Celtic Banter Archive January 21 2014

21 Jan 2014 21:28:12
Looking for a few tickets to the hibs game at the weekend. Give us a shout if you know if any flying about! Cheers HH

21 Jan 2014 15:09:06
Stu, you can say the same of Lennon. Last year Stokes wasn't good enough, but this year he has said OH! Wait a minute, this year he is just what we need!

Joeshmo1888

Sorry, above post was in reply to post on rumour page!

Joeshmo1888

Slug mcoist in scotsman defending staying at hotel before win at forfar

"we are still rangers football club
we will act as proffesionally as we always have"

who is he trying to kid really professional bumping taxpayers and small businesses out of millions of pounds this will be slugs decision in taking them there for he knows nothing about finances of his tribute act club guy is clueless

Ayrshire bhoy

{Ed007's Note - How brass necked are this tribute act, it's the same hotel the former club died owing £3,709.96 to! Dignity and class doesn't even come into it with this shower, that's like bumping a bank loan and then asking your bank for a credit card.}

21 Jan 2014 19:13:01
What's the hotel all about? You wouldn't be allowing them in till they settled the old co bill

{Ed007's Note - It's there in black and white in the list of creditors MB, Oxford Hotels & Inns (Carnoustie) £3,709.96.}

Slug will know nothing of that though how if there was a big deal being made about them staying at a hotel did no one mention the outstanding debt the same club owed that is absolutely professional


Ayrshire Bhoy

21 Jan 2014 13:37:10
For once in a transfer window i'm actually thinking of bringing NO striker in and letting Balde/Pukki/Fridjonsson/Atajic get a shot.

We have great wingers/attacking LB and RBs that can provide a ball, we need the strikers we have time to work with them in an actual game.

I think Balde COULD be a great player. Think of the time we allowed that big diddy Fortune to play before he started netting goals. Balde has shown he can perform on the big stage. Great performance against Liverpool, he's scored for us in the SPL and was good in Turkey.

Again allow Pukki more time in game as well.

Thoughts?

I know where you're coming from. The calibre of player we need to improve, would be one that walks into the side. Not some youngster, who needs a couple month to "adjust" because they're "raw". We have enough of that who I'm willing to give chances to in the league run-in. If it actually requires running that is. Balde, Atajic or even Fridjonsen. That kind of proven goalscorer we need is difficult to come by in January, or perhaps we're just not willing to pay the going rate. That said I'd rather get them bedded into the side now rather than later.

21 Jan 2014 12:35:07
Hi Ed,

Hope the form is good, have been crazy at work so was just reading rather than contributing these last two months.

A few quick questions.

1) Do you think we will splash the cash on a proven goal scorer? or have we just heard what we wanted to hear about the board being "willing" again.

2) Who do you think will come in or who have we bid for?.

Thanks BadBhoy.

ps Whatever happened to Kale Barry

{Ed007's Note - Nice to hear from you mate. As I said to BIM below, I can't see any strikers being brought in during this window. If CFC and Norwich can agree a fee for Snodgrass then that move will happen but it might be the summer before Norwich are willing to allow him to leave.
Do you mean K Barry? He has been around, I'm sure I have seen posts from him.}

If that's true Ed mate and we don't get a striker or a play maker, I will be very disappointed. Just because we are skating the SPL (and so we should!) the complacency sets in that we are a good team again - when we all saw how poor we were in Europe and how many games domestically we were mediocre at best.
I realise January is not the best transfer window, but after making an erse of things in the last window, the manager and board needed to react.
We are 3 weeks into the window and there are strikers available, so why no signing? Plus we may lose a couple of players into the bargain and have an even smaller squad to shuffle.
Releasing the likes of Rogic and Watt makes no sense if we are 'sticking'?

If we go into these CL qualifiers as under prepared as before, when we needed a super human effort to beat 'Karagandy' we will regret it and if the stadium looks half empty now .

JJ

{Ed007's Note - Maybe they are planning to buy Djuricic this window and Finnbogason in the summer ;)

Totally agree JJ, the way I look at it, spend £6m to have a chance of £20m plus, they are good odds, saying that there is risks with all purchases, say we did splash the cash and our record purchase broke his leg or something, well then at least the fans couldn't complain. If the board rodger us in this window CP is going to be a very quiet place.

(yeah Ed I meant that K Barry, KTF bud)

BB, we have bought Johansson (spelling) who by all accounts will be a good player for us, an ideal replacement for Ledley if he goes and we also have Biton who looks the part. The Snodgrass rumour could happen and he would be a good addition as he is a good player and proven at international and EPL level and he is a supporter too. At this time we do not need a striker, give Balde and Pukki a chance we have cover in Stokes Frimjonson and Aajatik (Spelling). A proven Goal scorer would be great but very hard to capture one in the Jan window unless you pay well over the odds (like Fletcher £6M). Hail Hail
TamTimTic

"who by all accounts will be a good player for us"

See that TamTimTic, as a Celtic supporter that sentence scares me, I'm not being smart. We need someone who hits the ground running, someone who will score ten or fifteen goals between now and the end of the season and come late July/early August wil be chomping at the bit for CL action.

I agree full hearted with you that we have enough strikers but we lack goal scores. Strikers play up front, goal scorers make the net bulge. Big difference. We have loads of squad players but very little quality, creativity or flair.

I know that splashing the cash guarantees nothing but my own personal feeling is that one player for £6m will do more that 3 £2m players to guarantee entry to the CL mega bucks party. KTF

Bien BadBhoy, como esta mi amigo, me nombre es Kael, sorprendido de pedir mi, ., .kbarry

Kbarry,

What you talkin about crazy fool!

That ain't peoples republic lingo last I checked!

21 Jan 2014 11:14:38
Van Basten just officially ruled out finbogasson leaving in this window rumours put to bed for 6 months at least