Celtic have turned down a £5m bid from Newcastle United for Guinea defender Bobo Balde, BBC Sport believes.
The 28-year-old joined Celtic from Toulouse on a four-year deal in 2001 and the Glasgow club have yet to tie him to a promised contract extension.
Balde has become a cult hero with the Celtic support and the Scottish champions would be loathe to lose him.
Newcastle have also had an approach rejected for Rangers defender Jean-Alain Boumsong.
Newcastle manager Bobby Robson is looking to strengthen his defence and has cash to spend after selling Jonathan Woodgate to Real Madrid for £13.4m.
Maybe they are looking for a defender as well. Balde is indeed a "cult hero" here (well, in one half of the city anyway ), you can buy T-Shirts which bare the legend "Bobo's gonnae get ye!".
Celtic have turned down a £5m bid from Newcastle United for Guinea defender Bobo Balde, BBC Sport believes.
Newcastle have also had an approach rejected for Rangers defender Jean-Alain Boumsong.
Newcastle manager Bobby Robson is looking to strengthen his defence and has cash to spend after selling Jonathan Woodgate to Real Madrid for £13.4m.
Maybe they are looking for a defender as well.
I just hope that it means that they have money to spend because they are no longer pursuing Rooney (yeah, yeah, Man Utd fan getting desperate, beat me, beat me.... )
Fucking hell, Paul. The Toon just let in a third. 3-2, now. That defence sounds abysmal. Bollocks to Rooney. You need to keep 'em out at the back first.
Sickboy wrote:Fucking hell, Paul. The Toon just let in a third. 3-2, now. That defence sounds abysmal. Bollocks to Rooney. You need to keep 'em out at the back first.
This is how it works. The Woodgate money is for defenders, which we desperately need. The Rooney money is coming from the sponsors, Northern Rock. If we don't sign Rooney, we don't get that money. So it's not a case of signing either Rooney or a defender or two. I just hope we can get at least one centre back in, because I'm utterly sick so far at our start, which is at least the third season running we've let everyone else streak into the distance.
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There will come a time, I believe, when people will actually want Manchester United to beat Arsenal because they are sick of the gooners winning everything. When that happens, the world will overnight become a happy place, and peace will issue forth. Happiness will be enjoyed by all men, and a few women, and things will be so much better than they are now.
There will come a time, I believe, when people will actually want Manchester United to beat Arsenal because they are sick of the gooners winning everything. When that happens, the world will overnight become a happy place, and peace will issue forth. Happiness will be enjoyed by all men, and a few women, and things will be so much better than they are now.
Dream on.
All I care about is that Chelsea don't win anything - and we turn 'em over again at Stamford Bridge, with their fuckwitted, fiver-waving, cockney wanker, fairweather, where-were-you-when-you-were-shit? fans looking on.
There will come a time, I believe, when people will actually want Manchester United to beat Arsenal because they are sick of the gooners winning everything. When that happens, the world will overnight become a happy place, and peace will issue forth. Happiness will be enjoyed by all men, and a few women, and things will be so much better than they are now.
Dream on.
All I care about is that Chelsea don't win anything - and we turn 'em over again at Stamford Bridge, with their fuckwitted, fiver-waving, cockney wanker, fairweather, where-were-you-when-you-were-shit? fans looking on.
Strewth. I don't think that you should hold back next time. Don't be afraid to say what you think
Sickboy wrote: I got Dora The Explorer's Backpack Adventure for SB Jr, last week. He quickly finished levels 1, 2 and 3 with no trouble whatsoever.
I think Zelda: A Link To The Past on GBA has raised his all-round skill-level a bit.
Hurray!
Is that Dora game a GBA game? We're probably getting Aidan a GBA (or SP) for Christmas. The main thinking was that he could watch Dora and Spongebob videos on it on the plane to England, but I daresay we'll get him the odd game for it too.
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Sickboy wrote: I got Dora The Explorer's Backpack Adventure for SB Jr, last week. He quickly finished levels 1, 2 and 3 with no trouble whatsoever.
I think Zelda: A Link To The Past on GBA has raised his all-round skill-level a bit.
Hurray!
Is that Dora game a GBA game? We're probably getting Aidan a GBA (or SP) for Christmas. The main thinking was that he could watch Dora and Spongebob videos on it on the plane to England, but I daresay we'll get him the odd game for it too.
There will come a time, I believe, when people will actually want Manchester United to beat Arsenal because they are sick of the gooners winning everything.
Dream on.
I forsee at least another couple of seasons to make me prefer Man U to the Arse. Maybe more.
As for Newcastle? I'm just depressed. I'm not sure whether I'm annoyed about the fact that we had arguable decisions in 3 of the 4 matches so far that would have completely changed the result or that I'm annoyed we can use that as an excuse.
), you can buy T-Shirts which bare the legend "Bobo's gonnae get ye!".
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