If ever you needed a reason to convince you to ignore the vast majority of transfer speculation which inflicts football fans from May until 30 August, the signing of Miku Fedor is a gift. Spanish football is suffering from the kind of economic wake-up call which makes it possible for aspirational Scottish clubs (I know there’s only one) to sign strikers first choice strikers. Miku came through the scouting process last season and remained on the list but the deal had to be right.
25 goals in 85 games for a struggling team in the top league in the world (Exhibit A: Atletico) suggests we might have someone who will flourish on an acre of Glasgow and will bring experience and confidence onto the field when he faced Barcelona, Benfica and Spartak Moscow. The deal has the hallmarks of Peter Lawwell’s try-before-you-buy policy. Get them in on a loan with an option to buy. If they are successful, do the deal, if not, you’re not stuck with Ulrik Laursen breezing into training asking the other players how they got on at the weekend.
Right now the most important question is, what shape of team does Neil Lennon have in mind? Miku plays through the middle and on the right. He’s fast and he’s 6’1”. Have we bought a someone to play on the right of a front three? Perhaps, but with circa 15 first-choice midfield players to accommodate the plan is surely more complex.
More on this when we have a quieter moment, I’m off to bed to forget all apache command line prompts until January. We’ll talk goalkeepers over the weekend.
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THE EXILED TIM – Sheffield United it is then.Thanks mate.
!!Bada Bing!! – Stranger things have happened brother – The kid is lethal.
Is he starting the game?
With Izzy clearly struggling to regain his level of peformance of 2 seasons ago, I was surprised Lenny sent young Blackman to ICT.
Hopefully the short (5 month) term it indicates that Lenny just wants the kid to play regularly to help him develop.
We’ll see.
probably,Sami out,up front with Hooper again,looked good last week
The Battered Bunnet
We signed a CH.. Mulgrew is better at LB than Izzy imo
!!Bada Bing!! – Nice one.
If he plays,he scores! :)
Roma to Barcelona return—- £ 87 – Vueling .
Roma to Lisbona return —–£ 123 ——-Tap
For the gamblers.
Celtic to qualify from group G.
Looking at the group, if we take Barca as a given to qualify, there is one spot left.
I don’t see much between the 3 of us and was expecting 5/2 tops.
I am astonished to see us at 6/1 with 2 bookies, this is an outstanding price.
Also v Benfica, at home, 11/4? Another huge price.
English based bookies tend to dismiss us, take advantage of their arrogance.
Elsewhere, a wee bit of youtube scouting this morning on Ambrose and Fedur. Not a great deal of footage on either but from what I saw:
Ambrose wins headers and finds his man with a 10 yard pass. First base for a central defender. We’ll see if he has good game sense in due course.
Fedur is dramatically direct, right through the centre. He is rarely wider than the 18 yard box, and every goal I saw was a clinical finish. He doesn’t do sclaffs or swipes. Great technique every time. Looks pretty fast over 10 yards too. Interesting one.
Looking forward to the top of the table clash today, particularly to see what Tony Watt can do over 90 minutes at Celtic Park. His TV interview on BBC Sport’s pages revealed a well grounded and impressive young man. good luck to him.
TBB
Aikibhoy
I have a great deal of time for Charlie, but he’s very uncomfortable at left back.
Son of Dan/Starry plough,
cheers for the replies,i would have thought most people
would be happy with our dealings but some others would have wanted more money spent,wonder who the out of contract striker is
AikiBhoy
Chaz at left back gie’s me the heebie jeebies…
Give Izzy a wee bit of time and support and he’ll be back striking terror into the opposition..
Mon the Honduran
Folk might want to look at Benfica’s record in the ECL last year before putting down their marker…
South Of Tunis – if you fy with TAP take a tip from me and check in online. They tried to deny me check in once because there’d been an overbooking. They told me to come back at a certain time which happened to be after check-in would have closed. Legally they have to check everyone in and then decide who boards and who gets bumped with compensation.
(I made a complaint at their information desk and was then allowed to check-in as normal but I was a bit upset at the time.)
TBB
Uncomfortable to watch too .
Teams up Bhoys and Ghirls
Celtic Football Club @celticfc
#Celtic: Forster; Matthews, Lustig, Wilson (c), Izaguirre; Forrest, Wanyama, F. Twardzik, McCourt; Watt, Hooper. (LB)
Chaz is a very versatile player. LB suits him better than CH imo because when played at CH he doesn’t have so many opportunities to use his creativeness.. its like a handicap to him.
Remember the 6-0 humping of Killie at Rugby Park when he scored two and got two assists in the first half last season?
Played left back…
Why………
Why…………..
Would you loan oooot Andy Carrol
BigjoehopesLiverpoolFlop
Forster; Matthews, Lustig, Wilson (c), Izaguirre; Forrest, Wanyama, F. Twardzik, McCourt; Watt, Hooper.
subs: Zaluska, Commons, Slane, Irvine, McGregor, Chalmers, Fraser
A lot of uncertainty about how we’ll manage at the back, but a very good team nonetheless.
Part of Hearts statement on the sale of Templeton:
“We did not want to sell him but there was no reason to keep him as his mind and heart was not with Hearts and in January he could sign a pre-contract and walk for free in summer.
Rangers were the only club where this option was not available due to a transfer ban, so they offered money for Templeton. All other clubs were sitting in the bushes to take him free in January.”
Aikibhoy
Charlie’s positional sense at LB is poor and he gets done for pace there too
Much better CM IMO
Happy with that team.
Celtic Football Club @celticfc
#Celtic: Forster; Matthews, Lustig, Wilson (c), Izaguirre; Forrest, Wanyama, F. Twardzik, McCourt; Watt, Hooper. (LB)
GoalsIIthatTeam
#Celtic Forster; Matthews, Lustig, Wilson, Izaguirre; Forrest, Wanyama, F. Twardzik, McCourt; Watt, Hooper
Great attacking lineup
The Battered Bunnet
Hopefully he progresses but I don’t see what Lennon or the scouting team seen in him. Seems unbalanced and defensively naive.
Anyone know how to get past the BBC IP address block? I am in Israel just now but in the past I have connected through my VPN to my companies UK server. Normally that fooled it so I could listen to the commentary. However doesnt seem to be working any more?
sparkleghirl——
Thanks .
I always check in on line [ if possible ] .
Italians aren’t good at organizing that queuing thing ————– I try to minimize my contact with it .
Liked the look of Lustig the last time he played there. Will be an interesting one today with him and big Wilson.
Clean sheet should give a lot of confidence
COYBIG
Loving the starts for Twardzik, Watt and McCourt. Should be fun. Just keep it tight at the back though – where is Mulgrew?
Buffalo Bills Bhoy
14:06 on
1 September, 2012
Anyone know how to get past the BBC IP address block? I am in Israel just now but in the past I have connected through my VPN to my companies UK server. Normally that fooled it so I could listen to the commentary. However doesnt seem to be working any more?
I use Expat Shield, it’s free and works perfect.
I’m really looking forward to seeing how that line-up does today. Finish my pint and then off to ground…
Buffalo Bills, its possible that BBC have blocked that range of ip addresses. You could try another UK VPN such as this one…
http://www.watchuktv.co.uk/
I would very much doubt we will see Blackman in a Celtic shirt again
even better use expat shield above since algarvian has it tried and tested :)
by the way where is Joe Ledley (is he injured )
Wilson captain today
Congratulations Kelvin
Good management Lenny
HH
Ho! Canamalar..!
Whit Are You Like….!
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Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire
03:44 on
1 September, 2012
Big G,
is that the best you can do, really
so, rather than respond to my points, you decide to bring in your family and try to attract sympathy on the most basic level, hoping its enough to distract people from my argument. how sad, you need your BED, and I look forward to your apology in the morning, after you reread this DISCOURSE.
I can take it better than most, but when its an sanctimonious assasination on the back of your own ignorant interpretation of just about everything I say (a bit like bjmac) then I really really dont see the point in further INTERCOURSE.
Take your opinion and RAM IT, or pay attention and deal with the argument, oh wait, its a personality thing innit, your just jealous cause you dont have one :oD))
I LOVE this blog..
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All This ‘Double Entendre’……
Big G Disnae Hit The ‘Spot’ For Ye….?
Oan The Back Of A Brush-Off Fae Julian ?
And The New Epitaph You Hiv So Generously Bestowed On Me….
‘Sea Cucumber’….Green,Organic…And A Wee Bit Salty….
Soitenly Ticks Most Of The Boxes….
But Mebbies Just A Wee Bit ‘Phallic’..No?
[Cannae Be Frankie Howerd Or Kenneth Williams….They’re Both Deid………..Ed]
Anyways,I Have Been Following With Interest Your Frequent Aerial Movements Around These Isles….
And A Most Interesting Pattern Emerges
These Movements Correlate PRECISELY With Those Of A Celebritee And Atomic Kitten,On Her “Brian McFadden Broke My Heart” Tour Of The Catholic Mothers’ Unions Of Britain & Ireland..
So The Truth Is Out….
I Can Exclusively Reveal That Oor Canamalar Is None Other Than..XXXXX
XXXXXX…….
But This Begs A Question, Kerry….
With You Bein’ Oan The Blog All Day…
Jist Who Is Lookin’ After All Thae Weans..?
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Whit Next..? ‘SFTB’ Unmasked As Frankie Boyle….????
[Naw….He’s Just A Silly Boy….Ed] (;-))
The only problem,I see with the team today,is that there is no leader,if the game is going against us,who will drive us on.HH