The mood around Celtic Park was a bit sombre when Virgil van Dijk was scouted by Southampton. Virgil looked like he was scared to break a fingernail in the capitulation against Legia Warsaw; we lost out on Champions League qualification, although the player was heading south anyway.
With Stuart Armstrong being measured for a red and white outfit, there is significantly less stress at Celtic. Stuart delivered for Celtic during his three years at the club, but he left unable to command a regular starting place in the team. We are selling a fringe player who has one season left on his contract for a fee which reflects the inflated English transfer market.
Celtic have managed this playing asset very well. Consequently, they have more money available to invest in the team. It is also worth noting that we could have sold the player a year ago, but resisted as Brendan Rodgers did not have back fill. The manager has been preparing for this scenario since. This should be an enjoyable summer for the Celtic support.
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Thought so, believed that myth for years though.
Thanks WITS.
HH. ?
TURKEYBHOY gives them something negative to report about the celtic, fire away i say as the song says the higher you build your barriers the taller i become
Deflection is good for their audiance
HH
Hope to see you guys and gals on Saturday in one of the great real ale pubs anywhere.
At the world cup in Spain 82 I had the pleasure of seeing the majestic Socrates in his prime. He was the Braziian Bobby Murdoch. Hh
Polish players.?
I thought Lubanski was very very good.Added bonus of going to Ibrox with a Polish mate in 69 and seeing him scoring for Gornik as they humped the Deady Bears.
G64
My dad would love your post. Bobby was his favourite LL. ??
Best footballers (Defenders)
Pat Stanton is up there with the best.
Absolute class.I just wish he had come to us earlier.
I went to his testimonial at Easter Road where he played a half each for both teams.
A certain Jimmy Johnstone made a guest appearance,I might be mistaken but ah think a young George Mc Cluskey was the only one on his wavelength.
Think Jinky was at Sheffield United at the time.
HH
I was there as well
HH
GORDON64 on 25TH JUNE 2018 10:46 PM
I was there as well
What is that ‘economic impact survey’ all about ? Couldn’t say we skip the train fae Ruggy to Dalmarnock. Hh
My da’s favourite was Bobby Lennox.
My da was a central defender back in the day.
When he talked football everyone listened.
Hist best three defenders were Mazzola (spelling) Our George Connely and Stanton.
HH
Gordon 64
Socrates, beautiful footballer, drank and smoke, probably too much, qualified as a doctor and gave medical care to many who couldnt afford it. Died at 57.same age as i am now
Too young to cash out
16 Roads
As no-one has answered your question and I didn’t know the answer I resorted to Google to find it.
Ron Greenwood
Very good question.
I remember 1966 watching with my father and grandfather.It was not a happy time.
1967 was the first time I had seen people crying with happiness .
It was so surreal .I had never witnessed adults in tears.
It was like a stunned WTF for about ten minutes.
Then it sunk in.
We owe them so much.
God bless Glasgow Celtic.
HH
Don’t understand why Alves didn’t get a game for Portugal tonight….
JTT
My dad was Robert. He loved Celtic players who were named Robert.
DELANEYS DUNKY o
Are you Bob Kellys laddie lol
HRVATSKI JIM on 25TH JUNE 2018 11:14 PM
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No worries HJ.
It was a tough question.
HH. ?
Greatest snooker player of all time?
Alex “Hurricane” Higgins…
Over & out.
KTF. ?
Big Jimmy
Just catching up. No worries.
https://sportstalk.ie/five-football-facts-xabi-alonso-ireland-medal/
not Socrates but Xabi Alonso
Dixie
Naw. Thankfully
YNWA
Jim Baxter got a broken leg in a euro game – show-boating once to often. I dont think he was quite the same player after .
Met Boniak 1990 in a bar in Italy . He had a young dolly bird on his arm. Asked him what he thought of his experience of playing against Celtic at Paradise . He answered “Italian women are very beautiful no?”. He did sign my Celtic teeshirt though.
DD, I love all Celtic players who are called Jim, Jimmy and James.
And Tim.
Pat Stanton’s testimonial had the greatest ever half time show I have ever seen.
The Accordian band had the whole ground jumpin’
Great day
Boniek was sitting with Infantino at the Poland game the other day
on 25TH JUNE 2018 9:43 PM
KEVJUNGLE on 25TH JUNE 2018 9:30 PM
I hope your well.
That’s your opinion, not fact. Tell me this, which Lisbon Lion would Dalgleish have replaced?
KTF
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Hope your well too.
If you don’t mind, and I know you won’t, I’ll answer your question, with a question.
How many of the LL’s would’ve got into any of King Kenny Dalglish’s European trophy winning teams ?
HH
……..oot.
Zzzzzzzzzz
Georgie Hagi was fabulous
Kikinthenakas
DD, Garry, please listen to this. My band. Terry, my blue eyed Irish boy. And Hail glorious St. Patrick.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWqULvfmX0U
I noticed that no one mentioned Eusebio when talking of former greats…
perhaps he wasn’t the greatest ever but there was a time (1966) when he was the man of the moment. Bulgaria had kicked Pele out of the WC and it was Eusebio who took up the mantle…
He finished top scorer with nine goals as Portugal ended the tournament in third place…
In one stunning game against N Korea he scored four goals after being down 3-0, running out 5-3 winners…
I will forever remember those Puma boots he wore…another who made the game look easy…
And here’s another point…Pele is probably the most fouled player in the history of the game…at the time it seemed the only way to stop him…and the referees at the WC in ’66 were like bad versions of Collum, Thomson and Madden…
Talking to myself again…oh well! I’m out…
Over to you PeteC…
Scottish Football Has Arrived At A Crossroads With Tomorrow’s Hearing. It Needs To Take The Right Path.
https://thecelticblog.com/2018/06/blogs/scottish-football-has-arrived-at-a-crossroads-with-tomorrows-hearing-it-needs-to-take-the-right-path/
(The JPDT on Rangers non compliance with honesty and goodfaith SFA Articles starts tomorrow)
Its almost as if it is being held in secret.
Rangers are seeded and will go through tomorrow. It’s all about officiating.
Kenny’s First EC winning team were
Clemence Neal Hansen Hughes Thompson Kennedy
Case McDermott Souness
Fairclough Dalglish
I might give you the keeper, right back, Hansen and Dalglish himself. Of the others, only Souness comes close to any consideration. The Lions win this one hands down
The Liverpool team of 1981 was the same plus Sammy Lee and David Johnson replacing Fairclogh and Case. Therefore the amount is the same- only 4 liverpool players in consideration for a Lions slot. (this Liverpool team only beat the Real team that the Celtic team of 1980 (a diminishing force) came close to beating)
The Liverpool 84 team that won on pens had Grobelaar replacing Clemence plus Lawrenson, Whelan, Craig Johnston and Rush. Their goalie change brings their number down from 4 to 3 but, to be fair Ian Rush would bring it back to 4 (Lawrenson and Whelan would not trouble the scorers for more than a second in consideration).
So the answer to your question is 7 lions every time. Gemmell, Murdoch, Johnstone and Lennox are givens. McNeil, Auld and Wallace make it on direct comparison. Only Simpson, Craig, Clark and Chalmers ever got brought into a potential losing comparison.
Pretty daft order to ask the question- it should be – how many of Kenny’s Liverpool EC winning team mates could replace Lions?
jimthetim53 on 26th June 2018 12:10 am
Enjoyed that JTT53,
I am assuming you are playing with Shotts St Pats. Had a good friend who played with them a few years back when I lived and worked in ML4. Grab my email from P67, BMCWP, CRC, ACGR or Jobo and drop me a note if that’s OK.
HH
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