Celtic Banter Archive February 02 2015

02 Feb 2015 23:23:45
I am delighted The Board have seriously backed RD in this window - even though they left it late - and we were not involved in a bunch of additional loans.
This is a great double-dunt on top of the victory on Sunday and will give the whole club such a boost for the remainder of the season and push for trophies.
It is also a real bonus to have kept VVD and Commons (even if it's only for a while) as both are currently at the top of their game and will be very valuable.
Thank you Celtic for a fantastic couple of days.

02 Feb 2015 23:55:55
Think Commons will stay. He wants to stay but with Armstrong joining, Celtic may let Commons go in the summer? Let's see. Question now is who does RD drop to accommodate the 2 new signings? Interesting but good business. For once well done to RD and the Board. I have been a big critic of RD and his style of football but I may need to eat some humble pie? I really hope so!

Jungle Jim
I agree the board hasn't done us bad . We have, on paper anyway, as good an attacking force as we should want .

Good point Johnny. Commons is good and I rate him but you can't mess a club like ours about until the last moment. Bringing competition in (younger as well) is always good and I did not see a massive rush to sign Kris so maybe he needs to re-evaluate where he is and slap his agent around a wee bit. Good feeling after this window as generally very little positive comes out of it. Well done the board for showing a wee bit bottle and letting some moths out of the purse! Hail Hail

@1. "For once well done RD"? He has had a good season all round considering start he had due to injuries. You do know we are in all competitions at this point? Vast improvement from last season, gee the guy a break

02 Feb 2015 20:20:51
Armstrong fee agreed and GMS so looks as though we are going to get our men for once looks like we have stumped up the cash!

Well looks like we will be much stronger tomorrow for rest of season so hats off for once to the Celtic board for getting a good bit of business deals done without being forced to pay over the odds.

Deila told us we were keeping our main players and that we would come out of the window stronger than we went in .

02 Feb 2015 19:08:04
Guys there has been many many players we have signed for much less than they were worth. Bobo, Lubo, Commons, wanyama, Izzy, Ki, and even the great Henrik. So just for once celtic just dish out the extra 500k or whatever it will be for GMS and Armstrong. We have made a lot of money out of transfers in the past so it won't kill us.And at least we know they not duds this time, I don't think 1 supporter would moan.

Seems GMS is on his way, 250k agreed.

Why? Would you pay 2grand for a car that you would be getting for nothing in 6 months?
We can wait for GMS.

02 Feb 2015 19:59:17
If it was better than what I had and thought it could make a difference over the next 6 months then yeah. Especially if I could afford it

BigRab. Not think it would be worth signing him now?

Take him out Utds team and they're weaker for our cup final.

GMS would improve our side for league run in and even EL.

Then get him in the side, used to our system and players around us for the what is almost elusive CL qualification now.

Diffrence is rab it would be 2 quid the now if you relate to the finances. I think even you would want the car the now at that price lol.

Looks like its a done deal now. I welcome our new bhoys with open arms!

If things go as we now hope and think with Armstrong and GMS, Peter Lawwell has saved Celtic his wages including bonuses on these deals alone.
It looks good on the man retention front too.

02 Feb 2015 17:38:40
The amount of Rangers' fans I've heard going on about how they "aren't that far away from Celtic" is cringeworthy. And the media saying how Celtic should have won by more is as tedious.

We could have been four or five up in the first half - and SHOULD have been up by at least three. We came out in the second half and killed the game. Totally professional. Why go gung ho? Especially when you don't have to? That's schoolboy stuff.

Would I have liked five or six? Of course but as I say, totally professional job. Not only were we heads and shoulders above them technically, we out fought them in every area of the pitch. They were tiring by the end - all that hoof the ball and cakes at half time will do that - but we looked like we could go again.

To chastise Celtic for not winning by more goals, or to claim that Rangers in any way competed, is ridiculous. Apparently, this was their most important game since liquidation? It's not even our most important game in February.

I totally agree TPP for me it became that we were content and had no real need/intent to expand further energy, as you say more important games in Feb mate including now moving towards two games a week!

A hear the people in laundry dept. had to ask our keeper what kit he wore as there wasn't a mark on it lol

atvb jb7

They are miles behind us. It was like watching a sunday pub league team.

Hampden Park is supposed to be iconic as the home of scottish football. That pitch was shocking! There will be teams in lower leagues with pitches in better condition

{Ed007's Note - Blantyre Celtic would have got a result against them. I've only seen them play Hibs this season and they were diabolical, yesterday just showed how far behind us they are on and off the field. It will be years before we are challenged by a club playing out of £1brox.}

Just read wee Blacks outburst about Broony's tackle on him, he said if he had made that tackle he would be sent off. Well you don't have to worry about getting sent off Ian because you don't have the gut's to make a tackle from the front.
Tambhoy

Ed I think they will be lucky to get promoted this season into Premiership.

{Ed007's Note - Unless there is a vast improvement in them it'll be a huge ask.}

I think it years since we played as bad a team as Sevco. Not only was C Gordon a spectator but our defenders never had to stretch themselves to make a last gasp block or tackle .
Even they do get three/four Newcatle illegals they still won't have a team .

02 Feb 2015 16:49:06
Everyone seen the video of Ronny dancing last night? Defo should be signing "give me hope Joanna" to the words " give us hope Ronny deila"

02 Feb 2015 14:31:07
Has the Referee made any comment on his inept attempt of doing his job yesterday?

I very much doubt it, but it will be discussed at the meeting on Tuesday night at his local lujj.
Even Michael Stewart was slagging him off for consistently poor decisions
There has been zero condemnation of the continuous sectarian singing by the bigots either - in fact all the Scottish sports programmes are concentrating on Andy Murray?! and it seems there was no game worth mentioning yesterday ha ha ha.

Madden or Bro. McLean couldn't have done better for them .

02 Feb 2015 11:29:21
Hi anyone know what time window in scotland closes at I seen on a web site it was 12. an hour after england

Yes England is 11pm Scotland 12am BC

Cheers hopefuly we could benefit from any deals that break down at last minute in england

{Ed007's Note - How can an English team transfer a player out when their window is shut?}

02 Feb 2015 14:23:10
Really. I didn't know it worked like that.thought they cudnt sign someone but they could sell or lone a player to a league with their window still open. Russia window open to 27th.so they can't buy anyone from a league were the window has closed?

Some scandinavian windows open till March.

I just had a veg curry so my window will be open till the morning!

02 Feb 2015 07:52:43
BBC reporting Dundee United have rejected 2 bids for Armstrong and GMS. We offered them 150,000 for GMS and having turned down 1.5m for him before we have been knocked back by a bid of just under 1.6m! Ed are these figures correct or is it BBCs only way of getting to ridicule us today or is it another case of our board penny pinching?

02 Feb 2015 07:36:59
Nice wee run out for the Bhoys, eh? I was pleased with Broony keeping it in check. Some bad refereeing decisions and some blatant elbows etc not seen. Through it all, Brown, above everyone else, just kept driving the team onwards. They tried to get at him a couple of times but he knew this would give the ref all the excuse he needed. Well done Broony and the rest of the team. RD's demand for fitness is showing benefits now. Hail, Hail.

02 feb 2015 06:53:21
up the pats

02 Feb 2015 01:44:20
2-0, comfortable and expected result. (A) few will have been gob smacked at the sheer gulf in class ‑ others a mixture of both utter hilarity laced with pity. Again, the others that never felt or admitted to either of the two will still have enjoyed the scoreline regardless. If a few of the despicable legion bow their head and shed a tear I for one will remind them to let it dry and sell the salt!.
It was a clear exhibition of variance of class – elbows CB ffs. We done the job. well done again.

Further bit of good news to be had? Every media Dundee united affiliated filmed persons
have had a lump in their throats when questioned regarding the two moving this window. Mibby?

I'm not over estimating the lift they would give to the side. I have real confidence in armstrong. Combined its two match winning, creative players that could help build the team and more importantly start.

{Ed007's Note - The general feeling (and talk) in the Utd camp after yesterday's match was that it was both players last game for them. CFC still need to stump up though....}

If this goes through backs will be monkeyless board wise till the summer. this win needs some icing

02 Feb 2015 02:35:28
Hope we can get the two of them in. The rumour of west Brom wanting Armstrong still won't go away but this usually is our day for business so who knows. Maybe Henderson on loan till the end of the season would be a nice we sweetner while giving him some good experience

If we do sign them it will really effect dundee United for the final and also with ciftci suspended for that game

If we don't I'm looking forward to seeing gms against us in a big game and seeing how he handles It. Not that it should be any different for him but will be good to see

Would like to see Armstrong come in but not for anything more than 2m. He is good but not as good as people say. As for mackay steven don't see what is great, better than borrigter and co but not sufficient quality but would be nice to see him play against us in the final and show what he can do