05 Sep 2025 11:35:57
Saw a report that the club reneged on letting maeda leave, he had been talking to an unamed club and he's very unhappy.
05 Sep 2025 12:11:14
Did the report say very unhappy?
05 Sep 2025 12:30:30
Aye bit like us.
05 Sep 2025 21:02:23
Reneged!? Really. Doubt that very much. Sounds like SMSM trying to mix things again.
05 Sep 2025 21:48:33
At the end of the quote from Maeda he said he will be happy to stay and fight and play now that the move didn’t happen. Head was obviously elsewhere for the last month or so. I’d like him to kick on now that he’s here till at least January. If he wants sold he better be producing the goods in the interim.
06 Sep 2025 11:24:18
For all their sins, I don't think the club reneged on anything going by the quotes. You can do all the backdoor negotiating you want but unless Celtic agree to sell you, you're going nowhere. That's not a slight on Maeda btw, it's just how transfers are done these days. However, if he made it known months ago he wanted to leave, it's just another example of the club being inept at sourcing replacements for key players. He's done enough for Celtic for them to grant him a move in my opinion.
06 Sep 2025 13:30:51
Never agreed to Sell idah so Brendan says.
06 Sep 2025 13:31:32
Why was he finalising personal terms if celtic didn't know then surely that's tapping, more like we couldn't find a replacement for 2m, no like them.
{Ed007's Note - Agents can negotiate with clubs for their clients and agree personal terms before the "selling" club even get a whiff the player wants away.}
06 Sep 2025 14:48:17
BR with his third year itch doesn’t expect anyone to take him seriously, if you see him when he speaks, he only tells lies when his clips are moving.
06 Sep 2025 15:29:00
Ed, it seems transfer fees are basically the last bit of business to get down these days. All you need to do is ask Maeda's agent what sort of wage he'd be looking for "hypothetically" and get it all squared away before making an official move. To be honest, it makes sense rather than negotiating a fee and it turns out they didn't actually want to come. You've just wasted days or weeks.
{Ed007's Note - ??
07 Sep 2025 06:38:07
Surely that is called tapping up, which is not permitted?
{Ed007's Note - Tapping up is if any employee of a club speaks directly/personally to a player about joining them without his current club's permission.
07 Sep 2025 15:54:26
19Celtic are you trying to say that it's Brendan s fault for the disaster window? And the board aren't to blame at all?
07 Sep 2025 18:04:06
Surely, Surely we are not quoting an unnamed source for the last 18 - 200 years I have read people commenting on lies, unfounded rumours and unsubstantiated reports all with unbelievable good news for the Sevco club and totally negative reports of up coming disaster for Celtic .
The Season we won our latest 9 in a row, Sevco forums and some of the original Rangers high fliers and EBT’s recipients were out in force to give the h. ns a lift as this SPL has to be won so that between them the two Rangers clubs attempt to win 56 SPL before Celtic.
07 Sep 2025 19:03:16
Of course it is, we all know that the first sign of insanity is repeating the same thing and expect a different result . BR demanded final say in signing and that didn’t workout, changing that caused anger from BR, delayed signing and wouldn’t work with those he didn’t sign off .
That’s what I hear anywhere.