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Celtic Diary Monday January 8: Winter Sale Now On !

Perhaps with the transfer window open we should just pick a number, pick a team and pick a player.

That seems to be the formula for the rumours floated in the mainstream media.

Leigh Griffiths to Swansea?

The lad certainly has his off field, er, issues, with a particular weakness for stabilising the country’s declining population figures almost single handedly, but is that enough for him to be ostracised from Celtic ?

The media think so, and not only that , there’s a replacement lined up…

Celtic have joined the hunt for Liverpool striker Daniel Sturridge, according to a report.

The Gambling Times has claimed that the Scottish champions have entered the race to sign Sturridge, 28, and that Brendan Rodgers is happy to offer the England international an escape route from Anfield to reunite with his former player.

It is understood that Southampton and West Ham are leading the pack to sign Sturridge, but Newcastle, Watford and now Celtic are also keen on striking up a deal this month. 

Sturridge, a sort of English Derk Boerrigter, has fallen out of favour at Liverpool, and several mid table english sides are also interested.

If the sort of money that would be needed to finance this deal is available, lets hope that the club are looking at other options.

Any other options…

Stuart Armstrong, Jozo Simunovic and Moussa Dembele are being touted as on many a shopping list, and taking that into consideration, perhaps its a relief the lads are out in Dubai, and away from all the tittle tattle.

And, according to Scott Brown, it’s doing them a world of good;

The break’s been good. We’ve had time to rest and recharge our batteries. It’s nice to come over here and train in the sun, instead of the pouring rain and the weather conditions right now at Lennoxtown. 

“Last year’s camp gave us a little rest and we kicked on from there. It was good for everyone to go away and forget about the football for a week. Now we’ve come back, and big Marvin Compper’s come in so we’ll get to know him over the next week. Everyone goes out for dinner together so it’s a good time for bonding.” 

There’s European football to look for, which was one of the pre season targets, and so despite the so called slump and the defeat to Hearts, everything is tickety boo..

That was what we wanted at the start of the Champions League group stages and we managed to do it,””It’s been a long time since we’ve done that so it’s good for the club, and the training camp will help us prepare for that. 

“We’ll sit down once we get back from Dubai and set targets again to see what we want to hit and to see how high we can aim yet again.” 

Scott Brown is now the third longest serving captain in the history of Celtic, as this table shows..

You know, maybe he’s one of those players we won;t fully appreciate until he’s gone, so maybe we should start showing it now…

Pictures from the training camp showed Marvin Comperr looking as though he’s happy with his lot..

and you can’t blame him. He’s trained with the other defenders and now believes the managers initial sales pitch that he will get a shot in the first team, which would have lifted his spirits.

 

Something the papers have missed, or at least not taken into account, is the fact that whilst out in the Gulf, no one will leave, and no one will come in.

Aberdeen are also out in dubai catching some rays, and third placed basket case “rangers ” are off to florida to top up their tans.

In the united States, many wealthy elderly residents have second homes on the south east coast, as the weather there is good for their old bones, presumably the thinking behind the Ibrox clubs jaunt to help Kenny miller finish the season.

However, the weather hasn;t held out for them, and they’d have probably been better with a fortnight in the Cairngorms, as this picture shows..

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There was a little bit of good news for them, as the Record revealed they won;t lose any money on fat drunk Carlos Pena, who will return to his counsellor and mentor Pedro Caixinha out in Mexico.

 Although, as ever, the devil is in the detail.

The Mexican side will only pay the fee if Pena, who according to the word on the street, enjoyed a tipple or two, can stay on the wagon.

So thats that then.

Former Rangers player and outright little shit Nacho Novo suffered a heart attack whilst out on a Rangers Legends tour.

Of course, no one wishes him any ill feeling, and one hopes that any recovery is swift and complete.

He’s not the sort of person to find many christmas cards from Celtic supporters on his doormat, but I do like to think we’re above such nonsense that can be heard from fans of other clubs when a serious health scare occurs.

Hey! Look at me. All grown up and mature.

Legal news, and this from our US correspondent…

Replying to 

I heard Disney were going to sue after some Mickey Mouse outfit turned up at Orlando airport. 

This became apparent after someone from Brighton showed this extract to a newsman and asked, “Well, would you take the chance ? “

They owe £7m in player transfers… there’s your administration reason right there, and we won;t have too long to wait.

Yet still the support battle bravely against reality, and one even reckons the fact that they could not afford to pay any money at all for Jamie Murphy, who must be frantically standing at a cash point to check if  his signing on fee has gone in, isn’t unusual at all.

Yeah, almost exactly the same…

Delighted to have signed Jamie Murphy on a 4 year contract. Brighton think it’s a loan but giving back loans is not The Rangers way. 

According to the Sun, desperate for the blue pound, there was never any stopping Murphy, a life long fan …

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Nothing was going to stop him joining Rangers, or at least, what he thinks is Rangers.

I’m sure it did.

And I’m sure these headlines are spot on as well…

He might have to…

Presumably that’ll be the £1m they saved with their creative deal for Murphy.

We saw yesterday how the media will put out any story that will divide the Celtic support.

Today they are uniting the “rangers ” support, and no doubt tomorrow it will be our turn again.

Remember, the mainstream media taunt their online rivals by claiming we are all after clicks to make money, whilst shamelessly printing all manner of bullshit to shift their papers.

I’m not saying that everything online is one hundred percent true, but at least those of us who publish this guff admit that it might not always be factual.

It depends who has told us.

And how drunk he was.

Yesterday we showed you this..

Mike Annis January 7, 2018 at 11:13 am · Edit · Reply →

Caption: Now remember guys, when the music stops the chair with the big red button is mine. 

today..

Anyway, I’m off out tonight, one of my music heroes is in town.
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Suggs will be giving a talk on racial equality and diversity in a club in the town.
It’s Madness gone politically correct,

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D'Fhinnein Mick
6 years ago

CAPTION

Jee-zoh,it’s just like Florida here,innit?

Mike
6 years ago

Caption, Dubai Celtic, after me, verse three 2nd Psalm.

A Psalm’s a Psalm for awe that.

Mike
6 years ago

Hope everything is good with you Ralphy……

In your house, in the middle of the street,
your house in the middle of the street.

HE HE….The duggy got shafted. HO Ho, Merry Christmass.

Bognorbhoy
6 years ago

Caption….

” hands up who likes me “

Monti
6 years ago

Caption: Psalm missiles in the sky!

VooDude
6 years ago

Caption: Lustig to McGregor “I don’t agree with this new methodology to all train at the same height as Paddy.”

Rob O'Keeffe
6 years ago

It’s feckin freezing here,I hate the winter and also that leg ned mentioned.Another Jesuit prayer answered……

Caption: Remember to stretch those hamstrings,you can never have enough hamstring injuries……

Monti
6 years ago

Caption: ” Is it a bird? No….is it a plane? No…..it’s super psalm”

Monti
6 years ago
Reply to  Monti

Sahandra 🙂

Puggy67
6 years ago

Caption: Leigh Griffiths hogs the touchline after hearing that dates fall out the trees in Dubai.

The real Anton Rogan
6 years ago

Celtic players take a knee to pray for the ermmm….wellbeing of ratnovo

San Miguel
6 years ago

Caption ” This pitch is helluva waterlogged isn’t it Broony”

Honest hoops
6 years ago

Caption; Hey Sinky..nice back garden… but where’s Helen??

puggy67
6 years ago

Caption: Watching The Flintstones is barred at the Celtic camp as the Arab’s in Dubai don’t like it – although the ones in Abu Dhabi do.

Monti
6 years ago
Reply to  puggy67

Oh dear…..taxi

Run Sammy Run
6 years ago

Caption” “Will all those, who gave a fuck against the huns 2 weeks ago, please stand up’

portpower
6 years ago

Caption:
Hey Callum, did you hear that Craig packed his snowshoes.

Cortes
6 years ago

Caption: Celtic anticipate the signing of Spanish superstar with a song- “Oh hokey hokey Koke.”

Mike
6 years ago

Our house in the middle of the street,
where our pals and friends we meet,
our house in the middle of the street,
its been robbed and were trying not to greet.

As soon as I wake up every night and every day,
I know that its my gloves that I need,
to take the cold away.

It must be gloves, gloves, gloves,
nothing more nothing less,
gloves are the best.

Pensionerbhoy
6 years ago
Reply to  Mike

Mike,

I’m desperate for someone to rob our house to get rid of the wife’s junk. I’m heartily sick of sitting on cardboard boxes while my armchair supports washing, ironing and years of accumulated trash. There are more plants and trees around the house than in the Amazon Basin. We are the only couple in the world that were asked by the removal company not to phone them if we ever decided to flit again. We could keep Swap Shop going on the tele till the third millennium – oh, and that does not include what’s in the garage. I have never ever seen the floor. So, if you know any good robbers, I will happily give them the keys on the condition they take everything. I would not complain too much of they took my darling wife too 🙂

H H

Mike
6 years ago
Reply to  Pensionerbhoy

Whoa, you do realise that, that last sentance is treason and its printed in black and white for the WHOLE WORLD to see, pack your bags and ask your priest for sanctuary. 😉

BTW a wee tip, we sent to the sale room years and years of old artefacts and managed a small profit, so fire up the Cortina, put on the roof rack and head fur the hills.

Monti
6 years ago
Reply to  Pensionerbhoy

Pensionerbhoy,
Get a big van & take it to the main square in Dundee, leave the back door open…….hey presto….10 mins later the van will be empty.

Mike
6 years ago
Reply to  Monti

And the van….gone. 😉

Monti
6 years ago
Reply to  Mike

Within the hour 😉

Pensionerbhoy
6 years ago

Ralph,

I know bloggers like yourself need to keep up to date with “What the Papers Say” and I for one am most grateful that you are prepared to put on your protective clothing and risk contamination for my sake. However, I am completely nonplussed that there may still be some of our supporters actually buying and, even worse, reading the fairy-tale tittle tattle churned out in the very aptly titled daily rags called the SMSM. If one looks for comparable topics in any quality book suppliers such as Book Depository, one will most assuredly find such stories in the “tiny tots” section which is commonly reserved for those humans that still require someone older to narrate to them the contents with explanations. I would not wish to question the intelligence of anyone outside the dim confines of Ibrox, but it does seem inexplicable that any homo sapiens or living person would still read “the papers”, unless of course he or she is desperately in need of the most side-wrenching belly-laugh. As for the inclusion of the media stench in the uniquely refreshing Diary, I can understand the perceived value of holistic coverage while violently squirming at the obnoxious intrusion.

Now, I do recognise the many benefits and, perhaps, the definite need for this winter break, but I personally find it agonisingly boring. There is an element of acceptance when it comes to the summer break (tradition, I expect) – or because it gets shorter and shorter by the year – but there is something bewilderingly abrupt about the winter interruption. Yet I am aware this is unjustified given the number of postponements experienced in yesteryear when even the lightest drizzle, never mind snow and ice, could render many pitches unplayable for weeks on end if the then de-icing technology of tons of straw or frenzied shovelling failed. Though frustrating, there was something acceptable about such “call-offs” or “matches abandoned” as we were accustomed to games being at the mercy of the weather – mind you, the same could not be said about cancellation procedures which often left us frustratingly in mid-travel (I know you would claim nothing has changed in this regard, Ralph, and you are probably correct, though I do not experience it these days as I very rarely get out of the armchair unless desperately in need of a piss or the melodious voice of she-who-rules- with-an-iron-fist and a size ten boot calls me to the sink again). Yet again, my impression, looking back, is one of hardier blokes kicking the ball then, who would brave the worst of elements just to satisfy frozen or rain soaked idiots that paid to be battered by the severest weather conditions for ninety minutes just to say, “I was there” and maintain that, in spite of the arctic conditions, it was a great afternoon. No wimpish roofs or seats in those days. Oh no, the fools were happy standing in pish and glawr while being pelted by hailstones or drenched by rain. I am reminded of two games at Fir Park, one where Wee Jinky was constantly seen emerging from about six feet of water that had formed an ocean in one quarter of the pitch (he tore them apart that day) and another when we lost in the cup and actually had to turn our backs to the pitch for most of the second half (to this day I have no idea how the players managed to carry on) because the hailstones were coming at us so fast and furiously it was like being in front of a machine gun. They were driving so hard they were pitting the slag that formed the blaze-bing of a terracing at the Celtic end of the ground. It is a certainty the game should have been abandoned and most likely would have been had the score line favoured us instead of Motherwell. But then, we were all very, very unreasonably paranoid in those days and misjudged the Masons not to be a purely charitable organisation supported up to the knees by Scottish referees.

Perhaps the time has come to take off my rose-coloured specs and face reality. Only then will I see clearly the benefits of a winter break and recognise its value for both players and fans – Oh, and our SMSM’s fairytales, of course!

I just pray it passes as quickly as my years have done and proves as worthwhile.

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and the best time at New Year. Every best wish to all.

Caption: “We’ve got the whole world in our palms, we’ve got the whole world in our palms…….”

H H

charlie
6 years ago
Reply to  Pensionerbhoy

a think pentionerbho should win the caption comp no for the comment but for surviving that motherwell game

Mike
6 years ago
Reply to  charlie

I think that he deserves the medal of honour for…..

Staying alive, staying alive, huh huh huh huh staying alive!!

Puggy67
6 years ago

Caption 1: Leigh Griffiths hogs the wing after hearing that in Dubai dates fall out of the trees
Caption 2: The Flintstones is barred from the player’s hotel lounge as the Dubai Arabs don’t like it – though the ones in Abu Dhabi do.

Bgbhoy
6 years ago

Betting suspended on the Huns being relegated. Shame if that happens

Bgbhoy
6 years ago
Reply to  Bgbhoy

No haven’t been for a while. Might wait for the cold weather to go away before going. If there is a game on the first weekend of February then I will be there

IRISHGUY
6 years ago

So correct me if I am wrong here,but it is reported that several of the Ibrox Brogues had a wee sit down with the SFA/SPFL to pre plan and Admin event, now if this is true then is it not the Duty of the SFA/SPFL to inform all member clubs of this. All Transfer business in & out of Govan should be suspended, otherwise there are implications of Fraud in dealing whilst insolvent.

The old club got away with itas did the Hampden suits. but people are more wiser and knowledgeable now . The suits should be facing hard questions here from all the Top Tier Clubs , especially Celtic.

Monti
6 years ago
Reply to  IRISHGUY

IRISHGUY,
It’s all in the fix.
The Huns will do as they please.

Mike
6 years ago
Reply to  IRISHGUY

Irishguy, If Res.12 taught us anything it was that the SFA don’t give a monkeys for any other team in Scotland but the team from Govan. They allowed them to participate in the C.L. to the detriment of Celtic.
Only Phil spotted what was going on and reported it, but you are correct the bloggers are watching them like hawks, the thing is, the Newco have other options like a CVA (see below), all dealings with them and the SFA are done on a handshake and other clubs are not partial to what is going on behind the secret World at Hampden. We only find out later, we might guess but to know is a completely different thing.

Monti
6 years ago

Una,
Is your Iron still goosed?
I have a spare one in my utility room, comes with a Jeremy Kyle iron board cover?

£65?

Una
6 years ago
Reply to  Monti

I got a new one, thanks for asking.

Monti
6 years ago
Reply to  Una

£45? 🙂

Monti
6 years ago

Ralph, have a nice evening, do you have your baggy trouser, dirty shirt on?
Hope they’ve been ironed.

Monti
6 years ago

Caption”- Bitton ” Have you seen Leigh.”?
Sinclair – ” Dinnae ask, i seen him & the waitress go behind that tree…i think she’s giving him a psalm job”

Mike
6 years ago

The Governments preferred rescue option, is a C.V.A. A company voluntary arrangement. The Newco would like Hertz probably prefer to do its insolvency with this scheme.
It can stop pressure from the taxman.
Stop a winding up petition.
It can terminate employees contracts, or managers/directors.
It removes redundancy pay.
The board and directors can stay in control.
The cost is much cheaper than Administration.
It can be kept relatively secret, it is not publicly announced.
It is a relatively good deal for creditors who can receive some of their monies back in time, usually 20p–£1.00 in the pound.
This voluntary arrangement has been in existence since 1986.
In Scottish fitba. there is a points deduction so you cannot keep that secret. It seems to me to be the best solution for Newco but who would touch them with a bargepole after this came out after there first club was liquidated. Better methinks to sell of assets before going down this route, Auchenshoogle could be selt.

Mike
6 years ago

But only if they own the Assets!!

Benjamin
6 years ago

Florida is one of the more popular places for Americans to retire owing to its climate as well as one of only 7 States to have no income tax. Should we find it at all surprising that Rangers chose to spend their winter holiday there?

Asking for a friend…

portpower
6 years ago

New lawyer representatives for the SFA.

Are they;

A) The four elements. EARTH, AIR, FIRE and WATER.

B) The four horsemen. DEATH, FAMINE, WAR and CONQUEST.

C) SFA don`t wanna play anymore.

sevco fetid FC.

portpower
6 years ago

BREAKING FUTURE NEWS:

This morning,several sevco FC players and staff were arrested by the OPD for doing a runner from their Hotel.

portpower
6 years ago

🙂

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