Celtic Banter Archive September 01 2012

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01 Sep 2012 21:54:13
Is lassad nouioui a creative midfielder .just checked him on YouTube looks great anyone know what is happening .
Paddy

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01 Sep 2012 21:37:59
Spot on as usual ed. Everyone jumped the gun about Lassad and you said there was nothing official either way. Keep up the great work and thanks for all the hard work you do on here for all of us.

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Hear hear, quality site ed. I have it as my homepage,even just to come on and get a laugh and chat about football. Hail Hail big man

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01 Sep 2012 21:25:03
Seen on tw**ter that lassad is in Glasgow just now.

Briggs

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01 Sep 2012 21:20:33
Google translation from a Spanish sports website:

The player is in Glasgow
Mess with Lassad, Celtic and Levante expect his signing

Although the Levant has confirmed that it is committed for two years with the Tunisian Lassad, Celtic Glasgow has announced that is waiting to sign him.

Valencian club sources said the deal with the player's agent is already closed and the agent sent an email to the club on Friday night in which they reported that the operation could advertise.

As usual, the commitment to the player is going to sign after passing the medical examination, said the sources, who also said the club was aware of the possibility of playing in the Celtic Lassad by the media.

The Levante have evidence that the player is in Glasgow, but also that the player has signed for Scottish club.

"Lassad Aklil is representative for seven years. We spoke to him and is the first to be surprised by what happens. We await events," the communications director for the club, Alberto Gil.

He noted that before the signing was announced, Levante sporting director, Manolo Salvador, had spoken to the player and the player who was told to talk to Aklil to close.

"If this matter is complicated and the club is harmed, the Levante take legal steps to resolve it," he added.

Celtic Sources said after Saturday's league match they know there has been talk that the player could go to Levante, but may indicate that awaits you at the Scottish club.

A Celtic technicians liked the player for some time and stressed their good performance at Deportivo in the last two seasons. "It will give a different dimension to the team," he added.

That clears that one up then!?

LondonBhoy

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01 Sep 2012 20:58:22
Seen this on The Rangers page..oh the irony:-

bbc radio scotland top discussion rangers again. just shows you bears the scottish game needs us more than we need them. our signing of temps seems to have shocked them all as most spl clubs did not have finance to buy anyone and hearts needed to sell to pay tax bill. in the 3rd division no european football and still the BIGGEST club in scotland WATP

Mrs E

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How ignorant are they.... they can only sign players as they have f****d every creditor they owe. Ran away from any responsibilty and claimed their "fans don't deserve this". The SFA has let them rejoin the league, unopposed, the transfer ban is a complete joke and to top it all off they can sign players from SPL clubs they haven't even finished paying from a year before!

Only in Scotland could zombies moan so loud!

DazzaBhoy

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I just couldn't believe the red neck of 'slagging' off an SPL club for needing to sell a player to pay a tax bill & talking about their finances.

Surely having a laugh with their post. Mrs E

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Where did he "slag" Hearts off about the tax bill? He stated facts that Hearts were desperate for the money! And I'm guessing the player we havent finished paying for is Wallace? Well the next payment isn't due yet so why should we pay till it is? Hatred just seeps out some of you guys!
Anythin to say about your teams poor performance today or Lennons tactics?? Didn't think so! Still obsessed I see.

Gavla

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Yeah good to see our youths getting a chance when our big stars will be rested for Champions League not that you would know anything about that. Where is all your youth players? Aww that's right they Walked Away. Bigirishmac

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Gavla if you don't understand the irony in the post them I'm not going to explain it.

I've already commented on today's result on the front page.

Obsessed with what exactly ? One of the biggest clubs in Scotland's demise is a major talking point, shock horror..lets call it an obsession make ourselves feel better when they say things we don't like. Boo hoo ~ Mrs E

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02 Sep 2012 09:30:50
@ sevco fan we're obsessed? What does that make you then? Asking about Celtic our manager and our tactics......ya clown!
Hearts never mentioned in their statement that they had to sell him to pay a tax bill so your fellow sevconian was trying to rip the piss.

Briggs

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01 Sep 2012 20:11:35
Did you know that Lassad was once fined by Deportivo for wearing a shirt under his football top that displayed his hatred for the Former Scottish Football Team known as Rangers FC, Oh Yes you'll do for me young man. I'll even buy you a new T Shirt that says you hate Rangers Limited.

scmxm8

go on ed post it please {Ed007's Note - Another reason not to trust Wikipedia.}

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01 Sep 2012 17:43:56
It's no surprise after today's game no one bid for paddy McCourt,absolutely shambolic performance!didnt look interested,

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Dont rate him at all, awful game today

Ska bhoy

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Awfull game today? Awfull game every game!

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Give paddy a chance , does not start to many games remember sammi .joes bhoy hh

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Paddy should not start a match. totally
inefective. todays game the way it panned out would have been perfect for paddy to come on for last 25/30 minutes. never be anything other than squad player

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There is a reason he doesn't start every game.....

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01 Sep 2012 17:41:00
Hay bhoys and ghirls. Abit disappointed with the result altho if we had our first 11 I think we would of destroyed Hibs. But it is great to see the young guys playing. Big Vic was a huge lost. Are we still go to sign a free agent?

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In first half shoud have been about 4 nil up..Thank god we have signed a big centre forward,as the amount off crosses we make& no one too finish them off is unreal,sloppy second half performance,but we will get far better as the season progresses,the passing& movement needs too improve& hooper needs to get his act together..stevo

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Hibby in peace guys.on another day you wouldve put six past us.even with all those players out and if you start taking your chancrs you will hammer every team.just glad your shooting boots werent on yesterday.good luck in the champions league btw.second behind barca is there for the taking.

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01 Sep 2012 14:53:19
tunisian striker looks a very assured confident striker,but thats youtube heres hoping bri67

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01 Sep 2012 14:37:56
hearing on the tranny tunisian striker lasad to be signed?bri67

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01 Sep 2012 13:38:57
Let's not be critical folks.
If PL and Lenny could afford Messi and Iniesta then they'd try to buy them. But they can't and they are cutting their cloth accordingly. Do we want to be the next Leeds, Portsmouth or Rangers?
We are where we are in the grand scheme of transfer money so let's support the club and those who wear our famous colours.
Alternatively, those who still feel the club's efforts are still not enough should club together and raise the millions needed to buy the players you apparently think should be playing at Paradise.

Hail Hail
ChrisBhoy {Ed007's Note - Does buying tickets for matches not count as clubbing together Chris?}

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No ED it doesn't. Sad but true. Some guy needs to make sensible financial decisions and PL is doing a great job. HH

Shuggy {Ed007's Note - I have never said PL isn't doing a great job. Clubbing together means a group of people gives money so that all the money collected can be used to buy something. Season tickets should cover that without telling people to give more money if they want players that will improve the squad long term.}

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It does Ed.....but expectations have to be mabaged. Just because we buy tickets doesn't mean our wishes should be limitless. Do you Ed think the club should have done more in this transfer window?

Hail Hail
ChrisBhoy {Ed007's Note - Yeah Chris I think they could and should have done better. I am not meaning anything stupid like a £20 million spending spree. I am looking forward to seeing Ambrose playing so I think we done OK there, but Boly could also have been brought in. I would have liked to have seen them push the boat out a bit with Henriksen, the club dragged it's heels too long and the player moved elsewhere. Miku is a decent enough player but he is only going to be here for a season I suspect I would rather have seen someone bought outright, we would win the SPL without him and we should be giving the CL experience to a player we KNOW that we are going to get the benefit of. There was the chance of signing Johnny Russell, he would have been more fitting with the signing policy of the last few years and would have gave the fans a nice lift as a lot of them wanted Russell signed up. Nineteen players left us during the summer, either on loan or permanently and although we needed to trim the squad size I expected some quality brought in rather than quality. We shaved over £90k a week off the wage bill (just under £5 million p.a.), we sold Ki, have qualified for the CL group stages and have ST money on top of that, surely spending say £5 million on 3/4 players isn't asking too much?}

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Ok so celtic started last season in 9 million debt and broke even without champion league this year they reduced the wage bill qualified for champions league and sold ki for 6 million and your saying they cant afford a player ?? get a grip

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I agree we have a great squad,
Forster did look like he needed a rest at times last year....new keeper comes in!
Needed a CB in comes Ambrose, who looks like a decent defender.
Got a striker.......maybe 2 (Miku, Lassad)
plus we have the NextGen kids coming through.

McGeough looked class against Real, until that injury. Watt has looked class up front, maybe he didn't score in the game against Helsinki, but he was in the right position to get chances. We are in the group stages, and were not using money we dont have. Were putting money by for "rainy days". Unlike our deceased neighbours did.

Barcelona are the only club to come to CP on Champions League games and take three points. When we had GS in charge, a weaker team, than we have now, managed to beat Man United and AC Milan

All's rosey in the Celtic garden....The future bright.. it's Green and White! Hail Hail

DazzaBhoy

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01 Sep 2012 13:45:24
forgot to tell you all, i was in a pub last wek, and overheard a conversation between two bears.. '' if you were in the broomloan , why did you not shout back at us yesterday, we were giving you hand signals to try to get you to shout back'' sounded to me like they are trying to copy ' c ome on you bhoys in green. so expect them to get it right eventually . they are trying to copy our chant. you heard it here first .. shamrock

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Shamrock - They already have with fat sally's blue and white army. Have they ever been first at anything.
Tambhoy ( original )

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01 Sep 2012 13:34:30
Ed I hope I didn't offend with the ORRIBLE LITTLE MAN joke earlier if I did am sorry buddy

Hail hail

Marco1888 {Ed007's Note - I don't know what you mean Marco... One of the other Eds must have got it.}

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Hopefully it was one of the snooty epl yins!

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01 Sep 2012 13:12:12
So that well known Celtic fan Tempelton has signed for Sevco . Any Celtic fan worth their salt wouldn't have entertained a move to them ( especially to the bottom tier in GB ). If he even remoteley supported Celtic he gave up that right the minute he entered talks with them . You will regret it son........DH

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Money talks bud, would be hard to say no if someones willing to quadruple your wages, good luck to the boy, wasnt on our radar so let him get on with it.............bhoywonder

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Good to see the deep seeded hatred coming to the surface! Really sad.

Gavla

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Yeah gavla you and your club and management would know about deep seated hatred
After all its what your new club is all about

Hail hail

Marco1888

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Re Gavia . Why is it deep seeded and what does that mean .......DH

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Re Gavia , Don't get me started about deep seeded hatred . Only a zombie would bring up crap like that . Do you honestly think a so called Rangers diehard would sign for the Tic if they were in Junior football ......DH

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01 Sep 2012 11:37:17
Ed what is the ed on the zombies thread going to do now I take it he will be made redundant as they can't sign anyone apart from 18yr olds for a year and a half.

Hail hail

Marco1888 {Ed007's Note - I don't have anything to do with their site Marco. They will have plenty to talk about soon enough anyway.}

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We got tony watt from airdrie when he was 17. shamrock

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01 Sep 2012 12:04:52
maybe just being suspicious..but can only see these young players signing for the dark side if they have been promised top flight football next year...JohnnyG..another stitch up I feel

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They would not be allowed into a new top tier without a points deduction of at least 25 for two years, to make up for missing out the 2nd and 1st divisions they would have to go through to get there on merit.so i wouldn't worry about that one.. shamrock

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Been wondering for a few weeks now what exactly they are being told or promised by the management at The Govan Strollers.. call me paranoid - i've been called worse. TRP

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No great mystery here Bhoys.
It's called playing for the Rangers. Still a massive attraction despite what division we're in.
Suck it up for what it is.
If this is what your like when we're in Div3 you'll be apoplectic by the time we make our way back to the top.
Same old - same old! lol.
P.O.B.
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Could have sworn your best player naismith is at everton. Werent there à few others ? Did i miss something ? Must be some player this templeton If youre happy hes replacing all those who disagreed with what you just posted. Was it 26 ?

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02 Sep 2012 09:25:21
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By pointing out the obvious will just make you look stupid mate. Och what the hell.
Let's just say it's something to do with high earners. Catch my drift?
However using your logic you are obviously delighted with your current squad's ability to handle CL and SPL?
No? Yeah you've probably got a point,unlike your post.
P.O.B.

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01 Sep 2012 11:05:19
Gary O'Connor has tweeted that we tried to sign him on loan twice last night, after we signed Miku.

Skelly.

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Probably the drugs talking. shamrock

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Somebody should tell big Gaz that we have enough matchday stewards, but there's a vacancy selling Paradise Windfall tickets :-)

BigRab

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And I thought he was off the drugs now .....DH

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01 Sep 2012 11:34:54
just watched ambrose on youtube. he looks solid enough, think he'll do a job for us. miku looks ok too. a big poacher. shamrock

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01 Sep 2012 10:36:40
C'mon Bhoys, bums on seats today to greet the new Bhoys. Im expecting a goal fest today.
We dont want Sevco having a bigger crowd than us this weekend.

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01 Sep 2012 10:03:28
Morning Ed, tidy shift yesterday with the updates man. I was pretty pleased with the activity all in all. If another striker is to be added, I'd rather it was John Carew, still relatively young and loads of European experience.

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01 Sep 2012 09:14:28
What a total lack of ambition from templeton.how can you go from playing and scoring,at anfield,with the atmosphere and the euphoria,to joining a team in the lowest backwater of scottish football?totally non sensical.no ambition whatsoever.shocking for scottish footballs status.artybhoy

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Just like dean shiels sewer rat 2 ian black and the wedding singer sandaza no football ambition whats so ever.
Davie

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01 Sep 2012 07:16:26
Ed great work all day yesterday though I'm sure your grateful that our transfer day wasn't as busy as most fans expected else you'd have been run off your feet.

I for one am rather disappointed in yesterday's window. In the current state of affairs I feel we should be targetting young Scottish talent in order that we now assist in the rejuvenation of the Scottish national team and Scottish game as a whole. Russell, McKay-Stevens and Fyvie (signed on a free to the prem I know) the Scottish game is on its knees at the moment and anyone saying they are happy with the product currently on show at CP or anywhere else in the country are seriously easy to please.

We needed a commanding centre half and a big physical striker, folk on here are saying we've got that, really?? We know this because of some clips on YouTube?

We're an accepting bunch of supporters and probably more so now due to lack of real competition in the league. Strategy number one of success - always strengthen from a position of power!!! Rant over haha.

Big Giv

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Who would you have liked to have signed Giv ?

We do have a crop of young Scottish players at Celtic and buying up every Scottish player in other teams is not the answer. They would not all get game time, Celtic & Rangers have been criticised for this is the past. Take Templeton for example...we have Samaras and Commons on healthy wages who you could say are left wingers, do we need another one for the sake of it ?

Even with the potential £20m income this season, we cannot compete at the levels of EPL or La Liga, that's pocket money to them. Its not just the transfer fee of a 'big name' its the wages.

As with every club, time will tell if the signings are worth it. Mrs E

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01 Sep 2012 08:18:37
What is it with some Celtic fans r they ever happy we said we needed a cb and a cf and we got them give the guys a chance ffs and to all those saying spend 5mil on players whos to say players costing that much would play in Scotland and if they would what type of wage would they want and as for templeton is he better than what we have or do u just want to sign players to stop rangers getting then we need to get a grip n support the team and for those saying they won't renew there ticket or go back then good ur no wanted we need real fans to support the team
Dez

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01 Sep 2012 04:03:45
BHOYS. As much as I'd love big names we need to service the debt first. No choice. It's the times we live in. Let's not lose our heads. PL does a good job , look around at who everyone else has before slating him. I seem to remember Ferguson getting the same - where would we be without his prudence now. Dead and buried that's where. Let's cheer the BHOYS thru. Hail hail

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I, for one, am happy we didn't go ape buying foreigners. Some of my happiest Celtic moments have came when young players come good..... Maloney scoring against "them".... Marshall saving Ronaldinho's penalty.... Fraser clearing crosses against Rennes... Watt scoring against Motherwell, ICT.... McGeady running at Ricksen.....Forrest terrorising Papac.....

DazzaBhoy

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The debt is 9 million we got 6 million from ki and pos 15 from champions league all we are asking is buying a striker of our own not a loan that will need replaced next year ... it will be interesting to see what happens to the debt because i dont believe all that money will stay in the club

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01 Sep 2012 02:37:45
Banter section

Supposedly we're in for a striker.

If it isn't Del Piero as rumoured (and may still be) what would you think of Eidur Gudjohnsen? Not an out and out striker but IMO would definitely add a lot to the team. He's been all over Europe, still a class act at AEK and at 33 could still do a turn for a couple of years. I also reckon he'd give the fans a lift. We're in the free agent market given deadline day passed, and given we've had Neil Lennon confirm interest in Del Piero we may be looking at a bit of experience besides profit and we're supposedly working on a player by Monday's CL deadline. This is my best guess besides a second go for Del Piero or some obscure hidden gem.

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01 Sep 2012 01:22:54
Rangers fan hear, want to congratulate all yous on your champions leauge qualification great for scottish football, also on your signings today that centre back looks solid, we got a good signing too templeton, hope yous the best of luck in champions leauge:)

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01 Sep 2012 00:47:17
Where did all this free agent chat start? It'll be a disappointment like heskey not Owen or del piero

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01 Sep 2012 00:14:29
Over the moon about tonight especially that we've still got big Vic and Gary Hoops. Great work tonight Ed think you deserve a wee break (or a wee drink ) now .......DH {Ed007's Note - Thanks DH.}

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01 Sep 2012 00:21:37
Ed007...when does the transfer window close for Portuguese teams, is it the same. Just looking at Benfica losing Javi Garcia, can't be bad news for us ~ Mrs E {Ed007's Note - The Portuguese window is closed.}

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01 Sep 2012 00:17:05
we should have loaned a few players out to the rangers .....they need every bit of help

their teams worse than it was this morning!! :)

and their still trying to buy 3rd div success

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01 Sep 2012 00:12:01
If you had the choice between del piero and Owen who would you pick?

Jordi Bhoy.

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Del Piero. More about his game. We have the wee nippy strikers - we need an all rounder. Del Piero is the complete striker - intelligent, great technically, good in the air, natural goalscorer. Obviously will lack pace at 37 but we wouldn't be bringing him in for that.

But alas he's off to Australia. I reckon he'd have added a lot to the team outside being a legendary striker as he's been there and done it throughout his career but probably too much in wages for us to afford and hell offer me a job here or Australia and I know where I'm going.

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Ok maybe he's not off to Australia - plenty of news reports saying it's not a done deal. Get him signed!

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01 Sep 2012 00:06:54
Could still be Del Piero ...Deal in Sidney has fell through (twitter rumour)...Better choice than Owen I'd have thought

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01 Sep 2012 12:06:11
Not just a twitter rumour - have seen news reports. The club announced it as a done deal before the contract was finalised and personal terms agreed.

From what I gather, basically he picked Sydney as his number 1 choice and spoke to them first so the club announced the signing before a contract was agreed.

Amateurish if you ask me. Still not sure it'll happen as Braga (also in CL, better climate, better league, more money flying around, less of a language barrier) and Southampton (money, EPL) but I'd take the guy at Celtic in a heartbeat.

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31 Aug 2012 23:56:58
Folks.....tonight was good. we got a few players in and they could be good. We'll see. What is equally important is the fact that we didn't lose any of our star players. Be grateful for small mercies!

Hail Hail
ChrisBhoy

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Ill cancel the rest of my direct debit installments tell lawwell its just difficult times and see if hes happy with small mercies

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Bye Bye man your not needed.
Tambhoy ( original )

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