July 2nd
Morning, morning. My head hurts. After work beers plus some refreshing G&Ts with Tom plus the heat = hangover. Not a huge amount going on this morning apart from reports of the travels of our manager and vice-Chairman. Apparently AW is in Brazil to talk to Julio Baptista, his agent, his parents, his Sunday school teacher, his best friend and his security blanket. Meanwhile Double-D is creating an orange glow all over Spain, except here actually coz it’s cloudly today. It seems he’s been in Barcelona and is now in Seville doing the deal to bring Baptista to the club.
The only problem might be his lack of EU passport and work permit but I’m sure we know some people in the print industry who can knock up some top class documents. The player himself fancies the move so that’s good. Young French striker Jeremie Aliadiere has joined Celtic for a season long loan and he’s looking forward to the challenge, saying “I knew straight away this would be the best opportunity for me, to be at Celtic because it is a big club with big ambitions. To play in front of 60,000 people is really exciting and that was also a factor in choosing this club.”
Another young striker, Quincy, has signed a new deal along with other youth prospects Mathew Connolly and Kerrea Gilbert. And that’s about it. I’m off to a Scottish/Catalan wedding. I will avoid making any jokes about tight-fistedness or anything like that. I’m sure the cress sandwiches will be delicious though. Have a good one, till tomorrow.
