Awww things are so healthy at Celtic Park that you almost feel bad for other clubs subsisting on a starvation diet.
Almost.
If they really are going hungry we can share some popcorn or jelly and ice cream with them. If they behave.
The news that we are certain to secure somewhere in the region of £800,000 and change from the World Cup is nice news to have.
It’ll just about pay for our swish new lighting.
It would buy Steven Gerrard a first team footballer, or at least pay Jim Traynor’s PR bill for the next wee while and I often think they depend more on that than on players on the park.
This is our reward for having four players at the World Cup Finals.
On another year it would have been more.
Dedryk Boyata got his call up today, adding to the three we already have in Tom Rogic, Mikel Lustig and Cristian Gamboa. How ironic that this tournament is a means of showcasing the latter player in anticipation of a summer transfer fee.
And FIFA is actually paying us to do it. Amazing.
In contrast to all of this good fortune – and we may well have a small cheque from Anfield coming our way due to Van Dijk’s playing in the Champions League final – over at Poundland FC Gerrard and his people are finding out what the football equivalent of bread and water sustenance tastes like.
His efforts to sign a Liverpool youth who couldn’t get games for relegated Sunderland last season is some comedown from stories about Skrtel, Defoe and Lucas Leiva.
That was the fantasy. This is the reality.
Sevco has one player at this year’s World Cup Finals, assuring a cheque of around £200,000 or thereabouts.
Sadly, that player is Bruno Alves and he’s on a massive salary with a year left of his deal.
But at least with the money they’ll be able to tear up his contract and send him on his way, perhaps with enough change left to start talking to Carlos Pena’s agent about how they can buy him out of what’s left of his own, disastrous, three year deal.
