celtic, he was most excellent in story telling allthough meandered a little bit. sorry for his passing,
NOW THAT PAVILION PICTURE.
it fascinates me, the shear stature and width of maley, look at the size of him 10 years after he last played.
i would build a replica and site almores cafe in it.
Mick Bassett said he ‘finks we’ll go frew….’
Laptop on. Picture fired up. Volume off.
Feck listening to Rangers TV coverage and talk of their world-class bluenose galacticos.
Mon Les Suisses.
HH
Gotta go, but if, as Burnley says, it’s better for Celtic if Prague win, it looks like a matter of time before they score. All over the Danes this half, 0-1, on aggregate still, 25 mins to go.
PETEC on 15TH AUGUST 2023 7:18 PM
They are not World beaters but I’m confident they will do Newco as I think they (Newco) have a fragile mentality.
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And, they are also pash!
Servette will put them out tonight.
They have a brilliant home record and managed to hold them to 2-1 despite owing 2 early goals and a player down for a fair chunk of the game.
The Huns will bottle it and will be reffed like any other team for a change.
Oh! And did I mention I won the Etims Caption Competition the other day. 😃👍
Here’s the link to the article:
https://etims.net/?p=18455
when i think back to the throat burning eye watering stench when cutting through the labrynth under the jungle, witnessing the boak inducing sight of people eating pies while pishing ……. look at this description of the original “grand (north) stand.
Description of Stand
The grand stand, which was on the north-east side of the field, was about 110 yards in length and 30 yards in breadth. It was constructed after the usual pattern of such erections, with terraced seats rising backwards from the cycling track to the outside of the ground to a height altogether of about 50 feet. It provided sitting accommodation of about 3500 spectators, and had a corrugated iron roof supported on steel struts and girders. The pavilion which stood a little to the North-west of the stand, was a comparatively small building. being only 40 feet by 30 feet and two storeys in height.
It included the rooms of the club, a billiard room, in which was a table which cost £75, retiring rooms for the players, bathrooms, and other apartments. In the pavilion was a large quantity of what in football parlance is described as “stock”, consisting of players clothing, hurdles and other athletic apparatus, and seats for the track, to the value of about £500. when erected 10 years ago the stand and pavilion cost about £6000. The erections, however, have from time to time been strengthened and improved to meet the requirements of the Dean of Guild court.
So recently as the International match. which was played on the 9th of last month. The stand was completely renovated, and having been officially inspected by the Master of Works the liners of the Courts declared it to be safe and sound in every respect