El Car comment: Just out of curiosity 0762, where was your sense of righteous indignation when you were celebrating Celtic's signing of Nadir Ciftci after a series of incremental bids that were conducted very much in the public eye?
I must firstly answer that question: I'm not a Celtic fan or a great admirer of the Old Firm in general and the post was not full of any detectable celebration. I lodged that Ciftci post to highlight more the fact that Celtic have the huge dollops of money available to buy the success that they and their fans desire every season and they are the only football club in Scotland to do that at the current time - it makes them better favourites than last season to monopolise their position and have a very good chance to win the domestic treble. I GENUINELY HOPE THAT DOES NOT HAPPEN FOR THE GOOD OF THE GAME. My wholehearted sympathy goes out to Dundee United FC and their fans who had been subjected to a similar predatory process and they have had a bellyful of this type of transfer activity that they have endured since January this year!!!! They have every right to feel aggrieved but I do acknowledge the club itself pulled in lots of money all the same but they have sadly been damaged and undermined!
Re the rest of your comments, I'd just comment that there are two types of business dealing: one of them appears to be assertive and undignified, sometimes even aggressive and orchestrated. The other practise is what I'd call PRAGMATIC BUSINESS DEALING and I think most Scottish football clubs generally try to follow that discreet kind of practise when dealing with transfers etc. Rangers clearly don't fall into that category and it probably reflects the mindset of the people who run Rangers FC at the moment and not their manager, Warburton, although his recent rhetorical comment re retaining respect for Hibernian FC as Scott Allan is still a Hibs player, was a little bit irritating TBF! He forgot to mention his awareness of all the other orchestrated disrespectful comments that were made in the background by all the hangers on and every other Tom, Dick and media who had some vested interest in Rangers getting their man!! Anyway they're not getting him at the moment!!
Allan's inevitable transfer request handed in today (following some good advice from his agent, John Viola, who has a past unscrupulous track record with transfer scenarios like this one?) - Hibs inevitably not budging one inch on this issue!!! Formal club statement below.
http://www.hibernianfc.co.uk/news/5590
The message coming out of this Hibs statement is that Rangers are not getting Scott Allan, end of. However, another club could well pick him up at the right price and Hibs lose their best player - pardon my cynicism but was that not part of the Rangers plan all along? Who knows eh! Ideally he plays for us and gets on with it but the situation has changed and Hibs support may well turn against the lad and regard him as a wee ungrateful scumbag. I hope that does not happen as he has had a very good relationship with club and fans! I've always said the most loyal people of Hibs FC, and indeed of any football club in general, are the fans. This story just endorses that view even more!!
I must firstly answer that question: I'm not a Celtic fan or a great admirer of the Old Firm in general and the post was not full of any detectable celebration. I lodged that Ciftci post to highlight more the fact that Celtic have the huge dollops of money available to buy the success that they and their fans desire every season and they are the only football club in Scotland to do that at the current time - it makes them better favourites than last season to monopolise their position and have a very good chance to win the domestic treble. I GENUINELY HOPE THAT DOES NOT HAPPEN FOR THE GOOD OF THE GAME. My wholehearted sympathy goes out to Dundee United FC and their fans who had been subjected to a similar predatory process and they have had a bellyful of this type of transfer activity that they have endured since January this year!!!! They have every right to feel aggrieved but I do acknowledge the club itself pulled in lots of money all the same but they have sadly been damaged and undermined!
Re the rest of your comments, I'd just comment that there are two types of business dealing: one of them appears to be assertive and undignified, sometimes even aggressive and orchestrated. The other practise is what I'd call PRAGMATIC BUSINESS DEALING and I think most Scottish football clubs generally try to follow that discreet kind of practise when dealing with transfers etc. Rangers clearly don't fall into that category and it probably reflects the mindset of the people who run Rangers FC at the moment and not their manager, Warburton, although his recent rhetorical comment re retaining respect for Hibernian FC as Scott Allan is still a Hibs player, was a little bit irritating TBF! He forgot to mention his awareness of all the other orchestrated disrespectful comments that were made in the background by all the hangers on and every other Tom, Dick and media who had some vested interest in Rangers getting their man!! Anyway they're not getting him at the moment!!
Allan's inevitable transfer request handed in today (following some good advice from his agent, John Viola, who has a past unscrupulous track record with transfer scenarios like this one?) - Hibs inevitably not budging one inch on this issue!!! Formal club statement below.
http://www.hibernianfc.co.uk/news/5590
The message coming out of this Hibs statement is that Rangers are not getting Scott Allan, end of. However, another club could well pick him up at the right price and Hibs lose their best player - pardon my cynicism but was that not part of the Rangers plan all along? Who knows eh! Ideally he plays for us and gets on with it but the situation has changed and Hibs support may well turn against the lad and regard him as a wee ungrateful scumbag. I hope that does not happen as he has had a very good relationship with club and fans! I've always said the most loyal people of Hibs FC, and indeed of any football club in general, are the fans. This story just endorses that view even more!!