The Offical Glasgow Celtic thread

[Muzz]

Queens Park Rangers and Wolves have enquired about the availability of Celtic striker Gary Hooper

Not good news - cant see Celtic selling him either.

[Pat Mustard]

QPR don't want Hooper.

Samaras turns down 2 offers.

[Muzz]

Blackburn and Sunderland have 'tabled offers' for Georgios Samaras, according to his agent and are offering him more cash than the Greek striker is on at Celtic, too, reports BBC Sport's Matt Slater. However, the agent thinks a deal is less than 50/50 likely to happen, as Celtic want more money.

[Pat Mustard]

Can't see that being accurate as we've tried to sell him to half of Europe today.

[lynchbhoy]

Just watched the obligatory youtube video, obviously he seems good from that(zurawski looked amazing). Would have liked Diawara as well, apparantly it may still happen in Jan.
Hopefully gettin rid of Maloney and Samaras, but I'm probably just being hopeful and both will fall through.

Apparantly huns turned down £6.5m for Jelavic from Leicester. Which makes a mockery of whoever said on here a few pages back Murphy was as good as him, since we had to gift Murphy to Ipswich.

tor andre flo for £10 million ring any bells...
he was brilliant alright...

[Tubberman]

I just heard on Radio 1 that the Wilson guy who was in court for assaulting Neil Lennon in the Hearts match has been cleared of assault   

Even yer man Boucher Hayes was shocked. He said "I remember seeing those pictures. Hmmm....maybe it's better not to say anything."

[tyroneman]

Yr man got off the assault charge in non sectarian, bias free Scotland.....remarkable

[Orior]

Yr man got off the assault charge in non sectarian, bias free Scotland.....remarkable

Thats crazy.

Also did you see how the possible Sion reversal was reported in the press? It was along the lines "The SFA will actually back Celtic in this matter".  Why didnt the dogs in the street tell me that the SFA dont normally back Scottish teams?

[Minder]

Celts back in Europa Cup

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Probably go on and get to the latter stages now

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[Gaoth Dobhair Abu]

Well back in Europe albeit by the "backdoor", doesn't matter if we qualify from the group, it's experience for the players and a few extra euros, good result.

Hail hail

[Gaoth Dobhair Abu]

Decision on Sion's appeal due at 3pm, but they have already indicated that they will take it to the Court of Arbitration!

[Muzz]

Uefa has thrown it out...according to Sky Sports News.

[Gaoth Dobhair Abu]

Bhoys in Europe

Atletico Madrid    v    Celtic

Celtic travelled to Spain for their first Europa League group encounter without captain Scott Brown and striker Anthony Stokes, who are both injured.

Centre-half Daniel Majstorovic is suspended, while full-back Badr El-Kaddouri, on loan from Dynamo Kiev, is cup-tied for the tournament.

Atletico Madrid are minus five players.

Goalkeeper Joel, Brazilian left-back Filipe Luis, Portugal full-back Silvio, midfielder Assuncao and winger Juanfran y Pulido have been left out the squad.

Luis and Silvio are the only two players unavailable to coach Gregorio Manzano from the Atletico team that lost to Valencia at the weekend, with the other three absentees having been on the bench for that 1-0 defeat.

Celtic assistant Johan Mjallby hopes both Brown and Stokes can recover in time for the weekend visit to Ibrox in the Scottish Premier League.

Brown is resting an ankle problem with a view to being fit for Sunday's Old Firm derby against leaders Rangers, while Stokes picked up a thigh strain in training.

"I think it is too early to say," explained Swedish coach Mjallby.

"Unfortunately, they will not be available for tomorrow night, but they still have a chance for Sunday.

"Anthony has a thigh strain. He shouldn't be too bad, but we were surprised to see that he picked it up in training yesterday and that's it, we have to deal with it."



Alot to prove tonight, would love an historic away victory, but would settle for a battling draw 

Come the Hoops!

Hail Hail