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Celtic Transfers 2024

Discussion in 'Celtic Chat' started by Callum McGregor, Oct 30, 2023.

Discuss Celtic Transfers 2024 in the Celtic Chat area at TalkCeltic.net.

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bhoy_wonder Gold Member Gold Member

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It's going to be an anxious 10 days until this window closes for this bear.

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Can see this being an even worse summer than last.

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LB, CB, Winger, CM x2 and a ST.

Essentially what we need, I can survive without the second CM coming in but 5 players in 10 days is a lot to ask.

Massive 20 days ahead.

HTG, Aug 22, 2024

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Supposedly Millwall are complaining thst we've been slow with the paperwork with Daniel Kelly..

Typical glacial pace

The Thumb, Aug 22, 2024

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Supposedly Millwall are complaining thst we've been slow with the paperwork with Daniel Kelly..

Typical glacial pace
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Fax machine playing up again

Mr Shelby, Aug 22, 2024

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Not watching the game the now but would quite happily take Moi back. He’s a player. Que someone about to tell me he’s having a stinker

Luis1967, Aug 22, 2024

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HTG said: ↑

LB, CB, Winger, CM x2 and a ST.

Essentially what we need, I can survive without the second CM coming in but 5 players in 10 days is a lot to ask.

Massive 20 days ahead.
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If we can secure 2 by Monday, I think 4 by Friday night is doable if we know who we want. Which even by this stage and even by our standards, we should know.

Bogusz and another by Sunday then the remaining 4 rest of the week. By that point MOR will be gone and I'd imagine we have more clarity on Kyogo.

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We're going in the final week of the window needing 5.....

That's not taking into account Kyogo or MOR going. Struggling to see the positives here.

Edit: flip side. Selling Kyogo and MOR and not replacing them with genuine quality would see a revolt and Rodgers walk (potentially), so there has to be a few signings coming in.
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Revolt?! Haha, you've got to be having a laugh mate. We're lobsters. Been brought up to temperature over the years so we don't even care when we've been boiled alive by the PLC..

There should be thousands outside CP right now demanding the board resign.
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Can see this being an even worse summer than last.
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I honestly didn't think it could get any worse and then the winter window had me deflated as * .if we don't strengthen and I mean spend some serious Dosh on real quality then the agenda is quite clear from the Celtic board..they don't give a * about the footballing side as long as the bank account has a * load of money sitting in it.

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bhoy_wonder said: ↑

It's going to be an anxious 10 days until this window closes for this bear.
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8 days

Blochairnbhoy, Aug 22, 2024

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A year ago just now we went into the last week window wanting 5 it was widely reported

1 centre back
1 left back
1 striker
1 winger
1 CM

We got 3 of the 5 with the other 2 changing their mind on the final day.

Could easily happen again

Blochairnbhoy, Aug 22, 2024

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8 days
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Thanks big ben

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If we sign 7 players in the remaining days of good quality I'll get a Peter lawwell tattoo. All is forgiven.

Till January.
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Looking forward to the late news

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If we sign 7 players in the remaining days of good quality I'll get a Peter lawwell tattoo. All is forgiven.

Till January.
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Tattoo not coming.

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I don't really see it as optimism and I'm absolutely not trying to sound like I'm trying to * folk off but it just seems like common sense to me. I get there are fans who are rightly annoyed about the lack of transfer activity so far. They're paying customers who are allowed to feel whatever they want. I prefer to see myself as a kind off middle shooter on this forum, where I will lay into the club when I feel it's needed, like I did after both windows last season but I'm smart enough to know that it's not as simple as FIFA or Football Manager and things do take time, especially when you're targeting a specific type of signing.

Now, does that mean we couldn't have been quicker? Of course not. I wasn't happy with the speed of the Bernardo deal, especially. I believed it became a bit of a joke, every day for about 7/8 days we seemed to get the same update from Portugal, from a completely different source. We seemed to have had that £3.5m deal with add ons agreed about 5 or 6 times and then we had agreed terms for about another 2/3 days. So yeah, I was * off. With Idah, I believe Norwich were trying to take the * and what pushed that deal on was the injury to Kyogo. I think Celtic would be still sitting, waiting for Norwich to accept a deal of around £6m/£7m if Kyogo hadn't have been feeling iffy with the shoulder. I believe it became a case of, who blinks first and Celtic were the ones to blink. Norwich were quite happy to sell for £10m, we didn't want to pay that much and again, it became a bit of a joke, which we were part of. I'm not against trying to get the best deal possible for players but I agree, there needs to be a fair balancing act. You either give them a date and move on, or you give them a date and match the fee or come to agreeable terms, quickly.

As I said in another post, even targeting players excelling in obscurer leagues is going to get far more difficult. Nanasi from the Swedish League is about to join Strasbourg for £9m. He's had what? A decent half season... £9m. That's a lot of money and we could pay that and still be taking a huge risk. So, I get why the club are in a bit of a limbo this window, where we are overly relying on Rodgers, who really only has a working knowledge of the English Market and we may go off some recommendations from scouts/agents but allow Rodgers the opportunity to carry out enough due diligence on signings, like we seem to have done with Bogusz. Then, you see a young midfielder like Engels, who seems to be breaking into the first team for a Bundesliga team, 20 years old so huge potential and he's available for a similar price? Great, £9m would be very well spent. Now, what's his terms? Can we make the deal work? He seems keen to join us, he seems like he would be affordable with terms. But even that is a risk. The boy has played 50 games for Augsburg, most of them off the subs bench. So again, it's a different type of risk.

As has been discussed multiple times on this forum, until the club upgrade the footballing department, we are going to be running of recommendations from our managers, agents/scouts/city group to get us out of transfer stickiness and I have a massive problem with that. We need a Director of Football AND a Head of Recruitment and a complete overhaul of our scouting department because they're not good enough.
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Can see this being an even worse summer than last.
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It's already a better summer than last year.

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Supposedly Millwall are complaining thst we've been slow with the paperwork with Daniel Kelly..

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Good... * Millwall

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Surely to * even we couldn’t lose our three best players in the last week of the window?

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