The Offical Glasgow Celtic thread

[bennydorano]

Yip, I'd be of the same opinion.

[tonto1888]

Mixed feelings about this,the Lions achievement was far greater as they had a great Rangers team to deal with and the gap between them and the other teams in Scotland was not nearly as great in terms of finance and squad size.

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[From the Bunker]

Mixed feelings about this,the Lions achievement was far greater as they had a great Rangers team to deal with and the gap between them and the other teams in Scotland was not nearly as great in terms of finance and squad size.

The Lions achievement is only beaten on paper. The man on the street knows the reality. Anyway until a Celtic team wins the Champions League they can't be thought of in the same terms as the Lions. Jez, One of the best seasons and teams Celtic ever had was in 2003 and they won nothing that year!

[JimStynes]

So is Brendan a good manager then? I haven't been in this thread for a while.

[Main Street]

No, I can't enjoy Celtic's run of form this year because ........ they are not as good as the Lisbon Lions   
Brendan's side have not achieved much .....   because they are not as good as the Lisbon Lions 

Strike me dead on the spot for thinking Roberts was a ringer for Jimmy Johnstone 

You fools just willingly fall head over heels into the thread Troll's maze of contradictions.

[bennydorano]

Dont recall that type of trolling at all.

[MoChara]

Mixed feelings about this,the Lions achievement was far greater as they had a great Rangers team to deal with and the gap between them and the other teams in Scotland was not nearly as great in terms of finance and squad size.

I think they were busy in Europe as well that year if remember right 

Still a great achievement especially for a new manager still mainly using the players of the previous regime, and considering the response if this time last year someone was to ask if you thought we'd be breaking records any time soon.

[Hectic]

Disappointing that we have not been making more progress in shaping the squad this month though.

[MoChara]

Disappointing that we have not been making more progress in shaping the squad this month though.

We've got that young fella Ebouie in and I'd say Henry Onyekuru will be signed today or tomorrow, I honestly don't really see any position we are desperate to get a new player in for at the minute.

[stew]

Disappointing that we have not been making more progress in shaping the squad this month though.

We've got that young fella Ebouie in and I'd say Henry Onyekuru will be signed today or tomorrow, I honestly don't really see any position we are desperate to get a new player in for at the minute.

Goalkeeper maybe?

[Hectic]

No we are not desperate for any position but good and all as we are doing we want to be trying to make the team/squad better every window - aiming high and all that.  European qualifiers will be kicking off not long after business opens in the summer and it would be nice to have guys bedded in before then which would have meant getting them now.  That said if we have specific targets and they are not available until the summer then fair enough.  In terms of positions needing filled I think we are still a bit short at CAM with the injury prone/ stamina short Rogic our best option by a distance.  And even for the area behind him we could probably do with getting some more quality in as Brown will not last forever, Biton is never going to be the answer nor is McGregor at the top level.  The new Kid and Armstrong could be fixtures but I still think that is a shallow enough pool right now.

[MoChara]

No we are not desperate for any position but good and all as we are doing we want to be trying to make the team/squad better every window - aiming high and all that.  European qualifiers will be kicking off not long after business opens in the summer and it would be nice to have guys bedded in before then which would have meant getting them now.  That said if we have specific targets and they are not available until the summer then fair enough.  In terms of positions needing filled I think we are still a bit short at CAM with the injury prone/ stamina short Rogic our best option by a distance.  And even for the area behind him we could probably do with getting some more quality in as Brown will not last forever, Biton is never going to be the answer nor is McGregor at the top level.  The new Kid and Armstrong could be fixtures but I still think that is a shallow enough pool right now.

I take what you mean, our problem is we have to develop and spot talent to improve the positions, that takes a lot of time and effort, where as the like of the EPL teams can just throw money at a recognized name. I think this definitely narrows our options to improve rather than maintain in January if the people we've got scouted aren't for sale were bunched.


Bitons a Balloon and as your say Rogic can suffer physically I think that's the logic behind the potential new recruit Onyekuru, with Ebouie a likely alternative to Brown.



As Stew says maybe a Goalkeeper, but goal keepers go on forever so could be another 3 to 4 years in Gordon (if we kept him this window I can't see him going any other time), Du Vries doesn't look like a good fit and might even been gone soon himself. That'd have to be the focus of the next signing I suppose.

[lenny]

Listen if someone comes waving a £20m cheque at Lawwell and Co for any Celtic player their hand will be taken off,just like Mc Geady was bundled on the first plane to Moscow when Spartak Moscow came with a £10m cheque

Mcgeady was sold because he was a  2 or 3 million player and we got offered 10 million. Dembele is at least a 20 million stiker and in another year he will still be worth at least that or likely a good bit more because he is an all round striker, he's strong, powerful, can hold the ball up and he's a very good finisher.   If we got offered 50 or 60 million now we might consider it but that'd be the only way he'd be sold this month.

Is your full name Lenny Henry? 

Chelsea have offered 40m for dembele, not as funny an estimation now.

[JimStynes]

Arm taken clean off for that sort of money!

[MoChara]

Have to say I'd have him out the door for that sort of cash, especially when we have a 40 goal striker on the bench