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Celtic Diary Saturday April 27: All About McNeill

Celtic fans around the world today will remember Billy McNeill and everything he gave to the club.

We will not see his like again, and we will never forget him.

Credit to the picture goes to Paul B Lyons on twitter. The image captures perfectly the leadership qualities of the man.

Celebrate the mans life in style.

Wherever you are.

Don’t be afraid to join in the applause if you’re watching or listening to the game in another part of the world, wherever we are, we can pay our own tribute.

 

Today the hoops face Kilmarnock, and the players want to win in the style of the team that McNeill led, and there cannot be a more fitting tribute for the current squad to pay to the man who will be remembered as Mr Celtic.

Whoever is picked, and there are suggestions that Scott sinclair will join Tom Rogic and James Forrest in supporting Oddsone Edoaurd, will do the man proud.

A win today , followed by less than a win for closest rivals “rangers ” at Aberdeen will secure the eighth title of ten.

 

Let’s put on a show.

 

Scott Brown has been exonarated of the charge of smiling at a football match after Celtic brought in a specialists sports lawyer to defend him.

A heartbroken Daily Record encapsulated the SMSM mood with the headline..

Scott Brown avoids ban for Rangers celebration

Celtic captain has not been punished for his role in the aftermath of the Hoops derby win in March.

 

Avoids ban ? Not been punished ?

Who could be controlling such a narrative ?

Brown was charged simply to placate the hordes, who yet again, handled defeat poorly.

There was clear evidence that there is a mentality of entitlement running through that club at the Glasgow Cup final on Thursday, when one of their players feigned injury to break up a Celtic attack, as you can see in this video, from the BBC.

cheats

 

However, cheats can be delat with, as this man showed..

Delighted to have successfully represented Celtic captain Scott Brown in his case before the Scottish FA today – now looking forward to watching him play at the match tomorrow  

Now that he has met the SFA once on a professional basis, perhaps he’d be interested in doing it again..

Image result for resolution 12  I’m sure he’d like to have a look  what many have described as one of the biggest sporting scandals in football history.

 And now he knows who he’s up against, and the professionalism of that particular organisation, it would be easier than prosecuting a small child for filling his nappy.

For example, Ross County have just won the First division, or championship, as its imaginatively called these days…

 Elsehwere, and new manager Neil Lennon…oh wait, it’s not official yet…has started to look around for his summer signings, with a young fellow by the name of Silas Wamangituka high on his list.

 The forward, originally from the Congo, currently plays for Paris in the French second division, and it’s encouraging to see Celtic continue to look at young French based players, as they seem to adapt quite well in Glasgow.

All of the summer planning needs to be done now. Should Celtic, as expected, make the UCL qualifiers, it’s going to be tough again, but there is every chance that should Celtic make the group stages, the club will be in Pot 3, which gives the side a better than average chance of knockout football in the New Year..

Moravcik 67, as ever, explains..

 Here’s another update on qualifying for next seasons Champions League. Assumptions made – we avoid imploding, and see out the league. – this years CL winner qualifies for the group stage via their league, meaning the Austrian champion won’t have to qualify. 

As previously discussed, if we avoided another pre-playoff exit, Celtic would be seeded through all 4 qualifying rounds. Yep, I know it didn’t help this season. But better to be seeded than unseeded. It can be the difference between playing Ajax or Astana in the playoff. 

Since my last update the following teams from the winter leagues have secured their title, and qualifying spot – Young Boys, PAOK, Dinamo Zagreb, Maccabi Tel Aviv, Slovan Bratislava, Linfield, The New Saints With that, here’s how things might look in each qualifying round. 

Qualifying Round 1 The draw will be made on the 18th June, with ties played 10/11th & 17/18th July. Teams are usually drawn into smaller groups, limiting who we can draw. The Polish & Romanian champions are the ones to avoid here.  

Qualifying Round 2 Draw is also made on 18th June, with ties played 24/25th & 30th/31st July. Maccabi Tel-Aviv and Rosenborg stick out as the tougher opponents. Because the QR2 draw is made before QR1 plays there is no scope for any of the unseeded teams to become seeded. 

Qualifying Round 3 Draw is made on 22nd July, with ties played on 6-7th & 13th August. The level of opposition has gone up a notch or two here. There are some very tricky ties. Not sure I fancy another trip to Greece at this stage. 

Playoff round Draw is made on 5th August, with ties played 20/21st & 27/28th August. Not sure if this is much harder than QR3. But Young Boys trounced Basel this season in Switzerland, and we know how difficult Astana have made it for us in the past. 

The whole set up is, of course, ludicrous.

Ajax could either go straight into the groups as winners, or start their campaign again just a few weeks after losing the final….

But if we are to see the big cup back at Celtic Park, we have to fight our way through.

One way of starting to fight back against the system, the whole system that is, was suggested and will be put into practice by fans of frequent European opponents Basel…

FC Basel fan scene does not buy tickets for cup final

FC Basel qualified for the Swiss Cup final yesterday with a 3-1 success at FC Zurich. The Muttenzerkurve announced that same evening that they would buy any official tickets for the cup final on May 19, 2019 in Bern.

Before the semi-finals, the four fanfares of the semi-finalists spoke in a joint statement. Muttenzerkurve Basel (FC Basel), United Supporters Lucerne (Lucerne), Block Süd (FC Thun) and Zürcher Südkurve (FC Zürich) demanded that the final tickets should not be issued as combined tickets, which are also valid for special trains to the cup final in Bern and fans can decide for themselves how to travel to the final. At the same time criticized the Fankurven of the four semi-finalists, that the ticket prices of 50 francs in the Fan curve and up to 120 francs on the stands should be lowered ( fascination Fankurve reported ). 

The semi-finals in the last two days have now revealed that FC Thun and FC Basel will meet in the final at Wankdorf Stadium on 19 May. But FC Basel’s fan scene will not buy any official tickets for the final: “We will not buy official match tickets, but sell our own tickets. In addition, we call all FCB fans for an individual arrival and thus a boycott of the extra trains, “said Muttenzerkurve yesterday in the local dialect.

The own tickets of the Muttenzerkurve in Retrodesign are sold at a price of 40 francs or 25 francs. On the final day, the FC Basel fans want to pull in a fan march from the meeting point in the center of Bern to Wankdorf Stadium and handed over to the leaders of the Swiss Football Association (SFV) the money that was taken by selling their own tickets. The association then has the opportunity, the FC Basel fans for this by the fan scene itself set admission price, based on the campaign “football for alli” oriented, with the fans in Switzerland in 2014 for fair ticket prices began ( fascination Fankurve reported ), to let the stadium or not. 

FC Basel’s fans are optimistic that a solution with the SFV will be found on the day of the match itself or even in advance, giving fans a cheaper final visit. But according to Muttenzerkurve it is important that FCB fans do not stock up on the official tickets and stick together.

“We are aware that we lean out the window with the action and that there is not just black and white. The Swiss Football Association is in a bind because of conditions imposed by the Berne authorities and we are also jointly responsible for the security costs. With the final participation of Thun, however, these will turn out a lot deeper, “explains the Muttenzerkurve the planned action, with which one will offend some people, which, however, according to the opinion of the fan scene is sometimes necessary for it to rethink. (Fascination Fankurve, 26.04.2019)

I put this in because these translations make me laugh.

However, the point is, the fans are printing their own tickets, selling them to themselves at half the price, putting the money to one side, and then handing it to the Swiss FA as a take it or leave it gesture..

The Scottish cup final is next month…

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On Thursday we showed you this..

Tyrone9 April 25, 2019 at 10:12 am · Edit · Reply →

Caption…”55 was in tangible reach and then this happens “  

Today..

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4 years ago

Hail Cesar King of Europe for ever in our hearts and minds
RIP Carfin Jock Stein .Lenny and the Bhoys to put on a Excellent performance for the two biggest of LEGENDS of CFC
YNWA HH8

Cole Burns
4 years ago

And he gave us Johnstone, BILLY, Murdoch, Auld and Hay.

Apologies to Charlie Tully for the day.

Stu67
4 years ago

Leigh Griffiths heads to ibrox for some shooting practice

Monti
4 years ago

SIMPSON
CRAIG
CLARK
MCNEILL ( Captain )
GEMMELL
JOHNSTONE
AULD
MURDOCH
LENNOX
WALLACE
CHALMERS

WE SHALL REMEMBER!

GOD BLESS YOU CESAR!
HAIL HAIL

Rob O'Keeffe
4 years ago

Billy,Billy,Billy McNeill,Billyyy,Billy McNeill!…..

P.S.Please make it Mingfield in the first qualifier and WeeRed can get us our tickets….or not….

Mike A
4 years ago

Caption: SPL in last ditch attempt to stop Scott Brown.

Danbreen
4 years ago

Big mike heard Dave king night a new peashooter

highseastim
4 years ago

If I was Lennon, I’d be ” ripping them a new arse” at halftime. Nobody bursting a gut to win 50/50’s, nobody taking a dig, Calmac off the pace, Édouard, if he doesn’t get the ball at his feet he’s not interested Get your fingers pot for Billy!!

Una
4 years ago

This is total shit

Una
4 years ago

Football gods at work

Monti
4 years ago
Reply to  Una

Una,
That was awesome & beautiful!

Yoker Bhoy
4 years ago

Goal by our no5 in minute 67. You couldn’t make it up. YAAAAAASSSSS! Big Billy up in heaven must have felt fed up with how the game was going and decided to act 😉

Monti
4 years ago

Charlie Saiz,
It’s incredible really, just fantastic!

BroxburnBhoy
4 years ago
Reply to  Monti

Happy is a daft haven’t kind of way constantly smiling no doubt

Broxburnbhoy
4 years ago
Reply to  BroxburnBhoy

It was conspiracy coded Buzz Off – surprised you couldn’t understand it – time for you to go back to the rubber room

SteveNaive
4 years ago

Just back.
Those who say NFL are misguided.
Those who say Clarke are even more misguided.
Ajer excellent… he will be sold.

SteveNaive
4 years ago

Where’s the comments going ?

Monti
4 years ago
Reply to  SteveNaive

SteveNaive,

Trouble makers like you need to be moderated 🙂

BJF
4 years ago
Reply to  SteveNaive

Kilmarnock showed Clarke’s coaching capability today, they gave nothing away in the first half and should have scored after, I think, a Broonie error. Don’t agree the team didn’t work, the defence was good especially Bain. Second half we were more in control although Ntcham and others seemed to struggle occasionally giving the ball away. Rogic still
off his game but always capable of a bit of magic, same with
Eddy, maybe to be expected a defender is the only scorer. My opinion a difficult tie, they are all semi finals now, A tough match at Pittodrie maybe not so difficult at Ipox, would be nice to win the league with the Orcs having to watch!

Monti
4 years ago

Buzz cock,
Your original club is well since retired tho, fuck off back to the bears den ya thick hun fuck!

BroxburnBhoy
4 years ago
Reply to  Monti

I’m another lifetime no doubt – your current incarnation is a dick head

Monti
4 years ago

Weered,
I thought you were a prick at first, to be fair 🙂

Mike
4 years ago

Said the same on Video Celts yesterday about Nick Demarco and Res.12, however great minds are allowed to think the same thoughts. And thank you Moravcik 67 for enlightening us on the vagrancy’s of the C.L.

Turgid pish watching that.. again, as another Davy Moyes lookalike sits waiting and watching in the stands, wondering, just wondering.

Thank you once again Scott Bain, you were brilliant once again and tell me who would you prefer at right back, Stephen O’ Donnell or P.C. plod? Paying the price of the missing striker Moussa Dembelle, but wonders will never cease as our defence looks more solid with big Kris and what’s his name the number 5 in 67 minutes. Big, big investment needed cos if we don’t, we are Donald Ducked.. but that is for another day. “Cesar Cesar Cesar” tears flowed like Balahoulish on a wet weekend..

rebus67
4 years ago
Reply to  Mike

Mike,

Great post. Agree with every word. Being down on the farm must be good for the brain!

As I look out of my window, I see blowing snow…and at the end of April! Help!

Rebus

Mike
4 years ago
Reply to  rebus67

Rebus,

Its the beast from the east, we sent it to you and yours as a wee pre-Spring surprise, is that not good of us 😉 hope that you and yours are doing good and keeping well. Today, I thought that Killie played very well, great manager and has his team very well organised. Killie are getting big bangs for their bucks, we, not so much, but my big concern is that we need a big, big transfer window, a new manager and some really good young players with big energy and talent. So often in the past that has not happened, take care and enjoy the rest of the season…. Gloves and duffle coats at the ready, ear-muffs and hot toddies, luvly jubly….

SteveNaive
4 years ago

A struggle Monti.
Those who say NFL are misguided.
Those who say Clarke are even more misguided.
Ajer was good, the mistake apart so expect him to be sold next season.

Monti
4 years ago
Reply to  SteveNaive

🙂

Monti
4 years ago

CS,
🙂

jimmybee
4 years ago

Well you just know it wouldnt be Celtic without the mystical part of our DNA.
Big Billy 67 minutes step forward and leap high big jozo. I’m sure a cloud took him up another foot and he headers in like King Billy

Just when you thought it couldnt be anymore emotional this club gives you another tear.

HH to the Celtic family enjoy your Saturday night.

TicToc
4 years ago

If ever a game of football was ALL about the result then that was today. We made hard work of it, and Killie gave us some tough moments, but we won. With an inspired, terrific header from our No.5, we won. I’ve seen that movie before but unfortunately will never see it again. But today should ensure the EIGHT-I-A-R, and on to 10 and more, hopefully.
Thanks to the Bhoys today for winning that match. Thanks to our No 5 for scoring that fine goal and thanks to our Captain for another great performance.
Aye, winning, the No.5 and Captain ALL came together to give King Billy a worthy send off. Hail! Cesar, indeed.
HH The Celtic

portpower
4 years ago

But there are perfect moments. Hail Cesar.

My well wishes today were to The McNeill & Celtic Family today.

Well done Bhoys.
PS:If Ntcham and Odsonne works…put them on show.No hiding!

Enjoy.

Iljas Baker
4 years ago

Broonie, apart from one awful pass, was head and shoulders above his team mates.

Sinclair’s reached the end of the line for me I wouldn’t renew his contract. Rogic and French Eddie need more strength, they’re too easily bundled off the ball.
But what a goal!

highseastim
4 years ago

My ratings for today

Bain – rock solid 8

Lustig – his legs have gone replace 5

Ajmer – ok, but a couple of times poor distribution 6

Simunovic – best player in the pitch, goal was a bonus 9

Izzy – ok for a stop gap, but needs replacing 5

Forrest – worst game for a long time 4

MacGregor – very poor today 4

Broony – not at his best, but kept the team going 7

Rogic – tried to open things up, didn’t have his shooting boots on today 6

Sinclair – kept on trying, but little joy 5

Edouard – the most frustrating player on the park, if the ball doesn’t come to him, he’ll very rarely chase for it. £9 million and I don’t think he hit the target once. 5

Overall very poor, trying to walk the ball into the net, awful crosses and quite happily stand off 50/50 balls.

portpower
4 years ago
Reply to  highseastim

Have to disagree with one of your ratings there highseastim.

MacGregor – very poor today 4?

That Bhoy Callum McGregor quietly achieves his job he`s to do from box to box.

McGregor – Sublime.

rebus67
4 years ago
Reply to  portpower

Port, Agreed on CalMac. However, I feel he is less effective without Christie, who can move into space.

Rebus

portpower
4 years ago
Reply to  rebus67

G`day Rebus.

Next season Broony`ll play from the bench a bit more.

McGregor,Christie and Ntcham.
I gotta wear shades.

rebus67
4 years ago

I posted this on the other thread.I thought I’d give you the chance to ignore it here!

Clearly, God is a Celtic supporter. Only a supreme being could orchestrate the goal and its timing!

The nature lf the goal shows the value of having someone in the box who can head the ball.

However, this looks like a team playing without a plan or, certainly, no flexibility.

If this is the future, get your crash helmets out. We shall be drilled playing like that in Europe. Two FBs that are too slow to get back to position; lack of creativity in midfield;predictable sweeping passes out to the wing; wing play that rarely involves getting to the byeline and no heading power in the box.

Big changes needed. Can anyone day that this team has improvedthis season, or even under the interim?

Still, the victory was sweet!

Rebus

portpower
4 years ago
Reply to  rebus67

“God is a PLC Tory.”

Buzz Bomb.

rebus67
4 years ago
Reply to  portpower

Port,

Have you met him? Let’s delay that as much as possible. We are all share holders in Life PLC.

Rebus

portpower
4 years ago
Reply to  rebus67

Who, Buzz Bomb? If I do Rebus,i`ll get the first round in.

Some have said “that`ld be a miracle though.” 🙂

BroxburnBhoy
4 years ago

Hey Gringo or Buzz Off – you’re off the deep end again mate. Cuckoo!
Does your psychiatrist encourage to play out your fantasies online or are you self medicating? In any event the mad bubble that you live in will collapse someday and you’ll be exposed to reality. now that will be a shock.

Broxburnbhoy
4 years ago
Reply to  BroxburnBhoy

Being sick is being sick irrespective of whether your are a dickhead or not. Good people get sick dickheads get sick. I’m sorry for their sickness and you can still be a dickhead – you certainly are

portpower
4 years ago

We miss The Green Thumb.

Poachers for the 9-10IAR nowadays.DD.

TinDick
4 years ago

The game today was a must win I’ll happily take a 1 niler to get us home and dry. But the changes have to happen in the next transfer window and we need to go back to the days of 2 up top.

portpower
4 years ago

If we`re to wear Billy`s number 5 shorts in the cup final they have to be 60`s style.

I`d expect the club to sell them in the Celtic stores and a high percentage of sales profits shall go to Alzheimer Scotland.

Where Supporters Support.

portpower
4 years ago
Reply to  portpower

Just a thought after today’s game. 5.

Scottish Cup Final.

Celtic 13 v Hearts 0. (two subs)

TicToc
4 years ago

That’s nice, today especially, Weered. Cheers, Pal.
We’ll both have to keep it up – and there’s room aboard this ship for more 🙂
A day where everything that really mattered was at Paradise, (maybe even IN Paradise, who knows?) and in the hearts and minds of Tims the World over.
If thoughts are indeed forces, the McNeill family will henceforth always be on the crest of the wave, even without their Captain.
Hail! Hail!

Whitearra
4 years ago

Caption: The Rangers are coming.

Mike
4 years ago

He lead us and stood beside us shoulder to shoulder in the sixties.
Success continued by his side in the seventies,
He shoved the boulder aside in the late eighties,
Disappeared out of sight in the nineties.
All our stars aligned laced with shamrock in the early turn of the century, we knew he was there, beside us.
He and we survived throughout the cheating years, we came out cleansed, refreshed and ready to go, passing Jail, while others fell by the wayside and their remains were buried inside cheating crypts.
He shone today like a combination of the Aurora Borealis and Orion Nebula. His name was Cesar it was written in the stars..

Monti
4 years ago
Reply to  Mike

🙂

portpower
4 years ago

sevco wurld class door draught excluders FC.

portpower
4 years ago

Before the 67th minute,sevconians were aye ready to light a Cuban with a poond coin.

GIRUY

Monti
4 years ago

Weered,
🙂

Mike
4 years ago

Nessun Dorma, Billy Cesar McNeill. (none shall sleep) Giacomo Puccini

Cartvale
4 years ago

The result, the atmosphere both outside and inside Paradise was a dream, the performance a nightmare.

We cannot break through a drilled defence, no one is trained to cut back the ball, rather hammer through a solid defence.
Lenny is a good stopgap but we need major changes, the board must and have to spend to continue the Celtic way of playing as Bertie says to entertain, to achieve great things in Europe

Lustig, Emilio, Sinclair have done brilliantly over the years but their time has come.Ntcham should be sold, to add monies to bring in class players, to Bury the zombies once and for all.

Monti
4 years ago

We are missing KT on the left like….

Monti
4 years ago
Reply to  Monti

And a Sutton type up front, Moussa is a huge miss!

Monti
4 years ago
Reply to  Monti

Talking of glitter…..how is she?

Monti
4 years ago
Reply to  Monti

No……

Monti
4 years ago
Reply to  Monti

” Anytime anywhere “

Iljas Baker
4 years ago

SInclair hasn’t just lost his confidence he’s also lost some of his pace and defenders have sussed him out. He is too easily bundled off the ball. He tracks back but rarely puts in a tackle when he does. Johnny Hayes for the cup final.

Players are tired and with changes that have been enforced have affected fluidity. Passing in congested areas in particular is poor.

Full backs too slow to play down the wings and anyway there’s never anyone in the box who can take advantage of the crosses. Eduard is not a target man.

Many of our present problems are down to BR and the Board, not Lennon. He has been forced into playing with limited resources. It wouldn’t have been better if BR had stayed.

Opposition teams are digging in and defending in numbers -three men on Forrest yesterday! And the passing is not good enough in tight spaces. There’s very little goal threat, hence our present predicament. We need to spend quite a bit.

TicToc
4 years ago

IMHO, it’s ALL about Big Billy just now and his legacy.
His conduct as a Footballer, a Captain, a Manager, an Ambassador and most of all a Tim, whilst almost like the central character in Kipling’s ‘IF’, can be partially transferred to eTims. We’ve each made our comments and those can lye.
I’m serious about avoiding personal spats on here and being involved in why most of us ever came here; WE’RE TIMS.
We CAN get on, we SHOULD get on, FFS let us JUST get on.

Back to Big Billy, our King Billy, here’s a wee vid of some of his greatness. I can’t apologise for the quality of the film, but it’s neither here nor there, the QUALITY is in the Mhan, Hail! Cesar.
HH

TicToc
4 years ago

I’m really trying my best just now, just to pick up a wee bit of Big Billy’s legacy and attach it to me.
I made a heartfelt comment, it willnae be brilliant but it means much to me…….fucking gone….ethereal, infuriating, but gone.
Anyway, I’ve little that really matters to say, when I consider Cesar, except to say Hail! Hail! Cesar, you are one-in-a-million, mibbaes a billion or more, but you never accepted that, and just continued to be, perhaps, A Tim Like No Other. Mibbaes YOU made us a Club Like No Other?
I’m no’ religious, truth told I blame it (religion) for everything (bad), but see, see if there is a god….he better have provided for you or he’s gonnae have wan fuckin’ bad day when I arrive.
I’ll try again to post this wee bit of oor King Billy:

TicToc
4 years ago

Cheers eTims moderator for snatching both of my latest comments; both applauding Big Billy McNeill and explaining (in my own way) he had so much to teach us all and more.
Wiz it the wee vid of Cesar?
Very annoying, but ah, well……
HH

TicToc
4 years ago

Just before I go tae kip, here’s a link to The Billy McNeill Story, it’s about 1.5 hours.
As someone on here taught me, Charlie S I think, I’ve added a space so that this will pass ‘muster’. So, when copying to paste, remove the space I’ve added between www and the . Verstayen?

https://www .youtube.com/watch?v=hwOYI0sXMMM

TicToc
4 years ago

So, just what TF is going on with eTims “moderation”?
I’d explain my feelings more clearly but I’ve “moderated” myself. FFS……
HH (Hang Heads)

jimmybee
4 years ago

Only one King Billy thats McNeill.
If Carlsberg did number 5s eh they still couldn’t come close to what Celtic give you.
God Bless you all this Sunday morning.

Devoy45
4 years ago

Morning Tims.
A big win for us as we near the finish line.
This has been some year. If Sevco think they can catch us they might want to pause and think. This was the year to do it. We will be much stronger next year but will they?
We lost our two proven strikers at very bad times: Griff and Dembele. Edouard is young, a work in progress but Griff and Moussa were there.
We had long injuries to major players: Christie, Brown, Simunovic, Tierney, Ntcham, Edouard, Rogic and others.
Ryan Christie bacame a key player for us but has been out injured at critical times.
Our defence has been patched up, many times.
We lost Rodgers at a critical time of the season.
We have got a new manager who is yet to find his feet.
Our team has hit many patches where we can’t score or break down defences.
Sevco has outscored us. Sevco has nearly as good a goal difference.
Our loan players have slacked off.
Sevco:
Can they afford to keep Dafoe, Davis and Kent?
Can they afford to spend more of what they never had?
Can they afford to hang on to Morelos and Tavernier.
Will Steven Gerrard stop being an arrogant know-it-all about Scottish football, where he has won nothing yet?
Can Sevco continue with the worst discipline in Scottish football?
I now think Lenny should be given the job, at least for next year. If he can get us 9 in a row, then he can get 10.
If he fails, then we can take a deep breath and so some major house cleaning.
Questions for us:
Can Griff come back, to his old form?
Our new backs: Perez and Gutman. Will they be good enough?
Is Lustig finished?
Is Ralston up to it?
Will Leicester’s manager give us Benkovic for another year?
Will Kieran Tierney be as good as new?
Would it be worthwhile to hold onto Burke and Weah on further loan?
We will have Kouassi, Arzani and Morgan back.
Shved. An exciting player. Will he do well with us?
Bayo the mystery man?
Who will we offload?
Will we buy well?
Will we ever get back to the free-flowing high-scoring football we saw in Rodgers’ first year?
We live in interesting times, Tims!!!

Monti
4 years ago

Devoy,
Morning m8.
We just need to get over the line in the league ( hopefully today ) & win the Scottish cup, after that we as a club need to act quickly in appointing a new manager, whether that is Lenny or not.
I would like to see who wants the gig before appointing Neil tho.
I would like to see the club go for a big name tho, this could also help in terms of the transfer market.
Whoever it is must be backed though, big time.

In terms of the squad, i’d offload Gordon, De Vries, Gamboa, Boyata, Izaguirre, Sinclair, Bitton, Hayes, Kouassi, Lustig.
In terms of Burke & Weah, if it’s possible a deal could be done to keep them on loan i’d do it.
Not sure i’d be shelling out big money on Burke at this time.
Priority areas must be a back up keeper to Bain or go for a new number one with Bain as no 2.

A right back, at least one central defender & a left back who can stand in for KT is also vital.
I’d keep Simunovic on recent form, still not convinced Ajer is a central defender but he does ok.
Would be good to keep Benkovic for another season.
Midfield? Forrest, McGregor, Rogic & Ntcham, Brown should be used more sparingly next season so we may need to go for a similar type to him but younger & more mobile.
Will Shved be a starter next season?
Hopefully.
If not we will need a big signing in the wide left area, quite simply, Scott Sinclair has not progressed from his first season, he seems weak to me.
Up front? Edouard is developing well but he needs help up there, a Chris Sutton type who is comfortable on the ball & makes it stick, a traditional number 9.

We have a lot of work to do, in my opinion we need about 5 or six players who are first team ready, not experiments.

Oh & i’d get rid of those fucking lights.

HH

Monti
4 years ago
Reply to  Monti

CS,
The guy at Leicester had no SPFL experience, also if the lighting at CP is an issue, just adjust the brightness using the mouse on your PC. 🙂

TinDick
4 years ago
Reply to  Monti

Monti i don’t think Benkovic will be here next season, if u watch the last substitution yesterday u can see him clearly grabbing duff by the shoulder and asking why he isn’t playing.

Mike
4 years ago

PISH.

Mike
4 years ago

Deary me, No lights, keep Hayes, keep Lennon and Kennedy until January, are you both for real? Thank goodness you two are not involved in player or manager selection, tactics or anything connected with Celtic F.C. What about the C.L. qualifiers, the biggest possible source of income for the club? Not much ambition there. We need big changes, what is it 13 players out of contract, no main striker, no decent right back, only one reliable centre-half, and that is Ajer, he is the only one fit week in and week out, a young left back under duress and injured. We need the continuity of a football minded Dof, who then appoints a manager and then the much needed new players and Griffiths, out with problems that left him out of the loop for most of the season. Hayes and Griffiths? A biscuit tin full to the top and a team struggling to get over the line for number eight. These players need help and a lot of it, but will they get it? No chance, the biscuit tin will be guarded and penny pinching will be the name of the game, doing just enough and nothing more. We have a massive budget but is it being spent wisely? the facts would say no, its not, someone needs to wake up and leave the football operations to experts, people who know what they are doing…

Mike
4 years ago

What a load of ^

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