Celtic Rumours Archive January 21 2013

21 Jan 2013 22:25:32
Reports comin out that hooper has rejected another contract again just after we rejected a 7m offer from norwich. don't know much truth is in it tho

gunniebhoy

Club have denied receiving any further bids.

Celtic issued a statement that no bids other than the original bid had been made & that included other clubs as well

Wasnt sure just a lot of the celtic fb pages wer sayin ther was reports that a 3nd big was rejected but as a said didn't know how much truth was in it took it with a pinch of salt

gunniebhoy

21 Jan 2013 19:10:40
Scunny have a 20% sell on clause with Hooper on all profit from his sale. So I don't really think selling for 7m would provide a decent enough return to warrant selling. Considering his goals tally up here Celtic would only be looking at like 3.5m profit which I think is shocking. Intrest from various clubs in EPL will hopefully push price up past 8m mark but I am pessimistic....

Jaiza1888 {Ed007's Note - It is a 10% sell on clause.}

Perfect example of people swallowing what the The rangers media put out.As far as I know ED is right it was always a 10% deal...........green jhedi

I'm embarrassed for any Celtic can who even bothers going on rangers media. Full of hate and bile, absolute insult to your intelligence responding to, or even conversing with the punters on there. And I don't mean all Rangers fans! I have some close mates, big Rangers fans and the sh*te on there is an insult to them and the other good Rangers fans. F*ck Rangers Media!

10% of 7 million is 700,000 20% 1.4million who came up with 3.5 million some people just can't count

Its 10% of profit so it would be 500k if we sold for 7m

2m to buy him, 20% of 7m is 1.4m so that overall is approx 3.5m profit. Read the post correctly and you will see the counting is not bad after all

Hail hail
ChrisBhoy

I heard on the tranny last night it was a 20% sell on clause.
and this whole thing with austin
surely we don't gain anything from this
lock gary hooper in the dressing room after matches and let him out only on game days {Ed007's Note - It's only 10% buddy.}

Dont forget his upkeep wile he's been here, half a million per year ? take that off your profit .. shammy

Ed how do you know its only a 10% sell on clause??

Jaiza1888 {Ed007's Note - I can only show you the door. You're the one that has to walk through it.}

21 Jan 2013 18:36:05
The tone of some posts and the alleged quotes from various sources would suggest Hooper will go?
If we lose him to Norwich then it asks a lot of questions about Hoopers' ambitions and priorities.
It also suggests that no matter how big a club Celtic are and how well we are respected in Europe; it highlights the poor reputation the SPL has - no matter how many re-constructions and shuffles and re-branding they conjure up every few years.
I remember when I was young how shocked I was at stars like of Macari, Hay, Dalglish and Nicholas wanting to leave The Celtic for fame and fortune as they went to 'big English clubs'.
But no disrespect to Hooper, he is not an Internationalist and he is linked with Norwich!
The EPL is so over-hyped and the standard out-with the top 7 or 8 is definitely 'mutton dressed as lamb' with small stadia and zero reputation or class.
I hope he stays as he seems happy on the pitch, but maybe we should look at other 'avenues' in the future to stop players using Scotland as a half - way - house?

Jungle Jim

I think they're just looking at a few potential strikers just incase Hooper leaves, better to check players out now while Hooper's future is unsure rather then wait until he's left then start looking at players.

Unfortunately the premier league is the most exciting league in the world you regually see bottom teams beating so called top teams like qpr beating chelsea last week, its where any player with ambition wants to be

The fact of the matter is mate that hooper thinks he has a better chance of getting in england squad playing in epl. That and the fact celtic have offered him £25000 a week to stay and because of tv money a team of norwich can offer him £40000 a week to go. I personally think he should sign new contract stay for another year and he would get england call up and bigger move to a top 6 epl club not relegation strugglers.

Skinnybhoy

Well I think it is not so much the reputation of scottish football but more to do with modern day footballers. Not all but most of them only care about the money. For me sly and football agents are destroying the game. Look at Larsson was getting enough money to live a good life and was happy with that.

JJ

Think we Celtic fans have to be realistic. Long gone are the days of players wanting to stay at Celtic for ever - King Henrik was a rare one off.

Gary Hooper like many other players only came to Celtic to prove they can play at a high level. Yes Norwich are a small club in terms of size and history compared to Celtic - but with the money at there disposal they make Celtic look like the small club.

We are having a great season - making good money from Europe, as usual the great Celtic support contribute immensely and as far as singings go we have had nothing but garbage.

Miku, Lassad are not in the class of Stokes and Watt and at this moment in time neither of them are particularly great. This window we get a reserve defender from Liege on loan, an unknown player from Australia - who I hope can be the Lubo/Naka type player with that added work rate.

Yes the EPL is over-rated as I have said many times before - however in terms of league stature, Scotland is fast becoming Third World poor.

Kev T

My point was most modern day footballers only care about the money. Not all players though Scott Brown and Joe Ledley would not leav us for a bottom EPL team infact Broony would not leave at all.

Have we all forgotten that Sammi left Man City for us and took a big pay CUT to come. And also in amongst this no-one has even remotely suggested that Hooper wants to leave, least of all the player himself !

21 Jan 2013 15:35:48
Mjallby on Charlie Austin if Hooper leaves, "Yes, he might be on the shortlist, " Mjallby said of Austin. "Charlie is a proven goalscorer and obviously he might come in handy in the future.

I can't see this being any more that a smokescreen. IMO Celtic are not and should not be in the business of buying players for inflated prices like 6 or 7 million quid. Which is precisely what Burnley will demand for Austin.... and no doubt they will get it with various EPL teams looking at him considering his awesome performances for a mediocre team.

Jaiza1888

If we get 8m for hooper then what would be wrong withs spending 6m on a suitable replacement. Hooper and austin are pretty similar in style so he would be a good buy. Spending 6-7m on a player is not going to us any harm when we are still making a profit. don't forget how many dud strikers we have bought for similar price to hooper...rasmussan, bangura, miku etc. I have faith in our scouting system but for every hooper we have bought we have signed 3 banguras

Celticthomas

21 Jan 2013 14:40:33
Its been confirmed that Charlie Austin will be Gary Hooper's replacement if he leaves during the January transfer window.

S** sports latest just there.

No, it has been said he will be on the short list

NO CHANCE OF AUSTIN, we looked at him, 2 years ago, but went for HOOPER.Austin, would know be 4 to 5 mill forget him......jimthetim

21 Jan 2013 14:10:47
Celtic reject second bid from Norwich for Gary hooper according to sly spurts says mjallby said the bid wasn't good enough
Hoopybhoy

He was talking about their initial bid of £5mil that was rejected.

Terrible Beauty

Norwich haven't put in a 2nd bid yet, big dolph was speaking of the first bid...they do expect another bid but not the asking price, but could just cash in on hooper the now and go for austin like reported on the news.

£7m rising to £10m if they stay up is the latest talk. With that extra £3m not being guaranteed though I can't see this being accepted.

21 Jan 2013 01:28:18
ED how much do you reckon it would cost to bring Johnny Russell to Parkhead? He has hit form at the wrong time for interested clubs with his goals but surely Steven Thompson would bite Celtic's hand off for £1.5m? He may not be CL standard right now but he could definitely do a job once Hooper leaves, whether it be January for £7-8m or summer for £4-5m. Russell would be a good addition with essentialy 5 months to bed him in in the SPL without much risk. Throw in Mackay-Steven for £2.5m plus add-ons for the pair and it's a good deal for Celtic with minimum £1.5 net profit with these deals and 2 of Scotland's best prospects.

G93 {Ed007's Note - I don't know how much Dundee Utd value them at but their departure seems to have been a factor in Houston's decision to leave.}

They are two players I'd love to see in the hoops before anyone....good young scottish talents...russell is defo good enough for celtic, people question his ability at CL level but ud have to put those question marks beside anyone we sign, we are after all unearthing gems...so no-one is proven at that level. Russell would bang goals in for fun at CP, he's doing it for dundee utd right now...we need to stop bringing in unproven guys to the spl and go with proven spl goalscorers and the only one I feel has the ability to be a celtic striker is russell. We have brought in bangura (unproven) and miku has done hee haw in his time here...time to put up a bit of paper and sign these 2 as I feel thy would drastically improve our team, and russell is ready to get thrown into the team just now, no need to bed him in to get used to the spl....that's an excuse I can't be doing with, if that is ever the case why are the brought in?

21 Jan 2013 10:27:53
Norwich have increased there bid for Gary Hooper to £7million. If I'm not mistaken the asking price is £8million and I'm pretty sure Norwich know that.

I think the board would take £7m, I wouldn't but I love Celtic not cash

Barry the janny

hooper not leaving for less than £8m, more worryingly Arsenal back on rader for big vic ... just when the last 8 was there for us ..

Worry ye not I have it on good authority neither will leave in this window but both will in the summer.

20 Jan 2013 22:39:33
Ed do Celtic have an interest in Adam Le Fondre of Reading?

MikeyBhoy88 {Ed007's Note - Yes.}

What sort of price would he command now he`s playing Premiership football? I know we were after ALF before but I presume his price will have doubled at least? Keir {Ed007's Note - If his price has doubled then depending who you believe his fee would be somewhere in between £600k up to £1.2 million max (the fee Reading paid was undisclosed but is between £300k and £600k). He would come back into the equation if Reading are relegated this season.}|