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I've always followed Celtic, it's the Irish roots, nice to hear from a real supporter. Best of luck with or without Hooper. It may be that you have to sell to buy. Maybe missed by many, our owners are the fourth richest in England including PL.

Who was the last player Celtic bid £6m or better for, Anybody?

Sad to say Scotland are finished as a football nation. Celtic was a fabulous club with fabulous home grown players in the sixties. The Scottish Leagues are a joke. The three divisions outside the SPL are no better than Conference South/Southern League in terms of grounds and support to put it in perspective. The SPL is made up of poor teams topped off every year by the Old Firm who top the league by an embarrassing margin. Any Scot that comes on here to dish it out needs to look at the real problem, mediocre foreign players still too good for the SPL but nowhere good enough for EUFA competition. Celtic would give away Parkhead to be where we are today, with a great chance of getting into the Premier League. Rangers and Celtic would ditch the SPL without a second thought if they thought they could play in the Championship with a chance of the PL and the money that goes with it, £90m to the bottom club relegated. If Hooper wants to stay at Celtic, fine, but nobody will ever convince me he/his agent haven't indicated a willingness to move, otherwise we and Celtic wouldn't have been talking. It's a bit like the old story about £1 or £1m offer to a girl who has said what do you think I am. It's all about the money. Having said that I think we should move on.

Mick Channon after an England match in Scotland was asked what he thought the best thing about Scotland. Quick answer, "The road out of it". I think Hooper is a Londoner and a move South might well appeal. I was based in Aberdeen for a couple of years, commuted for about four nights max every week but I couldn't wait to move back South.

Probably in one third of the matches Celtic play to crowds down around 5000. Of the rest all but the Edinburgh and Aberdeen clubs have very poor attendances.

I'm giving it to Harding for a solid display in an unfamiliar position.

Chambers led with his arm and clattered Connolly. The rules are explicit, it is a red card.

The three central midfielders need Hammond and Schneiderlin in the middle and Cork wide to make it work. Any other way it doesn't work. Harding had another good performance on the right. The passing and movement was excellent. It looked like a very good collective team performance today, now have nine days to prepare for two home games and get the injured back in the squad plus a bit of reinforcement. It could be that we have hit on a good midfield line up for away games. Cork on the right in front of Harding/Richardson/Butterfield for the first hour. Harding, who I have seen play right back a few times including Wembley, looks good there, he seems more solid on the right in spite of being on his wrong side. Good to see Butterfield back.

I wouldn't be surprised that Lennon has his targets and has to sell somebody to bring them in. The goalkeeper Frazer Forster for a start won't come cheap.

This one does looks like it has substance, Celtic have confirmed what I was told on Wed and Fri. It's a decent bet that Adkins has the players number and knows exactly where he stands. I would think we wouldn't be persuing this if we hadn't had a nod from the player, obviously subject to negotiations.

Only thirteen deals in the Premier league so far in thirteen days, very slow.

I just can't see us offering that much. I wouldn't mind betting the haggleing is around £4m and how much now etc, just a guess.

A friend who knows two ex Saints managers well told me on Wednesday morning that he had been told the clubs had been talking late on Tuesday, today he had heard that we were still not in agreement, he wouldn't say who told him but I know that these are his only sources. Lennon doesn't look happy and is moaning about the window and says that he doesn't want to lose any of his players but would like to add to his squad.

Brilliant, a politically correct police force, where do they come in the catching criminals list? That's what matters.

Five games with the hopeless experiment of Schneiderlin, Cork and Hammond with the out of form Lallana scoring 2 goals and conceding 7 in four and a half games. Hopefully the lesson has been learnt and SDR will be back on the right alternatively Guly until Chaplow is completely fit.

If he is as good as the publicity he'll cost them another £15m.

De Ridder fit.

Mike, Bottom of Regents Park Rd 023 8077 3439. Does appointments only every day except Tues and Sun about a tenner.

It'll take 14 years to complete and in that time we should have borrowed something like £180billion to give away in foreign aid. We must be bloody bonkers.

If He gave England a referendum They would all be out including Europe.

I think it was that he had had seizures before which should have been notified to the DVLA and was ineligible to hold a licence as there must be at least a year free of an event before the licence is granted. The supervision order is to ensure he doesn't drive.

And then you could organise the French to organise an airlift to help you survive provided we gave them access.

Adequate defensively right sided but we need a left sided backup for Hoiveld.

It's true.

There is one certain thing in all this because of agents this club and any other club in the auction know exactly what is happening. If he wants to come here and we want him it will happen but if there is anything we don't like, he will have to go somewhere else.