The Daily Record has resorted to hard luck stories and near missed to comfort their Army of elderly readers.
It seems that Phil Clement’s side had a £4m bid for Goncalo Borges rejected by Porto with French upstarts Strasbourg set to sign the winger in a £6.7m deal.
It is a long established template widely used by the Record with Alex McLeish’s bid to sign Lionel Messi from Barcelona believed to be the first time it was used.
So far in this window a loan with an obligation to buy has gone through for Oscar Cortes, £1.75m paid out for a Moroccan striker that seems to have disappeared plus some token fees for a former AC Milan starlet, a future Real Madrid left back plus two free agents from the bottom half of the SPFL Premiership.
It isn’t much to get the elderly bears racing to read the Record but today they can console themselves with another near miss.
Rangers are set to miss out on Goncalo Borges with FC Porto reportedly in the “final stages” of rubber stamping a move to Strasbourg.
The Light Blues had reportedly tabled an offer of around £5million – while the Ligue 1 side opened the bidding for the 23-year-old with a lowball £4million bid. Porto turfed out both offers for star who has a mammoth £42million release clause – but now look set to green light a move to France rather than the Scottish Premiership after Strasbourg returned to the negotiating table.
L’Equipe report that “an agreement is close to being reached between the two clubs” for a fee in the region of £6.7million with additional bonuses set to be included in the contract of the Portugal U21 cap. It is claimed that Borges will land in Frances “in the coming days” to finalise a move – leaving Rangers frozen out of a deal.
‘Rangers’ were frozen out of a deal from the opening of the transfer window, no £5m rated 23-year-old at Porto is going to think that teaming up with Cyriel Dessers and Scott Wright is going to improve his career.
There certainly isn’t £5m sitting in Clement’s war-chest while wages expectations would be in line with James Tavernier, Connor Goldson, Todd Cantwell, Ben Davies and Rabbi Matondo.
Clement is desperately trying to get rid of those wages but knows that no other club will match their bloated Ibrox wages. It is the same scenario that they found themselves in with Alfredo Morelos, Ryan Kent, John Lundstram and Kemar Roofe.
In other news the Record is set to miss out on 6,000 print sales a day over the new season as circulation races towards the 40,000 mark.
Every time i read one of these EXCLUSIVE!!! stories from The Record I ask myself “Where’s the money come from?” Are people really falling for this stuff.
In other news, Hugh MacDonald yesterday backed Peter Lawwell who is now re-instated as the Celtic Chairman!
Celtic nearly suffered a Solvency Crisis in season 2003, he says, when they went to the Europa League Final but won nothing that season.
And so the big money wages for players were ditched there and then on the premise we couldn’t compete with English Money for players.
He then justifies Lawwell’s stewardship of the Club citing all the trophies we have won, despite losing the Ten.
He argues that Rangers won Nine, fails to say we won Nine twice and goes nowhere near the blatant facts surrounding Rangers’ insolvency and subsequent death as a Football Club.
So, the history of Scottish Football from the time that Celtic won the European Cup and Nine in a Row has been conveniently airbrushed.
The official Desk Journo’s version ignores simple facts of life and promotes Peter Lawwell’s involvment in all of it!
Who is Hugh McDonald maister !
Respected Scotttish Football Journalist!
Ah SIMPLETON FC strike again with their FAKE NEWS STORIES,another £7 million player linked to the Conedy Gold klub.
A nickel&dime dime regime with not a pot to piss in or even their own stadium to play in,in total so far this season they have linked with players probably totalling about 60-70 million pounds with none of these players even making a special guest star appearance at the BIGOT dome or Hunden for that fact.
Every day we have the press splashing headlines about how much money is being spend by the SIMPLETONS even their blogs are running with this shite,even though Kojak has said he needs to sell before he can buy.
Just keep the comedy gold coming it will be all more funnier when the SHITE hits the fan and the new klub fold.
BOOM!
IF sevco was looking to buy a player,
and they were invited to Glasgow for a visit,
would the player get a tour of Hampden stadium,
or ibrox [whilst wearing an obligatory hard hat?]
Apart from everything else…
what type of player would choose to join a club which has – somehow –
managed to make itself homeless, and has no idea when it can use its
own stadium again?
I’m afraid the new Hampden club will ‘miss out’ on any player with a fee involved.
At least they are trying to sign players, more than our board are doing. We must be as far away now from the model of what Celtic was created for as possible. We are a BP, Apple Amazon type company on a smaller scale. A money making/grabbing PLC that happens to have a football team
Well said mate. As funny as the shitshow over at the Asbestos Arena is, it shouldn’t be an excuse for the complacency and penny pinching by our board. We should be hitting the accelerator, not the brakes, and we shouldn’t be able to see this lot for dust. Not to mention the need to strengthen for the CL – which looks like being our real challenge this season!
I await the day, Dan, that the PLC mob realise that what they would term:
The Football Department
IS Celtic.
The PLC, if it has to exist at all, should exist to support and nourish Celtic FC. The Football Club should certainly not exist, to make a bunch of freeloading, Masonic parasites even richer.
Hail Hail.
Hope the plea to tictok to return to the fold today isn’t missed. Embarrassing climb down by the manager. 2 Xfer requests and now it’s ok CV one back. ?
It’s terrible. Apparently a heart-broken Mbappe is also on suicide watch after he had to miss out on his dream move to play alongside Scott Wright at the Crumble Dome and settle for Real Madrid.
Brilliant.