My expectation is Den Bosch will be better than an equivalent second-tier Scottish team (any of whom would give us a game on a summer evening like tonight), so they will hopefully present a suitable challenge to help stretch the legs.
Most attention will focus on Dedryck Boyata, but no matter if he looks great, or lousy, you will learn nothing of his abilities tonight. For Dedryck the objective is to get the limbs and lungs moving, just as with his new team-mates.
I hear Saidy Janko (19) was spotted walking into Ross Hall Hospital this morning. Although known as a right back, Saidy can apparently play right side of central midfield and as a winger. While he’ll be the fourth right back in the first team squad, positional definitions aren’t what they used to be. At Celtic in particular, there’s often little difference between a full back and a winger (the former can hopefully tackle, the latter, less so). They both have a responsibility to make runs into the opposition box, and to track back and defend.
Reports this morning that Dundee United have agreed a £1m fee for Nadir Ciftci with Gary Caldwell’s Wigan will be more palatable to United fans than seeing another player agree terms with direct rivals Celtic. The fee agreed is within Celtic’s grasp, should they be sufficiently motivated to move for the player. After a rising through the ranks, Wigan have endured two relegations in recent years.
They still have Premier League parachute payments coming in, which explains the seven figure bid. It remains to be seen what Dave Whelan’s 23-year-old grandson makes of the opportunity, now he’s in day-to-day control. There’s an old Dutch proverb about families with money going from clogs and back to clogs within three generations.
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lennon’s passion
13:28 on 1 July, 2015
http://metro.co.uk/2015/06/28/manchester-united-shouldnt-allow-saidy-janko-to-leave-for-celtic-5267361/
If Pep Warbiola hasn’t expressed an interest him, then he must be crap!!
HH
Southampton terminate the contract of Italian international striker Dani Osvaldo, 29, who joined them in a club-record deal of around £15m in 2013 but has not played for the club since January 2014, and has completed a loan spell with Argentinian club Boca Juniors.
This is one of the reasons that spending big cash doesn’t guarantee a succesful career.
LB
Or how about this £15m write off
Southampton terminate the contract of Italian international striker Dani Osvaldo, 29, who joined them in a club-record deal of around £15m in 2013 but has not played for the club since January 2014, and has completed a loan spell with Argentinian club Boca Juniors.
macjay,
He keeps children in concentration camps and now wants to criminalise professional people for raising concerns about theirs and their parents squalid conditions and treatment and we should commend him. It’s certainly a very different type of Catholicism from the one that I was brought up in.
AR
Doubt Janko’s much good. Whilst celtic go after janko, warburton goes after the cream of the young talent in his glorious rebuilding.
So says the Daily Retard.
Which i seen in asda
But didnt buy.
herbo
14:26 on 1 July, 2015
£1 million bid in to bring Aiden home
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Please please please, tell me that’s a wind-up!! ………..or a bid from Kingsley!!
HH
Rioskorrie,
Class, pure class.
Árd Macha
Osvaldo.?
Played for 11 teams since 2005… An Italian pundit opined that Osvaldo’s true vocation was making Antonio Cassano look sane.
Dani Osvaldo.
A legend in his own mind.
HH!!
Why is everybody in a flap about birds?
tweettweetcsc
Please stop using the ‘r*tard’ word in reference to the DR.
It’s been asked on here countless times.
Thank you.
HH!!
Janko looks a bit light to me…a bit of a bantamweight.
Saidy Janko is a quarter Italian.
That’ll do me.
HH!!
Herbo, where are you getting the Aiden info from? I would be content from this transfer window with A McG, Hooper and another midfielder. We should be able to pick up a relatively inexpensive GK as back-up. Over to you Pedro……I won’t hold my breath though
Does anyone know of any Celtic friendly pubs in Paisley ahead of game tonight?
The wig and pen is the only one I know of and that has changed name and is under new management, so not sure what it’s like now, thanks in advance HH
Jungle VIP
14:01 on
1 July, 2015
If we want Ciftci, we’re going to have to pluck him from United …
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ooooohh…goosebumps!
Oooft!
‘In previous years Rangers have had pre-season trips to the north of Scotland, England, Germany and USA .
But the majority of this season’s preparations will be done behind closed doors meaning the clash with Burnley will be the only official friendly Warburton’s men play before the start of the campaign.’
In other words, rankers cannot afford to play friendlies abroad and are having trouble attracting teams to iBrokes!
HH (or HaHa)
Tallybhoy
14:58 on
1 July, 2015
Saidy Janko is a quarter Italian.
That’ll do me.
HH!!
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that’ll be a drumstick then, no??
See with all this burds patter, ole Frank MacAvennie might swing by!!
If Aiden McGeady is coming back for a million, I would say that is good business, as I’m sure he’s only too aware that he won’t be on anything like the money he got in Russia or Merseyside. Maybe he just wants to play for the Celtic like the rest of us.
Cowiebhoy
http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/football/from-the-bedroom-to-bootroom-this-scout-is-prepared.24461613
EnnisBhoy
15:04 on
1 July, 2015
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This is only a RUMOUR
Apparently the Huns have to PAY ‘someone’ to use their own stadium.
Remember………………..This is only a RUMOUR!!!!!!!!!!!
Cowiebhoy
Robert Rowan…..”I did some work with John Park at Celtic during the transfer window.”
:))))))))
I don’t want Ciftci nor do I think bringing Aiden back is a positive move. Come on Celtic, a bit more ambition please!!!!!!!!!!!!!
KINGLuBO
Aiden’s made his big dough. Salaries in Russia and the EPL are off the scale.
His nest is well feathered already. (sorry)
Bring him home I say. Experienced international player who’s played at a very high level.
What’s not to like!
SO is Robert Rowan partly to blame for all those pish poor strikers(sic) we’ve bought over the last few years?!
HH!!
Robert Rowan
“The untold hours of watching football have given Rowan joy, satisfaction and ideas. “I always wonder why teams do not leave three players up the park when they are defending corner kicks”.
So do I Robert so do I ,maybe not 3 but a couple.
Henriks golden boot
To be fair most are neutral for games like this. The Black Bull on New Street Or farther along High Street towards museum and University try the Wee Howff it has nice ales and good owners/ bar staff regulars. Most will be full of hoops tonite. All a decent walk to stadium
Enjoy
KevJungle
TT got to the bit about Dixie Deans banging in all his goals…but….what is missed here is, the point that…in those days….it was said that – the dug that used to run onto the pitch from the Jungle could put on a hooped jersey – play up front and score a barrow load.
*should have played the dug against he Maryhill Magyars then. We had Kenny, Harry Harry and Lou Macari in the forward line being supplied by Davie Hay, Bobby Murdoch and George Connolly that day. Dixie was signed to provide competition to the forwards. Nothing wrong with that, keep the other players on their toes. Worked out well tae.
Fourth Official – @FourthOfficial_
Celtic have made a £1million bid for Everton’s Aiden McGeady
Dunfermline bid 25 grand for Joe McBride
Celtic 22.5k
This was pre-Bossie and we won as Joe refused tae sign for the Pars who were a really decent side then.
The interview they all wanted…
No, really…
https://theclumpany.wordpress.com/2015/06/30/an-interview-with-the-clumpany/
Good grief 22.5k for Joe McBride. Classy goal scorer and classy guy.
What would he be worth today?
The mind boggles
Bawsman
15:13 on
1 July, 2015
No doubt the hordes see that as some kind of ‘World Record’!!?
Add it to the list.
HH Ennisbhoy
According to smsm our club has thus far taken a severe beating in this transfer window.
We may have to spend the next season licking our wound and thinking what might have been on our way to a glorious treble.
Meanwhile under Deady Warbucks tutelage the young Galacticos will be causing nervous glances from all of the top European sides with a style and panache not seen since the great Brazilian side of the 70s
Timmy be warned.
Joe McBride .
86 goals in 94 appearances for Celtic..
Good enough to get 2 games for Scotland.
Was 6-1 a world record tonking in a play-off?
saltires en sevilla
15:24 on
1 July, 2015
Henriks golden boot
To be fair most are neutral for games like this. The Black Bull on New Street Or farther along High Street towards museum and University try the Wee Howff it has nice ales and good owners/ bar staff regulars. Most will be full of hoops tonite. All a decent walk to stadium
Enjoy
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The Last Post next to Gilmour Street Station – spot on – great selection – very large bar- counter – no hassle – beer at £1.99 a pint – that’s £1.99!!!!! – walk to ground is approximately same distance as Bridgeton Cross to CP, but much friendlier.