09 Sep 2020 19:53:01
Anybody heard anything on a possibility of lewis Ferguson and celtic being linked with him.
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09 Sep 2020 21:20:22
To many midfielders.
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09 Sep 2020 23:01:00
It's been all over MSM and - like the Hickey rumours - I think it is pure speculation and possible mischief making, trying to trigger a bid from Sevco (especially if Kent or A N Other leaves) .
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10 Sep 2020 11:18:19
The hickey rumours were not exactly speculation. The boy even spoke about celtic offering him a contract.
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10 Sep 2020 12:04:50
Still didn't materialize though, so it remains rumour and speculation.
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10 Sep 2020 13:41:24
May not be popular opinion but think Ferguson would be a great signing. Gives us an extra bit of dig in midfield and imo would be ideal replacement for Brown.
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10 Sep 2020 14:43:38
He will end up at rangers i think.
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10 Sep 2020 15:53:11
I agree with Tomco. Easy to say we have to many midfielders, but Brown is just about finished and there has been speculation Christie isn't happy, Nchamp wants away and a couple of clubs are sniffing about Macgregor. The landscape could change really quickly. I think Fergusons value will rocket by the end of the season and he will be in demand like Mcginn was. He is the top young player in scotland outwith celtic and it would be remiss of us not to be looking seriously at him. i really don't want him at rangers, he could be their Broonie.
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10 Sep 2020 20:06:56
Ferguson would be a great signing. Like Turnbull, he's going to be a flippin great player. HH.
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10 Sep 2020 21:30:01
Well Hickey says that Celtic made him an offer, so does that not make it a fact, rather than rumour and speculation? .
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09 Sep 2020 12:25:43
Scott Robertson to Gillingham on loan.
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09 Sep 2020 14:37:25
That's a decent team to be going to - Steve Evans will look after him.
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09 Sep 2020 18:02:50
I have no confidence that any manager will look after a loan player even as much as he will look after his own . This is especially true if the manager doesn’t think that he will be signing player after the loan period is up .
I much prefer if we are going to loan a player out we do so to a club near Glasgow, so that our coaching staff can keep a good eye on him at all times .
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09 Sep 2020 18:33:05
Old man Chris, in general terms you are probably correct, but it happened with CalMac and Notts County and to a lesser extent with Jack Aitchison. Both players had the attitude that they were going to come back better players and they did. Aitchison cited the benefit CalMac had going on loan and followed suit. With Aitchison there just so happened to be better players when he came back. He's going to be a benefit to whoever signs him - by the looks of things at the moment, Barnsley.
It doesn't matter what player gets loaned out - if the loan player shows he's a benefit to the club then he'll be played. When you see the number of loanees sitting on the bench, or not included in the squad, it probably tells you something more of the player.
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09 Sep 2020 19:40:06
Done ajer and Christie the world of good also.
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09 Sep 2020 21:32:15
If he is better than what they have he will be looked after. If not he will find his level at Ross County or something. Always a hit or a miss but no point sitting about not getting competitive games. Good luck to him.
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10 Sep 2020 11:34:10
Players need games and getting loaned out shows us if they have what it takes. If they have the ability they will make it. It's not the loan that scuppers them, it's a lack of the standard we should always be striving for. Players move on and those young guys who are loaned out have games to show the manager they coukd do the job. Sitting in the stand or sitting on the bench doesn't.
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10 Sep 2020 15:26:04
For every two or three who go out on loan and come back to have a career with us, we have at least forty who come back a lot worse . This isn’t unique to Celtic . Take a look at Chelsea and Man City for example . Players who don’t go out on loan have a better chance of making in it with these clubs, than the hundreds who are loaned out . If a player can’t fight his way towards some playing time in some games at Celtic, going on loan won’t improve him.
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10 Sep 2020 17:35:14
Agree with you on that point OmC. I used to go to Parkhead in the 80s and 90s to watch both the youths and reserves. There were players who played exceptional football for their age group and I was always of the view they would go on and do well in the first team. They didn't, because they couldn't get any better than the level they were playing at.
Scott Robertson is going to a club where the manager is a Celtic supporter and the level Gillingham plays at should be the level he could sustain and get better. There is development potential with Robertson, as there was with Aitchison and Calmac, and he will come back a far better player. That, I have no doubt.
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12 Sep 2020 14:27:05
Ajer went to Kilmarnock when McCullough was Manager, Ajer still hasn’t managed to control his elbows and I know fans who are afraid to watch Ajer, as let’s his elbows lead the way as old Elbows Mc Cullough patiented.
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