Celtic’s £500k signing on Inverness attacking midfield player, Ryan Christie (20) is unlike any I have known. The player will remain on loan at Inverness for the rest of the season, a nod to the fact that the Highlanders have been good for his development and first team opportunities would be more limited at Celtic.
He’s a talented player who fits the criteria and we have the money available to bring him in. There’s something of a crop around the same age being acquired. More on this at a later date.
Welcome to Celtic, Ryan.
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Bournesouprecipe. I dont think any player has actually got to be at Parkhead they can surely do deals by video link and fax.However,if we bring in anyone tonight it will have been a done deal hours ago in order to get the medical out of the way or am I wrong ? H.H.
JFH, If it’s a loan they might dispense with the medical. Just getting a little worried it’s taking so long to sort our centre half.
GUERNICA on 1ST SEPTEMBER 2015 8:05 PM
I don’t think you can criticise Ronny for going on holiday.
At this stage of the game, whether he is in his office at CP or on a beach somewhere doesn’t make a blind bit of difference to signing or not signing our targets.
And he can be fairly criticised for many things, IMO, tactics and substitutions being two of them, but I don’t think his work ethic can be questioned.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1038739086136901&set=p.1038739086136901&type=1
braw
I wonder if they are grassers???? hahahahaha
Davido
He couldn’t afford the full Handlebar bit, like the great Desmondo
JF
All go at Celtic Park including John Collins, John Kennedy Ronny is on holiday but John Park isn’t
( so that will suit the haters )
Greeninbingley
Ronny took his phone
CORKCELT. I just read 5 minutes ago he is with the Croatia under 21 team preparing for an International match at the moment . H.H.
….PFayr supports WeeOscar on 1st September 2015 8:04 pm
The transfer window thus far has been an utter disaster for us
We had a top class CB pairing …we now have a hole you could drive a bus thro
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HAD. Or so we thought until the hole appeared in the 5th minute of injury time at CP v Malmo, and remained unfilled throughout the entire second leg.
After the 3 corners debacle, it became evident VVD was over-rated when the chips were down.
Big players get you through games like that, not fail to Sunday League set-pieces. Last two CL final qualifying rounds in the last 2 seasons we’ve gone into the 2nd leg only needing to avoid defeat to reach the promised land. Each time we’ve failed. Virgil was trusted with the keys at the back on both occassions.
I’m relaxed about his depatrure becasue I doubt any of the possible centre backs would have performed worse in those crunch moments.
Get your finger oot
Celtic
Experience needed
These squad players are no use the noo we had a chance to build
In 2012 to have a great European side
We failed
We sold
And sold
Fecked off
Guernica,
some decent points in your last post,
but you then ruin it by saying sevco don’t fear us,
we would wipe the floor with them
We’ve had Miku, we’re interested in Michu. What next? Are we getting Meeko the racoon from Pocahontas as a mascot?
That’s right CQN, I went there. Don’t look at me like that, I know you’ve all seen it.
guernica
I’ll have a go at predicting the team- I actually think it is fairly predictable since all that has changed is VVD.
I suspect we will see
Gordon
Lustig (if fit- Janko if not)
Boyata
AN Other
Izzaguire
Brown
Bitton
Forrest
Johansen
Armstrong
Griffiths
The AN other could be Blackett if RD gets time to work on the training ground with our defence or it will be Efe or Charlie.
We have GMS, Rogic, Allan, Commons and Stokes to come on to change a game
We have Blacket, Ambrose, Mulgrew and Tierney to cover CB and LCB. We have Ambrose, Janko, Lustig and Boyata to cover RB and RCB.
Plus any new signing yet to come. Plus Ciftci, McGregor, Joe Thompson and Derk.
I happen to agree that Aberdeen’s challenge will be even closer though their best recruit was neither Shinnie or McLean but the Liverpool reserve keeper, Ward. Johnny Hayes is their most potent threat on current form.
I fully expect that Aberdeen will not lose all 4 games this year as we did really well against them last year. I still think we will win the league by 6 to 10 points in the end.
As for the Ibrox club don’t fear us- that is just bravado gained from not having to face up to us. If they do draw us in the cup, they will put up a better show than last time but our defenders are better than they are used to and their defenders are poorer than we are used to facing. We should win 4:1 or 4:2, I’d guess. Aberdeen, Hearts and Ross Co. would beat them, IMO
Sandman on 1st September 2015 8:24 pm
Absolutely.
I wish VVD all the very best and thank him for some purringly lovely performances when he was here…
…but in Europe?
I was a lot more upset when we lost Victor.
Ah…the old paperwork trick.
Never got it through on time.
We tried, but…blah,blah,blah
Same old crap
People raking it in while the teams goes backwards.
That’s clever
HH
GordyBhoy – they don’t fear us. Certainly not the fans I know.
They create more chances than the SPL teams we play most weeks and we can’t keep them out (with VVD!).
IMO we would need to score 3 to beat them. Possible and likely but the gap is not as big as many on here thnk.
Michu….. Tactically a nightmare, injury prone, bad attitude. Basically Sammy without the loyalty and humility.
Cheers Celtic.
Glasgow’s………… (Police stations are)……………….. Green and Whyte
via @ Abu Dhabi CSC
Not sure I am convinced that Michu (or however you spell it) is a massive step forward to be honest.
Does the academy not have some young galus kid with a No 9 on their back?
Corkcelt
Saw your post confirming you and Mick are coming over for Fenerbahce game. Excellent. Nearer the time, I will find out your plans and meet up for a pint ( and discuss how negative CQN has become!).
JJ
Michu is at Celtic Park.
He has been tempted north by the fantastic value of the EL Ticket package. He’s currently near the front of the queue at the Ticket Office.
Dexter
It’s shut
Sandman
VVD is class …any suggestion to the contrary is post revisionist , sour grapes utter pish
VW 12 Million
FF 10 Million
VVD 11.5 Million
GH 5 Million
And yet we are scrambling around for a striker on deadline day, after being pumped in the CL.
Seriously….WTF is going on.
HH
Our Hero, wee Craigy, has been arrested!!!!
White that is,or Whyte, whichever, he is in the pokey,
Brogan Rogan Trevino and Hogan
It’s only the internet and rumours.
No we don’t have a kid that’s ready to step into the Celtic team, – but you knew that anyway.
Sorry if that was already posted, just heard.
Whitehouse also arrested seemingly.
Paul67 et al
Cannot see any legal problem re Jozo Simanovic moving to Glasgow. EU allows restricted movement of labour, assuming the UK renewed it recently, but the fact is Jozo has been offered work. Not like he is a Brazilian going to say Portugal.
Based on early season form, My predictions for SPFL Premiership:
Celtic and Aberdeen will fight it out for top two spots- Celtic to win by 6 to 10 points
3rd to 5th will be between Hearts, Ross. Co. and St. Johnstone- I think Ross could be 4th
Final top 6 place will be fought out by the Dundee clubs- no 4th Dundee derby this year
8th to 10th will be ICT, Hamilton and Motherwell
Bottom 2 will be Thistle and Killie with Killie likely to get automatically relegated. So
Celtic
Aberdeen
Hearts
Ross County
St. Johnstone
United
Dundee
ICT
Hamilton
Motherwell
Thistle
Killie
Greeninbingley – if Ronny is on holiday as reported, I would happily let him and whoever sanctioned it go right now.
Do you think Jose Mourinho will be off on holiday today?
It’s an absolute joke.
What if a player becomes available unexpectedly and we are contacted by an agent? Will get Ronny on the blower, half p@shed after he has finished on the karaoke?
It’s completely amateurish.
As time goes by and my confidence in signing Simunivic diminishes, I am wondering where the `news` came from in the first place that we were going to sign him. Where was it first reported?
JJ
Michu – well knock me down with a feather!
If this guy is the answer then whoever is asking the questions should be shot!
Plenty of deadwood still hanging around I see – Master Stokes should be punted Asaph
McGregor adds nothing apart from comic value with that running style of his – his nickname has to The Penguine!
Is it true that RD has chosen now to go on holiday?
Obviously he trusts PL to deliver on his intended targets!
Still no decent defensive mids on the books!
The EL could be brutal.
HH
Virgil really was good with Denayer beside him. They were a good CB partnership but Virgil couldn’t handle being the main man. That was obvious last season when Jason was out injured and Efe was left to take the flak for flaws. The truth is Virgil can’t be the number #1 central defender; the one who carries others through.
In recent weeks it has been clear that he has been playing further and further away from his central defensive partners; Boyata and Efe. He was always comfortable being number #2 to Jason. Being number #1 is alien to him, it is not in his makeup. He was out muscled by Jon Inge Berget, where it mattered (in the box) when it mattered (our 2 most important games).
Virgil is a really good player but not as good as Jason, who on paper was his junior. For his own sake I hope he teams up with a leader in the Southampton defence, because anything else is never going to be his gig.
I’m happy with the sale.
http://www.celticfc.net/news/8991
We were told it would take 3 or 4 windows for Ronny to mould the team.
If I was picking a team for a game tomorrow, of Ronnys signings only 3 would be in it – and Boyata or Ambrose would be debatable. Add to that, Lenny had agreed for Craig Gordon to come in prior to Ronny starting.
So therefore, 3 windows have brought us one first team player – Stuart Armstrong ( and many would have Commons in ahead of him).
Selling players and not reinvesting the proceeds of sale helps the football team how ?
SFTB @ 8:40
A most unusual post from your good self. Are you trying to calm some of the more agitated posters? 0:-)
JJ
Paisley Bhoy. I would agree with your assessment I see VVD as the cultured Centre Back but he needs a hard grafter alongside him in order to get the best from him. H.H.
It seems to me that no one has a clue if anyone else is coming, if not this leaves us will a lack of experience at the back the continued tactic of two wide players in midfield and an injury to leigh griffiths away from having no striker, Ciftci has not impressed me at all, are Celtic serious about trying to win the league this year?
guernica-You have more faith than me, thinking Ronny is in control of transfers.HH
!!Bada Bing!! on 1st September 2015 8:46 pm
Hopefully the first of many changes in the coaching set up below the first team. We need to produce more players good enough to play, regularly, for us not Ross County.