Our man Zbyszek joined a Krasnodar fan website last night to ask about Celtic signing target, Kouassi Eboue, from Ivory Coast. Here are some of the comments he got back:
“He has good technical skills, is fast and is good in the air. He’s shown to be comfortable in hard, dirty, games. At 19-years-old, he needs a good coach for his next step forward. I think the guy has a wonderful future ahead of him (or I know nothing about the game).”
Zbyszek asked why Krasnodar are selling Eboue:
“Krasnodar have a Financial Fair Play axe hanging over their heads. They have no money to strengthen the team and are in debt. They are also limited in the number of foreigners they have have in the squad.”
Eboue gave a recent interview to a Russian newspaper where he said:
“I’m always ready to play whichever position the coach things best, whether as a defensive midfielder or in the attacking zone. I feel I can grow as a player by becoming more involved in the attacking game, my coaching now concentrates more on this part of play.”
Kouassi grew up in a poor village near Dabou, in Ivory Coast. He first kicked a football at 5 and was invited to a local academy at 10. By 15 he received his first invitation abroad – Armenia, where he moved three years ago.
Krasnodar coach, Oleg Kononov, took an interest in Eboue, who trained with the club for a few weeks before making the move ro Russia formal in May 2014.
The player turned 19 less than a month ago, so his rise to an established first-team player in the Russian Premier League has been rapid. This has been a challenging deal for Celtic, a lot more so than scouting the best breaking through at Tannadice.
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Jamabhoy
Maybe the occasional game against Iceland would suffice.
FFS, Warbs, The Timinator
http://www.snspix.com/311216-ladbrokes-premiership-rangers-v-celtic-1-2-ibrox/print/13204671.html
Phllis
I am in agreement with your point but deducting 12 points from the new club confuses things ( for me anyway). Do all new clubs have a 12 point deduction in that League?
JJ
TET
I suspect any that were bought are still brand new !
JJ
CAn anyone confirm this from the BBC Site:
Celtic have agreed a fee in the region of £3m with Krasnodar for Ivorian midfielder Kouassi Eboue.
The player has arrived in Glasgow” ?
JJ
JJ
Will be worth a fortune in years to come :-)
HH
http://thecelticblog.com/2017/01/blogs/enjoy-what-happens-next-this-is-the-payback-for-so-many-years-of-pain/
TIMALOY29 on 4TH JANUARY 2017 11:09 AM
The bosman ruling ensured all clubs are selling clubs. Van Dijk, Hooper, Wanyama and all the others refused to sign new deals.
*The first 2 at least hung around a bit to see us through in crucial parts of the season although with WVD it just didnae pan out, as for the latter I just cannae fathom the love affair with him, as soon as the ball hit the Barca net he was for the Joe the Toff.
We made him as he was nothing tae write home about when with Beerschot and prior tae signing for us he had served 2 three-match suspensions, one for a violent tackle and the other for elbowing which was caught on video. He still tends tae show his durty side down south.
He wisnae a raging success with us initially and a vicious assault on wee Beram in which he accused elbows of deliberately injuring him saying that he “has not forgotten that for a moment”, he was never the same again and this allowed Vic to cement a place back in the side.
Still look out for WVD and the “Wall” but no this phoney.
Is Eboue in Ivory Coast squad for cup of Nations ?
WHITEDOGHUNCH on 4TH JANUARY 2017 4:39 PM
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Someone said no he wasn’t . Not capped yet.
James Forrest on 4th January 2017 4:23 pm
Your best for a while I love it!!!
cheers on the bench v France in November, never got on.
Amazing place this.
Celtic who are sitting top of the league by a mile and could be heading for a treble whilst rivals are left in the mire are making an imaginative signing from a good team in a decent league.
A signing of a player who is in a team still in Europe and a signing which will probably cost the club more than all other clubs in Scotland will spend this window.
A signing made in time to bed the guy in pre CL qualification next season and one of a player with sell on potential.
Not an over priced ‘has been’ from an over heated market who has a name we know and recognize coming for a final pay day. Not someone with an Irish name who always wanted to run out at Celtic park.
A genuine creative effort to improve our squad capability and value.
Yet most on here only want to find negatives and reasons to have a moan.
It’s a funny thing this following Celtic. A lot funnier than following the other mob that is for sure.
mon the scouts
hope and trump are allright with the deal
oops putin and trump
James Forrest at 4.23
I usually enjoy your writing James, but I feel I must disagree with your effort this time.
What we, Celtic, are doing at this time, is all about Celtic.
It has little to do with Sevco, oldco, rangers etc. It is about us.
Sevco crave our attention. They crave the symbiotic relationship with us. Your article gives them some sort of undeserved attention in the glow of the Celtic success.
As big Peter often says we are a stand alone club.
There is no old firm. Celtic are doing business that is best for Celtic, ( while also earning cash for other SPFL clubs).
Many of us suffered during the periods you recall James.
I am glad the old rangers are gone, liquidated, humiliated and extinct.
I have absolutely no desire to treat the new club, sevco rangers as our bitter rivals.
They have not earned the right to be!
They are a 4 year old club which is pretty poor, ( in all senses of the word; ability, outlook, cash, attitude, support etc), and they crave the relationship with us, “enjoyed” by the former club.
Sorry James, imo, sevco do not deserve the status your article affords them.
Eurochamps67
Burnley 78
Anyone from anywhere wanting to run out at Celtic Park nothing wrong with that.Anyone from anywhere being applauded running off the pitch is what we seek.
Poster Seger on Krasnodar forum
I think this post sums the situation very well.
“I think Kuassi transfer is our first mistake this transfer window. 3 million euros is not the sum we should be grateful for. I would probably understand this transfer if we have had another guy on the radar and had not enough money to complete the deal. Do we hear anything like that ? No! We hear nothing abut transfer in. We could keep the guy here and open different chances for Kuassi at our club, I mean: the guy could show us more of his talent on the pitch. People say that Kuassi wanted to play more and asked for the guarantee of the first squad ( for a time being this is only rumour?). If it’s true, he asked for the first squad guarantee, so what? Does this not mean he is very ambitious guy? So, we observe that situation at our club and then you guys are surprised you see our players on the pitch and you call them pensioners. What wrong could happen if we had kept this guy one or two years more? If he was not good enough we would sell him probably for not 3 but for 1 million euro! Oh,well, we would lose million euros…! So what? Imagine, he had stayed and played very well, made huge progress? I have another , this time my last questions. Why did they take him to the first squad few months back? Was he for sale, or was he to learn Krasnodar game to straighten the team at the age 19?”
If Eboue signs we have bought, by all accounts, a young player with great potential. What’s not to like?
Eurochamps67@4.59
Well said that mhan
HH
Canny understand folks no happy with the potential signing of Eboue, we are also in for this bloke apparantly
http://www.mercato365.com/l2-lens-kevin-fortune-a-prolonge-2876041.html
I very much doubt the buy cheap prospects and sell for a whean of profit has changed, only now BR will be in charge instead of Pedro’s mate.
I still think he will bring in the finished artical as well.
In Brendan I trust.
Looking back at Saturday’s game I cannae fathom why a player with a sore shoulder had tae get stretchered aff, surely he could walk.
A CB & a fast winger.
Regarding the potential new signing Eboue – like most of us I know nothing about him
But a couple of plus points ……..
He will not be negative on the Glasgow weather in fact the weather may be one of the reasons he is coming given where he is at the mo !!!!
Given he is an Ivory Coast International (not played yet but been on the bench) could it be Kolo has altered BR about his potential ??
Finally (and I am on really thin ice here) but he is young, supposedly gifted and black and IMHO this usually means he can run all day – add this to Europa League experience and I would think we have a youthful Wanyama
67ECW
I hope he goes to Dubai with the first team,it would be very good for him to get to know everyone and the methods BR uses.
Huns contest 2 match ban for Kiernan , hearing put back to 12th, at the request of the club? Wtf is that all about? Different rules for the one club again?
Dessybhoy
that was my thinking trying to find the Ivory Coast squad. They have a game on the 14th
I see different sums of this transfer. It’s said Krasnodar will get LITTLE over 3 million euros and will keep 15% share of the next transfer sum.
EUROCHAMPS67:
With all respect, you may have missed the point.
It’s the constant media narrative that this club is the same that constantly stalks us. What I’m arguing is that it doesn’t matter whether it is or not. The old way of doing things in Scottish football is over.
I wrote an article on the eve of the 5-1 game where I said that the best way to demolish the Survival Lie was to make it irrelevant. To destroy them, on the pitch and off of it, so thoroughly that there WAS no rivalry to speak of. To erase it from existence by making it seem as ludicrous as it is.
I didn’t give them status. I stripped it away, and everything our club does which negatively reflects on them strips it away. Sooner or later the media and the world will have to confront us on our own terms – and they on theirs – rather than treat us as if the symbiotic relationship so many on here think our club fosters was a real one and not an invention of a desperate press and backward fans.
And it’s starting already. The Herald, this very week, has said that the OF is dead, that the term no longer applies. The reasoning doesn’t matter; we’re burying them, one shovel at a time.
By the end of next season it’ll be done. Without us, they don’t exist … and bit by bit we’re going to hammer home the message that it’s the attempt to compete and measure themselves this way that will kill them … and you know what the result will be? Even they will stop.
And you know what’ll happen then? Without the line we shine on them?
Yes … they’ll die anyway.
So if you don’t mind, I’ll keep highlighting the differences. I’ll keep chipping away at the wall. Exposing the Lie for what it is. This was a gloating piece, but with a serious point. They can kid themselves all they want, but they are hanging onto our coat tails and it’s killing them. Letting go will kill them too.
We watched Rangers die. We’re going to get to attend the funeral for this mob as well.
I would be more worried if we weren’t linked to numerous players.
I really hope Eboue signs. Don’t know a thing about him, but I do know about the manager who hopes to sign him.
Happy days.
HH.
BBC Scotland News.
Richard Wilson gives a run down on Eboue’s football attribites and his background and that work permit required.
McIntyre asks as Eboue is not an internationalist will that effect permission.
Wilson affirms it will be rejected but an appeal made to a panel from SFA and Players Union to be persuaded Eboue is not denying a young Scottish player an opportunity.
Left with two thoughts:
1. Trying to put a negative spin.
2. Wish they were so diligent in understanding and presenting UEFA FFP and domestic club licensing to listeners.
SALTIRES EN SEVILLA on 3RD JANUARY 2017 7:19 PM
*Wonderful post, some of it echoes my da, the same wee mhan that carried me on his shoulders down the Gallowgate intae the Jungle.
He was a quiet wee mhan, when he had tae be, didnae wear colours or sing rebel songs, even though he spent his formative summers in Ireland, but Celtic through and through.
I had an uncle, my mother’s brother, who ran a couple of juvenile sides, he although a good few years younger played for one of them. He had a career ending injury when he tore a cartilage at 15 so later on would help my uncle with the team, they would also go tae games, and not just Celtic ones, as well.
Mibbees that period of watching minor fitba developed his appreciation of the game overall. His greatest claim tae fame was helping carry a young injured Leslie Hearts player off the park at a juvenile cup game at gorgie road. That player would go on tae be known in song as “headed heaven as he had made it number 7”.
He was fortunate in going tae the Empire Exhibition Cup Final and could recite that team like a litany, his 2nd favourite all time Celt was wee Johnny Crum who Malky McDonald once said was as cheeky off the park as on, which epitomised my wee da.
He suffered like most of his contemporaries during the post war grim years, I recall telling him that the day I was born we had won, he laughingly replied that it was probably one of the few victories we had then.
But he also saw the rise of the Celts with his all time favourite player Charles Patrick, big Hooky, the Wee Barra, the cultured wee Bertie and the aforementioned Juggler winning the St Mungo Trophy, Coronation Cup, first double in 40 years and of course Hampden in the Sun, he taught me that lineup which almost 60 years later I can still recite like a litany tae.
So many games he took me tae but still was always complimentary about other good players, told me about the Galloping Major well before his Real Madrid days, said one day when describing a new young centre half we had as the best player he had seen in that position since wullie woodburn, thought big Corky was a gentleman as was Ian McColl who he knew from growing up beside my mother.
He also had no time for the thugs like baird and shearer in the game and spoke well of other non Celtic players like the “Firhill Express”.
I can still recall him shouting tae my mother who was in the kitchen that davie meiklehojohn, former deidco captain, had died, for those that don’t know it was davie realising the seriousness of the injury tae John Thomson had gestured to the jeering home support to quiet down whilst the injured John was being attended to.
Great Celtic man though since my mother’s family were from the Vale of Leven he was he was also in attendance at their only Junior Cup victory at Hampden which allegedly so was I.
He also travelled tae see his local side Dumbarton play a SC tie at Palmerston while we were up at Forres and was at Boagheid where they lost in the ¼ final tae Raith when we were beating the Buddies at Parkheid. This was more to do with knowing some of the Sons side including their top goal scorer who was married to his cousin.
As I said a great fitba man and one of my enduring but painful memories is coming in fae the boys guild on the night we were humiliated 0-3 tae deidco in a game where Bob Kelly had said later he would have preferred them tae fill the net as opposed tae degrading us by playing possession fitba, aye we’ll concede our 7-1 record due tae you replacing Jinky with inside forward Bobby Craig and juggling the forward line which became known as “the five sorrowful mysteries” that night.
Later that evening watching the highlights as brand scored the 3rd in front of an empty Celtic end I commented “lucky goal”, my heid is still spinning as he clouted me saying “cut that out, you appreciate good fitba and no like the mugs on the terracing”, and I don’t mean just our support. That was the manner of the mhan.
BTW it was a lucky goal as big Frank hero in the 1st game misjudged a brand speculative 25 yard shot which bounced slowly over the line.
I didn’t mean this tae be a eulogy of him but the comparison with SaS and others on here’s da’s is uncanny. I suppose that’s what being a Celtic supporter is, “coz we only know that there’s gonnae be a show”.
Auldheid
I doubt we would talk to the player unless we know a permit will be forthcoming
Pedro runs scoddish footy ffs :-)
HH
Aye I can see Paul getting the Jabba role at Celtic yet. Can you say jabbaroll on CQN?
James F
Think your article and debate with eurochamp are all good stuff.
For me it is some comfort to see the pain and realisation of their reality hit home. Long may it continue.
HH
Clyde setting us up already, Our potential signing is ok with a temperament and the sevco link is world beater.
playingtotheiraudience.csc
Imagine that,
KLV
TET
Happy New Year to you and Mrs TET, hope good health is a regular visitor to the cave.
Aye let’s hope Celtic did their homework as well as BBC did theirs.
God save us,sevco are signing Messi by the sounds of it