Dutch winger Derk Boerrigter is due to have a medical at Celtic today and is expected to sign for around £3m. Currently with Ajax, who have recently strengthened their own side, he has found himself less certain of a start, and it looks like he wants to move on.
During his time at Ajax, he has been on loan twice, leading the observer to think he either isn’t quite as good as thought, or he just wants to play.
However, they did have him back, and just a couple of weeks ago he took just eleven minutes to score a hat trick against Waalaijk in a pre season friendly.
He could , in theory , go straight into the squad for the Elfsborg game, but reallistically that is unlikely.
He can also play as a striker, and was on the verge of an international call up, but suffered a back problem and since then has not featured at international level.
So, Lawwell was watching football in Amsterdam at the weekend, after all… Shame on anyone else who thought otherwise.
If the Dutch fellow signs, as he apparently already has according to that most reliable of sources Wikipedia, its exactly what Lennon said he wanted-a left sided forward. The Wiki entry gives a concise summary of his abilities;
” To help with assists and all that ” -which , surprisingly, has since been removed. Apparently Bill Leckie is solely contracted to the Sun.
Other names are in the frame, such as Shane Lowry, Millwalls Australian defender, who according to Sportsmole, he sees as a replacement for Kelvin Wilson, who is wanted by Nottm Forrest and Leicester.
Someone else touted for a move is Joe Ledley, whom the Mirror claims is to be the subject of a £3m bid from Cardiff, in what has to be the least imaginative bit of creative journalism in the history of football reporting.
There seems to be, with these latter two stories, a feeling that with Hooper and wanyama moving to lesser clubs in the south, that Celtic players are there for the taking by simply waving a cheque book, but Ledley, especially, has caught the Celtic Bug, and is in no hurry to go anywhere.
Harry Redknapp, the QPR manager , reckons that despite joining Norwich, Gary Hooper, now with restored capital letters, wanted to join QPR.
“I believe the boy wanted to come here. I don’t care what anybody says, he was coming to us, but I just think that it seemed to be a bit of a mix-up with the deal. Never mind that’s how it goes.”
He’s getting on a bit. Perhaps he just gets a bit confused.
Like this guy, today in the Record. I’ve read this twice, and am reluctant to pass comment, because I’m really not sure what his point is.
keith Jackson- todays ramblings
Jackson should interview Redknapp. That would be a winner.
The diary mentioned Alfred Finnbogasson at the weekend, and he may have given us a clue as to his next destination with this tweet..
The song ? You’ll Never Walk Alone ( Also worth noting, its one of only a couple of tweets in English. Is he targeting an audience ? ” )
Then there were these words in the Scotsman, accompanied by this picture from his time with Hutchison Vale FC
“Larsson was the player I looked up to when I was in Scotland, the one I wanted to emulate. Now, I have followed in his footsteps by playing for Helsingborgs, where he started, and in Holland. So it’s all moving in the right direction.”
Just after I left Helsingborgs, they came up against Celtic in the Champions League. In one way or another, Scotland is always calling me, so you never know.
“At the moment, I think there is only one club I would play for in Scotland and that’s Celtic. It’s a huge club and they play in the Champions League. It would be appealing to play for such a big European club. The Larsson history would make it even better but I want to make the best decision possible for my career. I’m not going to come back to Scotland just for old time’s sake.”
Well, he’s currently playing for Heerenveen, and thats in the Netherlands , and thats where Lawwell is, and it would be a shame to get a plane to Wolverhampton when he can save the fare by signing this guy up. While he’s over there .
If this guy does sign, theres every chance that Gary Hooper -having just regained his capital letters, might also gain the letter “W” before his surname.
With Virgil van Dijk already in, this new policy of signing promising youngsters from the Dutch league could prove to be a master stroke. Especially in Europe.
The Scottish football season started yesterday with the Ramsden Cup first round, and new club Second Rangers kicked off with a 4-0 over Albion Rovers. The club fielded a couple of trialists, as they aren’t allowed to sign real players yet, and manager Ally McCoist was delighted when they both scored;
” I’m just a little bit disappointed I couldn’t get any more of my trialists on. ”
Even they couldn’t get away with naming more than eleven players to start the game.
The big leagues start on Saturday, with Chief Neil Doncaster hoping that everyone can now focus on the football. Instead of trivialities such as a lack of sponsor. Or his attempts to get another job, something that Scottish clubs should really have helped him with.
Doncaster claims that the lack of sponsor is down to only being in existence for a few weeks, but has forgotten his own words when he got the job, regarding his knowledge and contacts , which would help him get a sponsor.
However, to help avoid any difficult questions, in an interview on SSN, he mentioned the great support from Sky Sports. And then mentioned it again and again in a pitiful attempt to convince the interviewer to ease off…
He even managed to plug the Ross County game for them…
Doncaster managed successfully to complete the interview without actually saying anything new or interesting, and to be fair, at least he has been consistent in this during his time in Scotland.
The host then thanked Doncaster for his time, and the CEO-or whatever his title is-replied
” My pleasure ” , and sure enough, it was only him who was pleased with his efforts.
Mike Conroy, who put in a man of the match performance in the 1980 Cup Final was the fairly easily recognised face in Sundays diary, and today, we need to know what is being said here…
Just gees a minute tae a fix this properly Don!
Those fekn fekn fekn internet bampos! I’m stuck in this shit hole next to a freaking nerdy pillock who talks in fekn riddles and working with fekn committees that have more leaks than a fekn bedwetters convention. Fekn hate it! Aaaaaarrrrgggg. Ram your section 4, sub-section 13, clause 7b up yer shitty scotch arses.
Yo Stewy, Newco/Tribute act have gone tits up noo.
They’ve given that job in England to someone else.
Just clear this up for me Stewpot. Explain when a trialist can play and when he cant in Ramsdens ,League Cup and League Division 1 games? Will that Bryson guy explain registration procedure as well ..just in case!
Mr Doncaster must have had a rather superb set of earplugs in at the Big Ramsden Cup game otherwise he would have been filmed wincing every 10 minutes or so as the infamous songbook was beltted out in glorious Stereo around the ground.
Bobby Sands,Celtic Fenian Bastards etc etc belted out on numerous occasions for the BBC ALABAAAA team to hear(and hurriedly talk over it seemed)?
Phase 2 has well andtruly been rubber stamped down Mordor Way indeed.
Feel free to watch the highlights on Iplayer and if anyone reading this feels the urge to contact the Likes of Doncaster,Salmond(he got a mention too)or the Authorities by all means do so.
The Scottish football season actually started on Saturday, it was just the Newco game yesterday.
yur GEMM in scoltand is right doon the “TEX RITTER”, CAN’T W8 4 LES HUNZ TAE HIT ADMINISTRATION AGAIN, ISIS BRILL, WATCHIN’ LES SCUM DE TERRE SQUIRM,NOT TAE MENTION DEM JAMBO SHITES AND THE PARS TEE-HEE
RAM MCLEAN AND PAT NEVIN WITAPAIRAWANKAS
Ralph
It is a bad day when excellent humour depresses you. Your diary today should have made me cry with laughter but instead it made me greet with misery. The way transfers are going, we could be playing with a whole bunch of trialists this season. Nobody wants to play on our side, baw haw! ‘n Big Pete has jumped in a Dutch canal. I had wanted to do that too when I was there but the curtains were always drawn when I was in Amsterdam.
Then you tell us about some Rams cup. Here was me thinking it was for sheep-dog trials but instead it turns out that a bunch of billy goats won 4-0. Personally, I think that sort of thing should be kept secret. It could give Scottish football a bad name and there are those at Hampden making every effort to do that already. Woe is me!
And finally, for I can take little more all at the one time, you inform us that Mr. Shy(ca)ster can talk. I am devastated given his pissful (listen I type the “bl” but this is the way it always comes up. And spell check does not query it) silence over the last two years, that he can actually speak, even though he has nothing to say. A man should not be exposed to such shocking news without ample warning. Before we know it Mr Shy(ca)ster will be speaking his mind (yes he does. Just because he keeps it in his trousers. Tut, tut). I can feel a fit of blues coming on already.
And then there was yesterday’s photo. Everybody a winner because you made it so easy. Where’s the challenge, Ralph? Do you think we are all Celtic supporters expecting to win every time? Where’s the rope and granny’s old chair? You know the one with the cracked legs that I keep breaking when I stand on it. Aye, that one. Surely you did not expect me to swing did you? Everybody knows I just like to play the part.
And so to the caption.
“F**k me, Doncaster, ye talk more sh**e than that b**tered, pensionerbhoy (note, no capitals). Gae’s a break , for f***k’s sake!”
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha! Oh, it’s killing me! Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha! Oops!! Somebody get that f***ing chair – quiiiiick!!
H H
Daly and the other bawbag that started for Sevco i assume are playing for free right now. Transfer embargo an all. And if not are Sevco not now doing what the other team that used to play at Govan doing, and by that i mean playing illegally registered players.
Just thinking like !
I hate you Doncaster! Putting superglue in my hair gel and standing there like butter wouldn’t melt…