{"id":18732,"date":"2024-08-15T10:03:53","date_gmt":"2024-08-15T09:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/etims.net\/?p=18732"},"modified":"2024-08-15T10:03:53","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T09:03:53","slug":"celtic-diary-thursday-august-15-2024-and-a-rumour-or-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/etims.net\/?p=18732","title":{"rendered":"Celtic Diary Thursday August 15 2024: …And A Rumour Or Two"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

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 \u00a329m asking price.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

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,<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Arne Engels, a 20 year old midfielder at Augsberg has been mentioned, the player is valued at around \u00a310m and regardless of whether it’s to replace O’Riley or not, he does seem to have something about him.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"Image\"<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Interestingly, German’s called Engels are quite influential historically speaking….<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The philosopher and social scientist was instrumental in his work with none other than Karl Marx…..<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"Harpo<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

and they were a big hit early in the 20th century. ( Are you sure ? -Ed ) .<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Speaking of comedians, plucky newcomers “rangers ” crashed out the Champions League after losing 2-0 at Hampden to Dynamo Kiev.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

In fact, we hear it all started when the referee,\u00a0 Marco Guida, refused to shake hands the same way as Scottish referees do….<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

and got worse when Clement realised that the Italian referee and the lamb munching hack Mark Guidi were, in fact , two different people….<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

When board told him that the UCL exit would affect his transfer budget he didn’t seem pleased about that either…<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

though they have offered him an assistant to help him focus during games….<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

And a supporter or two appears to be regaining focus as well….<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"Image\"<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

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….<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Still, on a brighter note for them, there’s an outside chance Ibrox will be ready for their next Champions League game.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Whenever that might be. The way they are going on the pitch supporters will probably be travelling by starship at that point.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

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<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

We’ve heard a few things though, and made some up as well…<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Should be an interesting last week or so of the window…especially as we’re not done yet.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Last time we had this…..<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"Image\"<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n
Pat Higney<\/em><\/div>\n
\u00a01 day ago<\/em><\/div>\n
\n
<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n

Caption: Meet Keevins the dog, like his namesake, he\u2019s a two faced bastirt!\u00a0 \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Today…<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"Image\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":18733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/etims.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/4996a11f2df35b11b34b64af6d899a3f.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2J7If-4S8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18732"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18734,"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18732\/revisions\/18734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}