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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Dad always said to Live within yer means.
Hit him Louie
Hit him
Hit him I did
Years worth
Of fear and loathing
And hate
Revenge
STOP
Getoff
Grabbed
Manacled
Thrown
Isolated
Shame
Never ending
Traveller Bhoy.
Your quite an amazing most resilient man.
The posts you put on here for so many years.
Honest open into your life.
Keep it lit.
Saint stivs
Thank you
First time I ever released
Was on here
This special place
You special folk
Burning brightly
Hail Hail
We could have saved ourselves a fortune by naming Celtic after a Saint. Why didn’t Brother Walfrid think of dat?
Ave Ave
Saints of Mirren and Johnstone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyLjbMBpGDA
Ave Ave
If the entity was named after a saint.
Tontine Tim often tells us about many Bruce stories from his area of the Vale.
The Reformation wipe out and cultural denial of saints in Scotland fascinated and horrible in equal measures.
Patrick stolen from the Clyde.
Mungo. Conval. Brendan maybe all preached around here.
St Peters well. St Finlans.
For 300 years that heritage was denied or bastardized .
https://twitter.com/YourWullie/status/1385877180845072384/photo/1
HH
GSU
So.
From Brendan Sweeney’s Celtic early years there was a vote to call the team saint Columba’s.
Resisted by walfrid who wanted did c celtic
Soft c Keltic.
Amhrán na gCupán – Cup Song ;-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hz63M3v11nE
Ave Ave
SAINT STIVS on 25TH APRIL 2021 8:29 PM,
Sorry, forgot to say, nice old pic
HH
GSU
A song for Slippy G,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyLjbMBpGDA
GSU
SIONNAIGH on 26TH APRIL 2021 1:45 AM,
Really enjoyed that, thank you
HH
GSU
A song for Der Hun.
God Bless England-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3uUGs8K1SE
Votail Tartan Tory ;-)
The Saints, Mirren and Johnstone.
Building Up and Tearing England Down-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB7YrggKNA4
Ave Ave
GREENSIDEUP on 26TH APRIL 2021 2:00 AM
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It had a certain resonance about it :-)
HH
SAINT STIVS on 26TH APRIL 2021 1:42 AM
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If only Brother Walfrid had got his way on “K”, alas, the “C”apitalists got the last say on dat.
Good nite all.
Ave Ave
TONTINE TIM on 25TH APRIL 2021
“Never, never forget the reformation may have been started in Germany but it was at its calvinist strongest in Scotland and Switzerland.”
I don’t disagree with your facts, but I have to take issue with your lumping Calvin and the reformation with what followed centuries later.
Otherwise your arguments fall into the hole of prejudice … to suit your own ends.
Post Scriptum
Jam “When The Saints Go Marching In”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhNBIssvxWQ
Ave Ave
ALASDAIR MACLEAN on 26TH APRIL 2021 2:27 AM
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Wish they’d stop having a go at the Prods.
God wouldn’t have invented them had Catholics being praying hard enough in the first place.
Ave Ave
If I was Celtic, the new manger would be named in the next day or two. I’ve already looked out my spikey shoes. Der neu Hun is lying flat out already.
Cup Song When I’m Gone –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hz63M3v11nE
Ave Ave
#Springsteen #JazzFest #Live
When the Saints Go Marching In (Live at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, 2006)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izSK_fFv4tM
Ave Ave
Vatican Live – Dicastery for Communication.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCDr9ft0Ym4
HH
I’m convinced Slippy is going nowhere. I don’t see any EPL club coming in for a manager that has one trophy from a possible nine up in Scotland. His European record is caveated by the fact he’s avoided the top 5 leagues in every game bar the two against Leverkusen in which he lost both.
Good morning cqn from dry and sunny Garngad
Well that fair cheered me up last night.
Can we at least get our shit together for 1 game and finish some of the abundance of chances we are creating against thems of late. Put to bed any talk of invincible tosh.
Ps what would cheer me up even more would be us getting in a good manager pronto.
Have a good day yall.
D :)
Oh and there could not have been any sport in Scotland last night as BBC scotland news on TV there went from news to weather.
😂😂😂
D :)
Problem solved with POTY.
Zander Clark
what was the halftime song that sounds the same as the famine song ? played by the second club to play out of ibrox. sloop john b
the vermin know they are doing this.
racism us a live and kicking.
anyone everyone my ass
call it out
have a good day Celts
hh
AT
Will be some song they have created so that the next time they are caught singing the famine song their defence will be “it isn’t the famine song, it is a new song that sounds like it”.
Oh how ironic …done on pens.
GIRUT
Greensideup..
That pic.
Bannermans sits on that corner of the cowgate..
Memories. .
Crackin pic.
HH
They had the Famine Song tune blaring all over the pre match analysis before we played them in the cup.
They know it. We know it. They know we know it. Mission accomplished for them.
That’s what makes last night all the sweeter.
HH jg
No doubt difficult to take for Rangers but they’ve had a great season and just goes to show how incredibly difficult it is to win multiple trophies in the one season.
— Michael Stewart (@mstewart_23) April 25, 2021
Post of Year Award goes to???????????????????????????
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GREENPINATA on 26TH APRIL 2021 7:19 AM
Problem solved with POTY.
Zander Clark
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GREAT Shout mate ! LOL.
I laughed BEFORE the end of the Penalty Shoot out….when Sevcos Full Back Basrisc of whatever his name is seen openly Blessing himself after scoring a Penalty…I have visions of many Huns going Tonto in front of their radio rental black and white TV’s….and to then to get knocked OOT..minutes later…even better…
LOL.
HH.
ROBERTTRESSELL on 25TH APRIL 2021 9:52 PM
I hope you’re right but so far I’ve been given no reason to think next season we’ll see a “resurgent Celtic”.
I’d feel a bit better if we knew who the manager was and he was out there with the DoF identifying potential signings in time for the new season.
With each week that passes, the “resurgence” gets less likely.