04 May 2025 20:33:05
Draw probably a fair result. For me only good performances from Ccv and sinisalo. Forrest and ralston done ok, everyone else poor.
I will say the guff Idah and engels are getting today and this season in general is bang out of order. It seems all because of big fees we paid for them.
Fans need to remember £9/ 10m is not a lot of money in football now a days. Put it into perspective, top champions league clubs will be paying £100m+ for their top strikers. Man utd paid £80m for thay hojlund and he's guff.
Fans also need to realise we paid £6m for sutton 25yrs ago. Yes 25 years ago and idahs goal record is as good as if not better than suttons.
We paid the same fee for idah as edouard who was excellent for us. And again Idah has a better goals per minute than edoaurd.
Hes on the verge of 20goals this season while playing mostly from the bench. 3 goals in th CL and along with engels who has 20+ goal contributions are on the verge of helping us to another treble.
Idah is only 24 and engels 22 and both can and will improve, but get off their back.
04 May 2025 22:49:03
Idah was rotten . Engels done nothing again and hatate disappeared again . if they play well then they deserve praise. if they don't then we can be critical.
04 May 2025 23:35:31
Drb
Whys no one banging on about how poor mcgregor or maeda was today. Same old rubbish. If its not taylor or scales its idah or engels.
05 May 2025 01:52:36
Nonsense DRB…. both Engels and Idah’s contribution this season has been excellent. they are both young men with a huge potential to improve further under BR.
05 May 2025 09:17:21
Rogican. Not on Sunday though and you can't hide a bad performance by saying they're young and have potential . we come on here after games to react to them with our own opinions I thought the three I mentioned had bad games . did you think they played well? . Derry tim those where the ones getting mentioned. yes maeda was off it in first half . but I thought McGregor had ok game . of course there are undeserved scapegoats and everyone has a favourite they won't be harsh on . the money Celtic paid for idah and Engels is big money for us and spl . I posted a while back would they get same level of criticism if bought for around £1 million? .
05 May 2025 09:55:27
They are both being scrutinized because of the large fees paid because when Celtic splash-out close to their biggest spend in a transfer window (and that includes Trusty) , the supporters expected big things - almost immediately. Patience is a virtue many of us are not blessed with. Another factor for me is (maybe unfairly) Engels is being compared to MOR and all the attributes he brought to the team.
Both players will learn a lot from this season and kick-on, but I am not convinced Trusty has what it takes.
05 May 2025 10:22:48
If BR manages to get a couple of real quality midfielders in that he's looking for - someone older than Engels and Idah and costing about the same money or a bit then you'll see Engels and Idah push on.
05 May 2025 10:43:13
It wasn't long ago fans were demanding on here that we spend 10-15m on oven ready CL players to take us to the next level now all of a sudden we shouodn't expect much from playersxin that bracket as it's not a lot of money these days. It's criminal we have broke our transfer record for Engels!
05 May 2025 10:48:30
Engels has tremendous potential, we overpaid for Idah.
05 May 2025 12:00:10
If we were to sell engels this summer we comfortably get 20 million so in what way is it criminal? Are fans expecting him to score 50 goals a season because he cost 11 million.
Its is unbelievable how many so called football fans know absolutely nothing about football. People need to remember this isn't fifa.
05 May 2025 13:12:53
Apart from a bad miss idah played well.
05 May 2025 18:11:17
I can’t understand the reaction .
Before 2012 it probably took me the most of a week getting over losing to the Rangers team . We knew they cheated, got referees help, SFA helped all they could as did SMSM, but getting beat by that shower was like a knife through the heart
But liquidation ended all that, even if h. ns tried to conjure up a new way of exiting liquidation, we laughed and enjoyed their efforts to climb back up with as Walter Smith said their history all dead . Losing to a team we had no history or rivalry shouldn’t particularly annoy us
However what is happening, our fans are getting more worked up and annoyed with us dropping points to the illegitimate club, than a decent honest club like Ross County.
06 May 2025 05:43:32
DC, please explain what Engels has done to merit a £9m profit in 12 months?
06 May 2025 12:22:19
You clearly don't watch celtic that much do you bhoy88. First season playing in a new country and playing in the champions league. Double figures for goals and assists. Belgium international and still only 21. But yeah he's not worth 20 million ???.
06 May 2025 15:19:01
He is not worth £20m as no club has paid £20m for him. He hasn't been a standout in any game for Celtic yet. For £11m, first season playing in a new country and CL shouldn't be an excuse.
06 May 2025 17:24:49
So you agree engels is worth 11million then. And by your logic callum mcgregor is worth nothing. Interesting view.
{Ed007's Note - It's pointless arguing with him, I've asked numerous times what he expected from Engels and never got an answer off him.
Celtic could easily get £20m for him this summer but when Engels does leave Celtic it will be for a Scottish record fee.}
06 May 2025 19:11:14
We paid £11m for him so that's what we think he is worth. Do I think he's worth £11m? No I don't. I'd expect a lot more than a paltry 5 assists and 9 goals mostly from the spot. I'd expect him to be a standout most games instead of going missing most of the time especially in the derbies. I'd expect him to dictate games.
What would you expect Ed from our record signing? How many seasons do you let our most expensive player have to settle in before he justifies his record price tag?
06 May 2025 19:13:46
All I keep hearing from yous is he's got potential, but so does the "project" players we sign that people moan about. Engels is our record signing and should hit the ground running from the off and quite simply he hasn't.
06 May 2025 19:19:19
9 Goals 5 Assists in the League and 1 Goal 3 Assists in Europe is not what I'd expect form our record signing.
06 May 2025 22:42:29
Engels has played in 50 matches, 10 goals 8 of which were penalties. So that's a whopping 2 goals from normal play and a measly 8 assists in 50 yes 50 matches from our most expensive player. Those figures must improve if we hope to get £20m for him or he will be our most expensive flop!