Celtic rumours 2

12 Apr 2025 11:30:00

Celtic v Kilmarnock:

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12 Apr 2025 11:46:14
Our strongest bench for a while.
I fancy 3-0 today.

07 Apr 2025 14:41:35
I think our corners this season have been better than previous seasons but there's still not a big enough threat.

I done quick calculations of the goals coming from our recent Centre Backs.

Nawrocki hasn't scored and I don't think Nat Philips or Kobayashi scored either.
Ajer, Trusty, CCV, Starfelt have only scored between 3% to 4.5% between them which is poor.

Welsh is about 6% and Scales 7% of games.
Duffy was a big threat but he was only on loan.
Lagerbielke has 10% but has scored one goal in only 10 games for Celtic.

I actually thought we might need to go back to Boyata to find a Celtic CB with a decent record but then I noticed Jullien had a 16% scoring record for Celtic.
It's those types of scoring figures Celtic have been lacking in these last 5 seasons.

Celtic also need a free kick specialist because we haven't scored direct from a free kick in the league for over 4 years and that's shocking.
I remember Turnbull scoring an in-direct free kick against St. Johnstone to make it 4-1 in injury time a few seasons ago.
Also Jota against Real Madrid in the CL.

I can't remember any more since Turnbull scored in lockdown against Hibs direct from a free kick, when we had about 15 players banned.

Celtic score loads of goals from open play but we definitely lack goals from set pieces.
It's a long overdue area we need to improve on next season.

09 Apr 2025 08:37:09
When was the last time we scored direct from a freekick.

10 Apr 2025 19:59:31
4 yrs ago, Mallythetally2 . In fairness certain teams should practice taking free kicks outside the area, as the slightest touch and a dive wins a free kick in an optimum position .
We don’t do too badly at corners as we lack the height of most teams . Usually we have only 2 big strong players and if they attempt to use their weight, ref will penalise him . If Idah happens to play then we have 3 men with a bit of height giving penalty taker some options . We have to be smart with our corners them up them mix up near post, back post and short corners.

06 Apr 2025 10:45:00

Celtic v St. Johnstone:

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06 Apr 2025 11:11:51
St Johnstone Mark 👍🏻.

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06 Apr 2025 11:13:32
Nawrocki should be starting ahead of trusty.

06 Apr 2025 11:35:30
Very tough on Narwocki who hasn't put a foot wrong since bailing the manager out of a defensive hole. The only thing I can think of is that Trusty was brought in by BR and is the preferred choice?

06 Apr 2025 11:47:00
Brendan is back playing his first choice outfield team.
That’s the outfield team that will hopefully bring continuity until the end of the season.

06 Apr 2025 11:47:58
I’ve got at least 3 Celtic goals and at least 8 Celtic corners @ 5/ 2.

30 Mar 2025 22:29:31
Anyone convinced that Kyogo will end up playing for the Bhoys once again?
I thought if things didn't work out for him he'd try his luck in the USA and get sunshine and a good financial deal.

31 Mar 2025 12:49:59
Unlike Jota who left on a high, I think Kyogo was on a steady decline compared to the standards he set in his first 2 seasons. Now we have Maeda playing out of his skin with Idah as back-up and I don't see any way back unless our squad changes drastically in the summer and even then it would probably be a non-starter.

{Ed007's Note - Kyogo's behaviour & attitude since he told Rodgers he wanted to leave has left a sour taste in the manager's mouth, there is no way he would take him back.
Why would anyone want to bring back a player that couldn't wait to get out & forced a move away at a crucial point in the season, a player that was declining in quality, a player who was carrying an injury that he refused to get operated on?
And I couldn't bear to go back to hearing all the "Best since Henrik" garbage!}

31 Mar 2025 15:11:11
Talking about Larson mate who would you say has been the best since he left. Mb Griff if the boy screwd the nut not sure to b honest.

{Ed007's Note - From the first few games watching Kyogo I said he was never an out & out striker and I always said he wasn't good enough to be Celtic's "main man" up front. Kyogo hasn't got that natural poacher's instinct which the amount of sitters he missed highlighted so for that I'd have Gary Hooper, Scott McDonald, Dembele and Edouard over him any day but I think for 2/3 season Leigh Griffiths - a player I never wanted us to sign - was in front of them all as an all round striker. LG could score from anywhere in & around the box, headers, free-kicks the lot, it's just a pity how things turned out at Celtic for him.
Just imagine how many goals someone like Hooper or LG in his prime would have scored under Ange's system and Rodgers' when it's clicking.}

31 Mar 2025 15:44:29
No chance imo. It was the right player and the right club at the exact right time when Ange came in. Rodgers will have something new in mind moving forward.

31 Mar 2025 23:11:04
No chance do I want him back, If a player is that desperate to leave then let him stew.
Also I mentioned in another post that in his time here he was only the top scorer at the club in 1 season which isn't good enough if you are the main striker.

01 Apr 2025 17:41:00
So hopefully everyone is stopping creaming their pants over the greatest fraud of all GG who couldn't wait to get out and join a backwater league at the "peak of his powers".

02 Apr 2025 16:05:34
Not for me. He wanted to leave and give himself a chance to force his way into Japan's world cup squad apparently. That's since failed miserably so he won't be welcomed back with open arms. He's the wrong side of 30 too. There are better options out there that will benefit the club in the long term.

03 Apr 2025 12:55:14
I wouldn’t want Kyogo back for a few reasons, first of all, his on field standards have dropped and we need better as our ist choice striker. Maeda is playing better as a striker than Kyogo has played this season or last . But many think we need Maeda on the wing for his incredible work rate . .
I can’t believe Board and manager were happy with the timing of his leaving us, mid season whilst still in Champions League .
To me, the most important aspect, is that we already have bought back 2 players after we sold them . I think that is rather unusual in the game I would hate us to do this more often as it’s a reputation that we don’t want to have . It would be bad if clubs stopped buying from us because they thought that they would lose money because players we sold kept talking about returning to us at a very great financial lost to club that bought him from us originally.

03 Apr 2025 21:29:50
Kyogo is by some distance the best forward since Henrik, it's unfortunate we have a manager who doesn't, I mean didn't know how to set the team up to get the best out of him, the stench of double standards in this stream is overwhelming, Rodgers left in much worse circumstances than Kyogo, talking about sour tastes in mouths, how many mouths did Rodgers fill with bile when he left, but now it's a big love in for him, that's how politics works, they know the masses, us, have short memories.

03 Apr 2025 22:40:02
It was the board and the manager, that facilitated his leaving, they, I mean Rodgers looked at getting 10 million for him, as a way of balancing the books, after wasting 9 million on Idah.

03 Apr 2025 23:08:20
His contract wasn't up, why did the board let him leave?, why did the manager sanction it?, because he is not Rodgers type of player, he is a free spirit, he does not want to follow systems, he wants to play the match as the match develops, he is a natural, that is what is wrong with Scottish football, young players are not being allowed to play the way want, the way they feel, they are being over coached, and not being allowed to develop their natural abilities,

05 Apr 2025 01:26:25
I can’t believe what I am reading about the free spirit who left us in mid -season and still very much involved in Champions League .
It’s agreed by most people that when a player pushes hard to leave, wise managers and board usually agree to let him go, as they don’t want an unhappy player interfering with the firs team squad harmony and and togetherness
BR wouldn’t be as highly regarded as he is in UK football, if he had relied on our ist team’s tactics to be based solely on getting best possible service to a striker and not using the best skills of our other attacking players to create and score freely . Kyogo never played as a young player under BR and he given the freedom to play all over the pitch . The seasons that he scored heavily under Ange, ” his free spirit “ wings were severely cut as he played on the shoulder of the last defender . BR tried to improve his skill and participation in match by having him on the last defender’s shoulder, as well as coming short for ball and releasing another attacker who when he played ball in Kyogo would be in his key position.

29 Mar 2025 12:17:32

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25 Mar 2025 16:59:53
Elvis Rexhbecaj, Engels former teammate in Germany, is the latest defensive midfielder to be 'linked' with us.


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26 Mar 2025 10:59:10
Uh huh huh huh.

26 Mar 2025 14:28:57
Jambo1888 😉

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26 Mar 2025 19:12:23
My head gets light with the number of players linked to us . It isn’t one bit wonder that we find it difficult to sign players because we are so spoilt for choice that when the window opens, it takes almost the whole window to narrow the lists down to a workable amount.
I am sure all these players that are linked to Celtic are genuine players that our recruitment team have unearthed and made contract with .
Sure the SMSM would do due diligence before publishing to make sure all the players are really linked with Celtic and not just rejects of Sevco, who have a transfer war-chest never previously seen in Scotland.

25 Mar 2025 14:02:43
Nothing has been confirmed yet but it's looking like Kasper has received the worst injury in his 20 year career.

Schmeichel missed the last 6 weeks of the 2018 season with an ankle injury.
That's been his longest absence according to Flashscore, since he first started playing in the 2005/ 06 season.

{Ed007's Note - I seen he might be out until September at least.}

25 Mar 2025 15:04:44
ED007 and Buzz looks like the young Czech goalkeeper will be getting plenty of game time, despite Brendan not giving him game time in cup games.
Also I heard Maeda had a bruised leg but still wanted to play for Japan today
We could have a few walking wounded returning to Celtic Park this week.

25 Mar 2025 18:19:23
The Bayer Leverkusen keeper is keeping Sinisalo out of the Finland team.
He stayed on the bench in their 2 games over the last week.

Sinisalo has been unlucky to be 2nd choice to a couple of great Goalkeepers and he will finally get his chance.

Sinisalo has only played against Raith Rovers this season due to Celtic being drawn against Premiership clubs in the cup competitions.

26 Mar 2025 19:33:40
I am sure BR target a domestic treble at the start of the season. With our super domestic success for the last 10 yrs or so, anything less than a treble is almost regarded as some Celtic fans as a failure . So BR hadn’t much option but to play his first choice ‘keeper with the lead we have in SPL Sinisalo our reserve
goalkeeper will be under less pressure playing SPL games . He played a full season for Exeter, so he has decent experience.
I would be worried with Schmeichel if he is out for about 6 mths at his age his career at the top could be over.
I wouldn’t really worry about Maeda as he often limps off when playing for Celtic and returns 3/ 4 days later and run his opponents into the ground .
H. ns players lined up the other Sunday to kick, elbow and hit him with anything they could and although he was limping he still gave them a run around.

20 Mar 2025 17:30:19
ED007 (YES It's ME, new laptop not recognising any of my passwords groan)

Are there any truths in these stories about the Guincamp defender Sidibe and also the Strelec stories about bids being put in

I am sceptical because our Board do not move this quickly or early.

{Ed007's Note - I don't know of any bids for anyone going in, Timbo but Celtic asked Slovan Bratislava to be kept up to date with David Strelec's situation after he didn't get his move in January - we couldn't agree a fee - even though his club expected him to leave, they wanted €11m which nobody was willing to pay.
Kalidou Sidibe is a monster of a CDM standing at 6ft 7, he ticks a lot of boxes in what a lot of supporters are screaming out for to be added to the midfield.}

21 Mar 2025 17:10:34
Cheers ED007 what I found amazing is prices quoted for Sidibe under £2m.

{Ed007's Note - He enters the final year of his contract this summer.}

21 Mar 2025 17:47:36
6"6 might be what we've been looking for.

21 Mar 2025 23:06:29
A monster of a CDM - he'd be of no use to us 😆 😅 😂


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20 Mar 2025 15:16:51
An article has mentioned that Celtic will cash in on CCV and Khun this summer.

Both players are contracted until 2029 with CCV signing a 5.5 year extension only 14 months ago.

It also mentioned that Khun wanted to leave in the January transfer window and he will get his wish at the end of this season.

I'm not sure if the article is accurate because it also mentioned a possible Kris Ajer return.
Ajer signed a contract extension with Brentford which has 4 years left.
Ajer would be out of our price range and it makes me doubt the article.

20 Mar 2025 16:56:17
Would u want ajer back, good with ball no the best at defending.

20 Mar 2025 18:09:08
Maybe the holding mid we are needing?

20 Mar 2025 21:57:44
Was he not one of the ones who downed tools in the failed 10Iar?

21 Mar 2025 15:44:20
Ajwr still can't defend, he has to grab onto a opposition players arms, when defending free kicks or corners, but that is allowed in English Football for some reason, you don't see penalty kicks being awarded for all the pushing and holding that goes on.

21 Mar 2025 22:10:55
Id take ajer back in a heartbeat but for a DM role. That was his natural position before he joined us.
I can't see the move happening as we would need to smash our record.

21 Mar 2025 23:07:59
Correct 9iar.

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25 Mar 2025 13:30:19
Never though Ajer was ever a centre back although he did have a few good games at right back. I always wanted to see him in midfield because he is very comfortable on the ball, is mobile and strong.

19 Mar 2025 12:45:00

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