02 Jun 2017 11:00:00
Reports today that Southampton will not entertain bids under £70m for Virgil. If true that is great news for us. What a fantastic player easily the best CB in the EPL. Would not be surprised if the likes of Real, Barca, Juve etc get involved when the bids start.


1.) 02 Jun 2017
02 Jun 2017 15:45:17
Good news . . but we let him go for far too little he should have been sold for at least 25 plus these add ons. people here said wasnt
Worth what we sold him for and we can't ask higher but if an epl club wants him then charge epl money . the good thing out of it is he is that good that we can use him as the benchmark when epl and others come call g for moussa .50 mill min just to start talks.


2.) 02 Jun 2017
02 Jun 2017 18:36:50
Definitely drb, i'm hoping that will be the case in any future deals. Good to see Karamako Dembele has signed a youth form and is happy to be at Celtic. Nice words from himself and his father regarding the Club and his development.


3.) 03 Jun 2017
03 Jun 2017 06:41:38
ppl don't pay £25m for a defender playing in Scotland - AND the player wanted to go.

best we could hope for was a sell on clause.

good business than an unhappy player.


4.) 03 Jun 2017
03 Jun 2017 07:52:20
That was then this is now and our players play in the CL something most players down there don't get the chance to do. Players who have left Celtic in recent years have gone to EPL and proved they are good enough so if clubs in England want our best players they WILL pay what they are worth. Unhappy? I don't recall him being unhappy and Celtic can use the likes if Virgil and Vic to say to these clubs the days of you lot getting our players on the cheap are over!


5.) 03 Jun 2017
03 Jun 2017 08:41:48
Digibanger would you let moussa go for 12 mill as people don't pay 25 mill for an spl striker . the fact is an epl team wanted an spl defender to play for them. if they think he's epl standard then its epl money . we don't need to hope . he was our player we dictate the asking price. if they don't like it don't buy him.


6.) 03 Jun 2017
03 Jun 2017 08:47:38
Well said stan anyone with a brain could see virgil was top class and CL is a lot higher level than epl. sometimes wonder about the scouting system at these clubs tge top 4 missed the boat with this bhoy and bug vic was the same.


7.) 03 Jun 2017
03 Jun 2017 14:22:53
I think previous history with big money moves for SPL players is the reason no one pays big money now

Gordon
Hutton
Cuellar
Hooper

If these guys performed better then Wanyama, Forster and VVD would have left for more. Now we have a track record of buying players and making them better we get what we want so Moussa will make us 25 million plus.


8.) 03 Jun 2017
03 Jun 2017 20:12:05
I didn't say people wouldn't pay more the £12m for a striker - but for an "unproven" defender or midfielder yeah.

don't take my word for it - it feckin happened! With Vic and VDV - be honest they were probably lured here by their agents saying "its just next to the EPL. " all that shop window bollox.

Also do you thing Lawwell and DD would have let them go on the cheap - What did we pay for them, what did we get/ add ons can we get = good business.