Celtic Banter Archive September 04 2014

04 Sep 2014 18:42:13
I can now exclusively reveal that the renaming of Ibrox will incorporate the area around it at the back of the Broomloan stand and take into account all the Sevco fans concerns, it will be renamed
THE WHINE ALLEY.

04 Sep 2014 18:34:21
Well after all I have said about the Celtic board I have to say good job on getting this bit of business done

04 Sep 2014 17:52:15
Its cool folks we should just never have doubted Oor Ed

Turned out Pedro just wanted to "tap up his tan" in Spain before DIRECTING FIFA to the RESULT he wanted :-)

04 Sep 2014 17:26:27
with scepovic and guidetti in does that mean a change in formation?

My thoughts exactly. 2 strikers of decent pedigree, good in the air, physical lads. We signed 2 wingers and have full backs who are good going forward. Surely ticks all the boxes to play a conventional 4-4-2 with Johansen and Brown, when fit, grafting in the middle of the park. Even a diamond 4 in the middle with 2 up top could work with the players we have. Hate to see a team set up with only 1 upfront.

04 Sep 2014 19:03:48
RD will only ever play 1 up front. He plays a 4-3-2-1 and that's the end of it

I bow to your knowledge of the future, johnny

06 Sep 2014 09:34:40
Deepriver, I think he should change but am going on his early interviews when he talks about his philosophy about how to play the game. Personally don't like his set up of 1 striker and maybe we even have players to play a3/5/2 at home anyway but it's not RD way I think. Deep river, I hope I am wrong my friend and if I am don't forget to remind me.

04 Sep 2014 16:38:33
Fifa have now approved the loan deal for guidetti so he is now finally a celtic player just hoping he can play in europe aswell

04 Sep 2014 14:03:18
I’ve decided to add my thoughts on what’s happening at our club at the moment. It seems to be that a lot of fans are disgruntled by the way things are going on and off the park. Now I would class myself as an optimist when it comes to the club I love and will always stick by them through the good times and the bad. People that think these are bad times need to look back to the Kelly’s era!

The only thing that I have been disappointed with this year is the lack of signings before the Champions League matches. We maybe should have had players in earlier. But in saying that we brought a new manager in(maybe the cheap option) but if I remember back most fans were excited about his philosophy and the fact that he like to bring through the Academy boys etc. And in my opinion was the best route for the club to go in the current climate. He had what? 2 weeks to get to know his players before the Champions League qualifiers. How can he possibly be able to say what players he needs and what players can go in that time, let alone give the green light to bringing players in? We have a different philosophy now. A pressing, attacking philosophy. No we haven’t seen great displays but the change throughout the club this year is massive. It takes time for the players to get to know a system, to get up to fitness and to get them mentally aware, especially for guys coming into a media fest that scrutinises everything we do as a club. Our philosophy as a club is changing to the way of clubs like Ajax and even Porto. Bringing in young raw talent, developing them and moving them on for a profit. This is nothing new in football. Hopefully next year we reap the rewards of this with young Scottish talent coming through and making the grade but again this takes time.

As far as the board go, I was having a moan about them the other week but personally I think they’ve done a great job. We don’t know who’s decision it was not to get players in before the qualifiers, we don’t know how many people knocked us/the league back, we don’t know any of the circumstances. Footballs a tough game and not just on the park. I think it’s a bit of a disgrace that people were calling for the head of PL when the same people were probably praising him when Rangers died. This side of the game is the business side and these guys know exactly what they’re doing. They will have a 5 or 10 year plan, not just a plan for this year.

On to Scepovic now. How can people possibly be annoyed at him for looking into what is best for him and his family? If I was a footballer I’d do exactly the same(unless it was to play for Celtic as I’m a fan).

We are now passed the transfer deadline, we’ve kept big Virgil, brought in a new striker and hopefully Guedetti will follow. I’m happy with this. I’m also happy with the other loan signings and can understand why we’ve went down this road. Last year was a bit of a disaster with signings and we spent a lot on dross(again this is just football, we won’t be the first club or last to buy sh*t so why not test before we buy?
I can understand the frustrations of people but look at the big picture and you’ll see that things will be rosy come January/the end of the season(famous last words) so let’s get behind Ronny, the boys and the board and give them the confidence they all need to move forward.

Anyway just my humble opinion.

Well put CMC, my sentiments exactly. I support the Club as that was the wish of my father and he took me when I was a small Bhoy. Hail Hail

The club knew we had CL qualifiers - plus Celtic Park was unavailable well in advance and chose an unknown manager who in turn, seems unaware of Celtic FC's expectations.
The Board failed to back him before and during the qualifiers - even though we got TWO chances.

The supporters want the new manager to do well even though there is little sign of progress so far and the majority of new arrivals are loan deals - and we have a very poor record going down this road.
His philosophy was ideal, but putting it into practice and motivating the squad seems to be a tall order?

The sale of our Keeper (for a vast profit that remains mostly, banked) in the middle of this transition was another disruption to a defence that is suspect to say the least and we failed to strengthen the dreaded left back position yet again in a window.
We left it too late in the window to address our requirements, although Scepovic may turn out to be a good signing, we have no real cover for Craig Gordon if he gets injured and the creativity in midfield is lacking.
Guidetti would have been nice, but I am not confident it will happen now.

I could go on, but I would be repeating things from previous posts, in how I cannot agree that the club is being run as good as some think.

I do agree there's nothing left to do but get behind the team and hope that things improve very quickly.
I have seen a few posts on here suggesting a couple of free agents and I hope the club are not too complacent to settle for what we have - as we need more quality.

JungleJim, you’re right the club did know there was qualifiers coming up and should have strengthened last season but it’s not quite as easy as that. Some players brought in last season have not impressed (its football, these things happen) and to chance bringing in more too early without the manager knowing his team or their strengths and weaknesses could have been a disaster. On top of that how do you know the club weren’t actively pursuing targets during this period? How do you know players weren’t knocking us back left right and centre?

Again the loan signings are brought in because the club can’t afford any more duff signings. Try before you buy. A good business philosophy in my opinion. Would you have a go at the club if we bought Wakaso & Tonev and the ended up another Boerigter or Balde? It’s damned if they do and damned if they don’t at the club at the moment.

On that note the bad signing aren’t the boards fault either. They’ve been let down by their staff.

We’ve got the same cover we had last year if Forster got injuredr?

The creativity in midfield is lacking? Brown injured, forrest injured, Berget, Tonev and Wakaso brought in. Commons to hit full speed as always. We’ll be fine in this department.

I’m not saying mistakes haven’t been made but it’s far from Armageddon as a lot of fans are making out.

04 Sep 2014 13:00:57
Sly Sports (On Line) reporting John Guidetti " hopeful of getting loan move to Celtic APPROVED if not HE IS prepared to wait SIX months for it"

Looks good in a "worse case scenario"

ATVB JB7

Just read on the tv app! news that najastic and guidetti have been included in man city's squad for the season! Where does that leave us with the loan ed if he is registered in there squad?

{Ed007's Note - It doesn't change anything. Until FIFA announce their decision Man City are quite entitled to register him.}

04 Sep 2014 12:21:20
Hows this for a VVD song:

Oh Virgil van Dyke, he is the f***ing man
He comes from Holland, he's harder than Jaap Stam
He plays in the green and white, for Ronnie Deila's men
And when we win the league, we'll sing this song again. (continued ad nauseum)

04 Sep 2014 09:54:12
We need a song for Scepovic, quite tricky with his blooming name but here is my feeble attempt, I am sure others with more poetic souls can do better.
Scepovic, Scepovic he's big and he's QUICK
He's here at the Celtic to score HAT TRICKS

Scepovic, Scepovic, you tried to do a runner
Getafe didn't want you
And then you came crawling back to us begging for another chance to play at Celtic Park you big pansy!