Brendan Rodgers declared himself delighted with his first transfer window as Celtic manager, which is now over, after the additions of Kolo Toure, Scott Sinclair, Moussa Dembele, Dorus de Vries and Cristian Gamboa.
Toure, Dembele and Sinclair, the managers three primary targets, were acquired early, while de Vries and right back, Gamboa, were added recently. Deals went close to the wire today but the hoped-for midfield player (which was never James McCarthy) didn’t materialise.
A permanent deal for a (known around these parts) central defender to backfill Jozo Simunovic, who was wanted by Torino, couldn’t be tied up either, so Torino also look to have missed their target.
You’ll hear direct from the manager soon enough but he’s got the calibre of recruit he wanted – which he didn’t know would be possible three months ago.
There was never anything possible to make a formidable Champions League group look any easier, but we’ll compete at the top table, and we’ll wipe the floor with all-comers domestically.
More tomorrow.
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Celtic PLC’s 3 year silence on res12 raised at one of their own AGM’s and is about losing out on major CL cash is because it’s detrimental to the OF
Why risk anything when you have an OF gravy train pension
Brendan – I asked ye to work on 3 players.
1. James Forrest – Press the right buttons an we’ll have Celtic’s answer to Arren Robben….imho.
2. Nadir Cifcti – Press the right buttons and we’ll have the Celtic answer to Big Mark McGhee in his Aberdeen days….imho.
3. Efe Ambrose – Press the right buttons and we’ll have Celtic’s answer to YaYa Toure(Kolo’s brither).
Ye see, YaYa isny a defensive midfielder or, an attacking mf, he’s an all round mf. But, but, but, but……most important of all, and this is where folk lose perspective, a defensive mf is like, NL, P. Lambert, etc….who’s main objective is to break up attacks and, protect the defense behind them. What Yaya does,…..sorry, what Efe does is, give a more composed, difficult to dispossess, strictly didsciplined, keep the ball moving ‘forward’ type of performance and, crucially….he would be playing in his best position….imho.
So, Brendan, you’ve sprinkled some of yer magic dust onto player 1. James Forrest who looks transformed under your watch.
Now, do it with the other two.
You know they’ve got the stuff and, you know how to let them produce it on the pitch.
Just do it!
Also, James McArthy was ROI’s worst player at the Euro’s – kept giving the ball away – that’s what Efe wulny do….imho.
John Collins, whom I think would have brought more Celtic-Cuteness to the table than BR has, said last week that, Celtic would need players who would be brave and, keep hold of the ball – he’s right…imho.
Being brave dizny mean being like Broony and, trying to kid-on yer a hard man, leaning with his waiting to be skelped chin and, giving ‘cheap’ fouls away like he did with, Neymar at CP a couple of years ago when, Broony put his own little needle on the pitch in front of, the importance of the team when he got sent of for having 3 goes at Neymar to pull him down….not, Celtic-Cute enough….imho.
Big Efe dizny look, Celtic-Cute cause, bad managers play him out of position and he gets caught out. Brendan played Big Efe out of position in the recent friendly vs Barcelona and, he got caught out again. Be interesting to see if, Brendan learns from that or, has Brendan ‘wrongly’ dumped Big Efe out of the team cause, Brendan mis-managed Big Efe ?
I said last season that if, Ronny played any of the 3 midfielders….
Calum McGregor
Tom Rogic
Nir Bitton
…against the huns in the SCSF – the huns would win.
Ronny played all 3 and, well,….yeez know the rest.
Anyway, a lot of fans feeling let down by the PLC-Hierarchy at the transfer window dealings ?
Well, it’s like this……
The Kelly’s & White’s
McCann
Desmond
Lawwell
They will always let you down for as long as you remain outside the club that you saved by all yer, share-issue subscriptions since, 1994 when we were all told that when, Fergus’s 5 year period was up, Celtic supporters would own they’re club.
Well, old firm orientated Fergus took us for mugs and, jumped onto the plane back to Canada with £40 million of Celtic supporters money, handed the keys to his shady pal, DD and he looked us oot as well.
Folk talk about the huns and, the big lie.
Oh yeah ?
Well, what about us ?
The Celtic Football And Athletic Company…
…became,
The Celtic Football Club.
The one constant – Celtic fans put all the money in and, get locked outside.
Change that dynamic, then wipe away the tears.
Celtic FC…..
A Club founded by underdogs, supported by underdogs.
Hail Hail
WEEBOBBYCOLLINS on 31ST AUGUST 2016 4:57 PM
Who was the holding midfielder in the Lisbon Lions?…
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Hail Hail, hope yer well fella.
Yer point – yeah, exactly.
And, why did we only need 1 ch in Lisbon ?
HH
ELDIEGOBHOY – Your in my prayers pal.
DOC- Hope yer wee lassies fine pal.
CQN Celtic Supporters
You’ll Never Walk Alone….with the
….Jubilant-Jobo-Hunskelping-Choir.
….oot-zzzzzz……
Lawwell being blamed for “failing to sell Efe” just about sums up the futility of trying to debate with the old-firm obsessed miseries.
We’ll be fighting for 5th place in the group.
I hear Xavi is in the Celt Well having a last sangria before going to bed tearful.
It was close. Very close until he split that pinky finger nail and Pedro’s medical team flew out to give a second opinion on his fitness.
Peter’s bonus looks very cuticle again.
Brendan jumped over the moon but initial reports of happiness being the cause may have been misleading.
Good luck Brendan. You are going to need it to gel our midfield into something that can cope with teams a wee bitty better than Imps and Zionists.
MWD
MOONBEAMSWD
At the hootenanny,we should take the money for the rounds off the happyclappers and bring them back a pint and a box of straws.
BMCUWP
First, let me put pin holes up the sides of the straws. It’ll be the best pint they all ever had. As long as we say Peyer bought it for them.
MWD
PS I’m generally more happy with this current Timdom than I have been for a few years but when we have failed to secure the positions that required upgrades, it is folly to pretend to clap happily. It’s now down to Brendan to work his magic with a less than convincing unit.
Happy with the signings so far.
We need to shore up midfield until next window, trust that Brendan can do that job.
6:30 to HTW this morning glad we had an early heads up that bizz was completed by 10pm – good man Paul67
MOONBEAMSWD
Pinholes,superb!
An evil genius,indeed…
Morning all.
Well the last day of the transfer window came and went with a whimper.
Still, it could have been worse.
At least we didn’t buy Willo Flood.
HH!!
Let’s get cuticle cuticle
A wanna get cuticle
6:30 LHR jeezo!!
Back on 19:00 if anyone about!
JAMES FORREST on 31ST AUGUST 2016 11:29 PM
“Celtic board plant” (haha couldn’t resist) BRTH,…”
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JF. Ha Ha. Very funny!
Maybe you should have tried a bit harder to resist.
“Contempt prior to examination is an intellectual vice, from which the greatest faculties of mind are not free.”- William Paley
A horse, a horse my kingdom for a Sendahorse
King Dave
Tallybhoy,
Your not kidding, we could have bought a guy on the last day for 2 million, never gave him a game and then sold him for a million a year later, Oh…… wait a minute! Some on here would still have tried to spin it as a success story.
The people responsible for the past two years should have been out the door well before Ronny.
Kill Ultra
Give us peace until such time as you front up with your “evidence”.
If you have something then just get it out there and we’ll judge you on that.
In the meantime – YYYYYYAAAAAAWWWWWNNNNNNN \o/
MWD
Or we could have bought a guy Brendan targeted and he could have went on to play weekly for 4 years.
MWD
Good Morning Timland.
Good enough for the SPFL but not good enough to make
a decent fist of it at CL group stage,BR better brush up on
his park the bus tactics.
Away tae work,underwhelmed so am ur.
Ps,Kevj ….Efe sitting in front of the back 4,worth a try.
Didn`t know about this.
The tyranny of distance.
It is understood there was interest from two Championship clubs for Armstrong who has stayed at Celtic, although one surprise was the loan move for Saidy Janko to Barnsley.
MOONBEAMSWD
I hope you’re not encouraging indecent exposure. Mind you,even dirty old men deserve a fair crack of the whip.
I must admit,all this “evidence” and none has seen daylight yet,loada nonsense. Kill Ultra should post the evidence or refrain from as much as mentioning it. Shocking accusations being made,with no proof offered.
BMCUWP
I see what you did there :-)))
It appears tha Kill Ultra has not got the gonads to expose.
See what I did there?
I await his revelations much like the contraptions of Tomorrows World. I still ain’t got my jet pack!
MWD
Good morning from a dry, bright but breezy East Kilbride.
A right mixed bag of opinions since the window shut. Yes we did need a midfielder and yes it looks like PL watching the pennies again and yes we can’t get dragged into the epl madness (McCarthy). However, all that matters is every Tim getting behind and trusting BR, the man who brought back 20k fans and the thunder, brought back the feelgood factor missing since 2004, put the fear of God into the Zombies who btw will pull your arm off for a 1-0 defeat next week, and all in four short months. The bigger picture looks very decent. Embrace it.
Now, imagine for a minute if Jesus had decided not to sign up Peter as one of his disciples!
Just how would christiandom have started never mind faired? He got his man and look at Christiandom now.
MWD loves silly analogies that make no real sense at all but still get to the gist of the big picture.
One should refrain from buying players
They might be rubbish
That’s about as asinine as be thankful that we didn’t overspend like RFC
Another transfer window where the ambition of the fans is ignored in favour of parsimony
The gaggle of accountants running CFC need hunted .. They’ve grown stale
PF
They grew stale about 4 years ago. They are now masked in penacilin.
MWD
Asinine?
Word of the day and it’s only gone 7.00
Excellent CSC
Whilst one window has slammed shut, anotehr one remains open for a wee bit yet….
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Saltires. Morning.
Where is HTW ?
I thought I new all the airport codes.
Is it Heathrow terminal wan
Pfayr
I’ve been saying that for years but can you tell me where that would leave the manager?
Brendan isnae ‘delighted’ with the transfer window.
He’s ‘ecstatic’.
Allegedly, of course.
HH!!
Haven’t checked back but would have liked to have signed a midfield enforcer but pretty happy with the changes made since the end of last season.
On anothef point, see that the Twitter account of Phanton 5088 been reactivated , making personal attacks on Dr. Tony Zia re Lescott fiasco.
Perhaps, needs monitoring. HH
Dear Mr Lawwell,
I told you, but would you listen?
I said that once you got Cristiano to agree to join, you must leave it under wraps until the final hours of the transfer window. That way, if your final target blows you out, you simply announce the capture of Cristiano Gamboa.
You’d still have signed the same 5 players in the window, plus a pre-contract, but the miseries would be happy, because you delivered on the last day of the window. Job done.
You’ll remember my cunning plan the next time won’t you?
Hail Hail