Celtic Banter Archive February 22 2019

22 Feb 2019 22:38:34
Last leg home what a few days proud to be a Tim 🍀.

{Ed007's Note - Welcome back to the land of the living mate HH

23 Feb 2019 11:45:29
Whell incase youv been away that long welshy a good population of Glasgow actually aren’t living but our team has a clean bill a health 😃.

23 Feb 2019 19:17:40
Welcome back welshy thankfully my bhoy and about 7 pals got home in one piece no thanks to the Spanish thugs. incidently someday can put me right if av missed it but no mention on any news threads.

23 Feb 2019 20:10:35
Mally I mentioned it on a earlier thread pure thuggery young woman the lot disguisting!

22 Feb 2019 17:41:17
Dodgy Dave apologises for the klans abuse of Stevie Clarke never heard him apologise when Lenny got it every time he played or managed against sevco since the day he stepped on these shores . funny that.

22 Feb 2019 20:02:39
The media could always try and justify it with Neil Lennon with the line that he brings it on himself.
They can't say the same about Steve Clarke as he is a much quieter individual who just does his job.
How Steven Gerrard can stand there and listen to this abuse and want to work for a club like that is beyond me.

23 Feb 2019 02:19:25
Lol could use imagin if James McLean did join us? Just think for 2 minutes if we did sign him, I think he would be a good signing for us. But I think we can do better and as I would love McLean to join us, it would just bring to much sectarian attention to our club if we did sign him. Not just because he's A proud Irish man from free Derry and doesn’t want to wear a poppy and ditched Northern Ireland for republic lol but why would he want to play for a country singing anti fenien songs, my Granda was a prodfrom shankill biggest person hole in Belfast. and I am catholic and my kids are catholic. Grew up in a catholic area. And I wouldn’t change anything for the world. They are **** they bring their kids up to hate Catholics or any1 who is not white over here.

23 Feb 2019 02:36:38
It's unbelievable sloppy g is not saying anything by.

23 Feb 2019 20:25:40
SG. rent a gob. Guy just reads out whatever crap Jabba puts in front of him. Guy is not only the most average coach but stupid as the most stupid idiot in idiot land.

24 Feb 2019 20:23:24
Ignatius

How to you get to be "most average".

The way averages work is like this. The average of 7 and 3 is 5.

It is an absolute, so superlatives do not not apply.

You can use a superlative for "stupid", so well done on that one!

22 Feb 2019 17:29:00
Can't help but believe if we had fixed what needed fixed in the window and pushed the boat just a little more we could have beaten Valencia and with drawing Krasnodar next round could really have made a right good fist of it, oh well next window maybe not as much needed as some seem to think the backbone of the team is strong just that little bit more quality and have to say Hayes ajer both did very well in Valencia giving BR some hard decisions to make.

22 Feb 2019 15:02:32
With Brendan working on improving Burke ( possibly for him to go back to wba a better player) , where does this leave eduarde . For us to sign someone for 9 million he really needs to be starting every game when he’s fit, I appreciate he’s had injuries this season but he needs to cement his place in the team and start proving his worth to us. If I was in his shoes I’d be pretty peed off if a 6 month loan was starting ahead of me . Also because of the outlay it needs to work for the manager as the club would be very uncomfortable agreeing to another signing like that, if they can’t see a profit in it further down the line.

22 Feb 2019 15:12:16
He has only himself to blame. Accept he has had injuries but his form is patchy at best and he needs to show a bit more drive and effort. And don't believe for 1 minute we paid 9 mil. Not a chance.

{Ed007's Note - I'll say it again for the hard of thinking - The Edoaurd fee was registered with FIFA/TMS as 10.3 million Euros.
The full contracted costs and all parties involved in any and all transfers are required to be reported by clubs to FIFA who maintain the Transfer Matching System (International and Domestic) to record all details and costs for all transfers of professional players in all FIFA member states. Clubs are required to submit this data and there are sanctions imposed if they don't - ranging from warnings, through fines, competition bans and even relegation.}

22 Feb 2019 15:38:54
People keep using Edouards fee against him but before us he had only had half a season out on loan professionally.

If we are accepting being a project driven club then these are the sort of results u need to get used to.

Purple patches followed by dry spells.

It's hard for young guys experiencing injuries and falling down the pecking order.

Part of learning curve. Different from the days of having international level players who have been in European finals etc.

22 Feb 2019 16:31:24
Eddy needs to show more when he is fit he's not consistent enough and at times he looks a bit fragile.

22 Feb 2019 16:40:00
He is also 20 years old. Mikel Johnston is a year younger and you don’t see everyone expecting the same out of him. Give the boy time. He will come good.

22 Feb 2019 16:43:11
Edouard is a top class player and I have no doubt he will go on to have a great career.

When he is on form he is unplayable.

22 Feb 2019 17:21:07
Isn't it strange ed when you have explained in detail the facts regarding the fee paid for edouard several times, those who doubt it never come back and say thanks we were wrong. oldkilly.

{Ed007's Note - I remember someone asking me where this info was - www.fifatms.com - and he came back saying it's not real because the website isn't fancy enough - even though it's an official FIFA website 😂😂😂
The users of the TMS data base are the clubs and the associations (e.g. The SFA). There are certain others that have full access to the data but no ability to change it - this is to ensure transparency and includes one News Agency, but it is not public data.}

22 Feb 2019 17:30:34
He played 16 first team games before joining us . he came I believe as the club expected dembele to stay for another season? thus giving us time to develop him . he is a boy with limited experience of first team football and still learning his trade but has potential to become a real good player.

22 Feb 2019 17:32:07
Ed i think that's the 2 or 3rd time chinks came out with that nonsense. No point repeating yourself over and over.

{Ed007's Note - Oh right, I didn't notice that.}

22 Feb 2019 19:52:25
Ed, when a fee is announced as undisclosed in the media, does that website have the exact fee?

{Ed007's Note - Yes mate the undisclosed part only means it's not being made public.}

22 Feb 2019 22:12:14
Just got to be patient with Edouard. The fee is is a magnifying glass for us, but isn't much in the scheme of things. To have Moussa spirited away when he was French Ed was always going to play off him has also made it hard. He's working hard, he's still growing, its an uncompromising role he's being asked to play and I'm glad he's sticking around.

23 Feb 2019 19:56:59
Someone is trying to make trouble Edouard is an exciting young 20 year old player . Who has suffered from a series of injuries, like many youngsters . In all probability he will become a brilliant player . Surely no sensible Celtic supporter would think that in a game like last Thursday's B R should ignore fit options available, who he expected to do a good job and instead pick an unfit player trying to work his way back to fitness .
I don't think B R is that big an idiot that in an important game he wouldn't play the best team available.

22 Feb 2019 13:00:49
Think Burke has a long way to go his play on the ball is average at best there might be another years loan on the offing and it would be another year developing.

22 Feb 2019 13:11:53
He’s to fast for himself if at makes any sense, he was clean through down the Left and started to lose his feet abit. Then on the other side he was the only Celtic player up the pitch our team couldn’t keep up lol.

22 Feb 2019 13:13:48
His first touch often takes him the way he wants to go when u are that fast tho it’s hard.

22 Feb 2019 13:23:39
Doesn’t want to go *.

22 Feb 2019 13:47:52
No doubt he's lightning fast but with the ball he seems to run out of ideas Brendan will obviously be working on this with him but maybe this is why he's moved around a bit.

22 Feb 2019 13:51:33
Agree, his first touch is awful.

22 Feb 2019 14:57:40
There's no doubt he will go back a better player than when he arrived.

22 Feb 2019 15:49:09
Odsonne Eduard has much more potential.

22 Feb 2019 12:31:38
My one performance I was disappointed with last night was boyata. For me he would be on the bench the rest of the season with simo and ajer first choice. Need to build a partnership for next season and boyata is no better than either of them for me. But Last night show we can compete in Europe and with a few defensive reinforcements in the summer and we can progress.

22 Feb 2019 12:54:43
Thought boyata was excellent as was the whole back line, couple of times concentrating between the back 3 happened early on with misplaced passes but apart from that they were very strong under pressure.

22 Feb 2019 17:32:08
Boyata was awful first half and rock solid second half. Jozo and Ajer was rocks too. Brown and Bain also.

22 Feb 2019 19:24:59
All the nonsense aside I think we need better than Boyata. He done ok second half but really he's not that great a defender.

We can do better. We need 2 quality CBs and Ajer should learn from them.

22 Feb 2019 07:59:33
So the standard has been set. Last night was how i want a Celtic team to play away in Europe. We were brave on the ball, had an enormous appetite to shut them down off it, and generally were very unlucky to lose. Like the home leg, we just switched off twice and were punished. By the way, Hayes does not deserve stick for the first goal, Izzy and even KT have been caught there.

I am pleased for Bain, who i have wanted in for months, who last night showed he can be a solid keeper. The twisting save in the first half was even better than it looked, truly first class keeping given he was heading in the opposite direction. Ajer, who again shows he consistently learns lessons, was immense and will be a huge player for us in the years to come. Once again Broony was a dominant force, write this guy off at your peril media puppets.

No failures and a very positive attitude required here. This form and speed of our play, if it continues, will blow everyone away in Scotland. Interesting game Sunday, murderwell are getting plenty of praise for a huge change in style with talented youngsters, will they come and have a go given the short recovery time we have?

22 Feb 2019 09:52:22
Brendan mentioned he played a box system in midfield which got the better of their diamond shape. It is something positive we can use in future games. It was also good experience for the players and no damage done to morale. We can now concentrate on the league and possible treble treble.

22 Feb 2019 11:08:33
Don’t think any1 could really blame Hayes for at goal, it was a great ball over top any world class left back could of have been caught out with at ball. Think maybe Jozo could have done abit better marking gameiro in the box. All the team was outstanding I thought Ajer played class don’t think any1 has mentioned him yet running at Valencia and defending was brilliant to. All in all the whole team was brilliant just unlucky for at red card and not to get a goal of our own. Hail hail the BHOYS!

22 Feb 2019 16:26:12
The team for me were very very good passing was quick and accurate we were better than Valencia before the sending off and that’s no easy task Valencia we have to remember are a very good side who beat Man Utd recently and are doing well in a strong league, heyes was awesome didn’t stop running and skinned a few of their players up the field definitely good enough back up for kt and an option for lw with sinky and Johnstone next year rw Forrest and Morgan will probably be our rw and I’m happy with that, cb did amazing job ajar and simo back to their best and Bain for me was unreal his distribution was excellent, brown who I have recently rightly dismissed was at his very best I’ve not seen him like that in a while, mcgregor and Christie again as per usual top class especially mcgregor, Burke isn’t as good as Weah for me and I miss griff up front as I think he’s our best goal scorer, eduard seems unwilling to run in seems slow
I’ll put that down to his lay off but another goal scorer with pace will be needed in the summer, I will get flamed for this but Sam cosgrove looks a good striker all in all very happy the way things are going hail hail.