Celtic Rumours Archive August 20 2012

20 Aug 2012 22:44:54
now that ki is poised to go for 6m plus, 2.5m is to be paid to debt which leaves at least 4m for transfers. if celtic get to the group stages(15m), rhodes is coming for 4.2m rising to 4.6, richard dunne or michael ciani is heading to parkhead, wanyama is here for another season and we,re also looking at henrikson(ki replacement and also being leaked from my close friend who works at parkhead is the word jonny russel in, bangura out on loan as well as murphy, possibly marc janko on loan with the option of a 3.5m buy at the end of next season! who knows but ive wrote on this before and my predictions through contacts said keane was coming on loan, ledley was signing and we would be signing a michael essien type midfielder being big vic!

Hope you are right mate but all of that sounds a bit too good to be true! Not sure we would get Rhodes for that fee. I guess it all depends now on what happens in the Helsingborgs games!

Of course you did mr no-name.
we could all claim to have 'told you so' moments if we all did as you have done.


taco

The scribe writes for the anonymous almanac, he can predict the future!......Sopot Celt

Sorry this is far too much wheeling and dealing to happen after the CL game when there will only be 2 days left of the window.

Jamesy Bhoy

I previously posted about the demise of hitler and also stated I didn't think the titanic was safe. But hey no one listened.

JD

20 Aug 2012 21:03:49
Gary Hooper next to leave Spurs linked with a surprise move source- Football first whats happening bhoys and ghirls we'll be selling r whole squad at this rate lawell questions 2 answer u tit first Ki, now hooper whose next! IN LENNY WE TRUST.... I HOPE

I think your the t!t. Sound like a visitor from the darkside with that post.

Briggs

Well said Briggs,guy must be brain dead to call Mr. Lawell a t1t.
Tambhoy ( original )

What a terrible post.

Even if Hooper went I would still have complete trust in Lawell. He is the main reason that Celtic have managed to stay above water and have increase teh Celtic brand into other markets such as Korean and Japan.

It would be great to see a ban on nameless post in this forum

Linnie88

In fairness hooper is not good enough for spurs he has a great scoring record for celtic but he scores 2-3 a game then no goals for 2-3 games hes not consistent enough for a top team

20 Aug 2012 20:33:19
When are celtics financial results due to be published.
I dont buy into all this talk of 5-15 million debt as at this point last year I thought the bank debt was down to £500,00.(although it did rise mid season but there was reasons for that namely season ticket sales, bonus money from SPL and Europa still to be factored in)
Weve spent next to nothing on players since last results, Had a run in Europa league which we didnt have previous year and weve taken in money for Juarez, Rasmussen and Hooiveld and now £5m+ for Ki.
Add to that wage costs for this coming season must be severly trimmed after releasing 10 squad players.

Totally and utterly agree with this post 100%. I posted last week saying unfortunately i think the club are well and truly taking the fans for granted infact verging on being disrespectful. For the last two years promised money to add quality after trimming the squad. Well that's been done so where's the quality ?? Promised money for new signings at te end of last season, the quote was "we'll add 3 or 4 quality players .... Where are they ?? And now Ki is being sold and NL is now aaying the money is to be used to service the debt.... Sorry for the rant but this is taking the piss out of honest fans who pay good money into our club. I would at least prefer it if they said we werent signing anyone, stop lying and giving us false hopes .... Please

Gary

£500,00?? are you r******* by any chance!

20 Aug 2012 18:46:04
evening troops, id like to start a debate , wot would be your celtic team of all time(excluding the lions as thats too easy lol), mines would be, boruc,mcgrain,stubbs,elliot,mckinlay,dicanio,lennon,mcstay,moravcik,larsson,mcinally. ive chose players that ive seen in the flesh. looking forward to seeing other posters teams. ill start with you ed?.............bhoywonder

Boruc mcgrain elliot rieper valgaaren di- canio mcstay thompson moravcik sutton larsson

Boruc
Mcgrain,balde,mjallby,mulgrew
Mcstay petrov
Moravcic
Larsson dalglish
Mcgrory

(4-3-3) Boruc, McGrain, Elliott, Rieper, Boyd, McStay, Collins, Nakamura, Sutton, Larsson, Van Hooijdonk.

How about an all-time WORST XI for a laugh? (or a flashback nightmare!)

Boruc : Mcgrain : Vega : Aitken : Valgarren : Di Canio : Mcstay : Lambert : Thomson : Larsson : Van Hooydonk : Subs Bonner : Elliot : Mjallby : Lubo : Sutton : Cadette ........DH

I think that team could win the Champions league.

Have u got alan mcinally in front of chris sutton?

Boruc, mcgrain, rieper, bobo, Izzi, mcstay, moravcik, Collins, larsson, do canio, cadete

Bonner mcgrain Stubbs mjallby Boyd
Mcstay Lubo mcloed di canio
Larsson McLair
From players I've seen
Welshbhoy

Boruc, McGrain, George Connelly, Mjallby, Izzy, Hay, Lubo, Lambert, Di Canio, Larrson and Sutton

Yeah m8, mcinally although wasnt prolific he put in a shift and a half and i love players like that, it was between mcinally,sutton and hartson and ive seen what they can do together........bhoywonder

If that Tosh McInally, then I think you are either him, or you were drunk that day

The worst 11 I remember. I think Lou Macari bought most of them.

Ian Andrews

Adam Virgo,Du Wei, Scheidt, Tebily

Craig Burley (prick), Lee Martin, Martin Hayes, Regi Blinker(ed)

Wayne Biggins, Tony Cacarino

Worst 11, muggleton, sheit, Zhi, braafheid, du ri, juarez, sno, daryl Murphy, brattbakk, Hayes, biggins, wright.

Boruc
McGrain, Aitken, mcAdam, Boyd
DiCanio,McStay,Petrov,Collins,
Larsson, Nicholas(first time)
Ard Eoin Bhoy.

Boruc McGrain Balde Elliott Izzaguirre

Di Canio McStay Petrov Moravcic

Larsson Nicholas

Jason

Worst 11.
Andrews.
Tebily, Fox, Mahe, Rogan.
Blinker, Nguemo, Fernandez, Wieghorst.
Biggins, Brattback.
Sorry guys, I hate picking a worst 11 cause I support any player who wears the hoops but these guys i just dont believe were good enough for the hoops.
Ard Eoin Bhoy

Boruc,
McGrain,Elliot,Rieper,Boyd,
McGeady,Lambert,McStay,Collins,
Larsson ,Van Hooijdonk

Wheres mcgeady in this?

Best: Boruc, McGrain, Bobo, Elliott, Mulgrew, Di Canio, McGeady, Lambert, Dalgleish, Larsson, Sutton.

Worst: Kharine, Braafheid, Du Wei, Scheidt, McNally, Holt, Hayes, Slater, Biggins, Paton

VictorsGonnaeGetYou

I dont care what you say.... Stuart Slater was by far the worst Celt I was unfortunate enough to see

Interesting, can't believe no-one has Tommy Burns in there team in midfield.

Bit harsh to have Zhi in the worst ever. Bossed an old firm game which is not bad for a player clearly signed as back up. Burley was a good player for us and he was instrumental in stopping the ten. He is a person right enough.

Tosh McKinley was a class act!

Eion bhoy youve got 3 left backs,.,.kbarry

Boruc

McGrain
Aitken
Elliot
Connolly

DiCanio
Lubo
Burns
McStay

Larsson
Dalglish
Van Hooijdonk

subs:
Bonnar
Balde
Nakamura
Cadette
Hood

Into days market...priceless?

Liam

I was very tempted to slide in big "shuggie" Jóhannes Eðvaldsson into my subs list but thought that might be borderline....11 worst lol sometimes good sometimes bad always entertaining.
there was also Hood, McBride, McGrory...the list goes on and on.

Liam

Andrews

telfer tebilly scheidt rogan

aliadiere juninho slater sylla

mo camara daryl murphy

brattback was gonna be here, but for the
sake of that goal against st johnstone to
stop the huns gettin their cheated 10 in a row.

frankiebhoy

I would take oneills team with mcgrain, and possibly collins. I did like burley when he played for us, but agree he is a pr1ck.jj

Can't believe you've got Wieghorst in your worst 11 Ard Eoin Bhoy! He was class

...............Boruc...............
McGrain...Balde...Mjallby..McNamara
DiCanio...Petrov...McStay...Moravcik
...........Sutton..................
...............Larsson............

Substitutes:

Bonner
Stubbs
McGeady
Hartson
Robbie Keane
Lambert
Roy Keane
Alan Thompson
Nakamura

Manager: Martin O'Neil
CM88

Bonner
Mcgrain balde Elliot boyd
Dicanio burns petrov lubo
Dalgliesh larsson

Boruc
Bobo aitken elliot
Mcgeady mcstay collins di canio
Lubo
Larsson van hooijdonk

Tosh McKinley was a great full-back!

Joeshmo1888

Wieghorst should never be in any worst 11's. Well maybe a looks one!

Joeshmo1888

Connaghan
Mcgrain
Brogan
Connolly
Elliot
Hay
Moravcic
Mcstay
Larsson
Dalglish
Hood

Yorkiebhoy.

Your team would win Liam....you've got 12 players!

Bonner, McGrain, Reid, Aitken, McAdam, McLeod, Provan, McStay, Larsson, Burns and Nicholas.
Subs: Boruc, Izzy, Brown, McAvennie and Sutton

I think my best xi would be 4-4-2
Boruc
McGrain
Bobo
P.Elliot
T Boyd
DiCanio
McStay
Petrov
Lubo
Larsson
Dalgleish

worst xi Hedman,Moyes,L.Baillie,P.mcGugan,B.Smith,Virgo,Du Why? Burley the Wank,S.Slater Cascarino and biggins TMCDTHETIM

Nice to see Harry Hood's name regular on the lists. I used to watch him playing for the Bully Wee. See Brian McClair not getting mentioned nor Andreas Thom - class - players.

Boruc

Mjallby Balde Valgaeren

Agathe Izzy
Petrov Moravcik
Di Canio
Larsson Robbie Keane


Jamesy Bhoy

Forster mcnamara sutton balde mckinlay
provan mcstay petrov moravcik
larsson van hooijdonk

My Team would be:

Boruc

Reiper - Balde - Stubbs

Moravcik - Collins - Di Canio - Andreas
Thom

Viduka - Van Hooydonk - Larsson

Sorry never realized I had 12 counting was never my strong point...ok Big Van Hooijdonk the the bench....even with Eleven would still be a great team.

Liam

20 Aug 2012 17:08:58
Supposedly we are trying to bring in Maurone Chamakh on loan ! Started real well at Arsenal but really dropped of the pace an hardly played last season. Worth a try though i'd say ! Will we get him ?? Who knows ! ....... ORIGINAL MikeyBhoy

20 Aug 2012 17:00:58
Now that song has completed his transfer to barcelona arsenal are fully expected to launch a bid for wanyama
If we get 10m (which i doubt) i would bite their hand off

Skinnybhoy

20 Aug 2012 16:34:58
My fear is the likes of wanyama will also be allowed to leave for peanuts. 5or6 mil for ki is 2or3 mil short of what everyone was expecting so i think we can now expect an offer of about 6/7 mil being accepted for wanyama. We should be holding these english clubs for ransom, its all good making a profit but hold out for what these players are worth. We have just shown prem clubs that they can get our top players on the cheap and that is not good.

Celticthomas

Im raging that Ki is going to a wee Welsh club. Im sick of these wee crap teams in the EPL who get loadsamoney and think they can get players from Scotland on the cheap. LO

The way I see it is that there is a sell on clause and the thinking is once a player is in epl with a club then there value goes up and we get part of the epl money.
If what I heard was right with 6-6.5mill with add ons 2mill and sell on 15%, if all happens that could be around in the end 11mill which is good/great business, but will only know when details come out.

20 Aug 2012 15:53:45
Although i think Ki is a fantastic player and will do very well in England where he will get more time on the ball, he was always the one from the midfield who i would be willing to sacrafice!

I wish him well wherever he ends up!

So we have now slashed the wage bill and assuming this deal goes through ok - banked £6m

With the potential Champions league cash, surely the club can now go out and buy a centre half and centre forward and still be well in the black!

Lenny on TV saying the fee for ki is to fund our debt, so no nearer a new singing yet im afraid

If that's the case are we expecting Wanyama to be sold to fund players?

Still good bit of business should we sell them both and get a couple in and clearing the debt.

Richybhoy

20 Aug 2012 15:54:00
Stephen Dobbie is not part of the Ki deal, fee is believed to be slightly more than £5m and Swansea hope to complete deal in the next 24hrs.
Source: Raman Bhardwaj

CM88

Rhaman "blue nose" bharwaj ? oh jeez, be as well to have cheeky charlie green give the info, it will be more than that

I've got a feeling Ki would rather stay and play Champions league and we're being fed mince. Four or five months ago Ki was highlighted as a possible sale to bring in needed cash. Celtic need to sell someone.

20 Aug 2012 15:06:41
Now that we know Ki is definitely away good luck to the boy. Now we move on, we need another striker and a centre half. We have lost too many defenders in the close season and they need replaced. Also up front I know Stokesy scored some important goals for us like when we were 3 down to Killie but in my opinion he is maybe better playing off the front. He does not lead the line well and doesnt score many headers. I wouldnt get rid of him cause he is a good player to bring off the bench. In the middle we seem to have plenty of cover but its always good to have competion for places.

Posted earlier this week that my fear was that we'd see the Ki transfer fee balancing the books & NL has just stated that the cash may go to servicing the clubs debt ........ think it's now clear that we will only recruit new players if we beat Helsingborgs over two legs .

Agreed. Can't see Lenny spending the money other than a CF & CB. I'm a fan of Stokes and he needs decent service and he'll get us goals so I'm sure he'll still be with us this year.

Certain Henrikson will come only if we CL money.

20 Aug 2012 14:52:04
Sly Spurts sources understand Swansea have agreed fee with Celtic for midfielder Ki Sung-yueng.

Samson

20 Aug 2012 12:21:20
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Paddy Malarkey

Stopped reading them a while ago mate. Usually scan the back page when I'm buying other papers to see what drivel they are running with that particular day so I may use this site to spare me the brass neck of someone seeing me reading the sh*te.

20 Aug 2012 08:59:31
Daily Mailicious reporting £5.5m plus Stephen Dobbie for Ki. I hope this is more ridiculous reporting as why would we want a 3rd rate striker and a deflated fee. £7m is what we can get so hope we don't budge for a penny less.

Sorry but dobbie is not good enough we need sum1 better than stokes n thts us going back the way if we get him in ma opinion

Barry The Janny
dobie isnt any better than the players we have got .. its a big target man we need to sign and quickly going by that display at the weekend .. although i still think rhodes would be a great signing too , im sure NL knows what he wants and WILL hopefully get the Ki money to spend .. any thoughts

Is dobbie any worse than murphy or bangura?no he's not. He played terrific in championship last year, which is a better league than spl.

Dobbie would score goals, not the signing I want or that we need though. Big target man is what we are crying out for.

I think he has only got a year to go on his contract. If we start this don't budge stuff we could end up with nothing. A player is only worth what another team is prepared to pay, not what papers say he is worth. Better with something than nothing.