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| Topic Started: 21 May 2018, 11:41 AM (855,523 Views) | |
| Luka_Bloom | 4 Jun 2018, 07:54 AM Post #781 |
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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 |
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| macfleeto | 4 Jun 2018, 08:22 AM Post #782 |
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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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| Cardross Bhoy | 4 Jun 2018, 08:23 AM Post #783 |
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Club Captain
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Plenty. |
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| old greennose | 4 Jun 2018, 08:31 AM Post #784 |
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Is he a left-back? |
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| nails | 4 Jun 2018, 08:32 AM Post #785 |
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Retired and now a BT Sports pundit
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Ntcham |
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| horatiogreen | 4 Jun 2018, 08:36 AM Post #786 |
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Our last signing, Bain. |
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| Luka_Bloom | 4 Jun 2018, 08:37 AM Post #787 |
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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. |
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| Tam Haas | 4 Jun 2018, 08:47 AM Post #788 |
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Getting on a bit
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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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| Paul Allen | 4 Jun 2018, 08:52 AM Post #789 |
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Occasional Substitute
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No can do! Got a res at Dorsia. |
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| Fly Pelican | 4 Jun 2018, 09:18 AM Post #790 |
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The nascent 45
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Compper signed almost 6 months ago and we still don't know anything about him. |
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| J_C_X | 4 Jun 2018, 09:25 AM Post #791 |
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Considering retirement
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Edouard. |
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| Luca | 4 Jun 2018, 09:31 AM Post #792 |
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Off treasure hunting in Holland
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Gamboa |
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| popeyed | 4 Jun 2018, 09:35 AM Post #793 |
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Climbing walls while sittin' in a chair.
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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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| Forza | 4 Jun 2018, 09:55 AM Post #794 |
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Considering retirement
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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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| bubba | 4 Jun 2018, 09:59 AM Post #795 |
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Getting on a bit
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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 Edited by bubba, 4 Jun 2018, 10:00 AM.
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| Tam Haas | 4 Jun 2018, 10:12 AM Post #796 |
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Getting on a bit
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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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| macfleeto | 4 Jun 2018, 10:15 AM Post #797 |
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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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| Paul Allen | 4 Jun 2018, 10:34 AM Post #798 |
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Occasional Substitute
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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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| Luka_Bloom | 4 Jun 2018, 11:00 AM Post #799 |
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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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| bubba | 4 Jun 2018, 11:22 AM Post #800 |
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Getting on a bit
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Papers and media outlets are 2 massively different things How many of those have been in the papers ? |
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