Not Actually that Crucial a Summer as of August 2023...beginning to now think everything isnt fine!

That’s another few million on the balance sheet we could put to someone after them getting humped tonight. We get the full Scottish tv pot for CL.

 

Painted himself intae a corner and is now fooked.

 

We need to go out and sign a left back.

A LB capable of staying wide and making it to the byline changes our whole team.

 

More money to not spend instead of buying a decent LB. Great!

 

Made around 5 million tonight.....Get it * spent

 

It's been a priority signing since June and still not having one in yet is * shocking from the board do they even care about Europe.

 

He'll just gloss over it like always.

 

You seem awfy angry tonight.

 

He’s clearly brushed it aside

 

Ach just Roll(er) with it.

I'm done. Bedtime haha.

 

CB guy from Liverpool is probably needed due to injuries.

Just feel its been quantity over quality.

Seeing Solbakken available for around £5m would rather him than Yang, Tulio and Palma tbh.

Need a striker and a LB.

Cant seem to shift the * we have which is disappointing.

 

CELTIC have confirmed the arrival of Honduran international winger Luis Palma in a £3.5million deal.

And Liverpool central defender Nat Phillips has also arrived in Glasgow to wrap up a one-year loan deal.

The champions also want to add Benfica’s Portuguese midfielder Paulo Bernardo and a new left-back before the window closes at midnight on Friday.

Mail Sport revealed Celtic’s interest last week, with Aris winger Palma now the seventh signing of the summer for Brendan Rodgers, the 23-year-old putting pen to paper on a five-year deal.

Capped six times for Honduras, Palma could now be pitched in for a baptism of fire against Rangers at Ibrox on Sunday.

‘It is a very special day for me and an honour to be announced as a Celtic player,’ said the new signing. ‘I can’t wait to be part of this great club, a club I know all about as one of the great names in world football.

‘I know that Celtic always aims to play football the right way, a team that entertains and has a pedigree of winning and delivering success, and this is what I want to be part of.

‘I have spoken to the manager and I’m really looking forward to joining him and my team-mates and starting my journey with such a brilliant club.

‘I have already had so many messages of support and I thank all our fans for the welcome I have been given.

‘I can’t wait to play in front of the Celtic supporters and I will do all I can to bring our fans good football and some good moments.’

Keen to add quality to the squad after crashing out of the Viaplay Cup in Kilmarnock and dropping league points to St Johnstone last weekend, Rodgers authorised a bid for former Rangers target Palma after Brondby priced attacker Mathias Kvitsgaarden out of a move.

‘We are really pleased to bring Luis to the club,’ said Rodgers. ‘He is a player who had a lot of options but, of course, we are delighted he has chosen to come to Celtic, an opportunity which really excites him.

‘He is a very talented player who likes to play attacking football so we hope he will be a very good fit for the team.

‘Luis has reached a very good level so far, playing a lot of games and achieving international recognition, but I also know that he is ambitious to improve and continue his development with us.’

Hit by a triple whammy of injuries in central defence ahead of Sunday’s first Old Firm meeting of the season, Rodgers also hopes to finalise Anfield defender Phillips on a season-long loan.

Championship Middlesbrough and German club Stuttgart were amongst a group of clubs interested in the 26-year-old. The son of former Rangers player Jimmy, Phillips has travelled to Glasgow to provide cover for the crocked Cameron Carter-Vickers, Maik Nawrocki and Stephen Welsh.

Handed his Liverpool debut by Jurgen Klopp in January 2020, the combative defender has made 29 senior appearances and had loan spells at Stuttgart and Bournemouth.

Left-back remains a priority heading into the final hours of the window, with Celtic also repelling late interest from Leeds United for midfielder Matt O’Riley.

Albian Ajeti, Ismael Soro and Rocco Vata look more likely to leave before the deadline. Hopeful of heading out in search of first-team football, goalkeeper Benjamin Siegrist is now expected to stay put.

Celtic are also hopeful of extending the contracts of Israeli winger Liel Abada and Japanese midfielder Reo Hatate. Despite reports of an agreement with Abada, Mail Sport understands one or two hurdles have yet to be overcome. Hatate has put further discussions over his own situation on hold until the window closes.

 

Well not breaking now lol

 

Two days to get GK, DL, MC and FC. Save oor window!

 

More like 1 million unfortunately, while we don't split the Scottish TV pot, it's only an extra 2 million roughly,. While psv are ahead of us in the coefficient ranking, which is worth more, so we lose out on 1 million from that

For reference benfica and Porto will both get over £20 million each from coefficient ranking, while we will get roughly £8 million

I think this was brought in to appease non english super league clubs who weren't happy at English clubs banking more money from the inflated TV market in the UK, which in this instance we actually benefited from...

 

We need to get ourselves up the ranking, which is why the board need to stop * us over in Europe.

If we hadn’t completely * this window we could’ve kicked on in Europe this season and won the league, climbed the coefficient and started making even more from the coefficient share.

But nah, scramble for signings at the last minute and end up embarrassed again.

 

Why do you write them all backwards?

 

Football manager

 

* * man....all these signings and no signings and yada yada yada. It gets wearing. Whats changed in my opinion is we used to sign players in the transfer window that our fans knew and therefore kinda knew what to expect from. Nowadays we sign players that we do not have a * clue who they are. You go on youtube and they all look good. But thats easy as * to do....its a youtube highlight video. They could make Tony Cascarino look good in the hoops if youtube was around in the early 90s.

Its just maybe me getting auld.

But going just keep it simple Brendan. Just settle back in the job, put the huns in their place, cuff them a few times and win the league man. Thats all we're asking