I hear from good sources at Celtic Park that despite Victor Wanyama declining to sign a contract extension since October last year, the player is an absolute joy to deal with. His professionalism is well rooted; there have been no “rolled out of the pub” emails about this guy, nor is there likely to be.
There are usually reasons why a player with the best part of three years left on his contract (as it was) declines a one year extension for dramatically better wages (Victor is on an entry level contract and was offered a top pay deal). We now know discussions were taking place for a proposed move to QPR last summer.
According to Victor’s agent, Celtic blocked the proposed move, costing the player £1m in wages. It could be argued that advising Victor to decline Celtic’s new contract offer also cost Victor a substantial sum.
Herein lies the problem. QPR were paying the kind of money that would make Louis XVI wince. Staggering sums were paid to players, well beyond their value. Despite this, those very same players are now readjusting to life as lower-division players.
The irony has escaped Vic’s agent, but the contract value proposed to the player during QPR’s pre-guillotine era made declining Celtic’s offer almost a year ago look like a good idea. The contract offered by saner-Southampton clearly pales by comparison, which will make the decision to sit on entry-level wages at Celtic for nine months look ridiculous. Of course people are getting irritated, there are questions to answer about the advice given.
My guess is that the agent needs to pull a big contract offer out of the bag. Victor is a special talent but Louis XVI-type offers don’t always come along in twos. If Victor goes, it will be to a club matching Celtic’s valuation and the money will come in handy. If he stays, Celtic expect to retain their top player for another two years. No one, and I mean no one, is distressed at this prospect, after all, Celtic sell when they choose to, not because they have to.
So the Daily Record have (for the second time, in case you’ve not been paying attention) dipped their toes into Charlotte waters. Items “leaked on to the internet, where they are openly available” have been used, without reference to source, and without concern for apparent legal consequence.
As far as I am aware, none of the owners of the material leaked have disputed their authenticity or declined permission for it to be used. Our media are a huge part of this story, they feature in galling terms in many of the leaked documents. The cry of legal probity was convenient, but has twice been shown to be nonsense by the Daily Record (who have been highly selective on who to target).
It is a huge story.
There are months of material waiting to be written about.
The Daily Record are doing what many said cannot be done, without consequence.
But, this one does not fit popular narrative, and is likely to cause the kind of schism Mme Guillotine did in 18th century France. Seek Truth, as someone once said.
Willie Wallace………… what can we say?
Willie came onto CQN last night before leaving for Australia today. This is a taste of what he said:
“I just wanted to come back onto CQN this evening to say my farewells as myself and Olive head back to Australia tomorrow. I would like to offer my heartfelt thanks to all the Celtic supporters I have met during the past month, at book signing events, in supporters clubs such as Greenock and at the CQN Golf Day.
“Also to everyone at the Lions Roar event last Friday where Bertie stole the show as usual! I came all the way from Australia and I couldn’t get a word in! The 1254125 charity tells you everything you need to know about Celtic supporters.
What is amazing about this Celtic family of ours is that when you live at the other side of the world you still know that this is a special club with wonderful supporters. Then you come back to Scotland and realise you actually under estimated these things because Celtic is even better than you remember and the fans are truly amazing. The best in the world.
“To everyone on CQN can I say a very special thank you. I hoped that the book would go well and we’d sell a few copies but it was never about money – it was about telling my story. I arrived at Winning Captains house and was met by a mountain of books to sign – all ordered by the CQNers. I had to go back another day to finish signing and the mountain was as big as before! I’ve been avoiding him ever since!
To Brogan Rogan Trevino and Hogan – when I heard his name I thought that would be some round of drinks! He’s been great, helping make Heart of a Lion what it is – a really good Celtic book – and turning up at the CQN events and book signings.
“Thank you the CQN’ers.
“Thanks to the Celtic family and I look forward to our next trip home to Paradise.
“Hail Hail and all the best to each of you and your families.
“Willie Wallace
“Keep the Faith!
“Hail Hail!”
Willie, it has been an utter joy. Thank you.
Heart of a Lion:
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This is shocking. Greg Palast is a brilliant investigative journalist. For anyone who is interested he really is good to follow…. only thing is his stories make me sad, mad, angry and despondent in equal measures. What sort of world are these ba….s trying to create? Or re-create?
http://us4.campaign-archive1.com/?u=33e4ec877eed6a43863a4a92e&id=3a0d12d623&e=0ad894fae7
Starry Plough
Auldheid
Skyisalandfill
twists n turns
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Aye – I love yeez awe as well M8’s :)
Here’s the thing – If a respected CQNer – canamalar1- get’s the right result which will mean the bored having to back-track and apologize to the fans for exactly what I come on here and moan about ‘every’ day – the fact that their not on the same page – what will yeez dae – congratulate him – deservedly imo – or will yeez tell him that he should be happy wi all things Celtic and shut-up complaining ?
The only balance that some on here are capable of – grasping / adhering to is – imbalance – slanted toward the happy-clapping culture so fondly embraced by the easily pleased.
Aye, the balance-sheet is important but – it shouldn’t be the all consuming focus or, obsession ala the boreds.
Don’t wait until the crowds are down to – 20k – before doing what needs to be done.
That is – Celtic PLC to flex their muscles and get the following into place…
Wage capping for players
Admission prices slashed
No more 12 -o’clock kick-offs
3 o’clock kick-offs on Saturday
Any live TV games to be played on a Friday
Sell the catering Franchise to – Macdonalds and get real
Get numbers back on the shorts
Stop feckin- aboot wi the hoops – I think the new strip as awe right but – please stop messing wi them.
Oh, and – I do contribute tae the Cellic by getting stuff from the shops / canny afford a new SB for masel and I go noo and again having paid my way for nearly 45 years surely now I’m not going to find myself as a victim of some type of – class-wars – cause a canny get a SB the noo ? No time for cheap sneers btw…I’m no sayin any of you folks have done that but – it does creep in some time on here and creates a hunny / supremacy type of flavor that I canny stand.
Oh, bring back standing room please :)
Hail Hail – Bring Back The Jungle – CSC
starry plough
09:40 on 27 June, 2013
He had Celtic in his heart, though, and there are few QC’s going around with that quality ( basically, he didn’t take any cr*p from any of the sad cretins )…….May God Rest His Soul…
unew mike
06:21 on 27 June, 2013
Ha Ha – and that had a really horrible part in the middle!!
Great to see you posting again. Hope your doing well
pyfinl
kevjungle
09:46 on 27 June, 2013
I dub you ‘King Negatonian’ …….LOL…….go on, say something nice about Celtic …… You know you want to…..!!!!!!!!
SPFL merger vote placed under new threat by due diligence fears
The proposed merger of the Scottish Premier League and Scottish Football League, which is due to be concluded at Hampden on Thursday, may yet be thwarted after a report from the SFL’s accountants highlighted serious concerns.
Just over a fortnight ago SFL members voted by 23-6 in favour of mutating into the new Scottish Professional Football League alongside the top 12 clubs.
However, that acceptance was conditional on the nine-strong SFL board being given comfort that due diligence has been carried out and that is now very much in doubt.
Consequently, it is possible that the SFL board may now choose not to accept culpability by endorsing the motion and, instead, ask the 29 members – Rangers, as a new club, are only associate members and therefore not allowed to vote – to decide on the matter.
It remains uncertain whether or not such a vote – if taken – would be constitutionally competent but, if and when it takes place, only eight dissenters would be required to see the amalgamation abandoned.
Wylie and Bisset, the SFL’s accountants, claim they have been unable to fulfil the scope of due diligence as a result of the lack of detail provided by the SPL.
There are major fears concerning the financial liabilities the SFL clubs may be exposing themselves to should the merger proceed and it is understood that, for example, the £1.7 million lawsuit launched by former Celtic player Harry Hood’s Lisini Pub Management Group did not rate a mention by the SPL in the documentation sent to Wylie and Bisset.
Hood’s court case arose when the SPL banned him from utilising a Polish decoder to show Scottish games in his four pubs.
A judge has already ruled in a publican’s favour in a similar battle in England and the fear is that a similar success for Hood could lead to a series of similar, more expensive claims from bigger chains and that SFL clubs would be liable for a share of the bill.
However, that is only one of the risks that Wylie and Bisset have been unable to put a price on due to the lack of detailed information made available to them.
The SFL board members have been emphatically encouraged to seek their own legal advice before they approve the motion to dissolve the 123-year-old league.
Failure to have the new structure endorsed would be another major embarrassment for SPL chief executive Neil Doncaster and Stewart Regan, the chief executive of the Scottish Football Association, who have driven this particular reform.
KevJungle
You know what you’re right I’m going to move into the past with you, have ye goat a wee sofa and a black and white telly as well??
Standing room only in the jungle!!
German fitbaw works because it’s their national support and they run their game out of love and business acumen, can you imagine our ruling bodies trying to introduce standing room again, naw neither could ah!
They couldnae run a menage that lot!
16 Roads,
Agree with most of what you say, but I’ve not noticed much Zionist propaganda from the BBC – have I missed something?
The bored must listen before it is too late!
A Modest Proposal.
1. All Celtic players must wear baggy shorts.
2. All players must have proper haircuts.
3. Free pies at all matches.
4. All tickets 3 bob and sixpence for gents, 3 bob and thruppence for ladies, 2 bob and tuppence for weans.
5. Televised matches only to be broadcast on transistor radio.
6. All Celtic fans must wear proper scarves and bobble hats all year round – have huge ears and shake enormous rattles..
and so on…
Malarkey
09:28 on 27 June, 2013
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I like yer stuff M8 – and always read what yer Cellic thoughts.
But – it’s you whose wearing the blind-fold.
What will you and a lot of other folk be saying when – the huns / Sevco – or whatever they’ll be called are back in the SPL getting all the corruption going their way again ?
I mean Timdom has been sitting waiting for someone to – stake the beast – but, when it comes down to it – the black-arts gets them OFF !!!
I mean – 3 years oot the top league – to avoid paying – £140 mill ???
Whose the mugs ?
They’ll be back and their hatred will be super-charged. imo
Hail Hail
Malarkey
09:58 on 27 June, 2013
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I respected you M8 – and you threw it back in my face.
Your incapable of entertaining any level of – balance.
All inclusive – HA :)
Blantyretim 09:39
Cheers, its not a touristy place so seems unlikely but worth asking.
EN
malarkey
Celtic do pay shareholders dividends but shareholders can take this in the form of more shares as I do .
HH
blantyretim
09:29 on 27 June, 2013
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I as always – RESPECT – what you say.
But, I canny shake the feeling of being shafted by the bored.
If I say that – surely it has to be allowed as a sort of – balance- to
all the happy-clapping-sheep ?
Hail Hail
art of war
09:27 on 27 June, 2013
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He was a big mate of a guy I qualified with (Tim) and if I remember correctly he used to run a mobile disco when we were students, in the 70’s. I was taken by the name and asked him about it as there is a beer tent at the Oktoberfest called Fischer Vroni, that specialises in fish as well as beer.
Sad loss indeed.
Malarkey. The only thing you missed is the players all smoking fags at half time a la Harry Enfield.
Yes Sevco will one day play in the SPL,with the fans/bigots of the dead club,they will then be able to charge £500/1000,in fact any price they want for a season ticket for these bigots will pay any price to display their supremacy .
Kev J
Live games on a Friday night, who would that suit?
67Heaven … 09:41
Sorry to interupt but do you honestly think this is the best period in OUR history?
To me the brilliant death of a rival does not affect our history.
Id hazard a guess that nine in a row and the Big Cup might have been our best period ;)
EN
67Heaven … I am Neil Lennon..!!.. Ibrox belongs to the creditors
09:49 on 27 June, 2013
kevjungle
09:46 on 27 June, 2013
I dub you ‘King Negatonian’ …….LOL…….go on, say something nice about Celtic …… You know you want to…..!!!!!!!!
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OK – Cellic will win the Treble this season – will get into the CL groups stage and will finish 3rd and then go on and be – shock troops in the Europa League – if they don’t….the jokes on YOU :)
Oh – how long will ye wait for the creditors to take the orcdome – afore ye realize that – they’ll be back and guess who’ll be backing them from behind the scenes ?
Hail Hail
Hamiltontim
10:14 on 27 June, 2013
Kev J
Live games on a Friday night, who would that suit?
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Fholk that don’t work on a Friday night.
KevJungle. I agree that the The Rangers will be back in the SPL sooner rather than later I also agree that getting rid of 140 million debt there punishment has been puny.However,what I dont see exactly is what you want the Celtic board to do about it ?Celtic are only one club in Scottish football and it is obvious to me anyway that the majority of clubs want a strong The Rangers back at the top of Scottish football I accept the fact that our club continues to look for a way out of Scottish football and until an opportunity presents itself we have to continue to do business in Scotland. H.H.
HH
I keep tabs on a few in the SMSM etc via twitter, and I note whenever you or someone else hits a nerve, their default setting is to call you boring..
STV bods, Michael Grant( Herald) have all called ME boring recently,when I ve pulled them up for Sevco promotion and poor investigative journalism …
I just wondered if any other CQN ers had encountered this?
Maybe I AM boring..ha. How dare I call STV,Herald, etc out, for their shameless promotions of Sevco ..
I NOTE Charlotte is being called boring today by bods at Snyde.. I m in good company…
HH
KevJungle
Seriously… I’ve stood outside Topshop handing out leaflets about tax evasion to gawping feckless teenagers. I am as scandalised by Rangers tax cheating as anyone.
Yet though liquidated there was never any circumstance by which they would disappear forever. The new club / old club debate bores me (psssst…its a new club). A club calling itself Rangers followed by the same section of Scottish society will be playing in the SPL in 3-4 years time.
This would have happened no matter what combination of Celtic action/ inaction, administration, liquidation, league reconstruction, FTT outcome had actually happened. Because when we talk about disliking Rangers we are talking about a knuckle -dragging tendency within Scottish society — that just happen to express their unpleasantness via a football team.
Happily the team destroyed itself.. so we get respite for a good few years:
“A society composed of none but the wicked could not exist; it contains within itself the seeds of its own destruction, and without a flood, would be swept away from the earth by the deluge of its own iniquity.”
..as I said enjoy it while it lasts. This was a good thing.
Kev J
The majority of live Celtic games are away from home, naturally this involves travel time. How exactly do you expect supporters to get there on time?
MagicCarpetCSC
Does anybody hear a wee dug barking??
Starry
I thought it was just me?!
@timomouse: Celtic are in for Philipp Hosiner. £5m fee is all that’s needed and player wants to leave Austria. No Bundesliga cub will meet the fee.
Dunno how true this is. Scored 32/36games for vienna last year apparntly .
Kev
on mobiile now so not scrolling back but I believe I said something like” as usual I agree with nearly everything you say” but added the balance sheet was important. Nay great disagreement there bud. Oh… Standing in the jungle at 3 pm own a setterday? I wish…..and if we’re going all retro, then I’ll have kwenchy cups and macaroon bars tae:-D
Hamiltontim
10:23 on 27 June, 2013
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I canny for the life of me – see how going to an away game – mostly on a Sunday and – mostly up in the Highlands as they will be now with what – 10 ?
Maybe more if ye include Cup games – and also on Saturday’s as well – their also moving the SCF to a Sunday too – I thought that with Celtic eventually being represented at the SFA some sort of influence would be brought to bear – instead it’s got worse ?
Who are asked to play most of these TV games away from home for the TV ?
Only saying M8 – Hail Hail
Btw – I’ve been hearing that here’s a march in yer place on Saturday ?
twists n turns
10:31 on 27 June, 2013
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Aye – I’ll have some of that M8 :)
Hail Hail n God Bless
Hamiltontim
10:23 on 27 June, 2013
Kev J
The majority of live Celtic games are away from home, naturally this involves travel time. How exactly do you expect supporters to get there on time?
MagicCarpetCSC
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I don’t expect them to get there in time – just like 12 o’clock on Sat & Sun.
Ye see – nobody gives a flying toss – as long as the fans pay their money.
But – they urny daein that as much noo.
How can that be ?
Nae huns to beat anymare ?
Cause whit they see on the pitch is dire ?
Cause they’ve to sit in minus – 10 degrees on a plastic seat for 2 oors ?
Cause it’s too dear ?
Cause they don’t like being filmed ?
Or – Im a joost a moaner ?
Hail Hail
Tom M
Be strong, sir, you are much needed here.
Kev J
The live fixtures are decided by the TV companies with occasional dialogue with the police, Celtic don’t have a say in the matter.
I agree early kick offs on Saturdays or Sundays are far from ideal but at least they permit most people travelling time without having to take additional time off work. If games were played on Friday nights many supporters would lose wages as a result of having to travel, it’s madness I tell ye!!
Ps yes there is indeed a Republican parade in Hamilton on Saturday leaving from Low Waters Rd at 12:30pm.
Tom Mclauchlin / Gold Coast Tom
Fitba means nothing.
You getting better means EVERYTHING M8
YNWA
Kev J
The supporters do make early kick offs on Saturdays and Sundays.
Kev J
With respect if you think that Friday night away games suits the Celtic support then there really is a moon awaiting your bark.
No old skool wish list would be complete without more wee dugs and foxes running onto the park during the game.
Under they big pylons at night, natch, with the official crowd at 34,672 but another 25,000 tims appear to have squeezed in somehow.