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28 Dec 2024 12:46:58
With Paul Tisdale recently appointed Head of Football Operations will we start to see activity in the January market at the start of the window rather than have to scramble at the tail end of it?
1.) 29 Dec 2024 03:41:13
Hopefully we will hear about a couple of signings soon.
I think it was around this time of the year when we announced the signings of Hatate and Maeda.
26 Aug 2024 11:02:37
Sly are saying we have submitted a £6.5m bid for Engles. Is that the way it's done? Lowball a bid and hope it gets accepted, or is that just the way Celtic do it?
1.) 26 Aug 2024 11:29:04
Or maybe it's just the usual MSM having no idea exactly what's going on and the deal is being discussed.
Other reports saying the personal terms are already agreed but technically until a bid is accepted, we can't talk to the player.
{Ed007's Note - We can talk to his agent though. MOR had agreed terms with both Aralanta and Brighton through his agent.
2.) 26 Aug 2024 11:38:09
Been rejected going to have to go to about 8m or higher. we've got the fecking money.
3.) 26 Aug 2024 11:54:57
How many low ball bids did the Italian outfit submit fir O'Reilly if the news is to believed.
4.) 26 Aug 2024 12:10:51
Every club will most likely offer low first, if we offered say 10m to start with, we’ve shot ourselves in the foot because we then can’t go any lower than that, Atalanta offered 14m apparently for MOR then the last one was 23m, it’s just the way negotiations work.
We will have a limit for Engels but it makes financial sense to try and get the best deal possible first, have faith.
5.) 26 Aug 2024 11:33:29
They don’t know any other way. 4 days to go and they are still effin about like barsteward amateurs. Get it done!
6.) 26 Aug 2024 13:20:46
It's all well and good putting in a low figure but when it's the last few days of the window is a joke. But it's hardly a surprise is it.
23 Jul 2024 17:04:34
Reading that everything is in line for Bernardo to have a medical and then his signing will be announced.
1.) 24 Jul 2024 13:31:29
That's according to team talk who I would say are a clickbait site.
13 Jul 2024 16:44:41
There's talk that we are in the market for a second goalie in this window - if BR is looking at 2 main players plus a youngster in each position would that mean Bain and Siegrist are offski?
1.) 13 Jul 2024 17:07:38
I’m read Siegrist want to move to Australia to be with his girlfriends.
Bain is a decent Number 2.
2.) 13 Jul 2024 19:39:52
So would I buzz.
3.) 13 Jul 2024 20:32:43
Buzz,
It's an open secret Siegrist wants away ASAP.
Bain is an excuse for a GK and if he wasn't Scottish, like Welsh, he should be chased out of CP along London Rd.
Bain at best is 3rd rate and couldn'tkeep weans oot a close, I'd hope that BR is looking to bring in a back up to Kasper before this window closes.
☘️ ? ☘️.
4.) 13 Jul 2024 20:35:02
Bain is nowhere near good enough. Never will be. His lack of ambition says it all.
5.) 13 Jul 2024 22:41:11
I thought Seigrist cut a deal and was leaving on a free? I was surprised to see him against Queens Park. It didn’t work out and if he wants to go then let him I say. Whoever we get won’t do worse than a guy who contributes so little.
6.) 14 Jul 2024 00:22:36
After watching butterlands howler today? The man the daily rangers championed to replace pickford? Think kasper will be a good pair of gloves.
7.) 15 Jul 2024 10:29:45
That was the Daily Ranger trying to get their team a huge fee.
01 Jul 2024 16:18:17
Young left back, Magnus Mackenzie, has left Celtic permanently for Queens Park.
All the best young man and look forward to following your progress.
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21 Apr 2025 11:53:24
I know it's early in his career but should we stick with Sinasalo for the rest of the season and let Kasper fully recuperate?
For what it's worth I am liking what I see from Jimmy, that instinctive save was outstanding.
1.) 21 Apr 2025 13:23:01
I think we will see more of him next season than some people might be expecting.
2.) 21 Apr 2025 14:37:06
I’m not trying to be negative but Schmechels Injury might be a blessing in disguise.
Only gives Sinasalo the opportunity to progress and develop. Hopefully he becomes our new number one for years to come.
3.) 21 Apr 2025 16:12:40
Weeks ago we never imagined the team without KS, but knew we would have to at some point. sinasalo has been thrown in at the deep end at the most decisive part of the season and has responded very well.
I think it is very encouraging for his Celtic career considering we have also made a few changes in the back line along the way and other 'keepers may have found KS gloves too big to fill.
4.) 21 Apr 2025 17:47:15
Our young keeper certainly looks the part of a good goal keeper. The few goals he has conceded seem to have come from very good shots that could have beaten most keepers . His reflexes have been very good when called upon . When the ball comes to his feet he has looked confident and for the most part found a defender without panic or has cleared safely when a short pass wasn’t on .
Whether he is a goalkeeper for Celtic for a long time in future is debatable as young players often seem to get carried away quickly and seek the greener pastures elsewhere. I noticed in Champions League games he was watching very nervously as if he had been a life long Celtic fan.
5.) 21 Apr 2025 20:52:19
Cup final is our priority now, I agree Sinasalo is our best option depending on fitness at that time.
Roll on the treble ? ? ???.
16 Apr 2025 08:42:55
Was good seeing Hatate and CCV have pots from outside the box.
It sure beats the passing for passing sake as it's direct and the passing is side to side. If passing sidewards was the Scottish standard and the way to play the game then we would have won the league in the first month of the season.
Takes me back to watching the likes of Murdo and big Tam Gemmell - the patron saint of the blooter. A few of these each game would soften up any defence.
When TG took a penalty and the keeper got a hold of it both he and the ball would end up in the back of the net and a goal would be guaranteed every time one was awarded.
I'm not saying the Hatate's and CCV's were blooters, but seeing one or two during a game would sure lessen the frustration of seeing the ball passed sidewards as much as it does.
1.) 16 Apr 2025 10:36:25
I was only saying last week that I couldn’t remember CCV hitting a long range shot since he scored a deflection on his debut against Ross County.
Celtic were struggling to break them down but then CCV scored the opener in the second half in our 3-0 win.
2.) 16 Apr 2025 18:18:18
The passing and moving against Killmarnock had the Ayrshire heads spinning . We were playing like a team who wanted to get a message across.
I don’t know whether BR had intimidated or bullied the players or maybe he had spent the week encouraging and building up their confidence, whatever he did certainly worked as we really swept Killie aside in perhaps the best first half this season . As to be expected and probably wisely Celtic turned down the high speed attacking in 2 nd half and scored just one more, whilst starving Killie of ball . Overall 5-1 victory and a world record number of passes, 1010 I think.
30 Mar 2025 12:47:17
If Nawrocki is a right footed player playing at LCB and CCV leads with the same foot at RCB, then surely giving CCV a rest to try and get his foot sorted and having Nawrocki playing alongside Trusty, surely that's a sensible option and would suit BRs policy of having round pegs in round holes.
1.) 30 Mar 2025 12:59:21
Maybe it would be sensible but maybe having our centre defence missing CCV unnecessary is a risk BR is not prepared to take . We may know better next weekend when surely Trusty will be fit and ready to reclaim his place on team.
2.) 30 Mar 2025 15:22:27
It shows how dependent we are on CCV and how much we need to bring in better options than we have at present in the summer.
3.) 31 Mar 2025 23:19:36
I would try that but only when the league is rapped up.
I would also play our reserves at Mordor as we could probably expect to go there the second last game of the saeason which is only a couple of weeks before the cup final and I would expect the gremlin will instruct his players to kick us off the park.
04 Mar 2025 21:04:58
Watching the Real v Atleti game and the first goal has Rio Ferdinand purring and saying it's a top quality, high level goal. Kuhn scores these regularly and no-one bats an eyelid. It's a sad day when top-quality pundit Alana Hutton and anal-yst Sally McCoist sitting there with their thumbs in their mouths saying feck all.
1.) 04 Mar 2025 21:58:38
The Real Madrid player jumped into the crowd when he scored the winner but yet no booking.
2.) 04 Mar 2025 22:22:20
Thought that too Buzz but he did get booked.
3.) 04 Mar 2025 23:00:27
Cheers Stevie thank goodness.
I never noticed watching the game and thought that wasn’t right ?.
4.) 05 Mar 2025 15:19:46
Yhe rules changed regarding players going into the crowd, the new rule states that going into the crowd isn't a yellow card offence unless the ref decides its a safety concern.
If a player goes to the crowd and they just celebrate it won't be a card but if all the wee fannies start coming onto the pitch then it should be a yellow card offence.
5.) 05 Mar 2025 17:21:44
I thought Real Madrids goal scorers would be ideal back-ups for both Kuhn and Maeda, imagine both coming on for us with 30 mins left.
03 Mar 2025 18:30:33
With some free weeks ahead of us should we be using one or two of them to test our abilities by playing friendlies against European opposition or would the rest and recuperation benefit us more?
1.) 03 Mar 2025 19:36:01
In my opinion, I think we have started the last three league games a bit sluggishly and although we have rallied well with excellent substitutions and second half performances, I think we should use the midweek 'breaks' to rest and recharge for the important run-in.
2.) 03 Mar 2025 19:40:43
I think BR and coaches are for almost the first time this season have time to coach Celtic first team squad in specific areas of the game . Examples corner kick attacking routines and corner kick defensive routines . Attacking free kicks around pen area . With 6 and 7 days breaks in most weeks until almost season end, Brendan will surely want to try to improve skills and work rate . I doubt apart from maybe this week and next will he want to give team rests and quite frankly friendlies against uninterested European teams would hardly improve anyone.
3.) 04 Mar 2025 01:47:39
There’s been a big difference with clean sheets at home compared to recent away games in the league.
Aberdeen scoring in the 90th minute was the first goal Celtic had conceded at home in the league in 10 league matches and Aberdeen remain the only club to have scored a league goal at Celtic Park this season.
Celtic haven’t had a clean sheet away from home in the league since our goalless draw at Dundee Utd.
We haven’t kept a clean sheet and won away since Hatate scored the only goal away to Aberdeen at the start of December.
4.) 04 Mar 2025 09:12:24
Wee des, we can do both. Working on set pieces and shape is not necessarily high intensity. At this stage of the season fitness is in no way an issue so having no mid week games (high intensity) allows the players much longer recovery time. Not all training needs to be done on the grass.
5.) 04 Mar 2025 18:16:48
I suppose 16 points in the lead in SPL with 9 games left . SLC won and in quarter final of Scottish Cup would indicate that BR, if he hasn’t defensive coaching skills, someone amongst coaches has coaching winning skills . Champions League is a good barometer of skills and certainly against some very good European teams Celtic showed good defensive and attacking ability, enough to leave almost all Celtic supporters confident of BR defensive coaching ability .
There is little doubt at the end of an exceptionally busy programme of 2 or 3 games a week, sometimes travelling distances in Europe our players suffered fatigue, some fans reckoned the fatigue played a role in defensive slackness and I suppose with the good form so far we can give the defence some rope.
6.) 05 Mar 2025 20:58:41
The reason we have Casper is for him to top other team scoring . He is an integrate part of our defensive unit. Most if not all teams who qualify for knock out stages of Champions League have a goalie comparable to Casper S.
16 Apr 2025 09:17:50
Is Ajer not a right footed player? If CCV stays then we won't be in for him as BR won't play him at LCB.
26 Aug 2024 18:02:34
We sold him for £14m - can't see CP looking at what Celtic would want to pay for him - there's better out there for less.
26 Aug 2024 17:59:03
Got to remember he downed tools before he left. If he comes back he would need to significantly reduce his weekly wage, put a smile on his face and score plenty. Can you see this happening?
10 Jan 2024 20:04:12
There are two ways to go about this.
1. Speculate To Accumulate.
Go out and buy the players we need - spend a bit of money and get the players in. Offset the cost by selling/ loaning fringe players to get them off the wage bill. Net spend could end up positive.
2. The Risk Averse Method.
Sell/ Loan out the fringe players to accumulate a figure and then buy players within the amount raised. Net spend could end up negative or break even.
Guess what one looks like the Celtic method?
09 Jan 2024 20:03:56
What I was trying to get at, probably a bit cynically, was that although we are a cash rich club, we will actively look at ways of not spending.
27 Apr 2025 21:32:32
100% Ed007. Steven McManus and Darren O'Dea aren't exactly Louis van Gaal or any of the Man Utd trio.
{Ed007's Note - There's guys on here could coach our B team to play in that lowland league, any youth coach worth his salt isn't going to come here to coach at that level, we're offering them nothing so it's guys like McManus who are happy to be involved in coaching with Celtic, his other options would be the same job at another SPFL team for less wages and the same problems. JAW's laddie was being chased by most clubs in Scotland including Celtic but they chose St Mirren, I'll give him a shout for his input on this ????
27 Apr 2025 17:22:36
That was exactly my point - Ed007 - we're going nowhere with the youth setup where we could overhaul it or disband it and spend the money on buying in some extremely promising players and either have them in training with the first team squad or loaning them out to get play time. Where's the logic of spending money on bringing no-one through?
{Ed007's Note - I honestly don't think Celtic alone can do anything to improve our youth set-up, it needs to be all the clubs coming together with the SFA, SPFL and the Scottish government to instigate changes to improve things across the board at that level. Celtic investing millions in our own youth set-up is just throwing good money after bad imo, young players simply aren't going to learn anything or improve while playing against guys that have just finished their shift in the local factory or garage.
That is the missing step at Celtic, the bridge between youth & senior squads but the B team is frozen in a wasteland. Just look how players improve out on loan, playing every week against a decent/normal standard of opponent will help out more than all the coaching & tactics in the world at that age.
We need to get back to a proper reserve league that is compulsory for Premier League teams, youngsters, back-up players & players returning from injury etc playing in a proper competitive league, you just can't coach that playing experience into youngsters.}
27 Apr 2025 12:42:29
I'd like to see the youth system overhauled and bring in a director of youth who has total control of the setup and is answerable to the like of Rogers - someone like Ronnie Deila. There has to be a more potent pathway showing progressive movement and the position each player plays in should mirror the first team - so if a central defender is out for a poeriod of time then the replacement should be able to step in seamlessly. If we could get that sorted then we could eand up saving a substantial amount of money on transfer fees.
Refer to the Ajax system when the youth coach was Louis van Gaal and Manchester United under Nobby Stles, Brian Kidd and Jim Ryan. We should be capable of doing this and if we can increase the wages of the more promising players to prevent them being snapped up by other clubs who pay a helluva lot more than we do.
{Ed007's Note - You can't polish a jobby though Stengo. The young players simply aren't good enough to make their way through our youth system to the first team, for a start playing in that Lowland League isn't doing them any good what so ever - we need to get back to a competitive reserve league - and if you throw them in at the deep end in the first team they aren't allowed to make mistakes by the fans, fans would demand he be replaced by a multi-million £ player, the board are being stingy etc etc
If we brought a youth player through this season who at 20-year-old came in and contributed 10 goals & 12 assists, played 50 games, broke into a top international team, won 6/7 MOTM awards, impressed everyone during our successful Euro campaign & being an integral part of us winning hopefully a treble, we’d all be raving about him and saying how he was worth £25/30 million.... Yet some Celtic fans moan about the Engels fee, imagine how louder that moaning would be if he was our own product?
On the subject of the B/youth teams playing the same as the first team, we done that with Ange and from the moment he left what was the point of doing that? Ajax youngsters are taught to play in every outfield position to improve their understanding of the overall game.
Scouting Africa would be a major waste of time & money, players can't move country until they are 18 and since Brexit - even though it's easier up here than England - work permits are a pain in the bum & not many young Africans would qualify.}
24 Apr 2025 17:27:06
They're absolutely desparate that we don't get to 56 before them that they're looking at a takeover, possibly league reconstruction -anything to stop them clinging to the tag of second best.
If there is a takeover the money won't be spent on buying players - would you give the money to a recruitment team to squander on the dross they have brought in? No, the money would be used to shore up the balance sheet to make it attractive to investors. Then when it's time for recruitment it will be too late - they WILL be second best as we'll be having the 56 before them.
19 Apr 2025 13:27:06
Best thing for them is to keep Wee Ned in place - build up passion (lol) within the team and then get someone else in - but by then it'll be too late - we'll have got the 56.