The Offical Glasgow Celtic thread

[ned]

I'll tell ya, something is not right. Selling Dembele, Comper to be sold and Boyata. WTF and no signings. This has to be one of the worst transfer window I've ever witnessed at celtic. Unless celtic have 3 gems up their sleeve and they're keeping it quiet so no other club sneaks in before them then things are about to get bad. I seriously can't see BR standing for this, I know for a fact as he told me to my face that's why NL left as Lawell was selling his players and not replacing them...
I can tell u if Sevco get anything from Sundays game and Celtic do not have 2-3 great signings ready the support will go ballistic, you wanna hear them already on some of the their forums and the worst is yet to happen.

if Dembele goes and there's no decent signings, Rodgers will surely walk.

Strange goings on. MON also walked in part due to imminent purging of playing staff, in terms of quality. I know there were other reasons but it appears to be a constant cycle. We are relatively well off so lack of investment is odd.
We have perhaps struck it lucky with Forrest, McGregor and Tierney coming through, Gordon on a free, Brown having two seasons at his best, Dembele proving to be a massive success for little outlay. However, Simunovic, Compper, Kouassi and laterally Sinclair have cost a considerable amount from Celtic's point of view and have not delivered. Boyata was almost in that category until his renaissance last year. Lustig is waning, Griffiths appears eternally injured so as a lot fell nicely to give us great success for two years, equally a lot is transpiring to erode all that work. Lawwell is the major factor and unless he comes out with a valid reason, not soundbites, for the recent inactivity he has to go.

[Main Street]

I'd say get shod of Dembele, a brilliant player when fully fit in some games between his constant run of injuries. Celtic can't depend on an injury plagued striker, no matter how talented he is. Griffiths has his injuries as well but he always seem to bounce back with a verve and hits the ground running.

[Targetman]

Apparently Celtic have rejected Lyons's bid for Dembele, if true he'll definitely go in January, have to agree he's injured far too much, come to think of it so is Edouard and Griff, anyway on to Sunday and the Huns, I'll take a 1-0 now as we're not great at the minute but this game could be just whats needed to get things going again, hopefully  put 2/3 past the zombies!!

[paddyjohn]

Dembele just put out a very cryptic tweet.. We'll do well to hold on to him.

[tippabu]

Dembele just put out a very cryptic tweet.. We'll do well to hold on to him.

Hes having a pop at rodgers

[Applesisapples]

Dembele just put out a very cryptic tweet.. We'll do well to hold on to him.

Hes having a pop at rodgers

Is he or is it at Lawell?

[illdecide]

Think it's Rodgers, Dembele liked a tweet from C Sutton saying Rodgers had lied about selling him (or along those lines)

[Dire Ear]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/45363927
Brendan Rodgers is eager to keep Moussa Dembele, while signing Filip Benkovic and Youssouf Mulumbu

[nrico2006]

Dunno why there is a big fuss about Dembele anyway, his goal record is average enough in Scotland.  I laughed at the talk of £40 and £50 million pound bids for him a while back, there have been players who have scored more than him going for under a million.

[lynchbhoy]

I'd say get shod of Dembele, a brilliant player when fully fit in some games between his constant run of injuries. Celtic can't depend on an injury plagued striker, no matter how talented he is. Griffiths has his injuries as well but he always seem to bounce back with a verve and hits the ground running.

Fully agree
I'd have sold him a year ago when his stock was higher after a good season... but after all his injuries 20 million might be as much as he might fetch...as opposed for the 30 million or more he coukd have gone for in the pre world cup year signing frenzy !!

[illdecide]

Celtic striker Moussa Dembele has completed a £19.7m move to Lyon, the French club have said.

The Scottish champions announced on Friday night that they had accepted an offer for the French under-21 forward.

The Ligue 1 club's president Jean-Michel Aulas said Dembele has signed a five-year deal.

Manager Brendan Rodgers said earlier on Friday that a "significant" bid had been rejected for the 22-year-old, and that he did not expect him to be sold.

However, in a statement, Rodgers said the fresh bid had been accepted "to serve the best interests" of "the culture and environment" at Celtic.

"The board have been very supportive to me on this issue," Rodgers added.

Dembele sat out Thursday's win over Suduva after Lyon's bid emerged.

The France Under-21 international later posted two tweets, containing messages which read: "A man, without his word, is nothing. A real man keeps his word", and "A lie has many variations, the truth has none".

On Friday, he made a brief appearance on the club's Lennoxtown training pitch before retreating indoors.

He is two years into a four-year contract with the Scottish champions.

[Over the Bar]

£20M decent enough. Which posters suggested last year he wouldn't be sold for less than £30-£40M?

[ned]

Dembele has the ability to be one of the best, injuries permitting. He is only 20 and either injury lay offs will lessen with time or he will be like Michael Owen and has peaked young. If all falls kindly he will eventually be sold for a similar fee to VVD. Sorry to see him go especially so late and no replacement coming in.

[Milltown Row2]

With all the crap going on is Rangers 4/1 not worth a cheeky £20?

[nrico2006]

Dembele has the ability to be one of the best, injuries permitting. He is only 20 and either injury lay offs will lessen with time or he will be like Michael Owen and has peaked young. If all falls kindly he will eventually be sold for a similar fee to VVD. Sorry to see him go especially so late and no replacement coming in.

He is 22. His scoring record in Scotland wasn't very impressive.