Soccer Football - Scottish Cup Semi Final - Rangers v Celtic - Hampden Park, Glasgow, Scotland, Britain - April 30, 2023 Celtic's Jota celebrates scoring their first goal Action Images via Reuters/Jason Cairnduff
A few stories have surfaced about Jota’s sensation return to Celtic which is apparently happening in January.
A scratch around uncovers the source of the story is someone speaking to Frank McAvennie in yet another Football Insider exclusive.
That website certainly gets full value from the former Celtic striker who they like to brand as an expert, it seems that they can throw half a dozen rumours at McAvennie, get a comment then sprinkle magic dust over it to release even more exclusive tales.
Football Insider has got various sources inside every EPL club, most in the Championship plus McAvennie and Alan Hutton with all the detail in the Scottish game.
For back up on rumours worldwide Fraser Fletcher scans message boards and Twitter to create exclusives such as Scott Wright following Jota to Saudi Arabia based on a Twitter wind-up from an account with 300 followers. For good measure the Daily Record ran with that Exclusive as well with neither publisher following up on that blockbuster transfer.
After praising Daizen Maeda Football Insider reveals the substance to their story:
Maeda is doing a wonderful job. He is just up and down, defends and it does not matter whether it is the right or left side.
But someone told me Jota is coming back in January. It would be nice to have him back because you know what you are getting with him but I do think Brendan will need to sit down with the powers that be and tell them that he needs to sign some players.
So someone told McAvennie, perhaps it was the person on the phone from Football Insider? One call reveals all with the Inside track at Celtic, Ibrox and Newcastle.
Unsettled players returning to their previous club is a stable part of the transfer business, there is the obvious link and usually goes down well with fans.
With his reported salary of £200,000 a week Jota won’t be rushed out of Al Ittihad, the agency that set that deal up will be working on his January move which is highly unlikely to be a return to the brutality of Scottish football.
Having bagged over £20m for the former Benfica winger and spent a chunk of that on Luis Palma, Marco Tilio and Yang Hyun-jun Celtic’s strategy clearly doesn’t involve bringing in proven talent costing more than £4m.
Joe, your last paragraph is almost incoherent, vs the good intent and substance you normally provide.
We paid (I’m speculating here) but let’s say around £1 mill for his (Jota’s) loan. We then paid around £6 mill for his ‘permanent’ transfer. We sold him (reported £25 mill) with a reported sell-on clause of 30% of transfer value. Back of a fag packet, we actually gained around £10 mill.
And ‘fat-boy Lawwell’, no doubt, assured that the PLC didn’t spend it on improvements or equals……NAW…..they wanted it IN THE FN BANK to promote, e.g. Barrowfield’s status (and therefore the VALUE of the ‘club’ for future sales).
We’ve been conned too hard for too long and yet some ‘inspired’ Lawwellist’s (Loyalists?) still support him? FFS, transparently, he’s a financial thief, just like his leech-inspired boss. GET THEM TAE FUCK and all their appointees with them.
The Socialist-minded Brother Walfrid certainly did NOT see this coming.
Editor: The fee for Jota, as reported in Benfica accounts is 25m euros. We picked up around £20m from Al Ittihad but for some reason folk seem to want to take the fee apart. When the VVD fee from Southampton is mentioned the fee we paid to Groningen is rarely mentioned or their slice of the profit from the transfer to Southampton. Will we soon be adding in the wages paid to Jota to plead poverty?
Do you have any suggestions on how we “GET THEM TAE FUCK ? ”
BTW, a few years ago when “Football Insider” surfaced I saw (so many) similarities with the Daily Rancid ‘reporting-fantasising-lying’ that I did some research. It transpired that “Football Insider” was part of the DR’s group, Reach. I would conject that Football Scotland (and possibly many others) are also part of that poisonous shower.
Avoid at all costs is what I think.
As much as I like Jota I think this expert, and my goodness I use that term loosely, is talking nonsense.
We’ve already replaced Jota with plethora of projects.
I’m hoping Palma is trying too hard to impress but I’ve not been impressed.
The Korean boy looks direct but needs more game time.
The Australian boy we haven’t seen.
And there is the problem in a nutshell: because we’ve bought so many players they need reasonable game time to be able to show their talents (or lack of them) but can’t get the game time because they are all much the same standard that it doesn’t matter who you play.
How about this for a novel idea: ensure we have two quality £6M players for each position and if those two get injured bring in one of the youth players so we can see what they’ve got. At this point our youth players must be be about sixth or seventh choice for some positions so it’s no wonder they leave.
For example does anyone really think Ben Doak would be on our bench or starting games if he had stayed ?
If Carter Vickers and Nawrocki not got injured and Starfelt sold then we would never have seen Sxales in the team.
The players we buy seem capable of winning our league however not good enough to make any impact in Europe.
Ever since he left , every second day ‘ Jota’s Saudi hell ‘ type headlines
This boy was a hunskelper who gave us some wonderful memories and these hun hacks some very, very painful ones
So now their setting it up for the headline in big capital letters
JOTA CELTIC RETURN SNUB