Celtic Rumours Archive January 06 2013

06 Jan 2013 19:55:53
Chris Hughton was up watching Emilio Izaguirre on Wednesday. Norwich short in the left back position and would explain why Rami Gershon is being brought in.

~seamus~

So he first hughton was up watching Hooper, then Kayal and they were readying a 5 million bid, now Izaguirre. Have a day off mate will you. I imagine it will be Forster tomorrow and Forrest on Tuesday.

Its already been forester and charlie mulgrew as well as the first 2 issaguire is the 5th player he was up watch apparently

Rangobango

Gershon is a cb that can play lb. he is not izzy replacement he is cb cover

I'm a Norwich fan & hughton is constantly watching games all over a lot in Europe when he can. I think it's all been blown out of proportion . We need a striker but don't think we would get hooper

IF norwich want so many celtic players why doesnt, dermot just buy them, (but they can keep their non existent history), relocate them to celtic park and hey presto we are in the EPL with a better chance of winning it than norwich will ever have.

U need to know your footie OP...he was brought in as cover for efe for when he's away on african cup of nations. Some people just talk mince in the transfer market lol

06 Jan 2013 14:59:48
ed have you heard anything regarding stoke being interested in mulgrew and do you think we will see many more faces come in
dez {Ed007's Note - The teams I know that are interested in Mulgrew are Norwich and QPR.}

Heard a wee rumour stoke were looking at him roughly 4mill suits them be coz of his height and dead ball ability can't see Lennon letting him go though
Dez

06 Jan 2013 19:56:42
We must keep Mulgrew at all costs, his delivery from a dead ball is 2nd to none....Stevie

Charlie has apparently said to anyone who has asked he will never leave Celtic it took to long to get established there and he knows the grass isnt greener elsewhere

Rangobango

Not only is his deadball abilty of real quality, he has the class to step out of defence with ease
he is scottish aswell and i believe we should be hanging on to our top homegrown pros
HH

06 Jan 2013 15:17:24
Celtic in for Griffiths, what a waste of money that would be, if he was any good, consistently good, Wolves would call him back, they are hoping to get rid of him, what job would he do,

Wolves will call him back as far as I know. They're struggling massively in the Championship and need a goalscorer. Big loss for Hibs but a big gain for us I suppose.

He's rank rotten, not any better than any of the strikers we have he'd probably be lucky to be on the bench each week,
davy

Every player will be suited to different teams, just because he's not settled at wolves doesn't mean he's always goin to be mince! Looks like he's suited to the Scottish game, I would have taken him from Dundee, it depends what your looking for? We've made 30mil from champs league so far, does anybody really think well get to spend a good chuck of that!? What's wrong with spending 250k on a guy that will score plenty with the chances we make!

Bigbadjohn

Griffins wouldnt get on our pub team fs

Your giving him grief for not scoring at Wolves, if you aint on the park how can you score?

you may say he aint playing for a reason but ask yourself this, what age is he? he is young so not going to walk into an english side.

Also how did Charlie Mulgrew do at Wolves? rubbish? well he only got 6 games so hard to judge.

Do i want Griffiths? No because of his attitude. but to say he has no ability when he has scored for every team that's gave him a chance is nothing but harsh.

Griffiths is what it says on the TIN. �150k player and nowhere near good enough to pull on a Celtic shirt. We're way above the capabilities of this man.

Sign him then loan him to Hibs, thus meaning he can't play (and score) against us in all seriousness, think he could be worth a punt. Celtic need a European squad and a squad to use in lesser (spl games) hed score for fun in the SPL with us.

Sorry never put my name on my post, the one about him scoring for fun for us in the SPL. Cheekybhoy

06 Jan 2013 12:21:32
Good source live next to Scott Browns brother Callum in Dalgety bay in Fife, he said Scott told him Wanyama wants to sign for Manchester United in the summer. Celtic may inquire about Darren Fletcher wages could be an issue and Personally I think Fletcher is a one club man. Also Lustig wants a long term deal, and Commons could be leaving to Villa in the summer. Hooper defo out in summer And Celtic may replace him with Shane Long, bad move imp he's not a proven goalscorer.

This is laughable at best !

This is complete rubbish. It's obvious you've made this up. There is no way on Earth that Commons, Hooper and Wanyama will all leave in the Summer. I could almost guarantee you that Wanyama will leave, but Hooper will stay until at least this time next year. Commons has a family here and is not going to uplift them straight away. Shane Long is no better than Gary Hooper and Darren Fletcher is injury prone.

~seamus~

Made me laugh.

I am sure Neil discusses all his ideas with Scott Brown... not!

Shane Long is better than Hooper, Hooper scores but Long scores and contributes more to the game, if you could have both up front it would be sensational

Some of the things said maybe true in the long run ie. players leaving! But doubt Broonys been spilling the beans ha ha... As for Shane long, the guys class, would score for fun up here!

Bigbadjohn

Commons to villa ha aye coz he wil def want 2 leave a title and cup winning and champions league team for a relegation fight

gunniebhoy

WTF does broonie know, hes only a player.Please stop making crap up!

Ok so u have obviously been told this over the weekend by Scott's brother or it wld have been posted before now. This is why its a lot of crap as Scott brown, his brother and rest of family were at crieff hydro. I was there and my son got his.photo taken if u need the proof

Not sayig I agree with rumour etc... but it is believable all three could leave in the summer, more than 3 could go tbh! Them premiership seems keen to sign our squad!

I think a daily sevco reporter left that OP haha in what land is shane long not a proven goalscorer?haha c'mon watch some footie mate and ul see how good shane long is...bit injury prone, but defo proven goalscorer in my book! And darren fletcher...nearly choked on my bacon roll, good comedy should be on the stage!

I've been told that wanyama is happy here and doesn't want to leave at the moment. The reason he has not signed the deal is due to the length of the deal being offered. Celtic want him to sign a 5 year deal, he's not prepared to sign a deal for that length of time.

06 Jan 2013 01:59:52
Anything in the Melikson rumours? Cheers, dd

Dudu Dahan, Gershon and Melikson's agent, has said there is no truth in the rumour.

~seamus~

Hopefully there is some truth in it i say get the boy signed up look really good. Good movement passing control the whole lot just what we could be doing with in the midfield.

05 Jan 2013 23:57:07
Can anyone tell me how many Celtic fans travelled to Lisbon in 67? No Manchester calculators please just genuine estimations..The reason i asked is because i met my first Lisbon veteran just last week and would like to know if there are any posters who were there or had family who were there. The bloke i met had some great stories to tell, what an experience it must have been, genuine replies would be appreciated........Stevie

I was always told 15000

I was in lisbon in 1967 - there was a very large celtic support which was recognised as being the largest influx of people at a European final. how many were there i do not know but bear in mind that the availability of transport was not what we have to-day. many fans traveled overland and did not make it to lisbon due to there transport breaking down. i was lucky i went with the celtic supporters association who chartered a flight from prestwick.
good value aty �25 for flight - transport & ticket. incidently a young man took out a bank loan to charter several flights to lisbon . his name was freddie laker who was the pioneerr of budget airlines

I think the accepted figure was around 20k.........green jhedi

06 Jan 2013 13:02:16
OP my uncles were there, they went in the car cavalcade that left Celtic Park, estimates vary of numbers but between 12,000/15,000 is more like it.in total not in cavalcade) Remember cheap air fares were not available at that time, so most went by car, bus, ferry etc..
Just like Seville our fans made friends everywhere, and the locals in Lisbon (most of them supported us)
They came back with lots of tales, and many fans never returned until years later, meeting and marrying foreign women en route.
Local police could not cope after game at the airport with so many drunk fans, and simply put every Celtic fan on planes, dispensing with passport control etc. The result that some fans who had tickets were left behind while others who came by car got a "free" airplane ride back. Timalloy

15,000 was the official numbers. maccabhoy

06 Jan 2013 19:15:26
Cheers lads much appreciated. Another thing on sort of the same subject i was having a debate with a Sevconian at work and he claimed he was in Barcelona in 72 and that Rangers fans packed out the Nou Camp, i told him to stop talkin colin nish but googled it when i went home, 24,000 was the attendance and i believe the top section of the Nou Camp wasnt even opened up. Just another Sevconian fantasist.....Stevie

Ha
what lies
rangers fans definitly didn't pack into barcelona camp nou that's for sure
if they had none of the city would remain cos theydve broke it all and left rubbish everywhere
they just talk gutter period
i refuse to listen to them anymore
i did let my guard down at christmas time. on the bus home from town i heard one gers fan(ny) say to one of his brethren that he refused to smoke menthol fags on the basis that they were in a green and white pack. together they looked at one another and nodded as if it was a really sound statement.
i put my rangers earplugs back in and no longer hear any bile that pours out their vile mouths.
lol
ParadiseAndy