Transfer Talk

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He can also play down the left, so he and commons could switch positions mid game

 

Valentin Stocker

 

£5.3million for Stocker. You'd struggle to make a profit from selling him on.

 

I dont think they would want that much. Hoffenheim had agreed a fee of £3.5 million (rumoured) for him last summer and now hes a year older and a year further into his contract.

I personally think he is worth about £7/8 million but I think he would cost less than that.

 

Unfortunately it's not as simple as offering 3.5million. Firstly he has to want to come and play in Scotland, when he has already knocked back Bundesliga teams to wait for a move to England.

Basel have one qualifier for the Champions League.

FC Basel are run by some pretty serious business people, not dafties. Basically you're talking about dealing with the richest family in Switzerland, who have a controlling share in a pharmaceutical company worth an estimated $35billion. It's run by a woman who is as mad as a bag of spanners.

So you see, 3.5million is a drop in the ocean. They've came out in the press and stated if he goes, he does not go cheaply. He's contracted until 2016.

If you value him at 7/8million i think their's a fair chance they will too.

It's better to go after the guys who, if you offer £2miilion, you get the deal done.
Or even better, if you can get them for half that and they are right on the brink of being worth big money.

 

£4-5 million on a striker (Rudnevs or Hosiner) or a bit less for Khelifa.
£2 million on a left winger

Then I reckon we are sorted for the most part. Maybe a cheap LB and CM but they aren't needed that much.

 

4-5million on a striker is not gonna happen.

 

He said 3-4million, not 4-5million. Hamburg want 4.5million. Then there is the slight problem with wage demands. These things take ages to negotiate and we don't have time.

So, because of this we won't have a new player in on time to face Elfsborg. Then it drags on and on.

It's easy enough to grasp. There are players who are available at a price we can afford, and can come in quickly, and there are players who are right at the peak of their transfer valuation who take a long time to sign.

We've already upped the transfer money on two players and in all honesty i don't think they make our strongest 11.

Every transfer window we get into this thing that all we need is a striker or a defender.
Rudvens scored goals because of the fantastic service he got from midfield, if you have that goals are easy.

We already added a striker and two defenders, for me at least, getting a good two footed wide man should be the priority. That would mean he and Commons can play both sides, they can switch mid-game just like Stokes and Forrest can.

I'm sure Rudvens would be an excellent signing, but the guy loves playing in the Bundesliga.

So it's not simply a matter of saying their's money - sign. The guy needs to be a player that looks at the move as a step up, he needs to fit the budget and the wage structure.

I don't know what evidence you need. Hamburg pay high wages, we couldn't offer Hooper those kind of wages.

We need a few players all of a high technical ability, we need them in quickly and i don't see how we have any more than £5-6million to spend.

The days of spending all the transfer money in one full swoop are gone. We should stick to finding the talent, because their are still some gems out their, some proven players like Pawlowski and some who i think we'll look back at in 12 months time and wish we had done a deal for them.

 

Seriously wise up

If what you say is true then why was Efrain Juarez my best Celtic player ever from last game :smiley-laughing002:

 

John Park saw a player in Efrain Juarez too, so no shame in that. FM pays researchers to thoroughly scout players. It's hardly ridiculous to take an interest in a Celtic target's FM stats.

 

There is a point behind what he was saying; Davie Moyes used to pay Sports Interactive to get his hands on their database first. Sports Interactive have one of the biggest scouting networks in the world.

They can be quite spot on, sometimes not but they have called a surprising amount of players spot on throughtout the years. Obviously doing it just on FM alone would be stupid but it is essentially a pre-built database of almost every player in the world.

 

As Devlin has posted, try telling that to David Moyes (Who know to be good in the transfer maket with limited funds.)

 

I know football managers bollocks cause saviola always signed for me and Gary hooper signed a new contract,wanyama rejected southmapton and signed for Barcelona and rangers died and never came back!

Neil Lennon also went on to become head of the sfa!

 

It does have a very surprising rate of young talents from all over the world that go on to become top players,it isn't a coincidence after all these years and amount of players but to just use that as a marker for football knowledge which I'm positive some go by on here then no...

 

He didnt. He got the exact same DB that people playing it get. The only difference is he gets it a bit earlier.

It obviously has value or Everton wouldnt have been paying the fees to use it.

Obviously Nobody is recomending that Celtic close down their whole scouting network and only buy players based on FM.

 

Spot on weekendoffender Like everybody else on here, we can all only guess, or pass information that we have heard from someone else, but the reality is none of us know for definate. I genuinely think the club will splash out say 4/5 million for a striker, and I also think we will spend about 3 million on an attacking midfielder. If big Kelvin goes to Forrest, we will spend about 3m on a c/b. Maybe just wishfull thinking on my part, but I have a right good feeling about this season.