Celtic Rumours Archive January 23 2018

23 Jan 2018 23:25:21
Don't understand the mass hysteria surrounding Dembele. Not once has he said he wants to leave, the media has just been playing it's usual dirty tricks, trying to unsettle our players and undermining our club.

23 Jan 2018 23:50:46
Did our assistant manager not come out yesterday and say Moussa has decided he wants to go? Hardly the media playing dirty tricks if it's a direct quote.

My guess is his agent will have offers on the table and his head has been turned by them. The main stumbling block will be the price tag we have placed on him and whether English teams will pay that for a player playing the the SPFL.

23 Jan 2018 23:54:33
Do you always just repeat what Chris Sutton said and make out it's your own?

only pullin yer leg :p.

24 Jan 2018 12:03:18
Rodgers interview was interesting. Said he wants players for Europe not just domestic. Sounds like a message for the board.

He has stated he wants quality, so why are the board failing to do so?

be an interesting week.

24 Jan 2018 21:01:26
BR said Kouassi was signed for Europe. He has come nowhere near justifying price tag. We can't pay £3m for potential.

24 Jan 2018 22:32:01
Burns why would our management make the comments about him wanting to leave? Why does Moussa not come out and just say he wants to stay then the matter is finished?

{Ed007's Note - Where did any of our management team say that? Give me a direct quote of Rodgers or Davies saying any such thing.....

24 Jan 2018 23:28:45
Ed can't remember the exact quote but Rodgers spoke to the Scottish Sun confirmed there had been enquiries about MD and it had affected him. Davis said similar. He may stay he may go. From how i interpreted the interviews with BR and Davis, and as he has not started in the last 2 games along with BR stating after the Brechin game that MD did not play because he wasn't mentally right, then there is speculation around him. If he wants to put it to bed just come out and say I am not going anywhere. Of course he does not need to say anything at all. Maybe the club want him to stay and so does he. If so then play him. Why put him on the bench? Do you think he will start against Hibs? I don't. Don't think he will even get on the pitch so something is wrong?

{Ed007's Note - So nobody has said Dembele wants to leave - apart from Celtic fans of course.}

25 Jan 2018 10:01:20
He is not much use if he does not feel able to play due to transfer speculation is he? Either get him on the pitch or find a home for him. He won't play against Hibs so when is his head going to be right.

23 Jan 2018 14:47:55
my mate just told me that word on the street is Stoke, Everton and Palce are all bidding for Mousa D. Any truth in this?

23 Jan 2018 15:08:03
Hearing much the same here too, what will be will be!

23 Jan 2018 15:55:51
if he has to leave then having a few clubs seeking him is only good news for us. It has to be a minimum of £20m and a 10-15% sell on.

Anything less is bollocks.

23 Jan 2018 17:03:03
If any of them offer 15 mil then take it, his head is up his arse now so say thanks and ship him out, he his no good for us now. We have Griff who can put the ball in the nett just as regularly as MD, the only difference is LG wants to be here, and after a 40 goal season had every right to be tetchy when left on the bench.
None of the big boys in Europe have even looked at MD this season so 15/ 20 is a wonderful price.
Sell on % is difficult, but at least we have a good commercial guy in Lawell who will work his chops off to secure a deal, whatever you might say about him regarding spending makes no difference as he certainly knows about earning money for CFC.

23 Jan 2018 17:25:20
Why sell him when he is out of form? Are we saying he won't regain it? I don accept that. He will regain his form and his price will rise. Selling him now at the stage he is playing, is like trying to sell your house before you put the roof on.

If we get £20m plus the 15% maybe. If he goes and starts scoring for fun then he will be sold on for double that in the summer.

We need to stop acting like spivs and realise his stock has fallen and if we wait we can get a lot more in the summer.

We have no need to panic, we can afford to keep him. He might want to go, but if it doesn't suit us, ten sorry but no. if he wanted a better team to come in the he is to blame for that. Giving him the second half of the season to attract the bigger clubs will be achieved by playing to his potential. If he does that he gets the move he really wants and we get a minimum of £30m and a sell on.

23 Jan 2018 17:38:18
Some of the noises from our management team make it sound like now might be the time to cash in. We'll need a replacement other than Griffiths if we want to have any joy in Europe.

23 Jan 2018 17:56:17
If we are going to sell the most important part of the deal is the sell on percentage in my opinion if he goes down south and hits good form and or gets a call up to the French team his price Will skyrocket eg van dyke so we should push for the highest percentage we can get.

23 Jan 2018 18:31:34
We don't really need the cash although am not niave enough to know if daft offer comes in they'll take it but there might be more money to be had at the end of the season if he finds a bit of form.

23 Jan 2018 11:39:52
We still in for Hendry?

23 Jan 2018 13:24:38
There's a good post regarding Hendry a bit further down the page CB. Yesterday at 10.01am.

23 Jan 2018 13:25:51
Tonight's game who do we go with?

Gordon
Lustig
Ajer
Boyata
Tierney
Brown
Ntcham
Forrest
McGregor
Sinclair
Edourd/ Griff / Dembele?

23 Jan 2018 12:53:10
You can’t afford the £1.5 million asking price!

23 Jan 2018 14:33:28
Cheers SP.

23 Jan 2018 14:55:20
If Hendry is worth 1.5m then we should bid 300k its semms to be the done thing nowadays then unsettle the player by putting it all over the papers then say nah we can't afford him can we get him on loan lol.

23 Jan 2018 15:19:34
Haha good one Rayman.

23 Jan 2018 16:04:37
I would drop McGreggor and play Kouassi. I like him very much and Callum has been poor of late. I would also gofer Griff and give him the chance to prove he should be playing, if he hasn't scored up until 60mins give young Eduoard a shot.

23 Jan 2018 17:05:38
Same old from uj. It's not us that are whoring our full squad about looking for teams to help pay the wage bill 🤣🤣🤣 we haven't been humiliated because we can't afford the wages ( pena, now alves) being forced out . Plus Accrington Stanley owner speaking out about how you tried to lower a development fee 🙈🙈🙈

We haven't been humiliated by trying to buy players who we can't afford any payment till may?

Did you see our accounts with healthy profit margins? As opposed to yours which state yous need 4 million in loans just to hobble like a wounded animal to the seasons end 🙈

Yeah we are skint mate 🤣🤣🤣🤣.