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Summer '18 Transfer Window; all Celtic stuff in here
Topic Started: 21 May 2018, 11:41 AM (855,341 Views)
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We will get more than 25m if we qualify for the CL. We won't qualify for the CL if we sell him. Be sensible, Lawwel and Co.
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The football food-chain dictates that any club is concerned about losing their top talent to the larger, wealthier fish in the water, but given the relatively small pond that Celtic operate in in terms of budget on a European scale, Rodgers recognises that replacing these players like-for-like will be a difficult task.

"It's quality I'm after,” he said. "We are not a team that needs recycling. This is a team that has grown, is developing and evolving. I just want to sprinkle it with quality.

"There is no doubt we need to replace first and foremost. We need to have the base of a strong squad and then, if we can add to that it would be important.

"I'm very happy with the players we have here but I also know that when you are doing really well, you always need to strengthen. Of course, we always want to add competition. That’s important. But it’s not easy because we don’t have the funds. If we are losing a player for say £20m, we’ve got to replace that.

“It’s not easy. We’ve got boys like Rogic who are fantastic talents. To bring in guys who are better than these, that costs money. That’s for the club really.”

Rodgers is constantly striving to improve his side, but even if he doesn’t lose any more of his stars, he says that bringing in players who can add to what he already has is hard enough under the budget constraints he has to work within.

“That’s the difficult thing for us,” he said. “Because for someone to come in over Callum McGregor, for example, that would cost a lot of money. To come in over Tom Rogic, Moussa Dembele or Odsonne Edouard or Leigh Griffiths, that costs money.

“That doesn’t mean we can’t improve. The club, as you know, that’s now how they’ve operated. It’s not how they work. My job is to maximise an invest coaching into the talents we have and make them the best we possibly can.

“Like we’ve seen with Stuart Armstrong, at times that means you’ll end up losing players. You are happy they are going onto different competitions and you’ve done your very best for them.

“So, it’s catch 22 really. The market now just gets away from you each year – especially the market we are in.”

So, just how do Celtic go about improving on what they have achieved over the last two trophy-laden seasons?

“What we can look at is two-fold,” Rodgers explained. “One, is the players that are here. I’ve seen development in a lot of the players. I still think there’s more within those.

“Callum McGregor, for example, I look at the authority and the confidence he plays with now to when I came in. There’s more to come from him as well.

“I think you can look at lots of players throughout the squad. We look at Jack Hendry, Kristoffer Ajer, Kieran Tierney, Olivier Ntcham, Odsonne Edouard. They are all very young. They are all developing talents and that really excites me in terms of how well they can do.

“But always with that you’ve got to be looking to bring in players to add. At the moment we have to replace. We’ve got two players out of the squad in terms of Stuart Armstrong and Patrick Roberts. They were very influential players for us. So, we need to replace them before we can think about adding to the squad.

“With the players that are here, there’s a lot of room for development because they are so young. Even the older players can always learn and develop.

“But you always want to bring in players that can keep us moving forward hopefully.”
http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/brendan-rodgers
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This is the type of situation where the early window close for the EPL can be both a positive and a negative. Negative because the window closes before champions league qualification is finished, and the board might be more willing to take money like this as an insurance policy. Positive because we don’t have to deal with this daft paper talk during the crunch 3rd and 4th rounds. Five long weeks to go.

Edit: Six weeks
Edited by drosejr, 29 Jun 2018, 11:43 PM.
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The fee should be £35m and not a penny less.

I hope and pray he stays.
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29 Jun 2018, 11:15 PM
under pressure from who? :suspect:

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The best price? Asda price? :twitch:
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After qualifying for the CL twice in a row, pocketing a close to a record fee for a player two years after he left the club, pocketing 7 million for a guy in the last year of his deal, and able to break our transfer record on someone who is still a work in progress - if we need to sell Tierney then something isn't right. Don't see it happening at least until after the ten.
Edited by Country Mac, 29 Jun 2018, 11:45 PM.
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Unless the fee is ridiculous then there's no worries yet.

£25 million isn't that fee. Papers talk , usual suspects fuel the waffle , online rumour mongers hedge their predictions but I'm pretty confident he's here for 10.
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29 Jun 2018, 11:44 PM
After qualifying for the CL twice in a row, pocketing a close to a record fee for a player two years after he left the club, pocketing 7 million for a guy in the last year of his deal, and able to break our transfer record on someone who is still a work in progress - if we need to sell Tierney then something isn't right. Don't see it happening at least until after the ten.
The feeling I get though is that his agent advisors or whatever are up to mischief and trying to turn his head.
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drosejr
29 Jun 2018, 11:39 PM
This is the type of situation where the early window close for the EPL can be both a positive and a negative. Negative because the window closes before champions league qualification is finished, and the board might be more willing to take money like this as an insurance policy. Positive because we don’t have to deal with this daft paper talk during the crunch 3rd and 4th rounds. Five long weeks to go.

Edit: Six weeks
Very good point.
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29 Jun 2018, 11:50 PM
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29 Jun 2018, 11:44 PM
After qualifying for the CL twice in a row, pocketing a close to a record fee for a player two years after he left the club, pocketing 7 million for a guy in the last year of his deal, and able to break our transfer record on someone who is still a work in progress - if we need to sell Tierney then something isn't right. Don't see it happening at least until after the ten.
The feeling I get though is that his agent advisors or whatever are up to mischief and trying to turn his head.
its a agent he moved to in november though; what exactly was he signed up to do?
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Country Mac
29 Jun 2018, 11:44 PM
After qualifying for the CL twice in a row, pocketing a close to a record fee for a player two years after he left the club, pocketing 7 million for a guy in the last year of his deal, and able to break our transfer record on someone who is still a work in progress - if we need to sell Tierney then something isn't right. Don't see it happening at least until after the ten.
i dont think celtic would be trying to cash in, if tierney leaves it will be because he wants to go
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Sack the agent. Everton? Aye, definitely got his best interests at heart there.

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29 Jun 2018, 11:44 PM
After qualifying for the CL twice in a row, pocketing a close to a record fee for a player two years after he left the club, pocketing 7 million for a guy in the last year of his deal, and able to break our transfer record on someone who is still a work in progress - if we need to sell Tierney then something isn't right. Don't see it happening at least until after the ten.
We don't need to sell. But there will be a price we would have to accept. If that is reached, then it will be down to KT. I would expect him to knock it back for now.

The quotes from Brendan are actually quite positive. He recognises we have a few young developing players and what we need is quality rather than more of the same.
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If the reports of £60,000 per week are right then he should be sacking the agent. He’s worth at least double that in the English market (I’m pretty sure Luke Shaw is on over £100k a week).
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29 Jun 2018, 11:55 PM
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29 Jun 2018, 11:44 PM
After qualifying for the CL twice in a row, pocketing a close to a record fee for a player two years after he left the club, pocketing 7 million for a guy in the last year of his deal, and able to break our transfer record on someone who is still a work in progress - if we need to sell Tierney then something isn't right. Don't see it happening at least until after the ten.
We don't need to sell. But there will be a price we would have to accept. If that is reached, then it will be down to KT. I would expect him to knock it back for now.

The quotes from Brendan are actually quite positive. He recognises we have a few young developing players and what we need is quality rather than more of the same.
have to be honest read it totally different way; BR sounds annoyed... it almost read to me he didn't get a transfer target he wanted or feels he isn't being backed.
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Gonny be some twitchy arses waiting on that teamsheet tomorrow
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I think Everton have been feeding the press with this story
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30 Jun 2018, 12:03 AM
I think Everton have been feeding the press with this story
100% from liverpool area.. question is it a flyer or is it real confidence.

one thing i keep thinking, lets say this is true and KT wants to go.. Everton?? jesus, doesn't say much going to a club that is second in their own city and won't win anything... if your leaving for £25-30m you should be going to better than that, you don't need to do what VVD did... he'd be behind Andy Robertson for rest of his career down there.
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Don’t believe it for a minute. Had the same shampoo with Moussa about 5 times. I don’t think he could have made it any clearer that he’s not interested in leaving any time soon unless he got the Celtic badge tattoo’d on his forehead
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Losing Tierney would be an absolute disaster for us and shouldn’t be entertained at any price. We don’t need the money and he’s not replaceable at our level regardless.

It would leave us needing two fullbacks for the CL qualifiers.
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