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18 Jul 2024 21:38:27
Kasper confirmed
Welcome big man ??.
1.) 18 Jul 2024 21:55:33
His first message is superb, following in the footsteps of giants.
Welcome to the family.
2.) 19 Jul 2024 09:42:01
Welcome to the most successful team in Glasgow, Kasper. HH.
16 Jun 2024 20:24:42
Rumour going round on X that we have signed the Turkish keeper from Man United, don't know how true it is but if it is I would be happy with that.
1.) 17 Jun 2024 16:06:06
On the evidence of his performance today for Ukraine against Romania then Real Madrid can keep Andriy Lunin ?.
2.) 17 Jun 2024 16:59:40
Aye there was never any chance we were getting him anyway bud.
20 May 2024 18:32:19
So I just read there that Adam Idah is away back to Norwich, is this true? Does anyone know?
Seems strange that we would have him tied down till after the Scottish cup final just in case we got there, which of course we have ?.
1.) 20 May 2024 18:52:08
Transfermarkt have his loan contract with Celtic expiring on June 30th 2024.
His Norwich contract expires on June 30th 2028.
2.) 20 May 2024 23:16:43
So he is there for the cup final?
Thank god for that!
3.) 21 May 2024 11:49:02
Norwich have confirmed Idah has one game left with Celtic. ?.
4.) 26 May 2024 08:57:31
Adam Idah was brought in on loan to provide support and a challenge up front to Kyogo. For whatever reason there was no clause put into the contract to buy him. Once his loan contract ends at Celtic he returns to his parent club Norwich.
Personally I wasn’t initially enamoured with his signing but he has proved me wrong and now I’d be happy for Celtic to sign him permanently - a £5m offer would seal the deal imo.
05 Apr 2024 09:00:00
I see we are being linked with the Panathanikos striker Fotis Ionnidis again, well for me he is a fantastic player similar in style to GG but better. If there is any chance to get this guy then get him in, although Idah has been a good signing this guy is levels above.
1.) 05 Apr 2024 16:27:37
I agree royjac. It's the easy comparison due to nationality but you can certainly draw parallels in the way he can play with his back to goal, link up and provide a bit of physicality. Yet capable of a bit of class. What I'd do for GG in our squad right now. I know Kyogo was fab under Ange but I wish he rotated them more. GG never really disappointed and it's understandeable he wanted to do one.
2.) 06 Apr 2024 22:38:17
Aye the great GG. Couldn't be arsed fighting for his place and Couldn't wait to jump ship to end his very average career in the US. Good riddance.
19 Mar 2024 21:12:56
I really hope we sign the kid Lennon Millar in the summer
A few weeks I seen loads of people saying sign him and loan him out and I was thinking why would we do that!
Did they guy's not watch him make a mug of our midfield? I say buy him and get him in the squad, him and Kelly give them games and watch them improve.
That boy Millar is a fantastic footballer and in my opinion we have to sign him no matter what.
1.) 20 Mar 2024 07:41:45
Agree he's a decent prospect. Can hold his own in our league. Better than Bernardo.
2.) 20 Mar 2024 07:59:01
This is a bit like when we had interest in McGinn, people on here saying he wasn't good enough for us, or we had Brown, so he would just be sitting on the bench, while a past it Brown was allowed to hold the team back, as he was hero worshipped by the same people who had previously, and seemingly, still do, worshipped Ronnie.
3.) 20 Mar 2024 12:40:39
Ronnie did plenty for celtic a lot more than rodgers ever has in terms of the academy and under severe financial restrictions rodgers got edouard our record signing where as Ronnie got boerrigter no contest Ronnie much better at running a club on a budget rodgers football also terrible if not worse than Ronnie’s.
4.) 20 Mar 2024 13:57:51
Ronnies was brutal as well.
5.) 24 Mar 2024 17:20:05
I think we should bring Ronnie in to be the Head of the academy.
6.) 29 Mar 2024 05:45:33
Lennon signed Boeriggter not Ronnie.
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26 Jul 2024 18:54:07
Everton player wages = £86m
Celtic player wages = £22.5m
Celtic as a club pay £60m in wages and I have asked this before where is the other £40m in wages being spent at Celtic, We don't employ that many people do we? And the ones we do employ won't be on the best ever wages - we have for for that you know
Everton pay nearly 4 times as much in wages as we do we just can't compete with that.
{Ed007's Note - Where do you get this £22.5 million figure from as I've never seen anywhere reliable i.e. from the Club's accounts, breaking figures down like that?
You're saying the Everton wage bill is just for the players but the wage bill - that's actually in our accounts - is for the whole Club and all it's subsidiaries?}
1.) 26 Jul 2024 19:11:11
I got those figures from salary sport. com ed007 and we are way behind when it comes to wages bud way behind.
{Ed007's Note - Right, well if you're using that for info there's no pint continuing this conversation.
"We strive to collate and maintain over 50,000 salaries from the worlds 7 largest sports, spanning the past 10 years. Our team trawls the internet for reliable sources on a daily basis to save you, our readers, the time! Spawned out of a University economics paper on the state of modern football wages, our founders were inspired to make the information they researched publically available and have maintained the database ever since."
They trawl the internet for reliable sources ???? Oh and the misspelt "publically" show how professional a set up that is.
The only place in the world you can find out what every player earns is the FIFA TMS (Transfer Matching System) where every contract is electronically lodged - once it is logged on there the "international clearance " part of transfers is completed. Only certain levels of executives have access to it and one press agency - I think it's the Associated Press.
On the internet The Swiss Ramble is probably the most accurate as he studies club's accounts and breaks it down in layman's terms.}
2.) 26 Jul 2024 19:16:08
Yes that is exactly what I am saying ed007
Everton have 7 players earning over 100k a week then they have about 5 players getting 75k a week and so on.
{Ed007's Note - ??????
3.) 26 Jul 2024 19:42:15
Celtic have over 60 players on our books, so 22 million is nowhere near our wage bill. The wage bill will include all employees of the club surely. I am sure I read somewhere recently our wage bill was over 40, nearer 50 million amd sevcos last year was near 60, hence the need for them to get rid of the high earners.
I cannot recall where read it.
4.) 26 Jul 2024 19:43:00
While it might not be official the wages they probably aren't that far off the mark are they? Through various different methods of them being available whether it be an agent leaking to the press or whatever. I mean how does Fabrizio Romano know so much about contracts and wages and transfer fees? Someone must be giving him that information.
{Ed007's Note - Yes, they're probably so far off the mark the mark's packed up and went home, there's loads of these sites out there and usually they all have different amounts. You're arguing with me over stuff that is in Club's actual accounts and making up nonsense that Everton's wage bill is only for players but our wage bill has £40 million missing, it's preposterous
If you choose to believe Fabrizio Romano that's up to you but again - how can you check if his figures are right? What if his figures were different from sports salary, who would you believe?
He's a journalist will know about moves etc but he won't know any better than you or me the financial side of it. They are more open in Europe about transfer fees so that's easy enough to find out.
Would you trust Keith Jackson if he was telling you the ins and outs of the finances of Man Utd's or AC Milan's signings?}
5.) 26 Jul 2024 19:51:55
I was very surprised to read you state that our wage bill is as high as Everton, Brighton, etc, Ed. I thought the reason we continue to lose players to the likes of Southampton and Palace is because they are able to pay a lot more than we can (or at least are willing to) .
{Ed007's Note - I don't think Everton is a good example with the mess they're in but I know what you mean. Maybe these clubs spend their money wiser than we do plus you have to factor in the size of Celtic, we will have a lot more employees than those clubs.
Southampton's wage to turnover ratio is about 84% where as ours is 51% (down from 67% the previous year.
6.) 26 Jul 2024 20:44:09
I think next year UEFA FFP expect wages to be under 70% of the clubs turnover.
That’s why Sevco are downsizing and trying to lose their big earners and the same could be said about Celtic last year.
Celtic at 51% is impressive considering we are dominant domestically.
It will probably go under 51% because our turnover will be bigger when the accounts are made public in September and bigger again next year due to the new CL format this season.
But
Our turnover will go down each season Celtic fail to reach the CL group stages for the foreseeable future.
There’s Pros and Cons to the wages cap debate.
26 Jul 2024 16:33:10
People just don't seem to grasp the fact that for Celtic it is very very difficult to bring in players of the ability they all want to see at the club, do people expect players to move to the Scottish league for less money? Even if we offer more money we still can't offer more than teams in the top 5 league's
So say we want to go for players in the Swiss league or the Austrian league or even the Croatian league, say they are mid to lower league teams they play for and have mid table teams from the German, Spanish, English and French league's going for them as well as Celtic. Does anyone realistically think those players are coming to Scotland to play for us for most likely less money
It doesn't matter how much money we can throw at the situation we will never have enough to pay more than the teams we are competing with for those players, we may on the odd occasions be able to sign these players and more than likely they will be wanting away just as soon as they have arrived not only because the league isn't great but the weather is absolutely dire as well.
Throwing money at some things isn't always the answer anyway.
The first thing I would like to see is for the reserve league to be started up again in Scotland.
{Ed007's Note - There is only 3 teams in Germany - Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund and RB Leipzig - with a higher wage bill than Celtic. There's also only 3 in Spain - Real Madrid, Barca & Atletico. There's only 2 in France, PSG and Marseilles.
Our wage bill is on the same level as PL teams like Everton, Nottingham Forest, Brighton, Bournemouth and Wolves.}
1.) 26 Jul 2024 17:26:00
Correct Roy, if you played the game and you had a choice France Italy Germany epl Spain Scotland, no chance you're coming here, some choice the championship instead.
2.) 26 Jul 2024 17:26:46
Choose the championship.
{Ed007's Note - We have a higher wage bill than every single English Championship club, circa £20 million more than Leeds who have the highest at about £40 million.}
3.) 26 Jul 2024 17:35:46
I was going to make the same point as Ed007 before scrolling down. If you actually look at wages of a lot of good players in those leagues they aren't astronomical. There's a perception that they are created by some players on crazy money and to an extent some clubs that are crazy for what they pay certain players.
Take Bueno for example, looks decent enough from what I have seen. But Wolves' first choice, Ait-Nouri, is a wee left back I really rate and somebody I would like us to go for. Whether he wants to play for Celtic or not is another matter but on the aspect of wages, he earns 10k a week reportedly. We could tempt a player currently on 10k a week if we wanted.
{Ed007's Note - I sound like a broken record as I've been saying it for years but I have no problem with the amount of money Celtic spend, it's the way we spend it that pi$$es me off.}
4.) 26 Jul 2024 18:18:32
edm, eans nothing if that player thinks the championship is his better opinion.
{Ed007's Note - If a player has his heart set on a move to the Championship there's nothing we can do about it, but to use the wages excuse just doesn't cut it - that all these teams in England and the continent pay better wages than us is simply not true.}
5.) 26 Jul 2024 18:48:06
Ed007 according to salary sport Celtics player wage bill in 2023 was under £23m and weekly around £475k there are players at Everton on 100k a week so not sure what information you are looking at but we are way down the list on wages. £40m on wages is twice as much as us almost.
{Ed007's Note - On P.32 of the 2023 Annual Report which you can read HERE the Staff Costs are listed at £60,884,000 - up from £58,883,000 the previous year.
You can read The Swiss Ramble's breakdown of those figures HERE.
22 Jul 2024 01:35:53
I remember once Peter Lawell talking about Celtic being sustainable and the reason that they were was to make sure that there would always be a football club for Celtic supporters to go and watch. They don't operate the club using champions league money in their budgets, when the board decide their budget the following season the champions league money isn't allocated or used for this and this was always down to the fact that we had to qualify to get into the tournament and didn't always make it so we couldn't rely on that for the budget as it is never guaranteed to be there and the reason we have cash reserves is because we have just come through a period where we didn't have to qualify for the tournament. That won't always be the case as I'm sure after next season The winners in Scotland will be back to qualifying if my memory serves me correctly as the country has slipped down the table again, so imagine the board do everything the fans want to do and start buying more expensive players on more expensive wages and we don't qualify for the big tournament for a couple of seasons suddenly things don't start to look so rosey in the garden. It is unprecedented foe us to have so much cash or any football club to have so much money in the bank and because of this we all want the club to go out and take Celtic to the next level, I get that I really do what I am not sure about if it is actually possible to do so though. You bring in these players and you don't qualify which leads to them wanting away and because we aren't playing at the top table they are worth less than we paid and are on massive wages so nobody wants to buy them. Sound familiar?
On the flip side obviously though we could do it and become better which means our player are worth a bit more when we are selling them.
So obviously our conservative board have decided the risk is too great for them to take, after all they are looking after the club for us and just want to make sure it is here all the time. I get that too I really do, I don't think they are easy decisions to make either way. And I always remember wee Fergus saying I am going to have to make decisions that lots of people won't like but to ensure there is a future for this great club I will have to make them. I also remember that when wee Fergus was making those decisions everyone hated him at the time and yet we all look back now and are so grateful to that man for doing the work he done. Running Celtic can't be easy with the expectations from the fans and I reckon if those that do run the club did do everything the fans want then we would probably be like that lot over the road and in a right mess.
It isn't easy being a Celtic but it is worth it ??????????.
1.) 22 Jul 2024 02:12:44
If we have money in the bank then we need to pay tax on that money, which reduces the amount we have. Surely it is better to invest that money either in players or infrastructure?
The benefit of investing in players is we have the chance to. grow that investment.
2.) 22 Jul 2024 02:14:49
This is a very wise post. Celtic should never chase success over survival. We want to advance but we don’t want to end up Like HBOS RBS and Northern Rock who gambled with customers money and left them skint.
3.) 22 Jul 2024 07:50:30
I can see why Our Board are reluctant to move up a level because of our dominance in Scottish football and the big gap in the CL groups.
But
Remember a lot of that cash reserves was earned because basically agent Sevco have got Celtic a 3rd successive CL group campaign, with their impressive Coefficient points tally.
( Although Celtic have done well to win 3 in a row domestically )
You’re correct about the Scottish Champions losing that Automatic CL place next season and we might never get that place back under the current format because Scotland has slipped way down the Association Coefficient table.
Celtic will have about £150M in the bank at the end of the June 30th 2025 accounts.
We should have a good plan on how to spend or invest that cash because we will never have as much cash probably ever again because the chances of Qualifying for the CL groups 3 years in a row are slim.
Personally I would invest in a hotel which will generate extra cash for many more years to come.
4.) 22 Jul 2024 07:57:55
No club budgets for money they don't have apart from maybe 1.
5.) 22 Jul 2024 08:27:23
Yes that's the cl groups history now, we really can't complain.
6.) 22 Jul 2024 09:50:59
Decision making in the past pretty much hampered our ability to get through qualifying. Nobody expects us to go on a crazy spending spree but at times we didn’t even try. On occasion, we probably only needed to strengthen 1 or 2 positions and the money in the bank could have been X 10 ( get it no guarantees) but a good possibility. As the number also said “money doesn’t guarantee success but no money guarantees no success “.
7.) 22 Jul 2024 10:22:17
You look at teams like Brighton, Brentford, Copenhagen, Atalanta and Salzburg. They have an amazing system in place for spotting talent.
If they can do it why can't we?
8.) 22 Jul 2024 11:43:53
If we don't budget ourselves on CL money then what happens to it when we do get it?
9.) 22 Jul 2024 13:10:25
WeeJoe if only the board would modernise the football department to be like those you speak of, the only reason I can think of that they don't do it is because there is no reserve league in Scotland so essentially there isn't any games for all the talented youngsters to play in so what is the point in the cost to set it all up?
And Henke you are now seeing what happens to it when it builds up and gets stored in the bank, in previous seasons I would reckon it would go towards buying players and giving players you are trying to keep for a bit longer better contracts.
10.) 22 Jul 2024 13:42:07
Most of the clubs you mentioned may have recruited well but when you are in a top five European League with Sponsorship and TV money so vastly different than Scotland’s meagre couple of million . The clubs like Brentford and Brighton are starting with well over £100 m money coming in annually more than us because of TV deals. Copenhagen and RedBull are relatively new clubs with good recruitment, yet relatively little Championship League success .
It’s relatively easy to look on jealousy at other club’s success only to later realise Celtic haven’t done to bad with their meagre resources.
11.) 22 Jul 2024 14:47:50
Celtic haven't done to bad wee des? European football all we do is get embarrassed for to often.
12.) 22 Jul 2024 15:59:30
One knockout win in twenty years. not done to bad!,
Are you for real?
13.) 22 Jul 2024 17:25:36
I honestly believe if we can give Bredan a squad of players all round about the same level ie, The level we have just now in out best 11 on the park. If we could have around 20 players that every one of them can make a good positive contribution then I believe we would see some progress in that area. When we played last season especially at home in our group we really weren't that far away, it was maybe a few injuries and rash decisions on the park that led to bans coupled with the fact our bench wasn't that strong that cost us. If we can just give Brendan a bit more quality and I don't mean players that are way better than what we have already then I honestly believe we will see a bit of progress.
14.) 22 Jul 2024 19:23:02
Royjac I agree it’s about deadwood out and quality in.
15.) 22 Jul 2024 19:26:36
Two things that should be remembered, just because a few of your friends who are Celtic supporters think that Celtic are weak in certain positions does not mean the Manager and the Board regard these positions as very important to bring in new blood and no amount of posting will change that .
Other thing even though Board may have tried very hard to bring in new blood for certain position over 2/ 3 transfer windows and they haven’t managed, doesn’t mean that it is either the recruitment nor Board’s fault, they could have done everything possible but if players decide especially after a protracted negotiation decide to go else where, the transfer window can pass u by with players showing interest but not signing deal.
16.) 22 Jul 2024 22:12:34
I refer you back to the managers quote. ” We could have been braver”. Listen we all have a fair idea of how difficult it is to attract quality to the league on the wages we are prepared to offer. There are a lot of grown men with years of experience following Celtic and football in general on this forum.
I have noticed you have a very condescending style but when put on the spot waffle some amount of nonsense.
{Ed007's Note - You'll get used to it and learn not to interact with OMC. It's a painful lesson a lot of us on here have learnt.}
17.) 22 Jul 2024 22:53:05
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19 Jul 2024 20:48:06
It is actually embarrassing how far we are ahead of the rest in my own humble opinion.
What is it 18 or 19 titles since the turn of the century? I don't think it is good for Scottish football as a whole either but at the same time I do enjoy the success for the bragging rights obviously
I would love nothing more than there being 4 or 5 teams fighting it out with each other for the trophies like it was in the 80's.
1.) 19 Jul 2024 21:40:11
Embarrassing aye?
It didnae seem tae embarrass anybody in Scotland 30 years ago when we were on our arse and won nothing from the centenary year tae the 95 cup final? We didnae finish second and one year were 4th or 5th.
They widane gee ye fresh air if they could keep it aff ye as ma mammy said. We were founded tae feed ourselves cause they widnae even gee ye a feckn dinner unless ye took their soup.
Your embarrassment is aw yir ane.
A widnae send them oxygen if they needed it the morra. The tattie howkers now own the fields. Let them get their heads around that.?
Where’s Murray’s tenner against our fiver now?
2.) 19 Jul 2024 21:48:46
I don’t care about the rest the last 24 years have been absolutely outstanding building our club up and catching up with the manky mob and hopefully the start of leaving them in our wake. if you can’t enjoy winning should maybe not support us anymore cause if we invest and keep going forward then the distance is only going to get bigger and I for one love it. The rest of Scottish football couldn’t give a monkeys about us, you never heard them say rangers domination at the time we were in the grubber was bad for Scottish football so let’s not kid ourselves. keep our foot on the rest and keep dominating HH.
3.) 19 Jul 2024 21:52:03
Am with you jfp feck the lit of them. let's keep racking up the titles and cups.
4.) 19 Jul 2024 22:03:02
Mally
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5.) 19 Jul 2024 22:19:23
I’m just enjoying our most successful period in our entire 136 years history.
Celtic have won the most trophies of any club in Europe this millennium.
6.) 19 Jul 2024 22:23:59
Screw them into the ground Celtic. Who cares a toss what the rest think.
7.) 19 Jul 2024 22:27:41
When we reach 56 before both Ibrox clubs combined will destroy them.
8.) 19 Jul 2024 23:14:23
No embarrassment at my end Royjac… just sheer joy and satisfaction at our dominance, the tribe acts’ status, our current position of strength, the media’s obvious pain, and the prospect of getting our credibility back on the new European scene ?.
9.) 19 Jul 2024 23:18:28
Couldn’t agree more Bhoys.
10.) 19 Jul 2024 23:53:17
The early 80s were painful having to share the trophies with Aberdeen and Dundee United. You knew in advance Aberdeen would beat Celtic they were that good. Dundee United we had a good record against them. I Remember a so called pal bet me £2 that Rangers would beat Aberdeen @ Pittodrie in the last league game of 1982.I knew they wouldn’t he then said double or Quits for the Cup final the following Saturday Rangers got crushed. I never did see the money how low can you get. Rangers couldn’t beat Aberdeen at Pittodrie for years. Celtic won the league in 81 and 82 I won’t count 86.We were a fine side but had poor defensive issues. Rangers were a side show and I used to be ill when the Aberdeen game came up. We lost 3-2 to a poor Rangers side in the 1984 League cup final then beat them 3 nil 8 days later and I was sick it was meaningless.
Celtic may be far ahead but that can change quickly and often does. I say enjoy every moment and don't get cocky.
11.) 20 Jul 2024 00:21:24
The main reason we are so terrible in Europe is the standard of our league is so poor and I know that isn't our fault, I would just much rather prefer a stronger league.
It would improve our chances of doing better in Europe instead of being embarrassed all the time.
And as a Scotland fan also it would help to improve the national team too. I know some of you don't care about this but I do.
12.) 20 Jul 2024 01:09:23
I'm with you royjac. I'm not embarrassed by our domestic dominance, I don't think it's Celtic's problem to be embarrassed about, but it would be nice to have a wide open league year in and year out because the victories would be even sweeter.
{Ed007's Note - Would you rather be in a Euro super league where we would struggle to win titles and cups? There's a balance of power coming across football with rules and regs about what can be spent and on what - it's not our fault we are basically one of the best ran clubs in the world, does any other club have over £100m in the bank?
It's upto other clubs to catch up, whether they can should be of no concern to Celtic as a whole.
13.) 20 Jul 2024 01:43:35
Spot on JFP ma man, absolutely spot on!
14.) 20 Jul 2024 05:57:29
Gaz,
I remember those Aberdeen V Rangers games in 1982 when Aberdeen scored 8 goals in the space of one week.
Aberdeen were a great team in the 1980s but Celtic still won the most league titles in the 80s.
15.) 20 Jul 2024 07:22:54
I remember McCoist saying he would dance on our grave when we nearly entered administration because David Murray's pal at the bank was pulling the plug on us.
As already mentioned there was no talk of embarrassment when Rangers had a massive financial advantage over everyone and were dominating domestically.
The tables have turned and it's time for them to take their medicine.
16.) 20 Jul 2024 08:06:17
As I've said many times, Scotland is a protestant country and this was not in their script.
JFP ?
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17.) 20 Jul 2024 09:39:38
Hey my friends this is all nonsense about the gap being too big and no good. Like a lot of friends says on here keep the good times rolling guys you know.
The club goes strength to strength and BR right guy to have a crack in European football.
Enrico says the rangers 1 and new club 2012 not so good and bring on more titles.
18.) 20 Jul 2024 10:55:14
When Celtic lost the league cup final on penalties at Ibrox,
Ally McCoist and John Greig entered the Raith Rovers dressing room after the match, with a case of Rangers Champagne for the celebration.
19.) 20 Jul 2024 12:18:10
McCoist 'I sing God Save The King because I'm British' - he doesn't do walking away ? ? ?
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20.) 20 Jul 2024 12:29:38
In order to have a more competitive league with 3 or 4 teams fighting it out for trophies it would realistically mean us having to get weaker, the other teams are not going to get stronger. How would this competitive league help us in Europe if we are a worse team than we are now? Enjoy the success while we have it, nothing lasts forever.
16 Jul 2024 20:33:00
I was just reading about the forward we a sniffing about from Antwerp and the report I was reading was saying that Brighton were trying to sign him when he was 19/ 20 and he opted to stay in his homeland, At 23 he is maybe a bit old for them now anyway if Brighton were trying bring him in he must be really talented player as they have one of the best scouting networks around. I really like the sound of this guy.
1.) 16 Jul 2024 22:40:34
I've read royjac we're in talks to sign him ?
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2.) 16 Jul 2024 23:20:24
Hopefully Pedro as he sounds a very talented player and definitely up a level from the wide players we signed last season ?.
3.) 17 Jul 2024 09:58:14
Royjac . Palma had 9 goals 9 assists 3rd Top scorer 2nd top assists . first season and injury through season . this guy in Belgium sounds better. how?
4.) 17 Jul 2024 10:14:29
Big problem trying to get him, he has offers from France.
5.) 17 Jul 2024 15:31:09
I have watched videos of the guy, He looks OK but it's hard to really make an assessment as the defenders he's up against don't look too clever.
I am not convinced he is ahead of what we have but that's only based on what I watched. I am probably way off the mark.
14 Jul 2024 15:42:23
I definitely think you are right ed007 when you say BR's plan is to get Kasper in as no1 for this season and maybe next hence the option of another year and also go and get a younger keeper possibly even younger than first thought around 22 year old age to work with Kasper over the period he is no1 to take over when he eventually leaves and if you ask me it is a smart plan, certainly much smarter than all the people out there saying there is no plan when quite clearly the club has been using the same plan for quite a number of years.
{Ed007's Note - I'm more than happy with signing Schmeichel but the next GK we sign will be more telling of the plan. Siegrist will go and surely Bain's time is up, I can't belive a professional at his age doesn't want to play every week.}
13 Jul 2024 10:39:49
I really like Oh and will be sad to see him go, I will wish him all the best and think he will go on and have good career.
13 Jul 2024 00:28:29
I see it all over there now Pedro
Sold keeper and we will certainly get a good season out of him, obviously the other Danish guy they wanted wasn't really a deal to be done just now.
12 Jul 2024 21:24:17
Hey Michael do you have a source for the info or is it just hearsay at the moment?
I would be happy enough with that if true, good keeper still, speaks the language so no communication issues, I would reckon he would give you good value for money. I remember when he played in Scotland years ago he was very good albeit was much much younger.
03 Jul 2024 10:22:50
Ndidi ?.
26 Jul 2024 19:43:00
While it might not be official the wages they probably aren't that far off the mark are they? Through various different methods of them being available whether it be an agent leaking to the press or whatever. I mean how does Fabrizio Romano know so much about contracts and wages and transfer fees? Someone must be giving him that information.
{Ed007's Note - Yes, they're probably so far off the mark the mark's packed up and went home, there's loads of these sites out there and usually they all have different amounts. You're arguing with me over stuff that is in Club's actual accounts and making up nonsense that Everton's wage bill is only for players but our wage bill has £40 million missing, it's preposterous
If you choose to believe Fabrizio Romano that's up to you but again - how can you check if his figures are right? What if his figures were different from sports salary, who would you believe?
He's a journalist will know about moves etc but he won't know any better than you or me the financial side of it. They are more open in Europe about transfer fees so that's easy enough to find out.
Would you trust Keith Jackson if he was telling you the ins and outs of the finances of Man Utd's or AC Milan's signings?}
26 Jul 2024 19:16:08
Yes that is exactly what I am saying ed007
Everton have 7 players earning over 100k a week then they have about 5 players getting 75k a week and so on.
{Ed007's Note - ??????
26 Jul 2024 19:11:11
I got those figures from salary sport. com ed007 and we are way behind when it comes to wages bud way behind.
{Ed007's Note - Right, well if you're using that for info there's no pint continuing this conversation.
"We strive to collate and maintain over 50,000 salaries from the worlds 7 largest sports, spanning the past 10 years. Our team trawls the internet for reliable sources on a daily basis to save you, our readers, the time! Spawned out of a University economics paper on the state of modern football wages, our founders were inspired to make the information they researched publically available and have maintained the database ever since."
They trawl the internet for reliable sources ???? Oh and the misspelt "publically" show how professional a set up that is.
The only place in the world you can find out what every player earns is the FIFA TMS (Transfer Matching System) where every contract is electronically lodged - once it is logged on there the "international clearance " part of transfers is completed. Only certain levels of executives have access to it and one press agency - I think it's the Associated Press.
On the internet The Swiss Ramble is probably the most accurate as he studies club's accounts and breaks it down in layman's terms.}
26 Jul 2024 18:48:06
Ed007 according to salary sport Celtics player wage bill in 2023 was under £23m and weekly around £475k there are players at Everton on 100k a week so not sure what information you are looking at but we are way down the list on wages. £40m on wages is twice as much as us almost.
{Ed007's Note - On P.32 of the 2023 Annual Report which you can read HERE the Staff Costs are listed at £60,884,000 - up from £58,883,000 the previous year.
You can read The Swiss Ramble's breakdown of those figures HERE.
26 Jul 2024 16:10:21
Pedro why do you want to buy and develop the Wales u21 LB when we already have the Scottish u21 LB in our squad now?