Brendan Fraudgers!

wow, she's pretty decent.

 

Amazed that passed.

Tis a fairly bigoted council intolerant of just about anything Catholic or Irish.

 

You might be surprised. I have a protestant cousin living in Antrim who comes from a long line of presbyterianism and she's says that a lot of ordinary folks are well sick of all the shenanigins in the name of religion going on in Government. They're of the view that it's the reason for nothing getting done and it's holding communities back.

 

Sky Sports mentioned his PC. Still after McGinn, rejected Fulhams offer because be hard to replace at this stage and nothing in Roberts at this stage but only speculation.

 

Well that's a stupid statement we have over 3 weeks left of our window so he stays and leaves on a free and we are £9m to £12m down!

Also tells me we aint looking for any CB regardless

 

He could mean for CL qualifiers I was thinking.

 

he surely wouldn't risk him against AEK he hasn't played since end june

 

Brendan clearly * off at his presser

on McGinn - “He’s a player we clearly wanted to sign and we haven’t been able to complete a deal and when you don’t do that it always opens the door for other teams.”

on Boyata - “From a football perspective we don’t need to sell any players, I’d anticipate that if any further bids were to come in, that they would be rejected"

 

Been training for past 2 weeks has he not?

 

aye but has had zero game time in his legs for the past 6 weeks.

 

Would imagine he'll be on the bench.

 

Definitely sounded frustrated again there..

Said we lose player's. We don't want to be losing player's. When we do they need to be replaced....highlighting Armstrong and Roberts again..

 

Defo a bizarre * transfer window,wonder what's really going on.

 

We are clearly stock piling cash for some reason either to pay off co-op which is around £16m or for another reason.

 

Same as Lennon, when we lose big players like Forster, Van Dijk, Wanyama, Ledley, Hooper even Samaras then Denayer or nowadays Armstrong, Roberts possibly soon Boyata, Dembele possibly even Rogic, Ntcham and Edouard it's very difficult to relplace them.

Must be frustrating as a manager especially also as we almost always need to go to foreign Leagues and gamble that someone will settle here, theres hardly ever any good quality players in our League we can sign compared to similar level teams to us. Teams like Ajax, Anderlecht, Basel their Leagues are always producing good quality regularly season after season so even when they lose players they can look to probably a couple of targets in their own League they know will do a job. Up here we get like one Brown, McCarthy, Armstrong, McGinn every 3/4 years if we're lucky.

 

For me the Edouard investment buys the Board some time..

But if we don’t end the window with the additions we need, it will be yet another poor window..the Jan window being particularly poor..

 

Agree with pretty much all of that..

Talking about Armstrong and Paddy. Boyata but if it's too high then it's above his head (fair enough). How keen he was McGinn..

The Arzani deal..

Was talking player's away and then backtracking..

Got rejected with that Harry Wilson loan..

Edouard is a terrific signing and the new contracts we've tied down but it's been a pretty strange window so far..

 

Brendan Rodgers expressed his frustration at Celtic's failure to get a move for John McGinn over the line but refused to give up on signing the Hibs midfielder.

McGinn held talks with Aston Villa on Tuesday after permission was granted by the Easter Road outfit.

Celtic have had three bids rejected for the Scotland international.

Asked if his interest in McGinn was over, he said: "No, it's not. He's a player we clearly wanted to bring here, he's a player from a few months back I was really interested in bringing in.

"But we haven't been able to complete a deal and when you don't complete a deal for a player it opens the door for other teams.

"Aston Villa are clearly interested in him and have a big history of their own, a great club with excellent facilities and now financial backing. So we have to wait and see on him."

Celtic, themselves, have turned down an offer for Belgium international Boyata from the Cottagers, who like Villa are rushing to push through deals before Thursday's early English transfer window deadline.

Having rebuffed Fulham's offer for Boyata, the Celtic manager now expects to hold onto one of his prize assets as he would be unable to find a ready-made replacement.

Rodgers, who confirmed the former Man City centre-half will miss the first leg against AEK Athens as he returns to fitness, said: "We've had a few enquiries for him and there was a firm bid by Fulham for him but he's a player we don't want to lose.

"He's in the last year of his deal, he's been a fantastic player for me, he's had an excellent World Cup and, very clearly, he's a player of value.

"He's very important so the club rejected that.

"At this stage, it would be pretty difficult for us to sell him because there isn't a replacement there.

"If you lose someone of that quality, the very least you need is someone of similar quality coming in and that's not the case at the moment.

"Dedryck knows where he is at, he knows he is in the final year of his deal.

"He's a very honest boy who will give everything whilst he is here and then we'll take it from there."

Asked if a huge bid would see the business-side take precedence, he added: "It's something we would always speak about.

"From the business side and from the football we look to make that work. Ultimately, from the football perspective, we don't need to sell.

"We've had two seasons of Champions League football and are on a high, so I would anticipate anything that would come in would be rejected."

Rodgers said he "doesn't want to wait" for more signings to arrive at Parkhead this summer.

So far this summer Celtic have only signed one player, with forward Odsonne Edouard making his move the Glasgow a permanent one for a club-record fee.

Bids for McGinn have been turned down, while Rodgers is still waiting for a move for Aussie playmaker Daniel Arzani to be finalised.

Midfielder Stuart Armstrong has left for Southampton, while winger Patrick Roberts returned to Man City at the end of his loan deal.

On recruitment, Rodgers said: "We want to bring quality players into here, our job this year in terms of bringing players in was pretty straightforward.

"We only wanted players of quality, we re-signed a player in Odsonne which was a no-brainer.

"We've got one player in and there are a few other positions where we wanted to increase the quality of our squad.

"Thus far, we still have work to do on that. As a football manager, you want them in sooner.

"I can only identify the targets and then we wait, that is all we can do."

He continued: "We don't want to wait. We need to keep improving and that means signing quality.

"It was important we kept ahold of players like Tom Rogic, but running alongside that is strengthening with quality.

"That is something we need to do and I hope we can do. You need to strengthen when in a good moment.

"Over the last couple of years we've lost players and the bare minimum you need is to replace that.

"We've lost Stuart Armstrong and haven't got a replacement yet, Patrick Roberts has gone out and we haven't got a replacement yet. These are areas we need to complete deals on and get that support into the team."

 

I for one would love to have our dealings done sharpish in the window for a * change,last few seasons have been last-minute.com .
Edouard aside we * flirt with these qualifiers every year it seems, with everyone else knowing we need positions filled, except the * with the cheque books.