03 Feb 2025 09:02:27
Happy transfer deadline day Ed. Not been as stressful for you this window I bet.
{Ed007's Note - Whiny ass bitches only have about 30 days to be whiny ass bitches and work themselves into a petted lip frenzy. ?
03 Feb 2025 13:01:54
Quoted like Shakespeare ?.
{Ed007's Note - ???
03 Feb 2025 13:05:52
The squads in good shape. A little light in some areas but there's still cover within the squad for now as the leagues nearly wrapped up. That won't please everyone though. It's the summer that will do your box in ?.
{Ed007's Note - I think Kyogo leaving has put a spanner in the works and to be fair with the money we have sitting in the bank, the CL money and the £ from player sales fans have a right to be upset that things take so long and will be well within their right to be fuming if the window closes and we have a weaker squad - which we have right at this moment imo - or it's a couple of last gasp desperate loans.
If Taylor has told the Club he is leaving come the summer and even with Hob Nob Hips coming in we'll still need a back-up LB, why not identify him and try and get him in during the window, let him get settled in and some game time? But that's far too sensible for Celtic guess!}
03 Feb 2025 14:19:55
As much as I'd like to, I can't disagree with you Ed ? even given your latest dig at my bhoy KT ? ? ?
The board are sitting on a fortune, numbers that Carol Vorderman would struggle with.
LB, Winger, CB (x2) and Striker will need to be addressed / signed in the summer, IMO.
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03 Feb 2025 14:51:56
Spot on pedro even the fact u mentioned Carol Vorderman ?.
03 Feb 2025 15:28:40
Ed, we've been saying that for the last few transfer windows. The way I see it is that there are two "Celtic means" of operating in transfer windows.
1/ Development squad: Identify young players for development and upgrade the current squad.
2/ Wait until the final minutes and see what we can do through our and the selling clubs' despeartion.
We know what's needed - the Board presumably know what's needed but they are pig-headed and reluctant to spend unless they absolutely have to.
03 Feb 2025 17:05:09
The fact that there seems to be very little transfer business before today in England for example, I think club should concentrate on two positions that have weakened in the window . To try to widen the search to cover various positions on team winger and 2 cbs is going over the top and shopping in a limited market Why not shop for the less urgent position in the vast open summer market when many players are traded in most leagues.
03 Feb 2025 17:58:57
ED mentioned a back up LB but I think we already had him in the building in Valle.
I'm still stunned we let the boy go.
03 Feb 2025 21:54:06
That's too much forward planning Ed. Planning and the board don't go in the same sentence. We are baring the fruits of those months of hard work we was told they was doing since the summer window closed. Kvistgaarden has been liked for years, Tierney and Jota are former players and Schlupp previously worked under Rodgers, again we was linked with him a window or two ago. As you call him Dr Football or whatever it is doesn't seem to have done anything. If we have the money in the bank why wait until the summer for another LB when they could've came in now and settled in. The ST situation looks like a non goer at the minute too. The squad has enough to get over the line in the league but a treble would top it off. Would have thought Pleat may have had a few players he could've recommended when coming in.
{Ed007's Note - Schlupp left Leicester for Crystal Palace in January 2017, 18 months before Rodgers took over there but I get your points and totally agree ????