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Final deck clearing for deadline day

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The day has arrived, 31 August, on a Champions League season, but news has been slow (in general) or there has been no news (at Celtic) so far.  Pity help those who were not busy this morning and have burned through a packed of antacids.  Deadline day reveals human nature in all its glory.

Last night Ipswich Town agreed a deal to take Daryl Murphy, whom they had on loan last season and the final six months of the previous season.  Daryl would have been keen to bring his Celtic uncertainty to an end (he is out of contract when this loan period at Ipswich expires) as he has clearly enjoyed more success in the English Championship.

We didn’t see the best of Daryl but it’s good news Celtic were prepared to release him.  He would surely have been retained if there was not a good chance of recruiting a replacement.  No promises, of course!

Stay tuned throughout the day.  If we have another ‘Robbie Keane Day’ when the CQN server takes a battering I’ll update the Facebook page and Twitter.

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  3. Awe_Naw_No_Annoni_Oan_Anaw_Noo on

    SFTB

     

     

    Nope … Have to wait and see if he can improve on the 1.st team but as always he gets my full support and,I am hopeful. At least something and although he is not experienced if he does the job then even better.

     

     

    HH

  7. petec on

    ‘GG

     

     

    18:42 on 31 August, 2012

     

     

    Thanks for that link.

     

     

    He looks like a really imposing figure and hopefully a very well scouted player once again.

     

     

    It’s a Beautiful day once again.

  8. voguepunter on

    Ole Kev’s loyalty to McNee ,reminds me of the ole Japanese sojers still fighting no one

     

    in the Phillipine jungle decades later.

  14. petec on

    bournesouprecipe

     

     

    18:48 on 31 August, 2012

     

     

    Ambrose signs three year deal

     

     

     

    ——————————————

     

     

    I love the look of this lad. With 67 taken what number will he take? ;)

     

     

    Good job Peter Lawwell. :)

  15. Houl yer wheest on

    Thomthe tim Is this the “disdain” to which you refer?

     

    a column in the Herald just after our 1-0 defeat to Rangers in May 2009. A game which ultimately lost/contributed to our demise.

     

    “If I explained that I would have to explain why I left out Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink in the League Cup final, why I left out Shunsuke Nakamura against Hearts, why I left out Scott McDonald at the beginning of the season. I’m not here to explain every decision I make.

     

    “What you see in the references I have given you is that it is has been done before with every player. Lee Naylor is left out today and Darren O’Dea plays. So I do not have to explain every decision I make, because I do not think it is right to do that.”

     

    How about this, Mr Strachan . . .

     

    Vennegoor of Hesselink’s absence from the team may have had something to do with the fact that he was enduring a goal drought the severity of which was interesting aid agencies. McDonald was omitted because Samaras was in free-scoring form. Nakamura was benched for Willo Flood. And nobody understands that one. Naylor has been dropped. And everybody understands that one.

     

    The next question the Celtic manager faced was this: There is a subtle difference in that Shaun has not started a league match for six months?

     

    “Subtle differences. Willo Flood did not play for a while and played at Tynecastle.

     

    I do not want to go into the subtle differences.” Flood was hooked at Tynecastle after an abject performance.

     

    The Celtic manager has made a series of bewildering selections in away games this season and consistently at Ibrox. There is evidence that he finds his best team only when circumstance makes the decision. Last season, suspension to Scott Brown saw Paul Hartley and Barry Robson paired to form a midfield partnership that drove Celtic to the title.

     

    Strachan’s statement on Saturday said that being omitted from a match by his decision “had been done to every player”. Not quite.

     

    Artur Boruc suffered both a calamitous run of form and a series of disciplinary issues but stayed in goal. So even if Strachan had a fallout with McGeady, and there is no evidence for this, then there is the precedent that disciplinary matters are not a bar to playing in the first team.

     

    The case of the captain also undermines the manager’s assertion that “every player” has been left out. Stephen McManus has been in poor form all season. The manager retained him until injury made his exclusion unavoidable. The Celtic manager on Saturday went on to talk about “calculated risks”. How is this for a calculated risk?

     

    The last time McGeady played against Rangers he was man of the match, drawing the penalty which he subsequently converted to seal the Co-operative Insurance Cup final. Last week against Aberdeen he was named by Sunday newspapers as man of the match. The reasonable assumption is that the Celtic wide man is in good form and would relish a tilt at Rangers.

     

    But no, he was considered a poorer option to Maloney on the day. The latter is a fine player, but he last played for the first team on December 13 and has recently had just 45 minutes of reserve team football. So, to recap, his first game in six months is an Old Firm match with Celtic leading the league by just one point while an international player in good form and fancying his chances against a makeshift full-back is left on the bench.

     

    If Strachan believes this constitutes a “calculated risk”, he may consider it is also a “calculated risk” that if one jumps from the Niagara Falls one might, just might, get wet.

     

    The decision has no rational explanation in footballing terms. There will be those who will suggest that McGeady’s absence had no bearing on the final result. They could very well be right. After all, no-one will ever know.

     

    But the Celtic fans deserve some sort of explanation from their manager.

     

    After just 26 minutes, they were chanting McGeady’s name. It sounded like a statement of bewilderment as Maloney had faced Dailly on several occasions with no discernible impact.

     

    Would McGeady have fared better? It is a matter of conjecture. But I will take a calculated risk and suggest that Celtic’s most important attacking weapon would have helped Celtic to achieve some penetration. He did so twice in 30 minutes. Once, just once, in the previous hour could have been enough to bring a goal and a precious point. This, of course, is all in the Land of Who Knows.

     

    But one thing is certain: Dailly and Walter Smith would both have been relieved when they saw a Celtic team sheet without McGeady’s name on it.

     

    So what are we to make of Strachan’s selection?

     

    There are two possible conclusions. The Celtic manager made a decision on purely football reasons. If so, he was guilty of a gross error of judgment.

     

    But there is another theory. It centres on the manager’s relationship, or lack of it, with McGeady. Ron Atkinson, Strachan’s managerial mentor and a long-time friend, suggested recently that Strachan in the past could be “spiteful” when “he got down on a player”. If that trait were true, and if it played any part in Saturday’s deliberations, then Strachan would be guilty of something much worse than simply getting a team selection badly wrong.

  20. Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire on

    kevj…,

     

    you’ve been posting hatefilled bile, regardless of your book.

     

    His antics as an aberdeen player, identified a winner, a bit like his antics as the most successful Celtic manager since MrStein.

  24. jinkyredstar cuts it back for Neil Lennon on

    BBC

     

    Templeton will be at Sevco next week

     

    Ok – I now give up – how can Hearts lose one of their best the the 4th tier when they are still owed money for Wallace

     

    See lunatics, see Asylum!

  27. bournesouprecipe on

    petec

     

     

     

    Nicolás Ladislao Fedor Flores (born 19 August 1985 in Caracas), aka Miku, is a Venezuelan footballer who plays for Celtic in Scotland, as a striker.

     

     

    The son of an Hungarian father and a Venezuelan mother, he received his nickname after Miklós, a stem from his first name in the Hungarian language, and spent most of his professional career in Spain, having played for a host of clubs.

     

     

    Wiki Quick News CSC

     

     

    *it was’nt me*

  30. petec on

    THE EXILED TIM

     

     

    Still time yet. Here is hoping but we need to keep the equilibrium right.

     

     

    I’d be happy with 1 more top quality player signed or even loaned as our young team has done us really proud over the last couple of seasons.

  32. BIG-CUP-WINNERS on

    Hi

     

     

    looking for some info on reasonable priced/standard of hotel in Barcelona. Travelling with the boy from Gatwick on Sunday, back home on Wednesday , so need something central.

     

     

    Thanks in anticipation.

  35. KevJungle - Murdo..10 men Championees..1979 on

    Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire

     

     

    18:51 on 31 August, 2012

     

     

    kevj…,

     

    you’ve been posting hatefilled bile, regardless of your book.

     

    His antics as an aberdeen player, identified a winner, a bit like his antics as the most successful Celtic manager since MrStein.

     

    _________________________________________________________________

     

    Now who’s howling at the moon ?

     

    To mention WGS in the same breath as Mr Stein. WTF

     

    As Mr McNee once opined…

     

    “To compare WGS to, Mr Stein would be like comparing the guy who paint’s the townhall fence to, Da Vinci or Michael Angelo!”

  37. THE EXILED TIM on

    petec

     

     

    Still think we need a striker, with Stokes out, we are skating on thin ice, Hoops isn’t 100% fit imo, and young Tony is just breaking through.

     

     

    Still time as you say.

  38. 'GG on

    It looks like we have one of our major needs fulfilled, a big stopper in the Bobo mould.

     

    Plenty of time, 4 hours, to capture a striker.

     

    Martin could sign a full team in the last 4 hours of the window.

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