Some bad but not unsurprising news if true.
Seemingly, our tallisman and best centre forward has made it be known that he see’s himself back playing in England next season, if not sooner.
Our CEO’s comment that we had ‘knocked back’ a bid for Hooper may not have been in so much jest. Two clubs registered an interest. Newcastle and Leicester. Both were givin’ no encouragement from the player or the club.
The players position has changed with both clubs being made aware that he is looking to return south.
With Kayal and Ki already what is called in the game “working their ticket”, our manager ending up with a centre forward he had no interest in signing and our poor form this news only adds to the slightly mild autumn of discontent.
this is our problem,too many players not wanting to play for us.
what i would do is sell them all in january. u seen what happens when you play uninterested players, shocking performance. your better not playing them and playing the players who do want to play for us.
Let him go, no heart, Stokesy a far better player anyway!! Kayal about to sign an extension, heard from a reliable source, Willie Haughey going to buy out Desmond next year!! 50mil, they say he’s just made his first billion this year. A real Celtic man, hopefully this will happen! KTF
Love it.
More of this please.
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Desmonds shares are valued at £20million.
WH will not pay £50million.
Utter tosh.
hooper is far better than stokes. stokes shouldnt be in a celtic top. he rejected us a couple of years ago!!!
Hoppers not interested, first touch murder, Stokes has really come on,and is by far, ourbest striker! We need a whole new back four and another striker to partner Stokes. ” In Lennon we trust” 🙂
I really do think that Hooper is injured and not getting time to recover.
Anyone after watching the end of last year and so far this year, who thinks Hooper is better than Stokes, just isn’t watching!
what we need to know is why our players dont want to play for us, one answer—neil lennon
All rats desert a sinking ship no heart to finish on a high note cause just not good enough
If Newcastle or QPR are willing to pay 4/5 million for him, bye, bye. Hardly irreplaceable. Same with Ki and Kayal, they appear uninterested therefore let them go.
We sit 10 points behind Rangers and these guys are doing precious little to stop the slide. Kayal was a disgrace on Saturday. 4/5 million for each of them. 12-15 million in total. That is more than fair. Then they can disappear to become squad players at the relegation threatened clubs of the EPL or the top half of the Championship.
People are sick and tired of these guys believing they are much better than they really are. Of course they are only playing for Celtic because they want to play in England. I have no problem with that. But tell me what have they won, the Scottish Cup, so what. As soon as they are required to show a bit of fight they disappear. Who cares. Gutless, spineless.
Qpr were credited with an interest on deadline day. Maybe no longer interested as they weren’t mentioned in dispatches.
i agree john, kayal thinks he should have a bigger contract,,why?,, he hasnt won anything,, thinks hes better than he is
Where has Gary Hooper and Ki came out publicly and stated that they wish to leave Celtic? FFS man articles like this just fuel the fire.
Well done!!!
They haven’t and won’t. Doesn’t mean to say they are not thinking off it.
Doesnt mean to say they are either
you are seriously losing all credibilty mate..especially after that comment
What comment and when did I desire credability?
totally agree – we must rid ourselves of players who do not wish to play for our club- I’d rather have half decent Scottish players or at least a sprinkling ofthem- with a bit of character and who know the history of our club get rid of Ki – ok when we’re on top, kayal injury prone and arrogant,Samaras,DM and Hooper – why are we wasting time on Rogne when he only plays occasionally? Too many foreign players and cultures – How on earth do they communicate on the park – do they understand what “Ma Ba/your ba means?”
hail hail
Agree, but don’t forget the Irish players!
What a shame you chaps are so, so easily lead by the rags in this sad wee country of ours. Izziguire was leaving; he’s signed a new deal. Forrest was Liverpool bound;he’s signed a new deal, Kyal and Brown the same…they’re both days away from signing new deals. Hooper wants to leave? Give us a break. The guy, right now, couldn’t get a game back at Scunthorpe. Ki may well move on eventually, but thats the name of the game with these lads from further afield.
Seriously, things are tough for our Club right now. Don’t print nonsense that’s just regurgetated from a rag that can’t fill its pages.
I haven’t seen this in the ‘rags’. If it has been please link.
Cheers
With the article claiming something has changed since August I can only assume this from a personal source?
Other than this I can see nothing of the sort that he’s looking to leave.
If performances are to go by then by the looks of things the whole squad is looking to leave.
I asked a question and fully expected a completely different answer to the one that I was given for the reason you state.
Another pish article from this so called Celtic website. I’ll just block it on Newsnow from now on.
yeah me too.. yer man has finally lost the plot
Lost the plot by posting a rumour marked by a seemingly in front of it?
Cherrio. 🙂
Can you do that? Block this crap?!!!
Why don’t you show some restraint and self will by not clicking?
source? oh that’s right, one as usual. What has Ki done to suggest he’s ‘working his ticket’ other than attracting attention from clubs based on good performances? should he play sh*te so they go away?
these articles are just wasting our time
Numerous mistranslated articles saying that he is looking to move that all are denied when he returns here.
Off course he will attract attention.He’s a decent sort.
none*
Did you just make this up? seriously?
No.
Celtic fans and some websites are our own worse enemy. Who would want to sign Hooper the way he has played this season. Same goes for Kayal.
If either wants to leave let them settle down and play the football they are capable and tell their manager and agent they want out.
I think this story is a load of nonsense posted by someone who puts himself first.
Can I ask how I put myself first?
Hooper may or may not want to leave, but this is a poor article regardless.
Unfortunately there are a great many fans out there who will believe whatever they read and will turn against players, perhaps even hounding them out.
No-one is asking bloggers to dawn blinkers or become board apologists, but could you possibly qualify your stories in future?
Anyone can circulate stories they heard in the pub.
I hear plenty of things in the pub. Most of it not printable or worthy of print.
I thought this was worthy of having a ‘seemingly’ in front of it. I hope it’s not true, I really do.
You mention fans hounding players and if they do that on the back of anything they read then they are idiots who need to get a life and not take things so seriously.
With so many players unhappy and wanting to leave? I think they’ve all sussed out the manager and back room staff are all duds!
Ambition not to play Inverness 3 times a season?
Can you really blame some of these players? So much confusion around the club and no positive direction from a manager who benches them if they fail to perform..in his eyes…and who is also talking openly about looking for other players all the time. Not exactly the security that anyone would want in their job. We keep blaming the board but the Lennon is his worst enemy.
You could definitely blame the players. They may not be world superstars but they get paid massive wages to do a job that most of us would love. Imagine getting say £10,000 a week to play football, a sponsored car and the adulation of tens of thousands, then some thing happens that they don’t like and it’s out with the dummy. If they had any professional pride they would be bursting a gut to turn things round. These types of prima donnas think they are bigger than the clubs they play for and turn their backs on the fans when the going gets tough.
the 1st comment thats 100% correct
No one is saying that this is 100% true. But who cares if it is!!!
The three of them can go if the price is right. That is why a group of 22 year olds were signed in the first place to sell them on the minute a decent offer comes in. These guys want to play in England. How do we know? Because every ambitious footballer in the world wants to play in England or Spain. Or at a push Germany or Italy. The only reason an Englishman, an Arab-Israeli and a Korean sign for Celtic from smaller clubs is to get noticed. If they have been noticed let the three of them go. 15 million the three and a limosine to drive them to Blackburn/Bolton/Leicester thrown in.
This.
What I think has caused quite a stir is the very thought that we arn’t the club we think or want us to be anymore.
This is only a rumour. But look at the commotion.
One for http://www.football-rumours.co.uk then?
I’m a member for a few Celtic minded sites, none post any of the rumours threads for all to see on NewsNow etc.
I don’t why a rumour appearing on newsnow is any different from appearing in the e-tims rumour mill or on the numerous rumour twitter feeds that we have.
We are all there to cause debate and entertain.
hire me and i’ll give my best for the celtic (i’m a brazilian celtic fan, young (17 years) and forward) hahaha (:
e-mail Peter Lawwell, I’m sure he will be interested.
Are you Scotzine in disguise?
Anyone can make a rumour up mate…your one is rather pathetic
Heh, that’s slanderous mate. I’m sure you will be hearing from Scotzines lawyers.
There`s a rumour that I`m fed up with my workplace. 🙂
I believe the problem is the manager.
All of the above mentioned footballers are decent enough players; I think it is becoming clearly obvious that Neil Lennon has lost the dressing room.
Look at the evidence: Indifferent performances, inexplicable line-ups, zonal marking, ridiculous tactics etc etc etc.
He is completely out of his depth.