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Published Date: 02 July 2009
Tony Mowbray hopes to make Marc-Antoine Fortune his first Celtic signing in the next 48 hours after confirming Paul Hartley and Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink have left the club.
Celtic have offered the Nancy striker a contract but face competition from the likes of Hull, Portsmouth and Fulham.

Fortune worked under Mowbray during a loan spell at West Brom last season and the Celtic manager is hopeful their personal relationship will work in his favour.

"Everything is in the balance," Mowbray told a media conference at Celtic's Lennoxtown training ground this afternoon.

"I think it will happen naturally over the next day or two. I'll either be sitting watching him shaking someone's hand and holding a shirt up somewhere at an English Premier League club, or you will all come back here in a few days' time and meet the guy yourself."

Mowbray is working on other potential deals after releasing out-of-contract pair Hartley and Vennegoor of Hesselink.

He added: "I had a good long conversation with Paul. He came in to see me.

"The outcome of that is Paul won't be offered a new contract. He is free to look for other employment.

"I have had no contact with Jan. Jan is out of contract – he is free to seek other employment and I'm pretty sure that's what he will be doing at the moment."

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  • Last Updated: 02 July 2009 1:52 PM
  • Source: scotsman.com
  • Location: Scotland
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RolIand,

02/07/2009 14:06:44
Excellent, I'm sure we'll see Paul back where he belongs. He's a Vlad favourite and that Greek club obviously didn't seem right for him at this stage of his career.
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02/07/2009 14:07:49
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Weetim67,

02/07/2009 14:15:38
I am sorry to see Paul Hartley go. Like many others while Strachan was around he was rarely given his best role to play. But when he did play there he was outstanding. Paul and Barry Robson were the two key players for us when we won the league in 2008. Paul was also outstanding in many european games, and many of those at full back or some other position other than his own. Thanks for the memories Paul and I wish you all the best going forward. I will always remember you as a Celtic player who was also a Celtic fan. Hail Hail.
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02/07/2009 14:27:28
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02/07/2009 14:45:01
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Uninterested Spectator,

02/07/2009 15:11:45
Monkey was always going to bin Hartley at the first opportunity. He never got over the Hartly hatrick at hampden as Celtic A going thumped in the wegi capital derby.

What must worry fans of the catholic school team is that monkey is intent or signing players who got west brom relegated. If west brom had shown some fight or desire then i could see where king loui was coming from but west brom were meek and surrendered in most games without much of a fight.
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02/07/2009 15:24:23
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02/07/2009 15:26:06
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02/07/2009 15:55:16
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02/07/2009 17:27:58
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Ibrox Champion,

02/07/2009 17:31:34
#10 I think that you are the only bigot around these parts. Get a life,idiot.
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Ibrox Champion,

02/07/2009 17:32:32
#8 I have a feeling that the Gers fans will see right through this guy!
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Ibrox Champion,

02/07/2009 17:34:12
#7 What has "the Catholic school team" got to do with it?
14

Wolfe Tone,

02/07/2009 17:46:01
#6 "are we going back in time" LOL! and that fae a rankers supporter. no surrender! 1690....LOL!
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Ibrox Champion,

02/07/2009 17:54:40
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Whit aboot 1916?
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john calvin,

02/07/2009 18:53:21
Fail Fail ya monkey. Two in a row hello hello.
17

Shape to Shoot,

02/07/2009 19:29:42
I heard a wee story that the nancy chairman is a Celtic fan and suggested to lawell that he set up the laptoployal with the story that Fortune would sign for hull.

Lawell thought it would be worth a giggle and went along with it and thus last weekend we had every laptoployalist in the country sneering down his nose at Celtic , assuring the nation that Fortune had "snubbed" Celtic ph-nar, ph-nar, soooo therrrrrre !!!! Coz we know he's gawn tae Hull so'n' way dae ! Gorrit ???

Lawell makes no response to the media frenzy....there is silence from within the hallowed walls of Paradise...but in the next few days methinks that Lawell will stroll down to the media room at lennoxtoun, inform the waiting laptops that, well, they're no' aften right an' they're wrang again when it comes tae the Celts that is...and then calmly announce the arrival of Fortune....before really rubbing their noses in it as regards all those premiership clubs that were overlooked in preference for the Celts.
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Ally,

London 02/07/2009 20:56:27
#18 - presumably because the journalists didn't toe the line and say that Mowbray was the first choice all along eh? They were spot on about how many people turned down CP for theatres of dreams like, umm, Burnley.

The Nancy chairman's a closet Tim...only the world's most delusional fans could have come up with that one; good work.

And I love the fact that Celtic's best-known striker has just, well, wandered off. Class.
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C_M_S,

Amsterdam, NL 02/07/2009 21:04:21
And I love the fact that Rangers fans have been calling JVoH all kinds of rotten since he signed for Celtic, but now he's left they say we've lost one of our most important players. Make your minds up.
20

Edinburghs only big team,

02/07/2009 22:17:48
celtic to sign a nancy striker?

Surely if hes a nancy he'll sign for the leith losers?
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Shantaram,

03/07/2009 02:18:56
#19 - I suppose that was why Owen Coyle and Roberto Martinez were offered contracts by Burnley and Wigan respectively, and both sat on their hands for about 2 weeks with the contracts unsigned.

Meanwhile the Wigan chairman called a press conference to unveil Martinez, only for it to be cancelled because the new manager . . . er . . . phoned and told him he wasn't quite ready to sign the contract yet.

Eventually, Celtic get permission to speak to Mowbray and 48 hours later he is announced as the new Celtic manager. 24 hours later, Coyle and Martinez agree to sign the contracts on offer.

Take your time matey.
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Daillyman,

03/07/2009 03:02:00
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I suppose the TM appointment at Parkhead must have come as a shock to you.

Once the tic had been turned down by Coyle and Martinez it was full steam ahead for TM, leaving McGhee to go north.
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Shantaram,

03/07/2009 03:58:24
Neither Coyle nor Martinez were offered the job.

Anyway, here we are, into pre-season training. Tony Mowbray is almost 3 weeks into the job. Celtic are clearly determined to bring in at least 4 new faces for a reasonable spend, and all the Gers fans can cheer themselves up with is who was or was not first choice for the Celtic job.

YAWN!

Get over it. It's history.

At least if you weren't slagging off Mowbray, it would mean you lot weren't worried about him.
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Backofthenet,

03/07/2009 08:43:02
#25, Why would the champions need cheering up? :0)

More departures from Parkhead, following Nakamura. It will of course be interesting to see who comes in.

 

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