Can we step back for a moment and look at Brendan Rodgers considerations for Odsonne Eduard this season? In May, Peter Lawwell is going to ask the manager if he wants to pay PSG €10m to make his transfer permanent.
To answer that question Brendan will need to a firm view on how Odsonne compares to other candidates, with similar profiles to him and Olivier Ntcham. They will all be a risk, but the manager needs to strengthen his team, so he must give himself the best possible information before committing.
One of the benefits of playing in Scotland is that we can afford to give a young talent an extended run in the team without affecting our title chances. We can make changes which will have a negative impact on short-term performances, but will improve our long-term prospects.
There is another side of the player acquisition equation to consider. Brendan had to convince Odsonne and Olivier that Celtic was the right club for them. To do this, he pointed to Moussa Dembele, who was given his chance. What young players attached to tier-one wealthy clubs want more than anything else (apart from money) is a game time.
Whether Odsonne makes it at Celtic or not, you can be sure Brendan will point to the opportunities he has to make an impression when he speaks to other targets.
Over the last 48 hours our lead at the top of the table went from 8 to 11 points, while giving a young player time on the field. Leigh and Moussa know the script and are happy to concentrate on their own game, while allowing the manager to worry about youth development.
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Things used to be simple on here
Sell Griff and Moussa and buy
Alfred Fingbasson
A few on here “guaranteed” he would get us CL football
VFR800 IS NOW A MONSTER 821 on 25TH JANUARY 2018 4:05 PM
Looking at the past 5 results when we have hit the slump again, we have collected 13 points from 15. Our 2 closest rivals have collected 7 each. So our lead has increased by 6 points recently. Not a bad situation for a team that is seemingly going backwards!
KTF
I know what aload of p*ss & sh*te the media spout off about our beloved club
they try to always paint a picture that we are in a mess all the time & their
beloved club Dodgy & Skint FC are in fine fetal says the gob sh*tes &
cobblers what a shower of pussies & drama queens
KTF & Have faith all in Brendan & Our Club everything will work out fine.
Hail Hail All & COYBIG Laters Folks
GENE on 25TH JANUARY 2018 4:40 PM
TTT
Quite right 364 days a year is not enough
****
There’s not many other days.
Christmas Day is a closed say too!
Some of the best times I had in a pub were on Good Friday’s! : > )
* not THAT many
thomthethim
just chap the door
WHITEDOGHUNCH on 25TH JANUARY 2018 4:56 PM
thomthethim
just chap the door
***
Oh, you’ve been here ,then!
Obaf 0- 1 Rebels :)
Going with Transfer window in January, Celtic haven’t done much business,in that window,and to be honest,I don’t think that will change,it’s all Spin.when you listen to Brendan,and his assistant.
JC2 on 25TH JANUARY 2018 4:43 PM
Things used to be simple on here
Sell Griff and Moussa and buy
Alfred Fingbasson
A few on here “guaranteed” he would get us CL football
Na JC2 keep Leah-G & extend his contract with a wage rise
sell Moussa if the right offer comes in @ 30 Million + from
Sly TV Money Rolled Engurland (EPL) after all they can afford
to dish out 75 Million for VVD with the lucrative payments.
As for CL Footy change our Season’s too start @ the beginning
of March each year & finish before Christmas by doing it this
way we have over a two month break if we don’t see European
Footy beyond Christmas & we are much better prepared to
face teams with some of them with names you have never heard of
which are half way through there Season come July & are better
prepared than us @ that particular time & it would be batter as
a whole for not just us but also the rest of the Teams in the SPFL &
also Scotland’s coefficient record in Europe as well it’s a no brainer
Also it knocks out January weather wise is a Baltic month here in
the west coast of Scotland yeah Mr Frost/Snow/Gail Force Winds
& Heavy Rain also we don’t get proper Summers here anymore
just mainly mild shite storm weather Summers put it this way an
odd good day here & there does not make up a Summer just like
the cliche one or two swallows (wee birds in the sky) do not make
up a Summer & if anyone wants a nice wee two weeks break from
it all then I would suggest that one should book a holiday for say
in February & rifle over the Costa Adecky in Tenerife in February
where one will get good all inclusive holiday deals via On The Beach
website which is becoming a more wider choice & good & fair price
deals put it this way what one would expect to pay for when going
abroad nowadays which all makes sense & please everyone
thomthethim
for some reason it came up over a pint with my pal watching the thistle game on Tue
and aye but it has been a while
Can you coach composure into a player?
If Odsonne had shown more composure on Tuesday he could have had 1 goal and 2 assists.
He went for goal instead of slipping the ball to Sinclair, Forest or McGregor who were all better placed to score.
With his back heel on goal he had an option to pass to Ajer who was to his right, had lost his man and was 3 yds from & facing goal.
Odsonne is energetic, mobile & always wants the ball – but he needs to develop the awareness & composure that seemed to be missing against Thistle.
HH
Latest bid for tickets £250.
It’s turning into a good day for Celtic supporters in Ireland.
A good Friday drink….if required
OBAF repealed.
You can add in the Mousse staying, if you like.
WDH,
Strange topic for a Thistle v Celtic game.
A couple of years ago, my Surrey based brother arranged a meet up in Glasgow.
We factored in a Saturday home game and booked respective flights accordingly.
Getting turfed out of the CL meant our Saturday game was rearranged for the Sunday, meaning a revised flights and an extra day in Glasgow.
To fill in on the Saturday, we took the opportunity to vist our parents’ grave in St. Kentigerns’ and decided to go to the THistle v M’well game at Firhill.
Queen’s Cross is not the most salubrious area for pubs and we didn’t want to move too far from the ground.
We had a pint inone pub and headed to the ground.
There were two lads standing at the Club entrance and we approached them to ask where we could get a decent pint.
Picture Jack and Victor from Still Game.
The doormen led us to their memebers club where we were made very welcome and in the park, we had a great chat with one of ther ST holders, who gave us a running commentry on the Jags’ players.
All in all, a lovely day out.
What that has to do with anything, I don’t know, but it passed the time till my dinner’s ready.
Having the traditional Scottish Burns Supper.
Chicken Curry.
Wha’ likes us, or something like that!! : > )
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JOHN51 on 25TH JANUARY 2018 5:31 PM
Can you coach composure into a player?
If Odsonne had shown more composure on Tuesday he could have had 1 goal and 2 assists.
He went for goal instead of slipping the ball to Sinclair, Forest or McGregor who were all better placed to score.
With his back heel on goal he had an option to pass to Ajer who was to his right, had lost his man and was 3 yds from & facing goal.
Odsonne is energetic, mobile & always wants the ball – but he needs to develop the awareness & composure that seemed to be missing against Thistle.
HH
You are right John-51 the young PSG Loanee needs to work on his correct decision making &
also bear in mind footy is also a Team Game not Individual & if PSG are looking for 9 Million
from Us for the young who needs attention to detail & a work in progress then they need to
take a reality check
Good news on the OBaF Act – well done to those who voted to repeal.
Now goes to Committee Stage…
NATKNOW on 25TH JANUARY 2018 5:41 PM
Good news on the OBaF Act – well done to those who voted to repeal.
Now goes to Committee Stage…
Good & Common Sense that OBA Bill should never have been passed
in the first place what a load of cobblers & waste of taxpayers money
I certainly did went onto the petition website & voted against said silly
bill which should be scrapped & end of said matter once & for all
A big thanks to HT and all those who worked so courageously to have the OBaF Act overturned. Yes, it is only round one but a good start.
I haven’t paid much attention to the orcs result or the reaction to it. I figured any result would be good for us. Take the hatred factor out of it and the win for them was the best result for us.
I wonder if that has dawned on them?
These little periods of good results and the hope it gives them is brilliant. They’ll be thinking they can win the cup and put in a challenge next season. The former is feasible but unlikely. The latter is a pipe dream.
I’m reminded in this window of Tony mowbrays jamuary window. We looked like we’d done great business. And to some extent we had. Turns out though that securing the services of a number of players who look like an improvement might just not be all it’s cracked up to be.
Anyhoo the dons still need a good boot in the tender parts for once more meekly surrendering to an Ibrox club. Their rivalry and hatred of the appears to be a bit of a myth born in the mid 80’s. Both Ibrox clubs have had the Indian sign on the sheep since then.
I see that a few days after Zenit destroyed Colenhagen, they have done the same to Slavia Prague (5-1). Couple that with the fact that our play post-Dubai does not look much different from pre-Dubai, and I start to get an uneasy feeling that we may be in for another European humiliation.
Anybody think we look any different since the break? Pre Dubai, we couldn’t take a decent corner or direct free kick, and seem paralyzed when we have a throw in. Post Dubai, we have had one decent corner from McGregor, who promptly put the next one into touch. Sinclair either couldn’t beat the first man or placed it into the goalie’s hands. As soon as Griffiths came on, he assumed responsibility, and also failed to put in an effective corner.
Free kicks are a joke. We had three players in a row balloon the ball into Row Z against Brechin. I just watched a clip of Beckham ( how old is he?) coaching young American kids, and effortlessly clipping one free kick after another into either postage stamp, time after time. It is pretty obvious that no Celtic player practices this since Nada left. Griffiths has scored 3, and 2 belters for Scotland, but our production from direct free kicks is negligible.
Throw ins are still farcical. No one except Tierney is allowed to take them on the left, even when a quick throw is on. Then Keenan is left hopelessly waiting for the first Subbuteo man to move, usually after the crowd gets restless.
All basic stuff, leaving me wondering what was worked on in Dubai?
I also get the sense that expectations re the transfer window (whether justified or not) are being managed by articles such as ‘right deal or no deal.’ This is exacerbated by the historical fact that Celtic never seem to strengthen from a position of dominance. We sell Virgil and bring in………..Cifti. The thought that a Club like Celtic cannot bring 1 or 2 players directly into the team to strengthen it is simply ludicrous. Teams at all levels all up and down the land are doing it. Financial jiggery-pokery or no, Sevco are now much stronger than they were, and Murty will face us in Govan in March with a team with more ability than the those he managed to two draws at Celtic Park.
Of more concern is the repeated lack of planning. We missed out on Coetzee because we left it to the last minute, and had no Plan B when he failed a medical. We are now in the last few days of the window. What’s to stop that happening again? Where is the planning for the CL qualifiers? Gambling that we can eke our way through 4 rounds to reach the Group Stage with our present resources is unfathomable. It is simply not going to happen.
We may still pull 2 rabbits out the hat by the end of the month, but cynicism is gaining the upper hand. I really hope I am wrong.
Iniquizitiv
Feel better?
Keenan= Kieran. Doh!,,,
ROBERTTRESSELL
I think the enmity between the two began with this game in 85/86
Serious kicking match.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=axcdOAigTo8
BSR
A little. Thanks for asking!
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Thank you CQN!
How low before SMSM invent the amount of the rejected Moussa bid?
Iniquitousive
“We want to strengthen that’s pretty clear, but qulity is important, you know I could have brought in 15 players by now but what I’m after is quality. Genuine quality that is going to help us, not just domestically but it in our European ventures this season and beyond that.
So the club is working very hard to look at the targets we want to bring in and hopefully we can do that between now and the end of the window”.
Brendan Rodgers
Rainjurz at the Movies?
Live and let your club die
TONTINE TIM @ 4:15 PM,
Yes, it’s interesting the way Mike Ashley was “pro-actively” treated.
Then when he made an official request to the SFA for permission to increase his (agreed) stake in Sevco, it was rejected. There was then further action taken against him in regard to his influence on the Club… he was subsequently fined and censured.
Leaving the way for an unlawful bid by RRMen to take over the Club, some if whom, apart from mounting the said unlawful bid should have (by the SFA rules) been barred from holding Office at the Club anyways.
Great news on the OBaF, well done to all who pushed for this, onwards and upwards.
Seems whatever en-passe there was between The Management, Moussa and his agent, it has been resolved. The statement by Brendan seemed measured and “agreed”, great news.
Guess outwith a decent bid…
Moussa Stays! Moussa Plays!
Hail Hail
Hail Hail
BOURNESOUPRECIPE
Things to do in debtor’s court when yer deid.
BORNESOUPRECIPE
I watched that interview too. I have no doubt Brendan is sincere, but we have heard this before from Celtic. Did Hayes meet this definition of ‘quality?’ Did Gambia? Did Kouassi? If the latter did, and we paid over 2M for him, why loan him out? Why not pay a bit more for someone who will go directly into the first team? Strategy is Inexplicable.
INIQUITOUSIV @ 5:53 PM,
Interesting observations, like you, I think Zenit must be huge favourites for the Europa match…
“Anybody think we look any different since the break?”
I think our pre-break schedule took its toll, we sometimes looked tired and lethargic during games.
At Firhill, I thought we finished a hard game looking much sharper and fitter than I’ve seen in a while… hope it carries on Saturday…
Hail Hail
Gambia= Gamboa. Predictive text delay.
Listening to Radio Clyde tonight they have spent every minute of the 20 they have been on air in utter glowing lavish praise about this new rangers team.Pundits and callers alike.I dont think i have ever heard such gushing praise and comprehensive coverage of it……Sounds like they are 11 points clear not 11 points behind.Even in those dark days of the early 1990s I do not seem to recall being that interested in the importance of being in second place .If we went 11 points behind we were getting pelters from everyone including our own fans.
I am utterly stunned at how easily they are ignoring all the facts.
great news about the act.
for all those involved in keeping up the good fight HT and others a big well done , this may only be the beginning of a long fight , but every fight has a round one.
Perhaps round two will be the knock out
HH
INIQUITOUSIV on 25TH JANUARY 2018 5:53 PM
I see that a few days after Zenit destroyed Colenhagen, they have done the same to Slavia Prague (5-1). Couple that with the fact that our play post-Dubai does not look much different from pre-Dubai, and I start to get an uneasy feeling that we may be in for another European humiliation.
Anybody think we look any different since the break? Pre Dubai, we couldn’t take a decent corner or direct free kick, and seem paralyzed when we have a throw in. Post Dubai, we have had one decent corner from McGregor, who promptly put the next one into touch. Sinclair either couldn’t beat the first man or placed it into the goalie’s hands. As soon as Griffiths came on, he assumed responsibility, and also failed to put in an effective corner.
Free kicks are a joke. We had three players in a row balloon the ball into Row Z against Brechin. I just watched a clip of Beckham ( how old is he?) coaching young American kids, and effortlessly clipping one free kick after another into either postage stamp, time after time. It is pretty obvious that no Celtic player practices this since Nada left. Griffiths has scored 3, and 2 belters for Scotland, but our production from direct free kicks is negligible.
Throw ins are still farcical. No one except Tierney is allowed to take them on the left, even when a quick throw is on. Then Keenan is left hopelessly waiting for the first Subbuteo man to move, usually after the crowd gets restless.
All basic stuff, leaving me wondering what was worked on in Dubai?
I also get the sense that expectations re the transfer window (whether justified or not) are being managed by articles such as ‘right deal or no deal.’ This is exacerbated by the historical fact that Celtic never seem to strengthen from a position of dominance. We sell Virgil and bring in………..Cifti. The thought that a Club like Celtic cannot bring 1 or 2 players directly into the team to strengthen it is simply ludicrous. Teams at all levels all up and down the land are doing it. Financial jiggery-pokery or no, Sevco are now much stronger than they were, and Murty will face us in Govan in March with a team with more ability than the those he managed to two draws at Celtic Park.
Of more concern is the repeated lack of planning. We missed out on Coetzee because we left it to the last minute, and had no Plan B when he failed a medical. We are now in the last few days of the window. What’s to stop that happening again? Where is the planning for the CL qualifiers? Gambling that we can eke our way through 4 rounds to reach the Group Stage with our present resources is unfathomable. It is simply not going to happen.
We may still pull 2 rabbits out the hat by the end of the month, but cynicism is gaining the upper hand. I really hope I am wrong.
Inquitousiv, I know Nagging Doubt can contagious,
You are right we need to work on our set pieces @ free kicks we should mix it like laying the
ball away from the defensive wall & having a go @ goal by either opening up ones body
before striking the ball or getting ones body over the ball @ impact instead of leaning back
& hitting row ‘Z’ up & down free kicks require a special technique yes Beckham could do it
so could wee Lubo & Naka nowadays Messy & Ronaldo & sometimes Wee Lee-G can
produce a peach the rest well watch out Row-‘Z’ incoming football as for your take on
our throw-ins, yes you are also right they are also a joke players should make themselves
available instead of standing around like Lamps (Lamp Shades) as for your take on Dodgy
& Skint FC bringing in all those wonder signings na I don’t think all these Loanees & a big
Signing from Hamilton will make them a force to be recon with we will see how many
games they go without losing another match as for panic buying players take time to
settle into footy teams not unless they are Class there is no point throwing money @
fud’s & duds that are not going to improve matters & are also another wage bill headache
& remember this wise cliche apart from the exception the main stream of Footy Players
Nowadays are Stars who like to think they are great football players when in-fact most of
them are overpaid average players were as back in the day for example the 60’s & 70’s
now they were proper football players who a lot of them had skill & where good to very
good players who where proper football players trying to be Stars I’ll leave that true
& a fact mindset with you HH
Cosy Corner Bhoy on 25th January 2018 6:01 pm
Agree 100%
HH
We wont look like ourselves until Roberts, Rogic and Armstrong are fit, to give us the options of working the opposition to a standstill.
Our style only works if they move the ball and themselves with pace.