To make his point, he even used green words, and that means he isn’t kidding.<\/p>\n
Odegaard, for his part, has been practicing the Broony \u00a0ready for when he wears the hoops.<\/p>\n
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Having seen a video of the lad, -theres one on You Tube-he does look like a hell of a prospect, and he’s already played for Norway. A left sided midfielder, his arrival will have Anthony Stokes comparing house prices in Bolton and Cardiff.<\/p>\n
The way the papers would have it, Stokes, Commons , Mulgrew and Adam Matthews are all heading to Lancashire to join up with their old boss;<\/p>\n
But we hear Lenny has his eye on someone else….<\/p>\n <\/p>\n As regards all these prospects, we’ve seen the movie before, with the likes of Freddy Adu and Islam Feruz, and the latter especially is an example of what happens when a prospect gets too much too soon, and the reality is that Odegaard senior will trust Ronny with his lad, and perhaps more importantly, the lad will trust Ronny.<\/p>\n Another interesting little bit of tittle tattle is around a possible new shirt sponsor for the 2015-16 season. It comes from winnerSports, who claim to have also broken the Mike Ashley takeover of \u00a0Second Rangers back in 2013.<\/p>\n Winner Sports<\/strong>\u00a0have been in close communication with the growing mobile gaming brand (Fruity King) in recent weeks after they informed us that they\u2019re looking to facilitate the growth of their ever growing brand within the footballing world.<\/em><\/p>\n The brands Head of Commercial Strategy told us directly;\u00a0\u201cWe have the budget to break a record main shirt sponsorship deal.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Our sources can confirm that the mobile gaming brand are having ongoing discussions with\u201cseveral British\u201d\u00a0clubs. The\u00a0\u201ctentative, but encouraging\u201d\u00a0discussions are mainly focusing, at this point in time on kit sponsorship deals, but are not limited to,\u00a0\u201cStadium naming rights, training kit sponsorship & potential independent sponsorship deals.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n The brand is also expressing an interest in buying class A Ordinary Shares from any Selling Shareholder in-order to establish itself in British Football.<\/em><\/p>\n When asked, if the mobile gaming brand had any club in mind, he went on to say;\u00a0\u201cWe have a short list, we can compete with other gambling brands who currently work with some of the biggest clubs both in England & Scotland\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n When pushed further<\/strong>,\u00a0he told us; \u201cWe are enthusiastic about investing into Scottish football\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n According to information obtained by Winner Sports, the clubs that are set to be offered a record shirt sponsorship deal for the 2015\/16 season are,\u00a0Leeds United FC, West Ham United F.C, Aston Villa FC & Celtic FC.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Er, Fruity King ?<\/p>\n Not really something I’d like written on any shirt I’d be wearing. Not after that incident in Lanzarote when we stumbled into a “showbar “.<\/p>\n Speaking of the replica kits, there’s also talk of ditching Nike, which would be a great move for a couple of reasons.<\/p>\n Firstly, theres the obvious sweatshop scandal, where Nike pay even less to their workers than what Celtic pay to theirs, and apart from that, theres the piss poor quality of the materials used. Go on, admit it. You miss Umbro as well.<\/p>\n We all bought the first Nike hooped effort, and then watched it turn into the bright green away top after a couple of washes, and they didn’t even let us know it would happen until we’d bought the away one.<\/p>\n Wee aside about the green away one, this one;<\/p>\n A mate of mine rang me to tell me that he’d ordered one online somewhere, who had offered 25% off the price, but when the order was processed, it actually deducted \u00a325. If I recall correctly, everyone got one of those for Christmas that year. Even the wife, actually. Remember that old fantasy of a lass in a Celtic top….<\/p>\n Mind you, she killed the moment by asking me if I wanted her to be Neil Lennon or Chris Sutton.<\/p>\n Anyway, I’m rambling again.<\/p>\n Theres a couple of firms touting for the contract, including \u00a0no doubt Nike, and we’ll keep you informed. After all, Etims \u00a0broke the Magners story long before it became official, although we are reluctant to tarnish our image further by getting anything else right.<\/p>\n On to Thursday game with Dinamo Zagreb, and it looks like the side won’t have to face one of those hostile Eastern European crowds. It seems only 3000 turned up at the weekend for their game, as they are all sick of how shite their team is.<\/p>\n Celtic are set to send out a fringe team, as the game doesn’t matter, but it does give the management a chance to try something different.<\/p>\n Like passing to each other, and scoring goals. Who knows, it might even catch on.<\/p>\n Speaking of fans not turning up because their team isn’t very good, it appears that over at Ibrox they’ve been doing a Tesco-theres perhaps a little more irony in that comparison than is immediately apparent-by inflating the numbers.<\/p>\n Even though there was no television coverage of the recent game with Cowdenbeath, largely due to a complaint put in by manager Ally Mccoist who was unhappy with the tagline below his picture, only 15,092 actually turned up.<\/p>\n Still a big crowd for a lower league game, but they had reported the attendance as 28,000 or so. Obviously that was just a mistake, and not an attempt to explain any money that may have suddenly appeared in the tills.<\/p>\n Its a bit like when the CIA described torture as Enhanced Interrogation Techniques.<\/p>\n This is Enhanced Accounting Techniques.<\/p>\n There is , of course, no connection with any of this to any illegal activity whatsoever, and its presumably not why one of their directors left yesterday. Norman Crighton, perceived as the man representing the Laxey Partnership walked away, he hasn’t said why, but as soon as he gets home, gets disinfected and puts on some clean clothes, he’ll let us know.<\/p>\n There was a little bit of pre Christmas cheer for the godless over there though, when the SFA ordered Dundee Utd to pay \u00a3170,000 plus VAT for Charlie Telfer, who had come through the ranks at Murray Park. Or should that be “come through the ranks relatively unscathed by Murray Park ?<\/p>\n United had argued that since Second Rangers were only two years old, they should only pay two years development money, but since Telfer TUPEd his contract over to the new club, its hard to see why the Ibrox club aren’t due the money. They did take on his contract.<\/p>\n Thats why they never got money for Naismith, MacGregor and all the others who hit the highway as soon as the old club died.<\/p>\n Naismith, of course, bravely gave his reasons why;<\/p>\n Bill MacMurdo, one time agent and now the voice of , well, its not really a voice. more just a noise, really., has added his tuppence worth to the great debate surrounding the competence of Stewart Regan and Neil Doncaster, who in some peoples eyes have failed in their jobs as heads of the SFA and SPFL respectively.<\/p>\n In other peoples eyes they have made a complete arse of it and should be charged in the high court with taking money under false pretences.<\/p>\n Mine, for one. Or should that be two ?<\/p>\n MacMurdo reckons that;<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t think the people leading our game are up to the job. Neil Doncaster and, to a lesser extent,\u00a0Stewart Regan must accept \u2028responsibility for the failure to fully exploit the commercial worth of the product.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n \u201cIt will be in their job \u2028specification. I don\u2019t know how long they can last. Okay, they are administrators more than salesmen but it\u2019s up to them to put the right people in charge and motivate them to get the job done.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0He’s spot on, but flushed with happiness, he takes it too far…<\/p>\n \u00a0\u201cThe problem is that many club owners don\u2019t apply the same techniques in football that have brought them such success in business.<\/em><\/p>\n![\"lennon](\"https:\/\/etims.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/lennon-calendar1.jpg\")
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