Likely summer signing number two, Virgil van Dijk, arrived in Glasgow this morning for a medical after terms were agreed with the player and his club, Groningen. The 6’4” player, who will be 22 next month, is a Dutch under-21 international.
Virgil is two weeks younger than Victor Wanyama and emerged into the Groningen team around the same time Victor pitched up in Glasgow, they have made almost exactly the same number of appearances for their respective clubs, 62 top flight games in total, in the case of Virgil.
62 games is an interesting figure. Enough to bed in, catch local scouts’ eyes and have well-travelled men from Glasgow watch several times before making a recommendation. Not enough to catch the eyes of less well-organised, but no less resourceful, scouts in the bottom half of the English Premier League, who Celtic now seem to compete for talent with.
If Virgil is the real deal, another couple of dozen games might have changed the competition for his signature.
Is there a 50-80 game window which can deliver sufficient evidence of a player’s talent, but not too much evidence, which evaporates the value gap? This hypothesis would be easy to test and if it holds would provide an interesting filter on the hundreds of names pushed to the club each year.
Have you booked for the Lions Roar event at Celtic Park tomorrow night? Last and precious opportunity to watch how the European Cup was won with the men who did the work. In short, priceless. Tickets available here.
Speaking of the men who won it, buy Heart of a Lion here:
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Charlotte Fakeovers@CharlotteFakes27m
2 Who is we? That R***ers have nothing to do with the current lot selling season books at Ibrox.
Cathedral View 20.01
Can anyone tell me why it’s called the “Dublin Decider” ?
Probably Magners trying to get the word “cider” in……
glasstwothirdsfull
19:41 on 20 June, 2013
They’re all a pathetic joke….
The crowd is amazing.
Cheering every Tahiti touch and booing Spain like kids at a pantomime
Brilliant atmosphere!!
New strip is nice….like all our Home shirts have been. There has been a couple of dodgy away shirts but thinking back I would say our Home shirts have always been impressive.
Personal favourites :
1. Lisbon 67 home top, obviously.
2. Centenary home top from 1988…McStay at his very best.
3. 1980-82 home top, simple but effective. V- neck, no sponsors, beautiful. And Johnny Doyle wore it.
Geordie
Oh no it isn’t. .
BT
Ha! I seened what ye did there;)
good evening cqn
Welcome virgil to the best team in the world
The Big Dutchman was interviewed on John Mckay news,he mentioned the Barcelona game,Big Balde also mentioned it when he was spoken to,looks like that game has won Celtic a lot of browny points in the football world
How are ticket sales going at Sevco anybody no ?
Or is that question A Masonic secret
H H
Dotbranningsouprecipes post at 19.45 is the first I’ve read on here about events in ole Albert Sq.
This must be the close season right enough.
BRTH, Auldheid, Paul67, Paul McC (not the Snootie_Paulo one, from twitter, the Paul McConville one) any of this worth anything…
Page 53, independence of clubs, 1a, c & d
re shares in Arsenal and what link exactly did Minty have with Blackburn via Souness?
C’mon Tahiti!
Murder these bums
To add: these rules have remained in place almost unchanged since that season. I have been unable to source regulations prior to 2003.
Spanish flip flops
Spain are always good to watch, and this Brazilian crowd are really doing their best to make this game seem an interesting contest.
But I’m really looking forward to Nigeria v Uruguay later tonight.
Ole Tahitians sing in’ you’ll never walk aloha
Saint Stivs/Eurochamps/BSR
Just in, and reading back and laughing at the black boots and samba discussion.
About six months ago, Del Jnr (13yr old) announced that he needed a new pair of shoes for P.E., so off we go to the Fort, where an astonishing range of multi-coloured sports footwear greeted us!
After much gnashing of teeth from him, and despite his protests that they were “auld man’s trainers”, I managed to persuade him that Adidas Samba was a classic shoe, and were just what he needed for P.E., much better than any of those horrible coloured ones (and I was paying!).
Anyway, once he started wearing them to school, travelling to his football on a Saturday, and even casually, he started to get so many positive comments from teachers, coaches, uncles etc., that he began to enjoy wearing them so much, that they were never off his feet, his turquoise and lime green pumas were consigned to the cupboard, and I’m now having to take him back to get a new pair before we go on holiday!
Incidentally, two of the bhoys from the boys club I help to coach, have recently signed pro youth with St. Mirren 2000’s, where black boots are compulsory! One of them had to go out and buy black shoe dye before playing his first game!
BlackisblackCSC
i wouldn’t take Torres for nothing
Now sing in’ with a 4 leaf pineapple on my chest
The Tahiti Prime Minister has awarded the guy who scored v Nigeria,the much coveted Freedom of the Hammock.
Paul67 et al
Rangers, more than a club
Two clubs actually
Spanish substitution -Reina off Fabregas on
Tahiti fans doing the agadoo
big team getting all the decisions here
Remember playing on Glasgow Green many times, suffered some really painful gravel rashes. After one particular incident the guy who ran our team produced a wee bottle of Iodine and a small nail brush and scrubbed the rash to get the gravel out.He said it is for your own good, might well have been but it was bloody painful.
Tahit’s a grand ole team to play for
Wish Torres would smile now and again….!!!!
4 …..poor Tahiti
Wee davie silver …. might be related to that guy who sailed the waters around tahiti… long john
TBJ
:)))
Anybody in g32 havin bother with the picture on their freeview? Mines is going bonkers. Its like scrambled with norman collier doin the commentary
Right, I know my dream of 11 millionaire Nandos-lovin’ hoopsters wearing black Adidas football boots is unlikely to happen anytime soon. But, I would sell one of my daughters – the one whose handheld gadgets are superglued to her hands preferably – just to see our Greek God stride out onto Celtic Park in a pair of ole school regulation boots.
The Tahiti subs are the guys who lost Battleship or Cruiser in the warm up.
We can see you surfin ‘ out
“Roamin in the rainforest……….with a passion fruit in ma hand……………..”
Johnnyclash
Dont all kids have a gadget glued to their hands these days.
Btw
Salvage and nebin saying Spain are poor cos they are only 4-0 up… I detest those 2 nyaffs
Tahiti quick news in meltdown, they can’t understand what ‘s Gauguin on out there
THT @TheHumanTorpedo 6m
I’ve doubted the Polynesian ability to defend ever since I noticed those Gary Caldwell statues on Easter Island #tahiti
Delbhoy59
Adidas Samba don’t shrink to fit inferior players, even ole Eurochamps67 can out bounce
Bangura in them.
ThreeStripes CSC