With four years left on Matt O’Riley’s contract, Celtic can afford to reject any offer which falls below their valuation. Atalanta’s reported bid of around £14.5m was not expected to be accepted. The Italian club know that Celtic can afford to wait until late in the window in the hope of attracting others to the table, before they need to seriously consider selling. £14.5m was just an opener – we all know how the game works for players in demand.
Atalanta’s highest spend on a player is £25m (€29m). That matches what Atletico Madrid were prepared to bid for Matt in January, which has established a value for the player.
There is every chance he will move this summer, but Celtic’s aspirations and Atalanta’s ceiling means he might not see a lot of Bergamo in the season ahead. In the meantime, let’s hope we get to keep the player for another year at least.
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6.24 one racist many monikers
Well done to the Bhoys
HH
Good morning all from Govanhill. Well done the Celtic. 👏
Shipbank Shipwrecks meeting this Friday at the Old Ship Bank, 12pm onwards.
No again!?
AN TEARMANN on 24TH JULY 2024 5:16 AM
Highlights
https://youtu.be/qfcyTnt8yp8?si=BWsX4cV8DrOmuq-T
Thanks for that, AT……and if anyone is in any doubt, the winner was definitely NOT offside.
“BBC:
Premier League champions Man City lose 4-3 to Scottish champions Celtic in North Carolina, US.
Ortega, Grealish & Phillips start; Haaland named captain and scores”
Celtic were simply there to make up the numbers.
Cheerio for now.
AN TEARMANN on 24TH JULY 2024 5:16 AM
Thanks. Looking sharp.
Brendan after the game:
“Well I had a long meeting with Michael and Chris today, so we know the targets we want to bring in.
“There’s still a long way to go in the window. I think my concentration is that we know what we want to do, we know the priority positions that we want to improve.
“Whilst the club gets on with that, myself and the coaches are really focused on the improvement of this team.
“So at some point before the end of August, I would expect us to have the players we want in.
“I’ll make it clear to the Celtic supporters, we know we want to improve the squad and by the end of the window shuts, I expect us to be that.”
Congratulations to Celtic on a great performance last night. Four excellent goals and fast, exciting football. Hopefully this is how we’ll approach games this season. Last season’s build up in games was often laboured and tedious. Brendan looks to be addressing that. Now let’s get in the players he needs so that we are ready for the Big Kick-Off next week.
As others have mentioned WHAT a BRILLIANT Pass from Nicolas Kuhn played in front of Kyogo for Celtics third Goal.
Wee NICO played it with the OUTSIDE of his foot…..with great style and vision……PURE FITBA from Celtic.
Magic.
HH.
Its easy to forget (is it?) how strongly we finished last season with the same group of players who will most likely start the season.
We look even sharper in preseason.
Brendan seems relaxed about the amount of time we have left to find the “the priority positions that we want to improve”
So winning team, playing well, plenty of time to bring in improvements in priority positions.
Good times
Vinniethedog earlier re composition of the crowd last night – yip.
Strange one.
Any visuals of Celtic fans were close ups but they were the louder by far throughout the game.
I wonder if the marketing towards Man City was deliberate.
Also (not kidding here) empty light blue seats matched City strips almost perfectly.
Would be interested in the attendance.
50,500 capacity so perhaps 30,000?
Place looked a fair bit less than half full at kick off.
About 10 minutes into the game though a wide shot then showed the stand the camera was in and it looked almost full.
As for the game – enjoyable jaunt but am personally not reading too much into it.
In relative terms our starting 11 much stronger than theirs.
(It evened up as the benches emptied)
Fitness and sharpness the watchwords.
PS – good pitch last night.
Some encouraging signs that Brendan and his staff are going to get the best out of our players from the start of the season something we were not doing for a spell late last year. All the more reason for the Board to give our Manager the support he both needs and wants to take the team forward in the season ahead.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_League_Soccer_attendance
https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/college-football-attendance-rose-in-2022-with-largest-year-over-year-increase-since-1982/
Re Brendan’s comments ….
“long meeting”
Guy seems relaxed.
Maybe he knows more than we do (maybe not).
He knows more than I do
(probably about a lot of things)
BACK TO BASICS – GLASS HALF FULL on 24TH JULY 2024 11:24 AM
ta for that, quite interesting.
who knew that atlanta is such a hotbed for football.
i was a wee bit suprised with attendnaces at both our games, i really did think city would be a bigger draw to the casual fans.
lots of good stuff from us,
Greg Taylor, the 26-year-old Scotland left-back, admits his Celtic future is up in the air after contract talks stalled. (Daily Record), external
Celtic and Benfica have agreed a £3.5m transfer fee for Paulo Bernardo to return to the Scottish champions after last season’s loan deal and the 22-year-old midfielder will have a medical in the coming days. (TeamTalk), external
Roma have entered the race for 23-year-old Celtic-linked Royal Antwerp winger Michel-Ange Balikwisha. (Corriere della Sera via Daily Record), external
Having had a £2.1m bid rejected for 21-year-old Celtic-linked midfielder Jakub Kaluzinski, Real Valladolid are set to up their offer, with Antalyaspor holding out for £3.4m. (SporX), external
Brondby director of football Carsten V Jensen has admitted the club could sell 22-year-old Celtic-linked forward Mathias Kvistgaarden this summer. (Daily Record), external
Venezia midfielder Tanner Tessmann is in no rush to make a decision about his future, with Celtic among clubs reportedly interested in the 22-year-old. (Gazzetta dello Sport via Daily Record)
new article posted.
https://wikifoundryimages.s3.amazonaws.com/89b066c47d58e9ea084322b230a1914e
Who is that Bhoy?
Shocking treatment of Greg Taylor.His wage expectations will not be excessive.If we can buy a better LB,well,we have made plenty of attempts,all ending in failure,I won’t hold my breath.If he goes,we then need two.If we can’t find one after4 years,good luck finding two.Even finding one who is better,still a great back up.
Baffling.