Celtic’s objective for today is to add a striker, who is happy to take his chances at Celtic behind Leigh Griffiths and Moussa Dembele. The target (as you will know) is 19-year-old France youth international Odsonne Edouard.
We have agreed a loan with Celtic having the option to buy for an eight-figure sum. There remains a complication between player and current club, Paris Saint-Germain, which all parties are hoping will resolve, but this one has the potential to go to the wire.
Odsonne is regarded by manager, scouts and coaches at Celtic as an absolute star. He made four starts for Toulouse in Ligue 1 last season before off-field matters got in the way (which I’ll not trivialise, but we’ll deal with at a later date). He is a player who needs to leave Paris for new influences in a fresh environment. The move to Celtic could be the break he needs.
The initial loan period gives the player a chance to resolve any legacy issues before Celtic commit to breaking transfer records.
The manager has been impressed by Odsonne’s attitude thus far. He knows he would be the junior party in a three-man attacking roster, and that his objectives for the season is to press those above him.
In the coming weeks, our fit 19-year-old central defender will be joined by three more-senior team-mates. Competing with Kristoffer Ajer for fourth spot is only likely to be attractive to another teenage prodigy. I don’t expect movement on this front.
At this stage of the window, the chances of anyone near the first team being allowed to leave are reducing, but there are a lot of worried teams with >£100m of TV money out there. Enough to fund transfer fees and provide wages to unsettle the most faithful of stalwarts.
There will be calls made, you can be sure of that. I know some people at Celtic Park who will be happy people after 23:00 tonight, when the window in England closes, without any of our players being unsettled.
Enjoy your day, let’s hope Odsonne’s details are sorted and no one waves £50k per week-type money before our players.
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Great things we got from France
Liberte
egalite
Dembele
Odsonne
Balde
Agathe
Mahe
Fortune
Maigret
Isabelle Adjani
Simone Signoret
Claude Monet
Thierry Henry
Jean-Claude Killy
Jules Verne
August escoffier
Claude Monet
Georges Bizet
Jean-Paul Gaultier
Nicolas Sarkozy
and………..Stephane Bonnes
My Mac does not do accents because of a wonky e key csc
Paul le Guen
SETTINGFREETHEBEARS
No Bardot?
Zut alors or ffs…
Neither Le Guen or Bardot ends with an e acute, eh?
MIT.
Gosh yesterday TGM was a pussy, today you will now call him flower.
Both are names used for female parts of the body.
I dread to think what you will call him tomorrow:-))
That deletion must be on its way. :-))
Hail Hail
SFTB … no Audrey Tatou? for shame! and yet you include that cheat, Thierry Henry?! double shame!
:)
At a stretch you can have Catherine De Neuve eh
SFTB
You forgot Free Speech, and legal provision for Insurrection:)
HH
MIT
You’ld have to call her Tatou Audrey to fit
SFTB
What about
MMe Cotillard
Edith Piaf
Bridgitte Bardot
Jeanne Moreau
Catherine Deneuve
AND OF COURSE
JEAN CLAUDE VAN DAMME)))))))
JNP … just spat my drink out!!!!! :)
SFTB … how could I forget Ms. Deneuve! And here was me shaming you! mea culpa!
WITS
Did nobody spot the e acute name endingss?
Otherwise the Stephanne Bonnes punch line doesn’t work :-)
P.S. Is Odsonne pronounced with an e acute ending?
Geordie,
Nice to see you agreeing with Italiabhoy when he said:
” But let’s make that criticism constructive and grounded in the realms of reality?”
Are you advocating that CQN becomes a much quieter place?
JJ
L’Audace encore L’Audace et Toujours L’Audace
SFTB.
Paul Cezanne, he has one on his surname ( I think ) LOL
Hail Hail
TGM
” You forgot Free Speech, and legal provision for Insurrection:) ”
They don’t fit the pronunciation theme.
Is Odsonne a big squirrel wearing Scooby Doo pyjamas?
Pepe le pew.
SFTB
I thought I had done so but Henry and Verne threw me.
JJ
SFTB
I dont care…..
I just wanted to list off some elegant french beauties of days gone by
https://twitter.com/LilDice_7/status/903337380307980290?s=08
Hunskelper Lustig scores for Sweden ….but don’t forget his legs have gone…
BMCUWP,
In 67 and their favourite Police song just came on: Sending Out an OSS -:)))
WITS
But shortly afterwards he completely lost his head.
SFTB
Ok, can i throw in Jacques Roux, Claire Lacombe, and Theophile Leclerc?:)
HH
van damme is a belgian anderlecht supporter
Done Deal
SFTB
I think our own Green Man might be the reincarnation of Danton
Vive La Auld Alliance
WHAT IS THE STARS on 31ST AUGUST 2017 8:45 PM
SFTB
I dont care…..
I just wanted to list off some elegant french beauties of days gone by
********
Jean Claude Van Damme?!
Leaving aside the fact that I think he is from Belgium, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, I guess
SETTING FREE THE BEARS FOR RES. 12 & OSCAR KNOX on 31ST AUGUST 2017 8:34 PM
Great things we got from France
_________________
Excusez-moi mais ou sont Juliette Binoche et Catherine Deneuve? Sacre bleu!!
Mike
I was wondering how long it would take for Jean Claude to be outed as neither French nor Female
However
He sounds gallic
are we just saying anything french now ………
la petit merde
Bada,
I’m good big yin. Hope you are fine and dandy too.
It’s getting all continental on here tonight. I’m blaming you for starting it :)
HH
CALTONTONGUES
On form tonight,bud.
Say hi to J. Hope to see you both at some stage on 11/11
If we don’t buy a Frenchman now- I’ll have wasted a lot of effort.
Try thinking of 3 famous Latvians, Guatemalans, or Papua New Guineans?
WITS
More of an ‘enrage’ than an ‘indulgent’:)
HH
Thetimreaper 8.47.
Nice one :-)
Right Kev do you have a pair of those pyjamas? :-))
Hail Hail
WITS…. who am I to judge? Apparently, according to JNP, I have a man crush on TGM …
not that there’s anything wrong with that!
:)
JerrySeinfeldCSC
What’s holding up the Odsonne Edouard announcement? He supposedly passed his medical this afternoon.