Celtic Banter Archive February 16 2015

16 Feb 2015 17:16:02
I know its Hypothetical, however if we were to get into the EPL and you needed to buy 3 players to add to our team.

Lets just say our budget is £50m.

DF. MF, ST.

Who would you want.???

16 Feb 2015 18:35:00
I'd buy Wanyama back.

Keep van dyke. Modric type of player we lack. Peter crouch. He score for fun.

Agree with Wanyama in MF
Ings ST free
DF between Godin/Garay/Varane depending on budget remaining

James McCarthy

Crouch? Doubt we'd have much change left after that one marty :/ John Park ain't so bad after all!

Martybhoy - he doesn't score for fun as is!

Okay, 50 million to add to what we have.

Strong Centre Back:

RAPHAEL VARANE (20 million)

Powerful Holding Midfielder:

GRZEGORZ KRYCHOWIAK (15 million)

Number 9/Lone Striker:

YUSSUF POULSEN (15 million)

Harry Kane (goals), Matic (gifted player and a beast), John Terry (still 1 o the finest defenders out there and just to teach Virgil better defending.

Harry Kane wouldn't be any better than Gordon (goals) . Terry would still be good at keeping players in the house at night, so that he wouldn't play with partners . Griffiths would have a problem with Terry as he couldn't watch all his partners at the one time .
Seriously we would be mad in the head having anything to do with Crouch or Terry, both players have there best days behind them and would only come to Celtic to enjoy a big pay year or two when nobody else would want them ( apart from America).

Poetic, a tim mate of mine who stays in Germany keeps an aye on their second tier too and reckons that Poulsen is the, dare I use the term, "next Drogba". Avid watcher of the Bundesliga but not the 2nd flight but if my mate, and you (both seem to have a decent eye of the game) reckon he's good then perhaps he's worth a look. Watched a few clips on facetube and I like the look of the lad. If we're going for that type of striker I'd like Jurgen Locadia from PSV.

James mcCarthy I would go for, john Terry, you having a laff, as slow as someone of his mature years might be expected to be, except he'been like that for the last too many years, for the rest I would scout and trawl the leagues of ireland, england and scotland, for young up and up and coming talent, or go for people like Mccormack or Scougal, rather than exotic mercenaries.

It would be nice to be able to compete in the transfer market but even with huge amounts of cash I would rather it was spent on guys like McCarthy, Snodgrass, Robertson etc rather than the so called high profile foreign players in the EPL. All would play for the shirt and have experience of SPL

-Jim

Yeah, he's full of potential. He's strong, has a few tricks, eye for goal and a real pace about him that a lot of big strikers lack. Infact, he's got the makings of a perfect lone striker. As your mate says, a Drogba type. I'm a big follower of the Bundesliga and Eredivisie, and there are players to be had there. I'm a huge fan of PM Lasogga (although he hasn't been quite so prolific this year) and Locadia definitely has something.

I know this thread was a bit of fun (which is why I chose Varane and Krychowiak) but players like Poulsen are who we should be looking at. Infact, I think Krychowiak went to Sevilla for little under 4 million, so there are opportunities out there to grab real talent. (Muhamed Bešić, for roughly same amount and he was a stand out for me in BH World Cup team)

Chris you had a wee giggle ay my choices, good stuff mate we all like a laff. But then you took it too seriously, come on mate its a hypothetical question.

Rayman . I didn't think I was getting too serious . Nobody should ever take anyone too serious on here, especially me .

{Ed007's Note - I was going to mention not taking Craig Gordon serious but like Gordon trying to stop the first ball at St Johnstone's goal - I'll give it a miss!}

16 Feb 2015 01:03:40
I'm a bit sick of reading post about Rangers on here! Why do u care? They were our auld enemy but we are in different leagues and at opposite ends of the spectrum in where we are going! Take the higher ground and focus on our team it's just pettiness

{Ed007's Note - That's why we have a different section for them but if it's something relevant I'll still stick it on the banter page. Most discussions about them go on that section. I rarely read anything about them that hasn't been brought to my attention, unless it's funny the whole cesspit bores me mate, you have no idea.}

SOS I reckon the whole of Scotland are bored by this story now! Let them worry about thier problems and we can concentrate on 'big team' problems like who to play in the EC knock out stages!
To be fair - the banter on here is funny as feck!

HH

ShottsBhoy

16 Feb 2015 13:41:01
I think it's past funny tho! Why does every thing that goes on over there need to be ridiculed? It's been a good few years now and still every time they get beat I read it on here why discuss a team that has nothing to do with us on a regular basis?

Just as at home if a neighbour fell on hard times and died, I would still talk about his widow's new man . Same house different "marriages" team .

It's because the entire Scottish media cannot report on Celtic without - in the same sentence - mention the new team from Govan.
It's the same every day and today they have offered Inter the use of the Milngavie training complex.
If this was reversed we would be the arch enemy of Scottish football.

I don't know your age mate but those of us who suffered during our own troubles are revelling in the mess they are in, and will never tire of mocking them.

Green jhedi I'm of that age and I can't tell you how much I am enjoying every minute of their woes, please don't let it end.killy.

16 Feb 2015 23:40:41
Ok so it's age over a mature point of view?lol we are all grown adults and revelling at something that has been going on the last few years its boring! I am probably younger in age but taking the higher ground and letting bitterness go doesn't obviously help with age eh? We are well beyond them and that's not going to change unless someone throws massive amounts of cash their way so how about we let them suffer without giving them as much press on here as in the papers?

Have to say I am with you on that one GJ. I get more pleasure out of it because of the way they went into admin and did not pay all the little guys. Then, within weeks, they are buying players and not giving a toss about the damage they have done. Karma can be a very satisfying thing.

For people who are sick of reading posts about Rangers you seem to have generated a lot of posts about Rangers? :-)

@Foxy, its called having a different opinion lol.