Celtic have NOT agreed a deal to take Patrick Roberts on loan next season. Sources within the club expressed surprise at reports claiming as much. The club have been working with Manchester City and the player for some months, in an attempt to secure the services of the England youth international.
A loan deal is only one of the options being discussed. But while Celtic look the most likely destination for Patrick, there is still work to be done.
Celtic, who will soon be able to offer guaranteed Champions League football to prospective players, are active in a number fronts.
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Nice of Plymouth bound Nadir Ciftci to free up the No:7 shirt for Paddy Roberts.
Now Nadir is for the off hopefully we’ll sign his more promising sounding sibling,Zenith. ;)
Paul67.
I was delighted to hear that Paddy was coming on a loan spell,
I know you wouldn’t like to put a downer on the blog.
but I have my own ideas regarding why Celtic have said that there is still negotiations to be agreed,
In my opinion I think Celtic are holding up negotiation until after Wednesdays game then try to buy Paddy
from Man C,it would be a record signing but who knows, is he worth £12 million, I would say yes I see Paddy
as another Jinky,and would imagine he will get better with experience.
My opinion is that a dribbler isn’t wanted in the Premier League,a passer of the ball is what the EL want
not an individual who loves taking on a man, and then another, and another,Possession is number one in the
English Premiership and Paddy can lose possession quite a lot, but makes up for it by entertaining the support
Which the Celtic support love,have you seen a player with the skills of Jinky in the EP,I haven’t, and I doubt
if anyone has, very good footballers, but not dribblers like our Jinky, or Paddy,if he retuns.
MC will try to knock the dribbling out of Paddy and I don’t think that our Paddy would like that.
Mind you,That is only my opinionm but I don’t think I’m far of the mark.
Forgive me if the post is confusing, It’s coming from a very confused supporter,and I’m get worse,it’s an age thing.
Gearoid,
It should have been sorted quicker, I agree.
Oli is gonnae own the Centre.
You know he is just getting warmed up. :)))
The Taxi tour down the Shankhill was quick, Thankfully.
Who else are Celtic bringing in? ;))
I went for over 3.5 goals First Half every home game last season. This season it is ON.
Typical
In the shower /Mrs S of T at the supermarket.Doorbell goes,get out the shower ,find a dressing gown and open the door.It was a dorsalperson.
GLENDALYSTONSILS on18TH AUGUST 2017 6:26 PM
I thought thae fish puns had been scaled down.
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Better still why not FINish them?
BABAS
We’ve changed the Lennoxtown locks.
Allegedly CSC
Let minnow when the ole fish puns are done
Babasonicos71
Cracks me up every time:)
Now that is funny.
HH
Old Tim…dribbler?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RtGgy3JEVP0
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SCULLYBHOY on 16TH AUGUST 2017 9:41 PM
Everyone 10 out of 10 – except Ntcham
Can we maybe assume he will be coming if we qualify for the CL? Therefore it can’t be confirmed until next week?
I reckon if someone makes a big offer for Van Dijk he will be off. Southamptic will probably be trying to get a replacement in BEFORE he goes so they don’t end up paying £30m for a £15m player.
Those carping on about fish puns should guppy road and give us pisce.It’s giving me a haddock.
Looks like the fish puns will carry on unabaited
HAG @ 6.34
Cautionary for what?
Being ambitious?
Things happen.
They will be back.
What are our alternatives?
Sit back and pour bile on the TFOD2a??
Better to be ambitious and fail than be parochial and smug.
We have tried that before and the season ticket sales suggested it was just a matter of time before the business model collapsed.
All very fin signing SA – but are the scales tipped on a loan for paddy
Oi, fish puns again? Without me again?
How dare you all try to usurp my plaice as King of the puns.
Seriously?
Are you lot for reel??
WEEBOBBYCOLLINS.
Surely you have heard of a dribbler, in my neck of the woods Jinky was a dribbler,someone who keeps the ball as close to his body as possible.
Fishpunsquicknews…
Honestly, how many posters/lurkers are saying, ” Aw naw! No mair fish puns? Ah canny hake any it any mair.”
Jist empty the carp!
Park. sorry
Old Tim67…tanner baw players are a rare species these days. Jinky was the best we ever had. Wee Paddy is great. Stanley Mathews? Kinkladze was another great wee dribbler. I think Tommy Burns fancied him at the time.
Regards sir…
Just back in Glasgow from Beverley so not had a chance to read back yet.
Bada Bing, have a great weekend in Newcastle and enjoy your Bhoy’s stag do, I’m really sorry I’m missing having a drink with you but need to pick up my Bhoy from Edinburgh airport tomorrow morning on his way back from Brunei. Anyway have a hoot.
Hail! Hail! PMTYH
10 in a roe, 10 in a roe
MISTERTAXIMAN on18TH AUGUST 2017 1:23 PM
Auldheid 12.50
I happen to agree with each and every one of your assessments.
Regarding SA’s contract though, all I’m saying is that this can hardly be the “very very good deal” that BR talked about the other day. By all accounts these contract negotiations have been running since last year. Agreement was never reached in my humble uninformed opinion. A short term fix was found that has kicked the problem down the road, but for how long? Do the next contract negotiations commence next week? Paul 67 likes to paint things rosy (much as I respect him) but this wasn’t the ideal outcome for the Club (or player one could argue), it was merely a problem solved for the time being.
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How we each look at anything depends on our inner philosophy of life and that of itself is but a reflection of what stage of philosophy life has brought us all screaming and kicking to.
This little tale has influenced my perspective.
There is a king who makes Hugh Keevins sound like Mr Happy. To cheer himself up he hires a series of jesters to make him laugh.
The only thing approaching a laugh is when he smiles as he sentences each successive but unsuccessful jester to a painful death.
One day another failure stands before the miserable ol bugger but before the King pronounces his usual sentence the jester says.
“Your majesty, I believe you have a favourite horse.”
“I do I do. Why do you ask?”
If I teach your horse to talk by this time next year, will you spare me?”
” Why not, I like that daft idea but you have a year” says the King.
As the jester walks to the stables his friend joins him and says
” You are indeed a fool, you will never teach that horse to talk in 100 years never mind one year”
” Indeed” says the jester ” but in a year the horse might die, the King might die or I might die”
May we all fail to make Kings laugh.
Just tuna n in .
Whats the John Dorrey the night ??????
Timbhoy1 on 18th August 2017 5:01 pm
Bad day when a club like ours, having Paddy Roberts our priority,surely we have other options,or is it all spin,
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A disgrace, that’s what it is.
Courting the services of one of the finest talents England has produced in a generation when we should be hanging around a seedy nightclub in Cancun until chucking-out time and asking the first semi-conscious greaseball we can find that looks like the Titty Twister MC in ‘From Dusk Til Dawn’ if he wants to play for ‘ra wuruld’s maist successful club’. THAT’S recruitment.
bring back quiz and musak fridays.
Jon Daly has never been a manager before but he knows the unwritten rules… however, he doesn’t know who writes them…
OLDTIM67
Nice read.
To dribble or not to dribble?
The epl is all about athleticism combined with power and thats a big reason for their European struggles.
There are exceptions like Hazard and Coutinho but they have earned the right to lose the ball
On the continent it’s still viewed as an asset to unlock strong defense.
It’s harder for defenders to contain as they do not face players like that regularly.
A good system can incorporate dribblers as they have accepted he will lose ball sometime so plan accordingly.
I think Brendan used Paddy less in beginning of last season as he almost always dribbled with the result of us losing possession to often.In the second half Paddy was a revelation and became very adept at knowing when to pass or dribble.
Astana should have played the Masons at this
My Port onion friend is correct.bring back the quiz.
oldtim67 on 18th August 2017 6:48 pm
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That’s a point.
A luxury, he’ll be seen as.
And endorsed by anyone who has played under Pep Guardiola – Thierry Henry tells a story about scoring a cracking goal in open play during a match and then getting hell for it from Pep in the dressing room because he and others involved in the move had moved out of the ‘zones’ Pep had instructed them to play within.
That’s taking coaching to stringent levels of discipline and demands that would stifle an off-the-cuff talent a-la Jinky/Paddy.
Yet skill like Paddy’s can be the golden key to unlocking defences at high level; perhaps why Citeh are taking time to agree to a deal. Caught in two minds.
You’ve got to be reelly fly to sneak in a fish pun. When there’s nae transfer news the blog has to find something else to fillet.
2 year amstrong deal gets us another year so cant complain
But not sure about loaning paddy for another year, sign him for 5 or 4 and punt in 2 or 3 makes sense but dont wanna have to be trying to replace paddy, dumbelle and amstrong all in one close season unless we have others on the wings to kick us on
HH
The Brothers In Bams at The Circus Of Horrors tomorrow afternoon will be able to indulge in joint community singing about Neil Lennon.
What a joyful love-in that will be. A fright-fest for all the family.
Cmon guys,your KRILLin it noo
HH
These internet trawls are scaring posters away.
Weebobbycollins 7.21pm
John Daly will soon find out, he will bump into his old mucker Lee the grass the morra, he even mentioned that in his press conference today :-)