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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doubt ol’ boydychenko will last a year, never mind 3!!
leftclicktic
15:43
Marching from Easter to just before Christmas every year to proclaim what exactly?
Methinks they doth protest too much and they seem to have been suffering of late, poor wee mites. It’s almost as if all that rage and bluster is hiding, or taking the place of, a real sense of what they are
‘Mo Bangura was another flop.’
– only if you couldn’t be bothered to look past the bare dry bones of his goalscorin’ record to find the ole hidden magic.
By the time the Methadrome footfest is completed we could be ruin’ the day we parted company with the King of the Bounce game.
Proudbhoy/Bobby Murdoch
I didn’t see that post by Macjay either
However it depends on the context
Irish Republican Paramilitaries carried out some pretty awful atrocities during the troubles
Nobodys hand are clean
Will it be Jelle and ice cream tonight???
Greeninbingley
Feyenoord took Henke to court to get him to honour his contract. No way did they want to off load him.
His record for Feyenoord is actually very decent for a winger wide mifield player which is what he was at the time and at the start of his Celtic career. Henrik was not a striker when he signed. It took him a few seasons to look the part as an out and out striker. He did have pedigree playing for Sweden in WC USA.
If you take a prolific goal scorer from most levels and put him in a Celtic side he should easily get 20+ a season. I would fancy getting that myself!
Far too much is made of the striker role. Skippy banged in plenty and at 31 he is back at Motherwell. He was never a world beater. Hopefully we can sign a special striker and really see them in action but historically our best strikers have been out of form (Cadete, Sutton, etc) when signed or developed into top class strikers at Paradise (Pierre, Henrik, etc.
LB
Dexter
You ever tried to buy jelly in Turkiye?
We just melt a dod of Turkish delight and slap it on the ice cream :)))
Well done Greece on using Democracy(via a referendum) to determine whether renegotiation/repayment is made to these feral capatilists.The same structural adjustment policies are being put forward by I.M.F that have ravaged Africa for decades,as medicine to Greece’s problems,this being suggested whilst at the same time no limitations those whose speculation and insider knowledge caused the crisis.
It is catastrophic to think that the Greeks who gave us the philosophical basis for Economics are being subjected to this anti democratic and anti people strain of feral capatilism.Let Democracy control Capatilism not the other way about.
HH
Callum Wilson should’ve been the striker for us,but as per usual regarding signing goalscorer our head of scouting was found wanting again.
Fanad
Didn’t know who CW was …had to google him
Looks a good prospect ..
Why do you say he should be with us ?
Wits
Unlucky with horses this afternoon ..two seconds and a winner …I put a Yankee on ..typical
I’m with proudbhoy, macjay invited, corkcelt stays at home. There were many many Celtic Supporters in the IRA we have 5 or 6 present day CQN’ers included. He has universally branded them all as “Murdering Ba*tards”, do I want to meet & greet him just coz he says he supports Celtic.Let me think about that, Ah Naw I’ll think I’ll give it a miss.
Saltires in Sevilla/Skyisalandfill
heh ya couple of auld ‘progsters’,thanks for the playback of ‘yours is no disgrace’ by Yes this morning,That was my first ever song heard in full stereo,the guitar solo in the middle is still put on to test the speakers in mine are still working,it bounces beautifully from speaker to speaker.best version of Yes Album tho :-)
Chris Squire RiP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39BZwn9tmTk
hail hail one and all
have a great night Celts :-)
Happiness
Celtic
I am so simplistic a chap that on CQN I have been described as being mental.
However, as they are invaluable to a sides success, in attempting to acquire quality strikers, one must be prepared to to pay quality prices.
The days are gone when the price could be artificially lowered by a Joe McBride making it plain to his club that if he did not go to Celtic, then he was going nowhere.
Galling as PL might find it, a price has to be paid for entrance to the big boys Champions League party.
If you are unprepared to pay it so be it.
A transfer window that started on an optimistic note of Celtic acting decisively is beginning to evolve into the same old same old where scrambling about in the last hours of the transfer window will be the order of the day.
AN TEARMANN
Greece needs the bailout money,mate. They can’t survive without it.
A whole 19c of every Euro borrowed.
The other 81c goes to repay the bailout. While their debt rises exponentially.
I hope for their sake they bite the bullet. A serious boot in the baws is better than they have put up with for the last six years. And at least they can plan their own future.
http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/sport/football/transfer-news/former-coventry-city-striker-callum-9149620
I think we’ll be folding if the cost of staying in the hand is £12m.
Squire
Folding….
We are not even at that table
BMCUW
Some would say the past six years has been one prolonged severe boot in the baws for the Greek people.
PF AYR
PL is the SSM. He can bluff them out the water.
Have faith.
In PL we trust.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
15:44 on 29 June, 2015
PROUDBHOY
I understand your sentiments. Especially given your background. But MACJAY is as much a Celtic supporter as any of us.
IMO,he is entitled to be there next year. And you are entitled to have a pop about his opinions.
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I honestly do not know this Macjay but one thing all Celtic supporters do know is how offensive the Big Jock K*** slogan is and he quite deliberately used it in a very clear and (to me) mocking fashion at least twice (it wasn’t just that he said it, the text was set out from the rest of his comments to bring attention to it). Furthermore, what is the ‘one for Neil Lennon’ (growing up in Belfast this term had an ominous meaning) or am I now being really paranoid?
Oh well, I only dip in and out of this forum as the mood takes me so I will leave the more seasoned campaigners to judge the BJ* digs.
quonno
Respectfully disagree. Chelsea spent £50m on free scoring Torres and got next to nothing from him.
Man Utd paid a loan player something like £300k a week and he didn;t score many.
Money guarantees nothing. Kris Commons has more CL goals than some £30m strikers and much did he cost?
LB
SQUIRE DANAHER
It has,mate. It’s a disgrace.
People are literally destitute. Lose their job,no benefits,how are you supposed to live?
BMCUWP
You sleep deprived ? Drunk ?
Yer at it wee man :-))
Btw your Mr Universe comment earlier was a belter
‘There were many many Celtic Supporters in the IRA well they could get the ole cheque book out and buy us a decent centre forward.
All the Euros that’s rollin’ in from the ole dodgy diesel.
Wits,
£2-50 up wae Welford to come at Musselburgh.
Had a fiver on all four.
hahaha.
Just collected my wee dog from the vets..She’s very traumatised.
scullybhoy,
macjay1 was very wrong to use that terminology, It was, IMO, way out of order.
corkcelt
16:42 on
29 June, 2015
I’m with proudbhoy, macjay invited, corkcelt stays at home. There were many many Celtic Supporters in the IRA we have 5 or 6 present day CQN’ers included. He has universally branded them all as “Murdering Ba*tards”, do I want to meet & greet him just coz he says he supports Celtic.Let me think about that, Ah Naw I’ll think I’ll give it a miss.
A wee bit loath to get involved in this one.
When posters talk about the IRA do they mean the late 20th century version or what the British media would have painted as the good IRA of an earlier time.
I have absolutely no idea how many Celtic supporters were in either version of the IRA.
I have always felt that many of those who want to belt out the Ould numbers at Celtic matches,would literally shit themselves if they were approached by a IRA recruiting officer and asked to stop talking the talk and walk the walk.
The above in no way condones or condemns the IRA in its various guises.
SCULLYBHOY
To be honest,I was confused and concerned by that. Especially since he repeated it.
He had never come out with that before,I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt.
This time.
But,on a dayoooooot,bevvy and Celtic take precedence. Although there are idiots who forget themselves and bring politics-briefly-into the conversation.
Ask LIONROARS and MWD,for example.
I kinda shut up after that…
PF AYR
Drink deprived.
Dontbrattbakkinanger
16:53 on
29 June, 2015
‘There were many many Celtic Supporters in the IRA well they could get the ole cheque book out and buy us a decent centre forward.
All the Euros that’s rollin’ in from the ole dodgy diesel.
And here was me thinking that all the crooks and shysters were in the UDA.
Corkcelt
What about the Celtic supporters who were murdered by the IRA
Plenty of them also
War is evil,
War is the failure of civilisation
It should never be glorified
WITS
No. Don’t go there,just leave it please.
quonno
16:45 on
29 June, 2015
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let's just wait and see… the effin windae isn't even open yet!!
Freedom is being Removed from every aspect of Society.
Don’t be afraid of your Freedom
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
16:56 on 29 June, 2015
SCULLYBHOY
To be honest,I was confused and concerned by that. Especially since he repeated it.
He had never come out with that before,I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt.
This time.
But,on a dayoooooot,bevvy and Celtic take precedence. Although there are idiots who forget themselves and bring politics-briefly-into the conversation.
Ask LIONROARS and MWD,for example.
I kinda shut up after that…
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Good mhan
HH
desertbhoy
16:59 on
29 June, 2015
quonno
16:45 on
29 June, 2015
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let's just wait and see… the effin windae isn't even open yet!!
Does that mean that we have not actually signed Boyata?