If right back, Aurelio Buta, completes his proposed move from Royal Antwerp, added to Carl Starflet and Christopher Jullien, who will return later this year, we have the beginnings of a stable defensive structure.
Not that Aurelio would be of any immediate benefit, as travelling here from Belgium would require him to isolate until after the first legs of the third qualifying rounds of the Champions and Europa Leagues. If we want a right back to play against PSV or Jablonec he has to already be in the UK. This is a dilemma.
I have zero expectations we will reach the Champions League group stage. PSV look too strong, with or without a new right back. A win tomorrow night will secure at least Europa League group stage qualification. Lose tomorrow, and overcoming Jablonec in the next round of the Europa becomes vitally important. The latter outcome makes a UK-based signing more likely, the former points to Buta getting the nod.
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Clint Eastwood in his prime IS Jack Reacher.
The proposed bid for Eddie is one I expect the Club to accept. I hope he can bang a few in tomorrow night before he departs.
Guaranteed Europa group stages, Eddie sold and another few players brought in will represent a couple of very good days for Celtic.
Looking at the UEFA website, we’ll have two rounds of Europa qualifiers to get past should we fall short tomorrow.
It’s very important we do the job tomorrow night to avoid some high pressure qualifiers later in August.
FRITZSONG @ 8:11
“ Many thanks for all the archive photographs. They are history in pictures.
You mention Des Bonnar. I wonder if that’s the Des I knew. Tall, thin, Italian in appearance. I saw him feature on the TV news years ago. Thought he was involved in town planning.”
It was I who mentioned Des in a response to SAINTSTIVS. And you are right on the money. He’s the guy you knew. Des was an economist who worked with town planners in the SDA. He lived on Douglas Gardens in Uddingston with his lovely wife Maureen, and later moved to Reading. He had a PhD and I think ended up teaching. He was 6 feet tall, dark, slim, with a mustache, a not bad fitba player, and a very funny man. He recruited me and Jinky ( sounds great that, doesn’t it? ) to play for his team. I’ll post the team photo tomorrow with Jinky, Des and I after I get a chance to scan it.
AN TEARMANN @ 9:04 PM,
my fear are Lindsell
Hope All’s Good
Why is that?
Not saying we shouldn’t be cencerned, just wondered if you had anything specific!?
Hail Hail
Express reporter saying we are in talks with City to take Ishikura on loan.
Would give Ange his back 3,the new RB his speedy wing back.
Maybe.
/;/;
All this talk of the linked full back being too small.
Daniel Fergus McGrain – 1.78M tall if you have talent and heart you shine.
Go get him.
D :)
Bada Bing
Doing well now working out of B8 again, small world isn’t it ,top man LB. Will be working with him a lot. Hope you and the family are all well.
DAVID66 on 27TH JULY 2021 9:48 PM
You’re right , we should go and sign this McGrain fella!;-)))
We’re Not Half Of Anything…………………..
Deko- all good here T,hope you and yours are well HH
GDT – 😂😂😂 I wish
D :)
mcgrain is too slow, and shite in front of goal.
St Stivs,
I saw yer man on the Pride if Scotland award and thought he was a Celtic man from the off 👍🏼
My mate was also on it for the Down Syndrome charity he set up when his daughter was born it.
I’m proud of him tonight.
CELTIC40ME on 27TH JULY 2021 9:01 PM
CORNELIUS on 27TH JULY 2021 8:56 PM
“My fear is also that Desmond delegates much of this to others & they have proven in the past to be self serving & shown not the slightest notion of what needs to be done”
*walks into boardroom, looks at 4 trebles in a row in the trophy cabinet, scratches head*
…….
I know, I know but…
We won 3 trebles under Brendan Rodgers who for the first 2 seasons did exactly what was required with our football department – because he was allowed to as Desmond’s man. The jig was up during that summer break & it was common knowledge that BR was unsettled. He left us with only one trophy left to be realistically won to make it 3 trebles.
In season 19/20 won a spawny league cup after being mauled by them. We win a Covid tainted league title & stumbled over the line after extra time against Hertz in the delayed Scottish cup final.
It was the luckiest treble in living memory.
The rot had started to set in after Rodgers’ first 2 trebles but not one person on the board or senior management grasped what was happening. He duly left completely disillusioned with the club’s board & CEO. Then we had ‘showergate’ & NFL part 2. His legacy is the chaos we now have after the worst season again, in living memory. Zero trophies, crap football, disillusioned fans, disaffected players & no plan for how to fix it.
That is the mess that this board & their runners have brought to Celtic.
As soon as the other mob got an organized but inexperienced football management team in place we began to look exactly what we were – complacent dinosaurs who thought the good times would never end. We took our eye & mind of the job in hand & no one at the top seemed to have a clue. Lennon was very clearly a disastrous appointment, but no one has accepted any responsibility for that or the continued support he enjoyed when we ALL knew how bad it was after Fernecvaros & defeats to them.
3 trebles are down to Rodgers & the last one to gawd knows what. Luck probably.
But none of them can disguise the malaise at Celtic that leaves us with no trophies, no team worth a damn & what is now referred to openly by Ange as a “transition period”. I take that to be code for a difficult couple of season until we can look ECL opponents in the eye again.
But the record books will show 4 trebles, which just goes to show that we sometimes have no clue what the real story behind the stats actually is.
HH
TinyTim @ 9.20
That’s the spirit
Still too soon to post about the West Ham game.
That awkward moment when Ange refers to Barky in goals.
MAJESTIC HARTSON on 27TH JULY 2021 10:25 PM
St Stivs,
I saw yer man on the Pride if Scotland award and thought he was a Celtic man from the off 👍🏼
My mate was also on it for the Down Syndrome charity he set up when his daughter was born it.
I’m proud of him tonight.
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I thought your man was incredibly brave to talk about what he went through at the start, quite inspirational.
People moaning about fitba results, look sideways at the lifes of others, Real life.
He did great that bhoy.
“But the record books will show 4 trebles, which just goes to show that we sometimes have no clue what the real story behind the stats actually is.”
Well put. None of us know do we, and we all put our own biases, conscious and otherwise on it and turn it into our own reality. Unless you were there to experience it all first hand.
The only certainty in all this is we won every domestic trophy available to us for four years. If the board really were as incompetent and self-serving as you claim they were it’s an very unlikely story of incredible luck and good fortune. The odds are long against it
“We win a Covid tainted league title”
Hmmm
Bill Leckie again gets it spot-on in his latest column tonight. Probably a ‘chunk’ of CQN posters will call him & I, a “hun” – I’m not of course, I just like what, and the way, he writes.
Tiny Tim
Video Celts reported today
“With Chris he is still a little bit away. We are really happy, he is working really hard, I would expect at least another couple of months for him.”
It looks like the full 12 months.
We can not rely on this player.
What does phishing mean?
its not a question of whether we have short full backs an if they are good enough – its a question of can the back line win defensive headers in there box and on the posts. Can they do this with height and/or athletic ability.
at the moment – our fullbacks lack of heading ability is not compensated by central defenders or midfielders!
WE NEED AREAL ABILITY OFFENSIVELY AND DEFENSIVELY
DAVID66 @ 9:48 PM
All this talk of the linked full back being too small.
Daniel Fergus McGrain – 1.78M tall if you have talent and heart you shine.
Go get him.
—————–
David – don’t tempt us.
He’s only 72. Bet he can still tackle better than half our defence.
For those of you c.45 years old and under
… You don’t know what you missed.
What a player !
Scotland moved Danny to LB to accommodate Sandy Jardine and he was still a superb LB too
Barky the Ghost……there could be a book in this…😮
👻👻👻👻👻
Barky an’ Sparky………….or is that too sarcy?
:)
St Stivs earlier,
Yes, he’s an inspiration to me. What a father he is.
And as you say, puts our team’s woes into perspective.
👍🏼
CHAIRBHOY on 27TH JULY 2021 9:41 PM
AN TEARMANN @ 9:04 PM,
my fear are Lindsell
Hope All’s Good
Why is that?
Not saying we shouldn’t be cencerned, just wondered if you had anything specific!?
Hail Hail
Hi Chairbhoy.
oh i am always aware of the feral capitalists,
no particular reason,well apart from being the opposite in what is deemed a ‘return’ for Celtic between them and Br.Walfrid.
their growing s/h etc.
Alas in todays world the ‘devil ye know’ has to be done.we can be better hope the next 20 are as amazing as the previous 20/4eva).😊👍
for future Celts as always,its important they have the same joy i had.
With times we are in,covid etc,the league and europe.interesting times.
hh
The Quality Street gang had 3world class players: Danny, George Connelly and Kenny Dalglish, ably supported by the likes of Davie Hay.
“Rangers ur brilliant and so is Bill Leckie.”
Wish we were morally bankrupt and writing for a paper that hacked the phones of two dead girls.
Hot Smoked and Robert Tressel
Don’t abandon CQN because of this- stay and fight it.
A wee bit of film music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxHqlat73I4
CELTIC40ME on 27TH JULY 2021 10:40 PM
My point is that in season 19/20 we were losing our grip on the game in Scotland & no one at the top seemed to be aware of it. The board seemed so high on confirmation bias over their appointment of NFL that they overlooked all the warning signs that we were howling about EG totally outplayed by them at the League Cup final.
To go from a treble one season to (deservedly) zero the next indicates that both seasons need to be looked at not & just the one with no trophies. A hard look at the fourth treble season shows that we were past our peak then. Excuses were made for any doubts raised that season, including Covid disruption, but the reality could not be overlooked last season. The 4th treble season led to the board thinking that we were fine & that nothing was wrong.
HH
cornelius
The best team does not always win a cup final.
In the last SPL game before the lockdown, which the Celtic Board did not announce, and which some of us actually attended, Celtic won 5-0, and went for a time 16 points clear of our rivals. We had won 12 of 13 domestic games in 2020. With the support behind the team, we would have pushed on and completed the treble. After which, we lost focus, we, as a club lost focus. Various reasons, some of which we all subscribe to, but all leading to the disaster that became last season and to now. None of it was pre-determined, no manifest destiny, but no dealing with it as it happened either. Do not give us your prescience…..ex post facto
CELTIC MAC on 28TH JULY 2021 12:01 AM
None of it was pre-determined, no manifest destiny, but no dealing with it as it happened either. Do not give us your prescience…..
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Give us your prescience, then
What was it that wasn’t dealt with?
Who should have dealt with it and how?
‘No manifest destiny’ when the club has been downsized on and off the field for years?