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Summer '18 Transfer Window; all Celtic stuff in here
Topic Started: 21 May 2018, 11:41 AM (855,263 Views)
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Doesnt always cost massive amounts of cash. Players are out there. Viktor Fischer joined Copenhagen in January for 2 or 3 million and has been excellent for them. We need to be a little more creative I reckon.
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Doesnt always cost massive amounts of cash. Players are out there. Viktor Fischer joined Copenhagen in January for 2 or 3 million and has been excellent for them. We need to be a little more creative I reckon.
That’s not how it works, we need to wait until the English transfer window is closed before we can look for overpriced leftovers.
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Gerinho
7 Jul 2018, 09:36 AM
Doesnt always cost massive amounts of cash. Players are out there. Viktor Fischer joined Copenhagen in January for 2 or 3 million and has been excellent for them. We need to be a little more creative I reckon.
That’s not how it works, we need to wait until the English transfer window is closed before we can look for overpriced leftovers.
One player that might be kicking about then is that wee onyekuru we were after last year. Spent the year on loan at anderlecht and done pretty well.
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He says approximately this every window and we've had the same first team (give or take one or two players) for years. It's getting weird.
Aye, you're right pal, Rodgers out!

After all he's only won every domestic competition he's been manager for. :rubeyes:
Hey, why don't you flip out and overreact to what I said? That'd be normal!
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Gerinho
7 Jul 2018, 09:36 AM
Doesnt always cost massive amounts of cash. Players are out there. Viktor Fischer joined Copenhagen in January for 2 or 3 million and has been excellent for them. We need to be a little more creative I reckon.
That’s not how it works, we need to wait until the English transfer window is closed before we can look for overpriced leftovers.
One player that might be kicking about then is that wee onyekuru we were after last year. Spent the year on loan at anderlecht and done pretty well.
Is he not with Everton? :ph43r:
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A TRICKY thing about raising the bar is that it becomes increasingly
difficult to then take it up a further notch or two.

Or in the case of football, in particular Brendan Rodgers’ Celtic, it costs a lot of money to improve something which is already in pretty decent shape.

A few million quid is not going to buy a player better than any he already has.

This is why the manager is not doing his summer shopping in the bargain bins.

Odsonne Edouard cost a club record fee of £9million, a sum of money Celtic would never have spent on one player even a year ago, and with John McGinn looking set to come in as well – he is going to cost a few bob, if not the £5m Neil Lennon wanted – the next new man’s price tag will have a fair few zeroes.

After two seasons, Rodgers finds himself in a position wherein he doesn’t need a squad player, because, with all due respect, there are more than enough impact players already at Parkhead.

Celtic are looking for one more creative type, they are never cheap, and when the next summer signing is made, it will be for someone who can walk right into the team.

Rodgers said: “We need to strengthen. That’s something I’ve said all along. It’s about bringing players of the right quality in. It’s not a numbers game for us. We have a core squad that is very strong. We want to add to that.

“I don’t need to add guys who will be on the bench. I want guys who can come in and affect the team.

“We lost a couple of important players in Stuart Armstrong and Patrick Roberts, who was on loan. We need to replace that quality – and, if possible, add to it. That’s our job over the next couple of weeks.

“To improve us, the reality is that there has to be investment. We can’t deny that. If you want to improve and develop, that is important for the squad.

“But the players here have developed very well, players who have been fantastic for me for two years.

“To bring someone in who is ahead of them is going to take money. I’m working with the squad we have and we look to develop it, make the boys here any better.”
http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/sport/16339787


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KIERAN TIERNEY could be flogged by Celtic this summer - because they can't get Moussa Dembele off the books.

Tierney and Dembele are two of the club's most prized assets.

Both have been subject of interest from club's south of the border, but as yet no deals have gone through.

That's despite Celtic trying to move on French striker Dembele in January.

Journalist Duncan Castles explained the situation on the latest episode of The Transfer Window Podcast.

He said: "Just one bad summer (not qualifying for the Champions League group stages) could put a serious dent in their finances and if you talk to people involved with some of the players who are targets for Premier League clubs, they are very clear that Celtic have actively wanted to sell them.

"Moussa Dembele in January was marketed by Celtic, when Brighton came in with an offer, I'm told Celtic did everything in their power to persuade him to leave.

"The player didn't want to go, so the income they were expecting on that transfer - we're talking about £20m (they'd did't get). They are in that situation again of trying to sell Dembele.

"They haven't been able to get the transfer fee they want yet, so then the consideration is 'we may not be able to get all the money we want for Dembele, and we see the player is being very careful about where he goes for his next move, so perhaps we have to move onto Kieran Tierney who we know there is a great market for in England'.

"The difficulty in all this is going to be persuading the player to leave because he is a serious fan of his club and has resisted move and interest in him for some time.

"What's helping his cause is he's with a company like Stellar who are a huge agency which is dependent on making multiple transfers every summer and will push for these deals when it suits them, when the big commission can come."
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/Celtic-transfer-news
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Pish. If I didn't know better I'd say hun with a typewriter. We're punting our best players in case are we, our finances must be catastrophic.
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From what Rodgers is saying,,it appears we're 'replacing' Armstrong with McGinn...that doesn't improve the team...may do with time? But that is open to conjecture and how McGinn develops under Brendan Rodgers and his coaching team.....however Brendan mentions 'improving the team' and to be precise 'improving on the players who are already in the team' says...'That takes money' we have that money...but we may currently have to battle against English and other European clubs for the player/players Rodgers has in mind....he clearly wants 'real quality' added to improve the team though. Now it's up to Peter Lawwell to get him the players in question to improve the team ammidiately....ala Dembele, Sinclair, Ntcham (albeit Ntcham took a few months to really show how important he is) these are the sort of players Rodgers is after for improvement....we might not be able to get those players? Imo we'll be doing we'll be doing everything possible to get them for Brendan...we've proved with the signing of a very young Odsonne Edouard we'll pay very good money for a player....McGinn will be a 'replacement' the added quality for the improvement of the team will require a whole lot more money and negotiating....here's hoping we...and Brendan Rodgers gets who he wants.
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He says approximately this every window and we've had the same first team (give or take one or two players) for years. It's getting weird.
Aye, you're right pal, Rodgers out!

After all he's only won every domestic competition he's been manager for. :rubeyes:
I see any criticism of him whatsoever is still being interpreted as 'Rodgers out' then. Good stuff.
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Happy Joe
7 Jul 2018, 10:49 AM
From what Rodgers is saying,,it appears we're 'replacing' Armstrong with McGinn...that doesn't improve the team...may do with time? But that is open to conjecture and how McGinn develops under Brendan Rodgers and his coaching team.....however Brendan mentions 'improving the team' and to be precise 'improving on the players who are already in the team' says...'That takes money' we have that money...but we may currently have to battle against English and other European clubs for the player/players Rodgers has in mind....he clearly wants 'real quality' added to improve the team though. Now it's up to Peter Lawwell to get him the players in question to improve the team ammidiately....ala Dembele, Sinclair, Ntcham (albeit Ntcham took a few months to really show how important he is) these are the sort of players Rodgers is after for improvement....we might not be able to get those players? Imo we'll be doing we'll be doing everything possible to get them for Brendan...we've proved with the signing of a very young Odsonne Edouard we'll pay very good money for a player....McGinn will be a 'replacement' the added quality for the improvement of the team will require a whole lot more money and negotiating....here's hoping we...and Brendan Rodgers gets who he wants.
Some stats to back up what you're saying:
https://www.modernfitba.com/blogs/2018/6/29/go-compare-armstrong-vs-mcginn

It'd be Ntcham we'd be trying to replace with McGinn judging by general play but I don't see why we'd do that? :ponder: Unless BR sees McGinn as being a more attacking player than Lenny uses him as?
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7 Jul 2018, 09:20 AM



He said: "Just one bad summer (not qualifying for the Champions League group stages) could put a serious dent in their finances and if you talk to people involved with some of the players who are targets for Premier League clubs, they are very clear that Celtic have actively wanted to sell them.




https://www.dailystar.co.uk/Celtic-transfer-news




:lol: :lol: :lol: that is just lifted from what King said about a month back when trying to get the unwashed to part with their cash once again
Edited by OverAndOver, 7 Jul 2018, 11:47 AM.
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7 Jul 2018, 10:49 AM
From what Rodgers is saying,,it appears we're 'replacing' Armstrong with McGinn...that doesn't improve the team...may do with time? But that is open to conjecture and how McGinn develops under Brendan Rodgers and his coaching team.....however Brendan mentions 'improving the team' and to be precise 'improving on the players who are already in the team' says...'That takes money' we have that money...but we may currently have to battle against English and other European clubs for the player/players Rodgers has in mind....he clearly wants 'real quality' added to improve the team though. Now it's up to Peter Lawwell to get him the players in question to improve the team ammidiately....ala Dembele, Sinclair, Ntcham (albeit Ntcham took a few months to really show how important he is) these are the sort of players Rodgers is after for improvement....we might not be able to get those players? Imo we'll be doing we'll be doing everything possible to get them for Brendan...we've proved with the signing of a very young Odsonne Edouard we'll pay very good money for a player....McGinn will be a 'replacement' the added quality for the improvement of the team will require a whole lot more money and negotiating....here's hoping we...and Brendan Rodgers gets who he wants.
Some stats to back up what you're saying:
https://www.modernfitba.com/blogs/2018/6/29/go-compare-armstrong-vs-mcginn

It'd be Ntcham we'd be trying to replace with McGinn judging by general play but I don't see why we'd do that? :ponder: Unless BR sees McGinn as being a more attacking player than Lenny uses him as?
Possibly a long term replacement for Ntcham? Let's face it...if Ntcham continues to improve..he'll be sold at some point..although hopefully after he's signed another contract and we get 3 years or more out of him. McGinn at present doesn't replace any player in our team...but with improvement and the possibility of other players leaving? He's the type that may stay at Celtic for a much longer time than Ntcham.
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I don't think we have a midfielder who's less like McGinn than Ntcham.
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It still surprises me that anyone pays any attention to what managers (including BR) say to the media about transfer policy. They're not going to show their cards and so inevitably it turns out to be generic & vague chat about bringing in quality etc. - just words to fill space.

Anyone who hangs on every word Brendan says about transfers is bound to be disappointed IMO.
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Castles is a Scot who's own team are that pish he's ended up being more of a fan of English fitba and a certain team. Like a lot of fans of shampooey teams he imagines every other club to be in the same pisition as his His work is mainly about down there too and unless he is spinning a story for Jose Mourinho I doubt there is anything worthy of attention in his articles.
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Duncan Castles isn’t even a real castle; a bastarding floof of a boy.
Opening line of "can't get Moussa Demebele off their books" should be enough for most rational people to bin the carrot as being the floof he is.

He is North East based and is Mourinho's tea and biscuits mouthpiece - He knows feck all all about Celtic.

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Castles is a Scot who's own team are that pish he's ended up being more of a fan of English fitba and a certain team. Like a lot of fans of shampooey teams he imagines every other club to be in the same pisition as his His work is mainly about down there too and unless he is spinning a story for Jose Mourinho I doubt there is anything worthy of attention in his articles.
In the mould of that trumpet Paddy Barclay.

Was at an event at the Glasgow Book Festival where he was a guest and he said his twenty minutes of watching Celtic on the TV in the background that weekend was enough to confirm to him that we were English League One standard :lol:

Later the same year we'd be in the last 16 of the Champions League.
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Castles is a Scot who's own team are that pish he's ended up being more of a fan of English fitba and a certain team. Like a lot of fans of shampooey teams he imagines every other club to be in the same pisition as his His work is mainly about down there too and unless he is spinning a story for Jose Mourinho I doubt there is anything worthy of attention in his articles.
In the mould of that trumpet Paddy Barclay.

Was at an event at the Glasgow Book Festival where he was a guest and he said his twenty minutes of watching Celtic on the TV in the background that weekend was enough to confirm to him that we were English League One standard :lol:

Later the same year we'd be in the last 16 of the Champions League.
I never understand why these people feel the need to comment on Scottish football. They think it is a poor league fair enough they aren't completely wrong but why continually slate it? It is what it is, are they insecure about their own league or something? :cuckoo:

They don't go on about the Welsh or Irish leagues as much as they do the Scottish one.

Sorry to go off topic.
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McGinn would start on the bench but over the long season he will start plenty of games to give Ntcham a rest i would think
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Castles is a Scot who's own team are that pish he's ended up being more of a fan of English fitba and a certain team. Like a lot of fans of shampooey teams he imagines every other club to be in the same pisition as his His work is mainly about down there too and unless he is spinning a story for Jose Mourinho I doubt there is anything worthy of attention in his articles.
In the mould of that trumpet Paddy Barclay.

Was at an event at the Glasgow Book Festival where he was a guest and he said his twenty minutes of watching Celtic on the TV in the background that weekend was enough to confirm to him that we were English League One standard :lol:

Later the same year we'd be in the last 16 of the Champions League.
I never understand why these people feel the need to comment on Scottish football. They think it is a poor league fair enough they aren't completely wrong but why continually slate it? It is what it is, are they insecure about their own league or something? :cuckoo:

They don't go on about the Welsh or Irish leagues as much as they do the Scottish one.

Sorry to go off topic.
You only have to read the Match of the Day posts about Scottish football on Facebook, to see endless ‘pub league’ comments.
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