Operation “Sell Igamane for megabucks” is underway. Celtic fans in tears, as the SMSM sets the asking price at £20 million!
Eric Knott 
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So, Lille are in for Ibrox Wunderkind Hamza Igamane?
And they’re willing to pay megabucks for him because they’re not afraid to spend loadsa money.
In fact, they have a proven track record of spending loadsa money.
So the Ibrox club can name their price and Lille won’t be afraid to splash out.
Because they’re not afraid, you know?
To splash out, that is.
According to expert Live Sports editor in the Record, Gavin Berry, because Lille spent £25 million Jonathan David and £18 million on Victor Osimhen, they aren’t afraid to spend on ‘potential’.
Of course, Hamza Igamane represents BIG potential, and reports have suggested that the Ibrox side have set a £20 million fee for their prized asset.
Cue muffled guffaws and laughter from Celtic supporters.
Okay, let’s get this straight.
A guy who the Ibrox side paid £1.7 million for less than a year ago is now worth £20 million?
Wow!
That will be an amazing piece of business if they can pull it off.
Except that its total bullshit.
As my colleague Joe McHugh pointed out over on VideoCelts earlier today.
Lille are willing to pay £4 million for Igamane.
Now THAT is a tad shy of the £20 million asking price.
So there may be a bit of wheeling and dealing left in this deal yet.
We mustn’t forget that the whole whole EPL is after this guy as well as the entire French League.
I would imagine it’ll only be a matter of time before PSG come knocking on the door for Igamane.
Superstars like this don’t come along very often.
Of course, the ingenious Phil Clement had this to say about Igamane last year:
“We had to sign him now because one year later we could never afford him”.
Well, apparently now, neither could anybody else since the Ibrox club are valuing him at £20 million.
Talk about shooting for the stars and taking off like a wet fart.
Igamane had an okay season last season.
He scored 16 goals in all competitions.
Adam Idah, the worst signing in Celtic’s history according to Hugh Keevins, scored 20 goals.
Nicolas Kuhn scored 21.
And we know how prolific Daizen Maeda was.
Yet we’re being told that the opening bid for Nicolas Kuhn is £15 million?
But somehow, Hamza Igamane is valued at £20 million?
No he isn’t.
Mark Pirie is talking shite and making up transfer valuations as he goes along.
We all know what will happen here.
The Ibrox side will take as much as they can get for Igamane.
And if that’s £4 million, so be it.
The fact that they’re willing to sell their main strikers in Dessers and Igamane should be more of a concern to Ibrox fans and the media than a ridiculous made up valuation of £20 million.
But no, everything is rosy in the garden over there as usual.
Their players will land them megabucks, and the yanks are gonna make them the “crown jewel of Europe“.
F***in’ La La land fantasy shite!
And what’s worse is they actually believe it.
Sad but true.
Wow!! How do the Scottish press continue to get away with it. They are either stupid or have no idea how to place a value on footballers. Kent, Morelos, Hagi etc etc It never stops
I love how the record always super inflates the value of rangers players they are on a different planet. Last season the whole squad didn’t get a valuation of what they said. It’s just the record talking shite as usual
I take it Gav at the daily Record ‘ edits ‘ his own fantasy work ? Or maybe his ‘ assistant live editor ‘ young Mr Pirie does it for him ? With the tacit instructions that there should be an unlimited amount of embellishment and pro exaggeration in all of the dreamland fictional tales ! Tickly handshake ….
‘Celtic Supporters are loving online….’,
Click bait and puff pieces laid on with a trowel as the
unnamed source went to an awful lot of trouble to disguise the central tenet of their piece, online Gambling.
As if they don’t have enough advertising out there already.
Even our own Board aren’t slow coming back regarding the available spaces on our Team Strips.
Tobacco, Alcohol & Betting the worst legalised pitfalls for the ‘Working Class’, but not exclusively.
No doubt my generating this comment will mean another Click for one or all 3.
Time to break the cycle as much as possible.
So much for the ‘real Celtic bloggers not being replaced by AI’, Eric, when the AI has published as many articles as you this week.
One day soon the AI is gonna ask itself and its owners why bother paying any writers when the AI can do it for next to nothing and that day is rocketing towards us like a hurtling fevered train.
And gambling advertising!
Absolutely disgraceful.
It’s Artificial Intelligence, Nadir, don’t you recognise it?
You can’t seriously read that and think any human wrote it, surely?
Ok guys, you’ll note that those blogs are called ‘sponsored content’. Nothing to do with me. The company I work for gives them space on the site, and its sponsored. I will continue to produce real content. You’ll also note, my name is no where near any of those articles. These articles only pop up every so often, but believe it or not, they are written by a human because I questioned something in one of them and my editor went back the author of that particular article and questioned it with him.
AI = Artificial Inflated transfer fee.
Michael M, it may well be AI but some human (small ‘h’ intentional), some person commissioned the article and set the parameters. AI didn’t just switch itself on and start randomly churning it out.
Our Club and the surrounding Celtic ecosystem should not be advertising them.