The Offical Glasgow Celtic thread

[lynchbhoy]

Here's an interesting one, The Belfast Newsletter (aka the Orange Rag) yesterday carried a letter from a named correspondent who was defending Healy's sectarian act last Saturday. The writer stated and I quote, more or less,that Healy was responding to a section of the Celtic support "who were chanting pro IRA slogans, like they do at every game". As this didn't happen, would there be a case for Celtic FC or a representative supporters group to sue either this paper or the particular correspondent for libel?

another example of
institutionalised sectarianism at its best (worst)!

GDA, as long as we dont sign the likes of him I'll be hapy - and its nothing to do with his 'flute playing' - more that he would be the kind of english championship level player that strachan seems to like buying !
Celtic need to be signing another top class international striker (and I mean top class, not the token 'international' from andorra, azerbajan or ni !)

[Rav67]

PS Any recommended Glasgow bars (outside Govan) where I can watch the Armagh AI Qtr Final after the game?

Failte is good, not sure what street it is on but it is near the city centre.

Celtic need to be signing another top class international striker (and I mean top class, not the token 'international' from andorra, azerbajan or ni !)

Are you saying Gorgeous Georgios isn't a top class internationa striker? 

[mhacadoir]

i see we are being linked with barcelona youngster marc crosas. seems to be a good player, cud be the flair player we need in centre midfield

[T Fearon]

Suspect he's a bit like Donati, who, lets face it,if he had any real potential Milan wouldn't have let him go

[Gaoth Dobhair Abu]

Here's an interesting one, The Belfast Newsletter (aka the Orange Rag) yesterday carried a letter from a named correspondent who was defending Healy's sectarian act last Saturday. The writer stated and I quote, more or less,that Healy was responding to a section of the Celtic support "who were chanting pro IRA slogans, like they do at every game". As this didn't happen, would there be a case for Celtic FC or a representative supporters group to sue either this paper or the particular correspondent for libel?

another example of
institutionalised sectarianism at its best (worst)!

GDA, as long as we dont sign the likes of him I'll be hapy - and its nothing to do with his 'flute playing' - more that he would be the kind of english championship level player that strachan seems to like buying !
Celtic need to be signing another top class international striker (and I mean top class, not the token 'international' from andorra, azerbajan or ni !)

I'm still not worried about transfers, theres a month to go and the prices at this stage of the Summer are silly, players and agents playing clubs off against each other, we cannot compete (pricewise) with the EPL and even some of the Championship clubs. So closer to the deadline we will get players we want at more realistic prices and hopefully less mercenary!  

As for Crosas, we don't need another midfielder - unless we can offload Graveson, Donati and poss Sno (although with Sno, I would hold onto him for another half a season at least).
Tamas deal just seems to be too much hassle, how many agents and clubs has the lad had in the last 4-5 years?!!

[updown9194]

Suspect he's a bit like Donati, who, lets face it,if he had any real potential Milan wouldn't have let him go

Donati signed for AC Milan for 10 Million and has played in the Serie A for a long, long time. He has more Italian U-21 caps than any other player. If that doesn't spell "potential" (if potential is the right word for a 26 year old) then I don't quite know what does. He signed for a substantial fee as well, and Milan were linked with him almost 2 months after he left to join us. He'd be a star in a team who played the system he'd be best suited to, I think.

[lynchbhoy]

Rav - I think Samaras is decent, but we need another top class striker, as JVOH imo is a bit inj prone and that leaves us with just two good ones - and you need more for the CL.

Hear Tamas has his agent back telling Celtic that he wants to join and is lowering his wage demands to what Celtic were originally offering.

Sno turned down a chance to join osasuna for 1.5Million - Strach must be going nuts !
Grav will go on a free before the start of the year as long as Celtic give him half of his loyalty fee.

I also think that at times Donati looks superb (other times he looks like an english championship level player) - he linked a few times with Jarosik last season in one touch pass and move football that only they seemed to be capable of and was streets ahead of anything the rest of the players on the park could do. I think he is capable of more and agree with Stibhan that in the right system he could do this more often and be a great player for Celtic. Need better players around him though, none of the naylors,caldwells, wilsons, sno etc

I know nothing of crosas. Still for every sno and jarosik, there is always a Lubo out there!

[T Fearon]

It seems WGS spends a big pile of money (eg Gravesen, Donati) before realising that certain players don't fit into his system.

[mhacadoir]

am i the only person who actually likes evander sno? well, ok, i think he has a lot of potential. he came on against barca in the nou camp and  was our best player in the second half. i hope he leaves, but so that he can realise his potential because as we were saying he doesn't fit into the "system".

[lynchbhoy]

am i the only person who actually likes evander sno? well, ok, i think he has a lot of potential. he came on against barca in the nou camp and  was our best player in the second half. i hope he leaves, but so that he can realise his potential because as we were saying he doesn't fit into the "system".

I dont think he is that bad, but has only showed glimpses of what he can do. Is lumbering and slow looking, when in actual fact the hoor is a quick sprinter. Am not sure that Strach has a system.
Normally this time of the year he is tinkering with his team formations etc , unfortunately this is usually in the CL qualifiers and we usually run the risk of being knocked out by some minnows like Kaunas !
Thankfully Celts are straight through to the group stages this year.

[Gaoth Dobhair Abu]

Sno turned down a chance to join osasuna for 1.5Million - Strach must be going nuts !

In that deal, Sno seemingly turned down almost double the wage he's on with us, prefering to stay and fight for his place.
Thats commitment at least and the lad is young with bags of potential, hopefully that will show itself on the pitch this season.

[T Fearon]

He could be another Bobby Petta in the making

Seriously though, could the lad ever win over the supporters now, no matter what he does?

[slow corner back]

score the winner in a couple of old firm games and he will soon win the fans over

[Rav67]

I don't think Sno or Donati have what it takes and would offload either of them for £1m each happily.  The Donati deal last summer was believed to be around £3m but WGS later said he only paid around half that so it wasn't a really big mistake and he did ok for a while.  Gives the ball away far too cheaply though for someone who was bought to be a good passer of the ball in midfield.

Was at Celtic v Cardiff in the Algarve tournament, what an awful game it was, only Darren O'Dea and young McGowan impressed me that match.  Watched the Porto game on Portugese tv, Celtic were excellent in the 1-0 win.  It was a very competitive game which Porto were going all out for as it was Baia's testimonial I think, and the crowd seemed to be at nearly full capacity.  Samaras played up on his own in a 4-5-1 which is probably how Celtic will line up away from home in the CL games this season, since JVOH just isn't mobile enough for that role and Skippy's too small.

[Gaoth Dobhair Abu]

Talk today on the net is that WGS is interested in Paul Robinson, left back from West Brom.
Baggies fans say that he is totally commited to whatever team he plays for too the point of having broken a players jaw and other players bones - has a terrible disciplinary record and failed a medical on a transfer to Wigan last year.
On the plus side he likes attacking and can put a good cross into the box, just not good at getting back and pretty poor at defending! 
Did I mention that he's 29.