18 days into the transfer window we’ve landed our first business, 24-year-old Danish international central defender, Erik Sviatchenko, joining from Danish champions Midtjylland, who are due to compete in the Europa League knock out stages next month.
On paper this one ticks all the boxes. The player has been tested in a league a little stronger than our own, and in Europe this season, where Midtjylland eliminated Southampton, Bruge and Legia Warsaw. He will add security to the back line in the chase for the treble, and will be ready for Champions League qualifiers in August.
Ronny Deila now needs to make sure Sviatchenko and Simunovic form a proper defensive partnership – something we’ve lacked this season. Pressure will now mount on Efe Ambrose (27) and Dedryck Boyata (25) to up their game if they are to force their way back into the team. Both are in their prime years, but older than the two I expect to keep them out.
I’ve been shouting for a defensive mid for two years, most noticeably on Friday night, when Dundee United ran straight up the middle of the park to score, but we’ll see what shape the team takes after the addition of Erik.
I think Celtic should also be congratulated on getting this business done below the radar until close to the finish line. We’re involved in lots of transfer speculation at the moment but don’t spend your time researching every name that pops up. There will be five players linked to the club for every prime target.
Welcome to Celtic, Erik.
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latchford on 18th January 2016 6:45 pm
PL in last chance saloon.
Very much doubt it.
Maybe I should rephrase the tinkering with :))
Agree 100% with recent posts about need for a holding midfielder . We can sign whoever we like but without that security and stability we will remain a team with a soft centre. I’m sure Ronnie is aware .
Read earlier post about Dickie Wilson vis-a-vis our new bhoy’s injury predisposition. Another blog ( think e-tims) got tore into Jingle-Jangle Jackson earlier for another in his long line of pathetic articles.
Q. Best ever Scottish oxymoron ?
A. Football journalist.
Philbhoy
I’m sorry to hear that but……
That’s quite a funny one.
Are we in danger of losing a bit of perspective and humour ?
Tony Donnelly has the heart of a true Celtic man.
He acts as anyone of us hopes we would when someone or something we love is under attack.
Sometimes, although his heart is where it should be, is mouth sometimes wanders.
There are people on here who think it great craic to wind up other posters.
Canamalar is one of those, but he is something of a sacred cow on here and is tolerated beyond what should be acceptable.
Most people ignore him in attack mode, but that is not in TD’s DNA and he responds.
There are many lines crossed on CQN now, which would not have been tolerated when the blog began and for the first couple of years of it’s existence.
That is a pity and it is that laxity which has brought us to now when there is an almost daily ruck of some sort, by anonymous bullies and cowards.
My pet theory is that there is so much latent anger at the corruption in football and all the legitimate targets, SFA, SMSM, etc, are teflon coated.
That anger has to go somewhere, so, much of it has been directed towards our own club and some of it towards each other.
All of it should be directed at Hampden, but, hey, that might mean actually being proactive against the SFA, especially with cup ties coming up an’all.
Keep up your good Celtic heart, Tony.
Thom
Res 12 is about getting the sfa, Canamalars baby, and the poster you have just stuck up for has not had a good word to say about it.
HH
ThomtheTIm,
Excellent post fella.
‘We’ choose how we want to react – be offended, be angry, be argumentative, be spiteful, be revengeful.
We could choose to scroll by, ignore, laugh, play down…..
TTT..,
Why you bringing me into it, I’ve nothing to do with him having his account pulled, I’m no the ying to his yang I’m nothing to do with him except I have suffered his abuse from the day he started posting. Something you probably enjoyed going by that post.
The fact is I do not care enough about him to be bothered if he got himself banned so won’t be commenting on it.
I will be commenting on anyone who thinks its fair game to blame me or drag me into it.
Evening guys
For those crowing over Tony’s so called sabitical he has not been banned by Paul he is just taking a couple of days off, let crowers keep crowing, there seems to be a split blog concerning this, most acknowledge Tony could have used better terminology but the witch finders jumped straight in
thomthethim for Oscar OK on 18th January 2016 7:10 pm –
Agree with much of what you say.
However, when shove comes to push, and it will, our club will be seen to be very much part of the unsavoury SFA.
Have you seen or heard anything to persuade you of the contrary?
thomthethim for Oscar OK…
Good post, I reckon a lot of on here have posted something out of order.
I did when I wasn’t long on and got lampooned for it by a few, others saw the funny side of it.
Tony D can be a cantankerous old git but has our club at heart, I don’t agree with a lot he posts, especially his attack on HT.
“Let him who is without sin cast the first stone” ps. I’ve not hijacked PETEC’s monicker.
Canamalar
You did bring His 88 year old mother into it, you can’t deny that
CANALAMAR. Fella forget it what is done is done we all have our opinions on why TD67 is not on line at present.You have your opinion I have mine we are both entitled to our point of view.H.H.
tony67
backwards is
76 y not
The binge bloggers have done as much to deflect the blog as have the hun sleekit(s) and irregular snyde
pop-ups have………..
TD67. Fella good to see you being able to post the talk of your demise appears to be premature.One up for you Bhoy. H.H.
TD was wrong for his hunting comment & P67 rightly pulled him up
But IMO he isnt the worst & he by my def isnt a troll.
However…..
TET,
That’s not really relevant, except to give perhaps a reason why it is personal.
I didn’t think that there was any future inRES12 until Auldheid, BRTH, etc., became involved; and to be fair, I think Canamalar was of the same opinion, which is to his credit.
I think they added credibility to what I considered the proper way to tackle the SFA.
You may recall reading a post of mine, way back around 2012, when I argued that Celtic, as a club, were restricted from tackle their Association.
My hope was for a wealthy, shareholder, with no other connection to the club, to take an action against them.
I had the litigious Denis O’Brian in mind.
I thought it would take a big hitter in order to gain any leverage.
However, that does not excuse the grudge that you are suggesting, manifesting in such an unseemly manner.
GOOGYBHOY on 18TH JANUARY 2016 6:20 PM
Saint Stivis
Why don’t you meet me in my local and say that to my face.
The Keyboard and Tappit.
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mines is the hoddit and doddit
Masty,
I said he lived with his mother and she was doing a grand job caring for him, what’s your point ?
Paul67 did not pull his account because of that so why are you insisting it is relevant ?
His account was pulled because people took offence to his boast the he would “hunt them like a runaway slave” but you know that and still try to involve me.
Saint Stivs and GOOGYBHOY. Fellas have we not had enough in fighting recently ? I thought we had a common interest in Celtic which would bind us together but it appears im wrong again. H.H.
Thom
I never had a prob with TD till he started accusing me of being a CT groupie and calling me a clown, gloves were then off, that’s all from me re TD.
I remember you talking about that and I’m surprised that he didn’t get involved, we are talking serious money we have had stolen from us, business men of that caliber letting that go without a word is a surprise to me.
FWIW, I reckon Res 12 will prevail, the fact the club are backing it helps.
HH
CANALAMAR. Do you really see it that way ? I see that you were mocking the man for living with his elderly mother and no matter what you say can change that.It was a terrible thing to say but you get away with it while TD67 gets pulled up where is the CQN level playing field ? h.h.
Gary67 on 18th January 2016 6:46 pm Listening to Sportsound, Richard Wilson, their Dave King correspondent, telling all with glee that Sviatchenko is injury prone. Obviously not a patch on the Accrington galacticos.
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Liked how he said he’d had “at least one” cruciate injury.
Exact numbers seem to be out of fashion at the beeb these days. Sevco’s “six figure” bids for O’Halloran….
JFH
That’s exactly what he meant,
A big hoopy birthday to Celtic Legend Jim Slavin
Love
JFH.
-))))))))))
did you not see that on the original post ?
its a joke.
your awfy sensitive.
Quonno,
Unfortunately, I’ve heard nothing to suggest what the final outcome will be.
I have a great deal of sympathy for the club’s position, which comes from years of witnessing how the club is perceived and portrayed in the media and establishment in general. They have the megaphones.
Could Celtic have put them out of business? No, only themselves did that, then the establishment gave them the kiss of life.
Could Celtic have stopped them joining the SPL? Yes,they did, along with other clubs, but not alone.
Could Celtic have helped them into the SPL for next season? Yes, they could have, if they loaned them some players. We loaned Hibs Henderson and Stokes.
I think that we are powerless to stop them.
I don’t think that there is any force in the country willing to stop them.
The SFA/SPFL have open their doors and their rule books for them.
The totality of the media are launching missiles on their behalf on a daily basis.
They are waltzing through one court case after another, as if Perry Mason is sitting in their corner.
All this is being done while they haven’t twa bawbees to rub together.
And yet, the question still gets asked, what are Celtic doing about it?
It’s the paying customers of Scottish football who have the power to do something about it.
Canamalar
I am already on record as saying he should not have used that terminology, but you as far as I took your post as mocking him for living with his mother at his age, oh and by the way he does not live with his mother.
Saint Stivs. Im glad to see were not starting another long running sparring match.H.H.
Congratulations to my wife who has just secured a lead role in a job in Brunei. I am looking forward to retiring this year and joining as a kept man.
Brunei unlike CP still has a Jungle so I should feel at home.
Let’s all do the Brunei
junglejimscsc
Thomthetim 7.10 P.M.
Precisely what I would expect from someone of your obvious integrity and intellect.
The horde of those who have unceasingly targeted Tony and have baited him have done so with impunity.
Tony,like any good Tim,reacts accordingly and unfortunately sometimes goes over the top.
I suppose we must accept that the one who retaliates cops the red card.
I wonder ,however,if Paul is aware of this sequence of events.
The problem,of course,is a system where Paul apparently acts when a complaint has been made.
Who told the teacher?
They`ll be proud of their little victory .
Won at the expense of fairness.
William F……………Efe could fill that holding position. He is still a young man with loads of experience playing at the highest international level and a fine athlete. Worth a try.
POGMA. Congratulations to your wife and yourself. H.H.
macjay1 for Neil Lennon on 18th January 2016 7:45 pm –
Thank you. I just felt it had to be said. I don’t like witch hunts.
Anyway, what is said is said and I’ve counted to three#obrotherwhereartthou
Evening all, just a wee observation that the gulf between the ramblings from Scotland’s “sports journalist of the year” compared to the internet bampots has never been so wide since ,well ,eh 4 years ago.
This time we even have a blue nose (John James) added to the usual bloggers calling out Keech.
David Kings past is washed over, court cases ignored, while bullish predictions of incoming transfer targets are lauded.
Loans ? What loans ?
Something stinks & it ain’t the bampots.
JFH,
It matters not a jot how you see it, the words are all there, well except one of his threats of physical violence, Paul67 deleted that, from then on it became a wee bit pointed but the Jist of the digs were as I stated above, I mocked him and he became more violently vitriolic.
You were in about and mixing it and know exactly what went on, I did make a point of correcting your misrepresentations at the time. I won’t be wasting any more time on that mistake after this.
I won’t be speaking about or too him again, I did try a while ago but he couldn’t stop himself having a go at me and dragged me back into his vitriolic rants and I fell for it.
It won’t be happening again.
Time for kip nytol
Pog
You lucky lucky man ye