The Offical Glasgow Celtic thread

[JimStynes]

Should be ok now! Nothing ever straight forward for Sellic though.

[tonto1888]

Ah we were just making it interesting. Looking forward to Thursday now. Hope we get someone who isn't Barcelona

[stew]

Bitton was absolutely dire in the centre of that defence, and I mean dire, not his fault however what he is doing on the left touchline is beyond me, Rodgers needs to blood this south African to see if he has got the skills/instincts to fill that position, even if he does you need cover and a couple more signings would be needed to be competitive in the CL group stages.

Hope Celtic meet a lesser light than Barca, real, Inter or Bayern as the first pot teams.

2 years in a row at te top table, happy days. )

[StGallsGAA]

Which centre half should Celtic buy now?  John Terry would've been some addition for one season in the CL.

[illdecide]

Which centre half should Celtic buy now?  John Terry would've been some addition for one season in the CL.

Agreed but prob getting about £60k a week at Villa

[StGallsGAA]

Which centre half should Celtic buy now?  John Terry would've been some addition for one season in the CL.

Agreed but prob getting about £60k a week at Villa

Probably but Villa don't have a £30M CL windfall so on that basis Celtic could afford JT....

[Main Street]

Celtic were the width of the Seville post from getting into pot 3.

[lenny]

Which centre half should Celtic buy now?  John Terry would've been some addition for one season in the CL.

Agreed but prob getting about £60k a week at Villa

Probably but Villa don't have a £30M CL windfall so on that basis Celtic could afford JT....

Villa get a £90M parachute payment from the EPL which dwarves the riches Celtic have to work hard to get in the champions league.

[tonto1888]

Celtic were the width of the Seville post from getting into pot 3.

I have faith in Liverpool to blow it tomorrow night

[illdecide]

Which centre half should Celtic buy now?  John Terry would've been some addition for one season in the CL.

Agreed but prob getting about £60k a week at Villa

Probably but Villa don't have a £30M CL windfall so on that basis Celtic could afford JT....

Villa get a £90M parachute payment from the EPL which dwarves the riches Celtic have to work hard to get in the champions league.

CORRECT

[Main Street]

A boring 0-0 will do me rightly today

Maybe another day for that boring nil nil to do rightly

[StGallsGAA]

Which centre half should Celtic buy now?  John Terry would've been some addition for one season in the CL.

Agreed but prob getting about £60k a week at Villa

Probably but Villa don't have a £30M CL windfall so on that basis Celtic could afford JT....

Villa get a £90M parachute payment from the EPL which dwarves the riches Celtic have to work hard to get in the champions league.

CORRECT

Granted. So which experienced center halves should Celtic sign then?

[Main Street]

£3m+ p/a and signing on fee for an elderly player who is just about functional at championship level and who has already signed a contract with them, is hardly worth a discussion.

I can't think of many elderly players who performed for Celtic, Toure was grand for a few games and then he got older. RMK played out the last few games of his career at Celtic.
I like the look of Ajer, obviously it's dicey putting a 19 yo in at the deep end (when needs must), but he looks very mature considering.

Shoulda held onto Efe

[MoChara]

Bitton was absolutely dire in the centre of that defence, and I mean dire, not his fault however what he is doing on the left touchline is beyond me, Rodgers needs to blood this south African to see if he has got the skills/instincts to fill that position, even if he does you need cover and a couple more signings would be needed to be competitive in the CL group stages.

Hope Celtic meet a lesser light than Barca, real, Inter or Bayern as the first pot teams.

2 years in a row at te top table, happy days. )

Bitton is garbage anyway he's a poor mans Rogic and the laziest f**ker on the park, I was hoping we'd be shot of him this summer.

[Hectic]

Aye so not unlike Celtic to bring a bit of drama somewhere along the line in qualifying.

Centre Back a worry in ways but at the same time we have been unlucky as well with injuries.  Under normal circumstances there would have been the option of playing either or both or Tierney and Lustig there with Gamboa or Izzy coming in at full back though with one injured and the other away plus the number of injuries at CB we were literally down to the bones.

However this does happen.  Hard to know.  We probably need cover at LB for a start though that might hinder the development of the very promising Miller, we have signed a new CB but it would be a bonus if he hits the ground running while the like of Ajer will also develop though maybe another loan would do him no harm.  I have never been fully convinced by Boyata and Erik seems to have went backwards over the past year so if we were looking at adding another in there you would think it would be on the basis of Erik being shipped out.

Not bad all the same that we managed to get through qualifying last year with a defence including Efe and O Connell and this year with Biton and Ajer playing a fair bit.  For me the biggest negative was the first 5 mins of the second half last night.  We cannot afford to go to sleep like that against any standard of opposition let alone what we face in CL.