Its Official – Robbie Keane is a Celtic player!!!
Published: February 1, 2010
Robbie Keane is officially a Celtic player and will be unveiled 11pm tonight at Celtic Park. Keane will play with the Parkhead side on loan until the end of the season from parent club Tottenham Hotspur. Spurs gaffer Harry Redknapp described the transfer as the move of a lifetime for the Ireland captain. And it is the biggest move of the transfer window.
“He needs to be playing and to go to Celtic is a dream come true for him,” said Redknapp. “He’s a Celtic man and it looks like it probably will happen. It’s a good move. Robbie needs to play. He’s too good a player not to be starting here regularly. He wants to play all the time. It’s been difficult to guarantee Robbie a starting place at the moment. He’s not a happy man when he’s not playing regularly, but he loves his football. He’s a great trainer, a great man about the place.”
Keane only rejoined Spurs a year ago after a disappointing six-month stint at Liverpool and lost his starting place to Peter Crouch and has only featured as a substitute in recent games. He has scored nine goals in 25 appearances for Spurs since his return. He has scored 41 goals in around 100 games for the Republic of Ireland and is the all time top scorer for the national side.
Keane signed for Spurs in 2002, making almost 200 appearances and scoring 80 goals, before joining Liverpool for around £20m in July 2008. But he only made 15 appearances for the Anfield side and rejoined Spurs in February 2009 for £12m, taking his total transfer fees to more than £70m. His previous clubs include Wolves, Coventry, Inter Milan and Leeds.
Robbie Keane is available for tomorrow night’s match against Kilmarnock at Rugby Park and has been handed the No.7 jersey.
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15 Comments on "Its Official – Robbie Keane is a Celtic player!!!"
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dannybhoy on Mon, 1st Feb 2010 9:15 pm
Slightly off topic But John Boyle of Motherwell surely takes the biscuit when he talks about loyalty today this is the man who made footballers unemployed what an arsehole.
Editor on Mon, 1st Feb 2010 9:22 pm
as well as ripping off the fans after saying that clubs rip off OF fans and reduced the prices for the Rangers game and then because he lost 20k put ticket prices back up again for Celtic match. Boyle is the lowest of the low.
Dominic on Tue, 2nd Feb 2010 12:06 am
What a great signing without doubt the biggest signing in Scotland since Bellamy and a boost for Scottish football. Its good to see at least one club in Scotland is spending money, while others can only dream.
T Baiter on Tue, 2nd Feb 2010 12:31 am
whatever happens Keane ain’t going to win the league for septc.
Mowbray’s gonna have some job putting a new team together in mid season.
ed yer stuffed and you know you are…
Donald on Tue, 2nd Feb 2010 6:37 am
Oh Andy. A new low. And for you that is really something.
How can the editor of a site which supposedly reports objectively on Scottish football, openly and gleefully sell t-shirts celebrating Celtic new signing.
We know you are a Celtic fan but in your position as editor do you not believe that you have any responsibility to even attempt to report in an unbiased way. Obviously not.
I understand your enthusiasm, Keane is a great player and a great signing for Celtic, but this is not the place for you to be openly expressing your bias.
By all means sell the shirts on e-tims or any other Celtic minded site but to do it here just makes yourself and your site look pathetic.
Your increadibly poor judgement and total lack of any insight into your own behaviour clearly highlights your total inability to report on anything related to the OF in a rational and impartial way.
It’s easy to see why this site has absolutely no creadibility with any Rangers fans. Be honest, acquire some self respect and change the sites name to Celtzine.
Editor on Tue, 2nd Feb 2010 9:10 am
Donald if you bothered to look at the right hands side of the site with the wee slideshow you will see a few designs INCLUDING Rangers designs….oh but wait you ignore them and slate me for producing two Keane designs. So much for me being biased then eh? But thats right you were hoping that ALL the t-shirts that I designed were for Celtic fans only. Donald you really need to get out more.
And my poor judgement and lack of insight and own behaviour??? Give it a rest Donald – why don’t you agree that no matter what I write, say or do on this site you will just attack me and it because I am a Celtic fan and agree that you hate a Celtic fan having a voice to have his opinion.
I have given you and your fellow Rangers fans plenty of opportunities to contribute to the site – thinking that it would help produce more Rangers articles from the Gers fan point of view – but you and a few others are more than happy being offended than to do anything about it. So why bitch n moan when you clearly only come on here to be offended and look for the wee miniscule excuses to spit the dummy dont you donald?
And why am I not allowed to welcome a big signing? I would have published the same kind of article if it was done by Rangers, Hibs, Hearts, Aberdeen or even Stenhousemuir. But because its Celtic its a no no isn’t it Donald. You claim that my bias and my bigotry [from a comment before] shines through. But you prove to everyone that you can’t go through 24 hours without being offended whenever a Celtic article is published on this site.
Donald on Tue, 2nd Feb 2010 1:42 pm
I am entirely happy for Celtic fans to express their opinions on this site or any other. I respect their right to do this and hope that they will respect my right to agree or not.
My problem is very specific. Not that you as a Celtic fan voice your opinion, but that you as an editor consistantly let your personal bias affect your writing and consequently post articles which attack Rangers unjustly.
It’s accepted, even expected that OF fans will attack each others team, thats not a problem, it’s the fact that you have repeatedly used your position as editor of a site which calls itself the “Home of Scottish football” to promote your own, very one sided agenda.
I believe that your position should require you to have a responsability to report on Scottish football in an objective manner despite any allegencies you have and time and again you have failed to do this.
However on this occassion I have to admit that I had not seen the advert for your t-shirts on any previous visit to the site and therefor I acknowledge that my criticism of you in this case was unfair. And for that I apologise.
dannybhoy on Tue, 2nd Feb 2010 6:31 pm
mabe some fans of certain clubs should not take things personally as is written in the book of wisdom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dominic on Tue, 2nd Feb 2010 6:41 pm
Donald, whats your problem with the site selling Keane t-shirts ? Im sure if your lot had signed a player of the stature of Keane the same t-shirts would have been made. But the problem with your lot is that they signed NAEBODY once again. It would appear that all the BORROWED TENNARS are spent. May I suggest that your lots fans have a whip round to the value of said tee shirts and donate it to your club and maybe they could buy a player in the summer. BORROW BORROW.
Al on Tue, 2nd Feb 2010 9:53 pm
Hahahahhahahaaaa, what a waste of money. Beaten by a side that earns less then hal of Keanes weekly wage.
What a magical waste to pay 65k a week when all Celtc have to play for is second place. Hibs go top if they win their game in hand.
Just how much has this season cost celtc? Tens of millions in transfers, wages, loan deals, manager compensation for the outgoing management team and the incoming management team. Lost CL money for the second year running.
Glorious!!!
What a dream transfer window.
Editor on Tue, 2nd Feb 2010 11:15 pm
Thanks for the apology Donald much appreciated
Donald on Wed, 3rd Feb 2010 3:07 pm
Dominic, you really are a funny man but we’ll see who is laughing at the end of the season.
I reckon your board has taken the biggest gamble in your clubs history and they have done it with the wrong man at the helm.
Last year you were 7 points ahead of us and had the opportunity to bury Rangers. Starve us of desperately needed CL money and effectively ensure your dominance of the SPL for the forseealble future, as well as guaranteeing your own clubs financial future for many years.
Your board was too arrogant and too stupid to take that opportunity and refused to sanction the spending of a couple of million pounds which would have practically ensured success.
Jump forward one year. We are still financially buggered but the panic has gone. 10-15 million CL money saw to that. You on the other hand are now 10 points behind us in the league and your crowds at home games are suffering severely. So much so that the official attendancies are now listed as “unknown”. I reckon your crowds are 10-15,000 below your expected and budgeted for figures. So much for the best fans in the world!
Most people would agree that you have the bigger and some would say better squad yet we are ahead.
So what does your board do? Basically they panic. They authorise TM to use heaps of money to chase after the league. Don’t kid yourself that this is not an all or nothing bet by the Celtic board, it is. And if you think your finances are secure enough to survive such an imbalance in your books if you fail then think again. They are not.
The Celtic board have gambled that Mowbray, and his vast managerial experience, coupled with Keane and his mediocre band of underachievers can not only deliver the SPL but put at least 10,000 more bums on seats at Celtic park every home game, and that, I’m sure is the minimum requirements.
I have to say that I admire the Celtic boards initiative and bravery, even if it was fueled by desperation, and I think the signing of Keane is inspirational, has to be applauded and will be a good thing overall for Scottish football.
I’M sure that the Celtic board thought long and hard before deciding that Mowbray was the man to shoulder the responsability of the long term future of thier club, and after last nights game I would have to say that I tend to agree and it’s likely that I could not have chosen a better man myself.
And Dominic, by the way the only t-shirts I will be buying will say Rangers SPL Champions 2009/10. 53 and counting. You will be able to buy one or even get a 2008/09 one cheaper.
And dannybhoy, I have read your previous comments on this site and you are clearly in no position to give anyone advice about wisdom.
Should we look for words of wisdom then I have to look no further than the legend that is Bill Struth. His words are more relevant today than at any time since first spoken.”Let the others come after us. We welcome the chase”.
Dominic on Thu, 4th Feb 2010 2:27 am
Donald, You can only blow the league so I suspect you will be the one wearing the champs t-shirt. Until we rid ourselves of Tony it may go on longer. A decent manager at Celtic would put your lot to bed.
Al on Sun, 7th Feb 2010 12:48 am
But Diminic, you lot want a celtc minded manager. They tend to be pish.
Dominic on Mon, 8th Feb 2010 6:04 am
Al, a Celtic minded manager is helpful but not essential, and talking of pish managers who wasnt rankers minded, Paul le guen ring any bells. Yous hounded him oot quick enough.