Not Actually that Crucial a Summer as of August 2023...beginning to now think everything isnt fine!

Rodger’s squashing the idea of us spending big money on a player. About time tbh as some folk were still clinging onto the hope we were gonna sign Rieder or we had a £40m budget lol.

 

Just seen it on sky he didn't exactly squash it though did he? He said we won't spend £15m on one player

 

What are you on about?

You’re making some big assumptions here, how do you know Hatate will want to be here any longer than Edouard? You’re forgetting that it’s our business model and these players make the club money, might aswell chuck Jota in, Teirney, Dembele, Van Dijk, Wanyama, Juranovic, Frimpong and many others.

 

Firstly I feel largely the way you do.

The only thing I will say in the clubs defence is I don’t think they expected our manager to go and have to imagine there were certain players sounded out on their interest in coming here that Ange wanted and Rodgers maybe fancies someone else.

I can think of three positions where this might be the case

Left back: Ange would have wanted a reliable back up to Taylor as Bernabei isn’t working. He would have wanted someone good on the ball and safe in possession. Rodgers relies on his full backs to provide width and has pace to overlap his winger in attack. Two very different types of player.

Centre midfield: not as obvious in terms of difference but Ange seemed to value someone being offensive in here and having a good pressing ability, looking for them to be good on the ball but perhaps not as bothered about physical attributes of a player. Rodgers is very keen on a powerful centre midfield player who helps control the middle of the park in a game. Has to be good on the ball again but probably as interested in carrying the ball forward as passing it. Also being able to disrupt opposition play probably has more emphasis for Rodgers than Ange.

Wingers: Ange wanted his wingers high and wide as his attacking midfielders occupied the inside forward attacking areas. Rodgers on Saturday, I thought it was notable how close Abada, Maeda and Kyogo played in the first half and interchanged positions between them. Again linking to the full back point Rodgers expects at least one of his full backs to overlap and provide the width allowing the winger to become more like an inside forward. So who he goes for will likely prioritise pace and movement, finishing ability than outright skill on the ball.

 

Funny that these rumours stemmed from that clown over at KDS. I also remember a certain someone on here piggy backing on that notion. Strangely enough I haven't heard it mentioned again on here since the KDS bullshitter was outed though.

 

Not tooting my own horn (I am actually), but when all this cack about Rodgers being given a warchest was being blasted about I made the counter suggestion; that NO tens of millions were being spent on players, and if Rodgers got any assurances, it would be no repeat of the hard-line negotiating that cost us the likes of McGinn and Scharr.

He's just said it himself... There will be no 15m pound signings. It's not our model.

At best, we're looking at Jota, CCV, Eduard deals. We'll take you on loan with an option to buy, prove your worth a big fee and we'll pay it.

Time to put this spunking millions on one player to bed ffs.

 

If we are not spending 15m on a player then we are deffo not getting, Reider, Tierrny or Tête, and I was hoping for all three plus a GK

 

Or maybe the fee is 14.9m that would still fit,

 

See given the position we are in if there is £15-£20m to spend buying 3 or 4 players in the £4-6m bracket is more what we need than spending the full amount on one.

E.g. if we got a keeper, Left Back, centre midfielder and left winger capable of being in our first team we would be stronger than just buying a left winger for £15m.

I am hoping we get a better look at the two Korean lads tomorrow night against Bilbao as the early signs with them looked promising.

The lack of rumours has made this a pretty boring window so far despite actually signing 5 players but I think the fact none of the new guys have played much of our games has also made this seem like we have done less.

I am glad to hear however we are still active in the market. I know the chat is we aren’t looking at a keeper but if the Hart to MLS next year stuff has any legs we will be looking just now.

 

I'd definitely add GK to that as well

 

I'd be very happy with 3 new players arriving for Jota/Edouard money.

For example, if we spent £7m-£10m each on a new LB, LW and CM, I think most of us would be very content. Then chuck in another £5m or so on a GK; trust me you'd be getting no complaints from this bear.

Spending this sort of money on these positions would suggest that the club holds healthy ambitions regarding European progression without blowing up the model currently in place.

But we need to address these areas and fast. We have the money. If we ignore these areas or instead spend pennies on more projects and unknowns then we are getting the * taken out of us.

 

Im quite happy if the club spends £5-6 million each on 3 or 4 players.

 

Celtic boss Brendan Rogers insists there will be no £15m-£20m player joining this summer as he gives an insight into the club's recruitment policy.

In an exclusive interview with Sky Sports News, the returning manager revealed he will rely heavily on head of recruitment Mark Lawwell as he looks to strengthen his squad ahead of the start of the Scottish Premiership season and their Champions League campaign.


The club have made five summer signings so far and although further additions are planned, Rodgers has shut down any talk of a marquee signing.


I think everyone looks and thinks that we might be bringing in a £15m-£20m player, now the reality is that that won't be the case," he said.

"It's not what the club is based on, but that doesn't mean there are not talented players out there that we want.



There's still quite a way to go in the window. So we'll look to improve the squad again and continue with that.



"We've done a lot of early business, which has been great and now allows the players to come in and settle and, of course, we want to do so more, but I'm quite calm in that."




Celtic appointed Lawwell, son of ex-chief executive and current chairman Peter, as the club's new head of first-team scouting and recruitment in May 2022.

He had previously worked with former manager Ange Postecoglou at Yokohama F Marinos, one of 10 clubs part-owned by CFG.

While Postecoglou always insisted he had the final say on every signing, Rodgers has revealed the process will be very much a team effort.

"I will work with the club on that. Mark Lawwell, who heads up the recruitment team here, has done a fantastic job," the former Leicester boss added.

"It's a market he knows really, really well from his previous job. So he understands the players and but he's also got a very good team of people behind them, so I trust in their work.



Of course, there will always be names put forward to me and I'll have a look at it.

"Some of those players were identified before I came in so it was about giving the blessing, and some of them being identified while we have been in so it's just a continuation of working together, which is important.

"I know where the club is at, I know the model that's in place and we hope that we can maximise that and then develop the players on the field.

"It has to fit in with the model of the club which is important, it always is that.



As a modern manager in the modern game, it's very, very difficult to do what you did years ago and be out watching players every night of the week.

"The game has changed so you're really relying on your recruitment team and you see here the players that have come in. You won't get absolutely everyone right and that's based purely on the basis of players sometimes maybe not adapting to a country that they come into, but there's a lot of great work.

"It's a really comprehensive structure that's in place here to try and mitigate as many of those circumstances as they can and then allow the player to come in and really flourish in an environment which is made for development."

 

I must admit I did expect us to do a bit more in the transfer window by now.

It appears that we're going in to the competitive season with no advancement on Joe Hart and no replacement for Jota.

We don't seem to have got rid of deadwood either.

The signings we have made by and large are squad players, not necessarily guys who will cement a starting position in the squad.

We still have a really strong squad and we should comfortably clean up on a domestic front, so I'm not overly worried. I just expected a bit more with a manager of Brendan Rodgers' magnitude.

 

This is a genuine question and I'm really not trying to start an argument I promise and time will still tell in the rest of the market but if we don't spend much more then what the * are they doing with the money?

 

If we don't bring in a GK and LB before the window closes it will rightly be labelled a shambles.

Still time, but a goalie in particular should have been brought in ahead of the league kicking off.

EDIT: also a winger, not properly replacing Jota would be negligent.

 

Agreed 100%.

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No complaints from this bear??? Another for the watching

 

Even if we did spend 15 mill on a player it would only be a one off type deal, I do however expect us to be spending 6-10 mill on multiple players to bring the first team standard up to the level it needs to be at to do something in Europe