Celtic banter 3

14 Jul 2026 19:09:38
I know it's a friendly but oh dear we are very poor.

14 Jul 2026 19:26:50
It's only the second warm up game with multiple substitutions.

14 Jul 2026 19:51:07
3 weeks until the real stuff starts, frightening that we will probably need 5 decent signings in to just stand still when you take into account the likely leavers. The arrogance of our board beggars belief.

This rebuild should have started months ago. I said tongue in cheek weeks ago that we will be scratching around looking for loans at the beginning of August, unbelievably I fear this will come true.

14 Jul 2026 20:07:04
5 decent signings or kt, Johnstone, trusty, Maeda, Yang, tonetki, nygren, they arguably all start ……. Maeda won’t be back imo, we definitely need players but let’s do a rerun of the panic we’ve seen and hysteria after a friendly defeat,

No World Cup all those players are rested and playing and firing all cylinders,

14 Jul 2026 20:22:37
Did you watch the game Jaa?, yes its a friendly and doesn't matter but without exaggeration that should have been 8 or 9. 4-1 hugely flattered us.

14 Jul 2026 21:46:53
I think Lisbon were missing a lot of players from World Cup.

Friendly or not, that was a shambles and a sign of things to come if we don’t sign a higher standard of player.

14 Jul 2026 22:07:22
People keep saying it's only pre season and we were missing players or we made lots of subs etc but it's the same for the opposition is it not. A weakened sporting team battered our weakened team, if something major does not happen in the next week or two we are in big trouble.

15 Jul 2026 06:34:25
I turned off and back on then back off, I wouldn’t really chose to watch our reserves play friendly matches and wouldn’t in anyway look anything into the result, if the point is we need players that’s true, but we can’t ignore the 6 starters not there, the exercise quickly becomes just an exercise in my view, apart from seeing a new player or a young player for first time,

14 Jul 2026 19:02:03
70 minutes in and I can't see what our game plan is or the style we are trying to play.

14 Jul 2026 17:59:16
Big CCV looked like he was towing a caravan trying to catch that wee winger.

14 Jul 2026 18:52:55
No that was just his arse he was towing.

14 Jul 2026 17:02:44
I am not expecting much from the game tonight
Sporting are a CL team, we have been doing double sessions so I expect us to tire second half
Be interesting to see if Nawrocki plays.

14 Jul 2026 18:00:47
They look tired after 30.

14 Jul 2026 18:42:15
Celtic played Sporting off the park on July 16th last year in our 2-0 victory.

14 Jul 2026 14:17:58
Just watching Maloneys goals on YT. Forgot how many free kicks he scored, like so many. Forgot the screamer against the orcs. He is under appreciated I think for time here. Probably being positioned to take reigns from MON. I personally wouldn't have a problem with that especially MON recommends.

It all depends imo on how our transfers are conducted. He is better qualified and experience over what Lenny had both in England, Scotland and internationally. It would make sense in a continuity aspect. However this window is the catalyst for succes or failure and clock is ticking!

14 Jul 2026 15:49:02
God i hope not, better as no2 or somewhere upstairs, definitely not good enough to be our full time manager, or have we fallen that far?

14 Jul 2026 14:16:56
Man U just signed keeper from Leeds, wonder if that will give the go ahead for Vitek to come to us.

14 Jul 2026 13:52:59
Well you have to admit our Board have improved our English

When you read a report these are the words associated with the club

Monitoring Linked Interested Eyeing etc

Just add your own word to above the only word you will NOT see is SIGNING.

14 Jul 2026 14:46:16
Nannying.

14 Jul 2026 17:37:59
If you read every media story about us, the headline reads, Celtic looking at. but when you read into the story it adds, however no contact has been made.

It is not worth reading any stories until players are paraded in a strip with their agent and lawyer holding up a signed contract, otherwise they are just stories with headlines deliberately written to pull you in.

Brian Wilson and his brass neck statement, players will come in over the next week, which was 4 to 5 weeks ago.

Embarrassing is the only word.

14 Jul 2026 09:27:24
What ever became of Leigh Griffiths?

14 Jul 2026 13:34:47
Last i read about him he was in Australia.

14 Jul 2026 14:30:58
It's a pity how it declined guy was born to score goals.

14 Jul 2026 15:38:36
You reckon the board will try and bring him back? 🤣🤣.

14 Jul 2026
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14 Jul 2026 13:50:10
Every time I see these 2, I get the currant bun vibe from both.

14 Jul 2026 15:00:41
😂😂😂😂 brilliant 👏🏻.

14 Jul 2026 11:17:20
In past times I used to get a little excited about the preseason games, As it was a time to look at new arrivals to the squad, but sadly those times seem to have gone and the only time to see the new arrivals is the last week of the window. When will the board learn? I am still waiting for the usual P+++ about hard window and the world Cup being a factor.

We have brought in one signing and I am not blaming anyone for this for once but he isn't playing as he has a illness. Most teams are well on their way preparing for the new season and Europe not Celtic we wait and wait and just hope something happens. CROSSING YOUR FINGERS doesn't win anything DD.

14 Jul 2026 10:33:34
I believe we were interested in the Egyptian winger before the WC and probably could of got him for 2 or 3 million, now because of one good game at the WC we are in a bidding war which we will no doubt lose.

I'm kinda with the club on this one, if its true we've bid 6.8m then as far as I'm concerned that's more than fair on the back of 1 good performance. I see Kuhn is getting let go from Como, just saying🤔.

14 Jul 2026 11:31:33
I only watched the last 10 mins of the Argentina v Egypt game but from the previous games with Egypt I watched I never even noticed the player.

Salah and Marmoush didn’t do much either but the midfielder Ashom if that’s his name that scored a header in one of the games seemed a bit decent.

14 Jul 2026 13:09:13
The fact is that any scout worth their wage will know everything about the target player and will include the potential for them to be picked to be in the squad of a world cup. If the Club are serious about signing them an approach should have been made weeks ago.
To then wait until a player is in the biggest shop window on the planet and still expect to get him on the chump change we offer is extremely bad business.

The Celtic way.