My three favourite Bellamy off field moments. I only recent discovered his lack of time for Terry. Makes me like him all the more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6BS8XKBpaU
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He is a clown of epic proportions. He had the ability to be a fantastic player but a player with a truly deluded sense of his own worth. In that sense Glasgow Celtic is the perfect match for him. Remember him at Newcastle when they got to the Champions League. Dyer and himself looked superb prospects at the time. Any time he has been at a club where it looked like he might win something - Newcastle, Liverpool, Man City he engineered his own departure through his sheer stupidity. For a player of his ability to have the likes of Glasgow Celtic, Blackburn and West Ham on your CV is pretty sad really.
So you think Newcastle, Liverpool and Man City are more prestigious than Celtic? That is pretty pathetic even if it is a windup.
Newcastle were Champions League quarter finalists when he was there, Liverpool Champions League finalists, Man City on the threshold of title winning teams, how he got fucked out of all three took some doing
Glasgow Celtic sponsored by Tennents ironically are pub team standard is comparison. Nothing prostigious playing in front of half empty stadiums with the likes of Brown, Mulgrew and Samaras imo
Celtic are a bigger club than all three in my opinion. Would say it is Bellamy’s view also. Celtic have a shite side at moment and club has really taken some backward steps but unquestionably they are a huge club and many superb players like Larsson and Moravcik have played their recently and their time at the club would have probably been the highlights of their careers. Their average crowds against piss poor teams would far exceed that of most EPL clubs I’d imagine.
I hate to agree with KIB but I’d like to know by what level of measurement is Celtic a bigger club than Liverpool?
They’ve won more SPL’s than them but thats about it.
Bigger crowds basically. Wider active fanbase. Don’t think Liverpool have ever come near to matching numbers of Celtic fans that went to Seville for UEFA Cup final in 2003 for instance. That said few clubs have.
the bigger club argument will never be won
my argument was that bellamy got fucked out of any club with any sense of ambition - he has ended up at shite teams like Blackburn, West Ham and Glasgow Celtic
Lubo Moravcik was 8 years ago Larry. I’m sure Larsson winning the Champions League with Barcelona was the pinnacle of his career. But yeah Glasgow Celtic had some decent players over the years and decent teams - 2003 etc. But no player with any ambition would be moving there at the moment or since MON’s policy of paying huge wages to aging players fell apart around the time Bellamy was there. Strachan kept the club competitive with little funding but there has been two horrendous managerial appointments since - men who knew the Glasgow Celtic way - Mowbray and Lennon. Fairly low at the moment. Scott Brown club captain - jesus that is bad.
ffs celtic bigger than liverpool!!! or newcastle for that matter… the only people that think celtic are a big club are the idiots that follow them…they are not even on the richter scale for other fans. when robbie keane was going there (on loan, i might add and out of favor at spurs) you would think it was lionel messi they were getting. (thats about as good as it gets for celtic). a mall club with big ideas (about themselves)
The likes of Liverpool and Newcastle have recently been sponsored by lager companies. The Tennent’s point doesn’t really add anything to the argument - it’s a weak enough jibe. Celtic have a rebuilding job on and Bellamy would be a great signing. He possesses personal experience of being at the club before and enjoyed it. I understand he feels his business with Celtic is unfinished given the title was lost on the final day that season and he has a genuine fondness for the club after his time there, which is evident in his trips to games and so on.
Correct. Celtic do not feature on the richter scale. I understand the club have no plans to change that. Thanks for your contribution.
tennents is a weak enough beer - in fact its rank. It is quite fitting that they sponsor both sides of the Glasgow sectarian devide. Sure Bellamy would provide a lot of quality to a damn awful side and league. He has always been more comfortable as a big fish in a small pond so if he has completely given up as a footballer then GCFC would be a decent fit. Spending big money on aging injury prone players was what got GCFC’s finances in rag order though not so long ago. But guess there is a chicken and egg thing to it to.
Leave Bandage out of this. P.s. I dont think standing in goals for the Astro team could be classed as active.
Depends if Farmer in is in gud form or not.
Celtic’s finances have not been in rag order in recent times so your assertion is incorrect. A policy decision was made that investment in younger players with resale value was a better and more sustainable template but there was never a situation in the Martin O’Neill era where the club’s finances were in a perilous state. The players purchased for big funds by SPL standards at that time were not injury prone either – Lennon, Thompson, Valgaeren, Hartson and Sutton all made plenty of appearances for Celtic – again, you’ve just made that point up unfortunately. It’s true they were all signed close to their peak so they all aged together but that’s about the size of it and it goes back to the buying younger players policy which is reflected in the purchase of Juarez, Hooper and Ledley this summer. Of course, every team needs an experienced core so Lennon and Lawwell have both been on record to state that if a marquee player of that type becomes available then they’ll go for him and it’s allowed for in the budget. I imagine Bellamy is being targeted as that player.
MON left the club in a shambles - the likes of Sutton still on big contracts. Strachan was forced to reduce the wage bill by stripping out the deadwood and bringing in younger players. That he took GCFC further in Europe than MON and still was forced out by the bigots says a lot about the green beret brigade that supported the following hapless appointments of Mowbray and Lennon. MON bought players with little resale value on big wages - he is still at it.
Sutton left the club within a few months of strachan takin over. He hardly crippled the club as you suggest. Try a different name and see if youre right.
Some quotes from Trap in the Independent today urging McGeady to be wary about the Russian move. SSN were reporting yesterday that he’s back in Glasgow now and would be giving Spartak an answer within 48 hours.
I’ve read that Hearts have now come in for Cillian Sheridan so it’s not definite that he’s off to CSKA Sofia.
Trap warns McGeady over perils of move to Moscow
By Neil Ahern
Friday August 06 2010
GIOVANNI Trapattoni has warned Aiden McGeady about moving to Russia as the winger considers a move to Spartak Moscow, saying he would like to speak to the Celtic man before he makes any decisions.
McGeady visited the Russian capital as Spartak attempt to snap up the 24-year-old in a deal reported to be worth around £9m.
A decision is expected before the weekend, but Trapattoni has urged McGeady to tread carefully.
“I am happy for him for this opportunity, but I wish to speak with him and clarify his position and speak with him about my experience,” said Trapattoni.
“I think Russia is too far and the championship is not easy. I wish to ask him if he is ready psychologically, because McGeady is a very sensitive man and he is very young.”
When asked if he believed McGeady would be better off staying in Scotland, Trapattoni replied: "Yes, Scotland or England or even another European team.
“For example, Bayern Munich and other teams have asked me about him and I think now I will not say ‘don’t go’ but I would like him to say ‘I have decided to go’. If he’s convinced, okay. But I have seen it in Portugal, where players go far away and they get homesick.”
Conversely, Trapattoni welcomed news that Cillian Sheridan is close to a move to Bulgaria’s CSKA Sofia.
“For him it is a great opportunity. Maybe he will become physically stronger and also mentally.”
The Italian insisted any move to Eastern Europe, be it McGeady or Sheridan, would not affect their opportunities in his Ireland squad.
“We will follow them – it won’t affect their place in the team,” he assured the pair.
"For example many years ago I had (Liam) Brady (at Juventus) – he played in another country.
“It’s missing a little bit of experience, I have been saying since I have come to Ireland; we make some naive mistakes. It’s missing only a bit of international experience.”
Thinly veiled McGeady is a fooking mammys boy quote there from Trap.
Leave Eileen McGeady out of this please.