Scott Brown slated or loved pre-Diouf? A lot of Bhoys initially had him down as a marmite type player.
You either praised the ground he walked upon or you saw him as merely nothing more than squad strength and depth.
Love him or frown upon him, or even the odd one or two who dislike him, he is now etched into Celtic folklore for doing what arguably we all would have loved to do: –
Score a corker of a goal against the gers and turn around and celebrate in, again, arguably one of the most disliked men in footballs, face, El-Hadji Diouf.
The image was sent around the Twitterverse and beyond. The smug but rightly so Scott Brown with arms outstretched with Diouf gazing upon him in a disgusted manner.
The image was priceless and will be forever remembered as not just a goal, but a stand, a stand for what Celtic is.Brown must have known what Diouf has done and did that night Diouf spat at a Celtic fan.
Now that thought is lasered into our memories, Brown has since put on some decent displays out on the right side of midfield and does a decent job in the centre of the park (but before you all think it) we know and all have a variation with 2 out of a possible 3 that we would gladly have in the centre of the park.
His leadership also came to the forefront in this sprouting season for Neil Lennons thunderous young squad, he spoke when he needed to and did show what he was about on the pitch.
I could also imagine Brown firing up the lads in the changing room. We only see a smidgen of this when the squad are in the tunnel when we see the focus on his face and then he lets rip with a roar of “Come on bhoys” or other.
This has raised a few eyebrows and people have made notes leading to my point.
- Does Newcastle beckon?
- Do we need Brown?
- Or are we waiting for the decision on Kayal to keep Brown on?
- Will the team be severely affected for letting our skipper go?
- Do we have more than enough leaders in the squad to step upto the ‘plate’?
Your views please Celts as always.
Comments and opinions are always welcome.
Previously on The Celtic Blog (Click on the picture for untold delights, or a further blog about Scott Brown.)
Lets get to it!!! Keep him !!! cheers!! ok a wee bit more we do need him in midfield and he does fight for every ball and player we dont like! so isnt that what all teams need? He is the captain an maybe he should tone it down by 5% but we have skillfull playmakers in kayal(who also knows how to mix it when needed & classy skillfull in commons an ki wingers in forrest n derry pele, so a say havin a wee bit of a loose cannon, who should for the majority of last season that he is def a great player too, is needed. a finish by sayin give us another like emilio’s former teammate ‘ the pitbull’ an we be sorted!!! sorry for short response !!! Hail Hail
Haha ok a wee bit more. You make a few good points. As discussed chances are Brown could stay as he has been quoted as saying he would like an SPL winners medal etc
The transfer silly season does throw caution to the wind as such so who knows what could happen just yet.
Renewed contract for Brown maybe? Who Knows?
It’s a British thing that players who look busy are deemed good. I truthfully believe that Brown would have struggled to become a professional player in any other country in the world.
Broony had his best season for us last season (Mr Lennon showing yet another attribute he has). I want him to stay, we need to keep last seasons midfield as it was, maybe add a winger, but it’s important to keep these players together now because they have that experience of playing together now, Mr Lennonwill want him to stay unless a big offer is tabled i think, can’t see that happening from Newcastle the way SPL players are being perceived in England.
Also remember it’s been a massively sad time personally for him, absolutely think he has shown huge mental strength to get through the last few years playing football at all.
A Brown believer you are indeed. I agree Lenny has shown promise in him, made him skipper and that could mean Lennon has no intention at all to sell him.
The worrying thing is rumours say (at the point of sending this I am unsure) super agent Pini Zahavi has latched onto Kayal. Zahavi will milk any deal and he is known for it. He may try and price Celtic even out of a new contract for him with the weekly demands possibly being so high.
It all depends on what the outcome of the transfer window is but I imagine Lennon will try and hold onto his key midfielders especially with so much talk of foundations being built. Lennon may put alot of his cash cards into new deals for current KEY first team members.
Great point, Pardew thinks that the SPL is played by players who are just learning to use forks. Why would he think about replacing Kevin Nolan with a player from a league he doesn’t rate.
daily record pish
Yeah the paper is awful, but the speculation has been reported across more than one daily red top rag, plus other news outlets.
Naw, it’s fact mate. No, speeling mistakes. That’s how you know.
We should stop making excuses for Brown. The truth is he is not of th calibre we expect, has been over-valued when we were suckered into coughing up over 4million quid for him, and is far too inconsistent to be thought of as a Celtic captain. He is still playing like that infuriating kid with so much potential who fails time and again to show it. He reminds me of Shaun Maloney. Skill in abundance, but no idea how to use it for the better of his team and team mates. He can go for me.
I agree,it’s heading into the last seasonof his contract & I certainly don’t see theboard offering similar money again, time to cash in. Go with our thanks & best wishes Broonie.
Does that suggest Maloney and Brown should maybe offloaded this transfer window?
It would be nice to see Maloney at the top of his game again though, he did have a couple of good seasons before he left for the midlands if I remember correctly, could he grasp that form again?
I fear Maloney is a busted flush or an Aberdeen player in waiting.
Difficult one.I think the general consensus is that we’d rather keep Kayal than Brown , especially if we get the reported 6 million for him.But there remains a huge risk with this scenario. Brown has been there for a few seasons now and was showing definite signs of finding his feet at Celtic.Maybe this was co-inciding with Lennons tactic of using him properly (on the right – not convinced he makes the kind of passes a central midfielder should make) The question is this – is it worth 6 million to lose what potentially he will provide this coming season. And will this situation be compounded if we keep Kayal and he doesn’t perform? Its a hard scenario. All I will say is this – if we get 6 million for Brown then it is imperative that we use that money for a star striker.I’ll leave the identity of him to the people that matter. Just give us one!
Good balance of views. £6 million for a star striker? Well Lennons ‘backstage’ bhoys have found a few corkers for us in lands afar, so hopefully a great unknown striker may come in and smash a few dozen in.
It would be good to see how Brown presents himself on the pitch this season for the Celts, but I agree £6million is a tasty price.
No way will we get £6m for a player in the final year of his contract.
Sorry but Brown is a boyish thug and I will be happy if we get rid of him for a decent amount of money. He might mature better in the EPL so it could be a win win for himself and Celtic if a deal is struck IMO.
Boyish thug? He looks like he enjoys himself on the pitch and maybe that gets the better of him sometimes. His over eagerness can lead him into trouble, BUT I think he has come a long way and matured since he came to us from Hibernian and he will continue to grow as a player.
I dont believe we have seen the best of Scott Brown just yet, his best years must lie ahead of him at Celtic Park, again I say who knows?
boyish but no thug.
You’d need to be off your head to pay 6 mil for Brown. 4 Million was a rip-off with Thompson looking a far better buy for half the money. I think Celtic will be lucky to get 2 million for him.
Brown had a decent last third of the season but that is about it since he’s been at Celtic. Far too inconsistent for me and reckless more often than not. His final ball is woefull at times and he can be a liability. I do like his bite in the midfield but not sure that is enough to keep him ( if a decent offer came in).
It may depend on what happens with Kayal, he maybe off to mid table luxury/obscurity in the EPL, trebling his wages overnight, I hope I’m wrong.
I hope you are as well! Kayal is the type of player you build a team around / with.
he won the player of the year in 2008/09. hardly backs up the view that he’s only played well this season.
THAT Inverness game was horrible to watch. Izaguirre had easily his worst game for Celtic, we were shaky at the back and devoid of ideas up front. If I was on that park, I would have had a few words for most of them. On that day Brown knew what was happening and did everything he could to motivate the team and looked every bit the captain. Not everyone likes him (not everyone liked Lennon), as he snaps and snarls through matches, but his combativeness and energy are something we need, especially in the SPL and if Lennon has chosen him as captain, does that not show his value?
Brilliant point. His style is the SPL style, he would be sanctioned and punished possibly in the same way Roy Keane was and Joey Barton is now in the EPL.
Their combativeness can be misconstrued as being ‘Violent’ and ‘Horrific’, but take that out of them and they are half the player they once were.
He is valued by Lennon and he has staked his claim to stay.
he looked liked he cared that night but he didn’t have that ‘thing’ that dragged the team back into it.
I don’t know what that ‘thing’ is. I know Feed The Bear had it.
Starting out last season, i’d have definately been in the not good enough camp.
Throughout the course of the season and especially from the scottish cup game at ibrox – he has been the definition of stepping up to the plate.
Shows what having the fans fully behind you can do. As great as kayal is, and I do think he is the better player, Scott Brown would be the biggest loss to the club. Led to believe he is massively popular around parkhead and lennoxtown, from the tea ladies to the very top!
Not that we will be losing either kayal or brown anyway. Don’t let the papers get in your head!
GOOD POINT –
We all know the vendetta some rags have. Especially when they are trying to sell our players in the papers to cause a bit of hassle.
Yes, the papers are bad. I hate people that hide behind this or bang on and on in pixelated form about this.
It’s as if they don’t accept anything that is written and don’t expect players might leave or might interest other clubs.
We are a football club that is used and abused plus uses and abuses the meeja.
Was the report about Kayal untrue then? Did he not say he wanted more money or he would go?
The paranoia’s alive and well.
I think that if we are offered something like £6M I’d bite your hand off.
There’s an interesting article called “The Scott Brown Deception” that I think is worth reading…
http://www.let-the-people-sing.com/the-scott-brown-deception
Good linked article, variation of points.
If Brown goes we have a set of lads already in place to do a job.
Leaders? We have a team littered with them, we should be fine if he decides on pastures new.
This.
Good second half of the season. But brown is a problem because he is the captain he can’t be dropped. He’s not that good so I say get rid & you solve your crowded midfield problem…where deos he play ect.
punt him….never was or will be a 5m player…..
There was a suckering in the fee we paid. But that was the going rate at the time.
It must be a nightmare to be the Celtic manager right now (apart from the obvious) Its looking like the best Lenny can hope for from Kayal is another good season. Someone said here that Kayal is the type of player you build a team around, but how is he going to be able to do that? When these stories first hit the headlines I was firmly in favour of keeping him , but now I’m not so sure. I would rather sign Brown up on a new 4 year deal than sell him , and then lose Kayal next year as well. Sometimes it seems futile supporting a team like Celtic. I’m getting the impression that players like Kayal think they can deliver 1 league trophy and then depart a Celtic legend. No son , win the league , stay for the next season and show how you can make the difference on the European platform and win a second league in the process first before you can even enter into the discussion of legendary status.So although this isn’t a Kayal v Brown subject , if it came to a straight choice and both players were subject to a 6million + offer , I would understand the manager keeping Brown and selling Kayal, as much as it would hurt. As i’ve said earlier , the pain would be lessened by spending said 6 million on a proven striker.
Kayal is following a Van Hoojidonk path. I don’t hate him or pity him for this. It’s just the nature of the game and should be greeted with a shrug and a meh.
We’ve got to win the league this year. We shouldnt even be thinking about selling any of our top players.
Keep them both and bring in the three quality players we were promised.
Or was that just the usual tell the fans anything until they’ve bought their season tickets rubbish from the board.
I agree to an extent but I also can’t stand the implication that Kayal thinks its OK to stay one more year. If we are truly building then say to him , see out your contract , with a wage rise, or go now.I think Kayal is great but he’s not bigger than Celtic obviously , and if he wants to go – slap a 8-10 million price tag on him. Is he worth that? who cares….
As for the players coming in – I think we need to see some leave first. We’ve got too many players i think. Lets see 5 or 6 go (including Hooiveld,Rasumssen, O’Dea etc)Also I’d wager either Stokes , Sammy or Murphy (ironically I think Murphy is the safest of the 3) would have to go before getting a striker in. This is one season where I would be happy to see more outs than in,providing the calibre is there. We’ve also got a decision to make on Maloney. Great player on his day , just that his day is once every 2 years. Haha.
The board have backed the last two managers. They will do so again but we all know that if a decent offer comes in for a player it will be considered.
Your right, the squads too big. There are plenty of players we can sell, but we need to hang on to our top players.
And we need to bring in three quality players as promised, because if we dont we’ll end up losing the league again.
Personally, Im sick of losing out to a second rate R*****rs team because the board never build on our successes, and we end up back at square one every couple of years.
That’s what we need to do. We need to consolidate and win the league. But Im really worried that the board will make a half-arsed job of it again- as they always do.
Glasgow Taxi’s are on speed dial at the reception at CP. Pickfords also.
Not read any of the above, what i think is ‘middle class moron utd’.
IN LENNON I TRUST
That iconic image should not blind us to the worth of the player. Like I said previously, last season at this point I would have driven him to the Toon.
This season I wouldn’t. The ball is in his court.
It’s an interesting aside to this close season.