Three competitive games into the season and Nicolas Kuhn has scored in each of them. The first was what is rapidly becoming a trademark move of his, cutting inside and along the front of the box before shooting, the second a run to the back post to be first to a cross, and yesterday’s from a rush on the keeper.
Two of these goals required speed as well as effort; qualities we see from Daizen Maeda in spades. The relationship Nicolas has built with Reo Hatate is also noteworthy. We have a more abundant select of talent on the wings than anywhere else in the squad, but after a period of selection changes last season, it’s very likely Nicolas and Daizen will be first choice for Champions League games this term.
The dirty little secret of team building is to find players with untapped potential like Nicolas and let them bloom. More like this, please.
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setting free the bears for Res. 12 & Oscar Knox on 19th August 2024 8:13 pm
I think the Leicester DM, Harry Winks, should wear the number 40 on his shirt.
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😂😂
It would probably take ’39 Steps’ to process that.
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2nd log in
Spurs fans singing “Grand old team to play for”.
Whats that all about ?
Madrarua
Imitation is the greatest form of flattery
Gene.
‘Tis.
Spurs are also playing the Celtic way
Khun has improved a great deal from last season.
However , he has still to complete a cross to a Celtic player in our opening 3 matches .
When he improves his final ball .
We will have a very productive player .
TT
Thought Brendan’s presser on the Huns was sooooperb………….
Didn’t miss thum…………
btw good to see Mornington Bhoy anf Leftie posting on The Dear Green Place.
HH
MadraRua on 19th August 2024 8:42 pm
They were also singing “hello, hello we are the Spurs boys” 🙄🙃
Seems to be a bit of weeping and gnashing of teeth about our transfer policy, ground facilities and money in the bank.
Well when I was young and so much younger than today, wtf cue for a song there, I spent some time over here missing our treble of 69 at the time but was back in time for my first Celtic game at hunden when we fortuitously beat Ayr United 2-1 in a replay after a 3-3 draw, now the reason this was my first game is I had a young family at the time so had tae get my priorities right by getting a job and a house first, so every penny was a prisoner.
Now this was during a time when a good job was 2 nights late, Saturday morning and Sunday shift so I fortunately acquired one, but in saying that this was also during that period when you could chuck a job on a Monday and start a new one on the Tuesday, hence my gettin to hunden on the Wednesday night where I had my first view of a young red faced reserve right half filling in for Chopper.
The main story for us local lads the following morning was NOT the game but the signing of Tradamus Lampada FP Evan Williams which was quite fortuitous for us and him as oul Ronnie had played his last game for the club the night before.
I did make it to the LC Final but missed wee ten thirty’s early goal due to working that morning and that was me until November 8 when at long last I had the opportunity tae go tae my celestial home Parkheid for a game against the calvinists, the excitement in me was palpable as I jogged along London Road, even though we lost to possibly the best side in the country at the time with Donald Ford, a player that Jock coveted for several years, tearing big Billy a new one, I was just happy tae be there again, that night out with my dad for a few pints he asked if I was disappointed, well aye with the score I replied but no matter what I was back in Parkheid again.
4 nights later I was back again on one of those magical European nights against 5 times Big Cup finalists Benfica, a full house that night witnessed a rampant Celtic when with only 2 minutes on the clock we were given a free kick over at the jungle close tae the hauf way line, you could feel the sense of anticipation when wee ten thirty slipped the ball tae Big Tam who thundered a right foot shot which left the goalie stranded before it rippled the net, standing in the Celtic end I swear that it looked as if the oul stand was going tae collapse with the jumping up and down.
We were magnificent that night with Wispy and then Harry Harry adding another couple as well as a Big Yogi header being chalked off, the score line flattered the Portuguese, ay ay ay ay we can truly say that night Jimmy Johnstone was better than Eusebio, as he was reported awol, the calvinist game was well forgotten as Paul Simon would later say “gee but its good to be back home”.
I had 6 more wonderful years where I saw the good; the honest NIAR, the bad; San Siro and Feyenoord and the ugly; Atletico Madrid, before returning here 3.5k miles away, but I have NEVER lost my love for the club since my da took me to see them in the jungle over 70 year ago, as they say, “once a Tim always a Tim”, no matter how hard harold steptoe tried tae put us down.
The report doesn’t say if St Johnstone have heard the ‘audio’…..
MADRARUA on 19TH AUGUST 2024 8:42 PM
Spurs fans singing “Grand old team to play for”. Whats that all about ?
*They along with Everton have been singing that for years, can understand why the Toffees do as it was originally a Belfast Celtic song but no idea why a London Jewish side do.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-13758911/Brighton-ready-break-Scottish-transfer-record-land-ORiley-Atalanta-cool-pursuit-midfielder.html?ito=native_share_article-top
Sorry for DM link
Prestonpans bhoys on 19th August
2024 8:52 pm
MadraRua on 19th August 2024 8:42 pm
They were also singing “hello, hello we are the Spurs boys” 🙄
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Thought that might be more to their liking.
Solanke could have scored at least 4 goals in this game.
but thats what happens when you only pay 65 million quid for a striker 😋
a peasant transfer fee!
Tontine Tim on 19th August 2024 9:02 pm.
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I heard ok.
Oops Leicester City just equalised. Spurs should be 5 up
Re the St.Johnstone audiogate-why dont they just ask the fkn ref if he blew his whistle or not!!!
Its not rocket salad.
Re the St.Johnstone audiogate-why dont they just ask the fkn ref if he blew his whistle or not!!!
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because refs are lying cheats?
he will just say “nawwww”!
It our football
Our game
Release the audio(1)
:-)
HH
If the SFA allowed the huns to listen to the audio in last seasons none penalty, then they have no grounds to deny Saints the same privilege
Gok Wan Quick News….
im all for wearing as much green gear as i can.
but i think even i would draw the line at the troosers the sky sports presenter is wearing beside neville and carragher there!
Goodnight all Thanks for being here.
test
MadraRua on @9:18pm.
Tontine Tim on 19th August 2024 9:02 pm.
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I heard ok.
Oops Leicester City just equalised. Spurs should be 5 up
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The Celtic way.
Just like the conveyor belt of sacked Celtic managers playing the “Celtic way” and having a blind spot which allowed Peter Grant into every team lol.
PS, Every manager who played Peter Grant was sacked as a loser, and every manager who chose PG as assistant manager was also sacked as a loser lol.
Only when wily Wim Jansen arrived did Celtic field proper combative midfielders like, Burley, Lambert, and a properly managed big Weeghorst.
First thing wily Wim did – Tell Peter the seemingly always pick lol – that a new type of midfielder was required if Celtic were to stop the Hun 10 in a row, ie: more combative midfielders – or as they`d be called in the Jungle “Players who get fked In” and don`t stand and point at fresh air.
The “Celtic way” is part of a song which should be banned from being played over the tannoy ever again.
A fabled version of what it means to play for Celtic and which style should be adopted.
I`d call it a lazy religiously bigoted song which omits the mention of the best football player to ever play football in the island of Britain – King Kenny Dalglish – who also happened to be a Celtic player, who is disgracefully dismissed from these Celtic View brainwashed and educated Celtic song writers who usually sit just around about were their PLC pals sit. Eye.
Kenny O`Dalglish might have had a song of his own by now from these, Fake Rebel, fakeugee mugged, wimpish, plastic Paddy themed, auld Granny`s Fenian tales by the fireside, jingoistic boreathon beat, Horlicks greatest rival.
plot
lost
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Is it not a orange moon tonight 🟠
The Lisbon Lions will be turning in their graves 🤔..First Southampton and now the mighty Brighton are picking off our best players..at least Crerand, Hay, Macari , Dalglish and Nicholas were poached by big English clubs of comparable size and stature …what does it say about our club nowadays and more importantly the players concerned ?…Filthy lucre indeed
Ordinary Joe
Absolute nonsense about the Willie Maley song.
If you care to check, you will find that the song was written in the early 1980s by an ordinary Celtic supporter and was not bigoted in any way, shape or form.
I can’t remember the man’s name but he wasn’t a youngster and the first time the song was performed was at a Celtic Supporters Association rally in the Kelvin Hall. Might have been the one when Jimmy McGrory was being honoured.
The lyrics were printed in the programme for the evening.
The original version did not include references to the team from Govan or the 7-1 game.
It referred to the empire exhibition cup, the coronation cup and the European cup.
It also did not mention Paul McStay, who was a very young player at the time. The McStay mentioned in the original alongside James McGrory was James McStay.
The line in the original song was “ fourteen years had gone and so, to Portugal we had to go”, as we had the coronation cup in 1953 and 14 years later went to Lisbon.
The verse about the 7-1 game and the change in lyric to ten years was made by Charlie and the Bhoys when they took up the song.
As far as I can recall, it was dropped from being played on the PA system a good number of years ago due to some of the “add ons” so your point about it needing to be “banned” also doesn’t stand up.
Very sad indicator of the demise in the reputation of our unique sleeping giant ( club) 🍀
garygillespieshamstring on @10:58pm
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So you don`t rate King Kenny Dalglish either?
How about Kenny O`Dalglish?
Log in agin
My opinion of Kenny Dalglish is that he was one of the finest players I have had the good fortune to watch in a Celtic jersey.
Can’t speak for the songwriter but I imagine that the reason Kenny Dalglish’s name didn’t feature in the chorus of the song was nothing more sinister than the fact thst Hay rhymes with McStay and Dalglish doesn’t.
Religion has f all to do with it.
garygillespieshamstring on @10:58pm
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So you don`t rate King Kenny Dalglish either?
carpe diem 63 on @10:56pm.
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Small minds lead the club.
Small minds that failed to make their case during the Ibrox EBT scandal which has left Scottish football like a backwater reserve league.
The Rangers EBT scandal was entirely Celtic`s business as well as it was Celtic fans who were the main victims of the cheating scandal.
To take a backseat and let Raith Rovers, Turnbull Hutton [ RIP ] throw all of the punches was a demonstration of how cheap and slippery and weak the PLC board were and are still, throw Celtic fans to the wolves and the PLC are on their game, but who are they playing for?
A CL 8 game test will see BR as usual telling us that “We`ll take the lesson`s on board and learn fom them…blah, blah, blah” but BR has been saying that bs for 8 years now in and out of the Celtic job, in other words, BR is just a PLC deflector.
How long till he tills us he never bought this years projeccts either?
Maybe we need a transfer window were we can get rid of the utterly useless 60,000 nodding PLC dogs and get uppity Tims inside the stadium who`ll refuse to be pissed off and pissed upon by golden pension crooked, propriety chancers on the board?
How long till you all x 60,000 all suck up the new hun version spun as the same club?
Has yesterday’s confirmed attendance been reported?
garygillespieshamstring on @11:20pm
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How many of the dozens if not hundreds of songs have these new all seated era bores written, and how many is King Kenny Dalglish mentioned in?
kevin hughes on 19th August 2024 4:16 pm
If the offer is 28 million
1. The board will accept
2. Brendan will be reluctant but it’s business
3 me the spporter tells Brighton that the second word is off
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If Brighton are happy to pay £40M for a striker who scored 8 goals in 66 appearances for an English second tier team, then surely £50M is a fair price for a midfielder with 19 goals and 18 assists in 49 games, potentially adjusted down to a minimum of £40M to account for the lower standard of the league. However, you could argue that MOR faced much more defensive opposition at Celtic than Rutter did at Leeds, so perhaps this adjustment is unjustified.
Celtic’s prize assets being unfairly devalued once again methinks.
I hope that if Celtic do a deal with Brighton, there is a substantial sell-on clause, such as 50% of any profit on a future sale by Brighton.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c1k380z77pgo
Without Googling it, my sense was that Stuart ‘the hair’ Armstrong Southampton stay was a bit injury blighted?
Sima seems similar and would need a 24-hr protection unit if he came to us.
Also, they say you should never go back; if it’s a powerful middy we want, Tanner Tessman’s highlights reel is an appetite whetter (not a bed-whetter).