Nir Biton, preparations for the ArenA

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There will have been tired limbs at Lennonxtown when the players resumed full training yesterday after their exertions on Tuesday night but they will still be desperate to take to the field at Firhill on Sunday.  This game is a necessary preparation ahead of the Amsterdam AreanA in 12 days.

We have an advantage for Amsterdam…..

Ajax are nip and tuck with a handful of clubs near the top of the Dutch league.  They have three home games in the league and cup before facing Celtic and the pressure is on to win each of them.  Ajax don’t have the ability to allow players extended recuperation time to ensure they are in pristine condition for Champions League duty, Celtic do.

I would rest everyone we don’t have good cover for.  This is also a game for Nir Biton to start.  The player needs to get back in the saddle as quickly as possible after Tuesday, he is also unlikely to see Champions League group stage action again this season.

After his international and other duties, Charlie Mulgrew would benefit from a rest.  We don’t have sufficient cover for James Forrest and Beram Kayal, so send them away for the weekend.

Use every advantage possible.
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  1. goldstar10

     

     

    11:32 on 27 October, 2013

     

    stringer bell- no matter how you dress it up the players have the club over a barrel. No point in blaming PL or DD.

     

     

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    I know mate. I was being ironic. Numbered in our support are those who blame PL and DD for their car not starting in the morning.

     

     

    I am not in their number, I should add.

  2. pfayr- yes it’s the only tactic we have. But this could mean 2-3 demotivated key players earning 75k a week getting paid for doing nothing, meanwhile we put substandard players or kids in key SPFL or CL games.

     

     

    There is no solution to this, unfortunately.

     

    As I said, we are dealing with individuals who are only interested in themselves.

  3. Dontbrattbakkinanger on

    ‘It’s just the latest installment in Lawell and Desmond’s grand plan to destroy Celtic’

     

     

    they’re busy bhoys, seein’ as they’re also runnin’ roun’ like one legged ninjas unleashin’ their grand plan to destroy the ole zombies.

  4. It’s a well known fact that footballl players will join any team that make the right offer to the selling club. Always.

  5. ....PFayr supports WeeOscar on

    Craigellachie

     

     

     

    Certainly not if the usual policy of trousering transfer fee income was employed

     

     

    Not sure it would have been such a bad thing if the cash was brought in and reinvested …

     

     

    Damn sight better than them walking for free

     

     

     

    IMO I would never sell Sammi …we can’t replace him ….the other two ….

  6. ....PFayr supports WeeOscar on

    Stringer bell

     

     

    Don’t know about my car not starting …but it’s pishing down here ….get it sorted

  7. Teuchter

     

     

    It’s no coincidence that the Celtic board fitted El Glasigo, into the same weekend as El Classico.

     

     

    Firhill for thrills, they’ve never seen a Sammi up there, and wee Pukki will show the CQN mineshafters, his Celticquickfeet and bag a brace.

  8. .

     

     

    The Guy who Changed the World in 1972 so that No Drunk Single Guy need ever go Home Alone again has passed away in Berlin..

     

     

    RIP Kadir Nurman (Inventor of the Donner Kebab)..

     

     

    Summa

  9. Dontbrattbakkinanger on

    PFAyr- we had dead stingy rain a wee while ago, now ole Shangri La baskin’ in blue skies.

     

     

    ‘Peter Lawell Weather’ we cry it down here.

  10. stringer bell

     

     

    11:29 on 27 October, 2013

     

    Selling Ledley for nothing…… It’s just the latest installment in Lawell and Desmond’s grand plan to destroy Celtic.

     

     

    ———————————

     

     

    Are you for real???

  11. Simple fact is that in transferring a player at any point in their contract we have 3 parties, selling club, buying club and the player.

     

    All 3 must agree the deal.

     

     

    This is without exception.

  12. Dontbrattbakkinanger on

    I’d like to see hoopslegend Amido Balde get a game the day

     

     

    I look at wee Amido and I think, well son, if you can get a game for the ole Celts then so can I.

  13. Two changes from Tuesday with James Forrest and Charlie Mulgrew out and Scott Brown and Joe Ledley in. Come on the Celts!

  14. Dontbrattbakkinanger on

    BSR- that’s a strong line up to face the ole Magyars of Maryhill.

     

     

    Celts to prevail by the approved 5-0.

  15. ....PFayr supports WeeOscar on

    BSR

     

     

    Very strong team

     

     

    Lustig seems to vacillate between mortal injury and fitness daily

  16. Funny I remember guys saying we shouldn’t have sold Hooper, we should have got another bit out of him even if it meant he could run down his contract. All Clubs face the same dilemma, overall Celtic have not done badly. We have picked up our fair share of freebies, Ledley included and the amount of players who we really wanted to keep and who walked for free is quite small. Please don’t anyone include Henrik in that list, when Henrik signed his last contract with us it was on the understanding that it was his last and he would leave for free when his contract expired.

  17. Just seen Michael Fish on Sky News.

     

     

    Remember him?

     

     

    Nothing to worry about!

     

     

    Storm?! What storm?!

     

     

    Batten doon the hatches!

     

     

    Cmon the Hoops!

     

     

    HH!!

  18. I see some posters are behaving like hysterical women over a MSM made up story. Quelle surprise.

     

     

    Don’t get me wrong I love women, in fact they are my second favourite type of human being after Barmen :-), but this is an over the top reaction to something which has not happened yet, may not happen at all and if it does happen we will never know all the facts surrounding the event.

     

     

    The MSM will of course place Celtic in the role of baddie and many on here will lap it up and then go on to portray everyone else as board apologists who are somehow not intelligent enough to understand things the way our more intelligent posters do.

  19. tommytwiststommyturns supporting Wee Oscar on

    Unless Fisher is injured, what is the point of playing Lustig?!

     

    Poor conditions and we shouldn’t be taking daft chances with injuries….the Ajax and Milan games are massive.

     

     

    T4

  20. Selling Ledley for nothing……

     

    …… is still cheaper than buying a whyte elephant for a pound.

     

    ;o)