Celtic’s first half display against Hearts yesterday saw the length of the M8 between the teams. The visitors put bodies in the way but were unable to stem the tide towards Craig Gordon’s goal. A sublime pass by Kyogo Furuhashi gave James Forrest space to turn inside and dink a cross that was expertly converted by Odsonne Edouard.
Edouard turned provider when Stephen Welsh towered over the defence to head home as the roof threatened to fall in on the visitors. Hearts stabilised after the break but were not in the contest in any meaningful way until Carl Starfelt mis-controlled the ball inside his penalty area, allowing Liam Boyce to get in the way of his second attempt, resulting in a penalty that was converted by the Hearts stirker.
That sparked Celtic back into life and they soon restored their two-goal cushion through Kyogo. Hearts added time second goal flattered them and came too late to cause any concern.
One of my concerns this month is that we do not shift Odsonne and he leaves on a free at the end of the season. On this showing, a season of him and Kyogo would not be totally without compensation. The partnership looked very promising.
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August 16th, 2021 Anno Domini, Angelus and Holy Rosary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYTZBKYSVEE
TOM MCLAUGHLIN
May I have your views on this? You believe we acted sequentially. Wouldn’t that risk losing out on both players? Wouldn’t it be more logical to follow parallel tracks, and if your preferred choice, Player 1, demurs, you already have a written offer submitted for Player 2?
I am always skeptical of player talk, but there is a saying “No smoke without fire,” and our success rate and transfer follow through in many of the Lawwell years were somewhat patchy, to say the least.
Vatican Media Live
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuumDuU6PLE
Çhalls of Normandy
Keys and gray
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5FRMWqxZFGyK4wvIjWefOR?si=rUaGrq6fTIOr4phCVvzHNA&utm_source=copy-link&dl_branch=1
HH
“Paper talk” not “player talk” DOH!
Paris St-Germain will offer Manchester United’s 28-year-old France midfielder Paul Pogba a deal worth £510,000 per week as they try to secure the World Cup winner on a free transfer next summer. (Independent)
anyone who doesn’t think the Ayrshire Superstar is a great player probably doesn’t enjoy a good shite on a Sunday morning
CONEYBHOY @ 12.39
Post of the week sir!
HH
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I’ll bet you didn’t know that Kenny Dalglish had posters of Ange Postecoglu on his bedroom wall when he was a kid!!
Don’t want to put a dampener on things, but against Dundee, Christie ran the show, provided three assists and was a standout in a very good team performance. Edouard also got on the scoresheet.
Against Hearts on Sunday, Edouard scored again and was a key player in another standout team showing.
Setting aside the understandable excitement around Kyogo and the return to form of Rogic and McGregor, it could be argued that the performances of Ryan & Odsonne have been key to the return of the feelgood factor this season.
If we sell them now in this buyers market, we get £14M for OE & £4M for RC, tops.
There is no way we could replace them or improve the squad with £16M fees, so IMO, it makes sense to keep one or both this season, win the league and be just one play-off away from the riches of the CL group stages next season.
You never know, a full season playing Ange-ball might even rekindle their love for the club and see an extended contract on the horizon!
Let’s get Juranovic over the line today. Scales will hopefully join in a couple of weeks and that may be us barring a customary late loanee or another free agent.
A big two weeks ahead of us, we’ll have a good gauge of where we are when these run of games are over.
Hairlikespaghetti …you make a reasonable case but I think if we get a reasonable offer for Eddy he will go…but will we have a replacement ready to go,probably not.Winnees of the league straight into the Champions league remember,so not a season to mess around and haggle over small amounts get the players required in as soon as possible.
Winners#
Apart from possibly Juranovic & Scales, I think we are sticking where we are. So including Shaw, Urhoghide, Hart, Abada, Starfelt Kyogo & McCarthy, that would be nine in. If Eddy & Christie are running down, the club will not look for anyone else in those positions. We just might get a couple of loans at the end of August, so could be eleven new faces in total, that’s a fair old number. Wonder what’s happening with Elyounoussi at Southampton?
Will we be good enough to win the title? I reserve judgement till January.
Guten Tag – from a sunny and mild Springburn (work)
We need another few signings and I am sure we will get them.
The big Centre Forward looked a good un as well.
Stroll on manana to see the Bhoys.
D :)
Can someone tell me what the correct privileges are to get a ticket for tomorrow’s game please.They send you a txt telling you to apply for your own seat then say I haven’t the correct privileges 🤷🏻♂️
CONEYBHOY on 17TH AUGUST 2021 12:39 AM
anyone who doesn’t think the Ayrshire Superstar is a great player probably doesn’t enjoy a good shite on a Sunday morning
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Blessed Are Those With Regular Bowel Movements.
Amen CSC
Blessed are the stool makers
#carpentry
For They Shall Inherit A Seat in Paradise.
For It Is Also said…………
…at The Right Hand Of (Hospitality) They Shall Gain Entry, Be Seated and Find Salvation There ( But Only If The Janefied Street Entrances are Crowded)……………..
Blessed are the Meek,( clubs )for they shall recieve lowball offers.
Sorry if someone’s already brought this up.
How come after playing on Sunday is our EL tie brought forward tae Wednesday when debt ridden fc played last friday and have nearly a week to prepare for their game Thursday.
When we play St Mirren on Saturday we will have played 4 games in 9 days the huns will have played 2.
Is it to give the covid isolationists time to get fit??. naw canny be surely..
HH
“What did he say there,can’t hear him,too far back””I think he said Blessed are the Cheesemakers”,
“Bloody Cheesemakers,what have they ever done”
“I think he probably was including all Dairy produce workers”
“Oh,that’s all right then”
Life of Brian CSC.
Life if brian.
My late mammy watched 10 mins of it….
Sacrilegious she said…
We turned it off.
Seanthorntonwasamammiesbhoy.
Csc.
Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of this Dear Green Place, and heeds the things which are written in it; for the time is near when sleekit scribes will be writ large with transfer falsehoods and all manner of sly knavery. Beware the word of the fraud!
There Endeth The Lesson.
Aegean like glass today,so Mrs TB wants to go swimming in the sea.Will take my mind off the daily search for transfer news.
TurkeyBhoy.
Do you have the compass jellyfish where you are?
My morning dip was plagued with them today.
Apparently attracted by the recent warm spell we’ve had in Rebel County.
The Ayrshire mafia is out in force this morning …
Talking a lot of *hite — surely JF deserves better?
No matter — B team / Colts game tonight.
CSS — very posh — but seemingly the team to beat.
Finally — better to let OE / RC go now?
Use the money to bring in a hutch of new players?
Bit torn on this — letting OE and RC go for nothing will put a huge hole in our finances.
However they are known quantities / huge talents who will help us in the SPL.
I need to find a fence …
Got to love the MSM ….Henry….celtic will have to cough up 7 million…..week later ….Henry to Gent ..4.5 million!!!!……honestly 95% is made up pish…
Must admit to feeling conflicted by what I was just about to call “lowballgate”
(Don’t you hate it when lazy hacks add “gate” to a word to create a label for scandal or crisis?
The building was called Watergate you idiots)
Agree with Tom McL.
“A verbal contract isn’t worth the paper it is written on”
(Sam Goldwyn .. allegedly)
Why the conflict?
In the short term I’d like to see first team starter types signed.
Longer term I’d prefer we avoid medium cost failures ….
If only we had dithered over Gamboa, Compper, Kouassi, Bayo, Shved !
Scales is interesting.
Have never seen him play.
Know nothing of his ability.
IF he signs and IF he turns out to be a pup?
No huge monies lost.
Half the lies they tell urnae true … 🤣
fairhill bhoy @ 8:21 am
“Can someone tell me what the correct privileges are to get a ticket for tomorrow’s game please.They send you a txt telling you to apply for your own seat then say I haven’t the correct privileges 🤷🏻♂️”
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As I understood it- If you have a SB you have a window to apply for your own seat (my window was from Monday morning to earlier this morning- I did get a re-allocated seat as I am in the Red Zone. However, I think you had to sign into My Account with Celtic fc tickets before being allowed to choose an alternative seat elsewhere in the stadium.
If you don’t have a SB, I believe any reaining seats are on general sale as of now, so you better be quick
JHB on 17TH AUGUST 2021 6:41 AM
You didn’t reserve judgement when you had us in a fight for second and then a top six position a couple of weeks ago
Why the circumspection now?
How long huv they been tryin’ to punt Fat Charlie to the shortest list o’ suitors in the wurld…..?
Yet it’s us that deliberately get painted in a particularly unflattering light!
Aye.
<4
Ianis Hagi the latest £1m whore being peddled for £8m by the Sevco pimps.
Truly pathetic …. media circuses for the orange hordes.
If you changed his surname the guy would have virtually no profile or value.
(PS – didn’t go looking for it – promise ! It flashed up there)
SFTB
I have 2 season tickets.When I sign in it just says,unfortunately I don’t have the correct privileges in my account. I have tried phoning the ticket office but can’t get through.
Thanks anyway
FAIRHILL BHOY on 17TH AUGUST 2021 11:43 AM
Try John Paul Taylor our SLO, he may be able to help
JPTaylor@celticfc.co.uk