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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Celtic Mac
Only kidding pal. Last time I was in it was for a stag night in the 80s. It might have been mine actually! 😀
scullybhoy
I knew Preben Arntoft back in the 80s.
His wife is a port lassie half scots / half maltese, beautiful family, great parents, they lived across the back from my grannies.
he would come up the road in the summers, and used to doing a training routine every morning in the garden,
us kids hung about the fence fascinated.
his bhoy was some player, even coming up to saint stephens and playing with us, he was laudrup like, supers balance, skills, speed, you couldnt get near him,
even more so, his wee sister whats a brilliant player.
one of the fellas that worked with me in ibm married another sister and would be to prebens every summer when they went back to denmark.
Preben was a lovely man, but had that hard as nails look about him, totally solid specimen, i found it funny him getting called “Ben”, never heard it once by the inlaws of his, always Preben.
Moderator
Why are those posts still there?
You know the time,you know the post.
Can I ask nigh on 8 hours after it was posted,
And as recipient of the abuse
Wtf is goin on here,
Your not stupid,I know you’ll read this
your not the recipient of the abuse. I am.
Please delete.
Preben told me he had played against most of the Celtic Lions (back then in the summer i wore a celtic top every day), I had never actually checked till now.
1966-04-30: Morton 0-2 Celtic, League Division 1
Review
Celtic pressed relentlessly in the first half but the only goal came just before the half time whistle when Jimmy Johnstone put away a bobbling ball in the Morton area which refused to be cleared and was deflected past the keeper. Morton should have been ahead having missed a penalty earlier in the half. Despite missing the penalty Morton showed fighting qualities that only a team struggling to stay in the top division might be expected to. A minute from the end Johnstone sent over a cross and Lennox beat his marker to head home a second goal and send Morton down to the Second Division.
With Rangers winning too the teams were equal on points with Rangers having played one more game. Celtic had two more games to play and the league title would go right down to the wire.
Teams
Morton
Sorensen, Boyd, Loughlan, Gray, Madsen, Kennedy, Arentoft, Strachan, McGraw, Neilsen, Watson
Scorers:
Celtic
Simpson; Craig, Gemmell; Murdoch, McNeill, Clark; Johnstone, Gallacher, Chalmers, Lennox, Auld
Scorers Johnstone (45), Lennox (90)
Referee: R.D. Henderson (Dundee)
Attendance: 18,000
Saint Stivs on 30th June 2022 8:58 pm
scullybhoy
I knew Preben Arntoft back in the 80s.
His wife is a port lassie half scots / half maltese, beautiful family, great parents, they lived across the back from my grannies.
he would come up the road in the summers, and used to doing a training routine every morning in the garden,
us kids hung about the fence fascinated.
his bhoy was some player, even coming up to saint stephens and playing with us, he was laudrup like, supers balance, skills, speed, you couldnt get near him,
even more so, his wee sister whats a brilliant player.
one of the fellas that worked with me in ibm married another sister and would be to prebens every summer when they went back to denmark.
Preben was a lovely man, but had that hard as nails look about him, totally solid specimen, i found it funny him getting called “Ben”, never heard it once by the inlaws of his, always Preben.
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Cheers mate. There was something more magical about players in that era, even though they were more down to earth types – if that’s not a contradiction.
Alexandro looked happy in his released interview and photos until meets the press, looked immediately bemused by their questions. Didn’t sound like anyone had done any research.
Got a good feeling about this season, don’t think many will want us in the CL draw and confident by the time the season starts we’ll have a good squad mix available.
Pleased also to hear the closer relationship between B Team and First that Ange sound checked. Maybe a few surprises contributing the season, would love that 🍀
AN TEARMANN
I am not gona delete it, calling you childish names is hardly abuse??
1967-10-11: Celtic 7-1 Morton, League Cup SF
Match Pictures | Matches: 1967 – 1968 | 1967-68 Pictures
Trivia1967-10-11: Celtic 7-1 Morton, League Cup SF – The Celtic Wiki
Both teams were trained by ex-Celts – Celtic by Neil Mochan and Morton coached and trained by Eric Smith, and Morton had ex-Celt Jim Kennedy at right back and captain. Tony Taylor the substitute was also ex-Celtic, as was outside left Gerry Sweeney
Jock Stein played the same team that had beaten Hibernian 4-0 at the weekend. Morton left their team to the last minute as Laughlin, Gray and Allan had all been fighting injuries.
One of the most powerful Celtic performances by Celtic during Jock Stein’s reign.
Celtic play in green shirts, white shorts and white socks.
Morton played in unfamiliar white jerseys, black shorts and white socks.
A roof was in the process of being built on the traditional Rangers end of the stadium.
Celtic now face Dundee in the final. In the other League Cup semi final Dundee beat St Johnstone 3-1 at Tannadice.
Review
Celtic destroyed Morton with a devastating performance at Hampden despite the Morton team putting up a fight full of heart.
The quality of the goals was outstanding with Hughes’ two goals the pick of the bunch. The first came from a Lennox cross after two Celtic players had consecutively dummied the ball and the other a trademark charge upfield and a ferocious shot to finish.
Preben Arentoft of Morton had the privilege of the game’s best goal with a blockbuster shot on the run.
Teams
Celtic:
Simpson, Craig, Gemmell, Murdoch, McNeill, Clark, Johnstone, Lennox, Wallace, Auld, Hughes. Substitute: Chalmers
Scorers: Hughes 2 (4, 66), Wallace 7, Johnstone 18, Lennox 20, Craig 2 (21, 53)
Morton:
Crawford, Laughlin, Kennedy, Arentoft, Strachan, Gray, Jensen, Allan, Mason, Stevenson, Sweeney Sub: Taylor
Scorer – Artentoft 12
Referee: W. Anderson (East Kilbride)
Attendance: 45,662
Ps the moderator is doing a fine job.
If you have to ask more than once and had a response then you already know you’re wrong give it a break or email them.
No swearing in response now 😉
MODERATOR1888 on 30TH JUNE 2022 9:23 PM
AN TEARMANN
I am not gona delete it, calling you childish names is hardly abuse??
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that persons habit of attaching his own derogatory knickname for posters (inclding myself) has been the subject of conversations with old CQNers who have stated personally to me it is the reason they stopped contributing, in fact, dont even read the blog anymore,
repeated abuse, no matter how childish is still abuse.
SAINT STIVS on 30TH JUNE 2022 9:27 PM
For what it’s worth I agree,
I do not engage with the poster, half the time, I’ve know idea what he/ she are going on about and I can’t be ersed trying to work out the abbreviations.
No poster seems to have met he/she, I don’t think anybody will ever will.
TROLL
Nite all
On the 9 Show BBC Scotland, Tim Vickery, South American football expert, said Bernebie is a really good player, takes corners and free kicks,very fast, loves to attack, he thinks this could be a good lead to other Argentinian players coming in
There’s some right precious snowflakes on here.
Maybe we should take the Bertie Auld approach to abusing refs without being booked.
n
You cannot say that MM is a *&^&**g ^&%t or you’ll be banned
But, if you type that you think MM is a *&*&**g ***t, you cannot be booked or deleted.
Or you could try MM’s own approach to communication:-
ICNGAF WYT AMP YS A UBB & A FC
which of course translates as :
I concur noticeably given all facts which you typically are mass producing. You should always use brilliant banter & Acronyms for Communication
SAINT STIVS on 30TH JUNE 2022 9:27 PM
The more people who leave CQN because of some very poor posters, the closer we get to those people being the dominant voice on the site. I cannot remember the last MM post I read…..and that has nothing to do with a fading memory :-))
Anyway, it is a goodnight all from me.
Champions League going to Amazon Prime from 2024
SMDR
saw moniker ; didn’t read
Favs CSC
Some right sweetie wifes on here wanting to comment on the back of moderators post.
The kinda wee fuds you would get at school leaning over someones shoulder saying aye, aye told you, then run away.
Can you not leave it to the posters to sort out between them and the moderator.
Course you canny.
D :)
“ Everything in moderation, including moderation.”
― Oscar Wilde
SAINT STIVS on 30TH JUNE 2022 6:09 PM
reading that Mick Lynch mother is from Crossmaglen.
*As was Canadian comedian Martin Short’s da
MODERATOR1888 on 30TH JUNE 2022 9:23 PM
AN TEARMANN
I am not gona delete it, calling you childish names is hardly abuse??
Childish! No one is asking you to judge or comment
Your not being abused.i am
Please remove the abuse.
MARTIM1980 on 30TH JUNE 2022 9:24 PM
Ps the moderator is doing a fine job.
If you have to ask more than once and had a response then you already know you’re wrong give it a break or email them.
No swearing in response now 😉
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No Martim it won’t be carried over to email.
The abuse happened on here
The discourse to get it deleted
Will occur on these same pages.
Champions League live games on BT and Amazon from 2024, highlights on the BBC.
Until we see the breakdown of the distributions from the new CL format nobody can say for sure what it means for Celtic but a 20% increase in the deal suggests we’ll still be gnawing our arms off at the prospect of missing out on the CL riches until 2027 at least.
Or cock-a-hoop when we get our 50m guaranteed CL lolly prize
Or maybe even both.
It’s exhausting just thinking about it
A lolly or a curly wurly, which one is better?
No reason we should not be looking forward to more CL dosh in the next few years.That mob across the city will be struggling to put a team out next season.Whole team on last year of contract,including their whole front three,and midfield.
Foot on their black throats,and even blacker hearts.
Our new Tiny Left Back, I’d expect him to play Every Massive game as he looks to have that certain aura that Josip has, And Josip cannae Leave without experiencing European Nights at the Holy Ground when we are getting ready to Bloody noses in a fitba sense at the Highest Level.
Who knows Anything anyway?
Celtic
Celtic
https://twitter.com/AnthonyRJoseph/status/1542634787252445186?t=iOC0b22nI11NpFSaqBenkA&s=08
Tomahawk.
Superb News
Jota is a Sensational player and his Crossing, just his variety during the 2nd half of the Season was World Class.
Superb news.
Ya Dancer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDuSav3UL58
TM
Good news………..30% seems steep.Another way to look at it we keep 70%.
The first game you (I am Lucky to see the Bhoys) could see this dude was maist excellent.
Great News.
Timhorton,
Its about Real Ambition.
Its a Steal, Monetary things are ruining the Greatest game Ever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2jW5YyXG5A
A 17 million spend if we conclude deal for jota on top of other purçhases to date. Another 7 million for a quality defensive midfielder would bring total spend up to 24 million.
But we are gonna get 35 million for CL group stage, 6 million for Australian tour and 4.6m already in for christie, ajer add ons and doaks sale. Total income 45.6 million so more in than out despite the spend outlined above.
Spend the remainder of the transfer window trying to offload Jullien, boli, soro, ajeti, shaw, Urhoghide, robertson, doolan, johnston. Subject to success in moving a couple of the higher earners on bring in a left sided centreback and forward. If unsuccessful stick and try again in January transfer window.
Hh
Moderator.
is it childish when it goes continually?
Abuse becoming accepted practice on Cqn
A rank decision moderator ,honkin!
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i thought i saw a sweary word?
i did i did saw a sweary word.
orange order parades only stick in your craw if you let them..
nobody puts chains on timmy and makes him stay in big bad scotland.
if it wasn’t a dog called mad mitch that was being whined about it would be some other kinda dog.
Jota to sign 4 year deal today.
Let’s hope so.
HH. On board with the AP journey.