It’s a return to to seed Ajax, which is a good football draw, although the Ajax fans and Amsterdam police make it an unwelcome tie for other reasons.
Fenerbahce lost their Champions League qualifier to Shakhtar Donetsk before beating Greek club Atromitos in the Europa League play-off round. There were no easy teams in pot three, Fenerbahce are about par for the group.
Molde beat Dinamo Zagreb and Standard Liege, so deserve some respect, they will fear no one in this competition.
Happy with the draw, it could have been a whole lot more difficult but as always, we have to arrive prepared as there are no hiding places in Europe.
GOLFERS!
There’s a chance to win a round of golf for four of you at the magnificent Aberdour course, scene of the annual CQN Open, for £1. Taggsybhoy has provided this opportunity, to raise funds to support the Celtic Foundation’s work. If you want to cheer yourself up after a hard week, read about the Foundation’s work here.
A box full of backpacks, pencils and cups for Malawi just arrived at my office (thank you) ahead of tomorrow’s collection at the Celtic Way before the game. Remember to bring along your old backpacks, pencils and handtowels if you have any.
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Before we talk about next year’s CL qualification to the group stage. There is a little matter of winning the league.
respecttheoppositionCSC
If any of the EL teams think they’re in for an easy ride at Celtic Park, let them they might be in for a rude awakening, as Malmo and Midtjylland showed teams that cost less than their opponents can often prevail.
Make some decent purchases and lets see
Gene
Do you not read anything? The Top Tier in Scottish Football is rubbish and Celtic will win it very easily. Next season, of course, Sevco may be in that tier and suddenly all will be wonderful again. Do keep up.
JJ
PS Just in case it is not clear, I do agree with you.
CELTIC CHAMPS ELECT.
Yes – hoping to go to Istanbul.Had hoped it would be one of the early games rather than the last – Southern softie me knows that Istanbul in December can be very wet and cold .Mrs S of T has already bumped her gums in a ” it might be snowing ” stylee..Living abroad me normally has no qualms re having a home ticket when Celtic play away in Europe but I have been in that stadium and dont think I will take the risk there..
Id expect 3 home wins at least.
“DAVIE HAY has joined Neil Lennon in backing Celtic’s current manager Ronny Deila after Tuesday’s elimination from the Champions League in Malmo. “-
Huh! What do those two amateurs know about football compared with the perspicacious genius of some on here?
I ask you! Pair of trumpets!
JJ
Can’t believe the complacency on here about the draw.
On the one had it’s a very competitive draw and will maybe bring in a decent gate.
On the other, we will struggle to compete. Fenerbahce have spent more this summer that we’ve spent in the past 5 seasons I’d guess (€50m! In one summer! Imagine that!). Ajax haven’t fared in Europe but are sweeping all before them in the Eredivisie. Molde will be a similar level to Malmo.
Our home form will need to be back to fortress parkhead levels for us to stand any chance. Realistically I’d say we’ll take anywhere from 4 – 8 points. Not enough to qualify in my opinion.
Jude2005
….and if we don`t get those three Home wins, will you conclude that Ronny/Celtic is useless or that your expectations were flawed?
JJ
JJHS
Yipp!!!!
I expect ajax and fenerbache to be better than malmo – a tough group imho
Gene
Indeed, the daily drivel posted on here by certain posters is highly disrespectful to our opponents, and Scottish football in general.
It’s also disrespectful to the paying Celtic supporters who physically go and support our club, home or away.
HH
This is what William Hill thinks ( and remember, very few bets will have been put on as yet so Hill is basing this on the perceived strength of the four teams) :
Outright Group Winners:
11/10
Fenerbache
8/5
Ajax
4/1
Celtic
16/1
Molde.
JJ
BSR 3.41pm –
Do you seriously think we had any earnest intent to purchase outright Wakaso, Tonev, Berget and Guidetti? For a start the first three all played on the left hand side of midfield. Why stock up your team with players who all play in the same position at great cost? Mental.
Then there`s the small matter of transfer fees in the case of Wakaso, Berget and Tonev. The fact that we`ve spent £3 million on transfer fees this summer tells you how much money was in the biscuit tin for outright purchases this summer. Rubin Kazan were wanting £3.5million for Wakaso alone, they had signed him for £6 million and were trying to get as much of that back as possible. So making these deals permanent was always going to be outwith our means and I`m sure that was known within Celtic Park at the time.
Jude2005
0:-))
well thats my flights booked for Amsterdam,going for a few days out on the monday back saturday
just the hotel to sort out
Will Virgil be playing tomorrow?
What will be the team selection tomorrow?
JJ
Why oh why are we trying to sign Christie?we have a defence if you joined them altogether you woudnt get a
Good one out of them.HH
Not mini good centre backs out there!!
GENE on 28TH AUGUST 2015 4:10 PM
I expect ajax and fenerbache to be better than malmo – a tough group imho
I agree but I also expect the Celtic that turns up against them to be better than the Celtic that turned up in Malmo.
No guarantees, of course.
TGBS
I tried to emphasise planned by putting ‘planned’
No, we didn’t want to buy all of them and especially not Wakaso, we were unprepared for NFL’s exit, and took loanees due to time restraint.
We should have signed Berget ‘don’t cha know,’
even though he was, and remains rubbisher than what we have.
HH
i thought the beauty of being a football fan and a Celtic supporter in general was that it gives you a chance to dream, get excited, be optimistic about the games coming up……………………..
Still smarting at our UCL exit and the parsimony by the suits with our money,
Here is the bottom line.
Charlie and the boys established an unsustainable business.
The RRM have milked the club of big fat expenses.
The RRM and the SMSM do enough to keep them hoping
And its a commercial cash cow for Mike and Charlie and the boys.
They pay, they still pay, they will always pay until it falls over again and they have Mark 3, which they will say is still Mark1 and then they will pay, they will still pay, and they willl keep paying……. :)
And my apologies to Vintage 67 on 28th August 2015 2:51 pm for the plaigiarism! :)
BOURNESOUPRECIPE on 28TH AUGUST 2015 3:19 PM
Celtic set to welcome the team from Hell to Paradise.
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Galatasaray coming too?
Iki
Touche
BSR-
What price Berget scoring against Real Madrid at the Bernabeu? Stranger things have happened….well maybe not. :)
BOURNESOUPRECIPE on 28TH AUGUST 2015 3:19 PM Celtic set to welcome the team from Hell to Paradise. –
Don’t tell me we,ve been drawn against Sevco in the league cup!!
Malmo whole team put together for 2-3 million
500 grand for Christie ?
Dundee Utd picked up 3.5 mill
1.7 mill Armstrong
300 grand GMS
1.5 mill Cifti
That infamous bonus of the CEO needs to be linked to transfer payments………….
There seems to be a lot of Sevco fans posting on here today !
If Celtic finish 3rd in the group , do we parachute into the final of the Petrofac Training cup ?
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But would it be the Petrofac Training cup South Section ? Or the Petrofac Training cup proper ?
Saw an article on Newsnow:
Carol Vorderman suffers burns after falling while running naked on a tredmill: photos
The photo was of the feckin treadmill !!
Maist disappointed I’ve been since Tuesday night,=))
lionroars67
Teams with smaller budgets sometimes beat teams with bigger budgets. It happens. I’m pretty sure that we defeated the champions of Sweden twice on route to CL qualification.
Maybe it’s the fault of the coach and the players?
B-b–b-b-b-b-but the bonus!?
A tough EL group, with some tasty away games. If we are judging the chances of our progression on the performance we witnesses in Malmö, I’d say we will likely finish propping the group up. This is a chance for certain players to reinstate their credentials.
My wish is that the traveling Tims look after themselves and get home safely going to Amsterdam and Istanbul.
TIMALOY29 on 28TH AUGUST 2015 4:41 PM
lionroars67
No doubt Tuesday night was a managerial failing on a big scale, Ronny and team got it badly wrong and the subsequent comments today from Ronny and Kennedy leaves me with no confidence for the Europa league group either
However if the club continues to pay over inflated values for players then the CEO is clearly not doing his job
Celtic have made an offer in the region of £500,000 for Inverness Caledonian Thistle midfielder Ryan Christie.
And the Scottish champions are willing to loan the player back to their Scottish Premiership rivals until the end of the season.
Caley Thistle manager John Hughes had earlier said he could not afford to let the 20-year-old leave immediately but was an open to a sale with a loan back.
“We have to do what’s right for Inverness,” he told BBC Scotland.
“We are a selling club, no doubt about that, and we would never step in anybody’s way. It would be the same with Ryan Christie.
“But, right at this moment in time, he’s under contract to Inverness and long may that continue.
“The ideal scenario would be, if he ever did move, we would try to keep him here just to buy ourselves some time and keep that quality at the club.”
John Hughes’ squad has been badly hit by injuries already this season
Caley Thistle’s injury troubles deepened this week with the news that winger Aaron Doran is likely to miss the rest of the season with a knee injury.
He joins Dean Brill, Richie Foran, Josh Meekings, Greg Tansey, James Vincent and Gary Warren as long-term absentees.
Hughes does not want to contemplate the loss of Christie as well but said he expects clubs around the country, including England, to be “sniffing about him”.
Christie, whose contract runs until May 2016 with an option for the club to extend for a further year, has already played for Scotland Under-21s and his manager has tipped him to win senior caps in the future.
The Inverness-born player, the son of former Caley Thistle manager and player Charlie Christie, who himself played for Celtic, was awarded Scottish Football Writers’ Association Young Player of the Year after helping the club win the Scottish Cup for the first time and finish third in the Premiership last season.
“For someone with that technique and talent of Ryan and now cementing his place on a regular basis in the first team, he is doing very well and holding his own,” added Hughes.
Morning/Afternoon to all Tims
Celtic FC Foundation’s Chief Executive, Tony Hamilton, has been kind enough to write a wee article for our Tony’s Huddle website. Are there any CQNers in that main picture?
If you have time please have a look at it at this link http://wp.me/a6DYht-dB
The Foundation is one of three good causes that we have adopted with the simple intention of raising their profiles. All three were close to Tony’s heart.
Mary’s Meals and The Robert Packard Center for ALS Research (at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, in Baltmore) are the other two.
No One Walks Alone
One good thing about the group of hell, and it is by far the most difficult group, I’ve no idea where people are coming from saying it could be worse, is that it will be a coming of age for the players. They will either sink or swim (I still think we’ll finish 3rd but it’s how they perform that matters).
My last day in the rat race is done. In hindsight it was maybe poor form to walk out the door with my fists aloft and shouting “Yas!!!”…
No trip to Istanbul for me after all .
Dates coincide will a family trip to Florida.
TT