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The spreadsheet on file at every club

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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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  1. Tontine Tim on

    SCULLYBHOY on 23RD APRIL 2021 5:05 PM

     

     

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYdfEwT1lCo

     

     

    *The author of the book A J (Angus Joseph) Cronin although born in Cardross of a Catholic da and Presbie mother was brought up in Dumbarton after his da died

     

     

    His paternal grandparents had migrated fae Armagh tae Alexandria and there’s a plaque on the wall of the house they lived in to this day.

     

     

    His family owned several businesses’s and in the Brian Wilson Centennial book they are listed as publicans in Alexandria and early shareholders of the club.

     

     

    His maternal grampa, who was a hatter in town, looked after him and would walk him round tae St Patrick’s in the town where he would sit outside until the Mass was over and then walk him home.

     

     

    He himself was a lifelong Dumbarton supporter due tae his oul grampa taking him tae Boagheid on a regular basis.

     

     

    He was a precocious student and the oul wan paid for his education at the local academy before he transferred tae St Aloysius which he paid for as well.

     

     

    I have read most of his books which are centred round the Dumbarton area, his last book though “The Minstrel Boy” talks about living in Gartnethill and attending school there where he played for the football team, he highlights one final at hunden where although the better side the lost. He states categorically it was probably because of the colour of their strips.

     

     

    The reason I am well versed on him is that I have been led tae believe the paternal side of my mother’s family, who also hailed fae the Black North, were related tae the Cronins.

     

     

    My mother and several of her siblings when first married lived in property owned by the family and my great grandparents spent the final years of their life in similar.

  3. Big Jimmy on

    Whatever happened to the Celtic Boards Inquiry into Celtic supporters almost being crushed at Celtic Park in the North Stand underpass ?

     

     

    how long has it been ?

     

    HH.

  7. scullybhoy on

    Tontine Tim on 23rd April 2021 6:27 pm

     

    >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

     

     

    Hail, Hail, and thank you for sharing that with me. My wife was watching the film today and called me to watch that particular scene. It is so sad that in the North of Ireland, and in Scotland, that you can be killed simply for being a Catholic.

  8. lionroars67 on

    BIG JIMMY on 23RD APRIL 2021 6:31 pm

     

     

    Soon after the crush Celtic FC Orgs met with Celtic FC officials they demanded and eventually got an independent inquiry, Celtic along with Police Scotland wanted an internal review only, however, fans orgs stuck to their demands as they did not trust Police Scotland to investigate and report back truthfully, wonder why ?

     

     

    Celtic launch safety review after Old Firm game crush … One person was taken to hospital after the incident behind the north stand of Celtic Park. … The club have appointed the engineering consultant Fairhurst,

     

     

    Six months later Fairhurst reported their findings

     

     

    Celtic Park crush: Report concludes ‘unique set of … – Sky Sportshttps://www.skysports.com › football › news › celtic-pa…

     

    27 Mar 2019 — … into a crush at Celtic Park before an Old Firm game has found a “unique set … Celtic FC ordered sports event safety management consultants …

  9. leftclicktic on

    MACCARGO

     

    May yer Father RIP.

     

    Thoughts and prayers with you and your family at this time.Y.N.W.A

  11. Celtic Mac on

    big jimmy

     

     

    Celtic commissioned and paid for an “Independent” review of the near disaster of 2nd September 2018 at Celtic Park.

     

    Fairhurst duly delivered said review. Or more accurately…. a whitewash

  13. Back to Basics - Glass Half Full on

    Any truth in the rumour that a Scottish Govt spokesperson praised Sevco for their swift, efficient appeal when a group of their players was caught, yet again, bang to rights violating Covid-19 rules?

  15. !!Bada Bing!! on

    I know Dominic brought forward his starting date,was anyone else expecting a statement this week? Maybe he’s waiting to tell us something first?

  16. An Tearmann on

    MACCARGO

     

     

    May your father rest in peace.

     

    i will keep him in my prayers.

     

    HH

     

     

    also,to echo the advice of Bada and others dont be a stranger.come on.Its all Celtic :-)

  19. Saint Stivs on

    a day late, but worth a post

     

     

    —————–

     

     

    This day 52 years ago – 22 April 1969 – Bernadette Devlin gave her maiden speech as the youngest woman ever elected to the House of Commons, aged 21:

     

     

    “I stand here… in the same tradition as the first woman ever to be elected to this Parliament, Constance Markievicz.”

     

     

    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ezjs20dVUAEba1B?format=png&name=small

  23. David17 on

    LIONROARS67 on 23RD APRIL 2021 5:53 PM

     

    DAVID17 on 23RD APRIL 2021 2:29 PM

     

     

    The fans forum is a whitewash, it’s not fit for purpose and I stopped going 2 years ago. It was an insight though at the extent which certain individuals at the club/company hold the support in contempt, the dumbing down of the forum was almost painful and the inability on the floor to put across a coherent point was equally as painful.

     

     

    Before one of the meetings a few years ago I had a conversation with a board member and a senior official. Me, ‘where is res12 heading’, them ‘nowhere’. Like i said it was a useful exercise in that sense but sitting watching the heads of a fan organisation falling over themselves about tickets to see Rangers and making sexist comments about the Hibs CEO, it’s not hard to see where it all went wrong and why there is no accountability.

  24. Tontine Tim on

    ERNIE LYNCH on 23RD APRIL 2021 7:52 PM

     

     

    TONTINE TIM on 23RD APRIL 2021 6:27 PM

     

     

    This might interest you.

     

     

    Carruthers, Gerard (2019) “Losing His Religion: the Neglected Catholicism of A.J. Cronin,” Studies in Scottish Literature: Vol. 45: Iss. 2, 42–46.

     

     

    *I did say he was a Dumbarton supporter living in calvinist Switzerland.

  25. Celtic Mac on

    maccargo

     

     

    Sorry to hear of your loss.

     

    Condolences to you and yours

     

    May your father R.I.P.

  27. Philbhoy on

    MACCARGO

     

     

    Terrible for you and your family!

     

     

    May your Dad rest in peace.

     

     

    Prayers said for those who remain.

  29. Philbhoy on

    MURSHEEN on 23RD APRIL 2021 6:15 PM

     

     

    please understand that this blog is the unofficial voice of peter lawell.

     

    =============================================

     

     

    Yer havin a laugh.

     

     

    Apart from guys I’ve met on here, I know loads of Celtic supporters who don’t lurk or post on here.

     

     

    I really think if Lawwell wanted to get his message across he’d use a much bigger platform than CQN.

     

     

    Ho ho ho!

  31. neilbhoy on

    Is there a column on the spreadsheet that details predicted bonuses for the board members?

  34. Stig fae the dump on

    BIG JIMMY @12:46pm

     

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    Cheers for the reply friend.

     

    Yes I too cheered that night as like yourself I was totally unaware of Saville’s antics, seems that tens of thousands of us were unaware.

     

     

    I only paid attention to Saville’s sort’s purely from a rhetorical point of view, once the RFC huns started their abusing of us about Celtic Boys Club issues, that’s when Johnny Rotten’s comments came to light for me as it wasn’t a subject that I had previously paid much attention to.

     

     

    That is the reason that I called out the poster who tried to smear George Galloway with his post yesterday featuring Galloway shaking Saville’s hand on the Big Brother set, something that Galloway did to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds£ for oppressed children in the Middle East which in itself is probably the reason why no SMSM journalist will ever ask Galloway about his reason’s for going onto Big Brother in the first place.

     

     

    But in terms of the cheap poster on here who used a photograph of what I’ve described above, then that poster would be taken more seriously, by me at least, if in the future the poster, or any other poster chooses a photograph of Galloway shaking Saville’s hand on Big Brother, then saying that Galloway can be judged by who he meets, then for balance, Sturgeon’s tweet on the day of Saville’s death were she quoted about…

     

    …”Jimmy Saville ‘fixed it’ for a lot of people, today the UK is at a loss for his passing.”

     

     

    Or does Sturgeon’s lack of accountability even extend onto the pages of CQN, were it seems a lot of posters have been gulled into the trap of “Look over there” politics of which Sturgeon is a world champion at?

     

     

    Sturgeon has had a charmed existence for seven years with only toothless opposition to be easily brushed off, in which to deal with. Now there’s a dog that bites back that she and her fawning SMSM will find difficult to deal with, hence Scottish broadcast media’s blanket ban on Galloway, and his shrewdly assembled party since last summer, the “ALL FOR UNITY PARTY” should be checked out by any Celtic fan who is capable of critical thinking, a thinking that will lead you to understand why it is that, the northern English working class people who voted for BREXIT freedom from EU unelected banking cabal which his inflicted 40+ years of neoliberal politics in UK, driven by Thatcher and Blair, and a host of others who lived on their knees and kissed the EU’s ass, yet Labour voters had to vote Tory to get BREXIT done.

     

     

    Sturgeon survives because ‘unthinking’ Celtic fans hold the balance of power, and they use that power by voting for a Scottish govt that despises Celtic, and “The Greens” who want to abolish Catholic schools, and these same ‘unthinking’ Celtic fans also vote for an Irish Tory Celtic PLC board, who’ve just thrown 10 in a row season under the bus.

     

     

    Celtic fans are so powerful if only they’d stop being ‘unthinking’ and take a step back and look at the big picture.

     

     

    If these Celtic fans start to think, then they’ll see that Galloway’s party “ALL FOR UNITY” hold the answers when they open the books, like I said on the last blog.

     

     

    Battery running out…..

  36. bankiebhoy1 on

    Bada…………

     

     

    AdBlocker…………

     

    Stops any intrusions………

     

     

    ………………….although irritating pop-ups might occur from time to time…

     

     

    *cough*

  38. NorrieM on

    Maccargo

     

    May your Dad Rest In Peace 🙏

     

     

    Cornelius

     

    Sound like you and the family have give NCTim a very worthy Hail Hail

     

     

    YNWA

  41. scullybhoy on

    https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/13178817.killer-celtic-fan-apologises-victims-family-19-years/

     

    https://www.odt.co.nz/news/world/rangers-fans-beat-catholic-man-death-after-title-win

     

    https://thecelticstar.com/the-deafening-silence-on-scotlands-shame-celtic-fan-murdered-they-slit-his-throat-with-a-machete/

     

    https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/may/06/stephenkhan.theobserver

     

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/453946.stm

     

    >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

     

     

    I get your point ERNIE – it is all fake news. I apologise.

     

     

    HH

  42. Celtic Mac on

    I’ve seen some fantastic television from Europe over the years, and I know I am biased as having lived in Berlin after Die Mauer came down but before the DDR ended, but I am not sure if I have ever seen anything better than the just finished Deutschland 89. If you missed it catch up on More 4.

     

    Wunderbar!

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