Three stories doing the rounds this morning and a wee comment on each one. The Daily Record story about Celtic possibly having to spend £10m on Cameron Carter Vickers is well summarised on Video Celts this morning as click-bait nonsense.
The defender is on a season long loan deal from Tottenham who tried and failed to shift him in the last days of the summer transfer window before coming back to Celtic at literally the 11th hour to get him out the door for the season. It’s always possible that CCV has some sort of future at Spurs but you’d have to accept that it is highly unlikely in the extreme.
So come the end of the season if Celtic want to sign the player – and if Cameron Carter Vickers wants to commit his future to the club – then it’s going to be a matter of negotiating a transfer fee and nothing that Daily Record ‘understands’ six months in advance will have any sort of impact on that. Celtic will NOT pay £10million for Cameron Carter Vickers or any other defender.
Carter-Vickers : reports when he arrived on loan were a cost to covert to the permanent of 1.7m.
Now papers claiming its 6m plus addons taking it to 10m!
Don’t believe any of that, but if it is true then cut losses on him in January. And I admit I like the player.
— JoeBloggsCity (@joebloggscity) December 1, 2021
What Celtic might do is make an offer that ends up appealing to Tottenham, with both clubs knowing that the player wants the move to happen. And there’s always a chance that perhaps a club that wins promotion to the English Premier League this season WILL outbid Celtic and turn the player’s head financially so perhaps a move to Fulham or Bournemouth or QPR, West Brom or Blackburn will be the eventual outcome here.
That’s the reality and there’s no point worrying too much about it.
Ange recently said that there are plenty of good players out there and a key factor for him is if the player in question wants to play at Celtic. Cameron Carter Vickers and his advisors will be looking at the situation as this season develops and will consider alternatives to Tottenham, moving to Celtic or seeing what else is on the table. Money will talk.
Next there’s Portuguese journalist who has previously tweeted that Celtic will complete the deal to sign Jota in January. Yesterday he added that Celtic thereafter would be looking at having a £30m player on their hands. Some folk on social media have been rather hysterically throwing toys out the pram comparing this to the Jack Hendry situation in the summer where Oostende bought the player then sold him on the Belgian Champions Brugge, doubling their money.
The speculation was that Oostende had made much more than that – and again that was framed as Celtic bashing – but Hendry and his advisors only agreed to the Oostende transfer from Celtic if the sell-on price was already agreed. That allowed them to talk to other interested parties who then met the asking price, getting a bargain in their eyes and therefore giving Hendry a better deal than would have otherwise been the case. Money talks.
Celtic are NOT looking to do a Hendry with Jota. They will be looking a developing the player further, looking at him playing here for few seasons at least then eventually attracting a huge transfer fee, perhaps of around £30m. In order for that to happen Celtic need the player to be signed on say a four year deal, so we get say this season and two more before he’s sold.
Don’t believe a word this account says.
Tweets nonsense & then blocks account’s who question them. pic.twitter.com/eqQ9AYDBuq
— Everything Celtic (@aboutceltic) November 30, 2021
If there was a £30m buyer in the wings waiting to snap Jota up from Celtic, his Portuguese advisors would be doing something very similar to Hendry’s earlier this year. Equally they’d not commit to Celtic in the first place just to flip the player over to some new club to benefit Celtic. Our value is in developing the player and his is in developing his position within the game on the platform that Celtic provides so that he gets a big move down the line. Money talks.
The third story is Alan Thompson going on about Black Sunday in the Scottish Sun today, he has serialised him book in that newspaper and it’s probably safe to say that this paperback will not be on sale at The Celtic stores. Remarkably Thompson criticises Scott McDonald for celebrating his two goals that afternoon. I was at Fir Park in the wee Celtic section at the far end of their Main Stand, pretty much in the front row, and got a good view of the two Motherwell goals. That day was my worst ever by a very long way, supporting Celtic. Thompson was on great money and he told us that he’d got a brilliant new deal before Martin O’Neill left which gave him an extra £10k appearance money, as we reported earlier in the week.
Scott McDonald had every right to celebrate. Motherwell were his employers and as a professional footballer making much less that Thompson his own personal success that day helped elevate his own career, ironically enough getting him a move to Celtic.
🗣️ “Scott McDonald celebrated like he’d just won the league.”
EXCLUSIVE: Motherwell’s Helicopter Sunday celebrations were an “absolute DISGRACE”, says Celtic icon Alan Thompson 👆🤬https://t.co/TbiuFtcSjm pic.twitter.com/6qlcusDgLK
— Scottish Sun Sport (@scotsunsport) December 1, 2021
Celtic had no-one to blame but themselves that horrible day. Fans of Motherwell aren’t happy with Thompson this morning, asking would he have rather that they’d done a Dunfermline that day? The Rangers fans too are all over it, with their gloating.Many Celtic fans will be embarrassed by this. But Alan Thompson doesn’t really care. Money talks.
agree on all points
Good article