january window is huge

Can't believe yet again when things are not perfect the answer from the vocal few is 'buy more players'. This Club has in the last year, by my reckoning bought about 18 players, paid off 1 Managerial Team and brought in another with even more bodies. So we Spend Spend Spend but still to some it's not enough. At the start of this season NL talked about Twardzik, Misun, Rogne,Forrest as being the future. So we have youth and we have a World Class Training/Academy facility that has cost a small fortune. So where are the results? If we buy in 18 players when does youth get it's chance?
Personally I would not be surprised if we do not win anything this year and if and it's a HUGE if, Neil Lennon proves his worth, then everyone, players and Management will have gained great experience from this Season, which they can carry into 2011. So for me, no more spending. We have what we have and we are what we are, 2nd place team in a gubby wee league with attendances that would be the envy of every Team in the Premier League apart from 2/3,where the only thing World Class are the hearts of the Celtic Supporters.

 

I agree with the last post to a point but i think the youngsters would be better learning their trade off of quality players instead of mediocre players. Loovens should go straight away. 1 strong cb. 1 Premier league quality striker and that would be that.

 

lets face it we have been crying out for a really good CB for about 3 years now, so yes the answer is buy a really good CB if you can't see that then mabe you need to go to specsavers

 

Thomas Rogne is not too young. Danny Wilson was excellent for Rangers in the SPL last season and he was only 17. If Rogne plays poorly for us then it's his form or his ability at fault not his age.

 

maj is * ! why does everyone keep making excuses for him?? found wanting at dundee utds equalizer yet again. constantly gets found out but every other centre half gets the blame! was lucky to even be on the park at the end as he should have been sent off as he was caught out of position AGAIN and iv seen milk turn quicker !! stop making excuses for him as the other centre halfs dont get away with the same excuses !!

 

our defence is a shambles not one in the whole back four can defend and i include izzy.he got caught upfield 3 or 4 times on sat and not good against them,hearts,st johnstone so while some of his play is good the jury is out with me,lenny has to get 2 cbs and a striker in jan

 

Just got back in and read ishida and the bhoy.
Yes I would like top quality players at Parkhead even a player of Premier League standards, everyone would, but we are not facing facts. The days of a Chris Sutton or Neil Lennon or John Hartson or any £6m player coming to the SPL for 4/5 year contract are over, at least for the time being. What can we offer?We have a 60,000 seater stadium and fill it x2 each year. We have become the whipping boys of Europe and cannot beat a Team that are in such dire need of players that we loan them one of our brightest, Milan Misun.
I know we are coming up to Christmas and we have all been good wee girls and boys but even Santa would struggle getting us players of Premier Quality. So we need to look inwards, stop asking for more,more,more, stop blaming referees and anyone else who comes to mind for our failings and start putting the 'Fear' into the opposition and perhaps even more than that,have a Manager that picks a side that can exploit the opposition weaknesses rather than - it seems to me- one that has got into the habit of using a small nucleus of players in a 4:4:2 formation. There is something wrong when you have players on International duty one day and not even good enough for the bench a few days later....and there is definitely something going on when you spend £3m on an International and then don't play him, even in his 'disliked' position at right back. On that one all I would ask is 'Who is in charge? Lennon or Juarez?'.
There......feel better now.

 

Maj is * eh?

Get a * grip you...if it wasn't for him we could have been down 1-3.....



How many times has the guy stopped goalscoring opportunities?

Away and play tiddleywinks!

 

we just need to get everyone playing together without the costly mistakes but do agree the defence needs strengthing and if samaras goes another option up front however looking forward to seeing kapo

 

Don't agree often with you, but this time

 

he cost us the goal at the weekend ! he should have been sent off at the weekend ! its the same every week with him. for a guy his size he doesnt dominate in the air, he is constantly diving in when he should stay on his feet, constantly caught out of position and is slower than jos which is near impossible!! why does everyone keep making excuses for maj when all our other centre halfs get slated for a lot less.

and lastly can you not just comment on the post or the thread rather than leaving stupid little comments like "away and play tiddlewinks!" ?? its just stupid and something most people grew out of at school !!

 

Hhhmmmmm.....nah!

 

dazza585, there may be lots of things wrong with our team and management right now but I have never ever seen you post anything positive.

Each to their own but I can say that I couldn't possibly support Celtic the way you do, I think if I did I would end up a depressed, alcohol ravaged wreck.

 

+1

 

we can get good players who said anything about the suttons or lennon's of this world i said really good player, mabe players like that are over players who play in the prem leauge but i don't think so

curtis davis would be a great player if he came up to celtic, not so far feach'ed is it really..... we can sign a player from france or even germany don't always need to get a player from the big bad prem leauge, lets face it only lennon out of them 3 that we never took a gamble on, also am sure that a few players came to parkhead in the summer with a 4 year contract mabe not the 6m price tag so really you have stump'ed yourself on that contract thing you said buddy

also we have been whipping boys as you call it, WGS first season in charge 5 nil in his first game in europe...... then what happend after that.....

lets face it we can go out and spent 3m+ on a really good CB again not from the prem leauge

 

It's obvious that Lennon is 'modelling' himself on Martin O'Neill....especially the way that he could transform players who have been at the club when he joined that were not the greatest during the previous managers tenure.

I believe that Lennon hasn't invested heavily in defence as he has tried, tried and tried again to utilise the likes of Loovens, Hooiveld and possibly Rogne...(especially as he failed to Campbell etc)

As we all know this has NOT worked to his advantage and i also believe in his heart and his head that he knows he has to bring in some solid quality to the defence...and that will be sought in January.

 

the team and manager we have just now isnt good enough! iv been saying this all season. dont let a few lucky spl wins cloud your judgement. everything iv said about lennon lately i said in the summer. last week i was called a troll on here. this week more and more are agreeing with me. ill base my opinion on what i see but after all it is only MY OPINION ! what really annoys me on here is the countless people that cant handle someone else opinion and resort to stupid little comments just like padmill done above. time will tell if my opinion is correct or not but this is a forum where we all get a chance to air our opinions so if people cant handle that maybe they should stop going on forums???

 

How can we not handle it?

Because you come out and say the famous' he's pish' he's pish' we have to agree with you?

As you say, we're all allowed opinions.

 

We are in November therefore it is too early to completely write off our team and management as "not being good enough". Some of the signs are very worrying I would agree but to write as off as "not good enough" is too premature.

I have no problems with you expressing your opinion, all I said was that I could not express mine in the same manner as yourself - i.e. An abundance of negativity with no positivity. Each to their own though as I said.

I just get the feeling that you were one of those supporters who was against Lennon's appointment from day one and therefore has immediately tried to discredit the man in order to try and prove your pre-informed opinions as correct. You should be right behind Neil Lennon in trying to prove yourself wrong but sadly I don't think that's the case and I feel that some supporters have a smug way of expressing their views which makes it appear as if they're revelling in the failures of the team and management, as they feel it has given their opinions more credibility and so that they can come back and say "Told you I was right".

Neil Lennon, a Celtic legend, does not deserve that. And before you start spouting off again, I would say that about any Celtic manager.

 

i was against his appiontment and in my opinion he has done nothing to prove all my fears about him wrong! i havnt waited till we have lost games to come on and have a go at him. iv said these things after most games that his inexperience is killing us. for me his signings havnt been good enough, another thing i said at the time and to go now and let him sign more in january could set the club back even further. despite what you say i do hope he proves me wrong but personally i dont think he will. i dont have a smug way of giving my opinions because i have given these opinions even after we have won games. neil lennon is a legend as a man and a player but he shoudnt be treated any differently than any other manager and i personally feel he does. strachan brought us 3 titles in a row and got us to the last 16 in the champs lg twice but he was never afforded half of the leeway which lennon seems to get on here.