The Offical Glasgow Celtic thread

[From the Bunker]

Good to see an Irish Lad at Celtic and I hope it goes well. I don't think Idah is quality. I hope I'm wrong. Norwich a team looking for Promotion from the Championship last season - put a forward out on loan.

He'll do ok in Scotland. But Europe is where the money can be made from advancing in competitions.

[lenny]

Idah of course is worth 9m. You can have it both ways. Celtic always penny pinching, buying lads almost out on contract or getting them on loan. This is what the market is for players like Idah that are in contract. I think it's a good buy. Saying he'll have to score 30 goals to justify it is rubbish, he's not that type of player.

Totally agree, Rodgers made him his number one priority signing so that says a lot. He's seen him in action for 6 months and believes he's worth that so I'd trust that more than a few keyboard warriors.

[Main Street]

From a championship transfer fee perspective  8 - 9m is the going rate and is not outragious for a player like Idah, it's just frustrating that value increased immensely by virtue of his time at Celtic.
Though compared to Maeda 2m, Kyogo 4.5m,  Hatate 1.4, Idah's fee is highway robbery.
Celtic have no proper staff to identify good players from East Europe and beyond. Ange brought those players in on his initiative as well as Mooy on a free.

[ONeill]

Surprised that Celtic's record transfer fee is around 9m. I just thought it would be much more than that.

That sort of puts it in perspective.

[blanketattack]

Surprised that Celtic's record transfer fee is around 9m. I just thought it would be much more than that.

That sort of puts it in perspective.

Yeah, Rangers paid €18m for Flo 24 years ago.

[tonto1888]

what is the actual fee? 9.5m is what it can possibly rise to

[marty34]

what is the actual fee? 9.5m is what it can possibly rise to

I think £8.5m plus a sell on fee?
Stand to be corrected.

I notice a lot more of fees not being mentioned these days.  Just says 'a fee was agreed between X and Y'.

Is that to do with financial fair play at clubs?

[marty34]

Surprised that Celtic's record transfer fee is around 9m. I just thought it would be much more than that.

That sort of puts it in perspective.

Yeah, Rangers paid €18m for Flo 24 years ago.

A good joke at the time.

After a while, Rangers fans were running around with his name on the back of their jerseys and Celtic fans were saying the printers forgot the letter 'p' on the end of his name.

[tonto1888]

what is the actual fee? 9.5m is what it can possibly rise to

I think £8.5m plus a sell on fee?
Stand to be corrected.

I notice a lot more of fees not being mentioned these days.  Just says 'a fee was agreed between X and Y'.

Is that to do with financial fair play at clubs?

could well be. Does anyone pay a transfer fee up front these days?

[Main Street]

what is the actual fee? 9.5m is what it can possibly rise to

In modern days Celtic's record was set with the transfer of Hartson,Sutton Lennon and Mjallby.
The money paid for Idah is a pittance in comparison.

[From the Bunker]

Wonder how much College Corinthians in Douglas Cork get in financially from the Idah fee?

[marty34]

what is the actual fee? 9.5m is what it can possibly rise to

In modern days Celtic's record was set with the transfer of Hartson,Sutton Lennon and Mjallby.
The money paid for Idah is a pittance in comparison.

That's over 20 years ago. Celtic invested for Europe and it paid off over them years.

My point is Lawell and Board could have this Idah deal done two months ago for £3m less but they f^"ked about and put in silly offers to Norwich.  Typical Celtic. Deal for Idah should have been done in early June.

In a way Peter Lawell must be working for Atlanta re: Matt O Riley. I see they've come in with another offer, possibly their 5th offer this summer for him. WTF! If I was Celtic, I'd say, no more offers unless it's £30m - do a 'Norwich' on them.

I hope Idah does the business for  Celtic. He seems a good lad who's hapoy to be in Glasgow and is buzzing to play. His price tag was mainly to do with the Board's typical messing about - panic buy at that time.  I still think the Aberdeen lad, at £6m, would have been a great bit of business - even along with Idah. 

The key thing is that Celtic, currently, have stood still this summer.  No further on in reality. Two loan signings, now bought. I think Kasper is similar to Harte but he's a real good bit of business.

Good chance O Riley will eventually go...so Celtic will be back to square one again.

PS - I see Ireland's Sammie Szmodics has left Blackburn for Ipswich for £9m. Top scorer in championship last season. Be interesting to see how he goes this season.

[marty34]

Wonder how much College Corinthians in Douglas Cork get in financially from the Idah fee?

800k (euro) reportedly. Good boost for them.

[samuel maguire]

O'Reilly will 100% go before the end of the window, i am fairly confident of that. Do Celtic have a squad to be even half competitive in Europe? Not even close.
Idah is a decent enough striker but couldn't get a game for Championship side Norwich. How do we expect him to bang them in in Europe.
Celtic lack that spark in Europe (something Jota used to provide), O'Reilly is the only real player you would fancy to pull something out of the bag vs a decent team in Europe. The rest just are nowhere near good enough

[JimStynes]

Take the money and run with regards to O'Reilly. If he doesn't he's liable to down tools and be worth f**k all in 6 months, similar to Edouard the other year.
Celtic really do my head in with buying players though. You'd think, they'll spend that 20 odd million of 4 decent players but that won't happen. How many times over the years have they fucked about with transfers and let boys slip past. John McGinn springs to mind. And now as Marty34 has said, they've done the opposite and had to pay more than they should have for Idah. Surely Brendan Rodgers was promised signings? He did some great business the last time he was manager to be fair.