\u201cIt has taken me a long way to come back but I am here now and I have good experience from playing in many countries.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s a great feeling for me. Celtic are a very big club and I hope we can do a lot this season. I know a lot about the club as it\u2019s one with a big history and great fans and a lot of good players have played here.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Actually, that first line is very interesting. He came to our attention at Gijon, which is the team he’s been most settled at. Going abroad too young probably was a mistake, but he seems to have got over it. Perhaps we have found our goalscorer…<\/p>\n He was asked how he would describe his style, and his reply was straight to the point;<\/p>\n \u201cWhen they asked me in Spain, I said the same thing: it\u2019s on the pitch where you need to speak and it will be the same here,\u201d said the hitman.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0Sounds good to me. And he looks happy enough.<\/p>\n He went on to give his version of the on-off transfer, which are irrelevant now, but worth noting;<\/p>\n \u2018My first choice was always Celtic, I never said I didn\u2019t want to come here. I don\u2019t know why people say things like that. When I spoke with my family and friends, I always said my choice was to come here. Yes, there were some problems in the deal but the most important thing is that I am here now.<\/em><\/p>\n \u2018I know (some fans might be wary). But<\/em><\/p>\n they can search the internet and they will never find any quotes from me where I said I didn\u2019t want to come to Celtic. Never \u2014 because I didn\u2019t say it.<\/em><\/p>\n \u2018I know Celtic is a big club with a lot of history and great fans. I want to prove I can play at a big club like Celtic.<\/em><\/p>\n \u2018I\u2019ll work hard and do everything to prove I can play here and bring something different.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0Fair enough.<\/p>\n \u2018Monday was a tough day, but that\u2019s football,\u2019 he added. \u2018I was in my house watching TV and I was really a little bit nervous because of the situation. But at the same time I was calm. I had a choice before I chose Celtic and I was happy when I knew I would be a Celtic player.<\/em><\/p>\n \u2018What made me nervous? It\u2019s normal. I was nervous because maybe there were some problems. But I don\u2019t want to look at what happened before. I just look to the future.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n Er, alright. we believe you. didn’t you say you’d do your talking on the pitch ?<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0He replaces Teemu Pukki and Amido Balde, neither of whom made the grade at Celtic. Largely because they weren’t good enough in the end. However, there was a surprise when neither of them missed their flights to their new destinations, although Pukki hesitated before going up the steps, and Balde fell over them.<\/p>\n \u00a0They never really got a chance, but thats Celtic. It’s a results business, and they didn’t give us a result.<\/p>\n \u00a0John Guidetti was also supposed to arrive, and typically the press reckon that the u-turn in the Scepovic deal meant he was suddenly surplus to requirements, and Lawwell hid in the toilet until after midnight, before apologising for having to use the paperwork for another purpose.<\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0But Guidettti doesn’t think that is the case…<\/p>\n \u00a0“ It was total chaos ”\u00a0<\/em> said the Swede. \u00a0”\u00a0I don\u2019t think I ate all day,\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0He wasn’t referring to the price of the food inside Celtic Park, or to the quality.<\/p>\n “It was just wait, wait, wait. Hundreds of fans stood outside the stadium and waited in the middle of the night,<\/em>\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n And not one of them offered to nip to the chippy for him.<\/p>\n Anyway, it all fell through at the last minute, the SFA couldn’t find any paper for the fax machine, then it emerged that someone had left the door open to the carrier pigeons cage, and no-one had any credit on their phones.<\/p>\n All of this frenzied activity took place in the SFA head office under a picture of former head, the late Jim Farry, (late Jim Farry here refers to the fact he has passed away, and not his paperwork procesing ability. ) and those present swear they saw a little smile form on his face.<\/p>\n Anyway, the SFA have appealed to FIFA, and all parties are hopeful the deals \u00a0not dead yet.<\/p>\n \u00a0” I hope that it sorts itself out with Celtic, otherwise I\u2019ll have to stay at City and that\u2019s not the worst thing that could happen,\u201d Guidetti said. \u201cUnfortunately, the papers weren\u2019t finished in time and now it\u2019s up to FIFA to decide.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0Apart from being a prolific striker at Feyenoord, Guidetti is Swedish, and we seem to do okay with Swedish guys who used to pay for Feyenoord. If Celtic are to be referred to as Southamptons feeder club, then Manchester City could well be ours. Guidetti would join Samaras, Bitton and Denayaar as not being glamourous enough for them, but more than capable of performing at a high level.<\/p>\n \u00a0There is a question over his eye to ball co-ordination, though.<\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0Perhaps a wee bell or something inside it to help him out ?<\/p>\n Kris Commons is probably a little relieved he isn’t going anywhere. Although he does have one or two concerns, which are not dissimilar to those of the support;<\/p>\n “My agent has been in this week, obviously just for brief discussions, not just about the length of the contract I’m going to sign but what’s going to be happening in the future for Celtic and where the board sees us in two or three years.<\/em><\/p>\n “Because, when you have had such a successful time at Celtic, you want to keep doing that. You don’t want to take backward steps.<\/em><\/p>\n “I’m 31 at the weekend so I want to be playing the best years of my career at the top level.<\/em><\/p>\n “I’m hoping with the new manager and new faces coming in that we can achiev<\/em>e the same things that we did in the first few years.<\/em><\/p>\n “There were things said in the meeting that were positive.”\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n “When you get new management and coaching staff, then obviously they have different ideas and different mentality going into different games.<\/em><\/p>\n “The new manager is obviously on a bit of a learning curve about what his best team is and the best formation is. It’s just one of those things that has changed at the minute.”<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0“I’ve got a great relationship with the players, staff and fans and I just want to keep performing for Celtic as long as possible.<\/em><\/p>\n “I have played my best football for Celtic and I love playing for them.”\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0Surely something can be sorted that keeps everyone happy, and Commons can get back to enjoying his football. Which is when he is at his most productive.<\/p>\n \u00a0One move that we didn’t notice on deadline day saw Red Bull midfielder Sadio Mine join southampton in a \u00a312m deal. He had scored 45 goals for the Austrian side in just 86 games. One less for us to worry about.<\/p>\n Virgil van Dijk is reportedly furious that he didn’t get his move, but having been happy to sign a four year deallast year, the least he could do is hang around for half of it.<\/p>\n \u00a0He’ll get his move one day, but he’s not the player he thinks he is. He still has a way to go to be that.<\/p>\n \u00a0As we have said, the diary was three years old today, but checking the archives it appears I’m out by a couple of days. It started on September 1 2011.<\/p>\n \u00a0The transfer window had just closed, then as now, and this is how it went….<\/p>\n Ins:<\/strong>\u00a0Adam Matthews (Cardiff, free), Kelvin Wilson (Nottingham Forest, free), Victor Wanyama (Germinal Beerschot, \u00a3900,000), Fraser Forster (Newcastle, loan), Mohamed Bangura (AIK, undisclosed), Badr El-Kaddouri (Dynamo Kiev, loan).<\/p>\n Not bad.<\/p>\n Outs:<\/strong>\u00a0Paul McGowan (St Mirren, free), Freddie Ljungberg (released), Ryan Conroy (Dundee, free), Graham Carey (St Mirren, free), Niall McGinn (Brentford, loan), Ben Hutchinson (Kilmarnock, free) Andreas Hinkel (released) Daryl Murphy (Ipswich, loan), Richie Towell (Hibernian, loan), Shaun Maloney (Wigan, undisclosed), Jos Hooiveld (Southampton )\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Kind of surprising Southampton ever came back north of the border after acquiring Hooiveld.<\/p>\n The picture yesterday referred to the Alfredo di Stefano testimonial, which took place shortly after Celtic had won the European Cup in 1967. 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