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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MWD
God luck in your new abode Danny. KTF.
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
Just spouting off, but I expect nothing to come from the HMRC hearing. Move along, what can we do, all in the past. Fines applied to people no longer in positions of authority, or companies no longer in existence.
God=Good. Ok, god if ye want. :-).
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
SNP .. Are the big bhoys ..
You’re party is a shambles ..
Get over it ..
Labour are nil and void up here ..
;)
Mon the Nats!
Jmccormick,
Individuals will become responsible for their own debts, taxman can go through all the EBTs and charge those who have not paid. They are after all responsible for their own tax regardless of dodgy contracts waiving their responsibility.
Sorry if posted previously…….
@Total_Rangers: Breaking News – Rangers sign Russian striker Gohaim Faminsova
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
Anybody know if those horses i bet last night have finished
canamalar
You really think so? I hope so, but fear not. we exchanged e mails a while ago over a proxy vote and you know where my heart lies.
I ,still ,am burning with a desire for justice but cannot see how they will allow this to happen. This has all the hallmarks of damage limitation being managed above the pay grade of the HMRC team. I have no evidence to support this, just a horrible fear of what “has to be done”.
canamalar The seven year rule will also apply, is that not so?
Jmccormick,
We can but hope
I don’t think those rules apply to evasion
SOAL
Clique member.
Nytol :-)
Hail Hail
canamalar
As you say, hope. Nothing wrong with that.
HH
WeefratheTim
22:02 on
12 July, 2015
Sorry if posted previously…….
@Total_Rangers: Breaking News – Rangers sign Russian striker Gohaim Faminsova
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
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not funny at all.
why post that pisj here
saint stivs
I didn’t even mention it was funny, just letting people on here know what is being tweeted. No offence meant. Sorry.
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
Night night.
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
Night Fra, God Bless but caw cannae a bit wee fella :-)
HT
Yip delighted that i am now in a clique
Love
Anyroadup,
Time for bawbaws
Night night n hail hail timdom
Robbie Keane just scores wherever he goes.
http://videocelts.com/2015/07/blogs/former-celts/amazing-keane-goal-lights-up-gerrards-la-galaxy-debut?
Beautiful touch but he probably couldnt believe his eyes when he saw what awaited :)
Tonight, 7 Celtic supporters are sitting shiting themselves that a judge’s decision will alter their personal and family life’s forever. It’s not right guys, all because they sang a song at a football game. Please keep them in your thoughts tomorrow folks.
UTLR
Slightly off-topic to the general thrust of tonight’s main subject, but was just wondering if some of the PL critics actually contribute anything financially to Celtic ……. wouldn’t be surprised if not…..
Anyway, the team-building effort for this season is looking very good IMO….
SOAL
It’s ok Culture Club was your first clique.
HT
There are obviously a lot of posters on here don’t know me. That’s why the “coarner” will be getting a miss. I forsee a sore face for me. Lol. Luv to the beautiful Minx and the equally beautiful ghirls. Night bud. KTF.
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
utlr
indeed
What the hell do we care ..
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xq3a_7242Lc
Nothing to be ashamed of .. Genetically .. We’re no English ….
Grow a spine. ;)
Beddy bawz
hamiltontim
22:29 on 12 July, 2015
Hopefully the ‘not guilty’ will again be forthcoming, since this law is not addressing the real issue in Scotland ………. Anti-Irish, Catholic and all-things Celtic BIGOTRY…..
Looking through things to try and help a poster,
Show’s what had to be done to get them out.
https://historywithatwist.wordpress.com/timeline-of-the-tans/
HH,
Clogher
the_huddle @ 19 42.
Go Set A Watchman.
Waiting for the book to arrive but have read the extract from Chapter 1 published by the Guardian and have listened to Reese Witherspoon reading that extract on a link from The Guardian.
I enjoyed what I read and I really enjoyed the Reese Witherspoon reading ..
WeeFra
There’ll be no sore faces at CQN corner wee man so please don’t worry about that. Unless of course you’re referring to those of us who’ve had them in the past but not at the corner! :-)
Honest opinion, stop being so touchy pal, most of the posters on here are decent Celtic supporters. Aye there’s some diddies and trolls, for a variety of reasons, but most have Celtic at their heart. Ignore the rest.
Best wishes to you and D from us wee fella.
HT
So you did receive my membership money for the Culture Club Fan Club
Ya robbing bassa
http://youtu.be/8HXtzPbXmn0
Excellent song written by well known Derry singer dougie Breslin about his young cousin.
Genetics and Nationality, eh? We’re mostly German, it seems. Mind you, that might make us more pre-disposed to some “blood and soil Nationalism” I guess:-
“People living in southern and central England today typically share about 40% of their DNA with the French, 11% with the Danes and 9% with the Belgians, the study of more than 2,000 people found. The French contribution was not linked to the Norman invasion of 1066, however, but a previously unknown wave of migration to Britain some time after then end of the last Ice Age nearly 10,000 years ago.
Surprisingly, the study showed no genetic basis for a single “Celtic” group, with people living in Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales and Cornwall being among the most different form each other genetically.
The Romans, Vikings and Normans may have ruled or invaded the British for hundreds of years, but they left barely a trace on our DNA, the first detailed study of the genetics of British people has revealed.
The analysis shows that the Anglo-Saxons were the only conquering force, around 400-500 AD, to substantially alter the country’s genetic makeup, with most white British people now owing almost 30% of their DNA to the ancestors of modern-day Germans.”
SOAL
I’m saving the money for your civil partnership mate.
proudbhoy
A wonderful song that I was only alerted to become of CQN.
*because*
setting free the bears for Res. 12 & Oscar Knox
22:48 on
12 July, 2015
Genetics and Nationality, eh? We’re mostly German, it seems. Mind you, that might make us more pre-disposed to some “blood and soil Nationalism” I guess:-
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dont know where that results came from but its absolute rubbish.
dna taken from populations in shetland, orkneys, west cost scotland isle of man , and dublin , proved genetic limks/
HT
The song isn’t that old.
He sings in Derry few nights a week.. Saw him last Sunday.
Some great versions of spancil hill and raglen road. Great chanter