It was Billy Joel who sang “it’s just a fantasy, it’s not the real thing.” He topped that off with a sentiment which many at Ibrox understand well. “Sometimes a fantasy is all you need.”
In other words, whatever gets you through the night.
Every single Celtic fan has, at one time or another, glanced over there and been bemused at what we’ve seen and heard. Their club has always existed in a sort of half-light of bizarre beliefs and denial of reality. When we’re on top though, well that’s when it hits its peak. The sight of us spending £15 million plus in this window has got to them.
Desperate for validation, trying in vain to find any little thing they can take comfort from, they invent weird stories to cheer themselves up. It was ever thus. The latest, about their winger Rabbi Matondo, the player whose value has fallen by 500%, is Celtic made a late bid to sign him. This is such obvious nonsense it hardly seems worth batting away.
But the reason I’ve decided to is that it’s being promoted by one of their “official media partners”, and that means that it came from someone inside the club. Can you believe that the club is so desperate to talk this deal up that they are pushing this line to their bloggers? Can you believe that their bloggers are repeating it verbatim?
How stupid are these Peepul? (That’s a trick question, of course.)
Some of the papers have ridiculous puff pieces today on how Matondo was once clocked at a faster speed than Usain Bolt. Read the full thing and you find out that he was once timed as quicker than Bolt’s 100m gold medal win … but only for the first 20 meters.
Which means that the whole comparison is nothing more than a joke. That’s 80-minute league table level nonsense, even before you start talking about “straight line speed” and the other elements which come into play and make it even more absurd.
If the guy is so good, he doesn’t need all this extraneous hype to stand up the deal.
All I know is that he flopped spectacularly in Germany. How spectacularly? In his best season there he played 29 games. Know who else played in that team? Jonjo Kenny, who played 34 games.
They both scored the same number of goals; two.
Once again, I’m not saying that this guy is a bad signing.
I’ve not seen enough of him to make anything like a prediction like that. I’m saying that these are the stats and the fact is that his value has dropped to one fifth of what it was … I’m saying that if this guy was as big a deal as some of them seem to be suggesting they wouldn’t need this sort of nonsense to talk up the business, because the business would speak for itself.
I don’t know who they think they are trying to kid with all this, but I’ll tell you this much; it certainly isn’t us.
That Ibrox “official media partners” are pushing this stupid line shows you that they really got their money’s worth from the deal; pay us £20,000 and write what you’re told.
Who, with a shred of credibility, would have signed up for that?
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To sum the zombies up:
Little lies have big lies to follow on behind them …..
and these big lies have bigger lies and so on ….ad infinitum.
I suppose zombies have an excuse for being mindless.
LOL put the tory party into the washing machine with the ibrox board and bloggers and out pops the fans the fans to fill the FAKE stadium with FAKE stories and LIES about £80 million banked from last season.
That’s how DENSE the klan fan base are whatever shit is put out there by the board and their DESPERATE bloggers the dafties in the crowd shovel it up by the barrow load
If we really had wanted him then we would have heard about an offer or negotiations. He was probably scouted amongst many many others in the event we weren’t able to sign a quality winger like Jota. Guess what though we did so we didn’t need a guy whose career is in downfall. A 2nd or 3rd rate choice at their current club isn’t what was needed. Its just more verbal masturbation at ebox.
So really its them fantasising to themselves and getting the excitement. This is all about how good their signings are to mask the fact that they’re skint, haven’t signed any in form quality players and spent next to he haw
Matondo have deep feelings for Sheriff Bart.
If a player’s value falls by 100% he’s basically a free transfer. How can it fall 500%? Or are the recipients are being paid 4 times his initial value to take him off the current owner’s hands? That would certainly make him a target for Ibrokes!