So Leigh Griffiths is set to be a Celtic player today. I bet we could all guess a few topics covered at induction. He is in because he scored 23 SPL goals for Hibs last season, more than anyone at Celtic achieved, and is currently Wolves top scorer with 12 goals.
Despite appearing to predictably win games 4-0 recently our problems in attack are evident. Anthony Stokes is our top striker but has scored less than half Kris Commons’ total, while defender Virgil van Dijk matches or better the rest of the strikers tally.
Leigh is the second striker we’ve brought in this month but at 6’2” Holmbert Fridjonsson is a completely different proposition.
More later on this and others, I’m sure.
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Bhoys and Ghirls,
As long as we can say on Saturday that we have not come out the transfer window in a poorer position then that will do for me.
Ref Leigh Griffiths : IMO, when fit he will be a first choice pick. NFL is not stupid, he knows yet another project cannot be acceptable.
Here’s hoping, but only time will tell.
HH.
Turkeybhoy
Very true that if he’d come in from say Sampdoria and looked like Cadete, we’d tend to get a different perspective. I can think of a few unsexy sort of low profile signings who have rattled in the goals for us. Dixie Deans and Frank McGarvey to name two.
Griffiths will be a good signing, he will be surrounded by players who are much much better than Hibs could ever be and wolves and he will get a lot more chances per game!
He should be seen as our 1st choice striker! Stokes is far to selfish and wastes far too much, pukki is your Heskey type player, he’ll create more than he scores.
Banguras gone, Watt will probably join him and never establish himself (which is a shame) and Balde I think is a good player with pace and in time will come good and can see him being used more in a desperate situation, for example, if and when we are drawing 1-1 with 15 mins to go, get the long ball up to him.
Dont sell Ambrose
Efe ambrose,
If you sell Ambrose you’ll have a riot on yer hands:))
Till later all
Ally McCoist spent the morning concluding 2 high-profile transfers, before saving his Football Manager game and heading to Murray Park.
Scotzine @scotzine 5m
Mo Bangura set to be released from his contract at Celtic Park.
Best news all day.
That’s another predictable one joined the knife sharpening club, seems to be getting bigger too, and just a wee pointer here, I’ve got you all marked down, the yes and no’s, your all on my what was it called? Ethnic Cleansing List? Oh and don’t ask me what that is, I haven’t a clue, someone told me some nutter in here said I had one, sad people, only thing I have is an opinion, but if that’s what others call it who am I to disagree, that would be there opinion.
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marrakesh express
11:17 on 31 January, 2014
I still think Lawwell’s choking the cheque book till the clive dunns come back, and hopefully thats not in my lifetime. You just know that LG will score at least 25 here next season but Europe’s another story.
Gerryuk 67. Peter lawell will not release funds for anything more than griffifths as that will affect his personal income
I get it.
tonydonnelly67:
I hope the knees of Karagandy and Cliftonville and Airbus UK Broughton are knocking but somehow I don’t think the – shouldIbebrickingit – o’meters of the likes of Real Madrid or Arsenal or Juventus or Porto will even register a flicker.
Don’t get me wrong, I have no idea what everybody is alluding to about the bhoys previous behaviour, and I couldn’t really be bothered to google it, I do trust Celtic in some departments, especially commercial image, I do wish the bhoy every success but I fail to see the ambition of the club or the logic behind the signing. I was not joking earlier when I said Celtic could save the money and pay THEIR own employees – who have shown them loyalty – a poxy living wage.
Our ‘projects’ wage bill must surpass the wage bill of quite a few full time professional teams in Scotland, and still we discard our own, like trash.
Good luck to LG when he pulls on the Hoops but why do I keep thinking about Derek Riordan .
HH
Minceyheidman @ 11.30 hrs.
“Once a Celt….always a Celt”
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hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Just like the Jesuits ——if only.
HH.
Hankray nothing Neil McCann says should be considered as valid or sincere watch Johanson yourself and make your own mind up.
Things to note today, the sky sports Scotland team is full of currents who thought Sevco should have got into the prem, who sent a camara to Motherwell to watch chairs being fixed, showed no balance in the reporting of the Dam and who over indulge in all things positively spun down sevconia way whilst reluctantly reporting actual good new our club creates. I’ve met a bunch of them and recently the crap they report when I brought it up was laughed off. They have nothing left but to try and annoy us. I suspect lots of attempts at unsettling of our players today, subtle points about the use of our and the way it’s run. This is because to them this is just Friday. Jack Irvine will I suspect get double payments for today, so please take a lot of what’s said with a pinch of salt.
ohits
11:39 on
31 January, 2014
Good luck to LG when he pulls on the Hoops but why do I keep thinking about Derek Riordan .
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Your Gay?
TD. Ya silly person griffifths is no a project
setting free the bears supports Res. 12 & Oscar Knox:
Sutton was not a project, neither was Hartson, neither was Nakamura, neither was Lennon, neither was, Lambert, neither was Johan Mjällby, nor the holy goalie, nor….
and we were poorer then.
SydneyTim
11:37 on
31 January, 2014
No it won’t. PL’s bonus is based on increasing income. Not cash in hand at the end of the year.
Transfer window madness……
I think a few on here suffer from the attached, perhaps even PL when he reads a Sydneytim post….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjVkD956T_I
gerryguk7
The common consensus is that he isn’t someone who will make all the difference in the qualifiers?! Goals won’t help, no?
We were lucky not to get dumped out by Elfsborg never mind Karagandy so an out and out striker may just be key.
He doesn’t have to make ALL the difference, you have to give yourself every chance and if that means making a 1% difference then go for it.
HH
Td67
Spit it out Tony
;-)
kitalba
11:41 on
31 January, 2014
We also accumulated losses of around £40M.
21-5-79
Ha Ha.
Marrakesh Express
11:34 on
31 January, 2014
Turkeybhoy
Very true that if he’d come in from say Sampdoria and looked like Cadete, we’d tend to get a different perspective.
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Have you seen Cadete recently?!
HH
Robert88
Ah the old Stokes is too selfish argument, I haven’t heard that one in a while. Second highest assister of goals in our team after Commons.
If he was more selfish he might score more goals!
I’ll gladly tip LG to score on Sunday – especially if he gets a full 90…
KM played in teams where he didn’t/wasn’t expected to score every game (Just like WGS managed teams where he didn’t/wasn’t expected to win every game), we signed him to play against teams playing a high line – only teams rarely play/played a high line against Celtic especially at home.
LG has more in his locker and that ability (Like Stokes) to make enough space to release a thunderbolt from anywhere.
sydneytim
11:31 on 31 January, 2014
What the point of you coming on here ?
;-)
sydneytim
11:40 on 31 January, 2014
TD. Ya silly person griffifths is no a project
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Oh sorry I thought he was, is he catholic then?
mickbhoy1888
11:09 on 31 January, 2014
Anyone been in Costco this morning and knows what the free grub on offer is
Absolute Class :-))))
If Joe goes i think we’ll sign someone else after LG, Just a feeling. A Loanee mabies
KLV
weeminger @ 1057,
i have anti-malware systems running.
even went to far as to d’load malware antibytes. did their scan. found issues. removed the threats.
Still get the same problem with the AF/KLM sites.
Feck!
Ended up phoning them.
Have to wait for them to get back to me to see if I can change my flights as technically my ticket conditions dont allow me to do so. Only because of my “member status” are they seeing if there is something they can do for me.
Another cracking day so far…..
HAIL! HAIL!
Token
weeminger:
I did qualify my post by saying we were poorer then, but the simple point of my post was that none of those players, nor many others too, were ever bought as projects.
LG ticks all the moneyball boxes. He’s a limited risk compared to the other strikers we brought in for more money.
Earlier someone was talking about Juve and Madrid not shaking in their shoes at the thought of playing LG. Come on, we’re not capable of signing any player that will worry the euro giants.
I was against this signing but now that it appears a done deal, I wish LG all the best and will give him my full support, as I’m sure we all will.
Welcome LG- good player -maybe we could get Sannabhoy to look after his weans during the games at home?
Kit. I agree with you. Griffifths will not have those teams shaking
But we have to get back to basics. We have had an absolute shambles of striker policy where it is that bad, that our strikers would struggle to score League 1
You and me were brought up with charlie. Frank, George , Brian ,frankybhoy that we expected our strikers to score goals
Tommy Johnston would have been first pick with these duds beside him
“We must have a youth policy. Where’s the youth. We need far more young talent!”
“We must stop signing all these young ‘projects’. We’ve got far too many young projects.”
HeidWasterCSC
Traditonalist88
I don’t think he’s good enough to be sure of a start ahead of tony stokes.
I could be wrong, hope I am, but on that basis, no I don’t think he makes a big difference in the qualifiers.
You’ve got your opinion, I’ve got mine. I don’t think he’s good enough. Worth a punt a few years back for less money, but now he’s a £1 million signing I can’t see the sense in it.
kevinlasvegas supporting wee oscar knox
11:46 on 31 January, 2014
Lenny said a few weeks ago they’ll be no players coming in on loan mate, out of Europe and league in the bag there would be no point HH
Breaking news- unrest in the dressing room already Leigh Griffiths has knocked back Charlie Mulgrew as a babysitter!