Neil Lennon’s comments that he will need to sell at Bolton Wanderers before making a bid for Kris Commons, or anyone else, are welcome. Celtic have four important games in the four weeks after this transfer window closes: home and away to Inter Milan, Aberdeen in the league, and a League Cup semi-final against newco Rangers. Commons will be vital for some, if not all of these games.
Inter will play on the front foot and Aberdeen have the players to take the game to us, as they did in the Scottish Cup at Celtic Park last season, but I expect newco to defend their 18 yard line in numbers, a bit like Ross County did last week, a scenario which will require someone with Commons’ craft.
Neil Warnock’s sacking at Crystal Palace was good news, as he wanted Commons, had money to spend and could offer the allure of top-flight football. Neil Lennon would be able to offer Commons familiarity, but with Bolton spending a total of £300k in the summer, their chances of being able to afford a bid for Commons that would raise Celtic’s interest are limited.
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No disrespect to anyone, but really wish we would stop using that Soup-Taker term.
I for one is actually glad for the competition this season ….
Hopefully it may attract a SUPPORT ….
Add hearts & sevco/hibs next season and things should be very very interesting…
I think we are waiting for them to arrive before investing, we should have enough with a couple of additions in Jan to secure this league .
In Europe we have found our level…
No matter how disappointing you find that statement it’s true.
Operations have long changed since and prior to THIER demise.
WE have cut our cloth accordingly….and correctly so.
Get this Champions league is now a bonus… Not a gimmee.
Scottish football’s poor poor poor euro standings has put our automatic qualification due to winning title to rest.
It is now a gamble not worth taking as failure would be a complete disaster.
We are a massive club restricted by our surroundings.. surroundings that we have NO influence over …. So get over it.
Take a look at some of the team’s in the Europa league…..
Take a look at some of the massive team’s who failed to reach Europe this year ….
Lyon: 2nd in France at mo… 1 point ahead of free spending PSG 7 Points ahead of free spending Monaco 1 point behind leaders Marseille…..
Knocked out by our previous opponents Astra.
With TV or even a billionaire sugar daddy WE STILL AINT GUARANTEED CL .
Happy New year…. Hopefully a sobering one …
Get behind our manager team and club ….
Enjoy the good times … Hopefully 4 in a row.
And stop bloody moaning …biggins Andrews Slater ….
Gudetti Gordon Brown ….
We’ve had reason to moan ….
Look at your surroundings …. It ain that bad
Kitalba
forwarded an email to you from Zbyszek
Jimbo67,
An excellent post. There is one thing I would take issue with though. Celtic have been working behind the scenes. Not to address the corruption but as part of it.
NA
big-cup-winners
11:28 on 4 January, 2015
No disrespect to anyone, but really wish we would stop using that Soup-Taker term.
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Agree with that 100%. Repugnant phrase.
Paulanthony
CFC have managed your expectations perfectly …..
Hope you enjoy being at the back of the bus watching a second rate team
Pauloanthony. I agree with you on one thing. We are stockpiling cash. Do I think it’s for the return of the Hun? No. That would be counter to our so called strategy of buying projects and selling for a profit.
On your point on don’t even try to qualify for CL. This is exactly the problem at celtic. It is no longer about football and trying to put a team together at CP. It’s only about money. And somehow you and your ilk support that strategy. Why? Why not support RBS?
Kitalba
You know the answer to your question
Neganon2
‘Perhaps’ is as good as I can say
Jimbo67
I’ve always avoided conspiracy theories.
But sometimes he juxtaposition of facts and consequences are irrefutable.
Following my uncovering of the botanical plot to infect the atmosphere with seeds of the peepul tree (link is on previous page, just in case you missed it and think I am talking keech!!), my dander was well and truly up and I kept my ear close the grindstone and my nose even closer to the wheel in an attempt to determine if anything even more untoward was in the pipeline of this insidious sedition…..
It wasn’t long in coming and my God was it serious and irrefutable.
It is so serious that I may have to have another 8% Kingfisher before I come up with the answer……
Judge for yourself,,,,unless we stop this march into madness NOW!!!, these pictures could just be the first of common occurence!!
https://enematic.wordpress.com/2015/01/04/now-im-not-into-conspiracy-theories-but/
Hail Hail
Estadio
Norwich done me yesterday too …and it burst T3 …
jimbo67
10:17 on
4 January, 2015
FFS,go back on the drink.Anyone got you on suicide watch?.
Neganon 2 11·30
Nonsense
jimbo67,
Excellent piece and judging by the reaction, you are not alone in your thinking.
AR
Last day of the holidays.Home tomorrow.
Inter.
Today’ s front runner is Shaqiri.-6 month loan .
Close behind-Lavezzi/Diarra/Salah/Susic.
Still hanging about -Lamela/ Perisic / Januzaj
Pauloantony
With Sevco added, the competition you welcome would be rigged.
And there’s nothing ‘very, very interesting’ about that.
NegAnon2
11:30 on
4 January, 2015
Jimbo67,
An excellent post. There is one thing I would take issue with though. Celtic have been working behind the scenes. Not to address the corruption but as part of it.
NA
Yep,all the usual subjects on liking Jimbo67s post,of doom and gloom.
I have no idea what joy these people get from watching or supporting Celtic.
Like listening to Rev I.A.M Jolly.Away and give us all peace.Fekin depressives.
We have a couple of hundred copies of CQN Annual left so in an effort to shift some of these we will give away a copy free with any book purchased this week at http://www.cqnbookstore.com
Also, all books and DVDs are already reduced…so some good deals available especially with the Annual thrown in. We only have a limited number of copies of Caesar & the Assassin left so we expect that to sell out pretty soon. if anyone has finished reading it could you stick a wee review for us on Amazon. Sorry for a sales post guys.
pauloantony
11:29 on
4 January, 2015,
You are preaching heresy on here with that post.The suicide squad dont want to hear anything with a hint of positivity.
Neganon 2
My ilk?…..
If MY ILK Represents fellow Celtic supporters who wish to have a club run to ensure that there will be a club to actually support for my kids and their kids in the future … then I’m comfortable with that.
The conspiracies some are coming out with (especially concerning those running our club) are simply dreamed up drivel.
But back to my ilk…..
The one conspiracy I do agree with is this….
If we did over indulge like sevco did….. say buying your laudrups gascoignes and such…..
And WE went down the black hole rankers did….
Unlike sevco…
The media…sfa… and rest of establishment…would let OUR CLUB DIE.
If
If Celtic are indeed working behind the scenes to assist the establishment team to the top tier of Scottish football against the supporters wishes, we surely are a toothless support and deserve what we get. We are constantly reminded about our business model and our ‘living within our means’ philosophy but hey in all walks of life whether its just business or sport all rules should apply equally to all. No exceptions!
Turkeybhoy it’s not about being depressive it’s about being honest about our position. About being honest with ourselves.
BEATBHOY….
Gees peace….
HONESTLY listen to yourselves….
Why waste your time supporting our club with such a negative outlook to the future.
They are all out again today.More positive things said about Celtic on Hun Media.
Celtic fans my @rse.Fekin sweetie wives all sitting about agreeing with each others doom and gloom.
Enjoy.
Pauloantony
I can understand your point, I want to have a club to support in future.
The route Celtic took in the past is no longer viable. There is no money to just throw away. The last manager had a good few bob to spend and it produces some turgid stuff to watch. Fine, he sold on a few players for good money but there are a lot more who Celtic will make a loss on.
Celtic’s change in tact to appoint a raw manager is understandable but they must back him. They haven’t so far. Fine, he’s spent on scepovic but the majority of signings are obviously from Lennon’s target list.
NegAnon2
11:48 on
4 January, 2015
Turkeybhoy it’s not about being depressive it’s about being honest about our position. About being honest with ourselves.
Its fekin depressing listening to the same thing every day.You be honest to yourself all day long,I will be looking forward to watching my beloved team tomorrow night.Something that gives me great joy,as it has done for over 50 years.
Pauloantony
Let’s get this straight.
You come on to a Celtic blog, welcoming back Sevco, and therefore in support of what would be a bent game, with more Doncaster-like ‘same club, continuous history’ garbage bombarding us from every media outlet as the ‘wronged’ heroes ‘return’ to their ‘rightful’ place.
And you expect ‘peace’?
Paddy G
Beware the Bangalore Botanic Behemoth!!!
AND …….I’ve just noticed …………..the Gardens in which I scooped the news of the peepul tree are called ‘the Lalbagh’ !!!
Now just how frighteningly close to “Lambeg” is that.
Sometimes it’s there right in front of your chin!
QED and GIRUY Lord Nimmo Smith! The secret is now out there!
Hail Hail
Estadio
Pauloanthony yes there is indeed a faction of the celtic support who unblinkingly are loyal to whatever the celtic board dreams up. You are one of them. Your particular justification is bourne out of fear that we will overspend and be just like the Hun or Leeds (invoking some ghosts to frighten us). But I haven’t heard a single celtic supporter who is calling for us to do that. I do agree the media etc would let us die without question. So that makes it even more galling that it’s those who run our club who are in league with those who would kill us.
I was at the AGM last month,Peter Lawwell told me we had £14 mil cash in the bank.He also told me we could be the biggest football club in the world.We are currently struggling in a piss poor league,with 6 players on loan.Am i missing something here?
!!Bada Bing!!
He has forgot the pin number
Love
Turkeybhoy what we are trying to do is make sure that all of the support understand what is going on. Our only hope is to get so,e sort of regime change at celtic. Otherwise the celtic you think you know will cease to exist, replaced by a poor imitation willingly being cheated at every turn.
Turkeybhoy
We have very moderate squad of player’s and a manager who’s
team selection and tactics have me for one baffled……now am I
wrong,if so please tell me how.
The future is Green & White, for a very long time. I for 1 am fair looking forward to the ride Hail Hail
Pauloantony
Correct ..CFC would die…because that is what should happen
What shouldn’t happen is what is in fact happening with Sevco
You are happy to accept this …and consider it very very interesting
Your defence of the current CFC business model is one thing ….your acceptance of rank cheating to benefit Sevco is another
You must be the only CFC fan I’ve ever heard who is happy with this situation
Just heard that Killie wouldn’t let us train on their new synthetic pitch, if true it is an outrage.
Hail! Hail!
PfAyr…
……
So look at a scenario
Say we want to buy a quality player from say….Porto
Having an amazing season
West brom offer him £60 k pw
We push the boat.out and beat that offer… £65k pw to attract him enough to visit Ross county Inverness Hamilton away.
He accepts…..
Plus the £5m fee….. How much is that deal in total for one player over 4 years
What if he doesn’t settle
What if he does a Suarez…like our previous Mexican
What if he dips in form
What if he isn’t that much better
What if….£65k pw in today’s games …looking at some of the dross in the premiership (from top to bottom) doesn’t actually go far….
Is that seriously… what you want us to do?
Seriously?…. tell me your dream….and how you would plan it
Estadio
11:57 on
4 January, 2015
Paddy G
Beware the Bangalore Botanic Behemoth!!!
AND …….I’ve just noticed …………..the Gardens in which I scooped the news of the peepul tree are called ‘the Lalbagh’ !!!
Now just how frighteningly close to “Lambeg” is that.
Sometimes it’s there right in front of your chin!
QED and GIRUY Lord Nimmo Smith! The secret is now out there!
Hail Hail
Estadio
****
Hi Estadio – how you doing bud. A peepul tree that died and withered and then the gardeners tell us the new bud is really the old tree? Hope you are well amigo.
Pauloanthony-
How on earth can we blame the Scottish league for us being horsed over 2 legs in qualifiers over the last 10 years by teams such as –
Artmedia Bratislava;
Braga;
Utrecht;
Sion;
Legia Warsaw;
Maribor.
These are all teams that had much less financial resources than us. You can rack up the occasional defeat in those circumstances but to fail more often than not (11/12 an 12/13 are the only years in since 05/06 where we have triumphed in European qualifiers on the park) suggests systemic problems that have remained despite the changes in managers in that time.
Our failure against these teams was about a failure to get our own house in order, nothing to do with the standard of Scottish football.
If CL qualification is deemed as an unlikely pipedream when we are up against teams such as Maribor with 10% of our budget, then the blame for that lies inside the club rather than with the rest of Scottish football.
I can`t for the life of me blame the likes of Neil Doncaster or Kilmarnock FC for our failure to bring through established first team players from the youths that are better than the journeymen of Maribor. I can`t blame Stewart Regan or Dundee Utd for the millions wasted in wages and fees on Pukki, Balde, Tonev, Wakaso, Berget, Gershon, Lassad, Miku, Bitton, et al in recent years or the fact that so few players signed become established in the first team and stay there.
Its fair enough that we can`t compete with teams from Italy, England, Spain, Germany, etc due to the financial imbalances. But for CL qualification we compete both domestically and at CL qualifier levels against teams with a fraction of our resources.
Its the champions of Sweden, Norway, Slovenia, Poland we`re up against and they all have less resources at their disposal than we do and come from countries where exceptional talent is generally hovered out of the country at a very early age by the bigger European leagues.
Stop blaming others for our own failings.