Celtic Rumours Archive June 15 2013

15 Jun 2013 15:21:37
Similar to the Carlos Bacca post, I have always thought Jelle Vossen of Genk would be a great signing for Celtic

15 Jun 2013 21:46:52
If he's as good as Jan Venegoor of Heselink i'm all for it, but do you think Genk can produce the same standard of player as Heselink?. Stevie

Vossen is a cracking player well above Big Jan. Daviebhoy77

15 Jun 2013 23:14:57
1st - the Genk development policy is outstanding, Stevie. De Brunye, courtois, defour, benteke all came through the Genk academy! 2nd - vossen is the skipper, and R Genk are very reliant on him - I do not expect they would give him up easily. number of good players in the genk squad we should be looking at though - genk's policy very similar to celtic's. Jean-pierre Laguerre

16 Jun 2013 01:02:05
Jean pierre you say you rate the Genk academy, what do you think of the Hesselink academy where Jan Vennegoor came from?. Stevie

Big Jan came through FC Twente's youth acamedy.

Vossen and JVH aren't even similar players so i'm not sure what the comparison is. Or that of Twente's academy. From what i've seen he looks good but as Jean-Pierre points out he's probably not a realistic signing unless we stumped up big money, which won't happen.

Seriously? Is no-one getting Stevie's joke? It's to do with the original wording- Vossen of Genk. He was taking the p*ss. It was a joke.

All that aside, I'm a big fan of Genk- and as JP said, they have a great development process.

Vossen is a great player, good all round striker, but works his socks off every game. (Think Doyle but younger and more clinical)

I would love to see him in the hoops.

The Patient

16 Jun 2013 14:49:28
Thank you Patient, I thought I was going to have to explain my own joke, admittedly it wasn't that funny but i'd had a few when I posted. Stevie

Sorry Stevie. It was a tedious link though!

Patient - you a big genk fan? I am a huge admirer of them and their policy - they have signed 2 or 3 guys we were looking at/linked with. personally I would like us to look HARD at koulibaly (came through the excellent metz system) and kara mbodj. Any thoughts? Mbodj in the wanyama role, koulibaly as a bruiser CB. Prior to balde signing, I would also have liked us to look at Ojo (who I am sure we were tracking previously).

Sorry - last post re mbodj and koulibaly was from me. Jean-Pierre Laguerre.

Yes JP- been a fan since the days of Wesley Sonck!

I've heard we were tracking Ojo- whether that's true or not is another thing- and I think he'd be a good singing, but of the few you mentioned I think Kara would be a great replacement for Wanyama. He would however, probably cost 2/3 million + (and that's conservative).

If we lost Hooper and Wanyama and replaced them with Vossen and Kara- it be the most excited I've been at some Celtic signings in a long time!

The Patient

15 Jun 2013 12:26:36
LFC close to signing Mignolet. Could be bad news for us as S'Land have already been sniffing around big Fraser.

Don't think he would go, has already said he wants to be playing for celtic next season. So doubt it will happen, only players I see being sold are hooper, big vic and maybe stokes. everyone else has already been released or a loan deal has finished.

S

To be honest I wouldn't mind Forster going. Many of us, including myself, got a bit carried away with a few performances he gave and overrate him a bit. Since his injury around January/February he hasn't been great. He's been good for about 6 months in the three years we've had him. If he's so desperate to get in the England squad then so be it, move to the premier league and we'll hopefully get good money because he's got a few years on his contract. {Ed007's Note -

I wouldn't say he's only been good for 6 months out of the three years. I may be wrong but did he not break the clean sheet record in his first season? I would hate to lose him if i'm honest, young keeper who has proved his ability in the CL and will only get better with time. Unless daft money gets offered and we have a suitable replacement in place before we allow him to go I would say we should not even contemplate allowing him to go.

RsK_bhoy

15 Jun 2013 09:45:26
Lots of rumours going round that Hooper will sign for Reading for 8 million! I would snatch Reading's arm of for that bid and thank them very much. Good luck to Hoops if he is off, he will always be an icon for parkhead faithful. HH

ShottsBhoy

I rate hooper and beleave he can make it in any top league in europe, but as I've said before for a player to want to leave for money when on more than he can spend in a lifetime unless he has a bad gambling habit or worse drugs is just greed pure greed he obviously has no ambition, ok I know ther is many out ther that's gona say including him that it's to get noticed for the England squad but to go to a club that is purely going to be fighting relagation is the wrong move simple as that, if he does go good luck to him he has done us well but he will look back on champion league nights and hurt like some others miller and co

If Hooper left us to join Reading, I think a lot of Celtic fans would lose a massive amount of respect for him. It would be a move fueled purely by money and not to better his career or increase his international chances.
BeeBee

Ps. It's not like he was brought up in brigton