With Adam Idah safely tucked away with the rest of the squad, the media turned their attention to Matt O’Riley, who despite their best efforts. is still around.
It may yet be that he will leave, but at least he won’t go on the cheap, with Atalanta now reluctantly appearing to meet the £29m asking price.
If there is an asking price, and if the stories are true that he’s agreed personal terms, which, of course, he can’t until a bid is accepted.
So you can see why there is still a bit of doubt about the whole thing, although with Brighton and Southampton pulling out of the race that Atalanta have won the race, but then again it might mean they have realised, as Brendan rodgers has said, that he’s not for sale.
Undeterred, the media have already earmarked his replacement, although it doesn’t seem to have crossed their mind that it is an addition rather than a replacement,
Arne Engels, a 20 year old midfielder at Augsberg has been mentioned, the player is valued at around £10m and regardless of whether it’s to replace O’Riley or not, he does seem to have something about him.
Interestingly, German’s called Engels are quite influential historically speaking….
The philosopher and social scientist was instrumental in his work with none other than Karl Marx…..
and they were a big hit early in the 20th century. ( Are you sure ? -Ed ) .
Speaking of comedians, plucky newcomers “rangers ” crashed out the Champions League after losing 2-0 at Hampden to Dynamo Kiev.
Listening to commentators and supporters alike, it was all the referees fault because he went to a catholic school, or someone he knows did, and was nothing to do with the piss poor tactics and players on show in the blue jerseys.
In fact, we hear it all started when the referee, Marco Guida, refused to shake hands the same way as Scottish referees do….
and got worse when Clement realised that the Italian referee and the lamb munching hack Mark Guidi were, in fact , two different people….
Guidi is actually a Celtic fan, which may enrage Clement even further, but it’s hard to see how the batty Belgian could get angrier, although it’s still early days this season.
When board told him that the UCL exit would affect his transfer budget he didn’t seem pleased about that either…
though they have offered him an assistant to help him focus during games….
And a supporter or two appears to be regaining focus as well….
I’m sure they’ll be fine….although they might struggle to pay the fine and compensation due to the court after the Elite case….
Still, on a brighter note for them, there’s an outside chance Ibrox will be ready for their next Champions League game.
Whenever that might be. The way they are going on the pitch supporters will probably be travelling by starship at that point.
Celtic have also told the Ibrox club, sorry, Hampden tenant that there will be no tickets for their fans in September when “rangers ” come to visit.
The reason, left out by most outlets, is that “rangers ” are unable to offer any guarantees about tickets for the first visit to Hampden/ Ibrox/Cathkin Park as nothing is certain about the fixture yet.
The downward spiral through the plughole appears to be underway for yet another club from the other side of the river, with the lower than expected crowd at Hampden for the qualifier an indicator that the bears are losing interest as well as faith
Mind you, we’d better brace ourselves for a run of articles on our “pointless ” academy system, after yet another…making a total of two this window….wonderkid agreed to leave for pastures new.
Daniel Kelly , a midfielder, had refused a new contract and had failed to secure guarantees of his role in the team, so he’s signed up to join Millwall in January.
Kelly was unlikely to break into the team, and joins Rocco Vata and Bosun Lawwal in lower English football where he can presumably make us eat our words.
Frank McAvennie says we should sign Ryan Porteous, several others reckon we should get Luke McCowan of Dundee, and the scattergun approach merely confirms what we already knew…they don’t know anything.
We’ve heard a few things though, and made some up as well…
Renato Tapia, a Peruvian defensive midfielder who just sneaks in under our budget as he’s available for free from Celta Vigo, left back Kristoffer Lund from Palermo, who is Danish, but also a USA international, and closer to home, Lennon Miller and Jack MacKenzie of Aberdeen.
Over the river, they’re looking to steal the headlines with a late bid for English winger Stanley Matthews, but he isn’t answering his phone.
Should be an interesting last week or so of the window…especially as we’re not done yet.
Last time we had this…..
Caption: Meet Keevins the dog, like his namesake, he’s a two faced bastirt!
Today…
Caption: Defeats on the field of battle, no ammunition, a poorly built fortress, do you think an orange uniform would distract the foot soldiers?
Here Regina who would you put on the team sheet
Dave King is left distraught at the latest stock market valuation reports of The R2ngers
” Another day another bill, who is it this time “?
” The face painter dear, will be the ruin of us “
Caption…
As the rangers chairman reads out the job cuts , senga realises her names not on the list and will have to keep typing out the statements …
Darling, I just found a load of these stuffed down the back of the sofa, what the f@&k is a side letter!?
I should have known you’d betray me. Josephine is a bit of a timmy name!
“Billy, either learn to read and write or stop supporting Sevco (2012), ah’m no writing any mair letters asking for a hovering pitch, a casino and a hotel, ach I blame the schools”
Caption
“Whit am Ah gonny dae wi’ a’ these comments that didnae get past the etims filter?”
Me too frustrating
“so Bearnadette ah said ta them, as I took ma power stance, ‘Late steel…late steel !!… ye can shove that right up yer erse’…look this is how ah told them”
Caption
“Mr Bennett, Mr Bennett. What about all these begging letters ?” said Willemena.
“Keep sending them until I say so “.
(The old ones are the best.)
The hotline at the Daily Ranker cannot cover it’s all consuming depression.
Caption: the etims diary tis not what it used to be
“It’s from Tavernier, claims he is holding the British at Waterloo and it’ll be a cake walk if we pop over now, could be a scam”
Ralph the ethnomethodologist promoting Marx and Engels, blimey! It took a while and no financial advantage to get Idah over the line but we are playing hard ball with O’ Reilly so we can hardly complain. Strikers always come expensive so we may get our money back but more importantly we have a replacement and an alternative for Kyogo. The trick would be fielding them both together.
Caption.
Dickie dear pour me some advocaat
..and this song’s about Tavernier.
I think it might be €29m (£25m) but good money all the same and seems to be tied in with them selling Koopmeiners for double that to Juve, which is just where we are in the food chain.
Also, he could’ve agreed terms with them, if we had given him permission to do this, which is a way of shortening negotiations when we agree a price.
The problem for me, is this leaves us substantially down in quality for Europe, where we were already short. This only leaves about 2 league games to play for any replacements to get up to speed before the Champs League begins.
Surprised at Kelly going to Millwall when there was talk of top continental clubs’ interest but, perhaps like Vata, it was a case of don’t believe the hype.
Although, its always disappointing to lose homegrown players move on/not make it, its good that its been dealt with decisively (ruthlessly?) and not allowed to fester.
Speaking of Uncle, he was claiming the 2nd worse decision in his 30y career. I presume the worst was then not getting a penalty when their player was offside or a correct call penalty given against them. Beale is looking more sensible compared to Lurch’s ravings.
Porteous, please no. The summer showed he’s not grown up 1 bit and the last thing we needed is another liability in Europe.
We need to steel ourselves for more concrete offers over there.
Caption “WTF Its about Jimmy McMenemy not me”
Caption – Right you, where’s the deeds?
Hello Napoleon. Did Sevco beat Dynamo to get into the CL.
Not tonight Josephine.
still looking for the deeds
out of the 3 left or leaving. id like to have seen Bosun Lawal get a chance in the cup games. He was well talked up in the USA tour
I have to say that yesterday was one of the funniest days in the new club’s 10 year history after their spectacular crash and burn against Dynamo Kiev on Tuesday night.
After the outrageously spectacular Hun gathering meltdown on the BBC where Alan McGregor, Alan Hutton, Kevin Thompson and too many others Huns to ever have in one place, NEVER MIND THE NATIONAL BROADCASTER spent hours wailing about how ‘the club has lost 5 million over this!’ and ‘We’ve gifted Celtic another 4 million in CL money!’
Which is true, haha.
I only hope that not one Tim ever pays their licence fee again after that absolutely hilarious embarrassment and disgrace.
We then had the news that their new Belgian CB, Propper, told his Belgian boss, Baldermort, that he was going to change position after Dynamo scored, and lead the attack, which the Belgian bluffer, his own manager, agreed to, thereby costing them the 2nd goal!
Then there was their emptying former Celtic marketing executive Blaine McConnell, a diehard Tim who said some rather unsavoury things about Sevco online a few years back, which, when his new employers found out, duly sacked him!
Only to then lie to their fans and the general public that they had ‘only ever intended to employ him for a few days’! 😀
Now they’re going to have to pay him for the remainder of his so far undisclosed contract, like they’ve had to do with almost every manager going back to Pedro Caixinha, ‘the footballing James Bond!’, because he’d once had a shot on a jet ski! 😀
Not to mention their increasingly insane manager inanely waffling on about how ‘this is the second time in my 30 year career that I’ve been cheated’ and even had Kris Boyd admitting that ‘they could have played all night and not scored’ and McGregor declaring’ that ref should never work in the Champions League again!’, a bit like his old clubs, haha.
And all this without mentioning Butland arguing with the fans after the Celtic defeat last season, furiously handing in a transfer request, which they agreed to, thinking they’d get 30 million for him, except nobody wants him, due to his ‘Low and to his left’ problems, so now they have the young Motherwell keeper raging as he thought he was signed as their No.1!
And on top of all this, TikTokTodd ‘The Odd’ Cantwell was told he was surplus to requirements by his lunatic manager pre-season but no other team wants him either so he too is a raging want-away but he has nowhere to go.
Add to all this that the6 could only pull in 26,000 for a crucial Champions League qualifier when they need 31,000 JUST TO BREAK EVEN and that despite their claims of eternal blue nosed loyalty who don’t do walking away that around half of them can’t be bothered going 15 minutes further over the Southside and we have the makings of the greatest comedy show to ever hit the face of the Earth, at least if you’re a Tim.
Not forgetting their never ending Ibrox issues, with some claiming that they won’t get back ‘home’ til January at the earliest, with others saying that it might never happen at all!
😀
And I’m only surprised that our genial host seems to have missed all this.
Hail Hail the Glasgow Celtic!
Let the banter years continue forevermore.
Caption:
“Elite, Hummel, Sports Direct, Hampden …
When will this madness ever end?”
“’When your eyes are like mine, Josephine.”
Caption… Hey, Josephine, you said Waterloo was a crap song but this says that Les Garçons de Guillaume is really merde.
Alternatively…
”I know it looks bad but … any chance ae mah hole?”
Napoleon:
“John Bennett has been in touch again. He wants a quote to use if he gets painted into a corner again in his next car crash interview. What about:
“Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily”, or
“Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever”, or
“History is a set of lies agreed upon”, or
“If you want a thing done well, do it yourself”
Josephine:
“Eet eez Sevo, je m’en fous! I ‘ave one for zat Pierre Lawell tho….Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake”
Josephine: “The reason I am hiding my feet is because you have stolen my shoes! Zut Alor!”
Caption: Jelly and Ice Cream? Not tonight Josephine.
“Surely the news can’t get any worse… Thank God we’ve just hired a new Head of Marketing…….get Blaine on the phone..”