Celtic Transfers 2024

Where are all the happy clappers at? Some usually follow me around threads but they have been quiet recently. Just wondering how happy they still are?

 

The club are beginning to play a very dangerous game here. We need an absolute minimum of 4 players, in 4 different positions.

Left Back, Centre Back, Centre Mid and Striker need addressed but I’d be very unhappy if we didn’t sign a winger.

That’s players we know the club were linked with now starting to become unavailable. Balikwisha is sidelined for 8 weeks and unlikely to move this window. O’Shea on his way to Brentford. Bueno looks extremely unlikely now and the Idah transfer is starting to get ridiculous.

I still have faith we will strengthen but we really need to be getting players out the door. Why players like Johnston, Kobayashi, Kwon and Lawal aren’t out the door already is extremely worrying.

 

100% down to ange? Wasn't it also the time we had that rugby ceo come in, sign a boat load of targets whatever the cost for ange, and then get dumped for doing to good a job? That was a strange one.

I can actually see this being partly rodgers fault. He even admitted he could have had 10 players in the first month. He's saying no. He's after 2 or 3 top quality players. Even if we "pay the money" there happens to be another 10 clubs who will be paying it aswel.

So in one way it's great He's not allowing the board to lumber him with shveds this time.

Then we get back onto ange. His first window was great. That's it. Coinciding with the rugby boy. After his first window barring meada, what other good starter did he get? Seems to have left us with a load of 2nd or 3rd choice * from lawell n his sons return. His perfect signings. Cheap and a project.

So in one regard, I'm glad rodgers is saying no to that type of pish. In the other it's very annoying having to wait. Hence I'm not making judgement until that window closes. Most of even anges best signings came at the very end. If nothing materialises... then aye, let's all get fuming together.

 

Hatate, O'Riley, Mooy, Johnston. Permanent deals for CCV and Jota.

 

Looks like we will be heading into our second league game with still only one senior striker and left back. I expected a shitshow this summer after what’s gone on recently, but this is even exceeding the shambles of last summer the way it’s going.

 

I'm still confident we will get what we need...

Idah/Alternative
Left back
Left Centre back.

I actually don't believe we need another centre mid or winger if all players stay but would be happy with either if it was real quality as a bonus.

I would love it if we got the 3 mentioned above plus someone on a pure loan that would be usually outside our reach like Buonanotte especially if it was 18 months.

I would always try and get one loan per season of someone who could push for player of the year even if they would never sign permanently.

 

Fundamentally, Rodgers and our board just aren’t a good fit.

He’s ambitious and wants us to compete in Europe. Bring in a higher quality of player and work with a smaller, but better squad.

The board are happy just to be slightly better than the huns and no more. Spend pocket money on young projects in the hope a few of them earn us massive fees a couple of years down the line. And occasionally they’ll sanction the odd £5m+ move.

Something has to give.

 

I think I could accept where we are at if we had 2 strikers, and I think Rodgers is mental for risking Kyogo when we were 3 up.

I still think we sign players but I think the club needs to stop 5 year contracts for absolute diddies.

 

We've waited so long that the quality must be off the charts.

 

Can only imagine that the board already have their end of transfer window message typed out - oops, soz agen.

 

You’re right, it probably was crazy to keep him on at 3-0. I look at it from a different perspective though. Rodgers shouldn’t be in a position where he has literally no other option to play up top. I do wonder if he kept him on the park on Sunday to highlight this, because everyone could see the sensible thing was to take him off as he is our only striker.

 

Let's not forget Kyogo is still carrying his shoulder injury that needs operated on.

Can see it all falling apart this season if we don't invest in quality for the right positions.

Shocking the way we are being run

 

Aye. No point getting excited over rumors, because we all know how it's going to be. People can't be arsed fighting the rancid board, so they get to do as they please.

 

Think this is where our problems stem from. Desmond couldn't give a * and his remit to the board is essentially win the league and keep us breaking even/turning profit. Board are left to their own devices too scared of failure to show any ambition, doing the bare minimum to keep winning domestic titles. Meanwhile to break our glass ceiling we need to step outside a comfort zone that we're so deeply embedded in we need to invest to another level that we seem * scared to do without Desmond's say so and he's off playing golf in America the whole time.

 

Thought that at the game Sunday too. Felt it must mean we were confident of bringing a striker in this week and that why Kyogo didn’t come off. No sign of that yet. We are all bored saying the same thing but it is absolutely shocking.

 

I agree I am not saying otherwise, I am just giving my view on what appears to be the thinking inside the club.

I also believe we don’t look deeply at what we are doing, it is why we continue to struggle with recruitment and it forms habits. Some examples:

- we have signed 2 players from South America directly and they both have been expensive flops. We won’t shop there.

- We spent money on getting a champions league keeper in Barkas and he was a flop so we will now not invest heavily in a goalkeeper.

- O’Riley, Wanyama, Van Dijk, Ajer and Forster all got us big fees at their respective times and were sub £3m so we should just shop there.

- £25m is our asking price for any good player we have.

- Jota came from Benfica on loan to buy and worked out so we should just keep going to that exact club.

- Julien made a big loss as signing an experienced player who was good for us, so we shouldn’t be doing that. Spoiler we badly could be doing with signing someone of that ilk to partner CCV.

- we signed a Swedish Centre back in Starfelt represented by one agent and he worked out so let’s take another from the same agent in Lagerbielke.

- we spent £5m on two players without a loan to buy first and they flopped, so we need a loan first for any big investment.

- We got three good players out of four from Japan. Let’s just keep going there.

There is no consideration for causation as to why any of the things above happened for the better or not.

 

It's all been said mate hasn't it.. constantly repeating what's needed and where we are lacking as an elite minded club..

The board have done an excellent job in convincing a lot of fans the barometer of success, is purely turning players over for a healthy profit.. he hear people saying Bernardo will be our next £20m player, not what he could bring to the side.

You wonder if we saving up to revamp the main stand or something, if they are better to be transparent..

 

Totally agree, haphazard, reactive and no vision in recruitment..

Maybe I'll bump one of my many DoF or Fan Ownership Threads...