Back in the 90s, when we struggled to achieve much, we appeared to have the Midas Touch when it came to signing strikers. The Three Amigos, Henrik and even big Mark(o) made the job look simple. It was keepers and the like we had trouble signing back then.
The litany of strikers who have trudged through Celtic Park in recent seasons provides sharp contrast to earlier times. Scott McDonald, Gary Hooper and Leigh Griffiths are the only strikers with a half decent scoring record since the departure of The Swede 12 years ago. Since then we’ve been home to many and various strays, from Dion Dublin to the Miku-Lassad twins, Kazim-Richards, Cole, Scepovic and Guidetti.
A few of these worked on paper (Scepovic and Guidetti) but the return on our money has been painful.
Getting it right in this department is important for Brendan Rodgers but I’d caution judging too much on what a player looks like on paper. I remember the comments section when McDonald (largely sceptical) and Griffiths (vehemently opposed by many) joined.
There are lessons from elsewhere too. Markus Rosenberg scored 20 goals in five seasons (none in 18 months at West Brom) before pitching up at his first club Malmo and eliminating Ronny Deila’s Celtic. Rosenberg was 32-years-old at the time but Malmo knew what they would get from him.
I’m not particularly inspired by any of the strikers we’re being publicly linked with but I’d take a player the manager knows and trusts can do the job before someone who shakes out of the scouting DVDs.
Chris Sutton Night, Irvine CSC
The Irvine Celtic Supporters’ Club are hosting a Chris Sutton evening on Friday, 24 June, at their social club in the town. Tickets are available for £10 by calling the club (evenings only) on 01294 271967.
If you are from the area, or fancy a good night out in Ayrshire with a Celtic striker who looked good on paper, looked better on the field, and delivered some of our best memories in the last 40 years, get along to see him – and bring your camera.
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Trying to embarrass the Daily Wreckage is like Joey Barton against thunder.
Bournesouorecipe
I agree joey barking is a deflecting tactic re Warbiola
He is placed in the meejah by the fat liar who thinks no one can see the kack he rolls in glitter
Tips for the close season
Joey on Palestine. Joey on gardening.joey on wimbledon
It appears joey is the hun equivelant of the janny wi the bucket of sand.
‘There ye go noo lol there a wee hun made up story to keep ye gaun
HH
Yon joey can channer ,
He could talk underwater
POR CIERTO
With the problem my cack-handed grip causes,I can actually hit it further off the tee wi a putter!
Unless,of course,I hit it just right. Such is rare,but kept me going for a while.
Chucked it after a 65 for the first 15 at Dalmilling,finished 10-over-par 21 for the last three.
Shucks,I don’t miss being humiliated!!!
So, now that Teixeira has moved back to Porto, we’ve missed out on a player I’d like to have signed. He played under Brennie at Liverpool so I can only assume he doesn’t fancy him.
Still I think we should be going after another Liverpool player…
Danny Ward! It would be a no brainer. Liverpool have just signed a new keeper so they have 4 at the club. If we offered some cash I think they’d sell.
This guy is 22 years of age, kept a bunch of clean sheets for the Dons and now is starting in goal for Wales. We should be signing him to challenge Gordon for the number 1 jersey!
Also, I would be happy with the Danny Graham and Robson-Kanu signings.
Barton modelling the new hun away strip:
http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/joey-barton-snapped-doing-community-1454518
Hamiltontim
After Belgium’s poor performance last night we should ask for an SFA style redraw for the Predictor. Perhaps we could get Sepp to help out and get CRC to warm our balls this time.
Warbiola started believing the hype spun by Level 5 and having won a league populated by semi professional teams with the 2nd biggest budget in the land he wants a Brendan Rogers type package.
Sevco can’t afford this and stalemate has resulted in a new contract. The fixed term contract means Jabba can send out the messages he will be there next season from a legal perspective. From a football perspective that may not be the case now — Warbs is looking for an exit as he has been stitched up by the Glib and Shameless one. Now Warbs gets it.
Into this vacum Jabba has trawled Sevco land and found the 3 most articulate Sevconians in the land John Brown, Barton and Durrant. Unfortunately Durrant was a casualty of the cost cutting to fund Barton –so soundbites from Brown &Barton on season tickets, Celtic, Euros and Brexit. I suppose Jabba knew the game was up when Durrant thought Brexit was the latest boy wonder band.
On a separate note the James Forrest story and hypothesis on Dave King allegedly channel lying funds via HK resonates. As someone who is in JOburg quite a bit, the tight restrictions he mentioned regarding cash movement , were very much in my thoughts. The cash flow into Ibrox merits investigation by the SFA and Police/Interpol. Not sure what penalties are for King if he is up to tricks —but there will be some.
I just hope Level5 bill has been paid — so the ship sinks a bit further.
Have the Huns pushed the boat out yet:))
Breaking:
#Rus handed suspended disqualification from #Euro2016 (until end of tournament) and fined €150,000
Warbs will be there for the start of the season.
He’s been passed over for the Derby job and the Reading job
OHITS: I passed by Paddy’s Point yesterday about 2 o’clock on the way to golf shop at rear. No chance of going in as driving !! Enjoy your trip to TET’s place and ACGR’s company. I had a great time with them in Barcelona when we got humped 6-1! Will deffo come up to Paddys in Oct/Nov to watch a ‘tic game. Fly home Friday btw. And bought 3 polos all 50 percent off.. First time I have got a ‘buy’ in Spain in ten years.
Hi,Dad.
Just spoke to a guy who was at a funeral and said that one of the lads who is a taxi driver said he would pick him and his three pals and take them there.
Charged them the fare!
Wait till I see him,that’s bang outa order.
STARRY PLOUGH on 14TH JUNE 2016 11:54 AM
Have the Huns pushed the boat out yet:))
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Huns and boats……………Not a good mixture
BAWSMAN
I hope Warby can swim….
Am currently undecided about the Brexit/Remain issue, so am waiting for Le Petit Branleur, Joey Le Bartonne to give his view before making my mind up, after all he appears to be an expert on everything,( well if you believe Keech Jackshun).
I think striker signings come in to two categories: the ones who score goals and may or may not be successful strikers when signing for Celtic and the ones who do not have good goal-scoring records and will not be successful on signing for Celtic.
Players like Cole, Kazim-Richards, Murphy (although he became an outlier after moving on, perhaps just a purple patch) were not goal scorers and should not have been signed in my opinion. The only explanation was for them to do a very specific job within the team but we never really set up for that.
The minimum requirements for signing a striker is that they have a good record, whether that be at a big club, a lower league team or a boys club. They should be banging them in. I’m sure the scouting team will have access to goals per shots etc to reflect players in teams that don’t attack much.
If a player scores 1 in 2 or 3 then there’s a good chance they’ll do the same or better here. If they’re more like a 1 in 5 or 6 then what’s the point?
We also need to be careful that we don’t look at going in for strikers who can only score on the counter as we’re not often afforded that space.
timaloy29 sleeps on the heated driveway on 14th June 2016 12:11 pm
Forest job? Watford job? Southampton job?
BMCUWP: I hope that twat is an acquaintance and not a friend ! ! I missed 3 funerals whilst out here… Might have been at my own if I had stayed….
Gary67 on 14th June 2016 12:36 pm
timaloy29 sleeps on the heated driveway on 14th June 2016 12:11 pm
Forest job? Watford job? Southampton job?
No Watford, forgo they appointed Mazzarri
STARRY PLOUGH on 14TH JUNE 2016 12:26 PM
BAWSMAN
I hope Warby can swim….
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He didnae go on a cruise straight after the Cup Final did he?
It can be difficult to recognise a good striker. For example, in the 4 years before he joined us, Henrik Larsson had scored 26 goals in 101 games for Feyenoord, which was a decent but not an outstanding goals/game ratio. Georgios Samaras scored at a better ratio than that while he was at Celtic, but he was never our primary goalscorer. I think in part it depends on how you construct your team, and of course the league you play in. A couple of years ago Barcelona had no real strikers, but their system still allowed them to score a sack full of goals.
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