Ronny Deila’s dream of reconstructing the Dundee United team of 2014 is on track as United have agreed terms for the sale of striker Nadir Ciftci, who is set to join Stuart Armstrong and Gary MacKay-Steven in green and white hoops.
United are feeling sore at losing three players to a rival but it could be argued this deal is a positive result for them. They are no different than Celtic in needing to acquire good players who will enhance their team and generate transfer fees when they leave.
Armstrong and Mackay-Steven gave Celtic a timely boost when they arrived in the team in February. If Ciftci adapts as quickly he’ll do well.
Signing a backup goalkeeper is a tricky call. Do you blow a large slice of budget on a genuine contender for the goalkeeper’s jersey, or perhaps promote the next teenage David Marshall? Both are viable calls. If we sign Logan Bailly (29) for a fee from Belgian club Leuven the expectation at Lennoxtown is that he will push Craig Gordon.
That would leave us with competition across the field, apart from the left back slot…..
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saint stivs
00:28 on 8 July, 2015
What about the rest of the year?
Mad Mitch
Sorry- I was away from the computer there.
Yes, we no longer get a couple of new faces graduating from the youth team to warm supporter’s hearts. To be frank the generation of Scottish kids who came to prominence in the 90’s and early millennium were among the worst we have ever had. Not just at Celtic but at every club. I think there has been a light upturn in Scottish quality in the last 5 or more years but we are a small nation who no longer produces a lot of great footballers.
Even with slightly improved quality, as TBB has aptly demonstrated, it takes a very good talent, at least at the level of a McGeady/ Maloney or Forrest to break through AND hold down a place against competition which will include around 20 full international players. That is a higher cohort of peers to surpass than we have ever had in the past.
Most of the players we develop are good enough to play Scotish Premiership football, but not for Celtic, where we are looking for SPL plus level players.
Apart from Tony Watt and, perhaps, wee McGowan, we have not had too many who have wasted their talent with immaturity, or worse. We have had solid pros like Graham Carey, Stephen O’Donnell, Scott Cuthbert etc; who made a good living out of football but there are very few out there that we regret letting go, as we did with Shay Given back in the day (Andrew Robertson being the most obvious example).
It is just very hard who has the combination of talent, opportunity, coaching, freedom from injury, motivation and application to break through to Scottish plus level. Ask Dundee United fans about GMS- they would have seen him as an exciting player without the consistency. But he has stepped up to another level in coming to Celtic, whereas the equally talented Derek Riordan could not do so.
I don’t care if our youth are Celtic fans or have Rangers tattoos on intimate body parts; I only care if they are good enough and that they try to represent the club well. We cannot rely on Scottish talent alone in order to be an SPFL plus level team, we have to scout abroad too.
I fear we are in danger of being marginalised as a football nation unless there is an implosion sometime soon in the bigger leagues of Europe.
DD,
If it were me, I would drive.
I don’t know if the Troon ferry is on at Easter next year.
Maybe stop somewhere like Carlingford on the way down…a lovely spot.
Or if you can make it to Drogheda/Clogherhead I will introduce you to a few of the bhoys.
allways mags, allways.
far more smarter people than me could mark that an irishman was killed by the sponsored terrorist, every day of the year, sometime somewhere.
and these fannies on here dare to call others terrorists
mags
Willo wasnt the worst player weve had recently!!
TOSB
Welcome to my optimistic clique. :))
I happen to believe that we will win it in 2017. 50th anniversary of Lisbon.
European financial ruin ahead.
wee fra.
your turning into a jeremy klye type persona
stop letting your own stupidy views dictate how the rest of the real world should think,
have you dropped the neuks yet ?
Weefra
I enjoy your posts, there are some on here who know they will get a reaction from you ignore them and don’t bite. I understand your anger the other night watching the news and these evil ba—-ds murdering innocent people and they have to be stopped. Nobody that posts or lurks on here can question your love of all things Celtic ignore the idiots and keep posting you have a lot of friends on here.
jude2005 is neil lennon \o/
Recently?
….and not the point
Apologies for typing in a hurry- left some words out and some mis-spelled.
I think people in the west have a moral obligation in this century to murder the modern western capitalist tax subsidized military industrial complex that is used to destroy innocent peasants who are lucky to have read a book in their lifetime.
Terrorism
Bah humbug
Magss
Recently = past ten years. OK?????
The Herald headline on Newsnow is “Dundee Utd are helpless as Celtic play the big man…”
I no longer visit half the sites on the Newsnow Celtic page.
Click baits like HITC and then the SMSM comics with their mince.
The headlines say it all…not really
Poor helpless Utd stuffing 1.5 million into their poakits…
Gauld, Robertson, Armstron, Mackay Stuart, Ciftci….sounds like their asset management is doing quite nicely.
margaret mcgill
00:26 on 8 July, 2015
weefrathetim
00:24 on 8 July, 2015
What kind of pleasure?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
The pleasure of seeing I was correct. Are you stupid, or something??? I give up trying to converse with people with IQs lower than their shoe size. Night you can post all you like, I’m in ma cot. :-))))
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
Jamesgang
You are sacked ………..having been one of my possible candidates for Celtic CEO I won it big on Euromillions.
I had a similar boozy conversation with my brothrr-in-law who is a vice president of a very well known American company. Back in 2001, he had been a highly rated CEO with a number of British companies. I informed him, boozily, that if ever ai had a huge win on Euromillions, I would buy Celtic and appoint him CEO. However, within five minutes of appointing him ai had to sack him for demoralising the troops. He,let slip that he felt that ‘realistically’, Celtic would never reach another European final. He admitted in 2003 that I was absolutely right to ‘sack’ him when we reached Seville which he attended and I didn’t.
My point is, my good friend, that I firmly believe that Celtic will win the Champions League before I die in a “build it and they will come” sort of way. :-))
Hail! Hail!
Keep the Faith!
papajoe55
00:36 on
8 July, 2015
Weefra
I enjoy your posts, there are some on here who know they will get a reaction from you ignore them and don’t bite
————
wee fra your magic,
once we neuk the ISIS,
can we double back and neuk the eskimos, cos they hold the wales to ransom, and thats still part of britin
then go out and catch the taliban, cos they are over charging on home deliveries from our take away
——
hope i caught the level of the debate there,
and the lambs are safe cos tey make a nice curry
Clogher
Baltray county Louth one of my favourite golf courses stayed in drogheda a good few times , i think the hotel we stayed in was the glen side , was there a guy murdered there in 80s
I am giving 6/4 that he will be back in the next ten minutes to tell us all that he isnt coming back again
Ai = I. Fat fingers and drunkenness in a Gran Canaria sort of way. :-))
Papajoe
I think you may be thinking of the Rosnaree Hotel outside Drogheda
weefrathetim
00:43 on 8 July, 2015
I’m just a pleasure seeker.
Your post fulfilled it!
Scaramouche scaramouche can you do the fandango!
Clogher
I think I will stick to my original plan. Night in Belfast, night in Sligo then down to Dublin. The three Irish towns my son comes from. :) Car and ferry the answer.
What is the Stars
00:45 on
8 July, 2015
I am giving 6/4 that he will be back in the next ten minutes to tell us all that he isnt coming back again
———
paddypower is running an advert.
winstons big heid is in and out the picture ……………
even money,
and your stake back if he mentions cqn corner
theoriginalsadiesbhoy
I agree with you – all 3 times!
I too share the dream of us lifting the Cup in my lifetime. And me being there with my Bhoy!
I’m just saying the route to success is now very different and ‘less tidy’ when it comes to creating a squad.
And for as long as we’re confined to spl finances, we’re pretty hamstrung.
I’m a realistic idealist. With the emphasis slightly on the latter with regards to Celtic!
Night!
HH jamesgang
delaneys dunky
00:34 on 8 July, 2015
TOSB
Welcome to my optimistic clique. :))
I happen to believe that we will win it in 2017. 50th anniversary of Lisbon.
European financial ruin ahead.
………………
You’ve just moved into No. 1 position for CEO when I come to power at Celtic :-))
Absolutely delighted with the way our recruitment is going so far …
Well have a very decent side next season by the looks of things
st stivs
I only give my opinion. It is not accepted by the majority of the PC brigade. Some who have astounded me, but I will accept their view. Some have not accepted my view, that is their right. I am still a fervent Celtic Supporter and my contribution to CTV+ ST leaves me in a good place when I diminish these people. I am hopefully getting a tile on the Way. Oops, maybe I shouldn’t said that.
Weefra HH praying ro Wee Oscar.
Ciftci agreed terms-4 year deal
jamesgang
00:52 on 8 July, 2015
What is the difference between a realistic idealist and an idealistic realist?
My first impression is that it’s something to do with the myth of sisyphus or possibly alligator skins but not really sure.
TOSB
On a level playing field again financially, our day in the sun will come. Cardiff will be swamped. ;)))
papajoe55
thanks for that.
lets make it a million hits
viva la quita brigada
christy at the barrowland.
brilliant rendition.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQbXO828Vio
Wits
It was a guy called mad dog mcglinchey 1994 , think they maybe changed hotel name after that , just googled but did not give hotel name
WeefratheTim
00:55 on
8 July, 2015
st stivs
i respect your a long term celtic fan,
but i cant take a post that says lets neuk someone , anyone in the world,
get some perspective on things.
and leave the wee star in the sky out of these things.
DD, that is grand. You are welcome to stop off here.
I think the car and ferry is a good choice.
Papajoe,
The Glenside is on the south side of Drogheda. A nice hotel mainly for weddings etc.
Hope to see you here next year! A round in Baltray and maybe Seapoint!
Look
Zombies need love too
http://youtu.be/FBz29EcRvHM
Weefra
I have been a member of CND. I still campaign against Faslane’s world ending machinery. Sorry to read you support the bomb to destroy the planet.
Papajoe
McGlinchley was killed in a telephone box in Drogheda
There was a very notorious INLA feud killing in the Rosnaree Hotel Drogheda in 1987
See below
January 21, 1987
Two men blamed for terrorist crimes in Northern Ireland were shot and killed in the Irish Republic as they drank tea with two companions, both of whom were wounded in the attack, police said. The two gunmen escaped from the Rosnaree Hotel in Drogheda, 30 miles from Dublin. The dead men were identified as Thomas Power, 32, and John O’Reilly, 26, both of whom were linked to the outlawed Irish National Liberation Army. There was speculation that the shooting resulted from a feud within the INLA,