Reports today from England interest me, and should interest all Celtic fans who believe we need to bring more than one striker to the club in this transfer window. The reports are about the Bristol City striker Tommy Conway, now a full international but dropped by his club team over a conflict over contracts. That will sound familiar to anyone following the Daniel Kelly story.
The question is; should we be looking at this kid as one of our three strikers?
Bearing in mind that right now we only have one, and the boss is well aware of it. Especially as we continue to drag out this scenario involving Adam Idah.
Is Conway the answer? No, not yet, but he’s got as much potential as any kid we’ve brought through our own ranks, and if the boss was ready to make Rocco Vata the third-choice striker, then why the Hell not? He’s certainly got something, and if we are smart, we will take advantage of the situation he’s in down there and make our move for him.
There are moves that just make good sense, and this is one of them. I’m not saying it solves all our problems, but when you play with just one player up front you need a lead striker, a second striker and a backup and as a backup option he has the potential to grow into the role as the second forward and one day challenge for the top spot.
And it might not even take as long as some people might think.
He’d have to come here well aware of what the scenario was, and he’d have to be well aware that he was being signed to play that role … but I think we could sell it to him if we were at all interested in making the move, and we’d be foolish not to be considering it.
We have done so much messing about in this window … can you imagine the change in the whole mood if we went out and signed an up-coming kid who has already made his international debut for Scotland? If we went out and said that he was a potential marquee player for the future? Nobody would even doubt the sense of that, and the gloom would lift.
There has been nonsense about how we might wait to January and get him on a free. Utterly absurd rubbish. If he has a stormer of a first half of the season we’ll be competing with half of the EFL Championship if we’re very lucky, and because he’ll be able to talk to clubs then they know they have to move him on in this window … and we have money to burn.
How much would it take to shift him? Not enough to justify the risk, if we do rate him, that we do as we’ve done before and sleep at the wheel and risk someone other side coming in and getting him at a knock-down fee either now or in the next window.
He has to be on a shortlist. His situation at Bristol City has a “point of no return” feel about it. So we should be testing the water with a reasonable offer, if we have any sense at all.
I dunno. He looks like wannae thaim. It’s all in the eyes which are always too close together. My spider senses are telling me to avoid like the plague
That lot are saying they should go for him as well. Probably as their marquee signing for the pre season. I say let them have him and let’s focus on players who don’t have shifty eyes.
“Wannae thaim”…you mean like dalglish was..? Or mcgrain..?…or that other guy…whatshisnam..?..stein..?.ffs.
Definitely a player looked athletic and had a eye for goal when he played in Scotland friendly and had good attitude when spoken to after game, no brainer
Totally agree. I think he’d be a great signing. I thought his short Scotland debut showed enough that he definitely has something and worth a punt.
Don’t know the kid but Che Adams is available on a free with over a 100 pro goals to his name and is only 28.
Buy him a good investment he can only
get better at celtic
Could be a punt worth taking, ticks the homegrown box and hopefully he’s hungry to try and break through. I’m not over excited by him but if Rodgers is up for it then fine.
Regarding transfers the club are an absolute joke. We should have the majority of new signings in the door and playing in America.
I’d definitely sign the boy Conway, I was shouting for him to be played instead Adams for Scotland, been following him for a while.
He’s got class, big lad and fearless
I’d rather buy che Guevara,oh sorry he’s deed che Adams 100 goals at 28 couldnae score in a whore hoose.
We need 3 quality strikers.We should go out and sign Miovski as well as Conway asit looks as though we are not getting Idah this transfer Window.Conway could then be loanedout to Norwich in January if they are prepared to play ball about Idah.