Ryan Christie

It's not pointless at all to stockpile talented players. If it is believed that Christie will be good enough to make an impact then we're better off buying him now instead of losing out on him like we did Fletcher, McCarthy, Gauld and Robertson. The key is to loan him back to ICT to continue his development by playing regular first team football instead of stalling and rotting away on our bench. It's a low risk, high reward strategy.

 

Hope this doesn't go through and we sign Sheik Azajabado from Columbia for £2m..

Still cant understand why people don't want our countrys best talents

 

Precisely.

 

Inverness give Christie permission to discuss personal terms with Celtic

"As a result of a further approach from Celtic FC, and following discussions with the management team and the player, the board of Inverness Caledonian Thistle FC can confirm that Ryan Christie has been given leave to travel to Glasgow to discuss personal terms."

http://ictfc.com/news/team-news/1602-statement-ryan-christie

 

Good stuff.

Hope ee do loan him back though, best for all parties concerned.

 

Says who you a nobody ?

Clown.

 

He is at Lennoxtown right now...

 

He's is to be loaned back to Inverness if the deal goes through

 

First the hooper deal will happen before the window and now he is at Lennoxtown right now

What time did he leave Inverness at? He will be down but not till mid day surely

 

If he's good enough to come in and start then why is he going back on loan?

You haven't a clue.

 

Exactly my feelings. We're all fed up of ignoring the talent when they move south and we've missed the boat by not getting then in a window or two before they wave goodbye to Scottish football.

Ajax do it - buy the best talents in their league and loan them out to other teams in the Netherlands. I don't understand why we don't.

I'm not saying this is solely the route we should take but I'm sick and tired of losing out on players like McCarthy, Fletcher et al. We still need to import from foreign lands too. We just need a balance that recently has favoured these exotic players. Some work, some don't.

My only issue is that it's a long term strategy and we won't reap the rewards for a few years. I'm prepared to wait if we follow through with it and we offer those kids the chance to be loaned out and not rot on th bench.

 

Ryan Christie ‏@ryanchristie2 7 Nov 2012
Well that was the best football game I've ever been to! Atmosphere was absolutely incredible. Was close to tears when we sang YNWA #celtic

 

His old man's a Tim as well IIRC.

I think he will be a good player for us, he's the stand-out player in that ICT team and with the right development could go a long way.

 

To sweeten the deal and not leave Caley * they have Aaron Doran,Dean Brill, Richie Foran, Josh cheatings, Greg Tansey, James Vincent and Gary Warren all out injured.

I trust in what Ronny is doing pity you dont.

 

Completely agree As for your last paragraph, I don't believe that signing young players for the future should excuse the board, scouting and management from signing players we require to improve just now too. As much as this is a long term strategy, we're in a position that we need to strengthen now also. As happy as I am to see us signing the country's best young players, I'll be equally as frustrated if the gaping holes in our first team squad aren't filled before midnight tomorrow.

 

So over ten years, who have we really missed out on? Fletcher? Hardly gone on to be an amazing player. Ryan Gauld? Good, but still to fulfil potential.

So other then James McCarthy, what genuine quality players have we missed out on?

 

I like the idea of signing Scottish talent because our youth team is really lacking in players who can make that jump to the first team and that's been the case for a while now.

The problem is over doing it when it's experience and proven players which we need for the CL.

 

Andy robertson seems to be a good player, we needed a good left back as well.

 

I would say Andy Robertson & Johnny Russell were two players we badly missed out on as well. Both would add a lot to the current team.