One of the great things about the internet , especially where Celtic is concerned, is that you don’t have to look very far to find stuff that can only be classed as complete bollocks.
Which is concerning for us here at Etims, as back in the days of the rumour mill, we used to have the monopoly on that.
So it’s about time we started talking shite again.
As you’re probably aware, we hear all sorts of stuff and usually apply certain criteria before we pass it on. If only to keep the lawyers away.
But the filters have come off today.
After all, everyone else is at it….
Let’s start with the rumours of players coming back…you’ll notice that’s a plural.
Jota ?
Anything is possible, now that the Saudi’s have apparently discovered he’s not only gay but he isn;t the Jota they thought they were buying.
Whether he’s gay or not is irrelevant to us, but over there it’s a serious crime, and one wonders if he told them that just so he could get out of town, If he has told them that, that is.
Like people used to do when they joined the army and found out they weren;t all that keen on it once people started shooting at them, or they had to run up a hill or something.
If he is available on a free, then surely Celtic would be interested.
Might even convince Reo Hatate to stay if one of the more outlandish claims made is true….
To sell a player for £25m and get him back for nothing would be the sort of business that gets a statue in your honour outside the ground, probably even in a big fountain.
Of course, it pales into insignificance when you remember “rangers ” are due a cut of any fee for Marek Tilman , who they had on loan and couldn’t afford, but it would still be something to shout about.
Even if there would be claims of money laundering and so on.
With a defensive crisis looming ahead of a trip to Ibrox, there’s also talk that an emergency loan bid will be made for the man with the megaphone himself.
Keiran Tierney, once the darling of the Celtic support, is poised to rejoin his boyhood heroes…that’s us, by the way….and will fill in on the left side of central defence until the injury crisis is over, or his hip finally falls off.
Whichever is sooner,
That will cheer everyone up as there does seem to be a bit of a cloud hanging over the ranch at the moment.
And for shits and giggles we’ll bring in Alfredo Morelos, not to bolster the forward line, but as a warning to other players what can happen of you don’t eat your vegetables and exercise regularly.
None of those stories are any wilder than anything else you’ll find on the internet today.
Thing is though, they all make sense.
Except for the Morelos one, obviously. There’s clearly more gone wrong with him than not eating properly and getting plenty of exercise.
James McCarthy is leaving, although there are some who doubt he was actually here.
Alben Ajeti is going to sit tight until Celtic pay him off, which is fair enough, A contract is a contract, but the bit where he claims he is a footballer is certainly open to question.
It would be better if he left by mutual consent, which incidentally is how Mason Greenwood is leaving Manchester United, which will happen as soon as his lawyers explain to him what consent means.
As for those of you complaining that Celtic have money in the bank and won’t spend it, wasn’t it ever thus ?
Er, no, actually, and so therefore a little bit of speculation to accumulate wouldn’t go amiss.
That’s what money in the bank is for, and this is one of the rainiest days we’ve had for a while.
One table I saw shows that Celtic have more cash in the bank than all but four EPL clubs. That’s the two Manchester clubs, Tottenham and West Ham.
Add to that the money from the sale of Hatate…oh, that’s going to happen, at which point we may even overtake Tottenham at the bank…
Sure, there may be investment in infrastructure, such as training facilities, and perhaps a few new beds in the hospital room, it seems we need them…but none of that matters if the team on the park doesn’t do the business.
All the talk of extending the ground is pointless if no one comes to see the football, so instead of applying the policy of just keeping a little bit better than “rangers “, and we’re always going to be a little bit better than any team that has Todd Cantwell as their talisman, let’s aim for the stars.
Even if we land on the moon at least it’s a journey worth taking….
Don’t know if Jota is gay or not but I’d be feckin delirious if we got him back on a free. Could we afford his wages now? Tierney? Also a no brainer even just for the lift he’d give the whole place. Any news on Podence? I assume it would be either him or Jota and not both. And a goalkeeper…
They would have to pay him off, 5 years times 10 mill, nice if you can get it. Then usual Celtic wages on top, nice. Certainly would be great seeing Jota slipping the ball between his opponents legs again! HH!
He will play for expenses any more than that along with his pay-off would put him in the 90% tax bracket
25 million cash plus you still have what you sold The Wolf of Wall Street couldn’t do better
How about this… there may be some strategy at play and we possibly have marquee signings in later stages of negotiation that will be finalised just before the huns game
It’s would be a perfect play to give the players and supporters the much needed boost.
End of next week would be the famous Friday good news day that we’ve done in the past before playing the orcs
There’s a perfect match for the mutually consented toxic greenwood, he could join Toxic FC and fit right in with the rest of the Masons.
Don’t go putting ideas in their heads.
That’s exactly the kind of thing they’d do and get away with, in that inimitable way they get away with pretty much everything else.
Pish.
I can’t see Jota coming back. If he wanted to, I’d imagine that FIFA would insist that the transfer is simply cancelled to maintain the “integrity” of their processes.
Even though we could afford that, there’s no way our custodians would countenance that.
I think a knock down £10-15m would be too rich for them.
Alarm bells started ringing for me when we started spunking the Jota Jillions on contract extensions.
Perhaps Kyogo, as our star player and ange favourite but, even then, he had years left on his current deal, so we would have got a decent wedge, if he left.
The others were simply baffling, McGregor (instrumental to us but no outside interest), Maeda (just over a year here, long term contract and lack of technical ability equals no interest), Forrest (seriously?) and the perma-crock Welsh (usually unneeded reserve and when we do need him, he’s unavailable).
Now, Abada and Hatate, again long contracts and allegedly already turned them down, so we’re going to offer them even more?
The bottom line is that we weren’t good enough for the Champions League last year, have lost key players and are investing in rewarding last year’s failures rather than better players.
Still, we’ll sign another u21 player, who might improve enough to become a full international and sell him when he’s about to become a Champs League ready player.
Trust the process, it’s the model and admire all the finery of the emperor’s new suit.
It’s incredible how quickly Desmond has returned us into Lawwell’s clutches.
Sadly it’s looking exactly as I’ve been saying for all these years, that Celtic is being run as a For Profit company, the only For Profit football club on Earth.
And those profiting do not give one iota of a monkeys whether the fans like it or not, they’re fixing their KPIs to the sales and forget us ever being Champions League ready.
This season has all the prior Lawwell-esque markings of this being the Huns turn to win the league again.
Reports on another site close to the action is that it’s not because Jota has more in common with George Michael than just the big hair and double denim but instead that they want Salah in and they don’t rate our former superstar on the wing.
Which is weird because Jota is capable of tearing them a new one.
This Masonic Greenwood saga doesn’t make any sense.
It appears to be him on the video but he’s innocent?
So if he’s ‘innocent’ why did all those women want him kicked out the club and why did Utd let him go after paying his wages and faffing about for nearly two full years?
Innocence and Guilt are pretty straight forward concepts, you’re either one or the other, but Greenwood seems to be existing in a weird half light of chiaroscuro where he’s both guilty and innocent at the same time.
Anyone any idea what’s going on there?
Who let the clown Gringo back in?
Now now, Monti, you don’t want to start that all over again, do you, after what I did to you last time?
And Ralph & Desi let me in.
Respect their wishes since it’s their site.
How’s Walter?
Still cutting about your gaff in yer missus’ house robe and slippers?
When I am asking for our boards removal, it isn’t because we have lost one game of football, it’s because they have a plan in place that continually fails to build from strength in a truly meaningful way.
The three or four players of the higher level that would increase our chances of European improvement, never arrive?
It is solely down to them!
Go up to Parkheid and tell them.
Go round the pubs in the Calton and start a protest.
Take a petition explaining your stance and get as many Tims on your side as you can get to oust the board.
You’ll never know if you don’t try.
The sure way it won’t work is stuffing yer face with fish suppers and making impassioned posts on fitba blog sites while stuck in yer bedroom in Fife.
That’s exactly where they want ye.
Haha very true
Good man.
I hear Jota suggested a Knob of the Week competition which got slightly lost in translation. The punishment for being gay in Saudi is getting whipped with a leather thong by a man in a dress. Brutal. I wouldn’t shut the door on a return but Jota are you free?
If a ref denies an obvious red card then allows the goal to stand while the injured player is being treated for the forearm smash he’s just received then isn’t that tantamount to cheating?
Or if, say, a player is clearly tripped in the penalty are with no contact on that ball in the same game, isn’t that also tantamount to blatant cheating by the same referee and his cohorts and that all of them should therefore be subject to an enquiry regarding their impartiality or lack thereof?
And what is the post of an Edit facility that doesn’t allow us to edit our posts by claiming that we’re ‘posting too quickly’ and must ‘slow down’?
It is
Jota wont be back. Big money salary pay off would be subject to Scottish tax as he has not stayed long enough out of Scotland so he will be off somewhere with lower taxes probably try and get a gig with another Saudi team.