Player who has been out since April in shock Uefa squad omission. The only surprise about Kris Commons and Uefa lists is that he was included for the earlier rounds, despite not pulling on a Celtic shirt since April through injury. He was there because there was space on the A list. He’s now been omitted because we signed Scott Sinclair and Brendan Rodgers needed to remove one name to keep his options open for a wildcard.
Kris’ chances of being fit enough to play are less than Patrick Roberts’ so his name came off the list.
I don’t habitually dig up managers at other clubs, but Robbie Nielson is testing the limits of incredulity. When asked about Scott Brown calling Jamie Walker a cheat, he said “If you have got an opinion on anything you are better just keeping it to yourself.”
This is the guy who can’t shut his mouth about referees, including an incident last season when he thought action should have been taken against……. Scott Brown.
Robbie, if you can dish it out but you can’t take it, maybe you are better just keeping your stray opinions to yourself.
We collected four yellow cards at Tynecastle: Gordon, Brown, Dembele and Sinclair. None of them incurred incurred when the ball was in play. Craig Gordon’s was for not going to his line at the Hearts penalty, Moussa Dembele’s was for knocking the ball away, Scott Sinclair’s was for running into the crowd after scoring a debut goal (he’s knew, he should learn, but it’s a clear yellow card) and Scott Brown’s for dissent.
If we’re going to tot up cautions, we should at least do it during play when there is some advantage to be won. Four conceded carelessly off the ball is unusual and could cost us later in the season.
Scott Brown in particular should take note, that was his second caution of the season for dissent, the first coming in Astana. Scott’s a hugely important player to Celtic, previous absences from Europe due to off-the-ball indiscretions should be acting as an inhibitor at this stage of his career.
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Vfr,
I can’t say I’m all that pleased with the unpredictability.
I’m all for changing certain personnel for certain games against certain opponents but the quicker we get a settled (ish) side the better.
HH
GARY67 on 10TH AUGUST 2016 10:22 AM
Johansen along with Griffiths and Ambrose are the 3 suspended for tonight’s game
Delighted at Tom’s contract extension.
Players with his talents should always be accommodated in football.
His deceptively languid style reminds me of Riquelme, Bless his skill.
Half of that would be a major asset to the squad.
Can’t wait for the school holidays to be over and the juveniles who infested the blog last night are tucked up early in their beds. I only hope, for their sakes, that their mammies don’t read CQN.
Brendan seems to have given the squad back its confidence as well as adding a few with quality. I think Brendan is a really good man manager, So far everything he has done has made sense. When other people were moaning about him not spending I was happy he wasn’t. He is still assessing the squad and working with what he has, Players like Johnasen don’t just become bad players, That same player is still in there and Brendan tries to find him again. Same with the younger players he has an eye for potential hence Eoghan.
Callum and Stuart getting games even though their form is poor just now, He is trying to get them back to their best.
Very Patient and calculated man is our Brendan.
KLV
I could see quite a few lads out the door on loans come the end of the month
Ciftci, GMS, Henderson, Aitchison, Ambrose, McGregor & Armstrong for example.
NatKnow on 10th August 2016 10:40 am
TERJE VIGEN on 10TH AUGUST 2016 10:21 AM
http://us3.campaign-archive2.com/?u=319216441348a1be05ef3f61a&id=2ee238bed4&e=3815bbcb52
Lot 1164 – good words as well
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Crowd funding and donate it for display in St Mary’s – the actual and spiritual home of Celtic FC?
Be a good additional to the Celtic Museum – unless something similar already exists?
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Davidopoulos on 10th August 2016 10:40 am
Paddy Bamford
Brilliant at Middlesbrough but not made a mark else. Would be good backup but not convinced he would set the heather alight.
However, it could just take the right manager to get him back to form…
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Neglected to mention he also did well at MK Dons.
Glad to see the rest of CQN seem to be finally coming round to my way of thinking regarding the two-faced Anne Budge.
TIMALOY29
Yeah, I think Henderson and GMS both look certainties and maybe KC who knows? if he gets back to fitness I am not sure he is fast enough for Brendan but we will see. He is a threat and we need experience.
I think he will keep Christie to be honest I was surprised to see Allan go out on loan.
KLV
AULD TAM
I thought she was doing well until she crapped it against the establishment that Friday night when Hearts played the dead team and never said Boo! after it.
Another blow hard.
KLV
TONY DONNELLY67
Best birthday wishes to your Mum!
I would go for:
Gordon
Janko Lustig O’Connell Izzy
Brown Rogic McGregor
Forrest Dembele Sinclair
Armstrong to replace McGregor in second half. Ciftci on for Forrest if we are a couple of goals up and switch to a 4-4-2.
Brendan to use a blue Bic pen and a Lyreco A5 notepad (no margin).
VFR800A8 on 10TH AUGUST 2016 10:45 AM
NatKnow on 10th August 2016 10:40 am
TERJE VIGEN on 10TH AUGUST 2016 10:21 AM
http://us3.campaign-archive2.com/?u=319216441348a1be05ef3f61a&id=2ee238bed4&e=3815bbcb52
Lot 1164 – good words as well
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Crowd funding and donate it for display in St Mary’s – the actual and spiritual home of Celtic FC?
Be a good additional to the Celtic Museum – unless something similar already exists?
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Good idea. As long as it was secure while on public display! :-))
KEVINLASVEGAS –
A bit harsh on Armstrong and McGregor. I think the form of both players has been up-and-down rather than poor.
They have both had one or two good to very good games amongst a couple of mediocre performances. Both worth persevering with, in my opinion.
http://m.sporx.com/celtic-fenerbahceli-hasan-ali-kaldirima-talip-SXHBQ561422SXQ
Anyone translate……
DAVIDOPOULOS
Looks good.
Saidy looks a player. Shades of Agathe in him. He is very very fast.
KLV
Geordie, I understand where you are coming from; however, it is a squad game now and with so many games coming up we need to ensure that we have enough players in the real first team squad capable of coming in and out and knowing their role. I think the defence is unsettled at the moment because we don’t have all our options fit, so we don’t know how that will pan out.
In the middle, we are, IMHO, a ‘digger’ short: that may be Johannsen or he may go to the market for one. I’m not yet convinced he knows his best options for operating the midfield, with the exceptions of his 2 out of 3 wide men and Broony in the middle.
The forward line takes care of itself, but we need another (better than Ciftci) player to cover and I don’t think Bamford is the answer. Possibly Robson-Kanu?
However, I think that 2 weeks tomorrow (after we take care of Be’er Shiva) we will see who the big signing will be. So a lot of it is speculation until then along with mixing the team up until the full squad is assembled and fit.
AULD TAM on 10TH AUGUST 2016 10:47 AM
Glad to see the rest of CQN seem to be finally coming round to my way of thinking regarding the two-faced Anne Budge.
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I’ve always had the same opinion of her as yourself Tam. Particularly when she was getting praised on here to high heaven for the Save The Children shirt “sponsorship” deal. The media seem to see her a a cross between Mother Teresa and Boudica. But as you know – she’s very selective about what she praises and condemns. No friend of ours.
kevinlasvegas
Very true – very like Agathe. He also has the same issue Agathe had when he first arrived: what to do with the ball after you have skinned the man. If he works on delivery then he will be a really good player for us.
!!Bada Bing!! on 10th August 2016 10:54 am
http://m.sporx.com/celtic-fenerbahceli-hasan-ali-kaldirima-talip-SXHBQ561422SXQ
Anyone translate……
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Rough translation is that we have followed their full back’s progress since we played them last season but he has decided to stay another season and Fener don’t want to sell.
For anyone with silly money…
http://www.mctears.co.uk/auctions/lot.aspx?id=0a1a4aa5-1f11-4947-9a12-3b6b9bc691da&referrer=browse&page=1
First ever Celtic winners medal at auction.
!!Bada Bing!! on 10th August 2016 10:54 am
According to Google:
“Hasan Ali Kaldırım of entering the world home on Saturday opened the pavement thoroughly . It was learned that 26 -year-old player with Celtic ‘s interest .
Celtic , after the match with Fenerbahce late last week which followed Hasan Ali it said. But the Yellow Lacivertliler, not warm to send the star players . In addition, the successful separation of thinking from left-back and learned that Fenerbahce wants to continue his career ”
Long story short, we’re supposed to be in for this guy who is a left back. I’m surprised if there is anything to it.
We have Tierney and Izzy already and Fenerbache pay bigger wages than us. He’s probably using Celtic to get a new deal.
Bada Bing –
Celtic interested in Hasan Ali, Fenerbahce 26 year-old left back. Fenerbahce want him to stay.
Thanks bhoys
@Bada Bing
Benim Türk istisnai değil, bu yüzden Çevir Google’ı kullanıyor
KTF
We’ve been desperate for a player that can open the pavement thoroughly…
!!BADA BING!! on 10TH AUGUST 2016 10:54 AM
http://m.sporx.com/celtic-fenerbahceli-hasan-ali-kaldirima-talip-SXHBQ561422SXQ
Anyone translate……
You asked for it …
Hasan Ali fortune of entering the world home on Saturday opened the pavement thoroughly. It was learned that 26-year-old player with Celtic’s interest.
Celtic, after the match with Fenerbahce late last week which followed Hasan Ali it said. But the Yellow Lacivertliler, not warm to send the star players. In addition, the successful separation of thinking from left-back and learned that Fenerbahce wants to continue his career.
Turkish obviously not Google’s favourite language …
Following on from last night, there would appear to be a few cunning linguists on CQN.
Ann Budge is only interested in Hearts.
Which is as it should be.
She plays to her demographic. She knows who most of her supporters class as their “brothers-in-arms” and she knows who they despise.
She’d probably be a very effective politician. I can damn her no more than that. I don’t wish her well,nor do I wish her club well. Only when she reacts with vigour to defend her club against ALL opponents will I wish her well.
The Glorious Twelfth of Never,I suspect.
AULD TAM
As I was saying, Good players don’t just become bad, McGregor has looked hesitant in past couple of weeks and Armstrong on left leaves him out of the game and poor Broony got the tun the midfield himself.
The thing is Tam, neither seem to try and get back into the game after 20 mins without the ball, Since the real games have started neither have had a good game, In both away legs in europe our midfield was missing with exception of Brown hence why Bitton changed the Astana game.
Brendan will persevere or replace them, Its up to them. But they will get the chance.
I hope to be proved wrong. Could have 4 youth players in our first team. Been a while since that happened. ;) Forrest kicks on after Sunday as well as Keiran Callum and Eoghan. Magic!
KLV
Interesting comments on here regarding our thick colonial cousins.
I fear that they — majority view supported by the media — have a very inward looking viewpoint.
From experience they are always trying to talk up their very large piece of burnt rock.
They need to keep convincing themselves that it was a great idea to go and live in a country with 11 of the 10 most deadly poisonous species on Earth.
They are horrible to the original inhabitants.
They are horrible to to each other — trying to hide it using the concept of “mateship”.
Consequently no surprise that they are horrible to outsiders.
My only issue would be why stop at racism, add in sexism and then try misogyny.
Too many sheep, too many sheep.
I do love it when they try on the bad boy / convict stock angle.
They forget that in late 18th century Britain conditions were so bad that everybody was blagging.
They were the stupid 20% who got caught.
Then there’s Aussie Rules — what is that all about?
Grown men running about in singlets trying to play basketball without a hoop.
They are so last century it hurts — football, real football was “WogBall” up until the 80’s.
It took the Greeks and the various Slavs to educate them.
Too many blue collar wannabe landed gentry for my liking.
They have no understanding of the concept of humanity and it pollutes the public discourse.
http://www.celticquicknews.co.uk/rodgers-in-for-italian-loan-deal/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+co%2FIRuC+%28Celtic+Quick+News%29
Anyone saw this guy?
KLV
NATKNOW on 10TH AUGUST 2016 10:09 AM
Yes.
And yes again.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 10TH AUGUST 2016 11:03 AM
Ann Budge is only interested in Hearts.
Which is as it should be.
She plays to her demographic. She knows who most of her supporters class as their “brothers-in-arms” and she knows who they despise.
She’d probably be a very effective politician. I can damn her no more than that. I don’t wish her well,nor do I wish her club well. Only when she reacts with vigour to defend her club against ALL opponents will I wish her well.
The Glorious Twelfth of Never,I suspect.
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Politician?! Don;t give her ideas! Enough huns in the Scottish Parliament as it is.
VFR800A8 on 10TH AUGUST 2016 9:09 AM
ernie lynch on 10th August 2016 9:01 am
I trust he isn’t including Il papa in the cast of stupid Europeans. Partly because he isn’t stupid, but mainly because he’s Argentinian. :>}
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By which measure he himself would not be Australian, but Scottish, and therefore a ‘stupid European’.
kevinlasvegas on 10th August 2016 10:48 am
I think it would do Christie some good to go out on loan and come back in January.
Brendan will have a better idea where he fits in the squad and the futures of a few others should be clearer.
MadMitch on 10th August 2016 11:05 am
You’re sitting on the fence there; I’d like to know what you REALLY thing. :>)
Wild card by 11 tonight? Is that right?
KLV