There’s turmoil in the Zenit St Petersburg squad. Two players, striker Artem Dzyuba and midfielder Oleg Shatov, are in conflict with the club and will not travel to their winter training camp in Dubai.
Both players are current Russia internationals; Dzyuba scored eight goals in the Euro 2016 qualifiers, making him the country’s top scorer in the tournament. Zenit face Copenhagen in Dubai on Monday, the first of six friendly games, before they face their first competitive game of 2018, in Glasgow, four weeks tomorrow. Their last game was on 11 December.
Some poor Celtic scout will be charged with taking in Zenit’s three games in Dubai next week. It is a thankless job.
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WITS
Backed horse at 20’s cheers !
GUYFAWKESAFOREVERHERO, just blinkin got that stupid me.hh.
BSR @ 5.20
Only Big Jimmy knows – as the hoose was empty ;-)
Just herd it moooted that Compper is out with a calf injury ,suppose it gives BR more time to shoe horn him into the team to see what he cud do ,then again maybe he,s just milking the publicity .
I’ll get ma coat
Did we receive a fee for Liam or was he out of contract?
If Theo Walcott is worth £20M its another reminder of the difficult position we find ourselves in
during the transfer windows
Scott Sinclair at £3M was an absolute steal and potentially it makes Stuart Armstrong worth more
than the figures mentioned by MSM.
Celtic need to dig in and demand top dollar, if we decide to sell from a six time champions squad.
Lunny coming up on shortbread. Obviously not busy with anything else!
If Hendry is signing, maybe best to get him in now rather than loan him back….
I thought December would be a tough month for the bhoys as the amount of games we had up to the end of the year would IMO catch up with us .
I am glad we got through the year with one defeat ,too many draws though ,at CP in particular .
I expect that to be addressed in the 2nd part of the season and the bhoys to push on and put more light between us and the rest .
Looking forward to the games starting with sat
CMON THE HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPS
HH
FERGUSSLAYEDTHEBLUES…
Thanks for the like and repost this morning…
Bit of unbridled rant but in the name I meant it:)
Hail Hail
Hi Bhoys
Whatever happened to this bhoy
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KEEP THE FAITH
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VG
Duško Tošić
Душко Тошић
Contract dissolved at Werder Bremen in Feb 2010
(‘…Dusko Tosic were the players who had often been the subject of much discussion and unrest. Tosic caused a stir at the end. The left-back made a move to Duisburg to look for a club in England, but is now without a club there. After an unsuccessful search, there is no return to the Weser – the contract is dissolved…’ From MWZ Online)
Joins Portsmouth as they enter liquidation February 2010
Loaned to QPR until end of Season
July 2010 joins Red Star Belgrade on a Free Transfer.
August 2011 Red Star Loan player to Real Betis, Loan Fee of 270k reported. (One appearance). A 2 Year Loan
January 2012 returns to Red Star.
July 2012 joins Genclerbirligi Ankara for 540k, reported
July 2015 joins Besiktas on a Free Transfer.
Besiktas win the Turkish League twice. Dusko making 53 appearances.
On 17th January 2018 reports emerge that Celtic Plc have offered €2.65m for the 32 year old services. He’ll be 33 on the 19th of January………………
https://everipedia.org/wiki/Du%25C5%25A1ko_To%25C5%25A1i%25C4%2587/
https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/dusko-tosic/verletzungen/spieler/17184
I read with no little despair the quotes from Brendan on the BBC website.
Having clearly stated he needs central defenders he now says he is fine (even with the injury). There then follows what I can only describe as pedroesque nonsense.
Meanwhile as another poster has pointed out the new media tactic is for the media to find ways to try and depress incoming transfer fees for Celtic while, completely bizarrely they roll out Huns like Ian McCall to say transfer fees for the Huns should be halved (when they want to buy).
Meanwhile paul67 trots out more squirrels whilst simultaneously ignoring what has frankly been an appalling transfer window for Celtic thus far. Rudderless and directionless (unless of course you only care about money). A combination of a lack of u coming transfer activity and injuries combing th further weaken Celtic.
Whilst of course avoiding talk of outrageous ticket prices for the Europa game.
Money money money mixed with corruption lies and propaganda.
What’s not to like eh?
GLASSTWOTHIRDSFULL on 17TH JANUARY 2018 6:33 PM
Lunny coming up on shortbread. Obviously not busy with anything else
Where is he now ?
Saying Lunny is the former compliance officer. Who is it now?
EMBDY?
GLENDALYSTONSILS on 17TH JANUARY 2018 6:30 PM
Did we receive a fee for Liam or was he out of contract?
We now have 23 outfield players on first team squad of which 5 are currently on injured list.
The remaining 18 include the seldom played Miller & Gamboa.
Effectively leaving 16 players vying for 10 starting slots plus 4 /5 on the bench.
Hope we don’t pick up any more injuries.
Why is everyone worried about this Carillion thing? Liquidation is no big deal. There’s no appetite for all this attention on it. People should stop taking over the coals and move on.
Once the carillion holding company vehicle has been dealt with and a small fine paid I’m sure everyone gets to keek their jobs and the ever lasting carillion continue with an uninterrupted history.
Easy.
getting conflicting signals hear bhoys, someone who i trust said without doubt vincent lunny is a tim ,anyone confirm or deny.hh.
GLENDALYSTONSILS
I think it’s a loan till the end of the season. He is then out of contract.
NEGANON2 – 7:00 PM
“I read with no little despair…”
:o))
CORKCELT
Might be able to get a team prediction right then!!!
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
Thanks for that. I couldn’t see any mention of a fee on any of the Newsnow articles.
Disappointed to lose such a promising youngster who has come through our development system,
but I would be even more disappointed to think we were losing him for nothing.
GTTF
Tony McLenaghan not sure if that is the correct spelling.
I hate to see any player leave Celtic bar a few exceptions.
I know we’d end up with a squad of 376 or so and a wage bill of £450 million a year.
That’s probably why I don’t have Peter Lawwell’s job.
Guyfawkesaforeverhero @ 6.03
Neganon @ 7.00
I would not say I am as down about this month as you guys are but as I said yesterday in agreement with Gordybhoy64 I am somewhat underwhelmed with this ‘window’ to date. Signing a centre back approaching the twilight of his career ( sorry for the cliche) who will not be eligible for what remains of our European campaign seemed a bit lacklustre to me even before he got injured though hopefully when he is fit he will be good. There is a fortnight to go of this month so maybe there will be more arrivals.
I know from reading other things on the web that signing a ‘crock’ centre back is apparently par for the course for Celtic but between the days we signed McCarthy, Elliott, Gillespie & Mowbray and then 24 years later Jozo what other centre halves did we actually sign who were ‘sick notes’? I am not sure if this impression that we sign such players is accurate or not.
Jimbo67
Liam’s contract with Bari is a permanent contract ghuys.
Hail Hail
CorkCelt
Something makes me think Calvin Miller is injured disappeared after playing ok I thought, certainly worth more game time.
We will need to go some in the next 14 days to come out of the transfer window stronger than we entered it. Hoping we are no just content to stagger over the line in the league this year!
GLASSTWOTHIRDSFULL on17TH JANUARY 2018 7:08 PM
Saying Lunny is the former compliance officer. Who is it now?
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The current Compliance Officer is Tony McGlennan.
Lunny said something interesting about his role which is to look at evidence, check if any rules have been broken and put a case to a Judicial Panel who either agree or disagree.
That evidence gathering is underway and -speculating – one item that was gathered could be interesting.
GLASSTWOTHIRDSFULL on 17TH JANUARY 2018 7:08 PM
Saying Lunny is the former compliance officer. Who is it now?
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Vincent Lunny was replace by Tony McGlennan, as to their allegiences a quick read of FF will give you a flavour, as they are in no doubt as to their background,but they would,everyone else is to blame for their mess.
Apologies double post system hiccup.
C,mon Celtic,spend billions.Wait a minute Celtic,dont charge too much for ra gemmes.Think aboot the babees,
A father and his 7 kids cant afford it.Wit aboot the babbees.
C,mon Celtic,sign a Centre Half that can come right into the team.”Aaarggh,a CH at 32,FFS,too old.I dont care if he is experienced with a shedfull of CL games,he is too expensive at that price,and too old.Why cant we sign a young CH,with massive scope to improve.”Like Ajer”.No,not him,another guy.Problem is,we wont spend any money.”We are trying to spend 3 million on a 32 year old”See what I mean,penny pinching.”There are 2 weeks left until the window closes.”Yeh,same old excuses.Neganon was right”.So you wont wait until the window closes to moan”.No I wont,far too much for Zenit tickets,how will the Babbees afford to watch.That will do to be going on with,until later.
Thanks for the replies everyone.
The name does ring a bell now, although it doesn’t seem to crop up anywhere near as much as Lunny’s did a couple of years back.
This guy Hendry at Dundee, I mean, how good is he??? Is he better than our current central defenders, or some of our young guns, I don’t know.
AND, I’d be a bit pissed off giving our money to that midget in Dundee
KINGLuBO
IMO Lunny appearing on bbc shortbread tonight is no coincidence and is the SFA ,s latest attempt to pave the way for the whitewash ,we all anticipate .
I will have a listen back on the podcast
All too convenient if you ask me
HH
JIMMYNOTPAUL on 17TH JANUARY 2018 7:33 PM
Liam’s contract with Bari is a permanent contract ghuys.
Hail Hail
Thank God for that.Fed up with the usual suspects bringing up his name,as if he were some sort of genius.He was a decent player,nothing else.4 managers agree with me,but dont let that stop you.
Good luck to the kid.