Celtic banter 6

09 Jul 2026 17:40:14
Is anyone else quite excited about new signings, I am, I think wel see 3-4 quality signings, after that replacing leavers and if get cl football maybe a couple blockbuster’s at deadline, well that’s my plan for us anyway.

09 Jul 2026 18:27:19
Love your optimism so won't piss on your chips, hopefully we are genuinely impressed.

09 Jul 2026 20:18:20
If DD plan the same as yours then great.

If not….

09 Jul 2026 21:57:56
You been on Enrico's grape juice Jaa? 🤣.

10 Jul 2026 06:40:15
It’s what I want to see, il come back to you with a conclusion after window,

Very least 3-4 before cl game is my thought, everything and anything else dependent on who goes and what level of euro comp we end up in,

I’d like Egyptian, and just in before cl qualifier, lb cover as well.

09 Jul 2026 13:27:54
@Newgen (aka HOOPY)
Please tell us when the next 6 WC players will be arriving at Celtic Park.

09 Jul 2026 16:52:19
😂😂😂😂 Hoppy has more contacts.

09 Jul 2026 18:25:42
What’s he exactly got wrong currently?

09 Jul 2026 20:08:29
Tim please tell us your winning bets before they come in x.

09 Jul 2026 20:54:59
He said a Belgian striker was being looked at or a player from that league

Duran isn’t either and neither is Kelechi

A player at the World Cup isn’t exactly out of the question either. Now had he said an Egyptian player then you could have a point.

09 Jul 2026 20:59:11
Exactly Ken, new poster keen to post and gets dug out.

Rumour site so let the guy bring the rumours without the need for cheap digs.

09 Jul 2026 13:08:19
Was looking at the Egyptian boys stats. pretty poor but two guys in same league stats looked great. Sergio arribas 24yo mid 26 goals 7 assists. chupete 21 fwd 25 goals 6 assists. must be worth a look you'd think?

09 Jul 2026 18:43:17
Quinny from celts are here has done his research on him and in his latest video he shows hassan is the 1st and second in the league for a lot of stats and for la liga in a team that got relegated that’s impressive only player to better him in Europe is lamine yamal and Jeremy doku in most of the stats give the video a watch deep river.

09 Jul 2026 10:40:26
Reports, (likely nonsense) linking us with Bowie again, with 10-figure transfer fee. Can't see us paying that but he would have been worth taking a chance on at £5-6m last year!

Why do we constantly repeat these errors? Should have snapped up Just in January and I would test Hearts resolve with a bid for Braga before he goes elsewhere and doubles his value in 6 months. Guys like this are not gambles to me as they've more than proved themselves in our league and could flourish in a better Celtic team.

Buy a mixture of youth with potential to profit on but also more seasoned players, (like Braga) who could serve us for years.

09 Jul 2026 12:21:13
What are the repeat errors - listening to reports?

09 Jul 2026 12:22:03
Johnny kenny has a better averge than bowie. is bowie worth 13 million? Imo no. couple million I would have taken a gamble.

09 Jul 2026 12:52:02
Bowie ain't worth 13m but I don't see anybody willing to pay a fraction of that for Kenny who's nowhere near good enough, he got plenty of games last year and struggled.

09 Jul 2026 13:47:11
Kenny is atrocious any other nationality and he would be getting panned by all.

He has his chance and was not good enough, found his level at Bolton and best of luck to him wherever he ends up.

He has joined a long list of strikers not good enough over the last 5-10 years.

09 Jul 2026 14:31:12
Kasper Hogh £9m 🤷🏽‍♂️.

09 Jul 2026 15:07:15
Sorry Mason I know you meant 8 figures because he is definitely not worth one Billion pounds.

09 Jul 2026 15:52:54
£10,000,000.00😊.

09 Jul 2026 16:32:29
Troy Didn't they want offers over 13 million for hogh in the winter window?

09 Jul 2026 16:37:42
Dont care about nationality or saying he should be our main striker. just pointing out he has a better avg than bowie.

09 Jul 2026 16:54:21
True Mason don’t forget the pennies 😁.

09 Jul 2026 17:10:53
Better average for what scoring goals in the Irish league or 3rd tier of England?

Bowie has at least scored goals in a top league against top teams.

09 Jul 2026 20:56:57
Helped Bolton win promotion to championship scoring 6 goals and 3 assists in 14 appearances, or 9 goal involvement in 14 games. Maybe if he was a other nationality some people would be less harsh on him. If we had have had him playing regularly instead of cvancara opinions of him might be higher.

09 Jul 2026 22:24:44
Helped Bolton get promoted - like I said found his level and best of luck with what career he makes.

09 Jul 2026 23:03:26
With Kenny, I think the jersey just weighs to heavy and that’s ok that happens with some players they just can’t handle the pressure of playing for our great club and leave and become good players elsewhere he was a Desmond signing anyway so who really cares we need champions league level players Kenny won’t cut it at that level so best he goes back to the English 3rd tier and Bowie isn’t the answer either.

10 Jul 2026 10:57:44
Bowie at £6 million was high for me, Bowie at £13 million will be a no. He hasn’t improved that much in 6 months.

08 Jul 2026 22:25:45
BE AFRAID

Karait Almaty are on course to qualify to next CL round (gulp)

09 Jul 2026 00:13:55
Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan clubs have a slight advantage in these early Qualifiers with them being halfway through their seasons.
The same with Norway and Sweden clubs who have played a dozen league matches thus far.
Kairat needed an injury time winner tonight and they still have it all to do in Montenegro next week.

09 Jul 2026 01:01:53
Geez them! We owe them one 🤣. I'd be happy enough to get them again.

08 Jul 2026 18:48:24
Love reading the posts on here lads, you lot are amazing. Think we need a campaign to force Celtic to make our Edd007 the club's fan communication officer 🙏 we can but dream.

{Ed007's Note - There isn't enough money in the Club's bank account that would tempt me to do a job like that - I honestly feel heart sorry for JP Taylor! But thanks for the recommendation 👍🏻🍀

08 Jul 2026 18:23:31
We have our new CF deal over the line and he has a proven track record of scoring so we are off in the right direction.

08 Jul 2026 19:17:04
I think he might be a winger.

08 Jul 2026 13:47:42
The Egyptian winger we're being linked with looked rhe part against top opposition last night, which will probably mean we've no chance.

08 Jul 2026 15:56:53
Know nothing of the lad, but very impressed with his performance last night against good opposition. basing it purely on that game if that's the type of dynamic winger he is we shouldn't be messing about. get it done.

08 Jul 2026 16:35:07
Thought we shouldn't buy players based on (one) world cup game/ s. 😁😁.

08 Jul 2026 17:53:45
We seldom buy players these days anyway, so ill no lose sleep over it.

08 Jul 2026 17:54:38
Has somebody had a wee go at you deep river bhoy?

08 Jul 2026 18:57:09
One report saying he is valued at 4m as his value as dropped by 6m. After his performances in WC his club will put his price up by 6m.

He looks really dynamic and quick. If he is one we are in for, and it is 4m, it is a no brainer as we have spent more on poorer players.

Will Duran be our only new forward and it will be him Osman and Iheanacho.

What are you guys thoughts on those 3 being our striker force.

If fit Iheanacho can be a quality player, Duran looks the business and Osman has really potential.

I would like a big physical forward to bully the caber tossers in our league. The 6' 5" Norwegian we were linked with is the CS type who could lay it on for Duran or Osman.

{Ed007's Note - Hassan's release clause (all players in Spain & Portugal need them in their contract) was €16m but after Real Oviedo were relegated the clause had a clause that it went down to €10m but that doesn't mean we will have to pay that, all that means is that any club offering €10m can automatically speak to the player - the most any club will need to pay for Hassan is €10m.
The release clauses are usually set a bit high to fend off unwanted interest in the player BUT in the case of Hassan, Villarreal have a sell-on clause that is anywhere between 40-50% supposedly.}

08 Jul 2026 19:11:43
Don't think so?

09 Jul 2026 08:17:14
Thanks Ed for clearing that up, and its a no then. We won't pay that, it is about 9m pounds.

Some sites are saying that we have made an offer, do you think we have made any contact with Oviedo?

{Ed007's Note - It's about £8.5m but again that doesn't mean they will get that. I reckon circa €5/6m and maybe even with a few addons would get the deal over the line.}

09 Jul 2026 09:42:37
Only seen him in that one game against Argentina but if that's anything to go off he'd be a great signing.

09 Jul 2026 14:57:41
If you measure him against Balikwisha then he would be great value.

As for Bowie at 13m, definitely no from me. That is just clickbait imo.

08 Jul 2026 11:35:48
See our supreme leader honoured us with his presence hopefully he saw how short we are and helps the legend.

07 Jul 2026 20:17:44
Everyman and their dugs know the general feeling of a large proportion of the supporters feelings in relation to the boards incompetence. It just fuels the anti Celtic press. It chokes them to print any positive news about the club. We are continually told of players we missed without any validation of interest.

Yet we are provided puff pieces of the tribute acts signings and potential (pipe dream) . Even good news is delivered as a jobby sandwich. I'm fearful and hopeful at the same time. Just have to suck and see. If it wasn't MON in charge I would just be fearful. Here's hoping HH.

07 Jul 2026 22:30:45
You are right Kwaj. The media haven't a real notion of who we in for. They just link us with anyone in a certain price range, then hype it up if an agent name drops us to get attention for his player. The french striker earlier in the window and the Swedish defender are examples of that I think.

Our own media make it worse adding info in for click bait, like, "the board missed an email" so the french striker goes to a third rate Belgian team.

08 Jul 2026 07:13:37
Just watched the first half highlights of the game yesterday.

We got the ball forward far more quickly than we did all last season. Our cbs just received the ball, looked up and fired it forward. Most of the time it hit one of our own and they had a chance on goal.

Balikwisha looked comfortable in a physical game but just needs to learn that final piece, having a shot at goal early Many times he had the chance to hit it early but he needed an extra touch and the chance was gone.

The game definitely demonstrated our need for goal scorers up front. Hopefully Duran and another will fill that gap.

First game of the season and a helluva lot of work and business to do but already our system of play looked different.

08 Jul 2026 19:02:54
The Govan loving media have the sevvies buying Ferguson who is valued at 17m. Clearly trying to move the hordes minds away from the cheap staunch players they have taken in.

Watching him for Scotland he isn't a 17m player imo.

We take in another 4 or 5 players of Durans quality and we will be loooking good.

07 Jul 2026 17:21:30
How many players do we realistically need and how many are we likely to get. Of the players that have left I reckon 3 made a telling contribution Aurajo, Sarrachi, Inheacho, with a few others showing up here and there. So for me we need to replace those 3 plus 3 others. Can't see us signing 6 and expect 3 more max.

07 Jul 2026 18:23:43
4 and replace any that leaves

Lb, 3 forwards, are my 4

Leavers replaced like for like, starter for starter etc

Then there’s the do we look for a rb and gk, seems gk is someone they want, personally I don’t think needed

My opinion
Could we sell a cb get a new one in
Sell Engels reo replace similar quality
Replace Daizen with another runnning machine with pace.

07 Jul 2026 18:25:35
Watching the game between Egypt and Argentina, the Egyptian Hussain Hassan on the right wing is a player, unbelievably quick and has quick feet.

Have volume off as the slug is commentating.

07 Jul 2026 18:27:22
We need a left back, GK, striker and right winger to give us cover in those areas. That is the bare minimum we need and that is before we talk about improving the first XI or replace players who leave.

07 Jul 2026 19:03:43
Guy for Egypt I’m kinda lucky now going out, if we are in for him don’t really want him out there again.

07 Jul 2026 19:11:10
GK, 2 CB’s, 2 CM’s and 2 Strikers for me
All first team ready.

07 Jul 2026 20:11:18
Bishopton did it
Not say realistically lol.

07 Jul 2026 20:17:55
I think 6 new players and replace any first team regulars that leave. GK, LB (because we only have KT in that position ) , CM, RM, LM, Striker. I can't see us getting half of that but I can wish.

07 Jul 2026 20:54:30
Jaa, I was going to say after watching tonight’s game with Shelbourne we need a new 24/ 25 man squad 🤣🤣🤣.

07 Jul 2026 21:01:19
Gk lb cb cdm am lw rw st is the minimum needed and all better than we have or whoever departs.

08 Jul 2026 02:53:29
There’s not one player I’d pay to watch at Celtic right now, so I’ll say we need 12. That said, if I was home I’d likely still have a season ticket.

08 Jul 2026 19:24:22
H2M, you must have really high standards or god bless not been part of the whole 1990s debacle. AJ, CCV, KT, Scales, Engles, CalM, Daizan, Ox, Jamesy are all really good Celtic players. If yer skint. yeah stay at home and stop moaning.

08 Jul 2026 22:56:29
I was here for the 90s but I don’t see how that is relevant to the point I made. AJ is probably the only one worth arguing. The fact you put CCV as a CB you’d pay to watch in there, makes me wonder if you were here for the 90s.

09 Jul 2026 13:51:08
CCV and Scales epitomise the decline in standards that they are deemed good.

It’s beyond me that fans are happy with a severe mediocre level of player nowadays.

AJ, Tierney, Engels and Maeda are the only 4 players I would keep and 3 of them are likely to be off and the other may struggle to keep fit for a full season.