Celtic Summer Transfer Window 2020 & Associated Malahide Public Amenities Discussion

You’re clueless here. Celtic have revenue in excess of Bournemouth and Burnley. Bournemouth and Burnley are tinpot clubs. Tinpot clubs like Burnley and Bournemouth will need to pay players over the odds to take part in relegation battles for clubs nobody has heard of outside England.

Fraser is a Scot. Hendrick grew up a few miles up the road from the IFSC.

Both should be within Celtic’s reach, whether they are good enough would be my main concern.

They’ll be good enough to take on Hamish mcjockstrap

From what I can see on each of the club websites Celtic’s revenue in 2019 was £83.4m, Burnley’s was £138m and Bournemouth’s was £131m so you’re well off the mark on the revenue, clueless you could say

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Oooft!

EPL footix raging at the prospect of players turning down EPL clubs for Celtic.

There is zero chance of Fraser going to Celtic. He’ll get £100k a week elsewhere.

Any concrete links?

Not really.

Forster and Elyounoussi are targets anyway according to Lennon.

Rumours today that we have sold only 26,000 season tickets. Not sure how other clubs from Glasgow will manage to spend money but there is talk of big losses for Celtic from the end of last season and for next season.

No idea when the transfer window will shut, CL qualifiers are even more of a lottery than usual, it’s hard to see much/any money being spent. I’d imagine we will try and get Forster and Elyounoussi back on loan (and probably succeed at one) and then maybe a free agent or two (not ones looking for a big pay day).

Huns signed that Jo(h)n McLaughlin as backup keeper the other day to add to Hagi and this young lad from Leicester. McLaughlin played with Hearts among others in Scotland and was (dodgy) Sunderland keeper of late. He’d still be looking for comparatively high wages for Scotland anyway, even if there was no transfer fee involved. They’d certainly be making a substantial enough investment for squad cover.

With Scottish clubs having a shitty TV deal and being so dependent on matchday/stadium revenue, it seems logical that Celtic are facing financial challenges ahead of the season starting with behind closed door matches and without clarity on when fans might return.

It makes it all the more intriguing (if that’s the right word) that the huns after posting a series of annual losses in recent years are pressing on with these signings in this environment.

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-transfer-news/joe-hart-wanted-celtic-neil-22259804

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Elyounoussi signed up for another year. :shamrock::shamrock::shamrock:

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And Gordon has left to join Hearts.

I’m pleasantly surprised at Elyounoussi being signed again so early. He suffered a bit last season from a proper pre season and hopefully he can stay clear of injuries this year.

A smashing player on his day.

He was a bit meh for me. Encouraging start but a bit meh after. He’s got a good pedigree though and hopefully he hits the ground running. I think Johnston is a more dangerous player if he stays fit.

Do we have an option on him?

Forster has apparently turned down the chance to come back to Celtic. Celtic had agreed a deal to bring him back (probably permanently) but he has chosen to stay and fight for his place at Southampton. Odd choice I think given how out of favour he had been.

Please not Joe Hart

Please not Joe Hart

Please not Joe Hart

Joe Harte.
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Johnston will need to be managed carefully. He missed a lot of last season and needs to bulk up.

Elyonoussi was really good from September to December. He wasn’t really fit since then either. But he doesn’t have an injury prone history so hopefully it was a once off on returning to regular football.

Killie had a good keeper the season before. Think he was on loan from Watford, was Austrian or something. Where was he this season?

I have to hand it to you rocko, you’re definitely a glass half full kind of lad.
I would really like to see Celtic win the ten, just because it’ll drive sevco demented.
It’s nigh impossible that a similar opportunity will arrive in our lifetime unless sevco are allowed to go bankrupt again. They seem to have an uncanny ability to swim against an apparently very strong tide. My feeling is that the majority attached to sevco would happily see them bankrupt again in order to stop the ten in a row.
I heard some interesting things about their finances, which appear to defy gravity.

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