The purpose of loaning players

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Motherwell, a team who have won plaudits for playing out from the back this season, based that strategy on Celtic loanee Stephen Welsh (25) in central defence.  Who saw that coming?  The player spent the second half of last season on loan at Mechelen, where he was a first-team regular.  He also played more football in that 5 month period than during any season at Celtic.

This term, Brendan Rodgers preferred to develop Dane Murray (22) but Martin O’Neill has now recalled Stephen, to help compensate for the Cameron Carter-Vickers shaped hole in the squad.  The move will shore up resources for the champions’ title push and be a loss to the Lanarkshire club.

Neither Rodgers, O’Neill nor Wilfried Nancy rated Manchester City loanee Jahmai Simpson-Pusey.  Simpson-Pusey joined Koln last week and got his first 90 minutes in the Bundesliga on Saturday – that’s more time than he played for Celtic.  It’s not often three managers decide against a player and get it wrong.  Welsh is never going to reach Carter-Vickers-level performances, but he should return a better player than he left.  This is the proper purpose of loaning players, not simply to get them out of the building.

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  1. MON now doing the scouting ffs,watching videos,no data involved, an absolute shambles of a club

  2. In the spirit of Moons gone by

     

    A nice wee upload of Maggie McClure singing

     

    Coming Home ..would be nice…

     

    Anybody??

  3. Burnley 78

     

     

    It is not the job of the Celtic support to identify individuals to carry out the work of negotiating and concluding transfer deals. A properly run business would have succession planning in place to appoint people to these positions. The fact that we have no one at the club with enough experience to carry out these tasks is another indictment of of our absentee, golf playing largest shareholder.

     

     

    We won’t be shedding any crocodile tears for Lawwell or any of the surviving Board members.

  4. Back to Basics - Glass Half Full on

    Laxalt on 13th January 2026 8:59 pm

     

     

    I always read Keith Jacksons column on a Monday morning.

     

     

    What he said about Jota yesterday is 100pc actionable and slander.

     

     

    I know the Scottish press is anti Celtic but that is a disgrace from a seasoned journalist.

     

     

    ——-

     

     

    Not sure if your “read” sounds like “red” or “reed” Laxalt?

     

     

    “Seasoned” is accurate.

     

     

    The .. ahem .. seasoning slips down his throat copiously and frequently.

     

     

    A teaboy who was thrust forward because he supported the right team.

     

     

    Banned from Celtic Park for publishing lies which Celtic told him were lies before he published.

     

     

    He went ahead and did it.

     

     

    A washed up, talentless, tired and emotional non entity.

     

     

    In unrelated news, the Daily Record could boast daily circulation of c.750,000 when Martin O’Neill joined Celtic.

     

     

    These days? 38,000.

     

     

    🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

  5. Drambowiecelt…pretty sure Favourite Uncle gave a sh*t-ton of Celtic memorabilia to, was it, wee Big George’s Fan Club?

     

     

    Wonder what happened to thum?

  6. aipple

     

     

    Since you are are back on;

     

    Aipple@1.47pm

     

    That describes the ESTA/VWProgram system as it is ‘now’. The proposed changes which I referred to @ 1.34pm, based on EO 14161 (Jan 2025) are currently being reviewed and open to participation until Feb 9 2026, will if implemented mean that all applicants, including those from these Isles, will be “vetted to the max”. Big Brother doesn’t even begin to cover it.

  7. Kev racist

     

     

    You should get involved in Palestinian Action a rowdy mix of taigs huns,a range of jewry and followers of islam.

     

     

    The range of people would impress you,all classed as invaders once by the amoebic brains you read now.

     

     

    You only highlight the division raging in your head by introducing an obscure form of sectarianism known only to you and your shallow brain.

  8. Maolmuire O Muirgheasa on

    When ignorance attempts to disguise itself as intelligence, the result is a uniquely human form of tragic comedy.

  9. THELURKINTIM re: idiots

     

     

    Ha! This one in the bluegrass enjoys the company of others.

     

     

    Saw elsewhere that we don’t have scouts we have 3 cubs, 2 girl guides and a brownie.

     

     

    Made this idiot chuckle.

  10. @TLT…Your right mate

     

    Name from our past….Big G..and Wee Star G who hated lenny lol..

     

    Jeez time flies and brain slows.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    t

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Sar

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    U

  11. CELTIC MAC re: vet max

     

     

    If only Vet Max was the name of a new center forward.

     

     

    Sister and family coming over in Spring. Just got the approval.

     

     

    I killed all social media during his first term. Green card holder and not a citizen. Many have had their wings clipped.

  12. Dry January is super easy if you just sneak upon to your attic to post in CQN whilst drinking your smuggled beer.

     

     

    Looval lover proud.

     

     

    Off to watch News Night for a laugh.

  13. Aipple…Reading your post about your family coming home?

     

    If they need somewhere to stay they are welcome to stay in Inverclyde.

  14. DRAMBOWIECELT re: sister

     

     

    My sis is coming over to KY for a couple of weeks my good man.

     

     

    Good wee base here if anyone ever visits. Chicago and Nashville a few hours in opposite directions.

  15. An Tearmann on 13th January 2026 11:30 pm

     

    ……

     

     

    All young fighting age men are invaders.

     

    Refugees = Men/Women/Children = your being had!

     

    Imagine that.

     

    Who do you think has the finance for Millions of young men of fighting age to be sent into Eng, Sco, Ire, Wal, EU, travelling [flying on luxury flights] thousands of miles past their own countries that don’t have any wars in them?

     

    Who financed the Atlantic Slave Trade?

     

    I’ll give you a clue – it wizny White people.

     

    No matter what Hollywood bs says.

     

    Who is financing the burning to the ground of South America [Latin America]?

     

    Who had the money to finance the World Wide Plandemic De-Population event ongoing since 2020?

     

    Who financed the UK government to kill its population with vaccines since 2020?

     

    Dr Vernon Coleman: “More People Murdered in Hospitals Than Dark Alleys.”

     

    https://expose-news.com/2026/01/07/more-people-are-murdered-in-hospitals-than/

     

    Also: “How Britain Became A Police State Under The Guise of Covid.”

     

    https://expose-news.com/2026/01/09/operation-talla/

     

    AT you need to grow up and open the curtains and look outside for once – just once will do.

     

    Stay safe oot there.

     

    HH

     

    oot.

  16. Moa o Muir…you wish you were an irritant, you’re just another suspect arsehole who’s ego outperforms their intellect

  17. World Cup gear landed today. Old retro stuff. Sitting in my attic like a 21 year old with my Wallabee’s, tracky top and beer and a shot.

     

     

    #OldAsYaFeel

     

    #OldAsYaDress

     

     

    #MidLifeCrisisSendHelp

  18. DRAMBOWIECELT re: Falkiifk

     

     

    That one of the new characters in the Game of Thrones spin off?

     

     

    I’ll get my coat.

  19. TOSB

     

     

    So given where we are who do you and all the other folks asking why are we not signing anyone (even though our traditonal rivals actually aren’t really either) thinking is actually doing this stuff ?

     

     

    You have successfully campaigned to sack plenty folk recently. You backed a manager who destroyed much of what has given us 20 years of dominance (which wasn’t good enough for you anyway) and still you moan.

     

     

    You can’t even name a club outside the top 5 leagues that you think we should aspire to be and yet you still moan and whinge. Weird imo.

     

     

    Anyway lots of folk in life do like to moan about stuff they can’t control. If you really do think you could do better then go do it.

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    THE BADA BING on 13TH JANUARY 2026 11:18 PM

     

     

    MON now doing the scouting ffs,watching videos,no data involved, an absolute shambles of a club

     

     

    ———————.

     

     

    No recruitment team ? 73 year Caretaker manager telling you that there’s only “so many phone calls he can make in a day “ It beggars belief.

     

     

    I’m glad Martin has the final say but even more glad that in his own way he calling them out, for the shambles, that they have created.

  21. Maolmuire O Muirgheasa on

    Are the supporters being asked to dig the club out of another hole that the supporters did not dig?

     

     

    Comes across as arrogance attempting to mask ignorance.

  22. Moa o Moir

     

     

    Reasonable, divisive nonsense….nobody is asking anyone to do anything…

     

     

    There is an expectation….we’ll see

  23. Master of the obvious…nobody but nobody with a brain expects our board to do anything soon…that does not make us smart

  24. Kev racist.

     

     

    So many options laid open for you all the time you default racism and division

     

     

    Racist scum like you label them invaders,

     

    That’s the least of what you label them

     

    You need to be a crown bar snorter and share a line with folk who would kill you at a drop.

     

    They are refugees kevin

     

    And you are doling out the same tropes and vomit hurled at the boats of faces and generations before,

     

    But you slurped the soup,wiped yourself down with the flag,

     

     

    Thee Kev Racist.

     

    You are a unionist now

     

    20 years and still nowhere near.

     

    Your sap with sap sources

     

    Just a dirty racist underneath it eh kevracist

     

    Black people,brown people,you hate.

     

    Easy being hun like after 20 years of nuhhin

     

    A void you fill with racism

     

    Long may you be crippled inside kevracist

     

    Pity your heid is in̈vaded with racism

     

    Your heid is a septic tank for every crank site goin

     

     

    Still does not answer what will those refugees sumdi in a hoos in Blant’rr,

     

    You and I know it dont affect your pip so why are you a gullible sap to every right wing scum site goin.

     

    Blame the immigrant,be the richmans usable rag

     

    Scum

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