Virgil van Dijk looks like a level-headed footballer, so I don’t think his game will be upset by his agent’s loose lips. He has enjoyed a remarkably successful first season at Celtic Park but any attempt by his representatives to create an earner this summer is likely to be inhibited by the three years remaining on his Celtic contract.
There is always a risk of serious injury, but short of that, Virgil’s market value will not diminish in the next 12 months and may even appreciate. He is in a completely different situation from Victor Wanyama and Gary Hooper, who glided into the last two and one year of their contracts respectively.
It’s a truism of football that those spending a nation’s the mineral wealth on football players tend to get what they want, but it remains to be seen if a handful of Champions League performances are enough to tempt this kind of approach onto the table. Great player though he promises to be, Virgil’s not been tested at the top level over a prolonged period.
Thanks again for all your support of the Mary’s Meals Malawi school kitchen project ahead of Friday’s CQteN St Patrick’s Day dinner. You can get involved here.
For whisky aficionados, we have a very special auction running between now and 12:00 on Friday. We have bottle No. 1 of a limited edition (291 in total) Craigallachie Telford’s Bridge, in a wooden box and presentation cardboard tube, whit an authentication certificate.
Bids are by email only to auction@celticquicknews.co.uk. This is a rare and valuable bottle, an opening bid of £100 is on the table. Shipping within UK and Ireland is included. Please include contact details and your bid amount.
Rest in Peace, Rose Theresa Brennan, who died yesterday, and our thoughts and prayers to Martin42 on the loss of his mother, for the difficult days ahead.
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WeefratheTim
23:18 on
11 March, 2014
As a reformed smoker of 30 years,I understand your point of view.
Nevertheless, not “dictated to”, discouraged from.
No idea about eggs etc.
About 3 years ago I bought 1/2 doz from one of the supermarkets (chances were it was Asda (govan )).
Each of the six eggs was a double yoked. I promise.
I’m 55 years old and have cracked a few eggs in my time (chief cook and bottle washer) but I’ve never ever had another double yoke.
What’s the odds against that? Six doubles in one box and never another in 55 years? How do you work out the odds?
Coneybhoy-set myself up a wee bit there ..
Finished with Cheltenham for this year.
Fat bassa bookie got my money today.
The New One was moral victor in Champion hurdle but he won’t pay out on morals.
BacktaeworkCSC
I have to agree with WEEFRATHETIM re the smoking ban. Not so much that it was class warfare,but it certainly damaged the Labour Party’s vote.
It is a matter of record that working-class people are more inclined to smoke and drink,and that was the demographic most affected by the ban. Typically Labour voters,they showed their displeasure.
A huge own goal by Labour.
Night all Night wee Oscar my hero. God bless x
Coneybhoy
Thanks bud, lovely offer.
RYECATCHER
I should chuck it too. One winner on the naps table.
And I didnae even back it!
Still…..
Still trying to get the fat bookie bassa to pay out on Dancing Brave’s moral victory in 1986 Derby.
Was good to get even in the Arc de Triomphe that year….oh yes!!
CannaefeedtheweansonmoralsCSC
For all the CQN Beyoce fans.
The gig just kicked oot in Dub and the pub has just filled with leather clad women(and one lad with his girlfriend). I am giving him an older bloke knowing stare!!
Heartfelt condolences to the Brennan family at this sad time.
Rip Rose Theresa.
HH
KTF
The mantra of everyone giving up smoking is a government fallacy,if everyone chucked it the country would collapse.Tax after tax-from a non-smoker
BMCUW
Any joy today?
I had 2second and 2third. Where was my 5th Hurriane fly?
WiTS
Muchos Gracious
Tough racing…..I knew an ex jockey back in Rathcoole, and for the life of me can’t remember his last name just now, I will find out the morra, anyways, his first name is Mick,it could be Delaney, he rode at Chelt back in the 80s, and he told us that he was about 10 lengths clear running up the hill thinking he has it in the bag, the next thing he remembers is about half a dozen overtaking him as if he was standing still, tough is an understatement >}
HH
coneybhoy
I never mentioned “workers rights” as in the workplace, just that we could not have a pint and a fag at the same time. Standing outside in filthy weather to enjoy our habit was dictatorial. They even disallowed a smoking room. Stuff them, the labour party made hundreds of pounds from me, maybe thousands, and let me down big time. I will never forgive them. Ask yourself this, why have they never won an election for the Scottish Parliament since McConnells departure, I leave that conundrum with your good self. ,maybe it’s because a lot of us smoke. :-))
Weefra HH supporting Wee Oscar.
Coneybhoy- hanky handy? :))
BB
Hear hear
Us puffers support the stinking system like no one else.
Growyerown!
My 83 year auld da once told me an interesting statistic…..,
100% of non smokers die.
Aff oot tae the back door fur a smoke.
Tom Molach
The scanner was obviously not working that day they slipped through >}
HH
WeefratheTim
Because you have talked about Araucana chicken eggs, i have been longing to try them.
I am from the Falkirk area, but so far i haven’t found anyone who sells them.
Do you know, or can you perhaps suggest anyone that does sell them in my area, and if you can, how much would it roughly cost for say, half a dozen of them?
There is a Farmer’s Market on the 1st Friday of every month, but its between noon and 4pm so because of the hours i work, i always miss it.
18th century politics and fags in pubs. Are these really the issues in this debate?
It’s 2014 innit?
Start quaking.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/26539769
King will meet Laxey partners. I expect him to be told their 13% is available for £5m. Will he pay up? No chance!
Rye
100% of smokers die happy. :))
Puff on!
Weefra
I’m a smoker, and I reckon the smoking ban is the best thing since sliced bread.
I gave it up for quite a few years, and was over the moon when they brought it in, I was living in Ireland at the time.
It works a treat here, the weather helps mind you >}
HH
Syd,
Ooooooo matron…..
Saying there are Fags in pubs would get you lifted in Salmond’s Scotland.
ryecatcher
Yer a friggin nutter, but a true story, my gran stopped smoking on her 90th birthday because she thought it would shorten her life, seriously. She started smoking again on her 100th and died 7 weeks before her 102nd. Howzat. True story. :-))
Weefra HH supporting Wee Oscar.
TM
King should be wary of the company he keeps in Glasgow. He should be very wary of the buses and taxis he uses.
Delaneys Dunky
I am almost certainly coming over for the St Mirren game on the 22nd Mar. I am definitely coming for whatever the last home game is in May. To join BMCUWP bevvy session if i can.
In between , it is unlikely i will travel, so if you want to meet after StM game to pass on my ST, ask Paul67 for may email.
It is a bit of a waste when no-one uses it.
My favourite band is from Leeds and one of my best muckers from my time in England
PS. Leeds, Leeds, Leeds……
DD
You would like my neighbour, he keeps trying to sell me some of his home grown, it’s far too strong for me, it supports his family, it’s a cash crop around these parts, dole is only available for half the year, and they have to work for a period to get it, and when the village has 80+% male unemployment, jobs are hard to come by, anyways, the guards just turn a blind eye, the last offer was a kilo for 100 euros, and that is not a word of a lie.
HH
TET
Every one to their own, I have not disagreed with the non smoking brigade at any time, but why should I stand out in a snowstorm to have a fag, while the hoi poloi can sit in our bars and conspire plans to destroy the working persons standard of life, as, I’m sure happens in most bars nowadays, as most of them are patronaged by the mid to upper class. IMHO
Weefra HH supporting Wee Oscar.
Cabbage leaves,tea leaves ,potatoe skins, rolled up in Government issued toilet paper,smoked the lot .The potatoe skins had a kind of menthol flavour.
Ahh ,those were days
Coneybhoy
The big man is a Leeds fan 2nd. He gets to 5 Celtic games a season. Once this season, 4 to go, and that what he told me tonight. Thanks bud, going to an enthusiastic Yorkshireman wi huge hands, and a huge love for oor team.
Leeds to me are, 5 Tims we missed. BBremner, E Gray, F Gray, A Graham and Joe Jordan. They would all have been good Celtic players.
coneybhoy
I will be at the game on the 22nd. Will be at the park about 2.00 pm. Contact me via Paul67 and get my details, and will arrange a meet. DD same goes for you. :-))
Weefra HH supporting Wee Owcar.
Oops Oswar=Oscar. :-))
For anyone who has had no experience of hedge funders, private equitiers or venture capitalists
1. They vote SNP – sorry!!! Tory
2. They expect 14% ish on what they invested
3. No unions
4. Sack the boardf
5. Improve the business(squeeze the workforce) until the market is good
6. Claim that the platform is now so good you should buy it off me for masses of cash more than the current market value of the assets.
To apply this to sevco and the recent injection of funds confuses me.
These guys did not put in equity as above but gave a loan with surety.
This means;
Thay see no growth
They see no return on equity with management intervention
They see a default on the loan or a massive return on the loan(30%)
What is the surety? A car park and a high rise?
This is where I don’t get it. Is this prime land?
I reckon they bought into the IPO and will look to collapse sevco to get some assets at least.
I still don’t get why they would put 1.5m in for a car park.
Who has the deeds?????
Tet
Will be over soon
100 euro for 5gram in glesga places. :))
Weefra
Tis has always been thus.
As I said, here it works fine cos of the weather, back in Ireland, my local had an enclosed outside space where smokers went, they spent a few bob in building it, they knew they had to cater for everyone, it worked well.
I have no idea how it works in scotland, but I can imagine >}
HH
thunder road
Get my email details from Paul67 and will try and help. We don’t charge any more than normal for these eggs, but I have heard some deli’s charge up to £8 for 6. Selling these eggs online, which have been fertilised, have been known to fetch £28 for 6. Silly, buy your eggs and enjoy them. :-))
Weefra HH supporting Wee Oscar.