Celtic Banter Archive January 01 2018

01 Jan 2018 22:45:00
Ed do you think we will try for Mcginn this month or you reckon he's south bound? I'd love to see him in with a solid centre half that's not cup tied and another striker.

{Ed007's Note - It would need to be an extraordinary offer for McGinn to turn down Celtic.}

02 Jan 2018 02:06:19
Lennon would want at least same money we payed for Brown maybe even more but we won't pay higher than 5m I hope CH keep jozo Boyata can go we need number 10 which he has craved about what's the chances though ED of us doing that let's c . Loads of links and bull stories to come wae it being a small window let's c what the best bull story will be. Am sure there will be a wee surprise in there somewhere bring it on haha.

02 Jan 2018 00:52:20
Do you expect us to put a bid in Ed? Wouldn't mind seeing him replace Armstrong and rotate with Ntcham/ Kouassi.

{Ed007's Note - Yes I do but McGinn would be best staying at Hibs until the summer and playing regularly. The only way I'd bring him in this month is if Armstrong leaves.}

02 Jan 2018 10:46:12
From the family ed, no offer yet.

02 Jan 2018 12:48:28
I like McGinn don't get me wrong the boy is a good player but is he any better than what we have, would hate to think we are going to spend 4m on a player who wudnt get a game.

02 Jan 2018 23:36:21
Rayman99 The negative view is that u would hate that McGinn @ £4m wouldn't be any better than we have . However I would look upon it that it would be great that for only £4 m we get a player much better than we have.

01 Jan 2018 14:40:35
What positions do you see us investing in Ed, due to injuries and potential outgoings.

{Ed007's Note - It'll be the defence that's priority. With Sviatchenko, Gamboa and possibly even Simunovic on their way out along with Boyata in the summer we'll be seriously short at the back, Caulker and Hendry? Musonda is still a possibility as is McGinn with a loan back to Hibs but I don't think any strikers will be brought in even if Dembele does leaves.}

03 Jan 2018 00:08:06
If we sign McGinn the least he deserves is that he comes to the club, works with the coaches, trains with the first team and is given the same chance as any existing player to get on the team and show us all what he can do . If he proves not good enough, if the manager wants him to go out on loan that's ok .
People on here a month ago were parcelling Ager up for loaning out from now . I think you all know by now that was stupid and we would have been in dire strait if he wasn't around over the last few weeks .
I think B Rodger, may have made a mistake in loaning Christie to Aberdeen, he had a spell to get continuity of play last season and I said when he went this year he would never have a Celtic career . I still think he won't but that doesn't mean he couldn't have given Celtic a hand in their very busy season, at worse a few half hours in games before and after European matches and especially in December.
I know it's remiss of me to say B R made a mistake, but like myself I think he is allowed one every two years.

01 Jan 2018 19:10:03
HAPPY NEW YEAR fellow Celts.
Brendans been here 3/ 4 transfer windows now, i think over the next 2 transfer windows we will see Brendans own team taking shape and hopefully putting in better defensive performances in Europe .

{Ed0333's Note - I wouldn’t bet on it mate. His defensive performances with Liverpool weren’t any good and he had pots of money to spend

01 Jan 2018 19:26:14
Edo333's
:) ) I did say hopefully.

{Ed0333's Note - I must have missed your caveat mate lol

01 Jan 2018 20:54:51
Buying efe Ambrose back would improve our defence and it would add some threat offensively. The lack of a threat at corners is appalling.

01 Jan 2018 23:19:36
Hows your current manager doing with his defense?

01 Jan 2018 23:44:40
Wiltshire Celt

Loved Effe at the time, but we need more strength in our defenders to easily pushed off the ball in my opinion .
We don't need to break the bank for players, even in the play-offs we came up against some better technical and athletic players, our first touch and passing is woeful at times. i don't know why it happens.

02 Jan 2018 07:19:05
Jeezo - we seem hell bent on playing the same way out from the back and when we attempt passes between Boyata and Lustig, my heart is in my mouth. We need better technically solid players to play that way and if we are to strengthen the defence, let's hope we get someone who can score from corners and free kicks. I hope Brendan can find another Paul Elliott.

02 Jan 2018 08:34:36
As if people on here aren’t feeling suicidal enough with some of the tripe being spouted your suggesting buy Efe Ambrose back?

02 Jan 2018 09:40:50
Replacing bomb scares with the undisputed king of them, is probably the most insane suggestion I've heard since I read a conspiracy theory about aliens building the pyramids.

02 Jan 2018 10:44:14
Bring back efe!?!?! Is there a glue sniffing problem in the Wiltshire area!?!?

02 Jan 2018 12:04:14
I didn't take that seriously, a thought he was joking?

02 Jan 2018 13:22:17
Don’t know Stephbhoy the way some have been going on over the last few days nothing surprises me just now!

03 Jan 2018 22:44:06
Brendan like all good managers spends most of the week building up his players confidence . Some idiotic buy season tickets to ridicule players all match . Other equally stupid fans spend the week on. Twitter and forums doing the same . We don't need a strong Sevco as we have many fans doing the secco fans work.

01 Jan 2018 17:08:06
All the best to big Erik if he goes. It's a shame that he and the gaffer don't click (Ed has alluded he gets wrapped up in the speculation) as I feel on his day he's probably our best CB.

01 Jan 2018 17:28:18
Fae what I have heard the gaffer thinks he is to slow and to short for the way we play. With how far up the field our fullbacks play we need fast CBs.

01 Jan 2018 17:49:13
Happy new year lads. Must say l did feel sorry for big Erik. Some of the mistakes and displays made by others playing CB seem to be a lot worse and were not given them same treatment as he has. Best of luck with your next club big man.

01 Jan 2018 10:46:21
I hope all your heads are not hurting too much after last night lol
Just wanted to have a moan about today's papers (what's new there then)
So apparently we are being urged to "sell Dembele IMMEDIATELY" but that Saint Mirren should hold on to Lewis Morgan as he is a "gem, and signing for Celtic he will become a lost bhoy".

Also Dundee must "hold out for serious money for Hendry (over £1.5m) and NOT accept Celtic's apparent £500k offer"
There is nothing like balanced reporting, and as usual we NEVER get balanced reporting where Celtic are concerned.

01 Jan 2018 14:04:12
I've often thought Tim that with the quality of the expert punditry in Scotland it's easy to see why Scotland's national team haven't reached a tournament in 20 years. It can only happen in Scotland that the only thing that qualifies you to be an "expert" is to slag off Celtic no matter how successful they've been.
I do hope though that we try and make a couple of signings that can go straight into the first team, it's all very well signing players for the future but sometimes you need an improvement straight away.
I think teams are starting to target Lustig more and more, and he looks to me as if he is struggling at the moment. To me that should be rectified immediately, not by buying a youngster who might be able to take his place in 2 or 3 years time.

01 Jan 2018 15:32:58
Was thinking were we not linked to giovanni troupee from utrecht last april. But BR denied interest at the time to be fair. The guy was only 18 at the time. He's a highly rated youngster with potentially a great career ahead. However, we have Ralston who's on his way back to fitness. It would of be worth taking a punt on young, potential, who could get us to the next level. But would it be better to buy or allow Ralston to share game time as an understudy to overtake lustig and develop him into the player we need?

Gamboa is absent and not reached the standard required. I think it would be in his best interest to go get some game time elsewhere showed little with us and he should be aiming to be at the world cup.

I'd personally like to see us ship gamboa get a few £ if we can and look into a decent quality right back. I'm sure there'd be a talent out there worth a good £5 million investment and is a gem just needing rough polished. Then set a higher standard to compete with Ralston and push to take over lustigs position. Who knows that competition might bring the bigman back to life. But big changes need to come to the defence.

01 Jan 2018 16:56:45
4leaf improvements are needed right across the park never mind in defence. 2 new centre backs required. Ajar is NOT a centre back. We have tried to turn him into one. He is a decent player but he is a defensive mid. He is cover for Ntcham or we can if we need to play him at centre back. We need an additional right winger a striker a left winger so that's 5 minimum. We have Comper so 4 more required. If we sell current 2 centre backs and get £5mill, Dembele £17mill (thats tops) Aramstrong £5mill, that's £27mill. If we were allowed to spend it we could get 4 or 5 decent players. If Dembele stays he will need to improve dramatically or we are going to get very little for him in july.

01 Jan 2018 17:37:06
Couldn’t agree more gerryc! I’m astounded that Lustig hasn’t come in for more criticism this season! And on Saturday he was truly shocking! 4 times in the first 8 minuted I couldn’t he gave the ball away! He’s been like that for a while now and somehow escapes any real criticism! If that was any other defender in our squad they would have got dogs abuse! I totally understand the big man has embraced our club and become a cult hero and he’s done a great job for us, but the fact is he’s been terrible for a while now. i think this break has came at a great time for us to be honest, chance to recharge the batteries and hopefully add a few bits of quality! We’re still in a great position, well ahead in league, trophy in the bag and Europe after Xmas, but the team looks to running on empty at the moment and a few guys haven’t got somebody breathing down there necks for a place! Lustig Sinclair to name a couple! Let’s add some quality and get that spring back in our step! That’s enough of my moaning now lads lol! Hope u all had a great new year and all the best for 2018! And a shout out to ED on doing a fine job and listening to all our 💩🤣🤣 COYBIG ☘️☘️💚.

03 Jan 2018 22:53:40
At the Celtic v Sevco match that I saw, Lustig made many great interceptions and cleared many crosses . We were under far more problems from crosses from our left side of defence than his side.
Of course he got into difficulties getting in his clearances early on . Part of this may have been his own weakness but it was also down to his fellow Celtic players not been able to get into position to receive the ball from him, of course the fully pepped up Sevco didn't make life easier.
I honesty thought Lustig was our best back four player on Saturday but because of undeserved abuse from Celtic fans, he gets blamed in the wrong.

01 Jan 2018 09:38:09
Got to agree with Big Sutton’s comments today about the players being tired - total nonsense

Lustig, KT and Brown where the players he singled out as the only ones with a reason to be tired - spot on.

01 Jan 2018 11:23:55
He also calls it mental weakness! A team that went 69 games unbeaten is not mentally weak! Everyone can see the players are jaded a good few of the bhoys have been playing international games as well. James Forrest has played a lot of games aswell we have a lot of fantastic managers on here recently knowing the best team selections. We will come back from this break a lot better for it.

01 Jan 2018 12:05:32
Get what a lot of you are saying but reality is the top teams with top players all play this amount of games

Ronaldo, Messi and Neymar play more and against far better opposition and never hear tiredness being used. Granted it’s unlikely these guys play 9 games in 27 days.

Just feel as a lot of others do that we are not building on last years fantastic achievement.

Today I see paper talk if 8 million in for Simo and we are looking at Hendry as a replacement - this mentality is not acceptable and will not allow us to improve.

01 Jan 2018 10:16:32
Happy New Year and all the best for 2018 to EDs and all the Celtic family. Apparently Dembelle went straight down the tunnel when subbed after his slow walk off the park rather than watch the game. Read into that what you will but for me BR should compile 2 lists not based on ability but based on who wants to be here and who doesn't. If that's Armstrong, Jozo, Dembelle or whoever punt them. I'd rather pay my hard earned cash to watch young bhoys come through who're proud to wear the jersey. Two lists Brendan identify replacements then start the clear out.

{Ed007's Note - Happy New Year mate.}

01 Jan 2018 14:19:33
A lot of our team had 2 weeks off in the summer at the most we had the cup final internationals then back for training and qualifying for champs league it was always going to be hard to replicate. I agree that we need to build on last years achievements mate and we always let them off the hook when we are in a position of strength!

{Ed007's Note - My mate sent me this from Tw@tter yesterday:

Including internationals, Kieran Tierney has played more minutes (3,607) in 17/18 than any other outfield player in any European top tier league. That equates to 40 full matches in 169 days, or 1 game every 4 days since July. Only Craig Gordon (3,780) has played more minutes. The 2 outfield players closest to Tierney are Scott Brown (3,220 minutes) and Mikael Lustig (3,137 minutes). Valon Berisha, of Salzburg, is the first non-Celtic player on the list, with 2,984 minutes - 7 games worth less than Tierney has played.

There's no Messi (2763 mins) or Ronaldo (2589 mins) even close to that so that puts to bed once and for all any talk about players at other clubs play the same amount of games as us or even the crazier myth that some play more! At other club's it usually 'keepers that have the minutes that our outfield players have.}

01 Jan 2018 16:11:17
Campsie Bhoy Happy New Year and All the best for 2018. I was down in your country at Schoenstatt for the Bells! ☘️.

01 Jan 2018 16:35:05
Happy New year mate and happy new year to everyone else! Was it open mate? I wished I had known ad have ventured up! Am in Ma bed way before it bored every year! A used to moan and say footballers should try working a 40 + week then moan about tired until I read into it all. Rest and recovery is a massive part of a players game.

03 Jan 2018 22:57:23
It's complete nonsense to say other teams have played as many games as us in this season so far .
Those who have played about 5/ 6 games less have turnovers 3 times and more than Celtic and thus can have a far bigger squad of top class first teamers.