03 Sep 2013 22:12:28

{Ed007's Note - There is a new poll up:

Who would you rather have seen signing for us, Balde and Pukki or Finnbogason?

www.celticrumours.co.uk/poll17.html

Please take two minutes to vote, cheers.}

1.) 04 Sep 2013
Who care's, what we have is what we have, what we hav'nt, such is life
Tambhoy

2.) 04 Sep 2013
Couldn't think who to pick as not seen any of them properly . The vote was 20 19 in favour of duo so I sat on fence and voted finbo to even it up but got a big splinter up the archy so I think I'd like 2 get behind the bhoys that wanted 2b here .hail hail 2 the pair of u
Cha67

3.) 04 Sep 2013
Would have to be Finnbogason, he wanted to be here but again Scrooge wouldn't pay the going rate, we sold a striker for £5million why did we not sign this one?that does not count all the rest of the money we made

4.) 04 Sep 2013
I would have loved finbogasson but big balde and pukki gives us more options so had to be my vote

SOS BHOY

5.) 04 Sep 2013
To be perfectly honest, I had not heard of any of them before the 'window' and was initially a Russell, Austin or Rhodes guy as I wanted a 25/30 goals-a-season striker.

Jungle Jim

6.) 04 Sep 2013
Used to live in germany and all my friends there said that pukki is nothing special. he really isn't a good player but at least he can score goals. to me he's fine for the SPFL but not for CL. the same counts for balde.

7.) 04 Sep 2013
Hi Ed . Like the polling system you have introduced. I have placed my vote in every poll and look forward to others in the future. jULIEGHIRL

8.) 04 Sep 2013
I haven't seen any of them play, so can't comment. I wonder how many tims who were demanding we sign finaboggason(sp) actually saw him play on a regular enough basis to be able to judge him as a potential celtic star?

Also have to agree with Tambhoy that we have pukki and balde so let's get behind them

9.) 04 Sep 2013
Ed 07. You may not remember the 90's pal but I remember finishing second in the Scottish top flight would have been a huge achievement some season, why don't you run this simple poll. Are you happy we have a financially stable club, run by people who have the clubs best interests at heart. A club that are in the Champions League again who signed 5 top prospects whom are all internationals, who all arrive with bigger reputations that players we just sold at great profit!


Hail Hail {Ed007's Note - I remember the 90's very well thanks very much. Why are you having a pop at me though? I only put up a poll that was suggested by another poster. Maybe if you took the time to read things you might not make an anonymous arse of yourself.}

10.) 04 Sep 2013
Lol owned by ED. I voted alf as his scoring record is far better than balde and pukki. {Ed007's Note - No wonder, some people are just constantly looking for something to moan about.}

11.) 04 Sep 2013
Got to be Alfie Finbogasson. You just have to look at his record in eredivise against more quality opposition because let's be honest, its a way better league than spfl.
Balde is still young, raw, and adapting here whereas pukki was a benchwarmer at shalke behind huntelaar. We, ve basically signed another stokes who will probably score goals in the league this season but judjing by the money we, ve raked in and the fact we sold a 5m striker but can't buy a 5m striker says a lot of the boards attitude towards our reputation.

Wouldive been Finbogasson all day long with maybe another 1m striker bought aswell for decent backup.

You would then have Finbogasson, stokes, samaras and possibly another young lad keeping them on there heals instead of an unproven balde and a so so pukki

GB67

12.) 04 Sep 2013
A simple phrase comes to mind:

Quality over quantity!

13.) 04 Sep 2013
Sometimes I really don’t know who’s to actual blame for wiping the eye of the Celtic Faithful or Faithful gullible, should I say, the Celtic board with their tight-fisted enforcer Lawell at the helm or a fast amount of Celtic supporters who (for many years now, have been the unwilling victims of the CFC MK-Ultra brain washing programme) with the amount of lies they are willing to swallow hook line and sinker pumped out by the Celtic PR Department, when it comes to potential signings, all covertly designed to steal your hard earned cash.

The Faithful through and through gang have been suffering from Green and white “Pie-eyeditis” syndrome, which leads to severe side effect called “Lets just settle for what we have” and its infectious and spreading rapidly.

Now let’s balance up this question, first disregard Amido Balde, he’s another Henri Camara mark two and if he was as really as good as Celtic built him up to be, he wouldn’t be playing for us in the first place (no offence my fellow Hoops), he’d applying his trade in pastures far more exotic that Scotland but sure “lets just settle for what we have”

Celtic sell their top striker for five million (a guy who was a goal machine in Scotland and not bad in Europe either) and replaced him with a second rate bench warmer from Schalke 04, who (over a two year period) could barely get a game and when he did managed to wriggle onto the pitch, could hardly find the back of the net, (37 appearances in two years and 8 goals, holyleeeeeeee crap) very astute footballing business on Celtics behave here, cough cough.

The signing of Pukki inspired Lennon so much that he immediately called for the resigning of Stokes (a player, that only weeks early, he was more than willing to pack his bags for him and personal pay the taxi fair to the nearest airport), now all of a sudden he’s going to be Celtics Domestic and European striking gladiator, leading from the front?

Alfred Finnbogason, without question was the man the fans wanted, he would have been the more astute acquisition to replace Hooper but then he cost real money and his signing alone would have bankrupted Celtic a ruined us for years to come

SO, let's JUST SETTLE FOR WHAT WE HAVE

14.) 05 Sep 2013
The larger post above, WTF? Hope you realise that your capititalised conclusion only deems yourself as being a "gullible", 'brain-washed' individual suffering from "Pie-eyeditis", happy to "JUST SETTLE FOR WHAT WE HAVE".

As it happens I've seen more than enough of Finnbogason and Pukki to cast a judgement. I would have stumped up the cash for Finnbogasson all day long, the board just aren't going to though are they? Still not aware of how concrete our interest in him was, and Pukki is a good signing, but Finnbogason is a better one. He's better than Hooper, and I have no doubt we would make a killer profit on him. Not enough foresight or cojones.

15.) 05 Sep 2013
JUST let's SETTLE FOR WHAT HAVE you are bang on I've been supporting Celtic since the sixties and have seen so many false dawns as we refuse to pay the going rate for players, yet we want to nick players from elsewhere and flog them on for a fortune.This time we have the cash and still refuse to spend it, if the board believe in Lenny and his scouting system WHY do they keep holding the team back and where does approx £30 million now go.Why are people so brainwashed on here at times that as soon as you dare express that you are unhappy at this situation some dafty makes a remark about "you must be from the dark side "We should be pushing on improving the team instead we enter the CL less well prepared than last year.Maybe we the Celtic support should demand better signings before buying season tickets etc as this is a year on year event big names rumoured but never delivered our loyalty is taken for granted and seldom rewarded.Rant over.