I was asked to contribute a piece on John Guidetti to a German magazine last month. John was on his way to winning the European U21 Championships with Sweden, while being every inch the football personality. The German publisher wanted to know why Celtic, Stoke and Manchester City had decided against re-employing a striker with a flattering pedigree.
During last season it looked like John was destined for the English lower leagues, or perhaps one of the resting homes in Turkey, but a few weeks at a tournament later he’s won himself a five year deal with Celta de Vigo.
Guidetti is a better player than he looked at Celtic last season. We don’t play a system which lends itself to a classic, British style, penalty box striker, which is what John is, but would you give him a five year contract to play in La Liga? Of course not. You’ve watched the player way more than Celta’s scouts and you know better than they do.
This is the truism in scouting, people who watch a player week-in, week-out, know vastly more than a scout who only gets to see a month’s games, or a handful of games across the season, or worse, a selection of DVDs provided by the agent, or TV highlights.
What’s made John Guidetti is his outlier season, 2011-12, when on loan at Feyenoord he smacked home an astonishing 20 goals in 23 games. Without that season, the Celta scouts wouldn’t even know his name. Maybe the serious illness he subsequently suffered robbed him of his mojo, maybe he’s a pound or two heavier than his fighting weight, but my money’s on Vigo suffering buyers regret soon enough.
The best of luck to John in Galicia, but I suspect he’ll be available for loan this time next year.
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White elephant?
Please……….White effluent.
Magic Stick ……………just round the corner.
Happy Birthday,Robin.
CHARlIE DON’T SURF!!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=V92OBNsQgxU
:)
Sannabhoy
Condolences on loss of your aunt
R I P
well if you wanna go, k.a.n.o ., hail hail , rain , sleet or snow
Helen Sweeney (nee Gilmartin) who passed away this morning . Like most Gilmartin women ( both born and married into) she was formidable and forthright as well as possessing a heart of gold. Wife to Michael , mother to Anthony, Claire, Michael and Martin and granny to Grace
In our thoughts and prayers and hope the family cherish the good times
31003,
feel free to pick another tune,
both those must have been mistakes;-))
It’s 11.50
Time for me to wish a very Hoopy birthday to a Bhoy who epitomises all that is good about CQN and Celtic.
Bobbio.
Love, brother. x
HH jamesgang
BMCUWP…
Right Boaby, as your dad and Kev j would say, it’s ten to twelve it’s time get oot ;). HH
CAREFUL
This came up on my sidebar.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iKISIob88kI
Off to toast my birthday now.
Cowiebhoy. Thanks . No, he’s off on Friday. Just caught your arranmore comments. Granny is from there , o’donneĺl, and get the feeling I might be heading there in the next few days .
Owen. Lol. Tell tara I was asking for her . Goes without saying for your princess.
Sanna
Bobby M
This is definitely our era….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdiB3cISeBk
jamesgang…
Great minds or fools seldom differ ;)
BMCUWP
You do realise that in Australia you were born on the 12th (lobs grenade and legs it sharpish)
Don’t hurt me or I’ll set Dena on you :-)
gordybhoy64
Heathen……
Sips
Great Tims!
HH jamesgang
gordybhoy64
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AqvdM56u9c
AH KNOW you like this
well if you wanna go,
Lovely post.
Stay strong.
RIP, Helen Sweeney.
Sannabhoy
The Princess is turning into more of an ogre these days. Teenage strops and still only ten :'(
Seriously considering making an appearance at the Dublin hootenany are you thinking of attending?
Thanks,everyone. If ever I felt not worthy it was when my Mum was giving me a richly deserved bollocking. And my two sisters as well,they don’t hold back.
Today with so many,well,even one or two would be nice. I didnae realise before that Guinness tastes better,just a tad,wi some salt in it.
What a fantastic group of people we are on here,even when we argue like schoolkids. Just marvellous to have known or cyber-known so many disparate people whom I would not otherwise have done.
Cheers,hic…
Btw,yeez are on the bell next time I see you,cos these cyberpints don’t come free,you know!
cowiebhoy
Love to the wee mhan and he will make a full recovery. :-)
BMCUW
As daft as usual. :-)) Keep on keeping on my good fhriend. We just luuuuuv you in here. :-))))
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
Guys , thanks for your support.
Sanna
NatKnow Thank you.
Gerryfaethebrig I just imagined that :-)
OWEN
I’d only be concerned about the welfare of my pint of Guinness,not my health.
‘Ah,sure,I’m not a drinker,me’
Hoover.
That girl is class and quality,and a sister to be proud of.
31003,
aye mucker you have me sussed and my guilty secret is out ;-)).
just came across this,not a bad version of a good song
https://youtu.be/AYK9v6CIDhU
In my local boozer, which I seldom attend. Bar staff doing table service (pints included) just informed me the place is open until 01:00. Banzai…!
Belated happy birthday to BMCUWP missed it yesterday ;-)
31003
Ffs,that’s nearly as bad as Zoom that some eeeeeeeeeeejit posted last night. Remember it? Painful,the memories.
Sannabhoy
My best mate is an O’Donnell from Arranmore maybe distant relation . My own mum is an O’ donnell from Burtonport but there are lots of O’Donnells in Donegal. Again condolences and remember the good times.
Who was talkin bout guitar riffs?????
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhAyveRgJKs
Hope So Much Djorkovic wins….Go Novak..
OWEN
You only missed it by 14 minutes. And yer a good man for the wishes.
Having said that,you’re also the only person to do so on the 12th.
Are you a hun?
Sanna, RIP to your aunt Helen.
Lovely post. Keep her in your heart.
I’m sure she would be proud of the stuff you do for the kids!
HH
AoW
bgx
00:06 on 12 July, 2015
Hope So Much Djorkovic wins….Go Novak..
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For why bud? I’m pretty ambivalent TBH. I enjoyed the game yesterday but not the result.
Look…..we can all of us say we like this group (insert any radical, progressive, anarchic, type group you want) and sound hip as you like, but, we’ve all got that wee pop tune somewhere in the back of our head we relate to…..n there’s NO denying it….
BMCUWP
Too few digits and too many braincells to be a hun. Anyway Dena would have held me underwater as a child if she had detected any hunnish tendencies.
zbyszek
00:00 on 12 July, 2015
NatKnow Thank you.
Gerryfaethebrig I just imagined that :-)
You will know and I know what DB is all about, definitely one of the good guys
Hypocrites virtually to a man.
The Kojo man got slagged for his right wing fascist views, but the bomb ra lot of them are lauded here.
Dearie me
well if you wanna go, k.a.n.o ., hail hail , rain , sleet or snow
23:59 on 11 July, 2015
Guys , thanks for your support.
Sanna, Helen and Michael (my cousin) showed me a lot of hospitality when I visited them in Dumbarton last year on my way to Arranmore. RIP Helen.
Sanna – my condolences. RIP to your aunt Helen. Will say a wee prayer.