The Offical Glasgow Celtic thread

[Over the Bar]

Forster to join Southampton for £10m

Not a bad bit of business when you have £9M Craig Gordon as reserve keeper! 

[stew]

Forster to join Southampton for £10m

Not a bad bit of business when you have £9M Craig Gordon as reserve keeper!

What good does it do the squad? They wont spend it on new players to strengthen the squad.

[Syferus]

Forster to join Southampton for £10m

Not a bad bit of business when you have £9M Craig Gordon as reserve keeper!

Or in the real world a player so severely injured he has been out of football totally since 2012. He was a punt and little else by Celtic.

[lynchbhoy]

I'd actually rate zaluska higher than inj prone Gordon right now.
Zaluska has been poor enough for Celtic but pre Celtic he was the best keeper in the spl in his last season for Dundee utd before signing for Celtic

There's another very highly rated young keeper who played some pre season that also is in contention. A good keeper is required but a stronger defence more urgent - as the highly rated conceded 6 v legia ( a couple of them quite soft too)

Hope the manager gets to spend some of the funds- plus he has said he has targeted a few players he wants to bring in. So not all bad.

6 million profit on Forster not too bad. A new exp keeper for free!
That's the modern Celtic way until they get into English league!

[charlieTully]

Celtic under 21s have been asked to join EPL under 21 league along with other European clubs.

http://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/spfl/celtic-under-21-team-asked-to-join-english-elite-1-3500328

[muppet]

http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/28732601

Champions League: Legia Warsaw ask Celtic for one-off tie

Legia Warsaw have issued an open letter to Celtic requesting a one-off match to decide which side should progress to the Champions League play-off round.

At the time of writing Celtic has not responded.

In another development, Football Association of Ireland President, John Delaney, has offered to play Legia Warsaw in a one-off tie to determine if the Republic of Ireland should go to the 2010 World Cup Finals in South Africa. The Republic were famously denied when France 'scored' after a deliberate handball by former BBC pundit, Thierry Handball Henry.

FIFA have not officially commented on the proposal, although a we'll placed source said 'I have never heard such arse in my life, do theses c*nts ever wise up?'.

[Itchy]

Celtic were piss poor and should offer a replay and not hide behind the rules.

[SHEEDY]

celtic should have been the ones to offer a replay.

[Syferus]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2720870/Celtic-ignored-calls-emails-let-Legia-Warsaw-Champions-League-place-says-Polish-football-chief.html

Desperate stuff from Warsaw. It's a tough break but rules are rules.

[Over the Bar]

Ridiculous decision but it's not as if Celtic lodged a complaint, UEFA acted unprompted AFAIK.

The starting point in any situation such as this needs to be "Did the club gain, or seek to gain, any advantage?"  If the answer is no then the result should stand regardless of a rule break.

   

[general]

Gordon is a top class keeper, even if he is Hearts through and through. While he has had major injury problems for the last 2/3 seasons there is no doubt about his quality and if Celtic could manage to get him fit and manage him properly he could prove a shrewd signing.

I read today on sky sports that celtic are in talks about a loan move for Tonev of Aston Villa. Don't know much about him but IMO if he can't get a game for villa then why should celtic consider. If it was a possibility I would like to see Kevin Doyle at celtic. Think he has more or less been told to find a club by Wolves

[straightred]

celtic should have been the ones to offer a replay.

Eh ? Celtic aren't the lawmakers and the chances are that if they did something like this then they'd end up getting punished themselves. This has absolutely nothing to do with Celtic and legia are acting like kids. They messed up and were awarded a 0-3 result which ended up putting them out. UEFA will not want any precedents to be set - they administer the rules and not the clubs.

[general]

I know it wasn't an ineligible player but I don't think France offered us a replay? Still haven't forgot that too.

At the end of the day, it was uefa's decision, can't see them changing it now!

Take what ya get

[SHEEDY]

celtic should have been the ones to offer a replay.

Eh ? Celtic aren't the lawmakers and the chances are that if they did something like this then they'd end up getting punished themselves. This has absolutely nothing to do with Celtic and legia are acting like kids. They messed up and were awarded a 0-3 result which ended up putting them out. UEFA will not want any precedents to be set - they administer the rules and not the clubs.

UEFA will never sanction a replay, rules are rules and all that. what I should have said was that celtic should have offered a replay, UEFA never would allow it, but celtic would have looked good out of it for at least offering a replay.

[Itchy]

Celtic should consult with Meath GAA on how yo do the right thing, basically just do the opposite to what Meath do!