Celtic Rumours Archive June 02 2013

02 Jun 2013 20:05:16
Hooper is a target for Southampton and Norwich and his replacement may well be Leigh griffiths. we are also going to have talks with Barry bannon, Slemdi sidel, and Adam le fondre

Facts

Rab the green jedi

Ad take le fondre in a min. proven scorer in the ell when he got a chance, other 2 not so sure.

Firstly your talking crap. Secondly there's only one Green Jhedi. DH

Not the sort of players I think we should be looking at Gj griffins will just be another Riorden good for hibs but couldn't cut it at a bigger club plus he carries to much baggage! Who is Slemdi sidel? Never heard of him googled him and nothing came up! Bannon and Le Fondre are avarrage at best!

No way is this true. Hooper won't be of to Norwich, if he wanted there he'd have forced a transfer in January. As for the players coming in I very much doubt that.

Well said DH! CraigyBhoy

Bannan would b great! He's a tim as well could see him at celtic for years

Only thing that was missin was fact being in caps 'FACT' lol mince mince and more mince! And there is only one Green Jhedi FACT.

S

02 Jun 2013 12:07:05
Outs:

Miku
Lassad
Gershon
Ambrosia
McCourt
Rogne

Surely with this lot all going we can free up wages to bring in a new Centre Half, LB & Creative midfielder and still cut the wage bill.
Bhoyo

I really don't think Ambrose is as bad as people make out. The guy has not been with us that long. don't get me wrong I know he can be a bomb scare at times but I have seen enough to think he could do a decent job for us. CraigyBhoy

Craigybhoy u must not watch too many games because Ambrose is 1 of the worst cbs Celtic have ever had
Scottl1888

02 Jun 2013 14:39:01
Craigbhoy I would agree with you. He is definitely made out to be worse than he is. He is capable; although, lacks consistency. Kelvin Wilson was similar in his first season. and he has been fantastic this season

Ambrose started off well then like most of our cbs he nosedived. I would move him on and get someone else in

I don't feel comfy with ambrose in the team, would rather we addressed the centre half we've required for yrs first, ball winning no nonsense centre half, prefer mulgrew in there also to deploying him in the mid

Ska bhoy

I have to agree with Scottl1888 on this one. He's a nightmare at centre half. I genuinely believe he would be better served as a defensive midfielder, just like what Chelsea have done with David Luiz. They don't trust him at centre half in the big games because of his poor concentration and tendancy to make rash tackles in and around the box. Ambrose's first game for Celtic was playing in midfield against Raith rovers in the cup and he had a great game. Had it not been for Hooper scoring 4 goals that night he would have been man of the match. I think if he's to have a future at Celtic he either has to vastly improve at centre half or be moved into midfield.

Dont think ambrose is as bad as people make out if he stops trying to beat players and just make the easy pass don't see why him and wilson can't be a good pairing

Ambrose is better at CM than CB IMO

Just Wish we would let a centre back or two settle in for a good period of time. Far too much chopping and changing in the cb positions since Mjallby and joos. It's a position players grow into and the crowd scaring them within 5 minutes of arriving does nothing for confidence.

Not sure we've seen enough of Lassad to come out either way, yeah he isn't going to be spectacular but not sure if we should get rid of him just yet. I can't see him or Ambrose leaving.
Regardless if we bring in a CB or not, would like to see Marcus Fraser or another of the young guys getting some cup games and league games next season.

Get Richard dunne in. 2-3 good years in him, experience we need and he is out of contract.

I know a lot of people don't fancy it and think he's past it but I have to agree with the post about Richard Dunne. He never had much pace so that's not the issue, I just feel his experience would be invaluable to us. He would organise that defence no problem, throws his head into anything, winning nearly every one and would put the fear into most centre forwards. We lack a player with his agression. Of course I only agree with this signing on the premise he would take a massive wage cut and passes a stringent medical after the bad injury he's just back from.

Like or Loath Ambrose, the fact is mrLennon isn't going to let him go yet, maybe 1more season to lift his game

I would like to see us give more games to fringe players with potential:

Miku - Atajic
Gershon/Rogne - Fraser
McCourt - McGeogh
Lassad (has another year contract?) - Watt

And save even more wages for a player who will be an automatic choice.

31 May 2013 19:12:33
Ed a wee question for you. Last season celtic waited to see if they qualified for the champions league and guaranteeing £20m before making a move in the transfer market yet all they brought in were Efe £900k, Miku loan and lassad free! Do you think celtic will again wait until champions league qualification before moving in the transfer market or do you think we will strengthen before hand to enhance our chances of qualification given the amount of millions we made from last years campaign?

Ice man

This is my pet hate with us failure to spend when in a position of strength. well we are at that position again so let's wait and see

I agree we have a long history of 'Wait and see' and the hesitation often leads to fancied players being nabbed by other clubs or we dither over the fee.
The manager should have been allocated a chunk of the CL money from last year as soon as the Cup final whistle blew as I am sure he would have given the board a wish list and only he will know the score with guys who will be leaving for definite and where we need to improve and strengthen.
The CL qualifiers are weeks away and we cannot be complacent in the knowledge we are

This has allways been the celtic way very slow off the mark when comes to signing players. i'm in my 60 s have supported celtic all my life and its built into the way, who ever is in charge at the time works its just the way we do things. May be better than rushing in and not getting it right as others have found to there cost Meagle Tim

We will definitely wait until qualification has been secured before signing any players. the CL money from last year is paying for the new superstore/museum/ticket office and upgrading the corporate facilities. the signing policy of the lennon era will continue. it is frustrating but we have to operate within our means. we don't want to continually spend millions more than we can afford, running up massive debts and subsequently being liquidated and relegated, becoming the laughing stock of world football do we?

The way I see it is, we have an easy league, can spend a bit less on players and develop them at a decent rate, punt them for triple what we pay sometimes a bit more. Then get cl group stage for 4 or 5 seasons in a row and we could end up like Porto or ajix great foundation and can now afford more investment into there team. I mean we carry the flag for Scottish footbal, no one else holds a candle to us atm. This is all a dream but its not impossible if we keep doing what we are doing