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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. scullybhoy on

    Get out of card free card, ‘we are a club open to all’ (which I hope we are) = post anti-Catholic and anti-Celtic philosophy whilst pretending to be intellect Celtic supporters.

     

     

    I will leave readers to make up their own minds. (EL and JHB – do you agree?)

     

     

    Off to bed.

     

     

    HH

  3. Majestic Hartson on

    Maccargo,

     

     

    Hail Hail mate. My thoughts are with you this evening.

     

     

    Look after yourself.

     

     

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    Macargo/Bada @ earlier

     

     

    I was discussing on Whatsap websites that we spend most of our online time on. I said mine was CQN (always has been but Reddit is running it a close second these days). My mate says he no longer comes on because all he sees is “daft adverts”.

     

     

    Also, I’ve mentioned on here a couple of times, I tried to do the Friday night quiz at the start of lockdown with a mate hoping he’d start using the site, but all he could see was…

     

     

    A blog open to all, so long as you have adblocker on or disable JavaScript….😀

     

     

    That said it’s Paul’s blog and I’m very grateful for everything he does for us all 👍🏼

  4. An Tearmann on

    Tontine

     

     

    Have you read Brendan Sweeneys Celtic.The Early Years 1887-1892 ?

     

     

    Neil McCallum had to walk hame to renton from hampden after renton beat west bromwich albion 4-1 to become unofficial world champions. p107.

     

     

    some great research.if you havent i think youd enjoy it

     

     

    HH

  8. Wishaw tim on

    STIG KEV ! welcome back bud, as. always your posts are worth reading, naebbody, kids on they scroll bye ✋

  9. Majestic Hartson on

    I see the votes are in for player of the season:

     

     

    1 – Ajer, 2 – Moi, and 3 – Turnbull.

     

     

    The organisers were hoping for more than the 6 votes but…

  10. Sionnaigh on

    There’s always a POTS regardless. Some wannabe huns, assimilated tims, just don’t get it. Thank God.

  11. Tontine Tim on

    AN TEARMANN on 23RD APRIL 2021 11:10 PM

     

     

    Tontine Have you read Brendan Sweeneys Celtic.The Early Years 1887-1892 ?

     

     

    Neil McCallum had to walk hame to renton from hampden after renton beat west bromwich albion 4-1 to become unofficial world champions. p107. some great research.if you havent i think youd enjoy it

     

     

    *No I haven’t, last time I was hame I picked up “Gathering Storm” at Glasgow Airport and figured I would get the others by this author unfortunately that never happened last year or this. I’ll add Brendan Sweeney’s tae the list.

     

     

    BTW Neilly didnae come fae the Renton, it was Bonhill. It seemed going by his name some thought he was a teuchter, far from it his family came fae Donegal.

     

     

    He was laid to rest in the local Parish Church, as were my great grandparents, but buried out of the original Our Lady and St Marks and his casket was walked down tae the church grave yard.

     

     

    Periodically in one of the local sites here a photie of an ould Bowling Club appears, in it are former Vale of Leven players as well as Neilly’s brother.

  13. Celtic Mac on

    Majestic Hartson

     

     

    Wouldn’t worry too much about how you spell my nom de plume, anyone who has tried to look into their family history will realise the spelling depends on who was filling in the registrar ie don’t assume your own name has always been spelled the way it is now. Couple of things while in Berlin, part academic, worked on a case study which was based on how the Treuhand impacted on the work and lives of those who had been citizens of the DDR, or a young woman who worked for a company with a world wide reputation, and how that was taken away from her when the DDR ‘agreed’ to become part of what had been the Provisional Federal Republic, but one prepared to privatise every part of the DDR. Worked on and off in construction too, of which there was a lot going on post 1989, as you can imagine. Interesting time to be there, especially in East Berlin, part hippy, part anarchic, whole lotta techno, but disappointing how things have turned out twenty five years or more later, as are many Berliners. That based on a recent visit.

  16. Majestic Hartson on

    Celtic Mac,

     

     

    Thanks for getting back to me. I hadn’t heard of the Treuhand. I’m assuming a few people got very wealthy off of that?

     

     

    And in what way were you disappointed in Berlin these days?

  20. Friesdorfer on

    Celtic Mac

     

    Deutschland 89 is brilliant, especially for those of us who have lived in Germany. It benefits though from watching in sequence: 83, 86 then 89.

     

    Grüß aus Dundee

     

    HH

  25. Celtic Mac on

    majestic hartson

     

     

    Probably difficult to judge during the impact of a pandemic, but it appeared to me, late last year between lockdowns that it had lost its edginess of the 1990s, (or West Berlin 1970s) and that, while I was telling people back then that Berlin would become the Capital of Europe, in a good way, it has become the Capital of a more conservative Germany, (CDR led), more corporate, higher rents for ordinary people and all. Maybe now that London is no longer in the EU Berlin will become the more Cosmopolitan place I thought it would back then. A recent doc. on BBC Alba (Europa?) suggested that the City itself, as opposed to the Capital is beginning to stir, so lets hope it really does become a place that is a magnet for all Europeans, in a way London did for a short while. But Berlin is not there yet.

  27. Celtic Mac on

    friesdorfer

     

     

    More4 showed all the previous series, so lucky to have followed it, and I think they are still available on Channel 4i option. Brilliant television, great drama, but cognisant of the history of the period at the same time.

  29. Sionnaigh on

    FRIESDORFER on 24TH APRIL 2021 12:13 AM

     

    Babylon Berlin on Sky Atlantic is equally ausgezeichnet.

     

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    Herrlichen.

     

    Bejubeln Bejubeln

  31. Celtic Mac on

    majestic hartson

     

     

    I got this from Deutschland 89

     

     

    For Treuhand….read Anschluss

  40. JHB on

    STIG FAE THE DUMP on 23RD APRIL 2021 9:36 PM

     

     

    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.

     

     

    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.

     

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    I agree 100% with what you have written – I have posted likewise many times on here and been attacked on here by the type of “unthinking Celtic fans” that you rightly call out.

     

     

    Around 350k of ‘us’ have been conned by the SNPcult. They also con themselves into believing that voting for the nationalists somehow “sticks it to the huns” – of course it doesn’t – it means that in the event of independence our advisories will be much bigger fish in a smaller undiluted bigoted pool.

     

     

    I have many memories of George Galloway on the campaign for Better Together in 2014. He made a real difference with some wonderful oratory – my favourite being at the Royal Concert Hall in Glasgow, where he shared the stage with Professor Ronald MacDonald. That night both of them tore apart any coherent case for separation – indeed George was uncannily accurate in his forecast on oil revenues. I also enjoyed seeing Clerkin and his cronies being ridiculed after worming their way in to disrupt – George met them head-on at the edge of the stage prior to them being ejected “stage-left” by a side door.

     

     

    There is no coherent economic case for independence, if there was the SNPcult would be shouting it from the rooftops and plastering it on every billboard they could rent.

     

     

    In fact the SNPcult leadership now don’t actually believe in independence – they believe in, and are totally committed to, only the concept of an Indyref2 vote. Constantly dangling this prospect in front of their “sheep’ voters allows them to attain their primary goal, which is to stay in power at Holyrood and return enough MPs to cat-call and disrupt at Westminster.

     

     

    If, and when, the SNPcult are removed from power at Holyrood and the ‘books’ are opened for inspection – what is discovered will finish SNPcult and probably result in many jail sentences for misconduct in public office.

  41. Sionnaigh on

    JHB on 24TH APRIL 2021 1:27 AM

     

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    Same ol’ lying Tory/Labour Little Englander scum telling Scotland what she can and cannot do.

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