Celtic Banter Archive June 04 2011

04 Jun 2011 23:09:58
Fernandinho is a central midfielder not a striker he is a top quality player and I would love to see him at Celtic! So I hope what you say is true! Can't see it Ed have you heard anything? Also the link with us and Pablo Piatti he was one of the best attacker in Spain this year could Celtic really pull off such a transfer? What do you think Ed? {Ed007's Note - I seriously doubt we could afford Fernandinho and Shakhtar. As for Piatti, I seriously doubt we could sign him. I'm not very keen on South Americans playing in the SPL TBH, there hasn't been many success stories}

04 Jun 2011 21:38:59
Emir Spahic? Pretty sure Sir Alex or Arsene Wenger tried to sign him and couldnt meet the ridiculous £20-30 million price tag. Non starter. {Ed007's Note - Montpellier quoted Arsenal £25 million in 2010 for him}

04 Jun 2011 21:24:42
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04 Jun 2011 16:06:18
Craig Mackail Smith will not be joining Celtic and is set to join Norwich City instead.

Just shows you how bad the old firm has become when Celtic lose out on a transfer to Norwich and we (Rangers) look like losing Boogey to some one like QPR both old firm teams cannot compete with the english championship clubs in the transfer market or with wage demands. the only thing we can offer is european football of some sort but players nowadays are more interested in big money than playing on the big stage ( sky tv money has ruined our game ) plus the fact that none of our teams can agree to a new set up even though they know the current one is PI5H.


Tonydom {Ed007's Note - Well made point Tony. The Sky money papers over the cracks in the EPL and Championship IMO. without all their hyped up presentation and graphics etc a lot of the games are actually very poor.}

04 Jun 2011 19:34:36
"who will be the next gk??? i ve heard that cervi will be the number 1, zaluska going to poland, and r.thomson second gk. is that true??? {Ed007's Note - I hope not!}"

Goalkeeper is clearly a priority.

Cervi has been behind Zaluska in the pecking order so he can't be any better.

Aside from that he seems a bit unorthodox - his style reminds me of Ma Kalambay from Hibs a few years back who was a solid enough keeper on his day but extremely error prone and had several howlers. I don't think many managers go for that and would rather have a keeper that kept things simple.

I can see Zaluska leaving. He was cracking for United and only behind Boruc/McGregor at the time, has been solid whenever he's had to cover a game and I can see why we signed him but not good enough as a number 1 as was proven last summer. He'd be a good signing for the likes of Killie, Hibs etc. But outside the OF Randolph, Kello, Pernis and Langfield are all better keepers IMO which makes him simply not good enough for a team trying to win the league and get into Europe.

Aside from the possibility of the scouts having found some potentially world class (and importantly - English speaking) keeper that'd cost 100k from the depths of obscurity Given - who is/was world class and has stated an interest in joining - has to be our main target IMO.

04 Jun 2011 18:24:39
I hope Zaluska get's a chance for Celtic, because I'm a Rangers fan haha.

04 Jun 2011 17:33:12
snodgrass to celtic??? {Ed007's Note - Norwich and Newcastle are interested in him. Norwich had a £3.5 million bid rejected by Leeds}

04 Jun 2011 16:29:39
to the guy who said that chris burke was in tlks with celtic that isn't true as he is an ex rangers player

He was brought up through the Celtic youth system, so the fact he played for r*ngers wouldn't really be a factor if he was in talks.

04 Jun 2011 15:59:56
Hope Celtic sign Paul McShane as he is a big dumpling lol. Hope they also sign Garry Kenneth who is also a big dumpling. Would be nice if they also signed Bothroyd as he is also a big dumpling. Hope they keep Samaras as he is a, you guessed it, a big dumpling. Fraser Forster is too big a dumpling he is a very big imposing character therefore I don't want him to re-sign. haha.

Rangers forever, just a joke Celtic fans, please don't report me. {Ed007's Note - Report you to who?? Your teacher?}

Hey dumplin your another wan who's been up tae lennoxtown only tae find that yir auld wards been shut doon away bak tae govan wae smashy & nicey aka tim, (nice but dim, & wee sally) ps if its dumplings yer after check inside yir bra !
signed posso pat

04 Jun 2011 15:06:43
Breaking news, stathclde polis can cunfirm that 2 men were arrested ootside the barralands in the earlie hours of sat morning for indesensy & drunk in ther y's , the polis say that tim but dim refused tae coment an' hes tae appear in front ae the sherif, efter a weekend lie-in at londin road nick, a wee guy that wiz beside him says " aye it wiz him awrite he did it mister then ran away, mr mcoist wouldn't enlarge on the last comment, & sang hail hail b4 being also huckled
posso pat ya bams

Your a clown

04 Jun 2011 11:57:17
Bojan to sign for Celtic in a 6 month loan deal(Can be recalled at weeks notice), Barca want him to get regular first team football as does the player himself. Crosas has been quick to suggest to Bojan it would be a great move to advance his career. The relationship between the two clubs make this move a possible if not a little bit a long shot. His love for the club as well as the club rate him very highly no way he is getting sold so loan deal suits the club and player.

to this gauy and just about all celtic fans. what is this relationship stuff yous keep going on about between celtic and barca? yous have played them a few times true but that's about it as far as i can see hope someone can clear this up for me.

also u have no chance of getting bojan he will go on loan to an epl club like bolton or to italy/france the spl is so so poor and celtic won't have much european football either. so the standard that he will be playing at won't help him.

ttb {Ed007's Note - I have no idea where the idea comes from either, if you look through history, CFC have had a better relationship with Real Madrid that started in the Jock Stein era. Celtic fans jumped on the Barca thing when Henke signed for them!}

Spot on ed you the man, some of these guys have been on the wacky backy when they say we're getting some barca players even on loan ; just look at wee marc crosas it didn't exactly work out for him did it ( although I did think he got a FAIR CRAIC) WOT YOU SAY YOUNG ED?????
MARTY BHOY {Ed007's Note - He never really got a chance, but he was a bit lightweight for the SPL IMO}

"to this gauy and just about all celtic fans. what is this relationship stuff yous keep going on about between celtic and barca?"

When the Crosas deal happened there was talk of a few more in later transfer windows, with them effectively acting as a parent club. I'm sure we've tried to get other players - definitely Jeffren (club accepted but he wanted to stay and now plays so the idea is out of the window) and possibly a few that weren't publicised. There was rumours of a number of them though e.g. Caceres (before his Juventus move; now at Sevilla), Bartra (probably just rumour).

I'm also pretty sure someone from the club said in a press interview as much as "we have a good relationship with Barca so we may look to do more of these deals in the future". As a result there've been rumours of loan deals ever since.

As for Bojan I don't even see him moving on loan so this is a no-go from the start. He gets a game. {Ed007's Note - We bought Crosas for £400k, rising to £1.5m with add ons in 2008. We have never signed or had any player on loan from Barca since Crosas so this talk of a "relationship" doesn't make much sense to me. I agree with you that el campesino will not allow Bojan to go out on loan though}

04 Jun 2011 00:52:27
Banter.

Just thought I'd list some youngish Barcelona fringe players/benchwarmers to save people the bother of having to check Google/Wikipedia for them before they claim we've made an loan offer. It also goes without saying that all of these players frequently attend tea parties at Casa del Crosas.

Bojan
Jeffren
Marc Barta
Andreu Fontas
Martin Montoya
Marc Muniesa
Thiago
Jonathon dos Santos

So u know that for sure that they go to tea parties ?????? {Ed007's Note - Bojan does think Mr Kipling makes exceedingly good cakes!}

You sure there no making doughnuts or fairy cakes for wee tim but dim
posso pat

04 Jun 2011 00:24:56
Right bhoys lets be honest, celtic are going to sign forgieners and low league players that no one has heard of so no point in talking about shane long and others! And jack wilshire??? We'd have as much chance as signing messi! Lets just hope the foreiners and others turn out to be as good as kayal, izzaguire, hooper and ki.

Hail hail

Fair point.

On that note though I'm genuinely interested in seeing what Rangers come up with this summer. It seems that Celtic have gotten their act together when it comes to scouting players. Izaguirre and Kayal were total unknowns and are easily two of the season's best signings all things considered i.e. the money we paid and their prior reputation (i.e. total unknowns).

I just wonder whether or not the Rangers scouts have been doing the same in finding rough diamonds from the depths of obscurity in the absence of cash ready to pounce or whether their targets will be more predictable close to home signings (SPL, EPL, Championship) or a reasonably expensive one or two from Europe like Jelavic.

Too right mate they hav picked up some ruff diamonds, just look & spit the dug diouf they found him under a rock!
marty bhoy