There’s turmoil in the Zenit St Petersburg squad. Two players, striker Artem Dzyuba and midfielder Oleg Shatov, are in conflict with the club and will not travel to their winter training camp in Dubai.
Both players are current Russia internationals; Dzyuba scored eight goals in the Euro 2016 qualifiers, making him the country’s top scorer in the tournament. Zenit face Copenhagen in Dubai on Monday, the first of six friendly games, before they face their first competitive game of 2018, in Glasgow, four weeks tomorrow. Their last game was on 11 December.
Some poor Celtic scout will be charged with taking in Zenit’s three games in Dubai next week. It is a thankless job.
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Rogic out for another two months apparently.
Roberts out for another month, as is Armstrong , and Rogic out for another two months.
Forget centre halfs, we need someone to create chances from midfield.
Maybe a good pint JamesGang, often seen the Black a bit Brown & the White a bit mawkish as well.
Mind you a good pint of Guinness is the only drink I really really enjoy.
With that I’ll bid ye all Good Night & God Bless, I’ll be taking a wee break from the blog myself, not a flounce as Arnold said, I’ll be back.
Burnley
I have a question for you, if I may … (feel free to answer or not) …
How do you feel our Board handled the situation regarding the 5 Way Agreement?
(admittedly it is a trick question … because I venture that, like most on here (including many of us who are shareholders), you cant answer that because you dont know what they did, or why they did it, because our Board seems to think that accounting to the people who pay their wages is beneath them….)
I get how Board’s deal with matters … I sit on a few Boards myself, and was counsel for one of the largest cases in the Commonwealth’s history where it was alleged that a public company was effectively run as a private company … so, I get what is typically dealt with in the public sphere and what is not ….
for me, the issues , the delay, and the lack of communication makes my old spidey sense tingle … something is rotten in the state of Denmark…
but that doesn’t mean that I dont think that Dembele was a good buy … but that is a different issue.
God bless you Corkmhan
Don’t be a stranger to this strange place!
HH jamesgang
JAMESGANG on 17TH JANUARY 2018 11:06 PM
WITS
Halifax Quick News is hell mhate. Not even you could cheer them up!
Woke up in the Maldives on Monday. Went to sleep in London on the same day. Now back home Home to the snow and several loads of washing!!
Reality bites!
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JAMESGANG – ‘Several loads of washing’ ???
WTF, is that not why you got married?
Get her telt -:))))
WITS
To me Celtic are all about Europe.
It is why we are legend.
Not beating pub teams or keeping the parochial business model alive for the benefit of the current custodians.
Not keeping crippled huns around for money.
Celtic took Europe seriously even under MON and WGS but they were let down by this mob.
Now they dont even bother doing that.
Unforgivable
as for OF …even more unforgivable.
RIP my old pal Eddie McConnell
Most of you won’t have heard of him but you will be very familiar with his work.
Eddie was Celtic’s movie cameraman at Lisbon.
Every bit of colour film was captured by Eddie. True to the biscuit tin day he was only given 60mins of film. He had to stop and start during the game – he told me that Jock was not happy because he didn’t get Ronnie’s back heal!
If you have ever watched the Lisbon game in colour then you are indebted to Eddie
Eddie was also an award winning documentary camera man, working with the likes of Grierson- ‘Seaword the Great Ships’ is a gem as is ‘Diamonds were Forever’ (about the trains built in Springburn)
Anyway just thought I would let you know about the passing of part of the Lion’s story.
God bless
RIP Eddie McConnell
We’ve heard of him now. Respect and condolences.
Caltontongues
V funny you!
HH jamesgang
Burnley 78
Why do you bother ?
They are Celtic supporters, for the most part anyway.
A daily breakfast of the Record and Sunday Mail has formed their thinking.
They are at Parkhead every week, demanding expectant, incredible demands, despite what is being delivered more will always be delivered.
The Huns cheat Then it’s Celtic to blame.
Always Celtic to blame.
This has been our most successful period in 50 years.
But fools go to to after 1 defeat.
The most negative fools are lauded on here. Jokers who neither support the Celtic but will take up any gripe.
Some are insidious on here seldom a good word to say about Brendan’s achievements.
My baws shrivel at their hatred of the club.
Have we re-signed Ronny’s old medical team this Window,
Jamesgang
Thank you
Eddie McConnell RIP. I’ll light a candle tomorrow in Drogheda.
WiTs,
We don’t live in a ‘Sevco’ dominated society. You and I can fly in and out and care little that the Plc are apparently throwing away the chance of a lifetime to put the Celtic Family in Scotland on a even footing with the Sevconian.
When did this only become about football?:))
If CQNers believe this was about football they haven’t been watching….
Paradoxically on a measurement on footballing terms our failure to work to ensure adequate administration of the game is damning.
SFTB,
Have a look back at the end of last season and read through the posts.
Surely you can’t be happy at the complete lack of reform in the Scottish game?
What will the excuses be when Sevco win the league in the next season or two?
Referees? Injuries? Transfer Deadlines? Agents? Poor pitches? Poor support in the stadiums/Spoiled Supporters? Malcontents? The Green Brigade? Lack of Video Evidence? Tired Players? Wages in the EPL? Other teams using rough tactics? The SNP? Sinn Fein? THe Labour Party? The Tories? Secularism? Brexit? Price of Sterling? The weather? The Catholic Church? The Church of Scotland? Police Scotland? Refugees? The cost of tickets?….etc….etc
or the folk that gave us Tony Mowbray, NFL as a Rookie and Ronny Deila?
Nytol
HH
burnley 78 @10:29pm
bang on, some are never happy they always fined something to moan about.
i can say for sure , if i asked my mates(all good tims) about there opinion on the five way agreement they
would wonder what the hell i was talking about. does that make them bad tims in a few peoples eyes..yes.
but not in mine.
JRS
You’re very welcome Sir
I’m so sorry for the loss of your friend.
Good night
HH jamesgang
BURNLEY78
Folk who have never been accountable loving to blame folk who have responsibility. No real solutions themselves but it feels better to moan than enjoy Celtic for a wee minute.
You do realise we are Scottish?.
Moaning is about 67% of our DNA.
Everyone i know thinks I’m a moaning bar steward especially the wife.
Our glass is rarely half full as we down it as soon as it’s put in front of us so we can get on with important things like moaning.
Commper, Rogic, Armsrong and, hopefully, Roberts, all fit and well rested for the qualifiers.
Now that’s what I call good planning and squad rotation.
#alwayslookonthebrightside….
Don’t know if this will work as a link, but if not just YouTube Seawards the Great Ships – if you ever had a link to shipbuilding it will ring a bell.
Just a wee tribute to my mate who helped this film to an Oscar
https://youtu.be/8zJbdhCyBcQ
RIP EDDIE MC CONNELL.
Clogher Celt: Pleased to see you still have faith in the old candle in Drogheda part of your past at least.
I am surprised and bewildered by your different attitude to CFC now cf with Easter 2016 when BMCUWP and myself spent a fantastic few days in your company(and your son’s) in Dublin’s fair city.
Since then we have achieved results beyond any in even my lifetime of supporting and though recently performances have declined results are still up there with the best of any previous teams.
Disappointment I can understand but putting the boot in is not the gentleman I spent time with in Clogher.
We will be a long time dead so welcome the still great times whilst here.
Mrs CCB shouting lights out…. will catch up later
KTF.
Fanatic
I have deduced that you are in fact … Mark Renton
I claim my five pounds!
:)
mit
off to watch cbc, just finished i nice curry(new recipe).
Re reasons for lack of debate on here.
I can remember reading the first 3-4 pages of CQN and it would be full of debate around the pertinent points raised in the lead article.
It’s been a while and I honestly can’t remember the last time it happened
HH
Clogher celt?
“What will the excuses be when Sevco win the league in the next season or two? ”
The perfect example of a “When did you stop beating your wife?” type of question.
Do you believe the Rangers are coming that quickly? When they dominated their 9iar, we actually beat them now and then and threw in a few draws but, for most of that time, we too thought we were only a couple of signings away from stealing the league back from them. We exaggerated how near we were and now we are exagerrating how near they are.
They got a draw last time and beat us after extra time on pens two seasons ago. In the most recent draw, when you asserted we were outplayed and found out, we had 56% possesion, 11 shots to their 8, with 4 on target to their 3, and 7 corners to their 4. We committed fewer fouls but had trhe same number booked. It was not a good or a good enough performance but it was not what you portrayed nor is it part of an inevitable trend.
Football is a funny game. We have an 11 point lead over them- they are not even our closest rival. They are rated as 50 to 1 to win this year and we are 66 to 1 on. It is not complacency but realism that leads us to believe that we are likely to win at least 2 more titles before thay have a fair chance of getting their act together. But a league loss, sometime in the future, remains a likely outcome because success can be cyclical. Your guess is as good as mine as to when that will happen- 3 years ? 5?? 10??? 20???? but I still would not advise you to put any of your hard earned dough on them doing it within the next two years which kind of makes your question moot.
And, in answer to your earlier questions. Of course I am not satisfied with my club’s handling of Scottish football events around Rangers/Sevco since 2012. I am also unhappy with their dealings over the GB and the recent warnings over transferred use of Season Book tickets.
But I can seperate my dissatisfaction with those an still have a rational appreciation of our record breaking Invincible run ( I worry about those who diminish it with talk of pub leagues and trebles as a given). If these things were so easily achieved there would be lots more of them. And I can fully understand the structural reasons (Bosman ruling, TV doping money and the increasing tightening of the elite contenders to within the top 6 clubs of the top 5 leagues). Those are reasons and cannot be portrayed as excuses.
What gives you the confidence that these factors can be bucked by a Scottish team in a peripheral market when they cannot be bucked by the equivalent teams in bigger but still middling countries like Portugal and The Netherlands.
I will continue to enjoy the ride.
And, if the sky does fall and we lose a cup or a league, I will still cope, even if it is to “them”. The people who gave me my love of Celtic had to cope with much more. Much much more. I count my blessings.
Goodnight all!
DBHOY
That’s because…
MWD
MWD
It’s self explanatory
SFTB
“They are rated as 50 to 1 to win this year and we are 66 to 1 on”. So between 1st at 66-1 on to 3rd at 50-1against then I think it’s safe to assume the rest of the teams are also rans. I know they are not pub teams but they might as well be.
JIMMYNOTPAUL on 17TH JANUARY 2018 8:27 PM
cant believe in the same week it was on the BBC News page we forgot about Scotland’s most successful export to Italy
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-42689447
SFTB
Are you not aware you are not allowed to appreciate our clubs on field triumphs and record breaking performance and question our clubs executives with regards business and supporter issues at the same time.
Please apologise to Burnley (do you remember the 90’s) hungimy number now! Or for ever be viewed as a lesser man and fan.
MWD
Insulting posters who don’t share your views is also counter productive to debate IMO
Seems like, property tycoon
Brendan the bonus bhoy
is well at home wi the rest
ae the PLC Old Firm tory toffs
Aye.
Still, some ae the stuck up’s
canny see that the £45 k
that he gits a week, isny jist
fur skelping Scoattish pub teams
its fur his fudging effect
ye know the effect that made
53,000 Celtic supporters, of 2018
look the ither wye, as the PLC
craftily, knowing that empty seats
thee, only weapon for present day
supporters
widny be an option under the
eye candy pretty bhoy who canny
git a big team in the EPL, but, was
exactly the ultimate smoke n mirrors
bhoy to git the PLC’s complicit silence
and cowardice to deal wi the same club issue
fudged onto the hard shoulder and, rather
than earn their corporate coin by nailing
the Sevco / Rainjurs same club lie, they passed
the buck to their googly eyed support who
then flung the heard earned merits of
The Internet Bampots over the cliff, with out
batting an eye lid, as they jumped on the
Brendan PLC Bonus Bus wi the rest ae
the soul sellers as they, unbelievably
paid £49 for Old Firm Same Club lie tickets !!!
Some ae those mugs even crowd funded
“statements” into obscure hun newspapers
that are read by, two guys and a dug
to claim that, Sevco / Rainjurs are different
clubs, Jesus wept.
25 Years ae Murray Mibbery, wiped oot
for £49 ???
These same folk will tell us that its the
huns who are gullibilly’s ???
What does that make them ?
Green gullibilly’s ???
Ah mean, by selling thur souls, with ease
the Celtic support, of 2018, they gave the PLC
thur ain version of Shawshank Redemption !!!
Look’s like yeez are still very much in need ae
the oul broken record…..tae yeez git it.
……..Oot.
Hello again all you young rebels.
Aye, even you KEVJ.
Our posters about the Celtic academy are doing very well, lots
of good feedback coming in, should be a sell out.
The wee mhan said ” papa why dae ye always say big handsome
Tom when ye describe them to people ?
” well wee mhan when i played thats how i imagined myself, just
like him, tall dark and handsome”
” but ye wurny papa av seen photies of ye when you were young ”
” i know wee mhan, i looked more like wee Archie Gemmel but
i had a vivid imagination ( 8-)).
OZ TIMS
At last our big Celtic weekend is here again so all you peninsula
rebels get your scarves, banners, hoops tops out again, lovely day
expected on Sun. 27 degs after a week of high 30’s, bliss.
Event starts at 2 with our other big rebel Richie McKay belting out
the reb songs as only he can.
Oh! and i did buy Paddymac a pint the other day but he needs to
learn you don’t get wealthy spending your own money, Sir Minty,
Charlie bhoy Green, and our hero Craigie, taught us all how to
do that ( 8-))
H.H Mick
MELBOURNEMICK
A breath of fresh air,reading that! Mind,sounds like you could all do wi some fresh air,with temperatures that high.
That would kill me,anything above 20 is tropical,as far as I’m concerned. Hope y’all have a great time at the weekend-and that PADDYMACOZ buys you that pint back!!!
*FAC NEWS*
This was published just after midnight last night, it’s very significant in our continuing struggle to have the Act repealed. Well done everyone!
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STAGE 1 REPORT ON THE OFFENSIVE BEHAVIOUR AT FOOTBALL AND THREATENING COMMUNICATIONS (REPEAL) (SCOTLAND) BILL
Conclusions
The Committee supports, by division, the general principles of the Billi.
The minority who voted against the general principles of the Bill are of the view that, should the 2012 Act be retained, the Scottish Government should revisit the 2012 Act and bring forward constructive amendments.
Griff injured anaw noo :-((
Harry Boe on 17th January 2018 9:31 pm
Can’t be looking hard enough, there’s loads on here agree with you. You must be reading just the posts that don’t. Folk can be pleased with were we are while still looking for improvement. Before the break we lacked a spark, our movement all round the park seemed to be lacking and our passing had shaded. Hopefully we come back refreshed and motivated.
On the HCTS and the two cup games will see £50 out my account. Zenit game is overpriced.
HT
I got what I presume to be the usual copy and paste reply from Keith Brown MSP quoting survey stats and quotations that just reinforce the adage, ‘lies, damn lies, statistics….and survey feedback’
HH jamesgang
If you haven’t played darts blindfolded…..
You don’t know what your missing….
;-)
Cheers Jamesgang!