Jamie Keith

Sporting Director. Leadership experience in Recruitment, Community Football and Coaching.

[Jamie Keith @JamieKeith27]

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[Jamie Keith @JamieKeith27]

Building and adding value for another club is a terrible thing. In this essay I will explain why taking players in on loan is a negative…

[Pete O'Rourke @SportsPeteO]

Understand Liverpool have accepted an offer from Bolton for Luca Stephenson.
Stephenson, who can in midfield or defence, has spent the last two seasons in the Scottish Premiership on loan at Dundee United. #LFC #BWFC #DUFC

[Jamie Keith @JamieKeith27]

Poor and disappointing decision.

[The Athletic | Football @TheAthleticFC]

The Scotland squad will not repeat the show-stopping arrival of the 1998 team after the players decided against wearing a kilt before their opening World Cup match versus Haiti.

The Athletic understands the players were consulted on the option of following in the footsteps of captain Colin Hendry and his team when they arrived at the Stade de France to face Brazil in the tournament opener wearing traditional dress 28 years ago.

🗞️ @JordanC1107

[Jamie Keith @JamieKeith27]

Do people think Gordon is supposed to take his SMNT training gear back to the hotel and wash it in the sink?

Pretty obvious why he’s got his initials on the gear.

[Jamie Keith @JamieKeith27]

@IANdrewDiceClay It’s 11k per day per player, based on their clubs in the previous 3 years. That figure is the total figure.

[GfB 📚 @Dr_Gavin_Brewis]

Notice!

Scots can apply for the School Age Payment Grant (£331.95 per child) from today, and is for families with children aged 4 and 5, who are ready to start primary school. This can go toward uniforms, trips, stationery, etc.

Read more and apply here:
https://t.co/53mIahbNVq

[Jamie Keith @JamieKeith27]

Craig Gordon for Scotland. In what will almost certainly be the final games of his career, he’s hoping to get between the sticks for Scotland earning his 84th+ caps at age 43 years old (oldest in the tournament).

His club team (Heart of Midlothian) lost the Scottish league on the final day of the season to Celtic.

He’s now a free agent and likely to retire post-World Cup…for a second time. He first retired in 2012 (!!) while at EPL club Sunderland due to back injuries. He started coaching for 2 years before deciding to return to the game, winning 5 further Scottish league titles and multiple POTY awards with Celtic.

[Jamie Keith @JamieKeith27]

@cbk20 8 years balancing the budget and reducing the debts by over $10B? Thats good governance. Admittedly, I as a social democrat think he falls short on many social issues which he has control over.

[Jamie Keith @JamieKeith27]

I will insist that its crazy that the state legislature is about to close for 5 months. But there’s one thing I won’t do, and that’s criticise Pritzker. His running of the state budget has been impressive.

[Ben Szalinski @BenSzalinski]

Gov. Pritzker holding a news conference this morning to tout his $56 billion budget and things like a sales tax holiday on school supplies. We’ll also get his reaction to no Bears legislation passing this session

[Jamie Keith @JamieKeith27]

@cbk20 Absolutely get how a billionaire isn’t popular. But ard to argue that he hasn’t done the big things.

[Jamie Keith @JamieKeith27]

This borders on the ethics discussion. I know of a couple of clubs with SDs who done this exactly, they played it correctly. 3 years deal, started talking to the agent just after the first season, by the end of the 2nd season, it was clear they were being leveraged, so they iced the player out and threatened to reduce all his value. Sold him off at about 2/3rds of his true value.

Ethically? Horrendous. Team performance? Slightly down, they had good depth. Image to agents and potential future targets? Nightmare.

Then you’ve the clubs who just take it as a loss and keep playing them. There’s no right answer, but it’s fucking wild.

[Jamie Keith @JamieKeith27]

@derrygandhi7 @Rhutchison9 Comes back to the knowledge that as soon as a player enters the final 12 months of his contract, your leverage as a club is gone. You sign high potential players to 3 year deals and extend after 18 months.

[Jamie Keith @JamieKeith27]

@realcolinquinn Wouldn’t be shocked if its around 25m before any clauses and add-ons tbh. They absolutely hit on this signing even without him tearing the league up. 22 y/o who’s shown he can hang already. They need to sell now for maximum value with the contract ending in 2028.

[Jamie Keith @JamieKeith27]

If correct, Celtic will be looking for a fee in the range of £23M+ for him. And all of Scottish football da’ Twitter will meltdown because they don’t understand what goes in to a valuation of a player.

[Sacha Tavolieri @sachatavolieri]

🇧🇪 Arne Engels on the move!

🔄 The Belgian Red Devil recently joined DWMA football agency and wants to take the next step in his career after Celtic FC.

👀 Several Premier League & Serie A clubs, including AC Milan, are monitoring the situation.

⏳ More to follow.

[Jamie Keith @JamieKeith27]

@cbk20 Explain to me, why does a legislature shut for 4/5 months at once? The whole point of a legislature is that it’s constantly working to pass bills, right?!

[Jamie Keith @JamieKeith27]

If there’s one thing that the Bears stadium has taught me as a Scot, it’s that the operation of state legislatures appears to be absolutely pathetic. You’re telling me the legislature closes for 4 months?!

[Jamie Keith @JamieKeith27]

Wrong. Old men should start to employ supporter liaisons who can actually engage and lead their ultras, who ultimately just want to bring their passion for the club to matches.

Ironically, owners and executives sitting down with these fans will be more beneficial to the club than sitting having coffee with a random local businessman with some money.

[Daily Record Sport @Record_Sport]

𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒊𝒈 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒗𝒊𝒆𝒘 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 @Doonhamer79🖊️

EXCLUSIVE: David Martindale warns Scottish football must crack down on 'gang violence' ultras before someone is killed

https://t.co/gNVZanSF7T

[Jamie Keith @JamieKeith27]

@PerthshireMags First sentence. “Sack me”. £25K, please.

[Jamie Keith @JamieKeith27]

The Roy Keane of baseball. If he’s on your team, he’s your hero. If you’re facing him? You detest him.

The best Outfielder in the game.

[todd @toddmb_]

Is Pete Crow Armstrong the most annoying player in baseball? A thread 🧵