Hayes, Koki Mizuno and the right-mid gap

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You and I have been doing this long enough to remember this place in meltdown at the prospect of Celtic signing a player from another SPL club. Domestically sourced talent was regarded as unimaginative, cheap, even. Contrast this with the utter joy when we signed Koki Mizuno, who was full-on exotic, but built for finer things then competitive football.

At 29, Aberdeen’s Irish international midfielder, Jonny Hayes is certainly unimaginative, and may be comparatively cheap, but he’s also a low-risk option for Celtic, who will know what they could get (and what they will not get) from the player.

With Patrick Roberts due to report to Manchester City on his return from holiday, Celtic are short of options for right-mid, with the first Champions League qualifier only five weeks away. The manager will view this gap in his squad as an unnecessary risk to next season’s objectives.

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  1. glendalystonsils on

    BOURNESOUPRECIPE on 2ND JUNE 2017 5:42 PM

     

    Who would win in a fight between Celtic and Cardiff?

     

     

    The whole of Cardiff or just the fitba team?

  2. Jimmynotpaul on

    The Exiled Tim.

     

    The loyalist team from Springburn wear Hearts tops.

     

    Not sure if your comment was directed at me or something else.

     

    Hail Hail

  3. JNP

     

    Not directed at you, was flicking through the games on tonight and happened upon Norn Ireland v NZ, just weird seeing all the proddys wearing the green

     

    HH

  4. Thank god the speculation on speculation has stopped.

     

     

    Anyone got real Celtic news?

  5. Jimmynotpaul on

    The Exiled Tim. 9.21.

     

    Thanks for clarifying.

     

    It doesn’t take a lot to confuse me. :-))

     

    Hail Hail

  6. In other news Mrs Owen and I are attending a “Humanist” wedding ceremony tomorrow.

     

     

    “What’s a Humanist ceremony? “says I,” one with no references to God or religion ” replies my lovelier half.” could you not just have said Protestant ” says I.

     

     

    She hit me.

     

     

    What hurts more is that I’m working on Sunday so am doing the designated driver thingies.

     

     

    If they’re all wearing cheesecloth and smell of patchouli oil I will be one extremely grumpy old man.

  7. OWEN on 2ND JUNE 2017 9:47 PM

     

    ——_—

     

    My brother had a humanist wedding, by far the most enjoyable wedding I’ve been at.

     

     

    He did have a free bar, slushy machine and the bootleg beetles playing so how could you not have fun :o)

  8. THE_HUDDLE

     

     

    By watching everyone else have full use of the free bar!

     

     

    Seriously should be fun, just being daft as usual.

  9. Anybody of the opinion that it is still quite hard to entice players with a decent rep to skodish fitba ?

     

    We try to do the best we can.

     

    It is working.

     

    In Brendan I trust.

     

    HH

  10. fieldofdrams on

    Off topic and have not read back, but PLEASE can someone go and edit the Karamoko Dembele story?

     

     

    The kid’s name is NOT Karaoke. It appears several times. It does not make the blog look good. Quite the opposite.

  11. The Spirit of Arthur Lee on

    fieldofdrams

     

     

    Nae point making a song and dance about it

     

     

    Love

  12. DIXIEDEANS

     

     

    How dare you come on here writing sensible, reasoned well thought out posts. Get lost this site doesn’t need sane, we’ll adjusted contributes we need real men prepared to believe every ice of malicious gossip about Celtic that the media choose to make up.

     

     

    :-)

  13. can i tell a story 1966 i leave our lady and st josephs glenboig and go to st augustines bank st coatbridge maybe gerry fae the brig might no the school anyway its may 25 1967 coming out of school we know the games on the tele so we are all rushing out to get home for the game suddenly as i run down the corridor willie corrigan who is in my class and is all of 5ft nothing accuses me of flirting with his burd marie hampson and challenges me to a fight so i thought yes bring it on you little squirt iam six foot at the time no worries we cross to a derelict building between st augustines school and st augustines chapel as we were taking our coats off willie kicks me in the shins and then somewhere more painfull i surrender if your lurkin willie fair play at least igot see us winning the big one hail hail

  14. OWEN on 2ND JUNE 2017 10:05 PM

     

    THE_HUDDLE

     

    By watching everyone else have full use of the free bar!

     

    Seriously should be fun, just being daft as usual.

     

    ————-

     

    No slushy machine? Everyone loves a slushy machine :o)

  15. Somehow spellchecker thought my last post made more sense that way.

     

     

    The mind boggles to think what gibberish I would actually type without its “help”!

  16. The Green Man says SACK THE Board on

    Big Packy

     

     

    LOL…worth sore shins to see the Lions eh:)

     

     

    HH

  17. THE_HUDDLE

     

     

    If I see a slushy machine I may have to sedate the Mrs. It’s a two hour drive home from the venue, pissed I could handle but buzzing on a sugar/artificial color rush would end me :-)

  18. Melbourne Mick on

    Hello again all you young rebels.

     

     

    Well, now that you lot have just about sobered up after your sojourns

     

    to Lisbon and what looked like a fantastic night at the Celtic hydro it’s

     

    finally our weekend down here on the rebel peninsula to honour our

     

    Lions and i can’t wait, car was packed last night, so ready to roll with it.

     

    PADDYMACOZ and our committee have promised us a big surprise

     

    and he won’t give anything away ( is Willie Wallace home yet? so a great

     

    night of dinner, dancing and utter Celticness beckons and no doubt

     

    hangover Sunday will be just as wild, which reminds me, better pack

     

    some more Paracetamol and maybe a little Ibuprofen. :-))

     

    H.H Mick

  19. I don’t expect us to lose anyone this summer. That being the case we should only be looking to improve what we already have even if that means that no one else comes in.

     

     

    Hayes is a good player and would be a massive loss to Aberdeen that doesn’t necessarily mean he would improve us. I personally don’t think he would.

     

     

    It’s very, very early days and Brendan really has earned our trust.

  20. VFR800 is now a Monster 821 on

    ACGR – just sitting down to watch Independence day: Resurgence with a lovely glass of Glenfarclas!

     

     

    It’s going down a treat!

     

     

     

    KTF

  21. Melbourne Mick

     

     

    I’m sure whatever it is it’ll be a fantastic experience!

  22. VFR800 is now a Monster 821 on

    HAMILTONTIM on 2ND JUNE 2017 10:31 PM

     

     

    The voice of reason HT! (Did the Minx write that one for you?) :>)

     

     

     

    KTF

  23. the green man ive still got the scars today what a littlle fighter he was or still is wullie fae kirkshaws i salute you

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