Celtic Transfers 2024

Not necessarily true mate.

Taylor was "good enough" under Ange. Kyogo was nearly unstoppable, and it's hard to imagine Ange wouldn't have pressed for a new keeper to be brought in, at least for Xmas.

I also don't fathom Ange ever starting that goon Philips over 2 new CB's, one of which actually looks a player, nevermind okaying the terms of his signature.

Every player we have, with the exception of CCV and MoR have gone down the *. The likes of Cal, Kyogo, AJ etc are shadows of themselves.

We lost two starters from a treble winning team, and the whole squad has went to *. That shouldn't happen.

Would a "new" manager, one of a decent European calibre, with his own ideas, have been satisfied with the club telling him "hang back there, we're taking your budget and signing these young fellas. You'll get the next window". Hard to imagine. Even pre Leicester Rodgers came here and took charge of the first window of the bat, just like Ange did too.

Ppl waxed lyrical about Rodgers coming in and spending big big money on a European assault. In reality, they brought in a yes man, whose reputation is in the *.

Poor transfer window yes. Lots of injuries to key players yes.
But saying the players here wouldn't improve when we have a manager hammering round pegs into square holes and starting players like Philips and James Forrest isn't accurate imo.

 

It might have to take the huns doing a number on us at parkhead for our board to get this mess sorted, if we win everything will be fine and they will see this squad fit to win the league.

 

We need to stop buying Korean players full stop bcoz even the promising ones that are in their national team and came from their top teams are nowhere near good enough.

It's clearly a very substandard league and not 1 we should be going anywhere near again.

We got 1 good player from there about 12 years ago so typically our board will continually go back to that well hoping for the same rather than doing any real scouting

 

We wont be bringing players thru from youth academy while Chris Mccarthy is the head of it giving out jobs to his pals.

Lack of success on the park and in terms of producing 1st team quality players under his tenure is nothing short of a disgrace.

Tierney is the only 1 genuine 1st team player that has came through in the last 10 years and the * idiots that run our academy were playing him at right wing and were preparing to let him go before Deila stepped in.

Yet another example of an underachiever being in a role for 10+ years seems to be a common theme at our club.

 

Thing is, after Kilmarnock turned us over, every single team in the SPL will fancy their chances against us.
And so they should, we look very, very weak at this moment in time.
IMHO, we need the following in January at the very least;

LB; A proper left-footed full-back with pace and energy.
DM; A midfield general to 1) shield our back line and 2) give CalMac more attacking space. With the way Rodgers sets his team up, it makes sense.
CF; It´s obvious we need more firepower.

There are numerous other reinforcements needed, but the above three must be adressed when the window opens.
Just do it.

 

Rangers could win 4-0 and they will do * all

 

Aye I mostly agree with this. Truth is, like you say, that every player bar O'Riley and Scales look worse under Rodgers. And yes, there's no * way Ange would have played a player with the profile of Phillips.

Rodgers has had to deal with injuries but the squad is mostly a treble winning one. Ange had to deal with injuries too but the stylenof play was clear - that's the biggest worry now.

 

You can 100% guarantee the blue tarts will, they're very close to winning £50m, which will keep them very close to us in the future. Whereas we need to see winning the league as an 'investment'.... to grow our bank account.

 

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Fukin great

 

On the back of winning a treble, we signed 9 players this summer. A treble winning side, we should never have to do that, new manager or not. Of that 9, only 1 could be described as being a BR signing (Philips). That already shows you that it's a mess behind the scenes and the folk doing this aren't competent enough. Why has the squad allowed to get so bloated of *?! Which has then hampered BR?

Why is Rodgers so passive on his return, why has he fronted up for a board and recruitment side, which only dents his reputation.

Do we trust either Lawell Jnr/recruitment or BR to get it spot on in January? Is BR actually going to have full control of who comes in. I'm sceptical all round. Also worried that he does and there's more Nat Philips, Ollie Burkes in the pipeline.

Are we seeing the players bin it, knowing that the manager doesn't rate them. Big drop off in performances around April last year. Some might say it was due to the league being won, could it be the players knew Ange was going!

We've went from 8pts ahead at the end of October to potentially 2pts ahead. Last time we saw this drop in form, was the covid season, and we all saw the writing on the wall then, as we do now.

Absolutely shocking management and planning, with zero ambition at the heart of it.

£60m pot available just from winning the league this season.

January will tell us a lot, and where we are headed. Hopefully there is a coherent, joined up plan together somewhere. But that doesn't appear to be our style sadly.

 

Problem now is and its a big * problem, there is so much deadwood at the club its going to be nearly impossible to shift. As has been pointed out on numerous occasions, of the summer signings literally one has performed so far. These lads will be on a decent wedge for their talent or lack of.. I cannot for the life of me see a quick fix in January

 

See the next time Rodgers bring an out the line I thought we needed 4 players in the summer when he arrived before Jota, Mooy and Starfelt went.

The next question should be are they amongst the 9 that came in or was this beyond that? If it’s the later, why were those 9 prioritised ahead of what you the manger who has to put a team on the park thought was needed?

We literally are at a point where we have a team that looks like

GK - Hart out of contract and no competition behind him desperately need one.

RB - Johnston had to be rushed back as his deputy was really poor (Ralston) looks to have been playing half fit for most of the season.

LB - Taylor so far from what’s required, urgently needs replaced.

CB - CCV and no idea who his best partner is but none of Lagerbielke, Scales, Phillips or Welsh are good enough. Nawrocki looked decent in the limited I have seen him but isn’t getting a chance. Could possibly need a partner for CCV there.

CM - signed four in the summer none of who look close to it. Hatate, O’Riley and McGregor are good but Kwon, Iwata, Turnbull, Holm and Bernardo all don’t look like the answer, in fact literally all of them could go either permanent or loan perhaps with the exception of Iwata. Could really do with someone proper box to box and a bit of presence in there, to drive the team forward.

LW- if everyone is fit Palma and Maeda as two options here isn’t bad. Johnston needs let go.

RW- If he was fit Abada would be one decent option but his inconsistency means we need another. Yang, Tilio and Forrest are miles off it. Could really do with someone direct who is good at dribbling with good end product.

ST- Kyogo and Oh are both Asia cup bound or likely to be. We badly need an option here, preferably someone with a bit of presence but also better finishing ability than Oh.

Ad ridiculous as it sounds with our size of squad and having brought in 9 in the summer we need 6 or 7 players mostly to start but at least be ready to make an impact and that’s including getting 3 regulars back fit.

I know we won’t get that number in January but we really need at least 4 in. Realistically I would accept 1 or 2 of these being loans or preferably loan to buys given the nature of the January window. Although we can’t afford to wait until the end of the window to see.

We should be targeting leagues that finished recently as well as players on the fringes at big clubs in big leagues or who have expiring contracts. In addition I would like to see any new signing come with some physicality to their game as we are too lightweight and one paced.

 

If we do win the league we'll be on here moaning why the GBP 120m in the bank doesn't get spent. Liewell will justify this on the basis we might not make the CL in 2035.

 

I think practically every Celtic fan who watch our team week in and week out know what we need. Strange then that the so called football men who run our club don't.

 

I would rather go all out on the lb, gk and striker positions. Once Abada, Hatate, Maeda and CCV are back, if we can get quality in these 3 position, we should be a different animal. Only mentioning striker due to Kyogo not seeming to work under BR style of football and Oh is decent enough but could definitely be improved on for a decent price.

 

Don't like his comments today at all regarding January business

 

What did he say mate?