If Celtic overcome Nomme Kalju in the Champions League second qualifying round, they will face either Cluj or Maccabi Tel-Aviv in the third qualifier.
Cluj are one of those clubs who will never be taken lightly, after a remarkable win away to Roma in the Champions League nine years ago, but recent times have not been as prosperous. They lost out in last year’s Europa League qualifiers to Luxembourg’s Dudelange. In the first qualifying round this season, Cluj recorded an unexpected win against Astana, who are seeded only slightly lower than Celtic.
Maccabi Tel-Aviv went out of the Europa League playoff round last season to Norwegians, Sarpsborg. This was a poor showing by Maccabi, but there are caveats – the Norwegians were midseason and subsequently put on a decent showing in their Europa group.
Apart from Saturday’s Super Cup, this will be Maccabi Tel-Aviv’s first competitive outing of the season, so you would not bet against Cluj taking down their second seed of the campaign.
There is work to do, but it we cannot reach the payoff round from this draw, we do not deserve to be there.
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If anything or anyone could make me feel in any way positive towards The Gowf and that whole 19 hole Golf Klub palaver….the Lowry’s post win sing-song celebration might just do it.
Heart-warmin’.
A great antidote to all the usual Golfing Wallah Guff. Check it out ( think one fine CQN’r) posted it here, especially if you are feeling in any way – below par!
:)
AGoodWalkSpoiled CSC
SFTB. As usual a good post. One of the better CQN posters
We have needed a right back for about two years
As far Pukki. If he Came back to Celtic he would go back to being a non goal scoring striker
The English championship must be one of the worst overpaid leagues in the world
I watched Leeds United in a friendly here last Saturday. Truely awful football
But I did notice there right back Barry douglas I think. He looked not too bad. Worth a shout
Time is running out to secure a decent right back v Nomme Kalju
By: Newsroom Staff on 23 Jul, 2019 09:47
WITH just over 24 hours to go until kick-off, time is running out to sign a right back in time for this weeks European action at Paradise.
Estonian side Nomme Kalju, who have at least 2 right backs, come calling tomorrow night (Wednesday, July 24) to take on the Treble Treble champions at Paradise in the first leg of their second qualifying round UEFA Champions League tie.
It’s shaping up to be another exciting night under the lights, and with the last remaining tickets realised on general sale now priced from £26 for adults, from £14 for concessions and from £9 for under-13s – there’s still time to make sure you don’t miss a minute of Kristoffer Ajer or (God help us) Jack Hendry at right back here at Celtic Park!
Tickets are available to buy now online and print at home*, or by calling the sales line on 0871 226 1888* or direct from the Ticket Office, open from 9:30am until 5pm today (Tuesday, July 20) and from 10:30am until kick-off at 7:45pm tomorrow.
The deadline for Celtic to purchase their own right back for the match is midnight on Tuesday, 23nd July.
Season Ticket holders can, however, still take purchase their tickets priced at £23 for adults, £13 for concessions and £8 for under-13s.
These prices for Season Ticket holders are only available directly from the Ticket Office, or by calling direct on 0141 230 1967, and can no longer be purchased online or via the booking line. Season Tickets cards can no longer be activated for the match.
Get your tickets now to be part of another exciting European campaign for the Treble Treble Champions.
*Calls cost 13p per minute, plus your phone company’s access charge. Booking fees apply online and via booking line. Booking line open Monday to Friday from 9am until 5pm and Saturday and Sunday from 10am until 4pm.
*Right backs can be bought online but not printed at home.
awe naw’d
The ticket price on any player is no guarantee of quality, for eg:
Lubo = 350k
Ryan C = 250k
Tore Andre Flo = 12mill smackers
Michael Ball = 8.75mill
1.6m worth of utility backman could be a shrewd investment. HH (Hail Hatem!)
https://twitter.com/CelticFC/status/1153596462812581888?s=08
Liz McNeill and Sadie Chalmers to unfurl the Premiership Flag
By: Newsroom Staff on 23 Jul, 2019 10:17
CELTIC are preparing for another special day at Paradise as the league flag is unfurled in celebration of the eighth consecutive league title, which was secured last season as the team secured a Treble Treble.
http://www.celticfc.net/news/16485
Why doesn’t Neil Lennon try ‘a false No 2’ seems to work for false No 9’s?
A “false No 2” izzit……….?
zat us back to the Cluj jokes………..
:)
‘He’s not worth £5m I’ll drive him to the airport myself.’
Ex Celt Van Dijk favourite for Balon D’or.
Are RBs capable of playing at LB and vice versa. We all know that KT has played RB for Scotland. Is Boli able to play RB for us. Should KT stay with us then Boli might be warming the bench a lot of the time which might not be ideal
‘£10 million Van Dijk take a hike’
Davy Provan
Clinko
You did see the state of Boli’s right foot last week didn’t you ?
High quality horses for courses….
Spend the feckin money Peter…
Clinko
Gemmell Boyd Valgaeren
Given that Rangers got £250,000 for Candieas
I was wondering how close to Ibrox noise valuation that was
saw last week they had
Aribo 15M (free from Charlton)
Tavernier 20M
Jones 15M (free from Killie)
Arfield 15M (free from Burnley)
Camara 15M ( 50K from Dundee)
Would also like to know why PL cant get frees and turn them into 15M after two friendlies
Disgruntled CSC
1 Scotland Alan Hutton England Tottenham Hotspur £9,000,000 30 January 2008 [41]
2 Netherlands Giovanni van Bronckhorst England Arsenal £8,500,000 20 June 2001 [37]
3 France Jean-Alain Boumsong England Newcastle United £8,000,000 1 January 2005 [42]
4 Spain Carlos Cuéllar England Aston Villa £7,800,000 12 August 2008 [43]
5 Scotland Barry Ferguson England Blackburn Rovers £7,500,000 29 August 2003 [44]
6 Norway Tore André Flo England Sunderland £6,750,000 30 August 2002 [45]
7 England Trevor Steven France Marseille £5,585,000 31 August 1991
8 Croatia Nikica Jelavić England Everton £5,500,000 31 January 2012 [46]
9 Scotland Duncan Ferguson England Everton £4,200,000 11 December 1994
10 United States Claudio Reyna England Sunderland £4,000,000 7 December 2001
So basically you have to go back to another club and another era to see the Ibrox team get a decent fee for a player sold.
I am not sure what their record is since 2012 but it all adds up to a club in big big trouble when you cannot get a decent transfer sum in every now and then…no wonder they are in big financial trouble still.
If we get past Nomme . I hear we are in for Andrex Pirlo.
Clujjokes CSC
This right back situation if not resolved is going to cost us a place in the C. L just like the centre half one last season
It has now became a joke
1 France Moussa Dembélé France Lyon £19,700,000 31 August 2018 [116]
2 Netherlands Virgil van Dijk England Southampton £13,500,000 1 September 2015 [117]
3 Kenya Victor Wanyama England Southampton £12,500,000 11 July 2013 [118]
4 England Fraser Forster England Southampton £10,000,000 8 August 2014 [119]
5 Republic of Ireland Aiden McGeady Russia Spartak Moscow £9,500,000 12 August 2010 [120]
6 Scotland Stuart Armstrong England Southampton £7,000,000 26 June 2018 [121]
7 Bulgaria Stilian Petrov England Aston Villa £6,500,000 30 August 2006 [122]
8 Australia Mark Viduka England Leeds United £6,000,000 3 July 2000 [123]
South Korea Ki Sung-Yueng Wales Swansea City 24 August 2012 [124]
10 England Gary Hooper England Norwich City £5,500,000 26 July 2013
Wow what a difference in money received and relative recent time scale to our zombie neighbours….You can also add 5 million on top of the Van Dyke figure with last seasons extra add on
Don’t want a right back anymore. When was the last time you went to a game desperately hoping your RB played well.
Seriously it would be good to get one but all that will happen is the focus goes to another team . In all the time I’ve watched Celtic our good sides have been two or three players away from what we want, don’t see that changing anytime soon.
Sign strikers and creative players first, they win games.
Quad- very true, Christie was £1.25m I’m sure…HH
Team should be position
I’m just wondering how many of us who would have happily driven Lustig to the airport during the past year would now be delighted to pick him up from the airport.
I can’t believe that after the disastrous CLQ campaign of last year we’re moving forward at a snail’s pace with our team strengthening AGAIN!
To paraphrase that movie :
Lawwell, I know what you DIDN’T do last summer
……..and its happening again!
*Peter Grant at right back……….shudders…..
* In the roll-call of Celtic midfielders converted to right back, you seem to have overlooked Mikey Galloway… choke, cough splutter…
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Contemplating CL qualifiers into the second round, with an experimental back three ten days before the first league game, is less than ideal.
The pursuit of a right back seems to have gone on for longer than Jason’s search for the golden fleece, and even if the right one, was to sign before the deadline for X million, will he be fit, and settled for selection, for the opening league games?
Hatem Abd Elhamed being pilloried before he’s even a Hoop, is downright ignorance of the worst kind, newspaper rebranding the Israeli as Neil Lennon’s ‘new first choice full back’, is malevolent, Michael taking, and nothing more than manna for the Celtic transfer ‘we want brigade’.
Whatever the price of mince in Govan the curtain hasn’t even begun to fall on this window, where having shifted most of Brendan Rodgers’ flotsam, we’ll more likely than not, sign three or four including a right back more, taking our spend closer to the Dembele equivalent.
BADA – happy to be corrected; transfermarket figure read wrong. Whit a bargain for that level of energy and talent.
Bankkiebhoy @ 10.49…That’ll be fake poos…
new article posted.
Come on , Boris.