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Celtic Diary Friday June 14: And…We’re Off

Celtic have more or less tied up their first signing of the summer. Hopefully, he’ll be untied so that he can sign a contract in case anyone from Aston villa is looking on.

David Turnbull, who burst on the scene earlier this year at Motherwell, is an attacking midfielder who scores goals. At 19, some might argue that the £3m fee is a little steep-me, for instance-for someone with so little experience.

However, if you factor in that Celtic have probably been watching his development at youth level for a number of years, then it starts to make sense.

And it keeps the money in Scottish football.

More importantly, he tends to shoot when he’s anywhere near the opposition goal, and can take corners and free kicks. Which would make him unique in a Celtic team, and also help remove the sidieways football that is becoming a genuine fear amongst the support.

If I have one tiny worry it’s that the move for Turnbull confirms that Celtic are shopping local and only moving for players they know. This will prevent signing any more additions to the treatment room, such as comperr, and players such as Bayo who were a standard or two below the fitness and skill levels the club expected after watching him on telly.

Although it’s good to see they are actually beginning to listen to people who know there stuff.

From the diary, August 21 last year..

Back in December and January the diary expressed doubts about Marvin Comperr, based purely on information that was readily available and seemingly ignored by everyone at Celtic.

Lets not make the same mistake again.

This is, in fact, the fifth transfer window under the present management and scouting  team. If they cannot find a decent, healthy and  affordable centre half then maybe we should look for  someone who can.

I’ll offer my thoughts, as its unfair to criticise without offering an alternative.

Christopher Jullien . Toulouse. He’ll cost about the same as Edouard, but he’ll make a much bigger difference to our side.

Right, I’ve done my bit.

Now its up to the club. 

August 23…

Still no sign of Christopher Jullien, though, despite all the hints I’ve been dropping. 

 

Then, from Sport FR website..yesterday…

Central defender Toulouse football club and leader of the Toulouse rearguard, Christopher Jullien would be in the sights of Celtic Glasgow, current champion of Scotland.

 

According to the daily L’Equipe, the 26-year-old footballer is on the shelves of Celtic Glasgow. The native of Lagny-sur-Marne recently visited the facilities of the Scottish club.

The Haute-Garonne side will claim between 8 and 10 million euros for the former Auxerre player, under contract until June 2021. Present at the Stadium since 2016, Christopher Jullien played 34 Ligue 1 matches during the season 2018-2019. 

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I’ll be sending a bill for my 10% later today.

Lyon are apparently the latest club to join the “race ” to acquire Olivier Ntcham, joining Marseille and eventually any other French clubs that the media can remember the names of.

The fact that only French clubs have been linked hints at an agent telling people he wants to go home. If this is true it explains the haste with which Turnbull was snapped up.

Reports also indicate that Rakheem Harper of West Brom is now no longer of interest to Celtic, as indeed is Liam Moore of Reading, with Reading Chronicle reporter Courtney Friday claiming..

Bit of good news. I understand Celtic have been priced out of a move for Liam Moore. #readingfc

 

— Courtney Friday (@ChronCourtney) June 12, 2019 

 

Here’s a strange story, told by Daniel Arzani-remeber him ?-about Armstrong Oko Flex and Scott Brown..

Armstrong Okoflex – he came up for one session, I think he’s 16 (now 17).” 

He called nutmeg as well and he tried to nutmeg Broony, and Broony absolutely crunched him – it was bad.

“They kind of stopped the session as well, ‘you can’t do that’, and the coach got involved and stuff and was like, ‘if you do that, Broony’s going to break your leg’.

“He said: ‘If you do that I can’t stop Broony, he’s going to break your leg – it’s your choice if you want to do that’.

“I’ve not tried it and I’m glad I haven’t as well.” 

This appeared in One Football, and doesn’t paint Brown or the coaching staff in a particularly good light.

One will try to check it’s veracity..

Elsewhere, and although the new Rangers entity are coming for their fifty fifth title in just eight years, it seems they aren’t still quite as well loved as they would want to be..

Good to see a helping hand offered…

 

Ian Maxwell, the latest face of the SFA, has shaken us all awake with his desire to put an end to the ongoing issue of Rangers cheating their way into a Champions League place, and in doing so, has given the Resolution 12 issue a page or two in the papers..

Bravely covered by “Record Sport Online ” , the story goes..

SFA set to make Rangers UEFA licence decision as Ian Maxwell issues update

The governing body could pursue the Ibrox club over alleged irregularities in their application to play in Europe in 2011. 

Ian Maxwell has revealed a decision over whether to pursue Rangers over “alleged irregularities” in the club’s application for a UEFA licence in 2011 could be made soon.

The SFA tasked its compliance officer with instigating a probe into the matter two years ago, which involves the Ibrox club’s unpaid tax liability at the time they submitted the application.

Had they disclosed the liability, Celtic would have been entered into the Champions League qualifiers the following season. 

Hang on, this narrative accepts that the tax bill had indeed crystallised, which we knew, and that the Ibrox club are guilty …a slip of the tongue, or are they about to launch a massive media campaign demanding fairness and transparency ?

 

Rangers maintain the Five Way Agreement signed off by the SFA, SPL, SFL, the old Rangers and the Newco formed by Charles Green ensured the governing body had no jurisdiction in the case. 

How about making this public, so we can all see it and decide ?

The SFA’s judicial panel ruled the matter must be heard by the Court of Abitration for Sport if there was intent to dole out punishment 

Nope…there go ther balls again, along with their spine.

 

And now chief executive Maxwell insists the issue could be looked at again in the near future. 

He said: “I would expect that to come back to the board in the not-too-distant future.

“It (going to CAS) is still under consideration.

 

“We’ll come back on that in due course. I wouldn’t want to put a timescale on it.

“But I don’t think we would let it go for ever.” 

The SFA could be about to hand it all over to CAS, which means they won’t have to tell the hordes the truth. Or, of course, they could just be telling us what we want to hear, with the sound of a can being kicked down the road perfectly audible amongst the noise…

 

Mind you, as Arsene Parcelie spotted, the Ibrox fans might not take too kindly to any more bad news, as this season they have raised their expectations…

Mind you, she might not be talking about the football.

 

Meanwhile, Thompsons solicitors have responded to claims that they have given up the fight for compensation for historical abuse victims..

Replying to  

You have been misinformed we continue to fight for financial justice for dozens of survivors of abuse at Celtic FC and Celtic BC. 

Celtic FC ?

Having considerable courtroom experience myself, this tweet indicates that perhaps Thompsons are not among the elite of the legal profession.

It’s Friday again, so we need to find ourselves a

Knob of the Week 

In the world of politics, theresa May is set to be replaced as Prime minister by one from a number of people who weren’t considered good enough to beat her, the worst PM in living memory, to the top job in the first place.

The front runner, which in itself refelcts the quality of candidates, is Boris Johnson, a man who furthered his own career by lying through his teeth about Brexit, a policy he believes in only so much as to give him a shot at being Prime minister.

Ordinarily, johnson ( no capital letters, captial punishment maybe, but undeserving of a capital letter ) would win any knob of any week, but this week, Scottish Secretary David Mundell, a man who flip flops so often he doesn;t need a fan in his office, scoops the award after another about turn so spectacularly self centred that it must surely be career ending..

In a BBC interview last year, the Dumfriesshire MP said: “Mr Johnson seems to behave in a way that suggests he’s only focussed on his own self-interest and not in the interests of our country.” 

So, he won’t be serving in any johnson government then ?

After accusing him of the very tactic Mundell has perfected himself ?

Whitehall sources have made clear Mr Mundell could serve in a future Johnson Cabinet. 

Kindred spirits..

David Mundell…

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This week’s

Knob of the Week 

No Diary yesterday, so we go back to Wednesday for this tantalising teaser..

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CarllJungleBhoy June 12, 2019 at 10:26 am · Edit · Reply →

Caption: Lawwell tells Ralph what to say in tomorrow’s diary 🙂 

Today..

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Later today there’ll be a review of this book, this summers must read, which is available to pre order on amazon..

From the pioneers to the pall bearers..a fascinating look into how one club made a complete arse of being a club.

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CarllJungleBhoy
4 years ago

Caption: Unable to clap as the invisible 5 way agreement weighs heavy in my hands.

D'Fhinnein Mick
4 years ago

CAPTION

Honest,you wanna have seen the size of them!

Cortes
4 years ago

Must be the winner!

Brencelt
4 years ago

Caption: before condemning Scottish football to death, Pontius PetriePilate washes his hands with water in front of the crowd, saying, “I am innocent of this league’s blood; see you to it.”

Whitearra
4 years ago

Caption : ‘What a pair of tits’!

Honest hoops
4 years ago

Caption; petrie is disappointed as he was lead to believe he was attending a football match…use your bloody hands to control the ball he shouted!!

VooDude
4 years ago

This . . .

“The SFA could be about to hand it all over to CAS, which means they won’t have to tell the hordes the truth.”

The SFA are stitching res 12 up perfectly.

No action can be taken against the new club they are not the same club, that’s a fact. I would assume that this is clearly indicated in the 5 way agreement.

Yet, instead of having a set of balls and saying so, the SFA may pass this on to CAS, who will ultimately decide that the new club have no case to answer.

In the meantime, all the ‘same club’ liars will use this (the link to attempt to charge the new club with the old club’s crimes) to reinforce their claim that they are the same club.

And all the while twats on the licensing board wil lremain in place, like Dickinson of Rangers and was it Petrie as well?

Uralius
4 years ago
Reply to  VooDude

It’s simple either they pay compensation to the clubs who missed out or they are going for 1. CAS decides, but either way we win.

VooDude
4 years ago
Reply to  Uralius

I don’t see it quite like that.

First of all, they won’t pay any compensation. They’re a new club and so have no reason to. I assume the only way they could be forced to do so would be under the 5 way agreement terms, but that side of it probably had a year or 2 stipulated as the time limit so let’s dismiss that. Obviously, just my opinion.

So all that’s left is for CAS to clearly state that the old club are dead and they cannot be punished. I doubt they’ll do that. We’ll get a statement from the SFA/media which tries to hide the actual facts and just says no case to answer or similar. That will feed in to the same club myth.

I hope to be wrong.

VooDude
4 years ago
Reply to  VooDude

I should have also added this . . .

What would be a positive would be if they deemed those on the licensing committee to have acted inappropriately and be removed form it.

I wont’ hold my breath.

BTW, no disrespect to the res 12 guys, they’ve done a magnificent job so far.

TicToc
4 years ago

Caption, Petrie: #”Non, rien de rien, non, je ne regrette rien………”#

Uralius
4 years ago

Caption: So I got the SFA job by offering up moustache rides.

57cupfinal
4 years ago

Caption: Ian you need to show me the funny handshake thing again. I’ve forgotten how it goes brother.

Uralius
4 years ago

Talk of Greg Taylor moving to Celtic “ranjurz” or Hull. He spent 6 years of his youth career with “rangrs.” I hope he goes to Hull and then onto a big club. I would like him at Celtic, but with Tierney here and likely to complete the 10 IAR would there be enough playing time for Greg?

4 years ago

Any other country We’d be doing porridge but its Jockville and we Mason’s do what we want !

Monti
4 years ago
Reply to  tully

Apart from puting money in the CVA pot!
Because you didn’t care.

4 years ago
Reply to  Monti

They knew the lying Scots would lie about same club mince

Puggy67
4 years ago
Reply to  tully

Celtic FC are a Scottish club based in Glasgow mate. We are Scottish. Are we liars too because of that?

Hands Cant Hit
4 years ago

Not sure about the below Ralph:

“If I have one tiny worry it’s that the move for Turnbull confirms that Celtic are shopping local and only moving for players they know. This will prevent signing any more additions to the treatment room, such as comperr, and players such as Bayo who were a standard or two below the fitness and skill levels the club expected after watching him on telly.”

A couple of bad buys from outside Scotland should not invalidate looking in those markets.

As a counter argument, we have (recently) signed Mulumbu, Hayes, Morgan, Hendry and Bain from Scotland. Only one of them has been a success. Hayes has latterly had some game time but has not improved the team.

Jas
4 years ago

There’s a speculative post on Facebook today, suggesting that it was Sevco 5088 and NOT Sevco Scotland that signed this 5 way agreement, so this may mean Sevco Scotland and therefore the tribute act may be hit with a mega bill as well as a summons or two?
If only we had a legal eagle that could look into these why’s, where’s and whatnot.

Dan
4 years ago

Ex ref Andrew Waddell’s rehabilitation is confirmed, 33 years after allowing Celtic to become champs by beating St Mirren 5 0 at Love St in 86.

George Lazenbhoy
4 years ago

Caption – check oot the size oh those titties on kris boyd.

Honest hoops
4 years ago

Caption;…petrie…how the he’ll did that happen, I’m ferking clueless…oh wait..now I see!!

The Cha
4 years ago

Caption: Maxwell’s Silver Hammer

Puggy67
4 years ago

Caption: Save your guff supporters save your guff
For forum rants with moon and stars above
Some PR pish I long to sing you
The 5-way deal I’ll never bring you
Save your guff it’s business class for me

Harry Swan I love you endlessly
Your tricolour ban was fabby doo to me
Even though ‘fuck off’ they told you
Our brotherhood is clearly on view
Cunts like us will last eternally

The Cha
4 years ago

Modern Fitba has an interesting article:

The Rise and Rise of David Turnbull

www modernfitba.com/blogs/2019/6/12/xw9d633xku355aocbm34s17kxie0pa

The Cha
4 years ago
Reply to  The Cha

No, the agent is the player’s rep and does his bidding.

If the player doesn’t like what his agent is doing, he can get it sorted or move agent.

This idea that the agent is acting against the player and we can drive a wedge between them is pure amateurish.

The Cha
4 years ago
Reply to  The Cha

Mm, not too sure, smacks to me of bosses telling workers not to listen to their Union reps, as the latter aren’t on their side.

Complete bollocks and in this case if the agent isn’t acting in Turnbull’s interest he can easily remedy it.

Uralius
4 years ago

I agree CS I was mulling over the price and figured £28m with VVD type add-ons would be fair.

irishmaninporto
4 years ago

10 Million plus Benkovic ???

Uralius
4 years ago

2015 – 16: 18 appearances
In the mid-phase of the 2016–17 season, Benković was reportedly suffering from injury which would force him to miss the majority of the season.
2017 – 18: 30 appearances
@ Celtic 26 appearances with an injury to follow.
Honestly we need our CBs to play 45 – 65 games a season and there is no evidence he can do so without breaking.

Monti
4 years ago

CS,
No one wins 9 straight trophies by playing the ball sideways.
You are beung overly critical.
Scott Brown’s influence on this side has been fantastic.

Rob O'Keeffe
4 years ago

Turnbull turns down Celtic? Agents are only good when they are involved in golf……U.S.Open on,oh yes,WorldClass players,plenty of cash and no cheating or bad behaviour…..

Monti
4 years ago

Turnbull rejects Celtic contract offer!!

What the fuck??

Cartvale88
4 years ago

Caption

Don’t worry 55 around the corner

If Turnbull is arguing about money walk away, let him go to a wee team in England

Uralius
4 years ago

Couldn’t agree more, Forrest, MacGregor and Christie all signed new contacts after they proceed themselves worthy. If this unproven (at this level) young lad thinks he’s better then year up the offer. How dare her use our club for headlines to try and manipulate a move to England. From now on if a deal becomes public from an agent or the player before a fee is agreed, we should walk away.

Uralius
4 years ago

*tear

Tyrone9
4 years ago

Remember the Stefan Scepovic on / off saga?
Yep, we eventually signed him and it ended not too succesful to say the least.
I reckon ATTITUDE is just as important as ability. No_one knows how good Turnbull would be at Celtic but hes made it that bit harder for himself (if he does sign )partly because of the media crap .

Deal or No deal….Remember Scepovic!

Monti
4 years ago

Get Turnbull to fuck, fuck him!

Monti
4 years ago

David Turnbull? Who? GTF!

Monti
4 years ago

” World class in everything we do “?

Depressing!

The Cha
4 years ago
Reply to  Monti

Patience, grasshopper.

Monti
4 years ago
Reply to  The Cha

PISH

highseastim
4 years ago

I wouldn’t give up on Turnbull yet, his agent is at it, let’s just wait until we hear from the player himself!!

Monti
4 years ago

This is embarrassing, i don’t care who is to blame, it is awful.
I do ‘t want Turnbull anywhere near Celtic.

Monti
4 years ago

Fucking greed is all it is, greed, 6 pieces of extra fucking silver, well get tae fuck ya fanny, you aren’t worth our shirt.
Get tae fuck & take your greasy fucking agent with ye!

Get tae fuck!

57cupfinal
4 years ago

Doesn’t matter to me who’s to blame in the latest transfer saga. Celtic should take the offer off the table. Don’t want this guy anywhere near my club now. 19 year old kid with potential knocking them back. Come on you’re having a laugh

BJF
4 years ago

Calm down weans you don’t actually know what is going on only what you think is via no doubt more of the made up stuff. Turnbull has a view of what he is worth,what’s wrong with that.I don’t want some numpty who is desperate to sign but no confidence in his ability or especially his capacity to develop even more. Celtic have their view of what they want to pay, equally that is fine. The dance begins and they either agree or they don’t. Let us just be grown up about this, many left who could have stayed, Paddy,Boyata Mousse are the most recent, others didn’t come because they couldn’t get what they wanted money or a place as first pick. Still we win the trebles.I will be delighted if Turnbull comes, God, slagging a boy who hasn’t played a match, crazy. If he doesn’t come it is his loss, medals, Champions League football and if he fancies the Premiership well look at Ki, Virgil, Victor.

Uralius
4 years ago
Reply to  BJF

No this is an agency who has been collecting data on Celtic and how much they pay their players and knows how much our first team players get. They are v telling Turnbull, “If you’re not being offered X amount then you are not considered Forrest team pick. IF you are not great team pick you should wait until someone in England offers you more.

4 years ago

well if you want to know how to f@#k up scottish football,it,s Just Like That.

Gav
4 years ago

Caption: So ah’ve got Lawell’s baws in one hand, the 5WA in the other, an ah says tae him, “you’re implicated just as much as me ya walloper”… He then withdrew his candidacy an’ noo ah’m the daddy.

Monti
4 years ago

CS,
Totally agree!

Uralius
4 years ago
Reply to  Monti

We 3 agree on something…… Pretty sure the internet just broke.

Steve Naive
4 years ago

Celtic conducting transfer business via Twitter… oh dear.
Turnbullshit.

portpower
4 years ago

Caption:
Ian,they`re complaining about cronyism within our SFA once again.
By the way,have you met the new head of Hampden security, my cousin, on my sister`s side,Roderick.

Gotta luv silly season.

Iljas Baker
4 years ago

Exactly CS. He has had one good season and is not an internationalist. It’s pure greed. Hopefully it’s just his agent talking. But it would be a bad precedent for Celtic to cave in. If Turnbull himself doesn’t accept the offer on the table Celtic should walk away pronto.

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