When the Champions League shop window is a bit too clear

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We’re getting to that time of the transfer window when clubs with money and who are either underperforming, or who have silverware in sight, often make desperate decisions.

It is a remarkable statement of the times that three Celtic first team players have attracted interest from English Premier League clubs, at valuations that a year ago would appear eye-watering. It’s just as remarkable that we’ve not locked the suitors in a room until they emptied their wallets.

Seven months into the season, five credible Champions League performances and 27 peerless games in domestic football and our 34-year-old goalkeeper attracts a higher bid than would be achievable by any player at a Scottish club other than Celtic.

Not that I’m agreeing with all this ‘What we have we hold’ business. Every playing asset has a price, to borrow a regular CQN phrase from 2005.

I hear Peter Lawwell was spotted earlier buying tickets for tonight’s showing of T2 Trainspotting for himself, Brendan, Craig, Erik and Moussa. “Unreal” wage offers can turn a player’s head.  Better get them to the movies with their phones switched off.

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  1. Glad to see 6M rated Barrie staying in Scotland. Our trio of Jamsie, Paddy and KT need to be on top of their game if they hope to get any Player of the Year awards. :)))

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    Ho! Maggie………

     

     

     

    Keeping Barry Mackay……….?

     

     

    Why……That’s Like Signing A ‘Galactico’……..

     

     

    (Yon Kelly Anne Conway……..What A Doll ! We Should Have Her Cloned…….Ed)

     

     

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  3. garygillespieshamstring on

    Fasan out on loan.

     

    What happens if Dorus gets injured?

     

     

    Serious question so no laughing.

  4. macjay1 for Neil Lennon on

    OWEN on 31ST JANUARY 2017 9:56 PM

     

    WITS

     

     

     

    Maybe Macjay might fancy telling Dena to give up the football and concentrate on her domestic duties. It would be a brief but interesting conversation.

     

     

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    A joke.

     

     

    Remember them ?

     

    Many jokes are in ” poor taste. ”

     

    And that`s what makes them funny.

     

     

    Po faced CSC

  5. macjay1 for Neil Lennon on

    ALMORE on 31ST JANUARY 2017 9:51 PM

     

    Macjay/Tontime Tim: Ballyconeely is an anglicisation of the Gaelic Baile Uí Chonghaile.

     

     

     

    Conghaile was anglicised as both Connolly and Conneelly.

     

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    Thanks for that.

  6. Margaret McGill on

    Most interesting thing I saw when I was in Clifden is that Clifden is the place where Marconi established the first transatlantic radio communication.

     

    Ah the scientific method.

     

    Dontcha love it!

     

    Galway my 2nd favourite place in Ireland after Dingle.

     

    Worst place I ever visited in the republic was Tuam. Got in a fight with someone in a car park.

  7. macjay1 for Neil Lennon on

    OWEN on 31ST JANUARY 2017 10:22 PM

     

    Yorkbhoy

     

     

     

    Double standards only apply when you are having a dig at some one else.

     

     

     

    Maybe President Trump might try shaking Mrs Windsor, nee Saxe Coburg Gotha, warmly by the lady parts to see if it is only bit of locker room banter and wonder how it is taken.

     

     

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    Tell that to Madonna the hypocrite who spent ten years clutching her own crotch in her music vids.

     

    Not to mention her book on ( hush ) sex.

  8. macjay1 for Neil Lennon on

    MARGARET MCGILL on 1ST FEBRUARY 2017 1:13 AM

     

    macjay1

     

     

    is it safe to tell my sheep joke again?

     

     

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    :-)

     

     

    New Zealand.

     

    Where men are men and sheep are nervous .

     

     

    That one ?

     

     

    Racist CSC

  9. Margaret McGill on

    macjay1 for Neil Lennon on 1st February 2017 1:20 am

     

    Yes but can madonnas pussy type the nuclear codes?

     

    A bit of perspective my ozzie friend

  10. macjay1 for Neil Lennon on

    MARGARET MCGILL on 1ST FEBRUARY 2017 1:18 AM

     

     

    Nah. On ma hols.

     

    Mc Grady`s Grill .

     

    More to my taste.

  11. macjay1 for Neil Lennon on

    MARGARET MCGILL on 1ST FEBRUARY 2017 1:23 AM

     

     

    You`d have to ask thon ex hubbie of hers.

     

     

    You make a valid point though.

     

     

    Mike Pence provides a sense of balance for me.

     

    Bad cop. Good cop.

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    MARGARET MCGILL on 1ST FEBRUARY 2017 1:27 AM

     

    macjay1 for Neil Lennon on 1st February 2017 1:22 am

     

     

    Naw. the Barlinnie one.

     

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    Gawn yersel then , son.

     

     

    I fear mod involvement in our current exchange.

     

    :-)

  13. A Ceiler Gonof Rust on

    Mags, if its safe to share you’re sheep joke again, duz that mean I can share my day at the doctor’s joke again………………..:_)

     

     

    Too many moderators lurkin about these days.

     

     

    Sort yer shit out and get some transport sorted out for Lisboa. My boy needs a caddy on the 26th.

  14. A Ceiler Gonof Rust on

    Moonbeams, I delivered one of my parasites into this world, I HTF you’re no meaning me.

     

     

    Ya bass

  15. Margaret McGill on

    A Ceiler Gonof Rust on 1st February 2017 1:37 am

     

     

    ok I will gladly volunteer to be your sons caddy. If Im there. I promise.

  16. GARYGILLESPIESHAMSTRING on 1ST FEBRUARY 2017 12:36 AM

     

    Fasan out on loan.

     

    What happens if Dorus gets injured?

     

    Serious question so no laughing.

     

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    Chris Sutton said we could win the league without a goalkeeper.

  17. Margaret McGill on

    Son of ACGR: Maggie What would you recommend for this particularly difficult shot?

     

    Me: Son of ACGR I think you need a golf club. Here is a bag full of them. Pick one.

  18. macjay1 for Neil Lennon on

    MARGARET MCGILL on 1ST FEBRUARY 2017 1:40 AM

     

    A Ceiler Gonof Rust on 1st February 2017 1:37 am

     

     

     

    ok I will gladly volunteer to be your sons caddy. If Im there. I promise.

     

     

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    Can I haud the jaikits ?

  19. With our main two strikers out, and with Aberdeen determined to take something from the game, at any cost, I’d give Nadir Cifti a start up front. He can mix it better than Sinclair or young Jack Aitchison can, if faced with hammer throwers.

     

     

    Actually, we are so comfortable in the gap, we have absolutely nowt to fear; maybe we should consider playing big Efe as an old style Scottish center forward. He has all the physical attributes and he can kick a ball too.

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    KITALBA on 1ST FEBRUARY 2017 1:44 AM

     

     

    I would love Kris to play a wee cameo role before his apparent departure.

     

    Although preferably at Celtic Park where we would have the opportunity to show our thanks to a fine hunskelper.

  21. Margaret McGill on

    Donald Trump just announced the first immigrants to be deported: Lady Liberty (a French import) along with her huddled masses yearning to be free

  22. A Ceiler Gonof Rust on

    Maggie doll, that’ll do fine for the boy. He knows which bat he needs, he just needs someone to carry the bag, keep him in beer and tell him what a dirty bastart his da is.

     

     

    You are the ideal man.

     

     

     

    HH Sister………………….:_)

  23. Macjay:

     

     

    I too would love to see Kris Commons, but on from the start and for both teams to play the game in the spirit of ‘Nichtangriffspakt von Gijón’.

     

     

    Only joking….