Celtic Banter Archive January 18 2018

18 Jan 2018 22:52:14
Many seem to want number 10, but I am not worried what number of shirt he wears. First thing we need to get back to winning the battle in midfield, opponents often put extra men in centre midfield to win the battle, we need to make sure we are flexible and strong enough to always boss that area.
By controlling centre midfield our players have that little bit of time and room to play the probing ball to players running towards goal. Most centre midfielders can open a defence if they have time and space .
Last night Chelsea started with William and Pedro who should have enough guile to open up Championship Norwich whose midfield worked their socks off to offset the undoubted extra ability of Chelsea who even brought on Hazard and still couldn't really prise open Norwich.
Controlling midfield is the key.

18 Jan 2018 23:40:09
Unless we sign some players we go into the second half of the season weaker than the end of the first half of the season. Benyu gone. Henderson gone. Eric gone. Griffiths out. Rogic out. Armstrong out. Hayes out. Paddy out. Comper out. The idea was to come in stronger. We need a couple of quality players and if we don't find them this window we go into CL qualifiers before we can add any new faces not to mention a Europa tie in Feb. Its not easy attracting players but that's what needs to be done. If not we may not get CL qualification and with 4 preliminary rounds now we need a larger and better equipped squad and players who can go into the first team not projects. We have Ntcham and Ajar in from last year but out of the loan players we have got out there i don't think any will walk into our match day 11 so it looks like the same team going into CL qualifiers in July. Christie may get a run but we don't know if he can cut it. We will also lose players to the world cup so where does the cover come from?

18 Jan 2018 23:59:44
My prediction for tomorrow's bull transfer story will be CH coming in from Chelsea Loan youth player. Masonda in 18 month loan with DM going to Crystal Palace 15m plus Bentekki.

19 Jan 2018 10:17:49
I thought the winter break would have been a chance to refresh, recover and regroup for the challenges of the next four months; however we seem to have an even more depleted and injured squad than before and it certainly gives the manager more headaches as he assesses absences and deficiencies that need urgent attention on top of any other transfer business we may have been negotiating.
I also agree with Chris as well that we do need to do more in midfield because we very predictable and should vary our line-up and personnel to drive home our advantage in class and ability.

19 Jan 2018 10:38:47
Players get injured, that's just a fact of football. The window is still open, we have to believe what needs to be done, will be. If we don't then he board and Rogers will rightly receive a Barrage of criticism, but, we rent there yet and I cannot see how anybody at Celtic can think we can get away with what we have, if we want to qualify for this years CL. Never mid put up a fight against Zenit.

There was some ludicrous talk on sites that we cold progress to even the final. Well, to even give a good account of ourselves against the Russians requires w improve defensively.

I still believe we will. I wish to Eff they would get on with it though as each day the passes is murder without news.

19 Jan 2018 14:53:55
My goodness MP was that a positive post?
Keep up the good work mate lol.

20 Jan 2018 13:30:57
Rayman on page 3 here I explain my position in response to your negative claim. It might be off that page and in older posts now as a lot of posts on masonic stuff could have pushed it down so have a look.

18 Jan 2018 16:21:43
Wee griff out injured now!

HH

Chris1888🍀🍀🍀.

18 Jan 2018 14:18:42
The English transfer market has gone seriously mad. If Man City want Johnny Evans they've been quoted 23 mill!
Sanchez will sign a 4 year deal with Man Utd worth 400 thousand a week.
Chelsea are interested in signing Andy Carroll. WTF is going on. Bonkers if it all comes off.

18 Jan 2018 15:32:46
Imagine paying £400,000 a week to a guy who downed tools for his club over a year ago. Great player but another so called superstar whos attitude stinks.

18 Jan 2018 19:36:29
By all accounts Sanchez would rather have gone to Man City, it just shows what a mercenary he is that he not only does the dirty on them, but he then signs for their biggest rivals.
The game in England is bonkers. Arsenal get £35m for a player who has only 6 months left on his contract yet the press say they've got a bad deal, whereas Man United pay £35m + sky high wages for a player to play 15 games for them and yet that's seen as a good deal.
I wonder if sanity will ever return to that league.

18 Jan 2018 20:53:13
400,000 pounds a week, what's that?, 20 million pounds a year, Mourinho, or whoever sanctioned this is a fool.

18 Jan 2018 22:05:23
Think how many people across the world buy united tops though and then how many of them want to get shirts with his name on just to piss of arsenal supporters.

18 Jan 2018 12:59:51
So we have Griffiths and Rogic to add to the already injured Compper and Armstrong and Roberts. Zero chance of getting past Zenith with our fringe players.

18 Jan 2018 15:47:52
You watched a lot of Zenit this season bravetart? It's a 50/50 tie.

18 Jan 2018 18:18:57
I've watched a lot of us this season to be convinced we will struggle and Zenith are miles better than what is in our league. Every tie is a 50/ 50 but realistically we aren't at our best and most of our key players are out and we haven't had a decent game in God knows how long so not got high hopes our fringe team will do any better.

18 Jan 2018 21:22:12
Maybe Brendan should prepare for the future and play our development team.

19 Jan 2018 12:58:23
It is just the fear of Boyata possibly playing. Armstrong is easily replaced by Ntcham who has been playing better. McGregor isn't his best in the number 10 position and we are a Dembele injury away from a crisis again.

{Ed007's Note - Any injury to Dembele still leaves us with LG and Edouard.}

18 Jan 2018 09:49:03
The transfer window really gets to me as much as the rest, checking various sites every five mins of the day, from 1st thing in the morn, until last thing at night. It really gets to you when you keep reading the same old reports and you don't see much progress. Then we get reports of a possible signing, the flood of comments on the sites, get him in! Over the years I have watched a lot of dross being signed and I honestly think it's to keep fans happy half the time. If we keep putting pressure on the club to sign for the sake of it, we will end up with more dross and I for one am sick of it. I will be there on Saturday afternoon no doubt freezing and it would have been so much sweeter to be watching a new £5million play maker out on the pitch, but I don't just want any old player I want the right one and I for one will give BR the time to get him. Keep the faith bhoys and ghirls, think BR has earned it!

18 Jan 2018 10:10:33
Good post buddy 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 I thought I was the only one who was on checking every 5 mins! 🤣🤣🤣🤣.

18 Jan 2018 10:22:54
Haha think this is my 10th time signing into the rumours already today hoping for some action and it’s only 10:30 am!

18 Jan 2018 11:10:43
about 3 or 4 years ago and in BRs first window, I was checking every minute!

took the day off got TDD
was so disappointed, so just don't get caught up in it now.

I wonder how many rumours in here actually turn out to be true? I guess >1%

we are where we are and we will do what we do, mostly not what any fan will want, but will we stop supporting them? Never.

18 Jan 2018 14:26:24
It's like an addiction to look that amount of times I am the same and sometimes when I go to look I remind myself I just looked 15 minutes ago but I still look and until the transfer window closes I will probably trol the net looking to see if we have got any new ones in or players out.

18 Jan 2018 21:24:10
Anyone that checks for transfer news every five minutes must live a very dull life.

18 Jan 2018 22:03:58
Simply addicted to Celtic, OMC!

18 Jan 2018 07:48:01
Rogic out till March now. Griffiths also has a knock.

18 Jan 2018 08:20:20
It’s getting beyond a joke now honestly! Compper Armstrong rogic Wee paddy and now griff! Add to that Moussa constantly Been injured and others have been out! Is this bad luck or is there something else behind it? If rogic and paddy are both out til March we need a creative player brought in ASAP!

18 Jan 2018 08:39:52
Unfortunately Rogic has a history of injuries. Like Paddy maybe Comppers is down to lack of game time although he would still have been fit. Injuries happen i can't see training being the issue just maybe down to bad luck. It happens at all Clubs just unfortunate we have 4 or 5 at the same time.

18 Jan 2018 09:32:55
The clowns on Twitter telling Rogic to find a new club should find a new club themselves.

18 Jan 2018 09:48:58
Though the people who are mouthing off are out of order the clock could be ticking on rogics Celtic career.
The gaffer has already said a player is no use go him if he can't get him on the park.

18 Jan 2018 10:47:44
If that's the case then the same can be said for Simunovic.

18 Jan 2018 11:39:50
The same is being said about Simunovic Stan.

18 Jan 2018 12:07:41
It wouldn't bother me if Simunovic was sold as it's more than injuries with him, we can't have players who can only play on grass. Would be a mistake to sell Rogic, fully fit he walks into our starting 11.

18 Jan 2018 14:50:25
It’s the same players who are usually injured, tbh if someone is injured for around half the matches 2 seasons in a row, we should cut our losses and sell them, as clearly, they will never be fit consistently, you also have to wonder how much it suits some of them to be injured, they are mostly multi millionaires and don’t need the hassle of playing here, especially in the winter time, I wouldn’t be surprised if they exaggerate how bad their injuries are.

18 Jan 2018 17:59:48
Cjb77 What are you on, the other day you posted it was embarrassing that they (sevco) could outspend us again in the transfer window, they have recruited 4 loanees and recalled two who were on loan deemed not good enough to begin with. Now you are saying players are exaggerating injuries because they don’t want to play in the winter and because they are multi millionaires. Get in touch with the medical team at Celtic Park and inform them that the players injured are at it . Oldkilly.

18 Jan 2018 21:33:22
Rogic is playing a very crafty game, he is working on the basis of absence makes the heart grow stronger . It's working as far as many of our fans are concerned, I have never seen a Celtic player lauded so much with having played so few games .
Unfortunately B R is likely to move him on when it suits Celtic best.

18 Jan 2018 07:42:38
Report today saying the champs sit at no8 in Europe for attendances and have crashed through the 1mill barrier oh and sevco are at no 20 trailing the champs again.

18 Jan 2018 13:15:43
They have been dying to print some sort of report that they can try and attach the sevco onto the Celtic coat tails. A couple of weeks ago this would have been the Top 30. Ah bless the wee loan rangers anything to be able to print a title with sevco and Europe and don't include the words dumped out.