Good Game Good Game!
So it is now just about mid January and Celtic’s only new arrival is Mikael Lustig the center half, right back, left back, midfielder, painter and decorator Swedish international. No one has left the club yet despite various rumours already linking Ki with a move to just about every club outside Scotland and Adam Matthews (Celtic’s best performer all season long) has been linked (mostly by the scottish media to be fair) with a move to Everton or Liverpool. Isn’t it astonishing to see that even in Rangers’ desperate financial state, it is a Celtic player who is linked with a move away every day. Note today Edu is the Rangers player in today’s rag off to France. STV (Don’t shoot me) have informed their readers that it was infact Rangers who invited the offer from Edu. Applying logic would suggest that any forthcoming offer would be accepted and Mo Edu will be away scoring touchdowns from within the pocket in France very soon.
Rangers can’t afford Scott Allan, everyone knows this is fairly obvious even if he only went for 400K, so today the Daily Record have the headline ‘Celtic are my team but I’d follow Scott to England’ The player in question is Airdrie’s Ryan Donnelly who is Scotland’s top scorer. The article also states that the reason Allan isn’t at Ibrox is because he preferred going to England to test himself and young Donnelly would do the same instead of joining his boyhood heroes at Parkhead. Now without being too cynical, is today’s ‘everyone wants to go to England’ angle purely installed to deflect from the fact Rangers are absolutely skint? Well no because they’re going to sign a Spaniard for 2.5 Million. Despite telling us young Scots are going to England, there is a hot-shot Spaniard who is dying to sign for Rangers, and he doesn’t have to try his luck in England cause he wants to come up to Ibrox and score hundreds and hundreds of goals for Rangers. Behave. If Celtic want Ryan Donnelly he will be at Celtic Park because Celtic can afford to give Airdrie a fee for him.
Enough of that, I’ve given the paper far too much attention for one year!
So who is coming and who is staying? I’ll start with the outs and say that I don’t expect any of Celtic’s first teamers to be leaving this window. If one is most likely to leave then it would have been Ki but with Kayal being out for the season then I’d imagine Celtic wouldn’t sell another Midfielder unless either 1) Its funny money or 2) We have an able replacement for around the same amount of money lined up. McCourt might decided his time is up and leave for pastures new, which no one could hold against Paddy if he wants to see if he can get more first team football in another team. Rumours that a loan offer to Kilmarnock persist and if rumours are true then him linking up with Derek Riordan could be a tasty prospect.
Players coming in? I would be surprised if Celtic go to February without signing another player, IF Celtic get it right this month then the treble could well be within in our grasp. For me a center half and a striker are needed to ensure that the Celtic team is ready for the next 5 months of football. Maybe a loan signing for a central midfielder to cover for Kayal wouldn’t do us any harm but if not then IMO the Celtic midfield is more than capable of competing for all 3 trophies.
January always seems to be the biggest month off the park during the season and hopefully the hype from big moves that will happen down south. If Man City spend £50M on a center forward don’t automatically assume we’ve signed Edin Dzeko on loan until May. I’d imagine Lennon has his own targets nailed down and is doing all he can to secure that elusive target man.
Get It Right Celtic. This Ones For The Game…….
absolute quality they are skint they couldnt even get boyd tomorrow but the same red top rags spout the same bull we as hoops fans must start to take a stance against this crap from the gutter press they are the lowest of the low the lowest form of anti celtic irish catholic buffoons sandaza they couldnt by a kebab in perth but the blue nose press still give us spaniards and all the rest of the bull every day keevins dalziel guidi king and every other twat on radio clyde young trannie soory traynor on radio scotland rough and johnstone on real and hateley the joe goebbels of scottish fitba dallas mcdonald and the rest what is the greatest little country in the world salmond a voted for u for years a wnt freedom but ye messed whith the green brigade u just blew it u nugget so to end my rant i want rfcs 9 in a row nil and void and every mason and orageman referee excommunicated hailhail to all our prod hoops fans and despite all their nonsense alwys remember and be prou of our forefathers FAITH OF OUR FATHERS WE WILL BE TRUE TO THEE UNTIL TO DEATH
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Aye, ok Father Jack. You ran oot of meths?
brilliant jimthetim god bless you!
KTF
Bring back skippy!!! Jordan Rhodes has brilliantly priced himself out of a move to paradise, as has the coveted Baba Diawara (bloody shame HE IS CLASS)
Maybe the rangers tax case will overwhelm the Scottish media & we won’t know who’s signed until their actually on the park.. anihoo am ramblin, come what may..
In Lenny I trust…
Hail Hail!!!
I liked Flipper better.
We’ve got to get it right this time.
If the board blow it they should be hounded out of Celtic Park.
We are where we were three years ago….. Rangers are skint and trying to sell their top scorer …… we didn’t buy and they failed to sell their top scorer and the rest is history.
In my opinion the defence is giving up fewer chances than it was even five weeks ago but the problem is the forward line.
Too small percentage of chances created to converted. If we can identify the right striker at the right price I believe we are on for the treble!
This was unthinkable even six weeks ago.
With Izaguire coming back Ledley is released back into midfield to cover for Kayal.
Commons is also comming back and if he makes half the impact he did last year then we should be confident.
If we could get Juarez, O’Dea, Murphy, and Thompson off the books this might free up money to buy a reasonable forward which could catapult us to success.
As I said in one of my rants earlier in the season players values increase if they are in a winning side.
When it comes to wheeling and dealing this summer then, if we have been successful, we could get a few quid more in transfers.
Lets see what happens but I hope history does not repeat itself.
Seemingly The Mexican has left Zaragoza, O’Dea is making noises about staying at Dirty Leeds (I was fully expecting him to be like the Irish Maldini the other night at the Empty Crates but all I saw was a rash, limited CB no better than the chaff we already have). Murphy, they are checking for a pulse and I’m sure that Josh Thompson has applied to sell insurance in Rochdale.
The defence has improved as the system has improved. A move to a 433 has suited us.
The spectre of Fletcher always looms at this time of year and it HAS nothing to do with the Porridge repeats of GOLD. This year is eerily too much like WGS last season. The DIFFERENCE is we now have a manager who WANTS to be in post unlike after our Skippy induced victory over them on Dec 27th 2008.
Hooper and Stokes are likely to suffer loss of form and are prone to the odd knock (Hooper late fitness test tomorrow). The resurrection of Samaras has been televised but all the evidence points to THAT he won’t score double figures between now and the end of the season. He doesn’t fit the scorers boots. Bang Bang? Who knows and frankly do the coaching staff care?
We ARE still in the same position that we were in the summer. Needing a third striker (Sammy is not a striker).
Sack the board. Heh.
Striker and CB, get rid of the loanees, look to the yoof. Have you seen the gallusness of that boy Dylan? As groundbreaking as his name sake giving up the acoustic guitar.
Bruce,
Deek and Paddy? What for a sitcom or a bloody great night out?
Both probably, If all rumours come true I’d expect to read about both being kicked out some club in Kilmarnock on the friday night and scoring 4 between them in a lunchtime victory of rangers!
Normal service on the blog will be resumed late next week (hopefully). Blog Towers should be fully fitted with leccy, running water, sanitation and Timternet.
It’s just a shame that PL isn’t half as clever as he thinks he is- or we’d be a shoo in for the league this year. If we dont buy a decent center forward and dont win the league, he should be hounded out, after his lies and cack-handed handling of ‘Diawara’s visa’.
What visa? The one that we didn’t apply for under the ‘leaked’ line that we had reached our quota though no quota system actually exists? Aye, he may fool the superstore bag carrying fly by night but he can’t fool google!
I think PL must spend more time making up stories than doing anything else- like his job, for example.
Expect more rumours this week! 🙂