RANGERS RAGE AS HARTLEY TURNS CAR AROUND

I was just reading this and thought it was great, even the Hartley haters can enjoy this:

Reports are emerging that Paul Hartley, en route to Murray Park to speak to Rangers earlier today, received a phone call to say that Hearts had accepted a bid from Celtic.

The 30-year old midfielder immediately turned the car around and headed to Celtic Park!

Rangers are raging, with Sir Minty Dave and Wattie Smith fuming at losing out on Paul Hartley.

Of course, the very public race for Paul Hartley's signature was one that Celtic could not afford to lose after the Kevin Thomson fiasco and the Shaun Maloney treachery.

Regardless of your opinion about Paul Hartley's credentials for wearing the Hoops (and the 30-year old midfielder has provoked intense debate throughout Celtic Cyberspace), Celtic today went toe-to-toe, man-o a man-o with the Huns.

More specifically, Celtic slugged it out with that arrogant, pompous, blowhard buffoon, Sir Minty Dave, in a battle for Paul Hartley's services.

The Huns bid for Hartley FIVE times in total, but were finally out-manoeuvred and outbid by Celtic, which is a humiliation for Hunnery and the Chairman. “For every fiver.……..”! Ya *!

Indeed, Keep The Faith can reveal that even at the 11 th hour the Huns attempted to hijack Paul Hartley with a Minty Moonbeam Message. Betcha don't read in tomorrow's tabloids about the Chairman and Wattie's desperate but doomed to abysmal failure attempts to * Hartley!

And the Huns are raging! According to reports, Sir Minty Dave and the Loyal Cardigan are furious Paul Hartley shafted them and became a Bhoy!

This is therefore a propaganda victory for Celtic and a demoralisation for Der Hun, who have been pursuing Paul Hartley for several weeks. The Huns thought they had their man…….BUT he signed for Celtic!

The Huns and the Laptop Loyal will attempt to spin this positively for Rangers, specifically along the lines of the Huns' signing of Hibs' Kevin Thomson ahead of Celtic.

BUT, do NOT forget, we REJECTED the chance to sign Kevin Thomson. Celtic believed Hibs' £2million valuation was far too high. We walked away from that deal, but the Huns were breathlessly trying to keep pace with the Hoops all day today in the race for Paul Hartley.

GIRUY Rangers! You got gubbed!

‘Hail! Hail!' Paul Hartley and welcome to Paradise! Timdom will sincerely hope your Celtic career mirrors the race for your signature - Celtic's humping of the Huns!

 

the thing that worries me is he was going to sign for them in the first place.die hard celtic man ,i mean how many guys on here if you were good enough would sign for the huns.me id rather deep fry ma balls

 

Top class post..
The Huns will be sick as parrots tonite.

 

Not 100% convinced unless Hartley mentions at his press conference tomorrow. I would rather of had Thompson, he's younger and has potentially more to offer, but I've always trusted Strachan and his judgement, and whilst I couldn't stand either Hartley or Pressley whilst at Hearts, both players will have my full support whilst wearing the Hoops.
Does give us cover for a couple more years for the centre of mid, would still like to see a younger player being groomed to take over eventually though, also I can't see us getting Brown now, then again if the Huns don't get second place, they will be a far less attractive offer.

 

I like Hartley as a player. I am not 100% convinced that we really need him. Maybe I was naive but I was hoping any signings would be in to the team for the CL. I don't really know where we play Hartley - i.e is it him or Gravesen as the more attacking CM?

I also feel we need to get someone to replace Lennon, which Sno can maybe do in the future nut probably not just yet. I also hoped to see a striker as I am not a fan of either Miller or Zurawski. Given the money Gravesen is on I can't see him being benched, or him hanging about if he's benched.

I believe Hartley would prefer to be with us than TFOD. The Riccarton three, well two of them so far, havenae come out of it all too badly.

 

Sno is an excellent prospect, with the right amount of first team football, whilst still learning from the more mature players around him he could be a long term answer for us.
I don't think Strachan has been too happy with Gravensen, with Hartley coming it will perhaps push him up a gear or two.
I feel that like Naka, Tommy G and JJ will take a season to settle into scottish football, and hopefully both will be even better next year.
Hartley has a proven record in the SPL like Pressley, both are decent additions to the squad, it also gives Strachan more time to develop the younger players at the club.

 

I still don't know who is first pick Tommy G or Hartley. And I'd be surprised if Hartley came to sit on the bench. As I say I like Hartley but I'd be surprised if Tommy G is benched. I agree though next season will be when to judge the newer signings.

 

can he play in the champions league???

 

Nope, think the qualifiers count. We still have no new faces to strengthen our team for the Milano game. Poor show from GS IMO.

 

Not Strachan's fault that we don't have more new faces for the CL, we do have Doumbe, too many players/agents/clubs hold Celtic to ransom when we show intrest that and the fact that players and their agents are so gready these days, look at Stokes choosing Sunderland over the Hoops!!!!
If we get any kind of result against Milan it's a bonus, the double's still on and the team has shown more progress again this season under Strachan both in the SPL and the CL.

 

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A GIRUY moment there

 

They beat us to thompson which is more of a blow to us than hartley is to them.

 

Sean do you read celtic rejected the 2 million wanted by hibs and well hes not worth that I would say 1 million on brown 3 million at the most.

 

we just paid over a million for hartley at 30 years old, in my opinion thompson is as good as hartley if not better and far younger he is deffo worth 2 million.

 

Dont agree with that mate, sorry. Think Hartley is a much better, and would rather pay a million for him than two million for someone who is a wee bit overrated. Out of the three, would rather have had Brown though. Brown is at least double what thomson is worth.

 

Class Hartley, yer nearly a Celtic favourite already with that stunt.

 

I have a feeling WGS is well hacked off with Grav due to him not following instructions and I would not be surprised if Grav is benched in order to force him out. Hope I am wrong. If Grav rediscovers his Everton form we would all be happy but I just wonder if he is getting a bit too old to play that all-action manic style-31 in a few weeks.

Basically we have two sitters (Lenny and Sno) and two attackers (Grav and Hartley) and I dont think any of them could swap positions. When Lenny goes, our only sitter is Sno. Do we have proper proper cover-is Lawson up to it?

 

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hartley will be in the team as gravesen is * rotten. he just runs about like a headless chicken. him and jarofshit should be sold in the summer - not up to it!

we should have went for hartley in the summer as he was the best option. he would have done a far better job than gravesen and would have been a * of a lot cheaper in terms of fee and wages.

 

For the hundredth time, Hearts wouldnt sell him for love nor money.

(Well certainly not for as little as £1.1M, maybe £5M because they were pushing for the UCL at the time)