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| Stuart Armstrong; 'Fishel: Signs for Southampton on a 4 year deal. | |
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| Topic Started: 18 Oct 2015, 09:50 PM (731,114 Views) | |
| Patrick_Bateman | 17 Jul 2017, 02:03 PM Post #3621 |
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Retired and now a BT Sports pundit
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I have the same pair of Birkenstocks. Therefore if he should leave I should be a suitable replacement for the same money. |
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| Flawless | 17 Jul 2017, 02:07 PM Post #3622 |
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Fatboab shirt designer
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Gary Caldwell and Charlie Mulgrew cards also fall from the same deck. Luca looks forlorn. His argument is lost. |
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| dannyclyro | 17 Jul 2017, 02:08 PM Post #3623 |
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Like you can smell the psychosphere
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If he wants to let his contract expire, I can understand the view that he shouldn't play this season; I disagree but I can see the logic in a kind of twisted way. However, making his life as difficult as possible, "let him rot in the reserves/yoots", etc, is a lot of pish. The guy has done nothing wrong, and is perfectly entitled to leave at the end of his deal (that we agreed to). You freeze out trouble-makers, arsepieces if you will, not players who are completely professional and make a decision you don't like. Hope he stays. As was pointed out a page or so ago, if you were to buy him would you be happy dropping £3m? If so just give him that in wages. If he doesn't think that's enough then eff him; steal his sandals and make him play with the weans.
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| Jimbo Jones | 17 Jul 2017, 02:10 PM Post #3624 |
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Hopefully he stays. You can't blame someone wanting to leave if they can double or even treble their wages though as it's a relatively short career Hopefully he realises that if he pushes on with us next year he may even see his potential wages increase further and maybe get a better club down south. Coupled with that, another Champions League campaign against some big names under the lights are the things he'll likely remember when he gets older vs away to Fulham. |
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| Antoninho | 17 Jul 2017, 02:22 PM Post #3625 |
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Turd Ferguson
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It's not so much the prospect of losing him that's the worst thing, it's that we're possibly losing both Roberts (despite the inevitability of his return to his parent club) AND Armstrong in the same summer. Whatever way you slice it, that's a HUGE blow, and unless we were to significantly strengthen in the next 6/7 weeks, we'll be going into this season a lot weaker than we'd ideally like to be. Of course there's still the possibility Armstrong will sign the extension and the fears of losing 2 key players of last season will be rendered moot
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| Luca | 17 Jul 2017, 02:22 PM Post #3626 |
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Off treasure hunting in Holland
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*throws the rest of the deck on the ground and puts on the PS4* "Pish game anyway"
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| geezerbhoy | 17 Jul 2017, 02:27 PM Post #3627 |
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| VerdeYBlanco | 17 Jul 2017, 02:35 PM Post #3628 |
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Considering retirement
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Our very own 'longarm'
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| titch | 17 Jul 2017, 02:37 PM Post #3629 |
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Retired and now a BT Sports pundit
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you mean longarmstrong |
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| Bawman | 17 Jul 2017, 02:57 PM Post #3630 |
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Class is permanent.
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Wait til you see this place when Moussa goes in a few weeks.
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| Flawless | 17 Jul 2017, 03:05 PM Post #3631 |
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Agree, its a massive blow to the side if it happens. Armstrong is a key component to how we play. |
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| Forza | 17 Jul 2017, 03:25 PM Post #3632 |
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Beginning to see the Ntcham and Benyu signings more and more for what they now appear to be. Major replacement level players for certainly Armstrong, and maybe even Bitton. |
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| oneillsrevolution | 17 Jul 2017, 03:28 PM Post #3633 |
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but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
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If he's been informally offered anywhere near £40k, it's a no-brainer for him. He's no real loyalty to Celtic. He's had a great six months at Celtic but not irreplaceable. I'd hope to get the reported £10m, but I reckon it be more like £5-6m given his contract situation. We'll still have doubled our money and he contributed to the Invincible season. |
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| Zurawski 7 | 17 Jul 2017, 03:38 PM Post #3634 |
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Off treasure hunting in Holland
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doubt it very much. a player like ntcham has been brendans priority since he came in the door |
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| Torquemada | 17 Jul 2017, 03:40 PM Post #3635 |
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Brendan got it in one when he spoke of a 25-year-old player having 120 wage packets left in his career if he looked after himself. If SA is being offered £45k a week when he's on £10k rising to maybe £25k with us, he would be daft not to grab it. Those are the cold, hard facts. But we have to punt now rather than risk him doing a Maloney and spinning it out with bullshiit until he walks for nothing. I said two weeks ago I'd give him two weeks and then punt. It's time to punt. This is really starting to remind me of Maloney's antics. Hope I'm wrong because I wanted us to buy Armstrong and I'm glad we did. But Celtic's welfare comes a million miles in front of any individual's ambition. |
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| Flawless | 17 Jul 2017, 03:40 PM Post #3636 |
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That and Benyu clearly was a punt. |
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| Forza | 17 Jul 2017, 03:55 PM Post #3637 |
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I don't doubt it. But he needs a place in the team. Meaning someone isn't playing. |
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| oneillsrevolution | 17 Jul 2017, 04:24 PM Post #3638 |
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but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
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He's not going to a CL team so best to keep him for qualifiers, surely? CL play off second leg is 23-24 August. Window closes a week later. I imagine we'll do business in that time. |
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| Midfield Maestro | 17 Jul 2017, 04:27 PM Post #3639 |
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Agree re Ncham and it's certainly interesting that Brendan has been saying that he likes Ncham as a number 8 when Ncham himself has suggested he prefers the number 10 role. I think Benyu was just a punt on a decent young player who looks more ready than we suspected. Edited by Midfield Maestro, 17 Jul 2017, 04:29 PM.
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| Owenybhoy | 17 Jul 2017, 04:27 PM Post #3640 |
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Stretch Armstrong (one for the older folks). |
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