Seeking game time in Qatar

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Marco Tilio made a late substitute appearance in Australia’s final Asian Cup warm-up game against Bharain on Saturday.  The player is clearly valued higher in his home country than around Lennoxtown.  With little prospect of a promotion to the Celtic starting line-up ahead, any chance the player has to shine would be useful for him and the club.

Oh Hyeon-gyu played the first half of Korea’s game against Iraq on the same day.  There is little chance of Oh moving on this month but, like Marco, he is a player who would benefit from gametime in Qatar.

Japan’s opener against Vietnam on Sunday will attract most attention from Celtic fans.  Reo Hatate should be close to full fitness, although I doubt he will start the game.  Daizen Maeda led the line for Japan at the World Cup, when they expected to play a counter-attacking game.  Tactics will be different against Vietnam than they were against Spain, so Daizen may not play the same role.

Again, you and I will lie in our beds at night pondering why one of the greatest Celtic players of this century is on a beach somewhere right now.

The Sun report Celtic have received a work permit for Nicolas Kuhn.  This detail is usually completed after paperwork is signed.  Hopefully we’re a ‘Ross Hall moment’ away from getting this one over the line.

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  1. Have we signed anyone yet.

     

     

    It’s so close, so, so, close, nearly there, we are confident, blah, blah, blah.

     

     

    An absolute joke.

     

     

    Sack the board.

     

     

    D. :)

  2. Jesse Lingard, sign him.

     

     

    If its Mikey Johnson or Jesse Lingard it’s a no brainer.

     

     

    Oh and I know 1 is an attacking midfielder the other a non producing crap winger.

     

     

    D. :)

  3. David 66,

     

    Just in case,not one cash transfer has been completed yet across the EPL,SPFL.A couple of loans in,a good few loaned out,but at the moment we are the only team talking cash.

     

    By your logic,every Board should be sacked.

     

    CQN ,wit ur they like.

  4. I will be happy if we get a striker this January window.

     

     

    I am confident we will.

     

     

    Our scoring ratio to chances created is poor, we need to address this.

     

     

    I know how difficult it is to get desired players in January. However we have walked the walk.

     

     

    HH.

     

     

    HH.

  5. Bada Bing,

     

     

    Celtic Star blog actually on today discussing the pros and cons of a Lingard deal.Recently becoming a bit suspicious of this blog.Is this another one,like Celtic Way,a front for a Rag?.

     

    Lingard,,leave him for across the river.The love the tat disguised,as Bling.Expensive tat as well..

  6. Turkiyebhoy.

     

     

    You really are a sewer for every bit of shoite farted out by both Cellic meeja and the mainstream fantasists,all bout the clicks and gossip,not about fact.all of them,including yourself want to be “exclusively” right,sometimes a la Ivan Toney its wrong.

     

     

    Lessons in there how Celtic do business.

     

    now just be patient

     

    Ps Celtic Star is ran by some ex cqn’rs,like cqn itself its just speculating and looking for clicks.

     

     

    HH

     

    HH

  7. Excl. Details Nicolas Kühn: DONE DEAL! He will join

     

    @CelticFC

     

    now!

     

     

    ➡️ Total agreement between the clubs /

     

    @skrapid

     

     

    ➡️ Medical on Monday in London ✔️

     

     

    The 24 y/o has already arrived in London today 🛬

     

     

    ➡️ Contract 2028

     

    ➡️ Transfer fee: €3,5m + add-ons.

  8. BACK TO BASICS – GLASS HALF FULL on 14TH JANUARY 2024 10:34 AM

     

     

    You have to willfully ignore how complicated any transfer is never mind the importance of negotiating a good price to come up with dithering and penny pinching.

     

     

    “Just paying the money” works fine until the next transfer or salary contract, then the next one and on and on. £200k isn’t nothing, especially if you times it by the number of deals in and out over a number of years. And you’re known to be a soft touch by buying and selling clubs and agents

  9. Doesn’t make for clicks though as we know from the amount of attention it gets when Paul67 tries to explain the basics of a player transfer

  10. AN TEARMANN on 14TH JANUARY 2024 1:29 PM

     

     

    If P67 was just speculating and looking for clicks he’s not doing a very good job. An article just about every day for going on 20 years and a comment section that’s got smaller and has hardly any new , young members come on these days. I’m sure he could come up with a better way of grifting from Celtic in the Internet

  11. lets all do the huddle on

    from what i can see the Asian cup is on something called Triller TV.

     

     

    never heard of it, but heres its brief from google…

     

     

    “Triller TV is dedicated to combat sports-related programming (including boxing, kickboxing, mixed martial arts, professional wrestling, and submission grappling).”

     

     

    errr, if any of that happens in the tourney then i hope none of our players get a game 😱

  12. Does anyone know if we are interested in big Pete’s bhoy Sydney, and if so , how far down the line are we with getting him in pronto

     

     

    Thanks in advance

     

     

    KINGLuBO

  13. Let’s all

     

    You’re right – found this

     

     

    In the UK, the whole tournament will be broadcast by TrillerTV, formerly FITE.

     

     

    You can watch online via their website or app. The app can be cast from your phone to a compatible TV or with a compatible Smart TV through the Triller app.

  14. lets all do the huddle on

    Let’s all

     

     

    You’re right – found this

     

     

    In the UK, the whole tournament will be broadcast by TrillerTV, formerly FITE.

     

     

    You can watch online via their website or app. The app can be cast from your phone to a compatible TV or with a compatible Smart TV through the Triller app.

     

    —-

     

     

    is it free or will we need to get creative to see it? 😁

  15. Back to Basics - Glass Half Full on

    !!BADA BING!! @ 11:35 AM

     

     

    Sevco have done a deal with Sky to show an extra game outwith the SPFL contract, so they can show another 2 games on PPV,desperate for cash….

     

     

    ——–

     

     

    This is dynamite BB.

     

     

    Do you have any more details?

     

     

    I ask because I’m in total ignorance of the facts about what the Sky contract allows individual clubs to do and what control, if any, other clubs have.

     

     

    If I were Celtic and I had the juice?

     

     

    I’d veto this in a heartbeat.

  16. An Dun,

     

     

    Like a lot of your posts,all over the place.I do not go for the rumours,tittle tattle,as you say,I decry them.Today,about the Celtic Star,you said it was ex CQN people printing this gash,and defended them.Ivan Tobey,??????????.I wrote on here the exact story on that episode.My friend,still Ivan’s best mate.He was at Celtic Park for talks,but we had sell,Edouard’s first.Story been proved since.If you want to decipher some of your gargle,maybe I can help you further.Unless you have anything cogent to dig me up on,dont bother.

     

    I will quite happily post on here,in a friendly manner,but I dont suffer fools,fantasists,gladly.

     

    Board haters,just for the sake of being Board haters,B,aaaa,sheep.

  17. Tom McLaughlin on

    I watched the first half of Japan v Vietnam this morning on IPTV (Fire Stick).

     

     

    Neither Hatate nor Maeda came off the bench.

  18. BTB,

     

     

    According to Sky,its true.Door wide open now.Heard they had to get approval from arch enemies,SPFL.Hard to believe.

  19. Back to Basics - Glass Half Full on

    GGH @ 11:42 – cheers.

     

     

    I quite like Joe McHugh’s stuff, this article aside of course.

     

     

    Seems to me that intelligent, literate Celtic fans with no professional (paid) journalism experience can produce output of notably higher quality than SMSM hacks and whores.

     

     

    Which is why I get disappointed when they publish this kind of thing.

     

     

    Not every article has to be a fact based current story.

     

     

    Op eds and retros to fill the lean times are fine …. and this is where Celtic Cyberspace has a huge advantage over SMSM minnows.

     

     

    a. For Op eds, their opinions will always be closer to the wider Celtic family’s views (even on contentious issues) so will be better received.

     

     

    b. For retros, their knowledge of, and love for Celtic gives the

  20. CELTIC40ME on 14TH JANUARY 2024 2:14 PM

     

    AN TEARMANN on 14TH JANUARY 2024 1:29 PM

     

     

    If P67 was just speculating and looking for clicks he’s not doing a very good job. An article just about every day for going on 20 years and a comment section that’s got smaller and has hardly any new , young members come on these days. I’m sure he could come up with a better way of grifting from Celtic in the Internet

     

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    I take it Celtic40me you dont read some of the click headers in the sub pages,i have stopped good while ago as to many articles had to much of scent of tabloid.

     

     

    I dont pay much attention or weight to Pauls leaders since the days of ‘ball rolling across the line awaiting a tap in’ and other such dittys which arose during the ending of our neighbours 2 clubs.

     

     

    Yup the numbers are declining and no new blood comes on,which reflects a stagnant blog and reflects a stagnant board,the place is a lot more vibrant with a little dissent thrown out there.

     

     

    Grifting is your word,every Cellic site does it,Clicks coung.This place is no exception

     

    The clicks count,maybe if we had more clicks then less advert hurdles would have to be jumped which is a real stifle to folk wanting to come on.

     

     

    HH

  21. TURKEYBHOY @ 3.01pm

     

     

    “I will quite happily post on here,in a friendly manner,”

     

     

    THIS FRIENDLY MANNER?

     

     

     

     

    TURKEYBHOY on 12TH JANUARY 2024 10:17 PM

     

    31003

     

     

     

     

     

    Absolute nonsense.Where we going to get 4 or 5 10 million pound players at 30 grand a week.What decade are you i?,the 90s.Where would we play these players?Who would we drop?.Who would sit on the bench?.

     

     

     

    You would be talking 60 grand a week,so in one season,all the money would be gone.Another Pandemic we are in the grubber,or has that no chance of ever happening again?.

     

     

     

    Delusion is the problem with a great many of our support.

     

     

    TURKEYBHOY ) on 12TH JANUARY 2024 10:30 PM

     

     

     

    Bite my ass You are talking mince. Away in a darkened room for a while.

     

     

     

     

     

    Fekin Eejit.

     

     

    TURKEYBHOY on 12TH JANUARY 2024 10:41 PM

     

    31003,

     

     

     

    Aye right.Make an arse of yourself and try to make out you were joking.

     

     

     

    Go away in shame and cut your losses

     

     

    TURKEYBHOY on 12TH JANUARY 2024 10:54 PM

     

    31003,

     

     

     

     

     

    FFS,you still rabbiting on?.Lucky you use a Blog name,will cut down on the mocking you would get for posting nonsense.

     

     

     

    Now go away..

     

     

    TURKEYBHOY on 12TH JANUARY 2024 11:13 PM

     

    Anyway,far from asking for the players some halfwit is claiming,,Brendan a week ago saying” he is looking to spend 10 million in this window.If he needs a bit more,the money is there”.

     

     

     

    Now that’s a fact,not a fantasy.

     

     

     

  22. Tom,I have every bloody station,every country,could not get it.It was on,BEIN Mena,Arabic,but all my BEIN are English.Grrrrr.Anyway,nothing lost,they never played.