Brendan Rodgers brought five players to the club this transfer window: Moussa Dembele, Kolo Toure, Scott Sinclair, Dorus de Vries and Cristian Gamboa, two defenders, a wide midfielder, a striker and a goalkeeper. Moussa has been used sparingly so far, but there’s a decent chance four out of the five will be first choice for our key games this season. Kristoffer Ajer also arrived but was signed up by Ronny Deila earlier this year.
The leavers over the summer were mostly deadwood, with honourable mentions to Charlie Mulgrew and Stefan Johansen, both former Player of the Year winners. Our best wishes go with them. We also saw Saidy Janko escape on loan to Barnsley, Scott Allan head to Rotherham for the season, while Aidan Nesbitt will continue his apprenticeship at Morton until next summer.
You would be hard pressed to identify a better transfer window than this since the ‘Robbie Keane window’, which looked good at the time but was ultimately unproductive. Try naming one. Peter Lawwell’s adage about coming out of the window stronger than we went into it, was unequivocally achieved.
We also managed to achieve something you and I have debated here for years: spend early in the window in enhance your chances of reaching the Champions League. No one should be in any doubt that the reason we were able to achieve this, this season, was down to the personal pull of Brendan Rodgers.
Kolo, Scott and Moussa would not be here for any other manager, and without them, we’d not be in the Champions League. It wasn’t a decision to spend early this year that we didn’t want to do in earlier years, we’ve simply not had the drawing power to get the targets we wanted. That included Teemu Pukki, who wasn’t prepared to walk among us until we’d delivered Champions League football for him to enjoy. This is the reality, even for everyday-jobbers like Teemu.
Those of us who like the scientific approach to football won’t like this. Success shouldn’t be about reputations, it should be finding good managers or players who are undervalued, and giving them a platform to shine.
What the last two years demonstrated more than anything else, is that a football dressing room is an incredibly difficult place to get scientific. Brendan’s reputation as a top manager helps him deliver success, which we’re all happy about.
I spoke to someone last night who felt “cheated” by the window. “Why?” I asked. “Because we were promised a major spend. Dermot was raging at that other lot after the semi-final and we were promised a big spend. A week ago we were promised James McCarthy.”
Honestly, some journalist writes a complete fantasy and we’re jumping off cliffs after one of the best July and Augusts we’ve had in years. Don’t confuse media output with actual reality. It’s mostly nonsense. Dermot left the game in question before the penalties, there was no overreaction from the other lot.
And Celtic told anyone who asked that they had no intention of signing James McCarthy. If a fan told you otherwise, his taxi driver-source was misinformed. It happens. If a media outlet told to this, they either wanted to run the story without checking, or didn’t care.
Did we want more from the window? Yes. We all did and we all always do. That’s why Celtic were still on the hunt for a deal or two yesterday, but the manager’s primary bases were all covered. Celtic will continue to do what they always have done financially – spend all the money that comes in over any business period you care to mention.
Enjoy this season, I think it’s going to be a memorable one.
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I feel another list coming on ……………………
10 best preachers, 10 best orators
:>)
KTF
Re Milo Yiannopoulos, I read a great line describing him this week in GQ (eh, it was lying in the dentist’s waiting room while I was there…ok, I voluntarily read it online…):
“If the basement of the internet is filled with trolls, Milo is a goblin prince”
Anyone else we know like that?
VFR800A8 808
Oh,this one was a fire and brimstone,and Lord of all he surveyed. Didn’t so much save your soul as sear it. I’m sure his intentions were all good,but IMO not a good way for a young kid to learn about his religion.
Still,learn I did,so it obviously worked!
Friday on my Mind
DAVIDOPOULOS
Goblin and Prince both do tinned burgers-you can fill (t)rolls wi them.
You and yer grub..
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 2nd September 2016 8:21 am
VFR800A8 808
Oh,this one was a fire and brimstone,and Lord of all he surveyed. Didn’t so much save your soul as sear it. I’m sure his intentions were all good,but IMO not a good way for a young kid to learn about his religion.
Still,learn I did,so it obviously worked!
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Nah, Fr T is brilliant wi’ the weans. He makes it simple for them!
KTF
Nope,Prince don’t do burgers
But Goblin do. And this lot. Very funny but NOT FOR THE SQUEAMISH!!!!!!
http://www.barelyedible.co.uk/2011/05/westlers-hamburgers-onion-gravy-canned-burgers/
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
You’re just lucky my first post wasn’t about my breakfast! I shall now commence with that topic…
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
Wow. My dog has been off his food lately, maybe I should threaten him with that stuff!?
VFR800A8: Here’s a list:
Top Ten Facility Demands For Fans at Celtic Park;
1. Café by the Superstore
2. Celtic Museum
3. Decent food & service inside the stadium.
Feel free to add more.
Well, at least we know what the C in Petec stands for…
Almore
Better policing after match to allow free flowing traffic away from the area
The police walk back to station whilst we sit in cars and buses stuck at red lights
The best orator?
Must be this ghuy surely?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicero
HH!!
Top 10 list of the decent food we want at CP?
1. Hummus
2. Quinao
3. Nuremberger sausages
4. Currywurst
5. Tinned Hamburgers…
DAVIDOPOULOS
The rest of his reviews are in the same vein,seems he has a cast-iron stomach and few if any taste buds.
Some of the comments are priceless. Many referring back to eating stuff like that when they were kids,and then for a bit of nostalgia trying it again.
Not normally with good results!
I can’t be near anyone drinking Red Bull,btw. It brings back an awful childhood memory,but of what,mercifully,I cannot remember!
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
The smell of Red Bull turns my stomach. Sadly, I can remember what it reminds me of…
Bobby
Advertisers take 20 secs to get a message across.
Why does a preacher ( Priest ) need 20 minutes ?
Marrakesh Express, if Aberdeen back down from this their fans will hang him (Milne), and rightly so.
Lets see the if the huns can bully a club the size of Aberdeen into apologising for telling the truth.
I work in Aberdeen, and I agree with your sentiment. The Aberdeen support have no love for us but their loathing of both hun clubs is on a different scale entirely.
HH
THEBATTEREDBUNNET
Harsh,mate. Not a word he should have used,nor will be proud of,but he is far from that.
Kill Ultra
“While I acknowledge that my posts have caused much discomfort on this blog, part of the problem is that I have been unable for different reasons to post certain facts that I know would support my argument.”
That’s not “part” of the problem. It is the whole problem.
You made the accusations- you labelled more than one of the requisitioners in ways designed to cause disappointment and anger.
If you are not able (yet or ever) to establish the grounds of your assertion then why make the assertion.
At the moment your position reads as :- ” I can prove he (or they) is/are a wrong un’. Just you wait and see. In the meantime, just believe me and take me on trust”
Well, would you trust someone who’s position, as expressed was as flimsy as that?
The line has been expressed- Put up or Shut up!
The rest of us know that you made the accusation and traduced the reputation of , at least, one of the requisitioners. How will we know the resolution of your accusation if you are now going to have it “addressed in private”?
VFR800A8 on 2ND SEPTEMBER 2016 8:06 AM
kill ultra on 2nd September 2016 7:34 am
I offered a few days ago to meet you if that would help resolve issues; the offer still stands.
vfr800a8@me.com
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And I replied by asking where you were situated. If it’s a place or area convenient to me I would be happy to meet you. I’ve already offered to meet posters Clogher Celt and An Tearmann , because I’d assumed, rightly or wrongly, that they live here in Ireland.
As a matter of interest, Kill is only a matter of fifteen kilometres from An Tearmann (Killinkere).
Davidopoulos
– Dumfries sausages. Jungle Jim will agree when he comes back from sclaffng roon the Arbroath sclaffbaw court.
– Jelly
KILL ULTRA
Get yourself over to Gweedore for the weekend a wee Celtic festival going on for the foundation
who’s should read as whose.
I should proof read my proof reads.
MACJAY
Come off it,they’ve got a short enough working week as it is!
Which I know not to be true,btw. I was friendly with the local CoE vicar,she stayed at the end of my road till she retired last year. She worked more than I did.
Celtic Park food ideas…
Who was it, which sublime comedic mind, suggested the vegatarian kiosk:
Trevelyan’s Quorn
Best line of the year.
Just logged on to push the charity sleepout and I read this:
James Forrest
(JAMES FORREST on 31ST AUGUST 2016 11:29 PM)
Your smart-arsed comment (“Celtic board plant” (haha couldn’t resist) BRTH,…”
Confused
Almore on 2nd September 2016 8:35 am
Top Ten Facility Demands For Fans at Celtic Park;
1. Café by the Superstore
2. Celtic Museum
3. Decent food & service inside the stadium
4. Enough brown sauce for half-time pies after the first 5 gave been sold
5. A tannoy system that is audible
6. Mobile phone signal boosters
Anyone else?
KTF
DAVIDOPOULOS
If you ever remember it,let me know. I think it might be Angel Delight,but I’m petrified to buy a packet to try out!
Vegatarian? Presumably like big Ramon…
VFR800A8 on 2ND SEPTEMBER 2016 8:25 AM
You kidding ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iW2_Ec3uEU
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Bowie also destroyed another original.
Sorrow .
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 2nd September 2016 8:42 am
I can’t be near anyone drinking Red Bull,btw. It brings back an awful childhood memory,but of what,mercifully,I cannot remember!
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The red medicine you used to get for the doctor – the one that was a panacea! Didnae matter what you had, you got the same red stuff in a bottle!
KTF
http://etims.net/?p=9694
Who knows?
acgr @ outlook dot com – Get your FREE the Zadok ringtone
Fine.
6. Dumfries Sausage
7. Potato Salad
8. Parsnips…
BRTH
See SFTB reply,above,to KILLULTRA.
WINNING CAPTAINS can probably give you all the details if you ask him,rather than repeat the allegations on here.
But I have to say,you had me fooled,ya treacherous board plant piece of s… giving up all that time and effort and all the time you were on the clock(!)
DAVIDOPOLOUS
You forgot that famous Calabrian delicacy the ‘Nduja sausage!
HH!!
The Battered Bunnet
How about a cheese stall: Back Home in Dairy?
Tallybhoy
Well remembered! ;)
9. N’duja sausage stuffed inside a breaded chicken breast (see Davidopoulos for details)