Celtic Banter Archive January 27 2017

27 Jan 2017 21:14:51
I have been thinking about a replacement Goal keeper if Gordon Goes!
Tim Krul Anyone? Still just 28! Decent keeper!

{Ed007's Note - That's a decent shout, Gaz btw. He is unhappy on loan at Ajax but Newcastle don't want/need him back there. Dermot and Mike Ashley could easily sort it out over one of their cosy dinner meetings at Sandy Lanes. ;-)

27 Jan 2017 21:38:51
would take Krul in a heart beat, very good keeper

27 Jan 2017 22:41:39
Anyone but Doris, if he's in goal for rest of season we can kiss goodbye to the Scottish cup and the treble

28 Jan 2017 00:21:32
Gordon is a top class goalie, sure he makes mistakes, but if you look at some of the english international goalies over the years, they all make big blunders, some of them much more than Gordon, if he is sold. it must. be for top wack,

27 Jan 2017 20:36:09
What are your thoughts on next season, after winning the treble and using Leicester city as a comparison.

27 Jan 2017 21:05:18
Pretty sure Leicester never won the treble last season mate

29 Jan 2017 10:55:10
I think he ment in the champions league as they got through there group unbeaten

27 Jan 2017 17:43:52
Just curious troops. What positions do u think we need to improve on to go further than the group stages of CL? I know domestically we have a superior squad. But what do we REALLY need to go further in Europe?

27 Jan 2017 18:04:17
Goalkeeper, right back and another nippy winger if Roberts goes back to City.

27 Jan 2017 18:18:47
Brendan Rodgers rates Craig Gordon don't know a keeper without faults but the big man for me should stay for a few years yet we're going for a record on Sunday you don't do that with a bad keeper get off the mans back and

27 Jan 2017 18:51:29
We've got the right manager I believe but we need a Henrik Larsson up front a Paul McStay in central midfield and a Paul Elliot commanding the box is central defence. Find all three and I'll die a happy man! 🍀

27 Jan 2017 19:54:27
We need more than a few of good quality still for cover I'd say. If the starters are all fit I'd still want a tall cf option or another am that could do it late in a game. The biggest thing for me is a solid defensive rw. When we are under the cosh against the better sides we don't have that.

27 Jan 2017 22:04:32
Number 10 priority . center back baldy mould but bit more mobile and quick . winger to replace Roberts . right back and another quick striker. think if rodgers got those in by summer and they were sinclair and dumbele quality wed be a force to reckon with.

28 Jan 2017 00:05:40
@jfp88 - I've found them! Henrik's in Sweden, Paul's in Australia and Elliot's in London. Now don't be going and doing anything stupid, there's still plenty of time for you on this Earth.

28 Jan 2017 08:28:10
Well done Onion Jack! You could maybe get a job scouting for your own club? The 3 of them could still get a game for your mob 👍🍀

27 Jan 2017 15:45:48
As you know Ed always been one of the few in the CG corner


How much is the offer for him?

Could be tempted to take it for a 34 year old 👍

{Ed007's Note - I heard the bid made this morning was actually £2.5m but I'm swithering whether to believe that. }

27 Jan 2017 16:02:33
Ooft Ed, if it is at that level I would take it all day long!

You must be of that train of thought too eh?

Bring in the giant Nordic keeper at man city or let Leo loose

{Ed007's Note - Any other time I'd be happy to see him go but I'd want more £ for him and it leaves us very weak in the GK department. De Vries for the rest of season worries me for the SC and Bailley looks even worse. Is Fasan up to it? I know you've went on about him for a while but he's 22 now and out of contract in the summer and I've not heard anything about him getting a new deal. If Chelsea had made their move earlier in the window giving us time to get a replacement in I'd be all for it, but I really want this Treble and Gordon's our best GK to help with that.}

27 Jan 2017 16:41:52
£2.5M for a quality international goakeeper that's played at the highest level and went for £9M how long ago? 10 years? Are we having a laugh? As I said the other day in my (long) time watching the Hoops apart from Boruc and Forster we've never had much better. I rate him highly as a shot stopper the odd moment of madness aside. De Vries looks to goalkeeping what feckn Union Jack is to logic and reason! 🍀

27 Jan 2017 16:42:33
Im with you on this one Ed. Too ate to shop around and what we currently have in the back up store won't do it. I have always liked CG but as a reactive stopper. He does not control the box and stands on line waiting for shots. 2.5 - 3 million would be great but sounds like Chelsea are in a wee bind and like us in SPL want to finish the job in EPL

{Ed007's Note - Man City paid about £15 million for 33/34 year old Claudio Bravo and Gordon's a better 'keeper than him. We should be looking at £5/6 million or hunt them. This is Chelsea, why should we accept a paltry offer for an important first-team player?}

27 Jan 2017 17:04:47
ED007 what I am worried about if Celtic say no how Gordon will react. I heard he wanted to talk to Chelsea and you can bet they will offer him at least double what we can pay, is it fair to keep him.

{Ed007's Note - Yes, he's under contract to us and it would be pretty low if he put in a transfer request 4 days before the window closes. The Club took a huge risk in signing him at a time when other clubs wouldn't touch him and he could have quit the game and earned a packet from the insurance payout, where would we have been if he had broke down that September?
The Club, coaches, managers and plenty of the fans have shown faith in him and he should show them some of the same loyalty.
Do you think Gordon will play on Sunday, Tim? Regardless of what happens I can't see Rodgers thinking he's in the right frame of mind.}

27 Jan 2017 17:13:53
I look forward to the day the arse falls out the EPL. Personally it bores the bollocks right off me and would watch Albion Rovers before Aston Villa (the pies are feckn better) . Arrogant bams with a very much over rated opinion of their league. Italian, German, Spanish everybody's time comes and go's. Their national team is pants because the Engerland manager is limited to choosing circa 38% of EPL players. Feck them and we should shaft Chelsea for Craig Gordon if they want them. £2.5 (feckn) million. Bastards. Why don't we throw in a free haggis and bottle of whisky. Feck me gently. 🍀

{Ed007's Note - Offer them Gordon and £3/4 million for Begovic and see what they say.}

27 Jan 2017 17:32:40
If they let Fasan go it will be the biggest error since Shay Given IMO I did say that with BR banging on about a keeper kicking and playing that that was LF's biggest weakness his kicking

The lad is quality and saved his team time and again in that EDL keepers are usually but not always later bloomers Ed 👍

{Ed007's Note - You'd have thought he's have at least made the bench by now though, there seems more of a buzz around 18 year old Ross Doohan than Fasan.}

27 Jan 2017 17:53:03
Good point ED007 it depends how strong the relationship is between Brendan and Gordon, maybe the manager has said, stay until the summer, win the treble with us and then if another offer comes in Celtic will consider it. After all if Chelsea are looking at Gordon other clubs will be too.
And to answer your question, yes I think he will play on Sunday after clear the air talks like above.

{Ed007's Note - Why are you worrying about how he will react then?}

27 Jan 2017 18:00:30
That's a great idea about Begovic. I agree with you and TinyTim, Ed that we're late in the day now. If somebody had of told me Chelsea would be in for Gordon as well at the start of the window 😣

{Ed007's Note - If they want to chance their arm we might as well too lol.}

27 Jan 2017 18:09:20
Or Ed / JT Begovic goes to Bournemouth / CG goes to Chelsea and we bring the holy 1 back from Bournemouth? 😁👍

{Ed007's Note - Why would you want him back, remember his final season when he couldn't be arsed? Thanks for the memories Artur but no thanks.}

27 Jan 2017 18:10:11
I'm totally in the CG camp and can't understand why some Celtic fans think taking £3M for him is good business! Who would we replace him with for that kind of money? As Ed had said Man City paid £15M for Bravo and he is useless! Now nobody is saying he is without faults but we have seen 2 of our old favourites Boruc and Forster make howlers this season as well as DeGea I can't remember CG making these kind of glaring errors this year! A bit too quick off his line a couple of times which he got away with! All I'm saying is be careful what you wish for! When DDV came in I can't remember him actually making a save!

27 Jan 2017 18:34:03
I'm wae you Martin 🍀

27 Jan 2017 18:37:47
I know it would be a shock to PL, but we could always put something towards his replacement, Martin.

27 Jan 2017 18:40:51
He'll stay he's worked to hard to go and b a number 2 and I know the money's better but he'll be doing OK money wise with us, and it puts him In a strong negotiating position come contract talks

27 Jan 2017 18:51:44
Jim Tim, I'm all for investing in the team! It's just pointless spending millions on a new keeper when we have in my opinion a very good keeper as it is! Unless you are going to look at someone like Joe Hart who is probably out of our price range anyway! And is also prone to the howler! I would rather use the money to try and get Paddy Roberts on a permanent contract!

27 Jan 2017 20:18:01
The whole saga baffles me. They don't want a no1, ok I understand that but CG? I honestly didn't think we would earn a dime from him when he joined. I maintain and it has been shown that he doesn't have the heart to run into a 50/ 50 (in a fair tackle) or make the right decision to avoid it. For me that blacklists him.
Can't belive I'm saying this but I'd keep him. The whole thing for me reopens the wound of not sorting out a keeper in the summer. Chealsea could of had our No2 and we could of had a few quid.

27 Jan 2017 20:50:11
Ed I watch a lot of city games, have to say Claudio Bravo is one of the worst keepers I've ever seen. He was signed to be a ball playing gk, Gordon is better at that aspect too! Not his biggest fan but surely worth at least 5m.

Get the holy goalie back, even just to wind the tribute act up?

Have you seen much of Adrian? If so, is he any good?

{Ed007's Note - I've not seen that much of Adrian so I don't know mate.}

27 Jan 2017 20:58:41
Cheers bud, sure if we get linked with him there will be a YouTube video created to make him look like Casillas!

Do you think there is confidence within the club on De Vries? Seems to have been swept aside, expected him to play in the cup games tbh, but they must not trust him for that, or Brendan wants to simply win it all

{Ed007's Note - I have no doubts that De Vries was brought in to replace Gordon but showed he wasn't up to the job.}

27 Jan 2017 14:45:55
With the current team equaling the lions unbeaten domestic run, is that also the Scottish record or even British?

{Ed007's Note - Remember this record is only from the start of the season. In England the record for this is 11 matches held by Tottenham Hotspur for the old First Division, 1960-61.

Celtic hold the British record and 3rd overall in Europe for the the longest unbeaten run of 62 matches (1915–17) Celtic established a British record for an unbeaten sequence of 62 matches between November 1915 and April 1917, including two games in a day, played against Raith Rovers and Motherwell.}

27 Jan 2017 18:01:39
2 games in 1 day playing on tattie fields with a ball like bell metal, respect!

27 Jan 2017 19:21:04
Fountain of knowledge as always ed, cheers mate!

{Ed007's Note - I had to look it up lol My memory isn't THAT good.}

27 Jan 2017 02:08:33
Hi to all my fellow Celts on here - this is my very first post on this site. Hope everyone is enjoying this season as much as I am. I have to say apart from two very testing performances in the CL (Barca away and Munchengladbach at home) , I have to say we have been absolutely joy to watch. The pressing, the passing and the desire to win every game has been phenomenal, especially domestically when most teams park the bus against us. Every player has improved under BR which shows just how good a Manager he really is. Tom Rogic has been my favourite player so far - his feetwork, reading of the game, passing and goals have been first class. I was wondering if anyone had an update on his injury? I think when he's match fit, we'll be back to scoring three or four per game.

27 Jan 2017 06:49:21
Welcome mate.

27 Jan 2017 07:14:58
Was saying this the other day about rogic. He finds/ sees passes that most others can't, and is definitely what we miss when teams sit in against us. His job is made much easier when Sinclair and Forrest play wide of him though. Forrest stretches the game well and Sinclair/ KT do well to demand a few bodies trying to stop them which give Rogic the space to do his damage. Hope he's back soon and has a good end to the season (not too good that he's attracting too much attention 😂)

27 Jan 2017 08:25:26
Away to beer sheva, was painful but all in all I'm a happy bhoy

27 Jan 2017 08:37:46
Welcome aboard Marky

27 Jan 2017 11:37:08
hello just my second post so hope it doesn/ t upset the applecart but is rogic really as good as a lot of lads think to me he has good skill but for his size he is easily brushed off plus lasting the full game seems to be a problem plus his shooting needs a lot of work as most shots are not on target in the domestic games he gets away with it but when we play the better class teams i think it shows.

27 Jan 2017 15:21:59
I thought Rogic was starting to look a lot more powerful, for me one of his great skills is sheilding the ball from his opponents.