With 26 career goals, 25 of which came in a Dundee United shirt, £1.5m sounds a tad generous for Nadir Ciftci. Celtic’s earlier offer of £900k sounds more like the mark but Wigan have validated United’s target price with a deal with meets their requirements, if not that of the player’s.
Is he a player to improve Celtic? Quite possibly, he’ll bring something we don’t have at the moment – a sticky out ball – but it’s a big ask to expect him to step up to Champions League levels. Signing that level of player might take Champions League money, but we’ll need to get there first, which is why we need to bolster the attack quickish.
Two years ago we talked about the number of senior games a good player is able to make before he’s noticed by those to rich and lazy to do as much low-level research Celtic must do to unearth a gem.
Victor Wanyama made 51 appearances before becoming a Celtic player, Virgil van Dijk made 62. It’s likely both spent the bulk of those games without anyone paying much attention to them, Celtic’s scouts are likely to have been alerted when they have little more than a dozen or so games left at their previous clubs.
Ciftci’s made 67 senior appearances. If he has what it takes, the world will know about it sooner rather than later.
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blantyretim is praying for the Knox family
10:26 on
7 July, 2015
From the biggest arse on the blog 8))
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Sounds to me that you are in the XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXL league !!!
Ciftci?
Totally underwhelmed by that as are most of my mates.
He may as well plead guilty at his hearing I a couple of weeks as he will get hammered as a Celtic player for biting, another reason, footballing ability apart I would NOT have signed him.
ger57
He was probably confused about which one of the two arses to comment on ;-)
Cifti should get three match ban, however bearing in mind the Tonev fiasco, it could be sine die.
new article posted.
Good morning from Marrakech. Just checking out the Celtic chat before checking out of the riad.
Quite a town, this, and quite a country. Spent yesterday in the snow up in the hills, before returning the 50 miles back to 45C Marrakech.
Next stop Seville, where I shall pick up a Ciftci poster for Jamesgang, Seville being all out of Berget posters I expect.
TBB
Vintage 67
10:34 on
7 July, 2015
How do you make a CL competing team out of this? http://www.celticfc.net/team
I mean seriously, the more I look for the potential here, the more I worry.
Okay for the SPL but otherwise…?
Perhaps we should accept that where we are is where we are.
We are simply in the CL to make up the numbers and if we hit it lucky get into the group stage.
kitalba
08:09 on 7 July, 2015
On sleekit Smudger Smith at the SFA,
I always wondered was his last act to sign of their eligible for Europe Forms before shooting the craw to look after his parents.
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