When an unexpected name flies into the frame from left field there’s always a concern about what you’ve written about him before. I still remember the day we signed Kenny Miller, and an earlier blog with my assessment of the player (subsequently found to be on the money). While it’s important to be fair when assessing players, I’m not in the business of trashing them before they kick a ball for Celtic, so Miller’s signing was not a comfortable one.
With this in mind, I typed “Leigh Griffiths” into the articles database to check what had been written. Apart from match reports, there was only one comment, the day after last season’s Scottish Cup Final:
“Leigh Griffiths has had plenty of uncomplimentary discourse written about him this season, most of it deserved, so it should be recorded that he was the first Hibs player to return applause in the direction of Celtic fans yesterday, closely followed by his team-mates.
“This is the way football should be. For too long our game has been poisoned by the unique kind of rivalry you got in Scotland. More of the same, please.”
He unquestionably did deserve the criticism that came his way last year. If he gets his move to Celtic he needs to grow as a person, as well as a player, which is a big challenge. His move towards the Celtic support at Hampden was a modest but necessary first step towards reassessing other people.
Having said this, don’t go ordering your ‘Griffiths’ shirt just yet, I reckon a deal has no more than a 50% chance of happening. Wolves didn’t invite our interest and our need is to be ready by June, not February. Neither club has an imperative to do this deal, which is often an omen for snags to get in the way. Patience required, as you know………
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Cant work out why there’s all this fuss about LG, chances are he’ll be shipped out on loan in the summer as we bring back Tony Watt. Still, gives the bog something to chew over I suppose.
An Tearmann 12:42
‘Leigh Griffiths did not eat my hamster’
No, but he has munched a few Beavers !
timaloy29
Stokes has just recently signed a bumper new contract so he won’t be going anywhere in a hurry. After playing out of his skin and looking in the best shape of his life just beofre he re-signed he seems to have hardly kicked a ball since. Think it’s called John Hartson Syndrome.
Griffiths would be a good addition I think. Stokes misses big chunks of the season through injury. The rest of our current strikers simply don’t score enough goals.
The Moon Bhoys
I would doubt very much that Tony Watt will be seen in the Hoops again. He’s in the transfer window and will be sold in the summer.
Garngad to Croy
12:58 on 28 January, 2014
An Tearmann 12:42
‘Leigh Griffiths did not eat my hamster’
No, but he has munched a few Beavers !
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Yellow card! But funny…!
Club Statement on fixture changes
By: Newsroom Staff on 28 Jan, 2014 12:24
CELTIC Football Club would like to stress its disappointment with the most recent fixture change involving our match against St Johnstone FC.
We apologise to our supporters for this late notice and the inconvenience this will undoubtedly cause, however the matter is outwith our control
We have made a complaint to the SPFL to record our disappointment regarding this issue and going forward we hope this situation can be improved to take greater account of the interests of supporters.
Now THIS really pee’s me off.
When I was stumping up for my season books they could have informed me I was going to be losing 2 Saturday 3 o’clock home fixtures due to Dublin and Turkey trips.
I have no problem with the club doing these trips, I think however, they should have the decency to tell people buying season books they were considering these fixtures.
Bawsman
13:01 on
28 January, 2014
While I agree, I don’t think the Turkey trip was even on the cards at season book renewal time. The decision to have a winter break wasn’t taken until after the season started as far as I’m aware.
Afternoon all. Well it’s another day closer to the “deadline day” (Jim $hite is ina cold sweat already!!) and we have a few other names added to the List.
Of the newbeis the one who interests me is the young Romanian winger/striker Dorin Rotariu of Dinamo Bucharest. A real find but at 18 he’d probably be sitting on the bench and find himself loaned out in the summer so maybe not.
Anyways here’s the latest updates of the List!
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Players in:
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Name Age Position Club Price
—-— ——– —-—–
Fridjonsson – 20 – Striker – Fram Reykjavik – £100K
Johansen – 23 – Midfielder – Stromsgodset – £1.7M
Players out:
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Name Club Price
—-—- —–
George – Hamilton Accies – Loan deal
Rogic – Melbourne Victory – Loan deal
Atajic – Shrewsbury Town – Loan deal
Rumoured transfer in:
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Keepers
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Name Age Club Source Price
—-— —- —— —–
Forde – 33 – Millwall – STV – No fee mentioned (06/12)
McCarthy – 24 – Reading – Talkceltic – No fee mentioned (16/13)
Johnson – 24 – Chicago Fire – Daily Express – No fee mentioned (11/01)
Johnson – 21 – Port Vale – Celticrumours – No fee mentioned (12/01)
Defenders
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Name Age Club Source Price
—-— —- —— —–
Taylor-Sinclair – 22 – Partick – Various – £75K (30/11)
Taylor – 27 – Newcastle – Talkceltic – 6 mths loan (13/12)
Kalas – 20 – Chelsea – Celticrumours – 6 mths loan (05/01)
Kingsley – 19 – Falkirk – The Herald – £500K (10/01)
Capuano – 22 – Pescara – Various – No fee mentioned (14/01)
Williams – 26 – Middlesbrough – Scottish Sun – £1.5M (22/01)
Morrison – 25 – Charlton – Daily mail – No fee mentioned (23/01)
Buttner- 24 – Man Utd – Talkspurt – £1.6M (26/01)
Midfielders
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Name Age Club Source Price
—-— —- —— —–
Armstrong – 21 – Dundee Utd – Various – £500K (01/12)
Gauld – 18 – Dundee Utd – Celticrumours – £500K (01/12)
Guidetti – 21 – Man City – – Talkceltic – Loan until summer (09/12)
Bryson – 27 – Derby County – STV – No fee mentioned (12/12)
Toivonen – 27 – PSV – Talkceltic – No fee mentioned (13/12)
Norwood – 22 – Huddersfield – The Scottish Hun – £3M (17/12)
Eikrem – 23 – Hereenven – Various – No fee mentioned (21/12)
Henrikson – AZ Alkmaar – various – £2M (23/12)
Hassan – 19 – Al Ahly – Various – £2M (24/12)
Tomlin – 24 – Peterborough Utd – Celticrumours – No fee mentioned (03/01)
Mackay-Steven – 22 – Dundee Utd – Various – £1M (03/01)
Berisha – 20 – Red Bull Salzburg – Celticrumours – No fee mentioned (03/01)
Fletcher – 29 – Man Utd – Various – No fee mentioned; possible loan (04/01)
McDonald – 25 – Wolves – Celticrumours – No fee mentioned (04/01)
Hupperts 21 – Roda JC – Talkceltic – No fee mentioned (07/01)
Mane – 19 – Sporting – Scottish Sun – Reported £1M buy-out-clause (09/01)
Firmino – 22 – Hoffenheim – The Times – £4.5M (12/01)
Larsson – 16 – Hodaborks – Celticrumours – No fee mentioned (13/01)
Bryson – 27 – Derby – Radio Snyde – No fee mentioned (16/01)
Tomlin – 25 – Peterborough – Daily Mail – No fee mentioned (23/01)
Golasa – 22 – Maccabi Haifa – Israeli press – No fee mentioned (24/01)
Hupperts – 21 – Roda JC – Dutch press – £1.5M-£2M (28/01)
Iancu – 19 – Steau Bucharest – Romanian press – No fee mentioned (28/01)
Strikers
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Name Age Club Source Price
—-— —- —— —–
Parzyszek – 20 – De Graafschap – Polish press – £800K (30/11)
Vaughan – 25 – Norwich – Daily Mirror – No fee mentioned (03/12)
Ings – 21 – Burnley – The Scottish Hun – £5M (03/12)
May – 21 – St Johnstone – Northern Times – No fee mentioned (07/12)
McCormack – 27 – Leeds – SSB – No fee mentioned (07/12)
McKay – 24 – ICT – Daily Express – No fee mentioned (12/12)
Boyd – 22 – Rapid Wien – Talkspurt – £1M (13/12)
Damari – 24 – Hapoel Tel Aviv – SlySpurtsNews – No fee mentioned (14/12)
Assombalonga – 21 – Talkceltic – No fee mentioned (16/12)
Wells – 23 – Bradford City – Daily Rectum – No fee mentioned (16/12)
Ntep – 21 – Auxerre – Talkceltic – No fee mentioned (16/12)
Finnbogason – 24 – Heerenveen – Herald – £5M (17/12)
Mawuli – 24 – Hapoel Ashkelon – Herald – £750K (17/12)
Johannsson – 23 – AZ – Daily Mail – £4.5M (19/12)
Soriano – 28 – Red Bull Salzburg – Daily Express – £4M (31/12)
Fletcher – 26 – Sunderland – Various – £6M (02/01)
Janko – 30 – Trabzonspor – Various – Player has expressed wish to join (11/01)
Aboubakar – 21 – Lorient – Talkceltic – £3M (13/01)
N’Doye – 28 – Lokomotiv Moscow – Celticrumours – £6M (13/01)
Nikolic – 26 – Videoton – Guardian – £500K (14/01)
Le Fondre – 27 – Reading – Talksport – No fee mentioned (15/01)
Bent – 29 – Aston Villa – Daily Mirror – No fee mentioned (15/01)
Walters – 30 – Stoke – Celticrumours – No fee mentioned (15/01)
Rhodes – 23 – Blackburn – Talkspurt – No fee mentioned (16/01)
Marica – 28 – Getafe – Daily Express – No fee mentioned (16/01)
Kermorgant – 32 – Charlton – Daily mail – No fee mentioned (23/01)
Griffiths – 23 – Wolves – Various – £1M (23/01)
Damari – 24 – Hapoel Tel Aviv – Israeli press – No fee mentioned (24/01)
Kone – 30 – Everton – SlySpurtsNews – No fee mentioned (25/01)
Rotariu – 18 – Dinamo Bucharest – Romanian press – No fee mentioned (28/01)
ShamPOO rumours:
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Name Club Reason
—-—— —–
Yamada – 24 – Jubilo Iwata – After a week long trial Celtic decided against
Pawlowski – 20 – Udinese – Player going to Slask Wroclaw on loan
Snodgrass – 26 – Norwich – Neil Lennon denies interest
Djuricic – 21 – Benfica – Players agent has insisted Djuricic will not be joining us
Rumoured loan out:
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Name Source Club
—-—— —–
Rumoured transfer out:
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Name Source Price
—-—— —–
Foster – Various– £7M to Southampton/Sunderland/Everton/Benfica
Samaras – Various –£2M to Borussia Monchengladbach/Hull/Toronto/Aston villa
Ledley – Various – £1M to Carrdiff
van Djke – Various – £10M to Man City or Arsenal
McGeouch – Various – £250K or loan to Coventry
Bangura – Daily Rankers – Loan move to Falkenberg
McGregor – Express and Star – £750K to Wolves/Derby
Pukki – Celticrumours – West Ham interested
Always please let me know if you’ve heard of anyone that isn’t here.
Laters fholks, aff oot!
HH
/Bishop B
From Nowoldandgrumpy
In this report it says FIFA tell SFA to take action as Sevco took them to court? https://t.co/3XCXPi2REr
The first rule of Thesaurus Club is you don’t talk about, mention, speak of, discuss or chat about Thesaurus Club……;-)
Bawsman
13:01 on 28 January, 2014
Club Statement on fixture changes
By: Newsroom Staff on 28 Jan, 2014 12:24
CELTIC Football Club would like to stress its disappointment with the most recent fixture change involving our match against St Johnstone FC.
We apologise to our supporters for this late notice and the inconvenience this will undoubtedly cause, however the matter is outwith our control
We have made a complaint to the SPFL to record our disappointment regarding this issue and going forward we hope this situation can be improved to take greater account of the interests of supporters.
Now THIS really pee’s me off.
When I was stumping up for my season books they could have informed me I was going to be losing 2 Saturday 3 o’clock home fixtures due to Dublin and Turkey trips.
I have no problem with the club doing these trips, I think however, they should have the decency to tell people buying season books they were considering these fixtures.
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All part of the issue I was discussing on the blog the other day with Auldheid and/or The Battered Bunnet. That is, the lack of good communication between club an supporters.
By signing Griffiths, who has Lennon given up on? Pukki? Balde? Watt? Stokes?
Should be an interesting team selection tomorrow night.
HH.
Hola, long time an all that……still lurking happily until KevJungle comes on line, then i go do something less painful like stick hot needles in my eyes. :-)
Anyway – LG, boy deserves a chance. We all mistakes, the important thing is we learn and try our best not to repeat them.
Honestly – How many of us said and did stupid things between ages 18 – 23? I am 38 and still doing it…..as my wife & kids like to point out.
Also, I would like to acquire one of those high fashion items that are flying off the shelves in Milan – I NEED A CQN BEANIE!!
May your day be blessed.
Hail Hail.
garngad to croy
12:58 on 28 January, 2014
An Tearmann 12:42
‘Leigh Griffiths did not eat my hamster’
No, but he has munched a few Beavers !
———————- WOOFT, helloooooooooooo, lol
joe F
“I have never been jailed for it or even told I could not have my opinion so in my World everyone is entitled to there own ”
The Offensive Behaviour Act would seem not to agree with you but thanks for your correspondence. My original question was an attempt, probably forlorn, to try to make posters think a little before offering any old view and hiding under the ” everyone`s entitled” banner.
Cheerio JJ
Greenpinata
13:07 on 28 January, 2014
Should be an interesting team selection tomorrow night.
HH.
How so?
Greenpinata
13:07 on 28 January, 2014
Should be an interesting team selection tomorrow night.
HH.
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NatKnow – Supporting Wee Oscar
13:09 on
28 January, 2014
How so?
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Because team selection is always interesting;)
HH
Sorry Paul
Our big need is to be ready for June and the upcoming CL Qualifiers.
It is what we do now, or more to the point what we should have been doing earlier in the month, that will determine our readiness for the above Qualifiers.
Wi Lei Chinese market signing, PL no daft por cierto
In relation to Leigh Griffiths i’m torn in a number of directions. I am concerned he’ll make the front pages more than the back, acts like a “daft laddy” but then he scores very good goals from everywhere & has a swagger on the pitch like when he plays he knows he’s good not a bad thing in my book. When assessing his stats he has 31 goals in 66 games for what was a poor Hibs team & Stokes had 22 in 40 which doesn’t instill me with any great optimism.
However when i look at Finnbogason a year older with 43 in 50 in the Dutch league I can clearly see the difference. However is he worth 10x as much? £7m & LG £700k , only time will tell. My heart says that we are doing the usual celtic thing of talking big on spending £6m on a player & then peanuts but Griffiths has proved he can do it in the spl where other “projects” haven’t. You see I’m still torn!!! however if we don’t qualify for group stages of the CL then our signing strategy will have to be reviewed!
Am disappointed for those fans living further away in the UK & those friends of mine in Dublin who are being inconvenienced once again with fixture movement after the Antalya tournament that’s at least 2 home games this season, its money lost on flights, tickets & accommodation again! When will the club realize the inconvenience this causes & stop taking them for granted?
Trad88
I like your style. :)
Greenpinata
13:07 on 28 January, 2014
Should be an interesting team selection tomorrow night.
HH.
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NatKnow – Supporting Wee Oscar
13:09 on
28 January, 2014
How so?
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Because team selection is always interesting;)
HH
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I think as long as Samaras isnt near the team and on his way to West Ham/whoever. He is too often left wandering around aimlessly in games, yes 1 in 8 he playes well or scores but it slows the team down and we have players who deserve a chance. I thought with Stokes out Pukki woul dhave been given his chance on Sunday, did well when came on so hopefully should start.
Any news on Ledley deal? Hope he stays as adds great balance to midfield.
HH
There is another Open fan meeting scheduled for Wednesday 5th February 2014 7pm in the Celtic Club to which all Celtic supporters are invited. We hope to have the answers to the questions which have been sent to Celtic’s CEO Peter Lawwell and these will be reported to the meeting.
Ideal opportunity for all those interested parties to turn up, listen and be heard ….
Regarding the club statement in relation to the fixture changes
Is it just me or are the club just a wee bit hypocritical in moaning about it when at a drop of a hat they cancel games for a wee bit of sun and relaxation in Turkey
Nae apologies to the season tickets holders then
Afternoon Timland from a cooler hun free mountain valley.
Paul67
50% you say, and then go on to tell us it’s June and not now we need players in.
Strange, I thought we wanted to get players in now as to have them bedded in for June.
Are you telling us that maybes we shouldn’t expect anyone in this week ?
HH
Geordie Munro
13:16 on
28 January, 2014
Trad88
I like your style. :)
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:)
“I know he has baggage off the field but we all did. You can manage that. If he comes then he is here for the football and not the controversy.”
My problem with that is that the off-field baggage suggests someone who has a bad attitude. Players with bad attitudes do not make great players. And certainly not great team players.
They move around a lot. They even do well at some clubs – usually smaller clubs where they are the best player and the other players do not feel they have the gravitas to challenge the “best player”. But they never last too long in any one place or with any one manager.
Offer me a good player with a bad attitude or an average player with a good attitude and I know which one I’d take.
Ledley ?
Samaras ?
Why have they not been signed up or let go by now ?
Needs sorted asap
The celtic shirt will get my support no matter if griffiths is in it or not… Just dont feel he will make any real difference to the team and that balde,pukki should bd given a good run before we Gamble on any more cheap buys.
traditionalist88
13:12 on 28 January, 2014
Greenpinata
13:07 on 28 January, 2014
Should be an interesting team selection tomorrow night.
HH.
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NatKnow – Supporting Wee Oscar
13:09 on
28 January, 2014
How so?
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Because team selection is always interesting;)
HH
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:-)
This is true! I just meant why particularly tomorrow. However, I think NB Celt has enlightened me!
Lenny’s signing that collapsed last week?
Ross McCormack…..played for thems but brought up as a big Tim.
THE EXILED TIM-Free the Dam 5 13.23
Would be good to get them in now. But better to get the right players in June than the wrong ones now.
GlassTwoThirdsFull
13:25 on 28 January, 2014
“I know he has baggage off the field but we all did. You can manage that. If he comes then he is here for the football and not the controversy.”
My problem with that is that the off-field baggage suggests someone who has a bad attitude. Players with bad attitudes do not make great players. And certainly not great team players.
They move around a lot. They even do well at some clubs – usually smaller clubs where they are the best player and the other players do not feel they have the gravitas to challenge the “best player”. But they never last too long in any one place or with any one manager.
Offer me a good player with a bad attitude or an average player with a good attitude and I know which one I’d take.
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How do you fancy an average player with a Bad Attitude? :-)
BABaracus CSC
GlassTwoThirdsFull
Did you see Lennons quotes about Griffiths, his work rate and how he never stops and throws his arms in the air when a move breaks down?
Doesn’t sound like someone who has a bad attidude, at least on the pitch.
HH
Natknow :)
embramike supporting wee oscar and res 12
13:18 on 28 January, 2014
There is another Open fan meeting scheduled for Wednesday 5th February 2014 7pm in the Celtic Club to which all Celtic supporters are invited. We hope to have the answers to the questions which have been sent to Celtic’s CEO Peter Lawwell and these will be reported to the meeting.
Ideal opportunity for all those interested parties to turn up, listen and be heard ….
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If you want the GB back.
Jeanette Findlay on the board. Against Nike as a sponsor.
Rase hell with the board.
Oppose any of the above, an yer oot on yer erse.
Proudbhoy, totally agree, Balde & Pukki deserve a run of games, we are 15 points ahead & 2 games in hand. The manager is keen to have an unbeaten record & i see his reasoning but i don’t really care about that tbh. However will we look back in a couple of seasons & wish we had given youth a chance to get 10 games or so under their belt & see which ones will make the grade? At the same time they will be in the shop window if they don’t! We will not get a better opportunity than this as boredom is kicking in, i for one would like to see the team that played Galatasaray & Liverpool get an opportunity.
ryecatcher
13:29 on 28 January, 2014
Lenny’s signing that collapsed last week?
Thought it was Omer Damari