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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31003,
Lol
Am aff, one for the weans
The whispers of the old ones
They never disappear
They lift and wish upon the wind
The sound you never hear
The memory forgotten
The breath as soft as dew
The scent, the glance, the trembling hair
The thought you never knew
The source of all your instincts
The song inside your soul
The tenacity of tenderness
The drive towards your goal
Remember this my little one
When you fear to walk alone
That we are here beside you
Your flesh, your blood, your own
have a good evening lhads
hh
31003
Ya bugger,gonnae have to clean my iPad now!
BMCUP’s
Off to the scratcher. I appreciate all the support re Dublin2016.
Papajoe,
I will be in touch tomorrow, in the afternoon.
Clogher
BGX
“BMCW..sorry man. i was raised with the mantra..” Never Educate a Mug”…Goodnight…
Congrats to whoever raised you. They fulfilled the mantra.
CLOGHERCELT
Yer a diamond,mate.
Oops,bad word. Might get someone excited!
Seriously,you are. As is Al. I’ll tell you how much in eight months time.
BGX,
Charming as usual.
Your style is kinda Dull.
A track for you, especially you.
ACGR
You may well be right, but on this I very much doubt it, anyone who wants to bomb ra lot o them has a problem, unless you can convince me otherwise mi amigo.
They are sick.
HH
And with that TET will retire into the depths of the cave.
Sleep well Timland
KTF
A few pages back.
My uncle > 70 lives in Chile for last 20 years
He told me statues to O Higgins the idependance leader
from 1800’s were everywhere
>>>>
JimmyQuinnsBits
22:53 on
11 July, 2015
Spoke to a pal a few months back who’d been wandering through South America, and had come upon an “Irish” pub in Chile where he swore it was locals who were playing fiddles and bodhrans, and Irish dancing, and not an Irishman in sight.
I thought he was exaggerating and put it down to the local smoke and brew, but came upon this… anybody got the back story to it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8XzCQRXb-g
BOBBY,
That dude promoted porn on this site, I dinnae ken why he wasn’t banned???
A total pr!ck, IMO.
Clogher
Thanks again repeat bobbys comment your a diamond
JC2
Have you read about Thomas Cochrane?
Bit of a hero in some parts of the world.
petec
Aye, and other promote bombing ra lot o them, and they are lauded for it.
The mind boggles so it does.
HH
PETEC
A measure of the man(!)
THE EXILED TIM,
There are people who are genuine and there are others that are blatantly taking the piss.
I am not sure who you are talking about but I think discernment should always be applied.
Go on then, join the list, CQN sure does like a list.
Support the bombing of innocents……………
Go on then, put your moniker to it, or your real name, my real name is keith emslie.
And you have the audacity to call yourself’s Celtic supporters, Dearie me, what a feckin joke.
You winkers live in a totally different world than I do.
Feck the lot of yous
BMCUWP
Sorry no
I am 0% Irish blood
a mongrel of Scots\Lithuanian\Norwegian
my uncle in Chile is my mum side
Hamilton stock
Said Bernardo O Higgins Riquelme was eveywhere
Maybe thats where Riquelme rumours came from every year
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
02:07 on
12 July, 2015
JC2
Have you read about Thomas Cochrane?
Bit of a hero in some parts of the world.
BGX
Manners cost nothing mate.
I’d be on CQN if there were no politics. I came here for football. And sometimes there’s too much of the former and not enough of the latter.
People like Bobbio and sftb were on the other side from me when the vote took place. Both had well founded reasons for that. And I hold them and other fellow Tims with differing views in the utmost respect.
You should try to meet as many CQNers as poss in person. I’ve yet to meet a bad one. In the meantime it’s nice to be nice…..
HH jamesgang
BOBBY,
I’ve not even read back, so don’t even know what the flashpoint has been. I just think he should have been banned a long time ago, promoting a porn star.
My own Son doesn’t read CQN but he followed a link on the official Fifa Ultimate Team website, it was a link to degrading Women and tying them up and humiliating them. The wee guy started looking at this porn in Primary school, ffs.
What can any Parent do when this happens? A football site like EA’s Fifa. There are so many sickos out there, that only care about themselves.
BGX – You are a selfish barsteward.
TeT
I promise you brother that it would be a short or non existent list.
I’ve found this to be a place that advocates peace and peoples across the world ‘getting on’ much more than the outside world does
Good night. Sleep time for me.
HH jamesgang
PETEC
That’s simply appalling. Press a few buttons,hit a porn site.
Something wrong here,and no mistake. How can you protect your children if that pops up? Tell them they can’t use the net?
You take care,mate. And take care of yer wee big lad too. Sometimes the people who care too much care more than people who can do something about it but couldnae care less.
HH
BOBBY,
Thanks, and Happy Birthday to you.
Del Amitri
HH
JC2
He fought the naval war for Bernardo,IIRC. Bit of a mercenary by then,point to prove.
I’ve got a smashing biography of him,well worth the read. Lived a hundred lives in his lifetime. Greece too!
This is an outline of it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Cochrane,_10th_Earl_of_Dundonald
PETEC
Texted you,pal.
bobby murdoch’s curled-up winklepickers ..
Happy birthday. Mate ..
On the wagon ..
Hope you’re happy :)
As I said, hypocrites to a man.
Winkers the lot of yous, not a bollix between the lot of yous, yous support posters who wants to nuke muslims.
Go on then, justify it
JUSTIFY IT
You are worse than huns IMO, they know no better, you tossers think you do, I honestly hope you burn in hell, I seriously do, you are not good people, you are scum.
And I mean that from the bottom of my heart.
Feck you
THE EXILED TIM,
We are all Sinners, never forget that.
CAREFUL WITH THAT TAX,MOONBEAMS.
Just for you,ya madman.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=b72I7TwsvBE
Looking forward to seeing the Belfast & Derry Bhoys next week.
Jesus Christ will be talked about a lot I’m sure, I’m sure some Celtic chat as well. ;))
Belfast
THE EXILED TIM
This all comes down to a comment by one poster last week,and the comments for and against his opinion.
For the record,I supported his view. I stand by that. I forgot to say that it was force,not nuclear force,that I supported. I think my comment was ‘All guns blazing’ or summat.
Keith,we have conversed over the years. Do you honestly think I’m some Kenny Everett lets bomb the bastards type?
No,course not.
These evil bassas have to be taken out not so much to protect us in the west,infidels that we are. It’s to protect the Muslims they are killing in droves.
Theres no way out of here?
:))
JimmyQuinnsBits
01:12 on
12 July, 2015
Macjay,
Hope you’re well
And no, you’re right… it’s all for the best that Franco won… democracy is a bugger when the bassas vote the wrong way
What is the Stars
01:13 on
12 July, 2015
Macjay
And what’s your point
No one else would supply them with arms so the soviets did
they demanded and received Madrids gold reserves in return. The Spanish communist party didn’t cover themselves in glory either
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A plague on both their house.That`s all.
Hitler`s Condor legion bombed Guernica and Stalin subsequently made a pact with him to divide Poland.
You have to wonder how the decent men who went to fight for the International Brigades against fascism felt about that.
The futility of arguments,the futility of war. The pettiness of each.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vH3-Gt7mgyM
macjay1 for Neil Lennon,
Looking forward to Ronny D’s team this season.
I reckon we will be scoring at least 3 goals first half every domestic game.
I hope you are well Brave Celtic Man, as ever I don’t always agree with you, noone should agree all the time. ;) Respect is Ki.
Kojo is missed by the blog, IMO. Has he passed away?
What is the Stars
01:08 on
12 July, 2015
Jimmy quinns bits
It’s a fascinating period of European history
The Spanish people were sacrificial lambs to the slaughter in the war between the 2 great isms.
The people who could have saved them were France and Britain but they stood idly by.
Of course they weren’t interested in helping a left wing govt
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Hang on a minute.
An Irishman volunteering British intervention.
Why not Irish intervention?
Helping a left wing govt.?
Within a year or two the British were involved in a deadly struggle against Hitler.
Why not Irish intervention?
jimmyquinnsbits
01:49 on 12 July, 2015
Am aff, one for the weans
“The whispers of the old ones”
That’s a cracker I want to pinch.
When you resurface, who do I credit?
Anyways, outie, up early.
A great video
Celtic are on the cusp of something special, IMO.
The Support is the Ki factor. Celtic is the Support, always has been and Always will be.