Transfer window business is seldom completed in May, so anticipation based on Neil Lennon’s post-match comments about having bid £3m for a player should be tempered. We have a long close-season ahead, so I’ll avoid giving a name-check to the teenage midfielder Neil watched on international duty in February and who is being touted as a target today.
The most obvious question emerging from this story is why another central midfielder? Celtic have Wanyama, Ki, Brown, Ledley and Kayal all battling for places there, but it’s Kris Commons who is a rare entity. Kris is able to create goals at a rate none of the rest can. He’s also had a disappointing season, much of which was spent watching the action from the side-lines.
The problem for Celtic in central-mid is balance. When Kris Commons is injured, off-form, or playing in a wide position, we’re short of creativity in the middle. For the record, creativity doesn’t mean someone who can turn in a tight space or dribble, Charlie Mulgrew was our most creative player last season (as it now is). This strong area of the squad needs rebalanced.
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ernie lynch on 14 May, 2012 at 21:11 said:
Big Nan on 14 May, 2012 at 21:06 said:
Murray park is a leasehold title.
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Thanks. How long is the lease for?
The Long Leases Bill (Scotland), which comes into force this year gives leasees the property title if leases are over 100 years.
kikinthenakas on 14 May, 2012 at 17:10 said:
See Mr Jones in the Sutton/Hartson role. Would be a good buy IMO, if we could afford his salary
HH
CRC
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Anyone got a ‘who we should support really’ for the Sheffield United-Stevenage game? Jinky with the former, the latter in blue – will that do?
The player we bid 3m for has signed for hamburg. On cu twitter.
celticrollercoaster says In Neil we trust on 14 May, 2012 at 21:16 said:
kikinthenakas on 14 May, 2012 at 17:10 said:
See Mr Jones in the Sutton/Hartson role. Would be a good buy IMO, if we could afford his salary
HH
CRC
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Agree mate, would take Jones in a heartbeat!!!
HH
ernie lynch
there was some further info re Murray Park and title thereto posted recently
aparently Huns own MP but there is a standard security over it ifo Kelvinside Academy Trust ……which covers the onward sale of property and it`s use for houses
the above only served to confuse matters further
Charles Green pressco 10:00pm he will exclusively reveal the tattoo of the ranjurz crest which covers his upper torso, Kennedy! you’re an amatoor!
I will take my leave and thank you all for the company/
ernie-was just thinking that too :}
Funny how, when things just for a moment look crystal clear for the world to see at Ibrox, things all of a sudden get very very murky again.
Here’s a question. If Millers bid was the best last week why now is Green and co better?
All roads lead to liquidation.
It will happen.
It’s what happens next that is important. Green may or may not have time to get some sort of club up and running in time for the new season in one of the leagues in Scotland. Or he may not.
Paddy Gallagher on 14 May, 2012 at 21:17 said:
You have mail
HH
CRC
Any sign of the Big Tax Bill landing soon?
Is there some coreography afoot?
choreography – d’oh
Goodnight all.
Here’s to the Champions.
Paddy Gallagher on 14 May, 2012 at 20:08 said:
Wow, the power of words, thought provoking.
Thanks for posting that.
celticrollercoaster
Responded mate.
Doc is Neil Lennon
Thanks Mon Vie
celticrollercoaster
Please feel free to pass my main email address to MWD if you think he would like to talk.
Its enjoyable reading the blog tonight,
Theres been too much Rangers talk since Feb, sick of it.
Happy to talk tactics, transfer etc etc anything CELTIC
just sick of hearing about the huns… I don’t care anymore.
Is there anything to the rumour about Holt from Norwich?
Broonie doing “Glasgow’s Green & White” or should that be Glasgow is green and white!
Victoria McKenzie@VictoriaCFC
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Superb
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What happened with Fojut?
You told us his injury was minor?
TT
Even in Kenya the good guys win, tonights score
Ran*ers FC 0-3 Ulinzi Stars
Get it up ye
Kevin Davies has a few fans eh? Not bad player, but can you see our board agreeing 20 g a week, at least, for someone with no sell on value who’s spent a long part of his career injured?
Broonie. Better player than he is a singer ;)
I agree with the article Paul.
What is clear is we possess the individuals necessary to dominate most games we play.
What is also clear is this doesnt always happen.
The cause in my opinion is the deployment of the wrong formations and tactics with the wrong personnel, like having Ki in midfield a 4 man midfield at the same time as having the likes of Forrest and Commons either side of him putting an enormous strain on the 4th midfielder when not in possession.
To this end I am delighted to hear Lenny is going out to study Lille for a few days – the more experience he gains from the likes of clubs who no longer operate with 442, 451 type formations the better as far as I am concerned.
Whilst we will never be a Barcelona, you dont have to be the technically best in the world to be able to read the game and find pockets of space. Barcelona, one of the most dangerous and attacking teams in the world – dont play with a single striker in most games they play in, choosing an attacking midfielder type 3 with each one roaming across the pitch from left to right making them impossible to mark.
Of the current batch possibly only Commons and maybe McCourt would flourish in the free role, Naka and Maloney were the other two recent players who had that 2 steps ahead of the game level of intelligence.
Our bhoys are lined out in fairly static, rigid formations most of the time so in my opinion, we need to go about unbalancing the balance per se
TT
reported that he has done his cruciate ligament …out for at least 6 mths
also appears he has done it before
medical advice seems to be that we should not proceed
Paddy Gallagher on 14 May, 2012 at 20:08 said:
wow had to catch my breath there, very touching
Brian Kennedy pressco 10:30pm, Shawfield stadium: he’s going to cover his body in meat paste and replace the hare in the ‘pit-bull invitational’, You’re not even trying Green!
….PFayr on 14 May, 2012 at 21:21 said:
I’m pretty sure it’s a leasehold title (maybe because the terms of the trust didn’t allow the trustees to sell the ground). The balance sheet does include leasehold property, which can only be for Murray Park.
Never been convinced by this fascination some have for a big target man as some ‘other option’.
We were spoiled a bit by having both Sutton and Hartson – they were both excellent at what they did – but once you drop down from ‘top notch’ for that style of player then you’re very quickly into the Darryl Murphy’s and Chris Killens of this world. I can’t think of any other decent target-men who have donned the hoops in my lifetime and genuinely struggle to think of many who are effective in the moern game (Llorente maybe – and Carroll sporadically)
Celtic have always been at our best with two quick and skillful strikers (Wallace & Lennox; Macari & Dalglish; Nicholas & McCluskey; McClair & Judas; McAvennie & Walker etc.) – problem at the moment is that Tony Stokes is skillful but a wee bit too slow in my opinion to partner Gary Hooper effectively.
Personally, I would rather we pursued a better partner for Gary Hooper in the traditional Celtic mold rather than some second-rate target man…
Re best GB Team easy Simpson
Craig McNeil Clark Gemmell
Murdoch
Johnstone Wallace Auld Lennox
Chalmers
Greatest ever.
HH
….PFayr on 14 May, 2012 at 21:21 said:
ernie lynch
there was some further info re Murray Park and title thereto posted recently
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Planning would not approve house building – though an appeal to the Scottish Office might overturn that. However the site has one major drawback…………
it’s smack in the middle of a flood plain!
McAvennie, Dixie, Nicholas Dalgleish and the King are my strikers of all time.
Tim Malone
I agree up to a point. What we do need is a good header of goals, something which I feel we lack. Henrik proved that you don’t have to be a giant to do this.
IMO we are screaming out for someone who can head the ball at set pieces Rogne wins a lot in the air as dies Loovens but we have no-one up front.