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28 Aug 2026 19:41:10
Celtic are reported to be actively pursuing 19-year-old PSV midfielder Joël van den Berg, and Dutch outlet Voetbal International reports that a Celtic delegation is already in Eindhoven to discuss the transfer.
Yves Bissouma has emerged as a potential Celtic target after leaving Tottenham. A report today names Celtic alongside Brentford, Crystal Palace, Ajax and Başakşehir as clubs monitoring him (basically, we have no chance but it shows we're now dipping into the free agent market - say what you will about it, but there's some cracking players available for nothing just now) .
Lost Mahmic to Turkish club Çorum and Sigur is possibly dead in the water due to us being knocked out of the CL, even though his manager confirmed he has played his last game for the club. Apparently Leeds were sniffing about him.
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28 Aug 2026 20:36:26
Van Den Berg plays in the 2nd team at PSV and Bissouma is a free transfer who's disciplinary issues are well documented.
Bargain basement time.
HH.
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28 Aug 2026 21:06:56
An absolute shambles.
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28 Aug 2026 21:44:15
Yet Sigur is going to a team in the conference league who only made it there after scraping past Hibs. Some ambition that.
28 Aug 2026 19:36:24
Apparently Celtic closing in on Joel van den berg 19 years old 6ft 2 has potential to develop even more, hopefully it's true sounds like a promising young player.
28 Aug 2026 18:58:55
Gent interested in Balikwisha! I’ll fly back to Scotland from Dubai, hire a car and drive him there myself, but only if they promise to buy him!
28 Aug 2026 16:56:22
Like all Celtic fans I was gutted on Tuesday night that a Celtic team could play so bad.
I still feel it’s the worst results in our History due to the circumstances and it will live with us forever.
But
I few days on I’m looking forward to the game tomorrow after saying I wasn’t going.
I’m actually looking forward to the Europa League campaign after seeing the draw.
Celtic will definitely finish in the top 24 and then we will take it from there.
Maybe get that knockout monkey off our backs.
The Celtic Board are a disgrace and have been holding us back big time.
The Desmond’s will be raging because that would’ve taken our bank balance to over £100m that they could brag about.
Tuesday was brutal but if we Qualified the Desmond’s would be telling each other that they were right and that we were wrong all along.
DD and Son got showed up in LASK and now they can’t deny they’re are too small for our massive club.
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28 Aug 2026 19:28:25
Buzz and All : is the Europa league our real level, looking at the draw for the CL and how Celtic are at the min, we would again get some heavy defeats at CL Level?
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{Ed007's Note - The majority of the teams in the CL will struggle though, it's geared towards the "big" clus as always but the new format allows some lesser clubs to get a bigger share of the financial pie to keep quiet, it's really not about levels as such, it's about the £, simple as that and I've said it for years.
Would you rather have £40m and have taken a few pumpings along the way or £20m and a "decent run in the EL" trophy where we could still take a doing or two....
A club the size of Celtic and our finances should be aiming for that mid-section of the CL every season and a roll of the dice i the Play-Off for the Last 16, we'll win some, we'll lose some, the odd year we might not qualify like a lot of "big/biggish" clubs but for me that's the acceptable level for Celtic.}
27 Aug 2026 17:27:10
Very late, typical of our transfer approaches.
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27 Aug 2026 17:31:57
It's been reported that the deal is dead. Hope not 🤷🏽♂️.
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27 Aug 2026 18:14:37
One report saying he is signing after there game tonight. Another saying the deal is off.
We will see what happens before the deadline next week.
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27 Aug 2026 20:59:50
He played the full 120 minutes tonight to eventually help Hajduk Split Qualify for the Conference League.
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28 Aug 2026 05:53:10
Buzz
Can you check that stat. Don't think a team can play a player if there is transfer pending. Don't they have to sell and leave themselves weaker for qualifiers. Not like the player is contracted to them and is on a contract worth millions. UEFA will probably investigate 😉😉😉😉.
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28 Aug 2026 07:25:42
Locking the gate after the horse has bolted, is what the Celtic board excel in.
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28 Aug 2026 09:12:01
Think it's Sigur on the way but Mahmic deal is dead.
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28 Aug 2026 10:16:37
Loans now even though there's plenty in the bank!
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28 Aug 2026 10:27:34
We'll be scratching around for loans last day of the window, guaranteed.
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28 Aug 2026 11:55:13
It’s probably just nonsense, but I was reading that a move for Mahmic was dependant on Hatate being sold. Surely that can not be part of the thought process when recruiting players. If we want a player bad enough and they are willing to come, do the deal. Hatate may well stay, but he clearly is not wanting to be at Celtic, so why would that have any bearing on the purchase of another player when you’re not likely to play Hatate anyway. We’ve sold 3 or 4 times the amount of players we have purchased this transfer window.
We should never be waiting on players to move on, before buying.
This is the time to strengthen the team and spend the money so that the team is in the best possible position to deal with three qualifying rounds next season, and to ensure we dominate the league for another season. Surely that is just common sense and nothing to do with money. Why wait till next summer to get the players in when they can be in now, and ready to hit those qualifiers running.
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28 Aug 2026 18:11:15
I think in the grand scheme of things we won't be signing extra midfielders if we have Reo turning his nose up at leagues, thinking he's too big to play in whilst thinking he can play in a top 5 league.
We can more than afford Mahmic but with this new recruiting model it'll be about downsizing the squad and wages and getting in that extra bit of quality in.
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{Ed007's Note - The squad is needing downsized, we can't keep stockpiling mediocrity and just buying more players in, look at Ibrox for the downside of that.}
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28 Aug 2026 21:53:00
Absolutely Ed. Would still hope we can shift a few and get a few in even if they're loans than go back down that route of the whole squad bloating with project signings like we've done in the past. With PSR in place that makes that model unsustainable to a club like us now.
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{Ed007's Note - 👍🍀 I'm still pretty confident we'l lmake some signings and maybe pad out the squad with a couple of loans when the English window closes - I guess the CL exit puts the Grealish rumours to bed 😋
27 Aug 2026 13:16:47
When we drew against Kairat Almaty we had a back 4 of AJ, CCV, Scales and KT. Midfield was CM, Reo and Nygren.
Can someone tell me after a year on, an older CM, a lackluster Reo, AJ out, CCV still trying to get back to full fitness and KT still not back to full fitness, why we really thought we’d go through in Europe against an even stronger team? Was it Hogh, Duran, or Bauer or hat made you think that. Or was it just pinning more hopes to MON?
We’ve brought 4 players in and before talking about starting 11 we haven’t even replaced the 5 loan signings we let go!
All that said, I’m somewhat happy we’re back n Europa. I hate watching us get humped 3/ 4-0 against teams that are so much better. It’s a building process to play at that level and the problem as we all know, is we’ve never built for that.
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27 Aug 2026 13:56:53
100% accurate.
As big Sutton posted this time last year and then again on Tuesday night;- Fail to prepare, prepare to fail.
HH.
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27 Aug 2026 17:09:30
Hindsight is wonderful thing. Easy to say now no one was saying this last week.
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27 Aug 2026 17:28:39
They had very real threat in first leg. Any coach / manager with a clue about football should have seen they were very decent going forward.
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27 Aug 2026 18:53:40
433 in my opinion done us. Why chase a game you're already winning 3-0.
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28 Aug 2026 05:56:28
Cory 67
No one was saying what? Our defence was struggling, we had no LB or RB cover. We had no legs in midfield all these and much more where highlighted. Happy clapping doesn't make you a better Celtic fan.
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28 Aug 2026 07:36:09
@cory I have been saying it for weeks and pointed it out before the first tie, that Celtic board were taking a massive gamble by going into this match with glaring deficiencies in the squad. It is the same every year, so in that respect I am not surprised and I also pointed out that anyone expecting this board to change should be preparing to be disappointed.
I take no pleasure in saying I was right as the consequences of my prediction coming true is more misery for us all. The board needs to go now or we will be watching a rerun of this car crash next year and the year after, ad infinitum.
#DesmondOut #SackTheBoard.
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28 Aug 2026 11:44:21
Hindsight? They have gambled the same way every year we have had qualifiers and it has constantly backfired bar a few times we have scraped through. Where is the foresight to see that this approach obviously does not work? They preach we need to be careful as we need to keep money for a 'rainy day' but they are causing this 'rainy day' scenario by failing to prepare sufficiently every season.
27 Aug 2026 13:08:40
Evening Times reporting this afternoon that we may be looking at a loan move for the 33 year old english international (3 caps) , Wolves GK, Sam Johnstone.
I've nothing against loans per say but fear this may be the first of several 'loan deals' we're now looking at at the expense of some potentially good permanent signings due to Tuesday nights capitulation in Austria.
HH.
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27 Aug 2026 13:31:47
Why do we need loan deals when there are clubs, in the conference league, spending 8m on players?
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27 Aug 2026 14:34:30
We are professional football club but have amateurs running the club.
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28 Aug 2026 07:37:42
We don't need loan deals but that does mean we won't get them. Just more evidence of a lack of strategy and foresight from these charlatans in charge.
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27 Aug 2026 09:00:09
Ed
You heard anything about Desmond jnr being new chairman?
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{Ed007's Note - Surely not.... nah he (DD) wouldn't... would he?? 🤷🏻♂️
It's all just the online rumours I've seen mate.}
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27 Aug 2026 18:22:19
I heard that MN and CMcK were that inept at trying to get the transfers done that Daddy D brought in Baby D to get them done.
If and it's a big if that's true. I have 2 questions.
1 - Why are MN and CMcK getting paid
2 - Is Baby D getting paid by the club already?
If Baby D is made Chairman then we will have a Chairman, CEO and CFO who won't or can't communicate to the supporters.
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27 Aug 2026 20:18:32
So how does that differ from now?
27 Aug 2026 06:11:10
It's a wonder we're not being investigated on match fixing charges after Tuesday night. how those clowns could put that level of second half performance in and couldn't see out 45 mins with a 3 goal lead is feckin beyond me. the absolute slaughtering the clubs taken over this is completely justified as hard as it is to stomach. you really just have to wonder what's going through these morons on that boards minds. to fail as many times as we have to navigate those qualifiers with the resources we have is simply gross negligence. sick to the back teeth of folk lapping thise clowns up for the 4 signings to date we've made, and out those only 2 can see out 90 mins currently.1 can't even get 45 mins under his belt.
they gambled yet again having absolutely no foundation in recent times to do so in these qualifiers. they need to go and go now. that isn't excusing those that took part on the field. absolute shambolic performance from the players but equally the management team. to be in such a commanding position and not see out 45 mins is unforgivable, constantly watching full backs marauding forward caught time and time again out of position and the amount of shots we gave up from the edge of our box on goal has to be the worst I've seen and they stand on the side continuing to watch that? Embarrassing doesn't even come close.
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27 Aug 2026 07:33:03
they spent money on the forward line which was needed. but the usual wait and see if we get through before anything else is spent. they have only spent what they have brought in so money is still there to improve the team. and after the other night a lot needs done.
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27 Aug 2026 09:15:36
Over 5m made let's not forget 53k St and the 5 strips and training gear they brought out.
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27 Aug 2026 09:10:00
Easiest way to say it is theve only spent what they didn’t spend last year.
{Ed007's Note - The majority of the teams in the CL will struggle though, it's geared towards the "big" clus as always but the new format allows some lesser clubs to get a bigger share of the financial pie to keep quiet, it's really not about levels as such, it's about the £, simple as that and I've said it for years.