When Celtic equalised with 20 minutes remaining against Sporting in Algarve yesterday I thought my expectations we would get a hammering was misplaced. Then Sporting obliged with three goals within seven minutes against, what by then, was very much a development Celtic side. The last thing Celtic needed yesterday was a confidence-boosting win, so result; I guess.
Camilo Duran scored on what was his Celtic debut. Goals in these games are immaterial, but forwards always like to put the ball in the net soon after arriving at a new club. It acts as a proof of concept to their new teammates and fans.
Martin O’Neill will inevitably be asked about transfers every time he meets a journalist, fan, friend or relative. His responses will be practiced to confirm processes are in place without actually exchanging any information. That will hopefully change with confirmatory comment soon, until then, there is nothing to see.
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Another lovely day😎
Very sporting of Celtic last night , a leisurely run around the park .
I wonder if they paid the old stadium a visit , went all misty eyed , sighed and thought , ah the old days …
I’m not taking much comfort that when our WC participants return last night’s team will be unrecognisable from what we’ll see when the competitive stuff starts. I wouldn’t be remotely surprised if AJ, Nygren and Daizen all seek moves. I don’t think the club should stand in their way if that’s the case. The problem is there is zero assurance the club is in a state of readiness to replace them. That’s before adding in Engels and Reo’s likely departures from the first team along with the likes of Bernardo from the squad. Fortunately CalMac looks likely to remain and I am confident Trusty and Yang the same, along with KT and Ralston.
The vista of Pollokshaws Road and Cumberland Street from the Brazen is breathtaking. Or it’s the fumes aff the motors.
15th July and nothing to see here P67.
What a club! A board who show zero respect to each and every one of us and once again we look at the start of the season with limited enthusiasm or optimism.
Even the game against Middlesbrough this Saturday is going to be an embarrassing turnout. It is a missed opportunity to bring more money into the club if we paraded some new signings and the place had some lift to it. Instead we will be outsung and possibly outnumbered (!) by a modest Championship club. Our name will once again be ridiculed.
Wilson and Nicholson can not be held in lower regard by myself but the board generally are a pathetic excuse for men. Desmond? Just go.
PeterLatchfordsBelly @ 12:13 pm,
On the returning players from the WC, as last season proved we have little strength in depth, so these key first team players are essential…
Alistair Johnston
Auston Trusty
Ralson
KT
Yang
Nygren
Maeda
Tounekti
Of course we will certainly lose
Maeda
Engels
Hatate
Rumours abound for
Alistair Johnston
Nygren
If, as we expect, we won’t see Maeda (WBC:) in a Celtic top in anger again – Camilo Duran is already in place.
MO’N knows how important having the quality and experience of Kelechi is to this team and is pressurising the Board to get it done.
So as you intimate, the midfield is where our real issues lie – getting the Ox in was a smart move by Martin, if, as is likely, the calibre of player we lose, will not be replaced by sumilar quality his presence in the squad could be key.
Hail Hail
“Nothing to see”, aye virtually straight from the horses mouth.
It’s what we will get this window, nothing.
MoN has been asking for reinforcements since the back end of last year, he is still waiting for said reinforcements, what he did get was a mixture of crap loans that were so bad he decided not to play them, we got a couple who he did play and would like to return, but given our recruitment team has already brought in a striker, they need a well earned holiday for all their efforts…….and some say don’t worry, Dearie Me, we are an utter shambles of a club.
I think Kelechi wll wait till near the end of the window to weigh up his options. I expect a lot of transfers after the world cup. Hopefully we have our targets identified and discussions are already taking place. will the Board back O’Neill or will it be more projects. BR gave up on this policy as he was expected to make silk purses out of increasingly sub standard pigs ears.
Phillibuster time with Iheanacho, will drag on IMO, with him moving on,Osmand will sign a new contract and be unveiled as our ‘new striker ‘.This nonsense just shows that absolutely no ground work,scouting, negotiating has been taking place by these useless amateurs running our club, 19 days till 1st league game tells you that.
Paul67
Of course Martin will be asked about transfers at every opportunity since there’s no information coming from anyone else at the club other than ads for new merchandise lines and friendly tickets for sale .
It’s a sign of understandable fan concern about our state of readiness (or unreadiness) for the season ahead . A concern that’s rooted in recent experience.
Groundhog day …18 days to league KO ..we have one . ONE player in to replace a talisman
I thought last year was bad …but at least we had Rodgers poking away but ultimately he was was unsuccessful
This year may be even worse if that’s at all possible
Sickening
“Nothing to see”
Our board are class acts at this during windows.
If we weren’t ran by people who’ve achieved things in life i’d be perturbed. The board are 12d chess players. It’ll all be fine. 😉🤠
Can 2 teams lose the same game? It would be the most flavoursome outcome of tonight’s game in this festival of corruption WC.
Don’t forget – Luke McCowan got a contract extension…….
It’s ok. B78 is going to explain how Celtic are ‘fixing’ things.
I fear it will take us being embarrassed, if not humiliated, over the next few months before we see a proper reaction. The double was brilliant for us as fans but provided a shield for the suits that they did not deserve. DD is too arrogant to listen to the concern of the fans or even the manager and the captain. He thinks our domestic success proves he knows what he is doing. God help us. He is gaslighting all of us.
Pre-season bounce or not, that was a grim watch—thankfully Peter Grant is still the eternal optimist and shameless flatterer – bless him
I still hope we bring in actual quality soon, though we were saying the same thing after BR side beat the same club 2-0 last July.
The quality additions never turned up last summer, nor in January and now it’s bizarre hearing MON parroting BR like a broken voicemail . Same message, same accent . MON in ‘constant touch ‘ with those who bleed green and white..’
There’s still time. We don’t need warm bodies—we need players who can actually play, they cost money, ideally before the inevitable sales. The one thing this outfit seems to manage without self combustion
It’s Iheanacho ‘in talks’ according to MON a free agent and we’d an option to extend, what’s the hold up? If ever there’s a body that needed a pre season he’s it. MON confident players will come in but he doesn’t know names or numbers ?
These Celtic deals they’re always working on, don’t land by themselves , you know
Record profits.✅
Money in the bank.✅
Sold-out season tickets.✅
Pay as you go friendlies ✅
Adidas money ✅
Champions League cash. (This time? ) ✅
Net spend NIL ✅
Back to the Future FC.
Nothing to see here – but just look at and buy this new and superfluous replica shirt !
Happy are those who have not seen evidence of proper new signings, and yet believe !
Imagine proper Euro teams – Man U, the Arse etc – saying they’re happy with pre season drubbings,
On players out
Teams were after Engels recently so will be after him again . High chance he goes
Nygren went out the WC fairly early and had one big season. I think he will be off radar
Johnston had a good WC , could be suitors but might be tempted as next Celtic captain. i think he stays
Maeda will definitely go. Wants a challenge and was prominent in knockouts. Off to England
Players in
as usual, it will be late, hope for a decent draw in CL play off. Good draw last year but the team spirit smelled really bad then – not now
I said League and Cup last season and was right. I’m going League and League Cup this year
I fully expect that all of our players who played in the World Cup will be sold by the Club plus Arne Engels, we are well down the road of being an Auction house similar to the breeze up sales of horses with players brought in who are punts , our right backs are Ralston and Donovan with Tierney as the only left back with Scales as cover, the midfield and forwards are of even more serious concern, how can the support have any faith in the recruiters at the club when you don’t even know who is scouting? Who is in the Football department? Is Celtic a football club first or a listed company first with the spending barriers so severe we would rather pay Corporation tax than spend on signings or improvements to the stadium.?
Some really sad folks on here.
Whatever the club does it will be wrong in the eyes of some experts.
Even winning for a generation is not enough for the gurus in our midst.
Still tune into self serving folks like Acsom or David Low. These guys care and know the answers. If only they were in charge. Or maybe even a VC play to take 20% a year from us.
Burnley78 on 15th July 2026 1:44 pm
Some really sad folks on here.
And you are one of the saddest.
Anecdotally aside from Celtic Chat, just home from Crosshouse Hospital visiting a ward where my brother in law a good Rainjurz man he was till not long ago.
He has been confined for nearly seven months, with nowhere else to go. A ‘ bed walker’ they call them, physically fit to walk, just, and in the wrong place because there’s no available ‘home care package’.
What a hospital that is, a mini city – what a cruel, cruel illness Dementia is,- ever seen it up close ? 24/7 one to one NHS nurses dealing with a progressive illness, no treatment.
Very, ‘rich’ wonderful people, dedicated to their jobs and poor patients that really don’t know whether it’s New Year or New York.
He doesn’t even know who I am spoon feeding him, but seems to recognise faces or voices , doesn’t know his sisters, his daughters, or his grandchildren and he wakens every day asking about his wife that died 17 years ago? – he thinks she’s due to visit any day.
Six beds, six men with no way back , some of them have passed over the months, but there’s always six men in line all waiting
You have to give him his due. I don’t think he has ever answered a question during his put down of the plebs.
BSR- Desperately sad,horrible ,cruel disease
You talk pish
“Even winning for a generation is not enough for the gurus in our midst.”
Its been great, we all enjoyed it, are we to stop now? No onwards and upwards?
What about the next generation, what is the club doing to ensure we win that. Fans are playing their part ploughing in their cash, what about the club?
dessybhoy on 15th July 2026 1:43 pm
I fully expect that all of our players who played in the World Cup will be sold by the Club plus Arne Engels.
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Interesting, DB.
Do you expect those 9 players to be sold in this window?
Burnley; of course we’re glad when we boss these tin pot comps in a stepping stone league. Even with our resource dominance it’s still good to follow a winning side.
Yet We once or twice were warriors on the Euro stage. We were proud of our serious prowess.
Forgive some of us for harking after true glory days rather than blithely ridiculing us.
We want the very best for Celtic; I’m sure you do too, right ?
Consistently weak and docile fans will never strike fear into any PLC Board full of sleekit sharks.
“Oh poor us the wee victims” will never be a battle cry that will win any battle.
Michael is in the back of beyond working away😮. Martin must have learned sign language in the close season, if he talks to him all the time. Quite incredible how we are being regressed every season. Another season of civil war awaits.
B78….agent provocateur.
Even he doesn’t believe the shite he posts but he has a strong need for attention, the result of an Inferiority complex…
I do
Some I wouldn’t bother about losing tounekti nygren and yang
celtic dawn on 15th July 2026 2:09 pm
Its been great, we all enjoyed it
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Respectfully, CD
“All” of us didn’t enjoy it.
If you need proof, (and, frankly, if you can be bothered)
… check comments on CQN across the last five summers.
And in extreme cases, in game during the actual football season e.g. when we conceded a corner.
It’s not a question of IF but WHEN Celtic lose the title.
It is definitely going to happen.
Might even happen just 10 months from now.
When it does it’ll feel rotten for us all
(and it actually will be all of us)
Five summers running (including this one) the doom merchants have been laying it on thick.
In all five subsequent season ends – the outcomes Celtic achieved did not match their apocalyptic predictions the previous summer.
Missed by a mile in fact.
Do we have challenges? Undoubtedly.
I do not know what to expect next season.
Doom merchants might finally be right.
Until the real football starts …
… based heavily on the doom merchants getting it wrong five summers running?
I think I’ll temper the voluminous negativity they project with my own GHF outlook.
Martin O’Neill believes new Celtic attacker Camilo Duran has similar qualities to team-mate Daizen Maeda. (Sun, external)
O’Neill says Celtic “are definitely making moves” in the transfer market, with the manager hoping to bring Julian Araujo and Kelechi Iheanacho back to the club while admitting some players will have to move on. (Record, external)
Celtic, Burnley and Wolverhampton Wanderers are among clubs interested in signing 20-year-old Utrecht forward Adrian Blake, who is valued at £2.5m. (Amar Mehta on X, external)
Tjark Ernst will sign for Feyenoord as Celtic’s hunt for a new goalkeeper goes on after the Dutch club met Hertha Berlin’s £4.2m release clause. (Record, external)
BSR @ 1.54PM
A sad but familiar event – you are doing a good thing being there for him
I can only offer a selfish but honest theory
Live life to the full, enjoy what you can, because one day age or poor health we restrict us from being able to enjoy much at all
One life
67ECW
The Herald
@heraldscotland
“It was barely a month ago that Nicola Sturgeon said on national TV there was nothing in her statement that she would not want to be published.
“Yet now, her lawyer has insisted that neither her written statement nor her police interview will be released.
“The question is — why not? If Nicola Sturgeon has nothing to hide, then why is she so opposed to her statement being published?
“From her no-comment interview with police to her dubious insistence of having never seen the large motorhome parked at her mother-in-law’s home, the public will frankly find it hard to believe anything Sturgeon says.” – Scottish Labour deputy leader Jackie Baillie 👇
https://x.com/heraldscotland/status/2076924787201298838
^^
Ah mean if the utterly deceitful Scottish Labour can see right through the krankie Witch and all of her lies especially when the SNP deleted all of their correspondence from during the Covid scamdemic, yet big pure Tim Ponsonby never saw a hair out out of place during 20 years of wall to wall SNP corruption, degeneracy, etc, from any SNP MP/MSP????
You have to wonder if the PLC Board are delighted to have another 53,000 ‘pure’ Tims to negotiate with on season ticket renewal day?
Dim Tims are a Fergus gift to the PLC Board occupiers.
What a time to be alive!
I have limited my time on all things Celtic
Speculation was leading to paranoia and in turn frustration sometimes even anger
The confirmation of MON calmed me – there is no way Martin takes responsibility for Celtic without first having the reassurance that our Board will back him
But the alternative is gathering pace
I am sure Mr Nicholson and his team will be working hard behind the scenes to rebuild a title winning football team – but they are not having much success
We are the paranoid consequences of Michaels limited success
Is it possible that the word on the “Agent’s Street” is, wasting your time dealing with Nicholson as he has no decision making powers and/or clubs won’t deal with Celtic as the process is slow/awkward/painful
Obviously I’m speculating but the fact is – we have bought one new player
Patience is a virtue
But we have all been here before
Hey Ho The Open starts tomorrow
67ECW