03 Sep 2018 12:37:56
Now that the dust has settled and normal service resumed, viz a viz, our usual hunskelping, thoughts must now focus on the January and Summer transfer windows.
Reading ED007 below saying the bigger teams plan transfers years in advance, it is a salutary lesson to Lawwell how to handle transfer deals. He MUST bring his A game to bear when going after Rodger's transfer targets. Because it is also obvious Nicham and Boyata will probably leave by end of this season if not in January. I hope Celtic offer both improved deals, to give them both a decent pay rise with the promise of a big money move IF the terms are right.
Celtic need reinforcements, permanent ones, not loans, and good quality ones at that.
Until January, at the earliest, we will have to go with the players we have, the plus side being, Boyata, Ajer and Berkovic give us decent options at CB. Our midfield is good and Mulumba improves it further. and up front while Dembele will be big loss in terms of his goals, a fully fit Eduoard and Griffiths aided by young Christie (even for domestic games only) should be sufficient for the heavy Europa League programme. Add the boy Arzani, Morgan for more cover.
So in summation, we need to learn from mistakes made in August, strenghten in January and kick on in the meantime to our Treble treble.

1.) 03 Sep 2018
03 Sep 2018 13:11:12
Great post Tim ntcham will be the next big money departure next year but was good to hear Brendan clear up the dembelle departure he went down on my estimations.

2.) 03 Sep 2018
03 Sep 2018 13:20:52
Perfect Tim very well put.

3.) 03 Sep 2018
03 Sep 2018 13:23:17
We need to get rid of the deadwood in January also.

4.) 03 Sep 2018
03 Sep 2018 13:29:01
January is notoriously hard toget the players you want in Tim but there will be forward planning we could end up needing quite a few players in the summer.

5.) 03 Sep 2018
03 Sep 2018 14:05:28
Before we bring players in, we obviously need to have a clear-out
- with brutal honesty and no sentiment - of players who have hung around the squad for long enough, without showing enough real potential, progress or improvement.
We all want every players who signs for our club to be a success, but it's clear BR has a trusted first team squad of maybe 16/ 17 and then there are others, who have been drifting in and out for a while, or have went down-hill. With others that are frequently loaned to other clubs - all very rarely asked to play in must-win/ important games and picking up wages for minimum contribution.
We all agree about one thing, we were a shambles in the last window and that can never be allowed to happen again and the people who are in charge of scouting, recruitment and attracting players need to get it right or get out.

6.) 03 Sep 2018
03 Sep 2018 15:08:02
Did compo go?

7.) 03 Sep 2018
03 Sep 2018 15:40:04
He went into another back spasm.

8.) 03 Sep 2018
03 Sep 2018 22:32:36
Celtic's top people need to sit down and discuss fully what goes well in Celtic's transfer dealings and what needs to improve . We need to decide how we can make massive improvements in the area that needs improvement . We need to redefine our KPI's in this area and whose responsibility to reach these Key Performance Indicators and those responsible need to be held to account .
We don't know how we approach the transfer windows and we don't need to know . What we do need is better transfer windows, with target positions filled by players who will improve us.