The news, that had been rumored for weeks, that Islam Feruz – lazily dubbed “The Scottish Wayne Rooney” by the English press tasked with covering this tale – has signed a scholarship deal with Chavski and a professional deal of thousands per week with the stench of petroleum and a hint of criminality following next year.
The player who has never played a competitive game for Celtic is now being treated like he drowns puppies and likes listening to jazz. But worst of all is being compared to Liam Miller.
We all know the story. The lads family were going to be deported when Tommy Burns and the club stepped in to stop this happening. Seemingly this meant that he would stay at the club in gratitude.
In La La Land maybe that would happen.
The simples are this. If we thought he would stay I’m sure a professional contract would be winging it’s way that could match or better Chavski’s offer. It hasn’t happened.
Those in the know say the kid was always going to be too good for Scotland. How anyone can predict that before the temptations of adulthood rear their head should really be in a funfair reading tarot cards for 2 quid.
They say that he is already a Billy Big Time. Who wouldn’t be at 15 years old being kidnapped by Man Citee while playing with Scotland schools, getting courted by Chavski and being sniffed by Manure? He had an agent to help him with his homework.
If the lad who has contributed nothing to my football club wants to leave then forgive me for shrugging my shoulders and going meh. Liam Miller gave me a taste of his talent and his deception hurt because of that. Feruz hasn’t gave me a taste of anything.
I’m sure Tommy would wish him well. I just don’t wish him any harm.
I hear that football wise he’ll be missed….
personality and attitude wise ..he won’t….
personally I don’t give a flying Feruz.
We can’t judge if he will be missed. That’s my point.
He’s been on the bench for the youth team in some important games, maybe he ain’t all that. Fact remains till he reaches his late teens it’s anyones guess whether he’s the next Rooney or just another franny Jeffers. If Celtic wanted him to stay then I’m sure they could have made it happen, £100k a year and a house isn’t a lot to club like Celtic despite what people think. If they didn’t offer it to him and Lennon didnt make the effort then fair enough if he’s gone for a pay day, he might not make it anyway.
He has been posted missing in some important youth team games since the turn of the year. They were preparing for life without Islam.
Life without Islam…surely a Cat Stevens song?
like lotw says, and i’m paraphrasing here…who cares, he has given nothing and so there is nothing to miss.
sure it would have been nice if he turned into a great player here, but he won’t so why cry over it.good luck to him, or as much of it as he deserves (or not as the case may be).
great paraphrasing! i agree! 🙂
i have a slightly different view at justcantgetenough.org, i’m more of the Tommy Burns way of thinking to be honest
Good luck to him, if he’s as good as he is hyped up to be he would have gone just before he broke in to our 1st team, we wouldn’t have been able to hold on to him anyway.
BTW Chelsea are notorious for plucking the worlds most highly rated youngers and failing to develop them, none so far have made their 1st team since Abramovich took over, they have spent a ridiculous amount of money on these kids. If only they could pick players as well as one of greatest young prospects in management, Neil Lennon.
Seriously though, all the best to him, theres nothing sinister or uncalled for going on, he will just be following the money and status of Chelsea like most people his age would.
Spot on. Describing it as a betrayal of TB is purile nonsense.
Apparently we have a game on Thursday. Let’s get back to what’s important….laughing at Sion.
I fear the joke is on us.
Balls, I gave away my true identity in the last post 🙂 Can you delete or change it to Wildrover please Kevin ? Cheers.
I thought we couldn’t offer a contract/begin contract talks until a certain point and that English rules were different. Can’t remember where i saw that. There’s no way on the planet we could match let alone exceed what an English club offer – end of story.
If the guy’s as good as all the professional scouts seem to think then I think he could have been good for us – he’ll go to London as many others have (myself included) and we’ll see how he does. Do I want him to do well? No. I dislike Chelsea intensely and I don’t want to see anyone there do well.
I have been offered jobs for more money – sometimes I’ve knocked them back, sometimes I’ve taken them. Not everyone worked out. That’s life – and the wee ex-bhioy has a lot of living still to do.
I have never seen so much coverage of a 16 year old youth team player , except Pele , this lad has done no wrong at the same time he has done nothing for Celtic so good luck to him the fact that Tommy Burns done everything to help this young lad and his family shows the measure of he man and i,m sure Tommy would wish him well and surely there are more important matters to concern us , like the fact that Christine Grahame MSP, has as good as said that they are out to get us now thats worth worrying about
I’m sure Diego Aramando Maradona would have something to say about the Pele thing…
DAM forgot bout him 🙂
This boy definitely is ALL that having worked with him and played with him over the past 3 years I can say that, barring a serious amount of misfortune, this lad will be a star. Never have I seen a kid with so much awareness for whats going on around him and a more natural dribbler I’ve not seen. However he hasnt dealt with this hype at all well and I think he has taken so much bad advice from people who have no real interest in the player himself.
Your post seems to sum up the general opinion of the situation.
Well I for one would have liked the chance to see if he was going to fulfil his potential in a Celtic strip. Yes by all accounts he had went off the rails and has obviously been led astray. And Jockyboy is correct the rules in England are different in respect of offering contracts and I agree with him there is absolutely no way we would have offered him what Chelsea are reputed to be paying him. Everyone forgets he was playing about two age groups ahead of his age because he was so talented, so sure he’s gonna find himself on the bench at times.
As I said over on videocelts I’m old fashioned when it comes to loyalty, I still think it has a place in football even if it is only up to a point, that point is not 16 years old. He has decided to slap the face of the Club without whom he would facing a very different life. Sorry I cant shrug my shoulders at that, wish I could. Life would be boring of we all agreed….
chelsea have offered him a flat and 2k a week, thats nowt for celtic, £100k a year and a flat in glasgow is chicken feed, we signed an 18 year old from motherwell for 200k plus wages a couple of seasons ago. If he was worth it then we’d have signed him, or at least put in an offer, which doesnt seem to have happened. If he proves to be a talent then the board have lacked a certain ambition but i’ve no doubt that if he’d been taken into the first team training and under lennon’s wing then his head would still be with celtic, it wasnt that long ago he stated he was a celtic man and he wanted to show tommy burns the respect he deserved by making it in the hoops.
I get the impression that Celtic were given no encouragement to make an offer
Jbhoy, I agree that’s not a lot of cash for Celtic to pay but it would blow their Youth pay structure out the water and I dont think they would do that, and I can sympathise with that because it could be the thin end of the wedge for them. Its peanuts to Chelsea in terms of their overall budget. Clubs in England, Arsenal in particular have paid big money for youth prospects over the years, we’ll get a relative pittance for him.
The question I asked on another site was why Chelsea? That answer for me is obvious but name one player that’s made it through their youth system and is playing in their first team now or over the last 10 years? Liverpool, Arsenal, Man U, yeah, proven at bringing through youth but Chelsea, no chance and I think that’s what he’ll have there, no chance, someone has not thought this through for him. The lads obviously had his head turned by an agent, it does my head in that these leeches determine the destiny of some or most players futures. If it goes belly up for him he’ll not be the first or last to make a bad decision based on wanting too much too young.
Great point. talkSPORT have been making the point all week that Chavski have never brought anyone of note via their Feruz’s agent endorsed ‘fantastic’ youth system. Mind you it was Stan Collymore making that point so it’s probably mute.