Everyone’s favourite crazy Sevco fan site was at it again last night, with a shrieking mad article on the Stuart Armstrong transfer fee. Apparently they think this is more proof that there’s “one rule for Celtic and another rule for them.”
And why?
Because much of the press has a reported a big number and nobody is laughing at it, whereas there was much public derision over the valuations of their dross.
First, there was no public derision in the media.
The media has been reprinting their absolute bollocks without contradiction.
The derision is coming from Celtic fans and other supporters who know the idea of getting £4 million for Windass and £5 million for Tavernier is sheer fantasy. Whilst interest in these players is drummed up in the papers, interest in ours is real.
And that’s the difference. Southampton and Celtic have discussed terms and agreed a fee. We’re not making this stuff up, this deal is actually on the brink of being agreed and another large wedge of money is heading northwards to Celtic Park.
Really, they should take some solace from the fact that papers like The Record are trying to low-ball what we’re getting for him, marking it down to around £4 million when most information from inside the club suggests it’s closer to £7 million.
Even £4 million, though, plus add-ons, is good business for a guy in the last year of his deal and is substantially more than they will get for any of their dreck.
This “one rule for them and another for poor old us” wailing is quite pitiful.
So English clubs, Southampton in particular, are in on the whole anti-Sevco conspiracy as they?
These clubs hate them because they’ll give us money whilst not giving them their due?
Idiots. Absolute numpties the lot of them.
Sevco fans are the dumbest in world football; they really do believe that their own valuations of their players are what decides the market. In their eyes, clubs aren’t interested in such frivolity as skill, potential, worth. It’s all about “holding out” for the fee you want, as if that worked in any industry or any other business in the world.
My heart bleeds for these poor Peepul who cry the blues about the unfairness of our being able to command high transfer fees for our title winning international class players whilst they struggle to move on the detritus of living cheap and trying to turn dog-dirt into diamonds.
The dreadful reality for them is that we are going to bring in more for one player than they will be able to spend.
I understand that hurts, but howling at the moon won’t change it a bit.