Celtic Transfers 2024

Bodo players don't seem to travel well anyway

 

True Although Boniface on the Leverkusen bench tonight has had a decent season.

 

Don't see why he wouldn't tbh.

We have a record of taking players on and moving them on to the top leagues.

You're probably right though.

 

No I don’t think we could afford him.

 

He just signed a bumper deal, probably not far off what we could offer wage wise. Coming to us would probably be seen as a side step sporting wise. We would have to break our transfer record and wage record to try lure him here, which Lawwell won't sign off on in a million years.

I would rather we focus on Sverre Nypan if we're going shopping in Norway.

 

I forgot we're due £3m for Tillman's move to PSV.

Hopefully, Ferguson moves to Juventus so we can get our sell on fee from that deal, too.

 

Someone like Grønbæk is where we should be aiming.

That fine line where we see signs of quality player, playing in a level of a league that could mean they don't get the full attention they probably would have if they were doing similar things in a more recognised league.

If we could pull of a signing like him, I'd fully buy into him being the marquee signing for a lack of better term.

We should really be looking to try and steal some signings around that level now.

Because whether we like it or not, and I know it is massively risky as well, but if we can pull off those levels of signings, and just squeak through to next round in CL, then sadly those players likely get sold by the club next season anyway for north of £30mill each.

It won't always be exactly like that of course but we need to start taking those risks and getting in players of the levels of a Grønbæk

 

I doubt they have given him more than 10kpw, maybe 15kpw at a push. Him signing an extension is probably him doing them a favour so they can sell him for more.

 

I just hope we are pro active early on in the window, get the majority of players we want early so that they can be ready for the start of the season. If it's back to Lawwells tactics of last minute signings on deadline day he's got to go.

 

I think a lot of that has to do with the moves they make. Plenty of our top guys have went and failed elsewhere, simply because they didn't make the correct moves. Eddy is a prime example, probably the best striker we have had since Larsson and he goes to a club who are famous for being incredibly defensive. Hooper was another one.

Berg went to Lens who barely controlled the ball, Solbakken went to Roma under Mourinho, who plays *, negative football, Botheim went to Russia, where scoring goals outside of the big 3 is pretty much non existent, Hauge joined Milan at far too young an age, was too big a step and I'd actually still take him now to be honest.

Some of their latest sales are doing ok though. Vetlesen is a main player in the Club Brugges team, Moumbagna has had a pretty good start at Marseille since he joined in January, Boniface is obviously flying since he left and Joel Mvuka looks as if he will be moving to Young Boys from Lorient on a permanant deal this summer.

 

I am with you on this one. We have planning certainty with guaranteed champ lg income. So no reason not to habe a few good/new bodies in for start of training!

 

Have just read we have 30 odd first team players and thats not including young boys like Kelly and Vata or loan players which is genuinely unbelievable.

Need to aim to shift a fair few of them before bringing players in I’d imagine. Can’t keep stockpiling that much that you actually forget some are with us.

How do you even put sessions on with over 30 players.. The club may need to learn to take a bad deal for once to cut the numbers, turning down a few hundred thousand for McCarthy in January being a perfect example.

 

I don't have the exact numbers, but it's rumoured to be close to the highest a player has ever been payed in Norway. Bendtner was supposedly on £20k a week at Rosenborg, so I imagine Grønbæk's wages is somewhat close to that.

CCV and McGregor will be on higher wages surely, maybe around £40k? I think we would need to offer something in that area and even then we would be competing with clubs with wage structures beyond our limit, hence why I think we need to go above and beyond if we ever where to go for him.

He would be the perfect fit if O'Riley leaves.

 

Never knew there were rumours it was as high as 50k. Don't get me wrong, CCV and McGregor 100% deserve that, I'd even be happy with them both on 60, but I thought we'd be keeping it around the 40k mark at most.

 

I have no inside knowledge on wages but it wouldn’t surprise me if most of those players who signed new deals got some sort of signing on fee and in some cases a considerable one.

In the interim accounts it spoke of a £23m spend on players and Lawell listed the contract renewals as being part of that. Plus our actual transfer spend given Holm, Iwata, and Tilio at least were in last years numbers wasn’t as much as that, it would have been nearer £15-17m.

 

Just sincerely * hope we spend some serious money for once. A couple of 8-10m players and a few 5-6m players scattered in there is all I ask.

Obviously it’s not all about the money spent and if we find someone we really fancy for peanuts, go for it. We just really need to be pushing the boat out where possible and backing the manager. We missed out on Castagne and McGinn last time Rodgers was here. Don’t let that * happen again. If expensive players worth the money are available and open to coming, make it happen.

That title race was pretty exciting and fun to be involved in. However, there’s no reason whatsoever for us to find ourselves in a title race again for the next few years at least. We need to be stamping on hun throats and setting ourselves apart with some proper performances in Europe.