There is a spreadsheet on file at every club with the anticipated sale value of each player on it. This value often has nothing to do with how important the player is to the club, or even how good he is, it is a hard assessment of what the market will pay.
Kristoffer Ajer, for example, could end up at a tier one club next season, but his price tag will be inhibited by only having 12 months left on his Celtic contract. James Forrest is also a talent and has two years remaining on his current deal. James, though, will turn 30 in July. The time Spurs managers travel to Glasgow to watching his passed.
Younger players with plenty on their contracts are not assured money either. Ismaila Soro (22) has three years left on his contract but the spreadsheet at Celtic is unlikely to have a figure as high as we paid for him last year; Ismaila just has not played enough football to merit a reflective increase in value.
Market health is also a factor. There is seemingly endless supply of debt to those tier one clubs, but the game in most of Europe is on its knees. What would we expect from a French club for the likes of Olivier Ntcham, after the collapse of their TV deal?
Which brings us Patryk Klimala. I like Patryk, his willingness to show for the ball and bust a lung to get back and find space was a refreshing change of pace from much of what we watched this season. Various coaches didn’t think he had what it takes for Celtic, so his chances were limited and an exit increasingly likely.
We paid £3.5m for him; I expected to collect around a third of that when he moved on, not the entire sum we got back from New York Red Bulls. That’s nothing, to the £10m Bayer Leverkusen paid for Jeremie Frimpong in January, a player I wanted dropped and replaced. The keeper of Celtic’s spreadsheet has enjoyed updating a column this week.
I wonder if New York or Bayer want a goalkeeper with Champions League and European international experience?
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Announce Callum Davidson!!
Joking ghuys, joking :)
PHILBHOY
Please don’t joke. You could cause serious palpitations.
Did put hesgoal on and huns went one up. Decided to have a shave , came back to phone notifications saying its on penalties, put stream back on to watch the last penalty go in😂😂😂😂👍👍
INIQUITOUSIV
Sorry!
I sense a statement in the pipeline, questioning the blatant difference in SFA approach to time-keeping in extra time when compared to staunch Swiss-bought UEFA watches…oh, and not a peep when Roofe gets lambasted on twitter by his own for the miss
PHILBHOY
The tragedy is – our Board are so incompetent that people could believe it.
they ain’t good. get our ship together and they’ll crumble
While there’s obviously frustration at how our season has gone, Aberdeen will be kicking themselves. Most open cup in years and they capitulate against Dundee United.
I’ll be cheering St Johnstone on for this tournament now anyway.
Haven’t had cause to look at orc media this season. Not very self aware as a people are they?
Who was the MIB who allowed this “catastrophe”?
JACKIEMAC on 25TH APRIL 2021 9:45 PM
Wonder if Slippy agrees and is secretly hoping an offer comes up from England.
Let’s face it after their league win his stock was as high as it’s ever going to get. A cup defeat here and a slow start to next season and the interest around him will start to fade.
Geebee – slippy will leave at the first opportunity. I hope he stays and has to watch a resurgent celtic skelp him again. It will happen.
When I was cycling along the canal bank in Kirkintilloch today, I passed a “gentleman” who was wearing a tea shirt with a large union flag on its front fully surrounded by orange covering his “ample” girth. The shorts and socks also had flashes of the flag.
My thoughts returned to him when I saw the score tonight.
When I told my wife about the brief encounter and commented that Rangers should never have introduced orange to their colour scheme she reminded me of a conversation that she had in her work at the time.
One of the boys from the family which owned the business said that they were wearing orange because of Dick Advocaat.
She said “would you not have been better getting a hair weave?”
All the cheating regarding the Covid 5 came to nothing
Pure Karma
Rangers to appeal the penalties
https://youtu.be/sTSA_sWGM44
We need a wee bit of cheering up
Appeals upheld….Ra88ers go through.
Happy days?
Er, no.
Shows you just how mediocre they are.
What does that say about Celtic?
‘How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked.
“Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually, then suddenly.”
Celtic needs to get it’s act together.
I think we need to lighten up a bit.
Yes we have been crap this season.
But it’s ok to enjoy any version of the Huns getting humped.
Hail Hail.
Knocked out of the League Cup by St. Mirren, knocked out of the Scottish Cup by St. Johnstone, scared off by yon Kafflic saints?!
But still invincible I tell yeez!
St. Johnstone going for the double, what odds on that at the beginning of the season?
https://twitter.com/hmca1969/status/1386426079049654274?s=24⚽️had
Attitude of a loser, Fred.
Define yourself by your own standards, not by the failure of others.
Celtic have been abysmal this season.
I’m super chuffed they won’t win their first double, but it doesn’t mitigate the pain of the shit-show I’ve just witnessed.
THE BLOGGER @ 10:07
What does that say about Celtic?
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This is what it says:
SUNDAY
Defeated at Ibrox – defence abysmal, forwards even worse.
WEDNESDAY
Struggling badly at Aberdeen – lucky to snatch equaliser.
St Johnstone draw with Ibrox club.
SUNDAY
Dundee Utd thrash Aberdeen
St Johnstone win at Ibrox.
The story of our season – ‘chucked it’ at the earliest moment in all competitions.
The story of the downing of tools must come out – surely there is one Celtic player who will blow the whistle – 50k VST holders deserve an answer.
4 mins
THE BLOGGER FORMERLY KNOWN AS GM,
Exactly what I said.
Hail Hail.
We have been pish…glad the huns got beat.
Hail Hail.
boy he’s ugly
night cqn
ta for being here
https://youtu.be/wyLjbMBpGDA
:-)
hh
beauty
How we contrived to lose the league to that shower I wil never know.
While most of us will enjoy a big slice of schadenfreude tonight, so frustrating that it was left to the Perth journeymen to expose the Emperor’s new clothes that are Steven Gerrard’s Rankers. A case study in incompetence at Celtic Park.
…
Stevie the ned’s managerial record-
Competition’s entered.. 12
Competition’s won….1
Given his budget that’s pathetic
……well, well……. well, thats put a wee spring in the step………..
I’ll take that.
Unexpected, and all the better for it.
HHH.
( btw, the boy Davidson? What a throwback! bet he’s conflicted.
:))))))))))
Nae huns at Parkheid, Nae huns at Parkheid, Nae huns at Parkheid in the cup lol.
To make it better it was 2 teams with Saints names that knocked them out of both domestic cups, not that either of them are Celtic minded though.
Now we can all rant and rave about DD, PL, NFL and JFK but lets not forget that the late Monsignor Clancy’s nephew said the officials know what they have to do.
Let’s face it if your livelihood, and a affluent one at that, is in jeopardy should deidco collapse you would ensure that didnae happen.
Unfortunately for us the tentacles of the craft travel far and wide, how else would they get away with riots in Europe and “red hand” salutes in Jerusalem.
Never, never forget the reformation may have been started in Germany but it was at its calvinist strongest in Scotland and Switzerland.
Also I hate tae repeat myself but the 1912 pledge by ure-primrose of deidco to the craft allowed the active unionist and freemason, who politically aligned to the lol and vociferously expressed anti-Irish and anti-Catholic sentiments to, along with the lonesome boatman, immediately start to recruit from the ranks of both ludges and not just players only but fans, business associates, tradesmen, clerks, accountants, policemen, judicial officers of the court and most importantly members of the media who would champion the cause of deidco quietly in some places and vocally from the terracing and stands.
Until the pledge they had won 5 ½ titles while we had 10. Until Jock arrived they added another 28 while we only 11.
And yet in spite of this our club has amassed 51 Championships, 40 SC and 19 LC as well as numerous other honours including the Big Cup as well as the FIFA Fan Award, 2 honours sevco will never attain, so during this short period of grief let that sink in tae the super spreaders.
As Harry Nilsson wrote “One is the Loneliest Number” and should we get our act together sevco will join the ranks of Motherwell, Kilmarnock, Dundee, Dundee United and Third Lanark as one title champions.
Great result, beautiful Sunday.
Tontine Tim,
I sincerely hope you are right.
HRVATSKI JIM on 25TH APRIL 2021 9:52 PM
When I was cycling along the canal bank in Kirkintilloch today, I passed a “gentleman” who was wearing a tea shirt with a large union flag on its front fully surrounded by orange covering his “ample” girth. The shorts and socks also had flashes of the flag.
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canal, bike, no cameras, no surveillance …………….
line of duty plot