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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This Mbappe deal looks bizarre. They obviously need to make it a loan for a year to avoid FFP problems, but what happens if he gets a bad injury?
GIRFUY:
Green
Irish
Republican
Fenian
ULTRA
Youth
TD…
I’ve cracked your code.
You’re a secret Green Brigader. ;))
*realise the Youth bit’s stretching it somewhat. ;)
Iki & RPMCelticman
I’ll pass on your ideas :)
HH
C’mon guys. If you keep this up our acronym is at risk of not being catchy!
Another emergency meeting, vote taken and 90% in favour of renaming.
TPSBBBBHBHDPWS (The Petulant Spoiled Brat Board Bashing Board Hating Boo Hoo Doomsayer Pyjama Wearing Squad).
No more. This could just get silly.
TPSBBHBBBHS( The Petulant Spoiled Brat Board Hating Board Bashing Boo Hoo Squad).
I think it was the pyjama wearing that had them drop off the edge of our bed.
MWD
MWD
St. Stivs
Bjork? Anita Briem perhaps? Theyre the only Icelanders I can think of . But I’d be okay with either
:)
If Celtic sign Odsonne Edouard on loan UEFA rules would forbid PSG stopping him play against Celtic in Champions League. I’m surprised they are allowing it.
JC2 on 31ST AUGUST 2017 3:04 PM
YOUR mate is correct Mushrooms are the food of the devil
They have wee pixies and devils sitting or is that shitting on them
at night time.
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They’re actually an Irish dwarf pop combo…Little Micks. ;)
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Reminds me of a wee Joke.
Couple of guys walking through the forest and they come across a tiny person sitting atop a mushroom with it’s head between it’s legs.
“Are you a goblin?” one of the men asks.
“No.I’ve just got a sore head.”
;)
GLASSTWOTHIRDSFULL
according to BBC, RMC Sport in France are reporting that PSG are abandoning efforts to comply with FFP and making the signing a permanent one.
Rules are there to be broken, apparently.
CULTSBHOY SAYS HAIL HAIL TO HECTOR AND BRENDAN on 31ST AUGUST 2017 3:04 PM
Nice balanced view, in my opinion :-0)
A better centre half to have three first choice players and a young back up would have been great, selling one player from that group probably Sviatchenko, but we have been exceptionally unlucky with injuries in that regard, inside and outside of the club, with the young South African lad having an issue with his foot that we could not have identified pre medical.
No doubt in my opinion we are stronger than this time last year, the players are used to Brendan’s regime, they are fitter and better organised.
Kouassi looks a great prospect, again unlucky to suffer a bad injury early in the season and with Kouassi, Ntcham, Armstrong, McGregor, Rogic, Brown, Bitton and Benyu fighting for three places in midfield we are well served there.
Roberts, or Forrest on the right, Sinclair with Hayes as back up and Griffiths and Dembele the squad looks decent to my eyes. The young Frencj kid is a completely unknown quantity at the moment.
KT double celebration in transfer window
PR7 back and Jayden Stockley to Exeter City
TD67
Sometimes its like Buckingham Palace on CQN, princes, princesses, butler’s, and a right load of toerags as well. And not forgetting all the triple personality disorders:)
HH
Anyone remember around this time last year someone suggested we would have been better off signing Tony Watts ( a proven SPL goal scorer) than wasting money on Dembele !!!!!!
Transfer Window Experts.com
Sack The Board
TD67
I never said i was offended by what you wrote, or maybe you could copy that bit from my post and prove me wrong.
There’s nothing you could do to offend me. Your a pussycat compared to some of the people I’ve dealt with in my life, so don’t flatter yourself.
Iki RPMCelticman
‘Sweet baby james’ :)
SCULLYBHOY on 31ST AUGUST 2017 2:07 PM
‘These are some of the best times in the entire history of Celtic ‘
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Only if you choose to ignore, or are too thick to be aware of, the way Celtic have acted to allow the same club narrative to become established as fact.
I’m afraid for me that casts a shadow over any on the field achievement and makes me wonder what it is we’re supposed to be fans of.
WITS
Tony Watt, dont recall. But i do remember saying that wee Jimmy Krankie would be a better signing that Ciftci:)
I still maintain that:)
HH
So we’re not looking at getting another defender in, but we WERE trying to get Denayer?
Glad that’s been cleared up…..
Wonder what the Rankers fans will call new signing.
Whats odds on Billy ?
Billy Drinkell
Ted Mcminn
Billy John makes sense
Well if you live in 17th century
Odsonne Edouard has passed his medical with Celtic, deal should be finalised shortly.
Robinbhoy
The ‘Are we stronger than last season’ question is the critical one. How much stronger is open to conjecture but we are stronger. I think we can agree that the embedding of the BR regime and philosophy is critical to that. More so than the addition of players. In fact that might be an unseen obstacle. BR will almost certainly have a type of mindset requirement in the players he wants. One that fits with existing team mindset.
My personal belief is that retaining BR is critical. I’d be renewing his contract. Followed by Griffiths.
These are the most important components of future growth imo.
Glass 2/3
Its like the X-Files, Paul 67 says no more business, Chris Davies says we are still trying? What next, The Spanish Inquisition:)
HH
Beware of TGM and other (relative) newbies on CQN that have appeared in the last 6-12 months calling for you to boycott your club.
Until you see them outside the front door doing something proactive they could be anyone.
Motives questionable to say the very least.
HH
Green Man
No it wasnt you that said it about Watts
I agree about Shifty Cifcti
Bateen Bhoy
That would make more sense – certainly from Monaco’s point of view. There’s no point having FFP “rules” if they are not going to be followed. Wonder what some of the other clubs might have to say about it though?
Trad
I havent met The Green Man but I had a drink last Saturday with a CQN’er of long standing who spoke very highly of The Green Man
WITS
OK, what about David Watts, Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa:)
HH
So, who else are we signing:)
Gallagher Cheers mate can you put forward my other tunes for consideration ;)
What is the Stars on 31st August 2017 3:27 pm
All well and good WITS
Still a relative newbie on CQN.
HH
I want to see a photo of a young, tall, french athlete holding a celtic scarf above his head…
and I want it NOW !!!!
Wit aboot that dodgers game last night eh?
Good aftrnoon and Hail hail to everybody who loves Celtic on this blog
Argue with that csc
We, TPSBBBBHBHDPWS (The Petulant Spoiled Brat Board Bashing Board Hating Boo Hoo Doomsayer Pyjama Wearing Squad) would like to ascertain our opinion, it’s just an opinion, that although delighted at our happiness we are slightly saddened at the lack of deadline day transfer activity and supporter expectation management. We believe, in our qualified unqualified opinion based on facts and non facts that we are the rebels and you Celtic United Namby Tim Supporters are just factually pure wrong in your Board backing positivity.
MWD
ERNIE LYNCH on 31ST AUGUST 2017 3:20 PM
Couldn’t agree more
Pedro Delgado
Its all very well coming on here saying you love Celtic but WTF has that got to do with the overthrowing of the Western Pig Dog Capitalist System
Don’t
I said don’t start me on the wpdcs
Ya you ye
Just spotted the Hunco captain Lee Wallace in a Glasgow music shop. He ordered a banjo, a mandolin and a double bass… I overheard him tell the assistant he’s forming a blue grass band..
Anyone else on here recently taken a dislike to the BBC Royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell?
hope the board aren’t dawdling – a team in the spfell have signed declan john