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Celtic Diary Thursday January 11: Patience Begins to Wear Thin

The nagging doubt that Brendan rodgers could return from Dubai and tell us that the squad are so refreshed he doesn’t need to buy anybody won’t go away, so it was a little sigh of relief that emerged as the name Chancel Mbembe appeared in despatches.

Once of Anderlecht and now of Newcastle United, the big Congolese could be added to the Celtic back line this month, and would probably cost about £8m, less than the add on fee for Virgil van Dijk.

He’s a big lad, and at one time when he was with Anderlechts youth set up, he had to have a bone scan to prove he wasn’t older than he said he was, which I keep expecting to happen to me, and it turned out he was telling the truth.

Currently out of favour at Newcastle,where observers claim his positioning when defending corners is suspect..

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he is also wanted by his former club Anderlecht, which is actually a good sign because that means they know he’s a good player who chose the wrong club. Despite what you hear about their upcoming spending spree, their general manager,  Herman Van Holsbeeck said;

“He has a contract in Newcastle where he earns a lot of money, I know that we name a lot of names but we are in a situation of due diligence, this is the first time in my life that this has happened to me. I will try to manage it as best as possible.” 

“I have a mission: find reinforcements but without a big budget, so I’m trying to free some players first.” 

He could be useful in the Europa League. Lets face it, there is no need to check if he’s cup tied when he’s with Newcastle. They have less experience in Europe than Theresa May.

Oddsone Edourd, the only striker at Celtic not to be linked with a move away, is on loan until the end of the season.

So it was quite surprising to see the Record report with surprise that manager Brendan Rodgers is in no rush to offer him a permament deal.

“I will assess it at the end of the season. He has grown each week he has been with us. There’s no rush.

Exactly, and if he keeps growing we’ll need to see how tall he is in July.

“It’s for both sides as well. He might love it with us, he might not. I know he is really enjoying it but there is no rush to commit on either side now.

“It’s just a case of seeing how it goes in the second half of the season and we’ll review it then.” 

The word is that Leigh Griffiths might not even come back from Dubai, and with so many women on his case , you can’t blame him.

 

By the way, look what I found

sashes to ashes cartoon

With the clouds of doom gathering once more over Ibrox, and the stadium no more capable of handling a deluge than the club itself, the cartoon above, by tc20012, first appeared back in 2014 . I didn’t know I’d saved it.

Its a great way to remember the death of the firstRangers, and sets the mood for the second clubs trip to oblivion.

As opposed to their trip to Florida.. which has been covered in spectacular detail by the media..

Christmas songs at breakfast, a Portuguese Jimmy Nicholl and the press posing as plumbers | in Florida 🇺🇸

It’s not christmas, Nicholl is not Portuguese and the reporters are not plumbers.

Then again, they’re not Rangers , and the Record is by no means a newspaper.

They kind of fit in over there, surrounded by others pretending to be someone else, but who also,  in fact,  merely prancing about in costume to bring money into the business.

Poor Jimmy  Nicholl, held up to ridicule. He may feel he deserves better, as he’s still the only Rangers assistant manager to win the league for the Ibrox club while he was at another club…

Image result for jimmy calderwood jimmy nicholl dunfermline

Their fans haven’t given up on them just yet, and one of them thinks he knows how to help avert any further crises…

There’s a better one, suggested by Swed on twitter…

Especially ahead of a statement…

Statements from Ibrox used to be quite regular, as their PR department would leap to the defence of the club against any slur, real or imagined. They’ve not said a word about the rumours of administration, which is in itself quite interesting.

Mark Dingwall has though, which means everything is, as he outlines, tickety boo. Dingwall runs the Follow Follow website, and has even been touted for a seat on the Ibrox board, but they couldn;t find a big enough chair.

  

You tell ’em Mark.

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We owe that lot a debt of thanks for keeping us amused during the winter break.

 

The problem is that they just see what they want to see,

Some see a rabbit, some see a duck, while the rest of us can only see that they are , indeed completely ducked

As are we, apparently..

And this is a man who knows all about under achieving, so perhaps we should we listen to him ?

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No.I’m not. Then again, neither, I think, was McInnes.

The picture we showed you on tuesday…

Weered January 9, 2018 at 3:04 pm · Edit · Reply →

Caption…Buddy can you spare a dime… 

Today…

 

There’s more from our Ibrox correspondent.. well, not ours, but you know what I mean..

Phils Phinal Phact

Finally, get a coffee and read this, from the Shamrock. It’s an outstanding piece, all about the history of Bridgetons catholic community..

story of Bridgeton Catholics

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Monti
6 years ago

” Bat signals ”
Hahahahaha hahahahahahaha hahahahaha HAHA hahahahahahaha hahahahaha woop woop!

Monti
6 years ago
Reply to  Monti

Weered,
The original club died, the new entity is on life support, they are inbred…….yet they want a ‘ bat signal ‘

Fnar Fnar Fnar 🙂

Monti
6 years ago

Transfer window: Day 11- Nurse Ratched

Rob O'Keeffe
6 years ago
Reply to  Monti

Sorry,not really……Signed Davies(asst.manager).Known by some at Lennoxtown as 1.A joke 2.Not many…….fore!

Pat Higney
6 years ago

Caption: Big John, “ Piss off Leigh, I’m not like that, this isnae whit the gaffer meant by not having any more kids!”

50 Shades of green
6 years ago

Caption.

Hey Griff did you hear they loonies r looking for bat signals noo.

Aye well they huv been Robben folks for yrs.

charlie
6 years ago

great article ralph and that shamrock piece reminds me of ma ancestors thanks

VooDude
6 years ago

Caption: and then I said “don’t worry Hen, I’ve had the snip!”

BJF
6 years ago

OK Ralph not having a go, but should we sign another defender who can’t cope with defending corners, long live the sieve. So he’s a big lad and can’t head the ball away under pressure, I could do that job. No action on the transfer front, we need another right back though maybe Ralston is the answer, a Centre half who can play in Europe this season though I have not totally lost hope Boyata might regain last season’s form and Sinclair, Dembelle and Armstrong too . Actually the most pleasing news is that Paddy might be back sooner or later, perhaps neither Mousse or Leigh will leave, the thing is is that good news or bad. The tribute act haven’t got the message about going into administration signing eventually and on a loan a reasonably decent player, an assistant manager and a couple of coaches, what do these guys know that Phil doesn’t know?

Rob O'Keeffe
6 years ago
Reply to  BJF

Could we please sign big defenders that,when they come up for multiple corners,actually score a goal? Signed Bad Bhoy Leigh….corner kick taker,if I can get on the park…..

Bongo
6 years ago

JK TO RODGERS – Boss I think I’m going to need some maternity leave

6 years ago

“Kennedys a lassies first name these days….that will do for me!”

Monti
6 years ago

Caption: “Do you know my Dad played for Celtic….Frank McAvennie”?

Mike
6 years ago

Caption, Don’t stand, don’t stand, don’t stand so close to me.

Monti
6 years ago
Reply to  Mike

Or you’ll get your eye taken out? 😉

Mike
6 years ago

Celtic have been linked to a Japanese striker, Kazuyoshi Miura, who started his playing career with Santos in Brazil, he celebrates his 51st birthday in a few months.

The Celtic brothers, Moussa, Kouassi and Edouard, The three amigos and how lucky are we to see these young men play for Celtic.

Monti
6 years ago
Reply to  Mike

I fail to see what Kouassi & Edouard bring to the team, i wouldn’t be fussed if both left.
Certainly wouldn’t be paying £7m for Edouard.

Rob O'Keeffe
6 years ago
Reply to  Monti

Right,I’m off to the driving range…..let off some steam…..

Mike
6 years ago
Reply to  Monti

That’s because your talents are embedded in another kind of football,
Blaw Fitba. 😉

Monti
6 years ago
Reply to  Mike

Mike,
I’m serious tho…i’d rather have John McGinn than Kouassi.

BJF
6 years ago
Reply to  Monti

Can’t tell the fbuiung Kouassi will do until he gets a decent run in the team, I wouldn’t pay £7 m for Edouard at the moment some promising time in the park but I recall last season Griffiths and Dembelle were both injured and we had no proper striker up front, Ciffti was available but Brendan didn’t think he could do it so Brendan has learned and has a third striker available and that makes sense. He had the same problem with Centre backs this season and again he now has a surfeit but st least one will move on, strikes me he is learning from previous issues, more than Wenger seems to have gone!

Cartvale88
6 years ago

Now they want the ‘bat signal’ somehow seems kind of apt. Creatures that live in caves, totally blind and do not like the light.Maybe they should contact Count Dracul to invest in that steaming pile of bat guana.

Believe that we will strengthen, with a goalie, defender as well as the new signings

henkesdreadlocks
6 years ago

Caption……

You do know that you can get the jail for that in Dubai.

puggy67
6 years ago

Caption: Kennedy taken out by a lone shooter on a grassy knoll.

6 years ago

Celtic will be holding an opening training session.

Are you allowed to bring an esky full with drink with you in Dubai?

Oil`ll take you anywhere except home.

6 years ago

Ya gotta luv it.

It`s protective sevco species time again.

sevco dodo the kid from outer space FC.

6 years ago

Caption:
It`s ok John.In the Grace of God we`ll nae loose a haund for moob fondling.

Noelskytrot
6 years ago

As many fellow tims are ridiculing the “bat signal” item, I’ll go with another superhero saying…is it a club, is it a company? No, it’s the zombies. Bat shit crazy that mob.

6 years ago

When Derek Johnstone is hunky dory you know that crime is rife.

BondiBrian
6 years ago
Reply to  portpower

Port, there’s a believe ‘hunky dory’ is derived from ‘honch-dori’ A Japanese red light district famed for his seamy sleazy side frequented by European & American sailors.

Seamy & sleazy? suitable term for the Dave Kins & gullible huns me thinks.

Every days a school day on E Tims.

Monti
6 years ago
Reply to  BondiBrian

Sounds a bit like Amsterdam….

Broxburnbhoy
6 years ago
Reply to  BondiBrian

hunky-dory. 1866, American English (popularized c.1870 by a Christy Minstrel song), perhaps a reduplication of hunkey “all right, satisfactory” (1861), from hunk “in a safe position” (1847) New York City slang, from Dutch honk “goal, home,” from Middle Dutch honc “place of refuge, hiding place.”

BondiBrian
6 years ago
Reply to  Broxburnbhoy

“there’s a beleive” Brox ah niver stated it was factual, although I’ve heard your definition also ah tend ti go for the Japanese version. Anyhoo. ..whut I’d gie for a Nakamuro-esk player in the Tic team the now.

6 years ago
Reply to  BondiBrian

TOP DEFINITION

Hunky-dory: c2018

1. A sevconian journey.

2. A sixth sense which some have and others don’t.

2.0. What makes the worst moments of our already miserable existence that more bearable.

6 years ago

sevco really uncanny FC.

6 years ago

sevconians:

Rob O'Keeffe
6 years ago

Breaking news: Celtic dev squad cruising two nil up…they bring on Gordon and Boyata to play to me to you for the last 10 mins and lose 3-2….some of this has been made up….but good to see this play out from the back philosophy is “spreading” throughout the coaching,isn’t it?….

6 years ago

Specsavers Rumour:

Is it right if Derek McInnes ends up the Scottish professional football manager?

His wage`ll be more than…

6 years ago
Reply to  portpower

SFA are disputing the half a million poond release cause for Michael O’Neill.

Effin SFA amateurs.Zipped pockets of protection.

Would crowd expectations expand if one side is excluded within Scottish Football?

Ken Oath

6 years ago
Reply to  portpower

Summer Football and teams to merger.
Part timers in a professional league?

Fight an aggressor.

SFA/SPFL, they gaither nichtly,thy entrenched fellowship,tattie-bogled wae auld claes.

The tattie-bogle wags his airms:
sevco! sevco! sevco!

He hasna onie banes or thairms:
sevco! sevco! sevco!

We corbies wha hae taken tent,
And wamphl’d round, and glower’d asklent,

Noo gang hame lauchin owre the bent manger tent :
sevco! sevco! sevco!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0rwe3aI5Og

sevco dystopian FC.

6 years ago

Transfer Rumours:
Is not life lovely when there` no need for them to know.

€elti€.

Iancelt67
6 years ago

Oh the “Aussie flu”. You don’t want to get it I was in bed for nearly two weeks really fucking Ill. Not your usual man flu this is something else

6 years ago
Reply to  Iancelt67

Toughen up princesses. It`s an orchestrated campaign to worry the elderly to death.

Somebody wants the money from the 60`s?

6 years ago
Reply to  portpower

Truth then:

My Father die riddled with Asbestosis(shipwright).Yet those so called positional professionals with a say said his death was caused from his vascular dementia.

Where`s my Bloody Gun,please.

6 years ago
Reply to  portpower

Edit;Died.

6 years ago
Reply to  portpower

I can hear him now:

They`re the bane of the world,them son.

You`re tae always question and expect a truthful answer.

Never brag.

Mike
6 years ago

The jungle drums beat out o’er Celtic Park,
nothing matches the atmosphere under the lights when it gets dark,
Songs ring out a cocophany of noise,
of voices singing in excited voice.

Gemmill, Murdoch, Cesar and Auld,
opposition players berated shouted and bawled,
Get inta them the dirty torags,
that was a foul, ya mugs, ya dirty baw-bags.

The team are cruising, two goals ahead,
another two points won and the game put to bed,
There’s not a team like the Glasgow Celtic,
No not one, no not one.

Mike
6 years ago

I hear the sound of distant bums,
they come from everywhere including lumbs,
The noise they make is rude and noisy,
you canny hud it in, you hiv nae choicy.

Let it go, let it go, let it goooo,
to late, I hiv tae run, rabbit, run run run,
run very quickly here comes the fermer with his gun gun gun,
BANG yer deed!

Alzyerpal
6 years ago

Caption: FFS Leigh!? Away and put the hammer on somebody else this time. They’re your waens no mine.

Noelskytrot
6 years ago

Check that whining hun fuck Gary Ralston’s piece in the Daily Radar, pathetic. How the feck can they call themselves journo’s. I love their pain over the death of RFC and how much of a feck up the tribute act is. Long may it run.

Mike
6 years ago

One day, i’le fly away,
leave all this for yesterday,
we live our life for the team in green,
and dread the day when I can never see,
the team in green, my passionate dream.

Mike
6 years ago

The sleekits at the SFA.

We are watching you,
our eyes are stuck to you, like super-glue,
watching out for honest mistakes,
we’el catch you out, no matter how long it takes,

Watching you for breaking football rules,
we’re tired of you, taking us for innocent fools,
bending, sending, reinventing, the rules for only one club,
through your secret deals at your Hampden hub.

We’er watching you!!!

Monti
6 years ago

McCoist is a fucking bell end, talk of administration at ibrox is ” Celtic fans fault “? Is it?
And i suppose the EBT scheme at your original club was Celtic fans as well?
Fanny

Kenny
6 years ago

god bless this lovely land o mine, god bless the mountains her hills and her valleys !

Monti
6 years ago
Reply to  Kenny

We’ll never rest until we’re free, no union jacks or RUC,
If talking stops, ‘ would be a pity,
Better still, by any means necessary

🙂

Kenny
6 years ago

Through misty eyes, I see my land
I hunger for her future grand
What greater hunger can there be
I hunger still, to see her free

Mike
6 years ago

My gallant comrades have passed away,
but with this song I sing today,
I sing my song before I die,
Its God bless this lovely land of mine.

On Erin’s green valley’s,
I walked with my pally,
drunk as a skunk on whiskey and beer,
glad of my love for this land, glad I was here.

Mike
6 years ago

That last bit was mine, in case you were a wondering.

Mike
6 years ago

My stomach is full….in my dreams,
as my heart breaks at the childer’s pain,
but nothing is ever as it seems,
their stomach’s are empty, they never complain.

How, how can this be so,
when crops are a plenty, as we see them grow,
the landlords have taken them once again,
oor kale and cabbage and fulsome grain.

My heart may be broken, but my will never so,
as we bide and replant and trust that they grow,
they can try once again to take them if they dare,
but will pay the price, for I do not care.

and say soncha so wis that!!

Monti
6 years ago

Transfer window: Day 12 – ” Tuppence is Tuppence ” ……

Signed,
Disgruntled.

Monti
6 years ago

Apparently the Huns have sought planning permission to …wait for it…..wait ….build a CRYPT in Glasgow.
Lol

I kid you not. Pmsl

Monti
6 years ago
Reply to  Monti

Maybe they’ll find the original club in there?
Sashes to ashes, dust to dust, Deed.

6 years ago
Reply to  Monti

Monti,

those whose doors were chapped can be laid to rest.

Monti
6 years ago

STRIP THE TITLES
NO MOVING ON!

Rob O'Keeffe
6 years ago

We’re still in Dubai,so no signings poor people…Signed Not many Davies…
Good to see Dermot getting his priorities correct and suing over the leaking of info about a property deal.When asked about stripping titles,he stated ‘Lovely day for golf,to be sure,to be sure’……

Rob O'Keeffe
6 years ago

Huns players were told to pay for their economy flights and digs on a college campus and would be paid back in their “wages”.Laughably,this isn’t made up…..how bad is that club/company?…..

Broxburnbhoy
6 years ago

Maybe they can bury the oldco in the new crypt! Won’t be long before the newco joins them in there. Oh the delicious irony!

Puggy67
6 years ago

Ally, swally, to the third degree
Trousers rolled up on one knee
Blaming Tims so nobody will see
That things aint fine and dandy

Dave King lend us a couple of rand
The roof needs a new elastic band
And things are kinda out of hand
So I’m off to the garden

BondiBrian
6 years ago

Kriptonite mair like. Wish their admin/liquidation whatever would hurry up cos am gittin tired ei this mob N their numpty fans kiddin on they’re thriving.

6 years ago

SFA/SPFL: “Conspiracy of the ravens.”

6 years ago

Lewis mine`s a Captain Morgan with no ice.HH,canny wait.

Is thy PLC goin` bitcoin?

Rob O'Keeffe
6 years ago

Transfer news: BR states Celtic don’t need to sign a central defender because we’re very,very good.He also states Celtic couldn’t qualify for the C.L. with big Virgil and Jason D. so who do people want him to buy? Sorry Monti but sometimes this guy speaks bullocks as Liverpool fans will testify…….right,nice and mild today,golf methinks…….

Broxburnbhoy
6 years ago
Reply to  Rob O'Keeffe

Sorry to hear you’re joining the ranks of the Sniveling Liverpool fans and their hate for Brendan Rogers even though they had their highest finish for years with him. Rogers was making a point and defending his defenders who are less useless than perhaps we give them credit for. Our defense – no our whole team were exposed by Bayern and PSG outside of that our goals for versus goals against is a pretty good story. Could we have a better defense – yes is it terrible – no. When it comes to talking bollocks I don’t think BR is champion of that

Rob O'Keeffe
6 years ago
Reply to  Broxburnbhoy

BBhoy,I am not joining the ranks of Liverpool fans.If you read my post,I point out that somTIMes BR speaks rubbish,I don’t hate him at all,I am simply not in the IBWT gang.Don’t know what point he was trying to make because the defence,in general,is piss poor.If you’re happy then that’s fine,some of us have been around for a long time and know when a team/squad is going backwards……in football,who usually gets the blame?…

6 years ago
Reply to  Rob O'Keeffe

🙂

Sorry Monti,Boyata`s here for 9.

Rob O'Keeffe
6 years ago

Interesting that the freemasonic judiciary have given Dave(utter crook) a stay of execution till end of Feb,beginning of March.What a surprise,Scotland,rotten to the core……..

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