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I’ve seen nothing of Stefan Johansen but I’m delighted we have signed a central midfield player.  Deficiencies up front are glaring, especially in the Premiership, but in Europe, the critical area is central mid, where we need to control more than we did this season.

Central midfield protects your defence and provides the foundations strikers stand on, it has been an important area for Celtic to strengthen since losing our top man last summer.

Conversely, Scott Brown is playing his best football since joining Celtic in 2007 but, as his European adventures were nullified by disciplinary action, the gap was unbridgeable.  Honourable mentions should go to Charlie Mulgrew, Beram Kayal and Joe Ledley, but in the case of Charlie and Joe, they were asked to play secondary, or tertiary roles, while Beram was promoted from well down the pecking order to a Champions League starter.

Please observe the usual caveats when a new player arrives.  New club, new city, new tactics, team mates, match officials and game atmosphere, Stefan has a lot to assimilate in the coming weeks.  It took six months for Victor to settle and at least as long before Mikael, Scott and Joe looked their best.

For Stefan and Holmbert Fridjonsson the primary objective of the next six months is to prepare for Champions League qualifiers, closely followed by a Scottish Cup tie against Aberdeen in three weeks.

Welcome to Celtic, Stefan.  You have a fantastic opportunity ahead.
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  1. Fassreifen on

    Philbhoy – Free the Dam 5!

     

     

    Willkommen in Deutschland. You’ll know the very useful website Toytown German already. Hope your boss is understanding!

  2. m6bhoy on

    tonydonnelly67 @ 12:16 on 15 January, 2014

     

     

    John Donnelly – that’s the fella. Small in stature but his reputation within the club community (and beyond was) of gigantic proportions. As I remember, a hush descended through-out the club when John grabbed the mike to make an announcement. The regulars in the front bar even left their pints unguarded to race into the back lounge when they heard John was to make an announcement.

  4. A Ceiler Gonof Rust Supporting Justice and Freedom for the Dam 5 on

    weeman67 12:36 on 15 January, 2014

     

     

     

    Nice………………………. :_))

  5. Steinreignedsupreme on

    Paul 67 –

     

     

    Johansen’s been in Glasgow for three days and he hasn’t even played a game for Celtic.

     

     

    Obviously a complete waste of money…

  7. A Ceiler Gonof Rust Supporting Justice and Freedom for the Dam 5 on

    winning captains, any update on the young Australian lad who was over, the one recommended by our esteemed Mr Wallace?

  8. tonydonnelly67 on

    M6bhoy

     

     

    That’s him, wee John, I remember when his daughter had his first grandchild, old John steps up to the mike in between the bingo game, and announces “that’s me a proud grandfather ladies and gentlemen, both my daughter and grand daughter are well and doing fine, mind you my daughter had a hard time of it, it was one of them centurion births (Caesarean) the whole room erupted, and John got off the stage to tumultuous applause, what a man.

  9. The Johnatron on

    Can anyone provide any updates on the Amsterdam Bhoys situation?

     

    Not heard anything for a while.

  10. jimbo67 on

    Kev Jungle

     

     

    I mind there was a midweek game at that time where it was mayhem. I think the polis decided ‘ no mas’

     

     

    Winning Captains

     

     

    6-1 Cup Final v Hibs 1972

     

     

    4-2 v Rangers 21/5/79

     

     

    5-0 v St Mirren 3/5/86

     

     

    2 in last two mins semi final v Hearts 1988

     

     

    3-1 at Pittodrie in Jan 1982. Paul McStay’s league Debut.

     

     

    4-4 draw at Ibrox March 86- Murdo’s late equaliser

     

     

    3-2 v Hearts Christmas Day 1971. Scintillating football and then Andre Previn on Eric’n’Ernie in the evening.

     

     

    6-0 v Dundee at Dens in 74. King Kenny at his best. Jinky wasn’t bad that day either!

     

     

    2-0 v St Johnstone in May 1998- possibly the happiest moment of my life was was when Haraald B scored

     

     

    3-0 v Huns in Feb 2011. As well as we ever played against them – and a stupendous atmosphere.

     

     

    6-2 game not included as I wasn’t actually there.

     

     

     

    Loads of others

     

     

    Jimbo67 supporting Oscar Knox

  11. BigChipsUK - There are only two SPL teams in Glasgow... Celtic and Partick Thistle on

    Stefan Johansen, unlike many others before him, will NOT have a problem playing in the Glaswegian permarain… although he may need to solicit some hot weather tips from Andy Murray.

     

     

    His former club is based in Drammen, Norway, which is forecast to peak at -3°C today, having hit -18°C and -11°C on Monday and Tuesday night respectively. It is not expected to get above freezing, even during the day, for at least the next week.

     

     

    It is rumoured that he opted to leave Strømsgodset after seeing Drammen’s weather forecast for February!

  12. Geordie Munro on

    Hendrix,

     

     

    “We must be the only club to sign a player and not play them for a week or two”

     

     

    Not even close.

     

     

     

    Philbhoy, has the new bhoy refused to play?

  16. DR M on

    Brechin 1 – 0 aggregate score – Jim melrose scored the only goal away from home.

     

     

    Sorry you said best domestic games!

  18. 67Heaven ... I am Neil Lennon, supporting WEE OSCAR..!!.. Ibrox belongs to the creditors on

    I’m sure the LL loyal will respect the setting in period….he he

  19. garygillespieshamstring on

    4-3 v hearts at swinecastle in late 70s. Busby scored a hat trick for hearts.

     

    We got late winner after comeback. Great Shuggy Edvaldsson diving header.

  21. celticlegends on

    One game i will always remember was Celtic 3 Cologne 0. Sept 92. We were obviously going through a torrid time at the club so games like that stand out for me

  24. Billy Bhoy 05 on

    I hear on radio that R Hughes made over £500k profit on his penny shares

     

     

    Excellent money for little input

  26. tully57 on

    Winning Captains

     

     

    Agree with Jimbo67 list. A couple of others I would say were very special:

     

     

    1976: Joe Craig winner at Ibrox (1-0)..a screamer…we hadn’t won there for a few seasons. It was the game where the Buzzbomb’s leg was broken by Greig.

     

     

    1976: Beating Hearts 4-3 at Tynecastle after being 3-1 down in 2nd half. Ronnie Glavin scored the winner.

     

     

    1983: The other 4-2 game – at Ibrox. We lost out to Dundee Utd who won the league that day, but beating the huns 4-2 after being down 2-0 at HT was brilliant.

     

     

    Memories……

  27. A Ceiler Gonof Rust Supporting Justice and Freedom for the Dam 5 on

    Cheers winning captains, I’ll see if I can find that.

     

     

    On your great games question, I’d go for the 1998 5 – 1 game before the 6 – 2. Two for Lubo, two for Henke and one for young Burchill at a time when the huns were all over us. A game we were supposed to be at just to make up the numbers as the hun steamrollered us. Then again nobody had told them about Lubo. The look on his face when he scored:-)

     

     

    Plus, “The Sweetest Thing” being played at the end……………..A fantastic day, a beautiful day, a Celtic day.

     

     

    HH

  29. Turkeybhoy on

    wearethepeople1

     

    Davie Cooper

     

     

    True Blue

     

     

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    Posted Yesterday, 07:50 PM

     

    Looking back at Walters first reign, if you change maybe 5 or 6 results we could have had, CL win, 10inarow and back to back trebles, in his second change 2 or 3 and we could have had a quadruple

     

     

    Such fine margins

     

     

    A good page on RM.They are reminiscing about past failures.Things that sickened them.Brilliant.Look at this morons.

  31. setting free the bears supports Res. 12 & Oscar Knox on

    On judging players too soon.

     

     

     

    It is only a few short weeks ago, just as the transfer window was about to open and we had “suffered” a string of uneventful 1:0 wins, that there were loud cries on here to punt our “failed” buys Pukki, Balde & Boerigter, along with a few injured and irregular players such as Kayal, Rogic, McGeoch, Twardzik, along with a few unfavoured or dissatisfied regulars Forrest, Sammi and Joe Ledley. We even had our back up goalie thrown into the punt mix.

     

     

    Then we won a competitive match by more than one goal and performed creditably in a friendly tournament. Some have reacted, with lighthouse thinking, to feel that we may not need to buy. Some have continued to call the “failing” players duds, as they have painted their opinions into a corner.

     

     

    As usual, the truth is somewhere in the middle. Balde and Pukki have made good strides towards recovering their reputation as Celtic players but they are both far from established. Antony Stokes has scored again after a long drought but he is not yet showing up as the compelling answer to our striking problems. We are also in danger of, reluctantly, losing both Samaras and Ledley from first team availability, most likely along with Rogic, McGeoch and Paul George for 6 months. We know the brave long-term decision has been made to maintain Tony Watt’s loan spell to allow him to fully turn his career back on track. We know that Fridjonsson has a big step up to make in coming from Fram FC, a team in the 10th position of a poorly rated league.

     

     

    Therefore, you do not have to be a mineshafter, merely a supporter of Celtic and our manager to know that we still need to improve our forward scoring performances in competitive league and cup matches.

     

     

    Maybe Pukki and Balde will kick on from their recent boost. Maybe Stokesie will go on a run, maybe Sammi will stay or maybe Fridjonsson hits the ground with a surprising bang. I would not want to be a manager depending on all of that.

     

     

    Yes, we can win a league and, probably, a cup without adding to our striking options but will we be best prepared for 2014/15 CL qualification by expecting a re-juvenated Tony Watt, a freer scoring Tony Stokes or Teemu Pukki, or a quick career breakthrough by Balde, Atajic or Fridjonsson?

     

     

    I still think we need another senior forward whilst letting either Atajic or Fridjonsson get game time at a less demanding club, via the loan system.

     

     

    Overall, though, we are doing fine on the playing front.

     

     

    Pity about the continuing stinking football administration setting within which we exist.

  33. I'm Neil Lennon (tamrabam) on

    A few folks already saying the new signing needs time to settle in and P67 says its counter productive to judge the players too soon

     

     

    Problem is Paul, the folks who judged this seasons forwards as gash, got it right, and the ones who are saying we need to give this seasons forwards more time are still relying on Kris Commons to do everything while this mystical settling in period happens.

     

     

    Forwards who didnt need too much time to settle in might include Big Pierre – about 25 minutes and jorge Cadette about 3 minutes. Too much sticking up for non scoring forwards in my opinion its counter productive to winning trophies and filling seats.

     

     

    and BTW Im still waiting for Scott Brown to settle in!

  34. 67Heaven ... I am Neil Lennon, supporting WEE OSCAR..!!.. Ibrox belongs to the creditors on

    moonbeams wd. kano 2000 \o/ supporting neil lennon 99.9%. champions. c’mon wee oscar.

     

     

    13:33 on 15 January, 2014

     

     

    WTF next…….we’ll be signing lee wallace…… Hahahahahahaha

  35. 67Heaven ... I am Neil Lennon, supporting WEE OSCAR..!!.. Ibrox belongs to the creditors on

    i’m neil lennon (tamrabam)

     

     

    13:36 on 15 January, 2014

     

     

    Settle down while you’re settling in…….I want some of what you’re drinking?…hehe

  38. m6bhoy on

    2-1 victory over Morton at CP in 1968 to all but clinch the league that season.

     

     

    Morton had held the huns to a mid-week 3-3 draw at Cappielow to give us the advantage which we maintained through Bobby Lennox’s last minute winner.

     

     

    Victory made all the more memorable by later news that huns had invaded the pitch at Rugby Park at the end of their match against Kilmarnock to “celebrate” winning the league after pre-mature reporting of 1-1 draw at CP by BBC radio. I’m told some of them didn’t find out the actual result till they spewed off their supporter special trains at Glasgow Central.

  41. A Ceiler Gonof Rust Supporting Justice and Freedom for the Dam 5 on

    67Heaven …

     

     

    WTF next…….we’ll be signing lee wallace

     

    ……………………………………….

     

     

     

    We should do that anyway. Not because I think he’d be any good in a Celtic jersey. But could you imaging the gnashing of hin fangs and their hooves scratching at the dirt if we did this just for the hell of it!!!

     

     

    A far better piss rip than PL’s agm gag as well:-)

  42. iBhoy on

    setting free the bears supports Res. 12 & Oscar Knox

     

    12:26 on

     

    15 January, 2014

     

    Since Stefan cannot get the No.8 jersey from our captain, he will have to try for 18 (Rogic), 28 (last worn by James Keatings), 48 (last worn by Darren O’Dea; 38 belongs to reserve goalie Fasan), 68 or 78 (never before used; 58 belongs to Paddy Twardzik) or the 88 jersey of Gary Hooper.

     

     

    Only first team jerseys unfilled currently are the iconic Number 7 or Kelvin Wilson’s number 6.

     

     

    ***

     

     

    Nir Biton has the number 6.

     

     

    Max Oberschmidt (‘keeper on loan from Fulham) has 28.

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