Not much youtubery of the lad available.
There’s some good hun baiting on the comments section of this video though:
It appears we’ve turned down the option to sign the Le Havre striker, Amadou Alassane, who’s been on trial for the last week. Linked with Marek Cech for the troublesome left back position but it seems unlikely that we’ll sign anyone in time for the deadline to play in the European qualifier next week.
Celtic are in Cardiff tonight before heading onto London for The Wembley Cup over the weekend. Massimo Donati has travelled with the sqaud after Mogga and him had a chat.
Mo Mo Massimo
Mo Mo Massimo
Mo Mo Massimo
Massimo Donati.
Here Dunph, post up the you tube of his last gasp winner against Shakhtar Donetsk from 2007 please.
SPL article.
Time for a new chapter in Barry Ferguson’s career
Graham Spiers
At 31 years of age, Barry Ferguson’s move to Birmingham City for a second bite at the Barclays Premier League would ideally have come a year or two earlier for the now ex-Rangers captain, but he can hardly be said to be over the hill. Now there is a genuine relish in seeing what Ferguson can do in a slightly different blue shirt under his old mentor, Alex McLeish.
His going from Rangers does not deserve to be clouded in the disgrace and ignominy of the Scotland drinking debacle back in April, which in part cost Ferguson his Rangers career. Instead, the vast majority of Ibrox fans will remember him as a skilful, committed and whole-hearted player, who can be ranked among the best midfielders the club has had in the past 30 years.
On many occasions over his two spells and 350-plus games for Rangers, Ferguson was a mainstay, a player of technical adeptness, creativity and very often a phenomenal energy who carried his team forward. Not the least among his admirers was Dick Advocaat, the Dutchman who managed Rangers between 1998 and 2002, who has seen many a decent player in his time. Advocaat robustly held the view that a fit Ferguson could play in any league in Europe.
To this observer, if Ferguson made a wrong move in his career it was in coming back to Rangers in 2005, having already taken the-then Premier League plunge with Blackburn Rovers in 2003. Everyone has freedom of choice, of course, and it was Ferguson’s desire back then to move back to Glasgow, in part due to a homesick and hectoring wife, who had refused to go to Lancashire with him. Had he stayed the course with Rovers back then, Ferguson, I believe, would have become a highly respected player in English football.
At 31 he is hardly finished, but the question now is whether his recent toll of injuries will hamper his progress in Birmingham. At Rangers, an ankle injury and then a hernia problem put Ferguson on the sidelines for long spells in recent seasons, though he now has a clean bill of health. And if anyone knows this player, it is McLeish.
Midfielders change their ways as they get older, but the Ferguson whom McLeish knew two or three years ago was an incessant, driving force who loved to ferret for attacking options in the opposition half. It may be that the player will play a more composed, holding role for Birmingham, but what a fit Ferguson will bring to his new club is composure and assurance in tight spaces with the ball, and a quiet authority when things are getting a little hectic.
Ferguson has some regrets at leaving Rangers. “I have mainly good memories of the club and everyone knows what Rangers means to me,” he said. Walter Smith, for his part, will also have regrets at seeing him leave, knowing how good a player he still is. But it was time for a divorce between Ferguson and Rangers, and time for a new chapter in the career of a gifted and sometimes unlucky footballer.
Webster loan a coup for Dundee United
Hopefully, the next nine months will clarify another slight mystery about Rangers - that of Andy Webster. To some, it has been a hazy matter trying to work out why, when Rangers clearly need younger, fresher legs for central defence, Webster has still not received a run of games under Walter Smith.
In getting Webster on a year-long loan at Dundee United, Craig Levein, the United manager, is beside himself at his minor coup. Webster always looked a good player and we may be about to understand more clearly who between Smith and Levein has the better judgement of such a player.
Mo Mo Massimo - time to give him another chance.
Donati Shakhtar winner:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z36qUctL9RY
Donati post match and YNWA:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgiRbXlMg0w
In other news, Fortun has requested that he be referred to as Marco-Antoine Fortun from now on.
Interesting, Mogga’s handed Donati a chance tonight.
The Celtic Football Club - team versus Cardiff City:
Boruc;
Hinkel, Caldwell, Loovens, Naylor;
Maloney, Donati, N’Guemo, McGeady;
Fortune, McDonald.
Subs:
Zaluska, ODea, Caddis, Ferry, Crosas, Flood, Samaras, McCourt, Mizuno, Killen.
Injured:
Brown, McManus, Robson.
TFK EXCLUSIVE:
Celtic have signed a left back tonight. We applied for a VISA for Moscow for him this evening and he has been signed in time to be registered for the Dynamo Moskva game next Wednesday. Unfortunately, his current club is Manchester United and we all saw how rubbish they were in the Champions League final last season.
[quote=“Bandage”]TFK EXCLUSIVE:
Celtic have signed a left back tonight. We applied for a VISA for Moscow for him this evening and he has been signed in time to be registered for the Dynamo Moskva game next Wednesday. Unfortunately, his current club is Manchester United and we all saw how rubbish they were in the Champions League final last season.[/QUOTE]
Scrub that - it’s Sylvinho from Barcelona.
Or Cech from West Brom.
But I think it’s Sylvinho.
Not Fabio Da Silva from Manchester United.
Welcome to Celtic, Sylvinho/Cech/Da Silva (delete as applicable)
Any idea when we’ll get confirmation of his identity Bandage?
I’m working on it.
My legal source in London (player contracts, player visas, player work permits) has told me it was Marek Cech but it’s stalled for the moment.
Craig Bellamy - hmmm.
[quote=“Bandage”]My legal source in London (player contracts, player visas, player work permits) has told me it was Marek Cech but it’s stalled for the moment.
Craig Bellamy - hmmm.[/QUOTE]
I don’t understand why a player who appeared to fall out with Mowbray at WBA would be expected to join up with him at Celtic.
Well, try to get your fucking head around it 'cos it’s happening.
Right.
Guy who couldnt get into the worst team in the EPL last season behind Paul Robinson (another shite player that turned down GC).
A sad day for the former European giants.
[quote=“KIB man”]Guy who couldnt get into the worst team in the EPL last season behind Paul Robinson (another shite player that turned down GC).
A sad day for the former European giants.[/QUOTE]
the slower pace of the SPL might suit him…
Maybe he’ll follow in the footsteps of other EPL rejects - Maloney, Ferguson, Gordon, Miller, Miller eile and burn it up up in the SPL.
Still though its a sad day for the former European giants.
Maybe you were right not to understand. I’m hearing Danny Fox from Coventry City. I have never seen this lad play - he’s 23, a former England U21 international (so was Naylor) and was in the Championship Team of the Year last season.
Correct. I understand Mr Fox is the target and he will sign this evening if everything else goes as expected.
Just beat Sky Sports News to the story.
Some lad on CQN, who says he works in ITV and has loads of media contacts, said Gudjohnsen is close to joining us.
Never mind that, answer your phone fuckhead.
Talk that there’s a second signing that’s going to be touch and go ahead of the 11pm deadline tonight. Apparently this guy is the Slovakian - hence the mix up with Cech when Fox was the left back all along. I’d take Hamsik from Napoli - some chance of that happening. 