On Voetbal International, Dutch tv show, Johan Derksen just shared the news that German Bundesliga side FC Augsburg have topped Celtic's bid with a 4.5 million euro bid on Finnbogason. He also stated that Heerenveen are preparing to sell the Icelandic striker and have sent out a couple of scouts to find a new striker. Still Heerenveeen have turned down the 4.5 million saying that the offer is too low.
No chance he'll be signing for Celtic... They'll wait to see if they qualify for Group Stages then spend a few million replacing Hooper, Wilson and Wanyama!
Voetbal International(VI) is the biggest and most reliable football magazine in The Netherlands. Johan Derksen was the Chief Editor for over 40 years, till last week when he retired. The show has regular guests such as Wim Kieft, Johan Boskamp, Willem van Hanegem, Aad de Mos. In the past Bert van Marwijk, Ronald de Boer and Louis van Gaal appeared on the show. With 800.000 viewers twice a week it's also a show with one of the best viewer ratings on Dutch telly. It's our version of Top Gear. A show filled with football banter with people who know their stuff.
The show has gone to pot since that editor retired.... Can't be trusted. He's Celtic bound. I hope Thanks again Cove
Hehe, he still works at the company, he's now into publishing football themed books. Anyhow, there's more than Finnbogason in the Eredivisie, just check my blog mate
So, two games away from the CL proper and a potential £20m jackpot and we've sold three of our best players for a combined total of £20m and we're oohing and aaaing over spending £5m on a quality striker. Typical ****ing Celtic. We did the same thing after Saville and we're making the same mistake again.
The Clilftonville game will be my first and last this season by the looks of things. **** putting money into a club with no ambition
I want a bit of money spent, but we're not exactly paying out dividends with the money we take in (books released next month, ****in hope not anyway), so it goes to reason that every penny that comes in will eventually be spent on Celtic. We're going to walk the league this season, probably win a cup and hopefully get into the group stages of the CL - we could throw £40m at it and still be the smallest spending club if we reach the last 16... so the old tried and tested Rangers method of throwing money at some big name players may not actually bring us any football benefit outside of some shallow feeling of fan confidence that the team is improving.
We're talking about spending 4 or 5 mill on a decent striker. No one's expecting the club to go out and spend all the money they've brought in over the past couple of months (how much is it? at least 40 mill) but a bit of dough being spent on quality players would be appreciated.
I don't want or expect the club to throw money about, I do expect them to replace quality with similar quality when players are sold. Spending money for the CL is pointless, spending money to keep the ability of the squad optimal is essential. The strikers at the club currently are not good enough. End of story.
Hmmm, I just don't have enough information to criticise the board - I do suspect that wages are a bigger issue than transfer fees these days, since we are not guaranteed European income year after year. What happens if this Icelandic fella is looking 40k a week... we'd have to break the wage structure, and we could be gambling our ability to maintain our current level of squad in the future.
Again, I agree. The club shouldn't break the wage structure or the bank, and I'm not saying that Finnbogason is a must buy. My point is that the club have sold three players who were our best performers last season and haven't signed anyone of proven ability or international experience besides Boerrigter. Fans who want big money signings every transfer window are deluded but it's hardly too demanding to want the club to replace the spine of the team when it's sold from under the managers feet.
People want to blame the board are the 20000 missing fans from the Seville days not as much to blame as well ???
What has 20,000 missing fans got to do with the club earning nearly £50m from CL participation and transfer fees and hardly spending any of it on the first team?
