Celtic Banter Archive February 22 2015

22 Feb 2015 20:17:08
Watching the Saint Ettiene - Marseille game on BT and commentator has just said Marseille have all sort of financial problems and that some of the current squad have not been paid wages owed to them, so how can they possibly offer Guidetti £11.5m, as usual the Scottish press have made up a nonsense story

I read the newspaper report earlier, it claimed Marseille were going to pay him £60,000/week. Load of rubbish eh

How many times are we going to quote anti -Celtic comments from the newspapers before an important game .

It's alright mate I don't think Guidetti reads this forum hahai

Why do you think Guidetti doesn't read this forum . Can he not read English . I know Deila said last year he had read Celtic forums after he came and was very unhappy with the ridiculing that he received in his early games . He was very annoyed especially as he was playing for Celtic whilst carrying an injury .

22 Feb 2015 18:41:10
Happy and interesting RD talk today about needing " a vocal, commanding, leader of a CH"

Think the general consensus on here is that is the next big important signing for us but can see major clearout at the end of the season without causing too much damage to the first eleven obviously outwith VVD & Denayer

A reckon just my guestimate that Wakaso / Tonev & Balde are collectively on 50k a week

Then Pukki / McGeough / Fridjohnson a can't see us next season having both Scepovic & Guidetti so factor the in the first 3 plus 1 of they 2 you must be round about the 40k a week again

Somebody please take Boerigter and you are up around about 100k a week if not in excess!

Obviously for the players we own we should try and get as much in, in transfer fees but RD has indicated he wants 21/22 squad with youth coming through also so we are still roughly there pending the CH Situ

It is about time that academy started producing more!, five players in the last FIFTEEN! years that has given us circa 50 games or more is a shocking return IMO

Just wondered everyone else take on it was?

If we end up having to bring in 2 CBs I'd like us to bring in one with a lot of experience and one with potential and let the younger guy learn off the older guy and develop. I know it's easy for me to suggest that and I have no names in mind but that would be my ideal scenario. An established international CB and a good, potentially great, younger model. I know we won't throw cash around either but there is good value in the smaller European leagues and some of the African guys are just machines, total athletes.

22 Feb 2015 21:16:21
Totally agree mate. We need a commanding Cool someone who hasn't got his eye on a mid to bottom table team in the End someone who wants to play for Celtic one of the biggest clubs in the world. Any player who wouldn't give a small portion of their crotch to play in a stadium and in front of a crowd like that obviously doesn't love football only money. We also need a proven striker but we all know are scouts couldn't pick a CF at a world class striker convention. But fingers crossed. And I'm kinda liking Bitton just now. When he first came in thought Raphael shite had came back but game time has really brought his game on. And the academy isn't producing enough first team players my bellybutton has created more fluff in the last ten minutes than the academy has created player's in the last five years. But I think RD is going the right way and as his confidence builds so will his ability to make the tough desicions.

Jamiebhoy, I have no idea what wages any of the players you mentioned are on . The two loan players will be off our books at the season end if we don't want them .
The problem with the rest who have certainly disappointed since their arrival. It's debatable whether they were never any use, or they haven't worked since they signed for us, or just didn't fit in but one thing is clear it won't be easy to off- load them to any club who are prepared to pay their wages . Could be we could be paying part of their wages until their contracts with us runs out .

Myles, I am not sure what part of the body you think footballers should give up to pay for Celtic . That may be true on nights like Thursday night when the atmosphere was brilliant .
Just move on 3 days to Sunday, I don't think Celtic Park atmosphere weather conditions or anything else would have excited to many to give up much .

Chris, a think am in the ball park with they amounts, Load of dead wood there for sure!

A agree with you that they may be difficult to shift

But would give us a base to get some decent players in been saying for a while now would love a couple of decent Bosman's

ATVB JB7

Bosman' are not necessary cheap.
It's more important that they do the job that Deila wants . I think we will have to ignore the EPL . I think Deila will concentrate on Scotland and the Scandanavia Countries .

Chris a fully realise mate we ain't competing with the EPL but there is a "happy balance / better calibre " individual out there IMO

Ciani @ Lazio, Forren @ Molde, Nordvelt @ Munchengladbach, & we missed out on Mosiander @ Ajax who would have played right into your formula

Now is the time to capitalise and tap into IMO

Jamiebhoy, I am sure the managers and scouts have listed many players who they hope to be able to sign and who they hope will do a good job for us . Some of the players you have listed may well be on our lists but just because a player doesn't sign for us doesn't necessarily mean we missed out . Our club may have had good reason not to sign a particular player .

22 Feb 2015 16:27:39
You would never have known we had played 90 mins of high temp football on Thursday.

When did we last play so well after a European game? Big week ahead with Inter & Aberdeen.

Good luck to the Bhoys and hope Zola's Cagliari can win and take out a player or two 🙊

It's all down to the fitness of the players. RD has got them fit and they will only get fitter. We can play 2 games a week no problem.

Again "fans" on here mocked and sneered at Deila and his emphasis on fitness.
We have to acknowledge how well almost all the Celtic squad took on board his fitness regime . Players won't get really fit no matter how much the coaches work them, they have to take it on board themselves and as individuals take ownership.

22 Feb 2015 16:07:31
I noticed inter aren't playing till Monday night at 8 ( on bt sports by the way ) and that they have to make one of the longest journeys in seria a as well down to cagliari . Every little bit helps 😉

I hope its their full team too and they get pumped knock them for confidence :)

22 Feb 2015 12:12:52
So marsielle want Guidetti for £11.5 million Lolol take him! He is not worth anywhere near that! You can tell he doesn't want to be here. Fair play if he can get that deal but just another showing of financial power in other leagues paying over the odds for a mediocre player. Just out of curiosity what do you recon guidetti is on at celtic? And come the summer who could we bring in to partner griffiths up front. I know the season is not over and that Duffy is on a progression program, who would you go for?

22 Feb 2015 13:55:02
Really hoping mate that Griffiths isn't the main man up front next season aswell need to get rid of all the dead wood strikers ie stokes balde pukki scepovic guidetti will be off so would imagine we get a good stricker on loan and buy another one from English league one for about a million pound. Griffiths works hard but he's just not good enough for me or in Europe was getting pushed off the ball far to easily on Thursday whenever he had the ball probally get slated for this but definitely missed big samaras especially in the European games

This story with Guidetti is nonsense. Marseilles are in no position to pay that kind of money.

I like Griffiths, think he does a lot of work for the team, I would play him and Scepovic upfront to see if they can develop a partnership, if Guidetti is away to Marseille at the end of the season, good luck to him, there a good player in there somewhere.

Dont really acknowledge paper talk these days. They are just stirring things. To be honest I couldn't care less what players wanted to stay or leave club. No player is bigger than the club

Whatever happened to his contract running out with City in the summer? How or why any 'journalist' is putting an £11.5m price on him is just laughable.

{Ed007's Note - That's just in wages I'm assuming, Jim, I haven't read the actual article.}

Oops. Still a heck of a lot!

I don't think it matters if it is in the Scottish media or not, there would be no truth in it .