Celtic Banter Archive January 20 2013

20 Jan 2013 22:21:42
Hooper .... lets face it he's likely to go sooner rather than later. We now need to get the best deal as possible and plan for replacements. Now all you English posters that are on here bashing Celtic, Hooper and Scottish football in in general. Lets face it Newcastle, Norwich, Swansea, Sunderland, etc etc... their games are only competitve as they are all fighting to stay in the league not ever challenge to win anything. Get a grip you may think the EPL is best in the world but these teams are not the contributing anything to that statement. Sure the top 6/8 teams are full of quality but thereafter its just very average teams at best that are below this. This year Celtic have achieved amazing success in qualifying for the last 16 CL. That shouldn't be overlooked in assessing the standard of Celtic. and also Hoopers contribution to the level they have reached. Celtic Bhoy

Well said mate. Superb. The EPL is the most over hyped league in sport, not just football. I much prefer la liga. Let Hooper go.....for no less than £7m!

Davie Blantyre Bhoy.

Celtic have done great this YEAR notice the year that's the only dig. And this is why EPL is great football but its turned to a money game down here and it's now more like a game for rich owners the teams you have said about are the teams that fight just like Celtic to have that felling and buzz if beating the top 6-8 and staying up anyone who not in the top 8 can get relegated. Norwich are half the club Celtic are but tell me how they can afford 30k a week more then 5k a week Celtic are offering hooper. Simple thing is there's so much money down here it's spoiling the game. So when you watch EPL don't watch the man utds Chelsea's and that watch the teams 8th and below a lot more entertaining and how the league should be. It's a lot harder and more of a fight each week for the lower teams then it is for you winning the league every year till rangers come back up. {Ed007's Note - I think I will stick to watching Man Utd, the games at the lower end of the EPL are dire, without Sly's razamataz who really wants to watch matches like Norwich v Stoke or Liverpool v Wigan?}

Whats wrong with watching Liverpool? {Ed007's Note - Well you need to be an LFC fan for a start, I would rather have Freddy Krueger fit me with a urinary catheter.}

I agree Ed. Teams pisitioned 8+ are pretty dire when playing against each other. It's the arogance of these teams that think they are bigger than they actually that is infuriating. These clubs are only in the EPL making up the numbers and are kidding themself on that they are anywhere close to the size of club Celtic are.Celtic Bhoy

The reason norwich or any other team in epl can offer higher salaries is down to sly who feather the nests
of every team in that overrated league.Uefa, s team of the year consisted of eleven players from la liga, not one from epl, says it all
dosen, t it.jimbhoy {Ed007's Note - To be fair though some of the choices in that were a shocker.}

20 Jan 2013 21:54:17
All this gossip with Hooper I think the guy has done great by us. We paid good money for him and he's never let us down. I live in Wales where everyone are supporters of English teams I hope he goes to a decent team gets in the England squad and lives up to his ambitions. He will go with my blessing as I don't think he has ever let us down
welshbhoy

20 Jan 2013 20:35:58
hi just feel that if an offer of 7 million comes in for hooper it wouldn't be the worste news in the world if he left. He has been tremendous for us but he wants away and I would rather cash in now. We could spend 4 million on a top replacement and I also think we should be taking a punt on russell who had been brilliant all season and his performance yesterday just proves he would be good enough for celtic. any thoughts on who we could buy as a replacement for 4 million?

Problem there is a £4m player wants a £4m players wage.Then you gotta get them to play up here.What we are doing is the way forward for our club, buy young, develop and sell at an optimum time for us.If we get a name for this young players will find us a very attractive option, and bigger spending clubs will always look to us knowing they are getting well coached young players with Euro experience. Result; Win-win for the Hoops.............green jhedi

£7m would be utterly disastrous for such a player. Utterly disastrous considering the transfer fees charged the other side of an invisible border 90 miles down the M74.
Down there he's worth £10-£15m after three or four games with anyone. We need 40% of any English market mark up.

I would love us to gazumpt Juve and steal Llorente from under their noses.No chance it would happen but would make my day if it did.

Jungle Bhoy.

20 Jan 2013 20:18:51
Hope we are all "Raven" tomorrow as the Patriots are in the Superbowl and all that "Jazz" in New Orleans. GO PATS.....Timalloy

PS usually semi finals are sterile affairs but in NFL it is the last time home advantage can make a big difference. Watch the noise the fans make at Atlanta and at Boston roaring their teams to the Superbowl.

Looking forward to it mate, love the NFL. Got to put up with the Leader of the Opposition crying if the Pats win, that's her team.Under strict instructions to wake her in plenty time! Be tight but I think they might squeak it.........green jhedi

Mon the Eagles!!

Davie Blantyre Bhoy.

20 Jan 2013 17:19:43
Not a rumour but have to laugh at some of the comments on here from Celtic fans. Bid comes in for Hooper and suddenly he doesn't look interested, big Fraser is injured and suddenly he is getting sold. We don't need to sell unless it suits us. Hoops is still banging in goals and busting his a##e off. Fraser is injured, stop looking for something out of nothing.

Aldonhoy

Clubs no longer have the power they used to. Players (AGENTS!) go to the media to express their desire to leave and cause unrest and force clubs to let them go.

Site's called Celtic Rumours mate, the clue is in the name.

3.) Big Fraz maybe is injured, however you are obviously the sort who believes everything he is told. You probably think 9/11 was all the work of a wee bunch of terrorists!

Davie Blantyre Bhoy.

20 Jan 2013 14:35:46
Who are this record breaking team in Div 3 of Scottish football ?

Brand new yet using the strip of a former SPL team complete with 5 stars (not European trophies).

2nd largest wage bill in the whole of Scottish football yet get to play 10 part timers....in more games than not.

Now are the scorelines 10-0, 9-0 oh no, sometimes they have to share the points & they struggle through with wee 1-0 unconvincing win.

Never mind a wins a win after all !

The Rangers International FC:-

Final Score against 10 men world record attendance

I watched most of their game today and it was bloody awful! It's clear to see why sally and green are flapping about reconstruction.Green cannot possibly increase season book prices for that standard of football. don't have a problem with the sending off, the player was a bit stupid and a bit unlucky, but it was handball...........green jhedi

20 Jan 2013 16:42:54
GJ, I agree with OP, was watching some of game in pub with my ex bear pals (regular Sunday pint and meal) game was dire and when I brought up subject of sending offs, got the usual "paranoid" Tim etc.. but it must be highlighted, how many games has a team had a player sent off, or penalty against them or good goal chalked off?
Also as GJ says, we are trying to attract people, sponsors and yes Sly/ESPN but Rangers games are DIRE. Boring everyone away.Timalloy

I can't recollect a single goal chopped off which should of stood.
Every penalty rangers have had has been justified.
9/10 of the red cards have been justified, todays includes.
Lee wallace rightfully has his recinded but I felt ian black was lucky to escape without one recently.

Do people actually watch the games, see the tired tackling, or simply get their knickers in a twist with stats?

@3...one of the points being, Rangers are constantly playing against 10 men and scraping by just and no more.

The warnings are all there & lady luck will only take you so far!

20 Jan 2013 21:01:20
Who actually watches this dross apart from ex Rangers FC fans who seem happy to watch a tribute act of a team formerly known as Rangers Football Club. C'mon lads you surely have better things to be doing on a Sunday like painting a wall then watchin it dry, or going to visit the mother in law......Stevie

20 Jan 2013 12:14:20
Heard a rumour before the game yesterday that Hooper was considering invoking the andy webster ruling in the summer should we not sell him. Was there not a high profile case in spain few seasons back?

You can only buy out your contract if you are in the last year of a 4 year contract or have 2 left on a 5 year deal, Hooper has 18 months left so anything like this would have to wait til summer, technicalities aside, if he doesn't get his move this window he'll be happy to stay for 6 months, play last 16 and chase a treble and then leave in summer for £4/5 million.

G93

Hearts only received 625k (includin legal expenses!), which was later reduced, with webster only having to pay £150k, and hearts valued him at £5million

Don't think hat will happen. Hoops seems a decent guy and I am sure that if he doesn'T go in this window (and I hope he stays to be a legend like the king of kings....I think he IS/WILL be that good -never thought I would say that) he will stay till summer and still be totally committed to the Celtic! I heard he is changing agents soon, maybe his current agent just looking for one last pay day before he losses his top asset ?

Markiebhoy

Aye but Its Andy Webster! That 5 million tag was when Mad Vlad was going through his crystal meth phase. They got what he was worth.

Webster exploited employment emigration laws hooper would be going back to his own country not emigrating

Doesnt matter if he is moving back to his home nation, only if the club he is moving to is in a different nation to the one he plays in.

My take on it is a player still needs good cause to break his contract websters was he had been frozen out and denied a move their for preventing him from plying his trade before the buy out compensation came into it I might be wrong but am sure the player still needs to justify breaking his contract

The just cause is giving the club 15 days notice prior to the last game of the season. Webster gave it 4 days late.

20 Jan 2013 00:08:48
dalgleish . mclair nicholas johnstone viduka di canio these are some of the playersthat engerland said -could they score iif they played epl ... yes they can ..but engerland still is mocking of us///could hooper do it ...of course he could// we have alwayus had a weaker league than them but have they ever produced a lennox/ jinky /murdoch deep river bhoy