Celtic Banter Archive February 02 2018

 

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02 Feb 2018 23:10:52
Ed any idea when the training day at the stadium is this year? the wain keeps nipping my heed about it.

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{Ed007's Note - I've no idea mate but you better get in quick - Leigh Griffiths is taking the kids!}

02 Feb 2018 23:20:30
That will b half the stadium filled then!

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{Ed007's Note - It was in April last year so probably round about then this year too.}

02 Feb 2018 23:39:45
Cheers bud I''ll let the wain know.

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{Ed007's Note - No probs (yes)

02 Feb 2018 21:42:13
Ed you think Hendry will play tomorrow with Simi not getting played on they surfaces.

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{Ed007's Note - No, I think it'll be Ajer, Boyata and Tierney in a back 3 - well that's what I'd go for.}

02 Feb 2018 21:32:53
Ed, I wonder did you ever hear anything more about Steven Caulker?, seemed he was on his way, something must have happened. Did he pack then game in? or still looking for a club.

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{Ed007's Note - Ideally Caulker wants to stay in the London area to keep close to his support unit and is currently training with Luton.}

03 Feb 2018 05:32:34
That's one thing I didn't see people consider. With his mental health problems, moving to Glasgow would remove him from family/ friends.

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02 Feb 2018 17:56:01
Ed is there any truth that Leicester wanted Paddy as part of the deal involving Mahrez and City refused. Sounds like nonsense to me?

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{Ed007's Note - For a start City can't recall Roberts so look at the story from there.}

02 Feb 2018 20:23:57
Cheers Ed I suspected it was nonsense.

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{Ed007's Note - It started off that Leicester asked for Roberts then it was City that offered them Roberts and all the while nobody had cracked a light to Celtic or Roberts.}

02 Feb 2018 16:54:13
McCann getting his two bobs worth in now. What is wrong with these SPL managers? I put it down to extreme jealousy but it may just be that McCann and Levein are just tubes.
Are we the only club in the country to go about their business without running to the media?

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02 Feb 2018 17:07:42
Let the rest of them get on with it rab. this is what happens when your by far the best team in the country, with the best manager and more money than the rest put together! Clowns like Levein and mcann are an irrelevance and two of them put together wouldn’t make a decent manager! Let the also rans fight for the scraps while the champions get on with what we do best, and that’s winning trophies!

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02 Feb 2018 17:55:37
Its simple. If you do not want to sell your player say no. At no time did Dundee say this player is not for sale. They would not sell for what we offered. Fair enough that's their choice. They held out for £1.5mill. They got the offer and took it. McCann is being disrespectful to his employers who actually were the ones who made the decision. Its got nothing to do with Celtic. All Celtic can do is make the offer. No matter when the offer is made the decision was still with the Directors of Dundee so is McCann calling out his Directors so when the wee tube fails yet again he can blame someone else. I think so.

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02 Feb 2018 18:54:45
They just want to get media attention and try and raise their wee ego profiles. a swift kick in the lon chaney would sort them.

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02 Feb 2018 22:09:43
Maybe he would have preferred to sell him to sevco for £750000 and get it in installments . I wonder if he would be moaning then.

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03 Feb 2018 00:15:13
To right Quinn1888, if he had his way he would have let Jack go to them for a song .
Sung over 4 yrs.

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03 Feb 2018 11:21:29
The biggest whiners, snipers and gripers, all have one thing in common and it's not the colour of their eyes. Let them bitch and moan as long as they want - as it means we are hurting them and 'theirs'.

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02 Feb 2018 15:59:02
See Hanni that played for Anderlecht moves onto Spartak Moscow, 7.2 million. He was good against us but if he is 7.2 million then what was broony worth when he was 27? In today's market surely he would be at least Trebel that. Will never find a captain like broony again and I'm scared for his retirement.

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02 Feb 2018 16:51:21
Hard to tell but I think Broony is a better player now than when he was 27.

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02 Feb 2018 17:00:04
KenLikeEh Broony has earned the right to be considered a great Celtic captain and a true Celt. And as you say he won't be easy to replace. His game against Man City will live long in the memory and he has replicated that performance fairly consistently since. ☘️.

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02 Feb 2018 17:59:16
Under Ronnie he lost his way. Under Brendon he has been superb. Prefer when he is playing in a more forward position where he can close down and push us forward rather than when he sits in front of back 4. He has a great football brain and a true Celt. He will take some replacing.

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02 Feb 2018 18:06:22
I agree JFP an absolutely amazing player for Celtic. Don’t think he’ll ever walk away from the club. Will always be invoked for the rest of his career.

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02 Feb 2018 18:21:17
Let's hope he can keep it up for 3 more years and be the captain for the full 10 in a row.

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02 Feb 2018 18:53:12
No one will know how far Brown could have gone on the game because he was too frightened to test himself at a higher level. He likes being the big fish in the little pond. But I'm sure when he retires he will always wonder if you could have made it in the EPL. He did have offers a few years back but didn't have the bottle to take them up.

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02 Feb 2018 18:55:22
Tbh I think Hanni is a much more fwd thinking player than Brown and absolutely bossed us at Parkhead.

for 7m euros that looks like a bargain from what I seen anyway. He had lots of energy as well.

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02 Feb 2018 19:12:01
@johnnymac - In Deila's first season Brown was outstanding. Second season he was injured.

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02 Feb 2018 19:22:48
One thing Brown can’t be called is a bottler Zicos, in his time at Celtic, he’s reached the last 16 of CL twice, played against some of the worlds best players and usually played ok and got pass marks even when the team lost, he certainly isn’t a bottler, but if that makes you feel good sitting at your laptop/ phone, typing stuff like that, then that’s up to you.

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02 Feb 2018 20:21:37
Up there with the very greatest of Celtic captains. I loved his interview before Xmas when he said there will be no club after Celtic. Hope when he retires there is a place for him at the CP. He loves Celtic.

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02 Feb 2018 20:47:12
Zicos you must be throwing out a line! Il bite lol.
Scott Brown has built a legacy at our brilliant club, has a 96% passing percentage in the CL. Never complained once, while dealing with his sisters death even though he was getting it side ways from fans and the media about his form dipping. Great captain and great player and has earned his status as a legend.

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02 Feb 2018 21:46:16
Zicos, think your carer is at the door. Time for bed pet.

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03 Feb 2018 00:19:22
Zicos, u probably don't remember but the hard man of the EPL Barton came up to a new. Club to show Brown what real football was like . IT didn't go well for Barton.

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{Ed001's Note - do you even know who Barton is? He was never a 'hard man' of anywhere. He had not even played in the EPL the season before he moved up north to Scotland. The guy is a cowardly piece of dung, to put it nicely, who only argues with young children.}

03 Feb 2018 01:02:21
Haha zicos got a wee sneaky one in there didn’t he! Frightened and a bottler eh! Sounds like someone is frightened about the thought of broony lifting the magically number 10 to me! We all feel your pain son but it is going to happen! And when he retires and has a Wee look in his trophy cabinet at all his medals, the last thing he’ll be thinkin about is the EPL! lol.

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03 Feb 2018 08:22:41
Never thought such an honest review would get such a childish reaction. Scott Brown is a good player (opinion) but he has refused the chance and therefore will never have the chance to prove himself at a decent level (FACT) .

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03 Feb 2018 09:59:31
Obviously struck a nerve! IMHO (not trying to wind anyone up) I think Brown could have played at the highest level, but he hasn't - he currently plays in a league outside the top 20 in Europe! . He like any athlete should want to perform at the highest level and test themselves against the best opposition. All I'm simply saying is Brown had this opportunity and passed it up. Some people might say he is happy where he is, some people might say he stayed for family reasons. I say he bottled it because in my opinion those reasons aren't good enough.

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03 Feb 2018 10:38:22
Can always tell its a currant bun the minute you see "FACT" after a sentence full of nonsense lol.

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03 Feb 2018 10:50:40
Na ziko not buying it son! your trying to sound like your giving an honest balanced opinion but u can’t fool us mate! your terrified of broony lifting number 10 and your trying to have a go at him. Broony has made it clear how much he loves celtic and maybe that means more than chasing the pot of gold in the promise land! At Celtic he’s played against Messi xavi Ineista Pirlo Neymar Cavani lewandowski and many many more! It doesn’t get higher quality than that, so your taking absolute nonsense! So away back with the rest of the deluded, I’m sure there’s plenty over there who will listen to your Shoite!

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03 Feb 2018 11:27:02
Ed001 keep calm, I was only posting what Barton and the Rangers fans thought?
Did Barton play for Liverpool for a few seasons?

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{Ed001's Note - of course he did not.}

03 Feb 2018 11:33:49
The thing that people ignore/ miss is that playing with Celtic brings a pressure that does not exist in the vast majority of EPL teams and that is playing to win every game, seriously competing for trophies, European football, defending your titles and International football.
Obviously there are a handful of EPL teams that offer this, but they pursue players from European/ world elite leagues - not Scotland.

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04 Feb 2018 01:35:40
LH86 getting humped 6 games in the champions league every other year is not playing at the highest level. If you class a Celtic great as a player who bosses the the 27th best league in Europe, then it's you who needs help.

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January 2018 - The Big 6

02 Feb 2018 15:24:04
{Ed's Note - we have posted a new article entitled, January 2018 - The Big 6

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02 Feb 2018 12:45:35
ED007 and fellow posters what are your thoughts for tomorrow.
Should we risk Dembele and/ or Musonda on that ramshackle plastic pitch at Kilmarnock.
For me I would be careful, especially with Dembele.

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{Ed007's Note - If Dembele's completely over his hamstring injury I'd have no hesitation starting him, Tim. I don't think there's any more risk for Musonda than there is any other player except Simunovic.}

02 Feb 2018 15:48:52
Looking forward to the team line up. I think he might keep the same shape. Musonda? Who drops out?

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02 Feb 2018 16:19:50
Having kept our top players - and added significantly to the squad, it gives BR the luxury of altering the line-up, without diluting the quality and with Griffiths, Lustig, Rogic, Roberts and Armstrong still to come back it is probably the best position we have been in for a long time.

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02 Feb 2018 16:48:32
IMO there will be one change from Tuesday’s game. Hendry will come in to replace Jozo. Don’t think Brendan will risk him on that pitch.
If we play with the intensity as we did against Hearts we’ll be far too strong for Killie. So I’m going for a 2-0 win.

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02 Feb 2018 18:03:22
Having too much choice might be a bad thing, some players need to keep playing to maintain their touch and sharpness and confidence, sitting around waiting your turn in a big pool might not be good for you, on the other hand with all these injuries you need able replacements.

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02 Feb 2018 20:20:48
I’d keep Sinclair and Musonda on the bench again tbh because we were absolutely ruthless in that first half so why change it?

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02 Feb 2018 12:17:51
Claudio Gomes. Young French kid at Man City. Celtic mentioned as a 'partner club' of City along with Breda and Girona. The translation is no that great but we are clearly mentioned as a winter option. Interesting. ED, i know you have long held the thought we had a deal with them but first time i have never seen it in print.

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{Ed007's Note - Gomes won't arrive at Man City from PSG until the summer and what that's go to do with Celtic though I have no idea. We don't have any official partnership with City like NAC Breda who have a five-year contract between the clubs. Girona are a different kettle of fish altogether - City Football Group (CFG) own 44.3% of Girona and another 44.3% is held by Girona Football Group, led by Pep's brother Pere Guardiola.}

02 Feb 2018 15:50:36
Thanks ED, must be a foreign journo putting two and two together with Denayer, Paddy etc.

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{Ed007's Note - I can't see Celtic entering any formal agreement with another club where we aren't the big hitters in the deal.}

02 Feb 2018 10:52:16
Maybe old news but I just see that Stewart Reagan has stepped down What a happy piece of news and it could be really interesting if his successor digs a little into his rain.

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02 Feb 2018 12:14:25
It's very unlikely they will recruit outwith 'their own' as any impartial, fair minded successor would need a shovel with a very, very long handle and a big huge box to put all those skeletons.

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02 Feb 2018 12:24:09
Dempster at Hibs. The groundwork was done weeks ago by coming clean on her season book for ibrokes. She is also part of the new Feminista in Scotland so a box ticker.

Having said that, why not? She had to support someone, her bad luck i suppose, but seems to have done sterling work at murderwell and especially Hibs.

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02 Feb 2018 12:26:15
Regardless of who follows. The newby will as they say "draw a line in the sand" as they won't be responsible for what went before. This will be used as a means to move forward without repeating the past. . Thing is the past is repeating now. I wonder if the newby will be appointed before or after an administration event? Interesting.

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02 Feb 2018 14:35:20
I only hope its not any one that's on the existing board just now as that to me would just reak as a cover up and a sweetener for him to leave that some one has his back Does any one know what the process is for the selection? Not that I am putting my name forward Lol.

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{Ed007's Note -

02 Feb 2018 08:30:00
What pisses me off about Levein's comments is that it suggests that rules should apply to individuals rather than to everyone in the game.
Unfortunately, this seems to actually be something that the referees also subscribe to.

I'm not a conspiracy theorist myself, but how can we have honest refereeing until we grasp the idea that the rules ought to apply to everyone?

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02 Feb 2018 09:01:28
His problem was he thought he had a system in place to counter us, maybe he did, but for one game. On a sticky pitch. against a team running on fumes. So well done jambots, live it up.

I also have a big jambot fan mate who cannot stand him, seems he is a very arrogant man.

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02 Feb 2018 12:02:04
Maybe if the the refs had applied the protection levein is asking for in his own playing days then graham hogg wouldn't have been attacked and knocked out by a thug in his own team. i've yet yet to see scott brown do that to another player.

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02 Feb 2018 12:55:55
The last time Brown was sent off was away to Aberdeen in November 2014 for 2 fouls. Yes, he did get sent off against Ross County away last season but that was appealed and overturned.

He had played 177 games since the November 2014 sending off and only once has he put in a challenge that a referee felt was a bit too strong or intended to hurt anyone.

He is aggressive and out to injure players right enough.

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02 Feb 2018 15:37:54
CL singling out SB the way he has is disgraceful. We all know SB is a combative, aggressive player who walks the line and likes to get in the oppositions head. But to suggest that he goes out trying to hurt players every game, when as Niall points out his disciplinary record is better than some players, is poor.

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Review Of The Day 2nd February 2018

02 Feb 2018 06:12:55
{Ed's Note - we have posted a new article entitled, Review Of The Day 2nd February 2018

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02 Feb 2018 00:15:06
Winter transfer window: I can't understand why teams are not organised or smart enough to get players in during the summer transfer window, which is june to sept. I suggest only one window per season but loans can still happen. hail hail. any thoughts?

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02 Feb 2018 07:17:41
Injuries bad form fall outs or even change of manager can blow early season plans to bits. Also you can't always get that one person you want in the summer like Rogers wanting Musonda.

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02 Feb 2018 08:50:02
I dislike these windows intensely and the winter one in particular has become a media circus trying to generate business and publicity.
I reckon the winter period allows managers a 'plan B' for injuries, personnel problems, or when a new manager is stuck with a dressing room fool of foreign duds - signed by a previous pedro ha ha.

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02 Feb 2018 11:53:04
The alternative to windows is the option to buy players all through the year, or jus once. If its only oe then you don't have the opportunity to replace players who are out of form or fill in for injuries.

This system isn't perfect, its annoying, but the alternatives have more issues attached to them.

Players being bid for at any point would be horrendous. Having only one go at it means that your stuck with what you go for and have no option to cover injuries or buy better players to move forward.

Its a pain, but its less of a pain than the other options.

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02 Feb 2018 12:24:13
I remember the old days when the first you knew about a signing was seeing him on the back page of the guys paper, sitting across from you on the bus or train.
It was usually a pleasant surprise - sometimes a shock, but I do agree we could never go back to that 'free-for-all' transfer market in today's world - with social media, greedy agents/ players and super-rich clubs spending power.
It would be far too unsettling for managers, players and supporters; but the club shops would do an all-year sale on marketing products. lol.

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