News that the sun is setting on Amido Balde’s Celtic career will be welcomed far and wide. His arrival on the back of a few YouTube clips and what now appears to have been a Portuguese marketing scam is a salutary lesson on how easy it is to expire transfer and wage budget, while incurring the even greater cost of poor recruits – Champions League failure.
We will never get them all right, but the processes Celtic went through to recruit a striker in the summers of 2012 (Lassad, Miku), 2013 (Balde, Pukki) and 2014 (Guidetti, Scepovic) are worth some urgent revision. None were able to hold down a regular place in the team.
In mitigation, it’s easier to recruit a keeper or a defender (which we’ve done very well at recently) than a striker, but there will be lessons to learn from those six signings. Quickly, I hope.
On the positive side, all of the aforementioned arrived with a degree of realism attached. I noticed this morning: “Wabara really is in the mould of Barcelona great Dani Alves”. This isn’t fun anymore. Honest football fans (many are) are being treated like simpletons.
It’s like that Steve Carell movie, Dinner for Schmucks, where Paul Rudd doesn’t have the stomach to laugh at absurdly unfortunate guests. Better they are put out of their misery than dragged through an ignominious humiliation before inevitably emptying their pockets at the alter of a Sports Direct retail contract.
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Doc,
time will tell. Will he be using the same scouting and network that brought in the FLOPS ?
A few of his signings are on the FLOP list already or are the numpties going to start raving about Berget ?
HH
On Thomas Gravessen.
A big let down.
Rumour was Madrid bought the wrong midfielder. They thought they were buying Carsley, who resembled the bold Thomas a bit.
Mind u he did score 2 goals against the manly mob so he wasn’t all bad!!
HH
Was Big Pete CEO when Du Whei was signed?
Awe- naw,
Is this the internet’s version of the ” not the view’ s :- who embarrassed the hoops”
HH.
Ps : I hope and trust that all the players on your list were cheered to the hilt and were never subjected to any criticism from the stands.
Here’s a list…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0V3SqxUomwk
Ha ha you’re a sad man
My heart goes out to Thomas Gravesen.
Now battling a gambling addiction.
What next?!
HH!!
Awe Naw,
Hedman, The polish keeper that just left, the spanish keeper that left and did well elsewhere…
Zico-Maltese
Take…….swivel…..whack…….stanchion……goal Celtic
jmccormick
20:31 on
29 June, 2015
Water off a ducks arse after how you initially engaged with me today.
Learn some manners and how to behave yourselfbefore going all prissy on me and failing to attempt to take teh moral high ground.
HH
Ok lads
I wil leave you to it.
HH
Awe_Naw, I hope not.
I can see reason to hope on that front.
Soem players are now better than they were.
No slight on Lenny from me, just a different approach reaping benefits, constant change is beneficial, a different perspective on the game, training etc.
I think/hope we will see this extend into our transfer activity.
Ronny seems more than just a coach. His ethos is starting to extent throughout the club, stories from the youth teams as an example, I’m too lazy to scroll back to find the post, but it was heartwarming to hear Ronny had spent time with the youths telling them they would get their chance if the worked hard and learnt.
You know I’m an optimist, and I may be wrong, time will tell.
The Israeli guy who thought he was going to manure
should see the size of my list
Thomas Gravessen where did it all go RIGHT………….
Berget impressed me for the first 15 minutes of his Celtic career btw.
Only for those 15 minutes.
In Ronny’s defence I think it was a desperation signing.
Any more additions to zee list?!
We ever had a player called Pike?
:-)
HH!!
I’vehadto, I still claim the biggest list on CQN, ever.
The FAC list. Huge it was.
MylistisbiggerthanyoursCSC:-)
Riordan
As we’re meandering down memory lane….. Who remembers Kharine?
Zico maltese bhoy.
As a young teenager, Joe Craig was one of my favourites and a lot of it had to do with that goal. A midweek game where I had to walk from Priesthill to Ibrox due to public transport issues. That was the game where Bobby Lennox had his leg broken. A penalty was awarded to Celtic then changed to offside. Some things never change.
awe_naw
My manners are fine, glad to see you are as thin skinned as your goldfish as well.
Enjoy the view..
Cliftonville celt
I don’t agree . Every one is entitled to an opinion. If macjay came on here singing ooh ah up the ra I doubt he would be told that his opinion was not relevant because he was a scotsman living in Australia.
He is entitled to his opinion, an opinion shared by the majority of irish people
Of course that doesn’t make right either
Tallybhoy
no pike but a few haddies
Bognorbhoy
And quite a few flounders.
HH!!
Bournesouprecipe.
Thanks for reply.
I can still see JC swivel and curl the ball into the top corner.
Obviously you were there,great night for me and my cousin and my wee Auntie Cathy who travelled with the Johnny Doyle bus from first of all McParlands pub then MacIntosh’s and then McConnells.Does anyone on the blog remember my wee Auntie Cathy Graham.Celtic daft.HH
Maybe we should send awnaw’s list to the breadman at Ibrox for possible signings, then they would become world beaters in the eyes of the MSM and we would be sagged for letting them go.
Did Rami Gershon and Mubarak Wakaso make that list
Oh Doc, both came from John Parks list :-)
Paul67, can you tell us who picked Amido from the you tube videos and was taken in through the Portuges scam ? From what I heard NFL had agreed a deal with Johnny Russell only for someone else to bring in Amido as a better prospect or project ?
Someone should not be at Celtic park for that, in my opinion
Who will the striker be this window coming in though ? And who’s pick ?
Hail Hail
Incidentally there was a couple on that list who were not failures
Did Hoiveld not get sold for more than we signed him for ?
Paul67 et al
“….And they gave us Murphy, Miku, Ljungberg and Camara
They gave us Balde, Berget, Pukki and Bangura
And most of the football greats…………”
Then again maybe not…
Titus Bramble was bought by Newcastle for £6m. Nowadays he hasn’t played for 2 years and is only 33 years old.
No surrender to potpourri
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-33317604
Yes Cowiebhoy, the the list is very subjective, probably based on awnaw’s hatred Peter Lawell.
Almore at 20.23, I was speaking to a member of the Green Brigade I know, last week.
He is not one of those charged but feels the annoyance and upset those who were charged feel.
Some of the guys charged have had to take unpaid leave from their jobs to attend court The sheriff has adjourned the case fifteen times with the reasons for the adjournment not properly explained to those charged.
It’s a real waste of time and money.
Amazed at paui67 first true post for a while
Been saying the same thing for 4 years now
We have been told that PL controls everything within Celtic park
In any top business the CEO would be removed for wasting up to 10m on these projects
Park is a defo to go But lawwel should follow him
He wlll probably LLF for me saying this, and slag me off.
…Leave Awe Naw alone.
HH
Riordhan is not on Lawwells list as he made us half a million. There are quite a few goalkeepers who should be on it Possibly as many as six. Feel free to add to it. I will comment in a civilised manner if I disagree and try to explain my reasoning why.
HH
Doc,
I fear Ronny may be a yes man. We are about to find out.
HH
Cowiebhoy
21:03 on 29 June, 2015
Incidentally there was a couple on that list who were not failures
Did Hoiveld not get sold for more than we signed him for ?
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And Perrier-Doumbé cost nothing and won us a cup