I think that when Mr Graham Dorrans arrives at his new place of work he will find that some of his colleagues are revolting.
It is beyond dispute that a senior professional at Sevco is organising a guerrilla campaign against Senhor Caixinha.
This hero of The People is speaking to any journalist that will listen to him about his plight at the five-year-old club.
However, the stenographers have high-Level orders to keep it all under wraps.
The highly experienced player was particularly incensed that Barrie McKay had been sold for well below his true market value.
Moreover, he was of the opinion that the additions that Senhor Caixinha has brought in are below the required standard.
He trenchantly stated this point of view in less than parliamentary terms to the likeable Portuguese chap in the immediate aftermath of the Luxembourg debacle.
I’m told that even after a day off the experienced player was still seething at training this morning.
Of course, it might be that the senior professional just isn’t very good in the mid-transition counter press…
The good news is that Senhor Alves will soon turn up and make everyone happy.
Indeed, his new teammates can tell the veteran Portuguese stopper about their recent exploits in Europe!
Meanwhile in the Blue Room:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RSyUWjftHrs
Scottish football is corrupt.
Is it not time FIFA or UEFA investigated this coruption that is Scottish football or is it true that they are every bit as corupt.If they are then not just Scottish football is finished.
I hear that the player called pena is to be paid 33 grand a week and to become the highest paid player in Scotland any truth in this.
They were apparently £800k short, after the £500k for BMc, to complete the Dorrans deal.
So, how did they find the £800k needed to complete the deal?
Heart warming to see Alan Pattulo saying in the Scosman that there is little to be achieved by title stripping. Alan’s expert financial opinion has been wrong, wrong, wrong on just about every single detail of this saga since 2011. His confident assertions today mean there is certainly something (everything) to be achieved by title stripping and it will be happening soon.
Thanks for you input Alan 🙂
Murray was awarded a knighthood for building a huge company from the ground up, fair enough.
That same company is now in the grubber, having run up debts approaching a billion pounds. Most of the debt to HBOS was swapped for what turned out to be worthless equity, with the balance written off.
On top of that Murray was the instigator of two illegal tax schemes at a huge cost to the public purse.
An independent enquiry is required into the relationship between MIH and HBOS with specific regards to the security accepted by the bank to cover the debt.
The terms of the loans, interest rates etc should also be examined to ensure that the relationship was of a commercial nature and not done at ‘mates rates.’
specific questions
The Daily Record studiously observes that Celtic FC have precious little time to sign a new player before their UEFA CL qualifier.
Not understanding football, and treble winning invincible squads, the Record makes arses of themselves.
“just isn’t very good at the mid-transition counter press” may well be used at the Cricklewood in the near future.
Platinum comedy.
Thanks again!
The senior pro has no business getting involved with player sales or values. None at all. Who does he think he is? The Manager?
Clearly the guy was part of the team that got pumped. He needs to focus his energies on teamwork and improving his personal performance.
What every team in the SPFL now know is that this outfit is there for the taking by part timers. That is gold dust intelligence pre season.
I predict Sevco dropping to fourth this season, further if there’s a meltdown. I’m under the impression there’s cutting their cloth accordingly conversations now they’re out of Europe.
Doubt it .. they could have punted Dorran’s by failing his medical or walking away from the deal .
Seems like the veteran seasoned professional isn’t transitioning well at all. Clearly resisting change, stuck in his ways and in denial about his own demise as a player.
It’s always someone else’s fault. Not the kind of guy to “bring others on”
Sounds like a Barry Fergusson (EBT) v Paul LeGuen situation. They just keep trying to mimic old dead Rangers at every opportunity.
Hopefully Enrique Iglesias will lighten them up a bit.
Enrique’ ‘ Sevco Album:
1. I can be your Hero Pedro.
2. Hola Hola we are the Billy Boys.
3. You can run, you can hide but you can’t escape Bears love.
4. Tired of being sorry.
5. Love to see you cry.
6. Don’t turn off the lights.
7. If the world crashes down.
8. I will survive.
9, Hero (July 12th Mix)
10. Hero (Supreme Court Mix).
11. Hero (Craig Whyte Mix).
12. Hero (Charles Green Mix).
13. Tonight I’m f*cking you (Sir David Murray Mix).
14. Hero (Dave King Mix).
It should read – 14. No your not (Joanna Lumley mix)
2. Hola Hola.. we are the Billy Boys!
that gave me a good morning laugh this lovely sunny day!
Won’t be surprised if they actually rip that one off and use it!
Revolting, how apt a description!
Couldn’t agree more, Phil. I too find their players ‘revolting’. HH
Any truth there is a major dressing room split Phil?
Sorry Phil, I don’t like to take issue as a general rule. But wee Barrie is NOT worth more than £500k. He was a success in the lower leagues, had about five good games last season, one of them against Celtic and has a 10 minute substitute appearance as an International – mostly because the SMSM were hailing him as the best wee Barrie since, well, the last over-rated wee Barry. Mark my words. He will be every bit as successful down there MacLeodinho has been. The boy we’ve sent out to Aberdeen on loan is a far more experienced and accomplished player with a far better end product.
Of course.. Wee Barry was never worth much more than500k. The price is right in this case.
What was wrong was the January wish from the usual sources saying that he was worth 6 Million and there were active bids for him.
Despite everyone knowing (sound familiar?) that this was utter guff.. the media and poor Billys on phone-ins etc still quote it like it was actually true.
But isn’t that the way with them?!
False News
False Hopes
Some years ago I was approached by a rival company to my then employer, offering me a better package than I was on, better prospects and, in some respects, leaping up a few leagues. Naturally, I accepted. When I started notifying existing clients,suppliers and – especially -the engineers I dealt with, not one of them congraulated me on my imminent move. All of them, in more or less the same terms, asked “Are you sure you know what you’re doing?” On digging further, I found the rosy picture painted at my interviews wasn’t close to anyone else’s experience of a company thst seemed to lurch from one potential disaster to another. I decided not to take the job. Now, the industry I was in didn’t enjoy the media attention that football receives and nor was that company as well known – or perhaps I should say notorious – as certain govan club(s). Are footballers really so dense or short-sighted as to be oblivious / have little regard for the perilous situation at a club they’re prepared to sign their life away to?
This poor little fella called Dorrans
Seems not to be too well informed
That the ‘team’ he’s just joined
Has been Battled & Boyned
By the 4th rate ‘no hopers’ Niederkorn
(Now that’s what I call Progres!)
The same gorilla was doing all the talking before the tie
And would have been doing all the talking after it had they got through
Traynor must have some hold over the editors of the sun not only getting
them to cap it but for the biggest scandal in British not just Scottish football
decided at the highest courts in the land against a Scottish football club was
only to merit page 13 inside the paper but to lead with a front page of an English
man taking an English business man to court about his bonus not being paid
That tells a story.
We might get a front page another day of a Celtic player dropping a piece of litter
Think I will start buying the financial times and do the markets
no decent newspapers now…
That same rebel without a cause made the embarrassment of Scottish football twice as bad by saying in the build up to that Europa away qualifier, and I quote ‘Rangers are going to put Scottish football on the map.’ Well, they certainly did that, because now all of Europe have stuck a pin in their maps so everyone knows what they’re pointing at while pishing themselves with laughter. If there were any people in our governing bodies they’d be sending in the bulldozers to take care of this shameful smear once and for all.
You’d be better doing that mate. The Financial Times had the Rangers/HMRC story on page 2 yesterday and talked about the case against Rangers Football Club and said club being liquidated, not a ‘holding company’, ‘engine room subsidiary’ or any of the other sh1te you will read in a SMM trashloid, desperate to push the same club myth. This, and Phil’s excellent reportage over the years, just goes to show that Jabba the Traynor doesn’t have much clout with proper journalists! http://digital.olivesoftware.com/Olive/ODN/FTUK/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=FTU%2F2017%2F07%2F06&entity=Ar00204&sk=65E286D6&mode=text.
Dorrans arrives after the hard Brexit, Alves not due in till end of July.
Daily Spanish, Portuguese snd English languages available daily at Muray Park apres training.
My prediction is that Alves will be this season’s Joey!
Joey’s a Pundit now. He stated the defeat to Progres was the worst ever British defeat in Europe. He’s going to be a great Pundit. Bang on the money so far.
Barrie McKay dodged a bullet and has an excellent chance in English football. Well out of it.
It’s just a shame that Joey Barton wasn’t around to play in the Stade Josy Bartel the other night …
That would’ve added to the fitting symmetry of the ‘Lower People’ beating ‘The, er, People ‘ in a competition the latter had yet again cheated to get into.*
(*Provided you take the ‘same club’ thing seriously.)
In other news, I hear they painted their ‘slogan’ in WAT-er P-aint …
And we all know who Joey’s money was on 😀
Aye, and it’s running already! 😀
sounds like the old headless chicken kenny miller, only experienced player at the spam factory, when he played for us I thought he was total crap, he fitted in well again at pound stretchers, funny that how some players only fit in one club, says it all about him, same mould as walter mitty smith and graeme sourness.useless when having to play by the same rules as everyone else.
or am I wrong about windy miller?
he`s a guy that takes seethe to a new sub atomic level. i`ve never seen better
I’m sure you meant Gorilla ?.
With three year contracts all round, and that senior agitator almost certainly playing his last game in Europe, things could get messy ….. er.
It’s a real shame, wee Ryan never got his European night under the floodlights and Dorans …… well, he never got his game in Europe.
A well baited hook…