Aiden McGeady

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He is the man of the moment for me.. though big Zeng Zhi did well today I thought.. will be gutted if we lose mcgeady, skill mixed with fantastic work rate.. yes hes had bad games but I wouldnt be surprised if a Major Premiership side put a bid in for him at some point. If they did we should buy a quality striker with the dosh and develope mcginn as hes not too shabby either!

 

keep him defo better players around him better performances = more cash plus i like him and we need to win this league!!!

 

Exactly

 

Wouldn't be surprised to see him leave in the summer, feel like if he keeps this form up he'll get eyed up and swooped on.

 

he is playing very well, you can see him getting frustated though at the lack of talent around him and unless we sort it out that could be the thing hat nudges him out the door if a bid came in as he will be * off laying them on a plate for big fortune and gettng no end result!

 

Someone said in an earlier post that he has the heart of a lion well this is so true.
the wee man is our best performer this season by far
his work rate is second to none and without the wee man our team will be in worse shape.
i voted him on another thread for best player and this is exactly why.......

 

i agree mate he is the only player who gets the fans excited and that we look forward to seeing every week a bit like larsson

 

until hee does this kind of thing against the bigger clubs he will never be regarded as a great player

 

Nup. Completly flatters to deceive. No footballing brain. No end product. Never knows when to pass the ball at the right time. Thinks he a one man show sometimes.

So no.

 

Bit harsh, agree with the no end product hes got a terrible shot if you can call it that, dont agree with the "never knows when to pass the ball at the right time" i think hes got better at that as he proved yesterday by setting up 2 goals, also against dundee utd where he played fortune in about 3 times only for him to * it up. Don't really agree with the no footballing brain either, what is it hes doing wrong that shows he has no footballing brain ? you either have a good dig on you or you dont . . he unfortunately doesn't, he can keep the ball too long at times but i'd much rather McGeady running around with the ball than someone i know for a fact isn't going to go anywhere with it. The one man show thing also, it might look like this because hes actually trying his hardest, i don't know if your saying he thinks its a one man show because he keeps the ball alot or because he thinks hes better than everyone else but i for one am happy to have a player with a bit of skill rather than put it up the park. This isn't me having a dig at you or anything like that, just thought a few of your points where ones ive been thinking about before but have slightly changed my mind in the last few months .

 

I think the big problem with Aiden is he's 2 steps ahead of any of our other players. Half the time he'l go on a run and when he needs to lay it off there is nobody about.

The biggest improvement in Aiden is his willingness to come back and put in a shift and help the defense.Far to many times this season he seemed to be the only player on the pitch fighting for the team, many times more he's been our biggest danger to the opposition.The team rely far to much on his ability and other teams know this, so the best way to stop Celtic is to take McGeady out of the game.

It's just a shame that while McGeady is occupied with two defenders the rest of the team arn't making use of the space that is left

 

think we seen the best and worst of aiden today , fantastic runing into space going by players geting to the byline getting decent crosses in,holding onto the ball to long losing possesion, holding up our attack but much better from him motm performance alongside ngwemo.

 

Our best player by a mile easily, if he got an injury I probably wouldn't bother turning up to matches as nobody else is capable of doing anything like him. If he wasn't in our squad we would be in mid-table in the League without doubt.

Don't know how anyone can say no end product either, does anyone else in the whole SPL give more "end product"? I don't think there is any one else. He would have even more end product if we had two strikers who could head the ball, it's depressing to see someone out wide going to make a cross when there's no-one in the box, Samaras is standing 10 yards outside it and McDonald is at the edge in the middle of two big defenders

The more I see of us now the more I see McGeady is on another level from all the other players apart from Hinkel. When he's running with the ball everybody stands and watches him, nobody offers any movement. There was a bit on Saturday he ran up the right wing and right across the edge of the box to the left any nobody made a move to receive a pass and he had to turn back and play a simple pass to somebody

 

Can agree about awareness. In all the years he has been playing I think he has only shown any sort of decent head up awareness in recent months and even then its been a bit patchy. The secret to when he plays better is he actually dribbles far less and passes it early. He will never be a top player IMO unless that awareness and head up approach becomes a more regular feature of his game. Although dribbling is always popular, I think he often does it unneccessarily and slows things down when a quick pass would have been the better option.

Claims of his greatness are clearly premature while most weeks the only really accomplished part of his game is his dribbling. IMO he should never practice dribbling again until he first works on the weak aspects of his game like his dire shooting and decision makeing. If, and its a big if, he can show the sort of stuff he showed against the Saints most weeks including against the bigger teams then he will be a great player

 

Some good points, but I think he suffers from being a brilliant player in an average team. When he hits top form, full backs find him unplayable.

I often wonder where he would be now had he been in the Celtic team around 2003-2004, when we had the best Celtic team of my lifetime.

He's 3 times the winger Agathe ever was and I wonder if he had a certain Swede to hit in the box, how much his end product would have been questioned.

 

Exactly

If we had Hartson, Sutton and Larsson as out strikers McGeady would be be setting up treble or even quadruple the goals he does the now which is still a fair amount.

Winger's can't deliver the ball in when we've no-one who attacks the ball looking to score.

I never see McGeady crossing the ball over the box to the other side or out the pitch, he delivers the ball into the box EVERY time. It's not his fault the strikers aren't capable of putting it in the net or even gettting into the box.

 

Nah its not all about Aidan putting in great balls and sttikers making the wrong runs. Its more about Aidan going into blind corners and trying to beat a player twice. He was very bad for that until recently but better this season. As a reader of the flow of the game as a whole I do not think Aidan has a patch on Maloney who really does have an eye for clever runs and angles either by others or himself. I think Aidan has been a head down player who has concentrated far too much on dribbling at the espense of developing his ability to read the game.

MON probably would have benched Aidan! He had Maloney at Villa just after his double POTY season when he was brilliant and didnt play him much. Most Villa fans say Maloney was great when he did play and that is the way it looked to me. So MON seems to not have been a fan of wee very lightweight wingers. He did have McGeady and Maloney at Celtic too but rarely used them. Also in MON's best years (up to Seville) he played a 3-5-2 with wingbacks so Aidan (who couldnt possibly play WB) wouldnt have fitted in.

 

Maloney is a different kind of player to McGeady. Maloney was a striker throughout his career until Strachan came in, it's why he can shoot better than McGeady but McGeady is the better dribbler, crosser and also better at tracking back. Maloney is greedy to and goes for the shot most times where McGeady would go for the cross or pass. McGeady is a hardworking player to where as Maloney is a player who tends to go missing in games. McGeady can play on both sides an Maloney can only play on the left, theres loads of differences. Comparing the two is like comparing Ronaldinho and Messi who are also completely different players.

 

I was not trying to make full comparisons (there are threads on that already). All I am saying is Maloney can dribble a bit but his quality mainly comes from an excellent football brain and eye for off the ball movement both by himself and others. IMO he is a brilliant wee player with almost everything but has been dogged by injury and losses of confidence so much. He showed what he can do in his only injury free season when he was double player of the year.