Alexandro Bernabei was finally announced as a Celtic player by former club, Lunas, in the early hours of this morning. At 21, the left back is the same age Greg Taylor was when he joined the club in 2019.
The environment Alexandro worked in at Lanus could hardly be more different than what he walks into at Celtic. Lunas won only three of the last 20 league games their former defender played in, including his final game, which saw Alexandro red carded. The pressure to win was significantly less than in Glasgow.
That factor possibly permits young talent more scope to flourish; teams stuck somewhere in the no man’s land that is lower midtable of a 26-team league, need not stress about winning or losing too much. Even relegation is a multi-year process in Argentina, no one season alone can put you down.
One year before Alexandro’s contract expired, the reported £3.75m fee is a discount on the money Lanus earned when selling a central defender to Parma last year for €10m, or a midfielder to Atlanta for €6m in 2020. Hopefully that discount is due more to the expiring contract than any perception of the player’s prospects.
Welcome to Celtic, Alexandro! There is a lot of hard work ahead, but it is great to see Celtic work the globe to fine value. Contrast with the days we travelled the M8 to find Chris Killen could scarcely be greater.
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Welcome Santiago…😉
AN DÚN on 30TH JUNE 2022 12:55 PM
Why bother with a medical at all if it wasn’t going to be costing them anything?
BSR @ 1.07
The EH angle — new big money CB brought in this week.
2019 — he was available for a loan deal.
2020 — he was sold for £8mill’ish.
The more effort you put into scouting the luckier we / you seem to become.
We have had our patches of luck — even with PL as CEO — just a case it was just that.
Scouting that was all just too patchy — 5 dud CF’s in a row takes some doing.
It’s pretty unusual to ask a player you’re looking to offload to take out a year extension as part of a loan deal, solely to secure a transfer fee from the receiving club. I can understand Celtic felt a little burnt from the Jack Hendry situation, but it still feels a little cheeky. I’d also assume Celtic would have checked Julien’s medical condition themselves before requesting the year extension, otherwise they’d risk having a crocked player on the wage bill for another year.
It’s quite possible, when Julien met Shalke, they both realised they can do better out of this deal if they refuse such an arrangement.
Lyon President Jean-Michel Aulas confirms negotiations with Celtic for French striker Moussa Dembélé: “We are in contact with Moussa Dembélé, the player is interested but Celtic are tricky negotiators.
2018
Last 5 seasons – Total season ticket sales (no.) – Annual report 2021
55,320
52,457
52,520
52,229
48,723
Celtic Park investment to date (£’000). new Land, Property, Plant, Machinery, Equipement (CAPEX)
(this is not OPEX spends for ongoing operation, mainainence, governance, insurance liabilities, utility connection etc of the stadium, training grounds and retail units. which has been noted before by P67 as £1m per month in an article some years ago).
I will look for the notes in accounts.
2021 80,572 (+1.2m)
2020 79,336 (+0.9m)
2019 78,390 (+2.3m)
2018 76,042 (+3.9m)
2017 72,132
Yeti @ 1.36
The 48K figure is that 20/21?
Not sure about the ST numbers last season but this season is not making much of a dent on the waiting list.
sseason tickets – last 200 or so emails issued to waiting list members, all lisbon lions – all sales 55,500 projected.
Welcome to Celtic, Alexandro!
I noticed in a You Tube video that after he scored an absolute belter, he has the same celebratory habit as the immortal Larsson in sticking out a surprisingly long tongue.
I assume the collapse of the Julien deal puts the kybosh on Malick Thiaw traveling in the opposite direction?
The enormous building maintenance costs for Celtic Park 529
BY PAUL67 ON 2ND DECEMBER 2015CQN BLOG & COMMENTS
Over the years I’ve gone on about the cost of running a football club the size of Celtic. Before you start to employ a footballer, coach, or someone to put the cones out at training, you’ll be pushed to spend less than £17m. If you want to have appropriate resources in place, you’re going to spend more than this.
TB- ill ask you again, why does Ange not pick Jullien?
30 LEASES
All leases are accounted for by recognising a lease liability except for:
• Leases of low value assets; and
• Leases with a duration of 12 months or less.
IFRS 16 was adopted 1 July 2020 without restatement of comparative figures.
Nature of Leasing activities
The Group leases various retail units located in the UK and Ireland and includes high street stores and units within shopping centres. As at 30 June 2021 there
were 9 such leases in place with end dates ranging from September 2021 to July 2024. Some of the agreements have extension options as described below
and the Group will consider whether to exercise these on individual basis, taking into account industry conditions at the relevant point in time, and determine
whether to exercise the options under current terms, re-negotiate for more favourable conditions or terminate. The lease agreements currently in place do not
impose any covenants and leased assets may not be used as security for borrowing purposes.
Yeti @ 2.06
P67 in peak PL excuse mode.
He had included the cost of the cover for the LL Upper.
We were struggling to make more than £20mill from the stadium at the time — peak RD anarchy / peak PL phoning it in — and we are expected to believe that it was costing £17mill to run the club / stadium outside of the football department?
No chance — some kitchen sink accounting going on.
Although in saying that PL was in peak bonus mode for the odd mill and then some.
Whenever it’s initialized I can’t help but think of CJ from Reggie Perrin
CJ (not from RP) is reported to have turned down the terms that were offered on the contract after the loan became permanent. Were that to happen
Curley Wurly. For surely
Los Angeles FC running away with their MSL Division. With players like Vela, Palacios, Chiellini and Bale in the side, they are going to be hard to topple.
INIQUITOUSIV
A team of sexy names but good players.
TFC will handle that lot.😩
Yeti @ 2.11
We seemingly have 9 active shops at the moment — less than I thought.
Ties in with the number nine mentioned above although with one being the P/head shop I would expect that to be fully owned.
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I think we used to have 10 but we shut the shop in Dublin — so much for us being an Irish institution.
Bricks on the ground vs clicks from the interweb — discuss?
TIM HORTON
TFC? Toronto? 🤔
That embarrassing silence when someone drops one with Dolby levels of clarity.
MM
“Bricks on the ground vs clicks from the interweb — discuss?”
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The former is more useful than the latter when you are stealing tyres from a car.
Is it allowed now for posters to print abusive names
for fellow posters
Where can you get a T shirt with “AWT” printed on it?
Indeed is the world ready for “AWT”?
CF @ 2.48
Indeed — DT has been on the blower to ask if I could stop using his name as he does not want to be associated with a City / Big Bang bean counter who is prone to the odd schoolboy howler.
In deference to Marx and Trotsky I have decided that silence is the best policy going forward.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FV4TqaCXoAUEnP0?format=jpg&name=small
through on the toss of a coin.
https://twitter.com/ScotsFootyCards/status/1539688714481410050/photo/1
Saint Stivs
I noticed wee Bobby Collins in the background
History question — why was HH not involved in the 1970 ECF?
Did JS play JH / Yogi out of sympathy for leaving him out in Lisbon?
HH seemed to play a lot of games apart when he arrived — apart from EC games.
Fading memories involved so might have gotten this slightly wrong.
TC seemed to be another that didn’t get the big EC games?
Slapdash analysis or on the money?
If on the money then why?
Welcome Alexandro – can see Greg being first choice for at least the first few games.
AT
It’s me who is deleting your posts
Stop swearing and I will stop deleting….
MADMITCH on 30TH JUNE 2022 2:26 PM
Yeti @ 2.11
We seemingly have 9 active shops at the moment — less than I thought.
Ties in with the number nine mentioned above although with one being the P/head shop I would expect that to be fully owned.
I think we used to have 10 but we shut the shop in Dublin — so much for us being an Irish institution.
Bricks on the ground vs clicks from the interweb — discuss?
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The Dublin Celtic shop is not closed it’s in the Jervis Street Shopping Centre. You might be referring to the Derry shop which closed a number of years ago
:Margaret Thatcher who, having finished lecturing her cabinet on how most homeless people were workshop scroungers, went out into Whitehall with the wets in tow to walk to her next meeting.
There she saw a disheveled, hungry-looking man…sitting on the pavement with a sign that said-
“Homeless Falklands veteran. Please help”.
Thatcher turns to her cabinet and says…
“Now gentlemen, here’s a real deserving case. Dig deeply and give generously”. She pulls out a £20 and gives it to him saying “there you go my man. Thank you for your service.”
The guy smiles and says.. “Muchas gracias, señora!”
McPB @ 3.11
This is where it might get messy — CFC website info today.
The only shop in the 32 counties is in Belfast.
There is no shop listed in Dublin.
Interweb scuttleut on KDS a couple of months ago suggested that the Dublin shop had closed due to CoViD and never re-opened. That is what I was basing my comment on.
If you explain — would the shop you mention be some sort of franchise operation?
That is it has the gear / branding but is run by someone else and not the club?
Sorry — If you can help explain …
now and again a nod from the past pops up in vivid technicolour, the uncles had this on the wall of their room.
faded green hoops. but what an image.
https://twitter.com/ScotsFootyCards/status/1537515635139305472/photo/1
you wouldnt let it lie,
3 Celtic youngsters signed new deals with the club today- as happens every now or again. There is never any rejoicing or pleasure expressed here when it happens, probably quite rightly, as they are not wanted or needed senior players yet.
But should one teenager, we have hitherto not heard of, choose to go to another club or country we want to rant, complain and shut down the Youth set up.