The upturned tables of British football and the relative poverty of the Scottish game were never more starkly told than in the recent sale of Ki Sung-Yueng from Celtic to Swansea City.
The upturned tables of British football and the relative poverty of the Scottish game were never more starkly told than in the recent sale of Ki Sung-Yueng from Celtic to Swansea City.
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Imagine this “little Welsh club”, as thousands of Old Firm fans might not so long ago have thought of Swansea, ambling up to Celtic and blithely offering £6m for the South Korean international.
Both humbled and grateful at the size of the largesse, Peter Lawwell, the Celtic CEO, scarcely found time to thank Ki for his three years in Glasgow in his rush to rubber-stamp the deal and see the midfielder off the premises.
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