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Summer '18 Transfer Window; all Celtic stuff in here
Topic Started: 21 May 2018, 11:41 AM (855,523 Views)
Luka_Bloom
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Papers and media outlets looking for pages to fill with Joe Allen chat. Celtic always keep it tight to their chest when it comes to signings. We won’t really know who we are signing until they are pictured walking either into Celtic Park or the Blythswood Hotel up the town :lol:
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Luka_Bloom
4 Jun 2018, 07:54 AM
Celtic always keep it tight to their chest when it comes to signings.
Can you name a single player we've signed in the last 5 years that we haven't known about weeks in advance?
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4 Jun 2018, 08:22 AM
Luka_Bloom
4 Jun 2018, 07:54 AM
Celtic always keep it tight to their chest when it comes to signings.
Can you name a single player we've signed in the last 5 years that we haven't known about weeks in advance?
Plenty.
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4 Jun 2018, 08:23 AM
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4 Jun 2018, 08:22 AM
Luka_Bloom
4 Jun 2018, 07:54 AM
Celtic always keep it tight to their chest when it comes to signings.
Can you name a single player we've signed in the last 5 years that we haven't known about weeks in advance?
Plenty.
Is he a left-back?
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4 Jun 2018, 08:22 AM
Luka_Bloom
4 Jun 2018, 07:54 AM
Celtic always keep it tight to their chest when it comes to signings.
Can you name a single player we've signed in the last 5 years that we haven't known about weeks in advance?
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Luka_Bloom
4 Jun 2018, 07:54 AM
Celtic always keep it tight to their chest when it comes to signings.
Can you name a single player we've signed in the last 5 years that we haven't known about weeks in advance?
Our last signing, Bain.
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4 Jun 2018, 08:32 AM
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4 Jun 2018, 08:22 AM
Luka_Bloom
4 Jun 2018, 07:54 AM
Celtic always keep it tight to their chest when it comes to signings.
Can you name a single player we've signed in the last 5 years that we haven't known about weeks in advance?
Ntcham
No one had a clue about Ntcham. Biggest signing last season. No one knew until he was pictured in Glasgow. Edouard was the same.
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4 Jun 2018, 07:49 AM
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3 Jun 2018, 11:35 PM
Are Stoke not looking for around £20 million for Joe Allen ?
They could easily get around that.

He’d also get the same or more money with an EPL club.

Not happening & baffling this story continues to pop up.
He is on £28k a week according to this

https://celtsarehere.com/marquee-celtic-signing-wages-not-an-issue/
Allen left Liverpool after being brilliant for Wales at the Euros to go to Stoke for 28k a week?

Shaqiri left Inter to get 36k a week with Stoke?

I’d question the accuracy of that list!
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Luka_Bloom
4 Jun 2018, 07:54 AM
Celtic always keep it tight to their chest when it comes to signings.
Can you name a single player we've signed in the last 5 years that we haven't known about weeks in advance?
Compper signed almost 6 months ago and we still don't know anything about him.
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nails
4 Jun 2018, 08:32 AM
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4 Jun 2018, 08:22 AM
Luka_Bloom
4 Jun 2018, 07:54 AM
Celtic always keep it tight to their chest when it comes to signings.
Can you name a single player we've signed in the last 5 years that we haven't known about weeks in advance?
Ntcham
Edouard.
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4 Jun 2018, 09:25 AM
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4 Jun 2018, 08:22 AM

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Ntcham
Edouard.
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4 Jun 2018, 08:47 AM
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4 Jun 2018, 07:49 AM
Tam Haas
4 Jun 2018, 06:49 AM

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He is on £28k a week according to this

https://celtsarehere.com/marquee-celtic-signing-wages-not-an-issue/
Allen left Liverpool after being brilliant for Wales at the Euros to go to Stoke for 28k a week?

Shaqiri left Inter to get 36k a week with Stoke?

I’d question the accuracy of that list!
Shaqiri almost went to Stoke before he went to Inter. He hardly got a game and asked to leave the following summer.
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I've watched Joe Allen at pretty close quarters these last couple of seasons.

He and Shaqiri have clearly been in a dysfunctional, struggling team playing against undoubtedly very good quality players.

However he has always struck me as a bit of a blunt instrument. He's neat and tidy without necessarily having a major asset. Not physically strong, not pacey, not known for his shooting, crossing or long passing. He's not exactly a sitting midfielder of any note either. Stoke's midfield was porous last season.

I'm not sure what he'd add for the outlay we would have to stretch to. This strikes me as being a "name" we are being linked with that is familiar to most, while we do our work elsewhere on someone a lot more plausible, as was the case with Ntcham.
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Luka_Bloom
4 Jun 2018, 08:37 AM
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4 Jun 2018, 08:32 AM
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4 Jun 2018, 08:22 AM

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Ntcham
No one had a clue about Ntcham. Biggest signing last season. No one knew until he was pictured in Glasgow. Edouard was the same.
Fake news

He signed on the 12th July, papers reported it on the 7th

https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/sport/football/1256111/?utm_source=TWITTER&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=SprnklrSUNOrganic&UTMX=Editorial:scotsunsport:FBLink:Statement:Sport
Edited by bubba, 4 Jun 2018, 10:00 AM.
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4 Jun 2018, 09:35 AM
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DKB
4 Jun 2018, 07:49 AM
Allen left Liverpool after being brilliant for Wales at the Euros to go to Stoke for 28k a week?

Shaqiri left Inter to get 36k a week with Stoke?

I’d question the accuracy of that list!
Shaqiri almost went to Stoke before he went to Inter. He hardly got a game and asked to leave the following summer.
Another one that jumps out on that list is Glen Johnston on 18 grand a week.

He'd have been on big money at Liverpool and left on a free, so wouldn't have been short on offers.

That list can't possibly be right.
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bubba
4 Jun 2018, 09:59 AM
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4 Jun 2018, 08:37 AM
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4 Jun 2018, 08:32 AM

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No one had a clue about Ntcham. Biggest signing last season. No one knew until he was pictured in Glasgow. Edouard was the same.
Fake news

He signed on the 12th July, papers reported it on the 7th

https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/sport/football/1256111/?utm_source=TWITTER&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=SprnklrSUNOrganic&UTMX=Editorial:scotsunsport:FBLink:Statement:Sport
Yep, Ntcham rumours were kicking about for over a week before we had a bid accepted.

Edouard is maybe the only one but that was a loan deal we were forced into because Dembele was injured and Griffiths was injured just before that leaving us to play a few times with Forrest up front.

Bain and Gamboa were panic last minute signings to plug a gap as backup.
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4 Jun 2018, 09:55 AM
I've watched Joe Allen at pretty close quarters these last couple of seasons.

He and Shaqiri have clearly been in a dysfunctional, struggling team playing against undoubtedly very good quality players.

However he has always struck me as a bit of a blunt instrument. He's neat and tidy without necessarily having a major asset. Not physically strong, not pacey, not known for his shooting, crossing or long passing. He's not exactly a sitting midfielder of any note either. Stoke's midfield was porous last season.

I'm not sure what he'd add for the outlay we would have to stretch to. This strikes me as being a "name" we are being linked with that is familiar to most, while we do our work elsewhere on someone a lot more plausible, as was the case with Ntcham.
I think his role got a bit muddled at Stoke - unsurprisingly, as it's... Stoke.

He was more of a 'controller' at Swansea and Liverpool but at Stoke I'm not sure exactly what he was supposed to be doing, which could be said of a few of their players. Hughes seemed to use him a bit more as a box-to-box type.

His main strength is probably positional/tactical awareness and I'd imagine, should we get him - which is probably unlikely - it would be to play the sitting role occupied by Brown. In Europe maybe they would play together. BR rates his versatility, ball retention as well his engine/willingness to close-down the opposition.

IMO he'd be a welcome addition but I can't see it happening.
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4 Jun 2018, 09:59 AM
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4 Jun 2018, 08:37 AM

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Fake news

He signed on the 12th July, papers reported it on the 7th

https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/sport/football/1256111/?utm_source=TWITTER&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=SprnklrSUNOrganic&UTMX=Editorial:scotsunsport:FBLink:Statement:Sport
Yep, Ntcham rumours were kicking about for over a week before we had a bid accepted.

Edouard is maybe the only one but that was a loan deal we were forced into because Dembele was injured and Griffiths was injured just before that leaving us to play a few times with Forrest up front.

Bain and Gamboa were panic last minute signings to plug a gap as backup.
5 days isn’t over a week. Rodgers would never have wanted to go the whole season with two strikers. Edouard would have been looked at over a period of time. As would have Gamboa. Bain agree, Gordon injury left us short. How many names have we been linked with so far from papers and media outlets?

Joe Allen
John McGinn
Luka Adzic (signed for Anderlecht)
Arp
Mbemba
Abel Hernandez
Craig Dawson
Jack Marriot
Elmo Lieftink
Tom James
Jordan Ayew
Fabian Schar
Lovro Majer
Vujadin Savic
Rhian Brewster
Glenn Kamara


Be interesting to see how many we sign out of the 16.


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4 Jun 2018, 11:00 AM
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4 Jun 2018, 10:15 AM
bubba
4 Jun 2018, 09:59 AM
Yep, Ntcham rumours were kicking about for over a week before we had a bid accepted.

Edouard is maybe the only one but that was a loan deal we were forced into because Dembele was injured and Griffiths was injured just before that leaving us to play a few times with Forrest up front.

Bain and Gamboa were panic last minute signings to plug a gap as backup.
5 days isn’t over a week. Rodgers would never have wanted to go the whole season with two strikers. Edouard would have been looked at over a period of time. As would have Gamboa. Bain agree, Gordon injury left us short. How many names have we been linked with so far from papers and media outlets?

Joe Allen
John McGinn
Luka Adzic (signed for Anderlecht)
Arp
Mbemba
Abel Hernandez
Craig Dawson
Jack Marriot
Elmo Lieftink
Tom James
Jordan Ayew
Fabian Schar
Lovro Majer
Vujadin Savic
Rhian Brewster
Glenn Kamara


Be interesting to see how many we sign out of the 16.


Papers and media outlets are 2 massively different things

How many of those have been in the papers ?
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