\u201cIt did get close. When I was frustrated with injuries and not playing, I sometimes thought this is home for me and I want to come back.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cOf course I do want to come home, it just depends when.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0Well, he’d be company for James Forrest on those long days in the treatment room.<\/p>\n We don’t need any more strikers, not yet anyway, and so all of the available funds must be channeled into securing Swedish forward John Guidetti. Apparently, although he says money isn’t important, it appears it is.<\/p>\n \u00a0When guidetti was looking round for a club to go on loan to, several Dutch clubs were interested in taking him on. The most prominent of these, and the likeliest to succeed were Feyenoord, where he had enjoyed a fruitful spell a few years ago. Except Guidetti was on four times the average salary at the Rotterdam club, and Manchester City, aware of the Financial Fair Play rules, wouldn’t subsidise his wage as much as Celtic would. When the time comes for Guidetti to make his mind up, it seems Dutch teams can’t afford him.<\/p>\n \u00a0Now that he’s in Glasgow, and clearly enjoying every minute of it, \u00a0it looks like he won’t prove to be too expensive to sign on a bosman in January, because thats when the deal needs to be done. If Celtic get past the group stages in the Europa Laeague, Guidetti could make a name for himself, and then other offers will be on the table. As it stands just now, English clubs will look at how Gary hooper has handled EPL defences, and all but the lower ranked sides, who will be battling relegation, will look elsewhere.<\/p>\n \u00a0But then again, theres no transfer fee….just, for the EPL sides at least, a minimal development fee.<\/p>\n \u00a0Hopefully, Guidetti will decide his immediate future is in Glasgow. After all, if you want to be loved and earn a very decent wage whilst winning medals then Parkhead is the place to be.<\/p>\n Stefan Johansen is a happy chappie this morning. He’s just been named the Best Norwegian Player of 2014, beating off stiff opposition from, er, some other Norwegian players.<\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0This is the rather impressive trophy, a golden football with a little man with a camera emblazoned on it.<\/p>\n \u00a0He’d only popped in for a pint, and found a guy hovering by the toilets with the prize, in a sort of “this is your life “surprise .<\/p>\n \u00a0Johansen was pleased.<\/p>\n \u00a0It feels really good to get this price.\u00a0<\/em><\/span>It is something I am very proud of, <\/span><\/em>he said, shortly before punching his interpreter in the face.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0Speaking of balls, you have to feel for this rather unfortunately named Welsh Rugby player…<\/p>\n Will they have a forward line of Roberts Biggar Ballsack ?<\/p>\n \u00a0Back to the game with the correctly shaped balls, and Crystal Palace are apparently going to bid \u00a35m for Celtic captain Scott Brown, as newspapers desperately try to find something to write about. ( They should just search twitter for rude names ) . Interestingly, that would give Palace a midfield containing ex-Celt Joe Ledley, nearly Celt James McArthur and too wee to be a Celt Barry Bannan.<\/p>\n \u00a0Brown, though is a bit of a homebird, and doesn’t fancy the bright lights and glamour of the EPL, and ,er, Crystal Palace.<\/p>\n \u00a0The EPL. Where clubs make money, where players make money and where agents take a piece off both.<\/p>\n \u00a0Martin O’Neill, now Ireland manager and returning to Celtic Park for Fridays clash with Scotland, reckons if Celtic were in the EPL, they would get 85,000 at home games.<\/p>\n \u00a0\u201cI had a great time at Celtic,\u201d O\u2019Neill said in Beaconsfield last week, celebrating his first anniversary in the job. \u201cThey are a fantastic football club, one of the greatest in the world, and if there was a united Premier League they could build an extra tier and still fill 85,000 every home game.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n Thanks, but no thanks. The novelty would soon wear off, and anyway, could we do it on a wet Wednesday in Stoke. No, but then neither can Stoke.<\/p>\n Two former Celts landed two new managerial jobs yesterday, making it a total of three over the last week or so.<\/p>\n Henrik Larsson left Falkenburg to go to Helsingborgs, moving very quickly before Peter Lawwell could get hold of him, Davie Moyes went to Real Sociedad, promising to learn a new language in the process, to add to the strange dialect he already speaks, and Alan Thompson took over at Blackpool.<\/p>\n \u00a0Thompson has always played down stories of his fondness for the drink, and if every problem is an opportunity, then north west holiday town blackpool offers several opportunities.<\/p>\n \u00a0Good luck to all three.<\/p>\n \u00a0Aberdeens Evening Express tells us that four people have been arrested after the game between the dons and the hoops on Sunday, after singing and shouting disrupted the silence for Remembrance Sunday. The report, which is not in the least bit balanced, says;<\/p>\n FOUR people have been charged following Aberdeen FC\u2019s heated clash with Celtic at Pittodrie.<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Two further arrests were also made including a Celtic fan who allegedly breached their bail conditions, and a Dons fan.<\/em><\/p>\n And only one other fan was ejected from the ground before the game.<\/em><\/p>\n Celtic won 2-1 against the Dons. Match commander Innes Walker said: \u201cThe minute\u2019s silence was shared by the overwhelming majority of fans at Pittodrie, however, police were aware of some disruption during the minute\u2019s silence.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u00a0<\/em>Charged with what ? Its not an offence, as far as I’m aware, to disrupt a period of silence . Well, not yet , anyway.<\/p>\n \u00a0The paper doesn’t tell us, but we can guess it will be the “behaviour likely to cause distress ” clause, which pretty much covers everything.<\/p>\n \u00a0Theres no mention of what the Dons fan did. Not surprisingly.<\/p>\n Anyone who still has pals who claim that Sevco Scotland, currently playing in the forst division as Rangers are in fact the same club-I know, you’d think they’d have accepted it by now and moved on-could do worse than show them this little snippet, from when the English FA intervened when A Rangers player decided not to join the new club;<\/p>\n \u00a0Rangers , of course, didn’t receive SFA membership. 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