Celtic Transfers 2024

Rodgers is gonna have to use all his charm, charisma, personality to explain this transfer window if it stays like this. And that won't be enough this time.

We're setting our self's up for an absolute roasting in the CL at those moment in time.

 

I think they are playing a squad numbers game.

You want a new centre back we have 6, some need to go before you get a new one.

You want a left back, we only have one with 10 months on his contract but Bernabei will be back come December or sooner, he needs to be gone.

Let’s see what happens with Matt before spending anything serious. A winger we have 6 of those you need to move some on before getting another one of those.

I know it isn’t easy to move people on when they have long contracts but we could have done an awful lot more by now than we have.

Before making any additions our bench at the weekend was Sinasalo, Ralston, Welsh, Holm, Iwata, Bernardo, Yang, Palma, Johnston.

With Maeda likely to be back next week and say Forrest on the bench that bumps either Johnston or Yang of the bench.

You then have

Andersson
Lawal
Kwon
Shaw
Kobayashi
Lagerbielke
Nawrocki
Montgomery
One of Yang or M Johnston

Not even getting in a match day squad and having 3 weeks to get them either out playing on loan or sold for some of them.

 

This is becoming worse than last year, and that takes some doing.

It’s incredibly hard to maintain positivity when we’re constantly trying to hit the self destruct button in the boardroom.

 

Yeah no longer in the "happy" to wait camp, getting a bit ridiculous now.

Don't see us bringing a winger or CDM this summer, but need a ST, CB and a LB at the absolute minimum.

 

Spot on. They're quite evidently not working hard enough.

Don't care about all the nonsense excuses the happy clappers like to peddle. There's absolutely no way we shouldn't have identified and signed upgrades on Taylor and Scales by now.

I refuse to believe it's a difficult task.

 

I think we have the ultimate narcissistic, control freak in Lawell, who thinks he owns the club. His way has been successful so its the only way to do things.

They Nicholson/Mckay/Lawell deal with all sides of the transfers. To the * penny.

We don't have any figure head in the recruitment set up, so falls back to the cabal mentioned above. We're far too reliant on agents as well, as seen when Starfelt left.

It's so parochial, narrowed minded, nepotistic, and * slow it's beyond belief. The cabal will see it as proficient in their own wee echo chamber.

See for talented business people, they aren't half * stupid and naive on the football side of things.

 

Been patient all summer but to have zero solid links and purely murmers, is really worrying.

I'm still on the camp of "we'll get players" but the problem now is I don't think we'll get enough.

I think we'll 100% get a LB and a ST, but I'm starting to worry we'll leave CB now as there's been next to no links since O'Shea, and that deal has fallen through. Not to mention we have 6 CB'S at the club and we're apparently rejecting advances for Welsh.

Don't see us getting a winger after the Balikshawa injury, and even then I'm not so sure how interested we were in it. It's another area where we have 6 players there and 2 of them are nowhere near good enough. I'm not "as" worried on this area as others, as I do think Maeda, Kuhn, Forrest and Palma is a decent selection of wingers, but It'd have been nice to have a more creative winger in there.

CDM I just don't think we'll ever get, seems to be a cursed position we neglect since Wanyama left.

A massive 3 weeks and a half weeks ahead, if we don't have at least 2 in by the 20th it's going to be abysmal from the club. I would, at the very least, like our new players to get a game or 2 before we face the huns. I also think we're at the stage where we cannot afford to sell O'Riley, as it's blatantly clear we won't replace him.

We've got an elite level manager who I 100% believe can take us to the next level, and I don't see him walking out again even if he's struggling with the board, I think he'll 100% do the entire 3 years with us, but we have a real chance to bury those *, even if they get the CL this season, and we're yet again giving them another out to challenge us.

 

I 100% believe the rumour that we don't want to be too far ahead of the huns, can't really explain it any other way.

Our best summer and January window in recent times has, by far, came after they won the title. Our second best Summer window was the summer they came back up to the top flight, can't be a coincidence.

I think the issue this summer is clear, we have zero proper scouting in place and we're completely relying on Rodgers contacts, which is why it's taking so long.

I agree that they need to be the absolute minimum, but the longer we go with all 6 CB's currently at the club, the more I worry we'll go into the new season with Scales starting, and I like Scales more than most, but it's blatantly clear he needs improved upon and Rodgers doesn't rate Lagerbielke, Nawrocki and Kobayashi, so not getting him a proper CB is infuriating.

Not worried about anything domestically this year as even if the huns get CL, I think they are utterly atrocious and are a loss or two away from a complete meltdown, but we're going to get pumped in the CL with this current squad.

I remember after Ange's first season, there was a lot of praise for the board (or more-so than usual) but I always maintained that the success was 100% down to Ange, and it's been proven, and we don't win the title this year if Rodgers doesn't bring in Idah, who was 100% his idea.

We can't proceed forward as a club until Desmond and Lawwell go (and It's clear Nicholson is either just a puppet or simply *, so he can go too)

 

I'm just surprised anyone is surprised tbh..

 

It wouldn't shock me if we sign Beck, who I think was our third choice LB after our first choice (whoever that was) and Bueno fell through. A good player who I do think will overtake Taylor, but it's a lazy an option you can get. Would be delighted if there was anything in the Wijndal rumours but considering it's from Pendy, who has a 1 in 10 hit rate, I'm not getting my hopes up.

Idah I think will eventually sign, as there's no reason for Norwich to keep an unhappy player who was very mediocre for them before, whether we sign him in the next week or nearer the end remains to be determined, but going so long with 1 fit ST is very risky.

Only other CB's I think we've been linked to this summer outside O'Shea was Mepham and Daniliuc, the former has had zero recent updates and the latter is still at his club and there were recent murmers again, but the fact there's been zero other links or proper updates is worrying.

 

Sky TV
SFA

For *'s sake PL - Don't pull ahead too much, we need a competitive league, otherwise no one will buy or watch the * thing!

PL: Roger that!

 

If we don't address the middle of the park and buy a CDM we'll get tanked in Europe. Worryingly, most fans still don't seem to see this as a priority. It's just as essential as LB/LCB, maybe more.

McGregor simply can't defend. Mitchell Frame played 16 minutes of the last game vs Feyenoord and won more tackles than McGregor did throughout the entire campaign (he played all 6 games). That's an astonishing statistic in the worst way possible.

If we neglect this position, other signings won't make a blind bit of difference. You're just * against the wind. Would love to be wrong, but I've seen it too many times in Europe.

 

Aye, after the last two windows, there was nothing off limits for this one.

 

Just hoping we were never interested in that boy from Burnley because if we were and couldn't stump up that fee we are * worse than even I thought.

Something has to happen but not sure what. Rodgers must be content either that he's a mug after what happened last time.

 

Have gone from excited, to dissapointed to frustrated to wanting to inflict physical violence on the board.

Sadly, i think we as fans are victims of a dispute between Rodgers and the Board just as last time. Rodgers aint getting what he want to bring in, so he's not bringing in what the board wants.

A Idah transfer in the last days of the window is SO * obvious. They will parade him on Facebook like crazy.