Anyone else feel short changed?

After a summer of little spending (so far) we have signed 3 players, 2 of which have been free transfers and bought Wanyama for less than a million. It is clear for all to see, we are crying out for a centre half and a towering, commanding centre forward. However the board refuse to spend the money to bring in someone half decent. The same happened in January of this year we never spent money and, I believe, it cost us the title! I hope the lack of spending doesn't cost us a place in europe or the title!

your thoughts?

 

theres still time in the transfer window to buy players we definitely need a striker and a cb

 

re-open this on september 2nd IF we haven't brought in anyone else

 

We'll have Bellamy next week

 

There is still time & it's not like we went into the transfer window needing all that much in terms of players coming in. The 2 essentials were a GK & a striker. We got 1, just need to find the other & I don't think anyone at the club, from the chairman to the tea lady, isn't aware that we need another striker.

 

I don't think there is any reason to panic, but, every day I log in to this and go to the transfer rumours section and see there is nothing new and my heart sinks a bit.

I imagine come Aug 31st we'll be involved in a lot of last minute bargaining.

 

There is still more than a week left for us to do some good business. I'm pleased we got Forster back and he managed to get yet another clean sheet under his belt in his re-debut for the club on Thursday night. At least we've temporarily solved the goalkeeping situation (until next June), which was the main worry for a lot of supporters.

I still want more one more big striker brought in and it looks like we might need to find cover for Izaguirre until he returns from injury in about 4-6 months time

 

We needed a goalkeeper, centre back and striker.

So far we have managed to sign a completely * third choice newcastle keeper. Which I'm certain is going to damage our chances of winning the league.

So if we don't bring in a GOOD centre back and striker before the window shuts, I really can't see us winning the league to be honest. Our chances in Europe have already been significantly damaged because of this problem.

 

Not yet, but my torch & pitchfork are at the ready in case we haven't gotten our finger out by the deadline

 

44 clean sheets last season suggests otherwise.

 

We have a much better defense now. And play * teams every week who we are significantly better than. Of course he's going to keep a fair number of clean sheets. Bullshit statistic talk that proves absolutely nothing about his competence as a keeper.

What about the goals he let in which could have been saved? And ultimately lost us the league. I'm not saying it's his fault, but with a keeper of better quality than him....We might just have won it.

 

still time to buy in these players, if they haven't by the end of the window, i will be * off.

 

Sure if thats the case we could say the same about every player in the starting 11??

we will be hoping to pick up a deal or two on deadline day, but hope it dosent end up backfiring and leaving us with no one.

 

Our defence is not significantly better than it was last season. We have retained the same players we had like Maj, Rogne etc and added Kelvin Wilson (who's currently injured) and Adam Matthews, who's going to be backup for Mark Wilson. When you take into consideration the fact that we were playing with a makeshift defence on Thursday night against Sion (with the notable losses of Izzy and K.Wilson, two of our main defenders now) and Forster still managed to keep a clean sheet, I think that says enough about him to know that he's good enough to cope with playing for Celtic.

The defence played a huge part in the amount of clean sheets we got last season, but a huge chunk of credit obviously goes to Forster. His save from that deflected free kick in the Cup Final against the scum was one of the best reaction saves I've ever seen and that's not a word of a lie. I was awestruck when I watched it live.

He has his shaky moments, but what keeper in the world doesn't? Even the cult hero Artur Boruc * up in goals and cost us a few times. It never stopped him from being embraced by the club's supporters and the man is practically a Celtic legend these days.

Anyway, to cut this whole thing short. The point I was making is that you don't accumulate 44 clean sheets in a single season if you're a * keeper.

 

Needed to move players on - more than bring players in this season.

We've not really done either.

The pre-contract signings were good buisiness & I think Wanyama will be too.

Forster on a loan + arranged signing clause is also very good business.

We're playing a cute game here though.

Although we have 100% in the SPL, the Europa looks quite shaky - but I think we'll come up to the last day of the window...in the Europa Groups & with a 100% SPL record...all going well.

If we don't manage that scenario, then the gamble will have failed - as it has for the last 3-5 seasons.

Still hoping to move players on & bring in 2 or 3, but it will & always was going to be....At the last minute.

 

The board have done an amazing job to nearly eliminating the debt but no point having no debt when the team is poor so I really think they should be investing in the team while we are still involved in all competitions .

 

Your joking? He was atrocious against Sion. He flapped at crosses like a sunday league keeper, which could have probably if we were playing anybody betterwhich is ridiculous when you consider the height of him and can use his hands which players cannot. His kicking was pish again. That game actually made up my mind about him. What the * is that guy good at?

And that one save is all you hear about, what about the game against the animals he alone lost us with his woeful kicking?

Forster made countless mistakes that could have, and did cost us goals. Has everybody forgotten about them? And to even mention his name in the same sentence as Boruc is criminal! Yes Boruc made mistakes, but for every mistake that man made, he made numerous wonder saves in return.

And Okay, maybe * was the wrong word. But he certainly isn't good, and even more certainly not good enough for Celtic. 44 clean sheets in the SPL doesn't mean your a good keeper:bbpd:

 

the real argument that we should discuss here, is what we expect from our team,what do we want to become and on what criteria do we judge our squad...

people who suggest that we solved our goalkeeping problem because we have forster back and he kept 40 something clean sheets last year imho are wrong...

the league and the opposition we're facing each week are not a realistic test for our team...we face poor poor sides and although we all agree that whoever teams up against us we can do nothing about it but try to win, we should all agree that we can't be happy for celtic football club to win 4-0 against the hamiltons and the dunfermlines...

remember the mon days and the wgs days when we were respected around europe and we used to give a game to whichever side was fielded against us at parkhead....those days lets face it,can't be brought back with the current young and talented although inexperienced and leadership-lacking team....

all i'm saying here is that we should support our team with passion even if it's not at the level that it's supposed to be as a club BUT we should all think of one thing....

that maybe shay given for example and forster would manage to keep many many clean sheets during the spl campaign,but given would do it when it mattered,and would give the team a presence to be relied upon...the same goes with larsson and mcdonald....yes they both scored many goals but there's a * reason that larsson went to barca and man u(the same goes with keane) and skippy is at boro...and that reason is sheer,true football quality...

and that is what we lack in this current squad...2 or 3 faces that will raise us on another level...

 

There's nothing criminal about mentioning his name in the same sentence as Boruc. Boruc had five years at Celtic to make the wonder saves you're referring to, Forster has only been here for one season so far. If he stays here and continues to develop, then he will have plenty of opportunity to make more "wonder saves".

As for keeping clean sheets and playing well in the SPL not making you a good keeper, bullshit. Craig Gordon was sold from Hearts to Sunderland for £9m a few years ago. Artur Boruc was regularly linked with the likes of AC Milan during his final years here and ended up at Fiorentina, who are still a fairly big club in Italy. Dare I say it, Allan McGregor has been regularly linked with top clubs in England and abroad. This is yet another case of the SPL not getting enough credit. I know we're not a great league, but we're not as bad as some folk make us out to be. It seems as though you've been brainwashed by the media.

Let me say it again; you can not keep 44 clean sheets if you're not a good keeper. To say otherwise is absurd. The guy broke the record for clean sheets in the SPL last season. Not Boruc, not McGregor, not Stefan Klos, who were and are all great keepers in their own right, like it or not. Forster may have his weaknesses, such as collecting crosses, but that can all be worked on in training. Remember he is still a young lad. His shot stopping is good enough for the standard of football we're playing.