Fraser Forster actually suited Lennonās Celtic. No tactics, not taking initiative, letting the opposition dictateā¦thus requiring a keeper to stay on his line and make savesā¦e.g. the League Cup Final when he repelled the huns.
But youād* think he wouldnāt be suited to Angeās regime. Forsterās distribution isnāt good and heās like a fish up a tree when heās required to come outside his box. Ange wants the keeper to actively be involved in the build up.
*I think
Agreed but anything is an improvement on what we have
Ryan who was linked has joined Sociedad
Barkas is actively involved in the build up of a fair few opposition attacks.
So a brief recap on some of the names mentioned so far:
GK:
Forster
Woodman
RB:
Soppy
Baldock
Couto
Byrne
Buta
CB:
Vuskovic
Carter Vickers
LB:
Hickey
Buchanan
Doig
CM:
McCarthy
Mooy
Winger:
Lovric
Am I missing anyone? I know a few linked like Ryan, Boey and Rosier have joined other teams.
Aaron Mooy is a very good footballer in terms of initiating attacks and retaining the ball. If he still has the legs heāll be really good.
+1. I think heād be a super signing.
Buta might be a done deal.
Great stuff.
Apparently he has 19 assists and 2 goals in 105 appearance.
Thatās about a goal or assist every 5 games so youād imagine playing for a team like Celtic who dominate the ball he will improve on that. Need another right back also though.
Just updated the above, Iām going to speculate we got Ā£1m for Shved and Iām counting the Buta deal as done for Ā£3m.
Still in net profit in the middle of the big rebuild. I can see us spending a few more quid before selling Edouard near the end of the window to balance the books and then using a few loan signings to paper over a few holes. Iād speculate we are more likely to end up with a net profit at the close of the transfer window and if we do have a net spend it will be <Ā£5m.
That would be unacceptable, the first team squad needs an investment of a minimum of Ā£20m this summer.
Looks to be a very similar type of player to Frimpong.
Looks very promising. Driving forward and getting to the byline seems to be his Bread and Buta.
New Celtic boss Postecoglou admits he has been left frustrated by delays in the clubās recruitment policy due to coronavirus.
Postecoglou: We still need to do more business
Speaking exclusively to Sky Sports News, Celtic manager Ange Postecoglou says he expects more new signings to join the club in the next few weeks.
Speaking exclusively to Sky Sports News, Celtic manager Ange Postecoglou says he expects more new signings to join the club in the next few weeks
The Australian joined the club this summer with the task of wrestling the Scottish Premiership title back from the hands of Old Firm rivals Rangers.
But with the new campaign kicking off this weekend, progress in the transfer market has hampered the new manās plans to rebuild the squad.
Speaking exclusively to Sky Sports News , Postecoglou said: "Itās probably the one area weāre chipping away but not having the visible results.
"Of course weāve signed Liel Abada who came in and had a fantastic debut as well as Carl Starfelt and Kyogo Furuhashi but both of them are not here right now which are the challenges of the world we live in at the moment.
"Thatās the frustrating bit - it would have been great to have those two boys in already and the other ones we are working on concluded a bit quicker.
āThatās not through a lack of wanting or hard work - weāre endeavouring to get there and chipping away and hopefully over the next two or three weeks weāll bear the fruit of that.ā
Linked with Gianluca Lapadula.
Doesnāt really fit the profile Iād imagine of what weāre generally in the market for so Iād say itās bullshit.
Those fanzines like 67hailhail really piss me off. They have consistently been mouthpieces for the board.
Just check out this latest one
Of course Strachan is going to back everything the board do, his son has a job there that heās not qualified to do and we all know Strachan is a close associate of Desmond.
The manager hasnāt been backed. He wonāt be backed unless he is given significant investment in the first team squad which he all know is highly unlikely to happen.
Buta might be close now, I hope there is something concrete to the reports but even when that goes through we will have gone through a European qualifier with a defence of academy players that arenāt up to it and have had a net transfer profit. Itās consistently Celtic selling their best players, making little effort to retain then and trying to do the rebuild job on the cheap.
Thereās a few of these fanzines that have came on board recently and they all seem to parrot a fairly sympathetic angle for the board. They should be avoided as far as Iām concerned.
Completely agree on Strachan. Heās a mouthpiece for the Board. And his opinions are old fashioned.
Ange had some interesting comments yesterday about not rushing signings. That the worst thing the club could do would be spend money on players they arenāt convinced about.
I donāt think our speed in the market has been too slow this summer. Weāre working from a poor base of players which is the much bigger problem. We have three strong players signed already and more to come. But rush it and weāll waste money like the huns did for years and you get into a perpetual cycle of player turnover thatās not sustainable.
The only way to get though these qualifiers is to invest for them in January. Even without quarantine etc itās very hard to get players in during June/July and have them ready to play straight away. And thatās even more pronounced when thereās a Euros on.
And I donāt like loans at all but I do think we have to see their value. Imagine we bought Laxalt. Or Duffy. Or, God help us John Joe Kenny. That would be a lot of money wasted. When loans work out we tend to be able to get at least two years from them (Roberts, Elyounoussi, Forster). If weād loaned Barkas last year weād have sent him back and could have had another shot at finding a keeper.the
Iād agree with this. The issue stems for the managerial appointment process, this should have been sorted by the end of May at the latest and the work should have started from there. We should have had 4 or 5 first teamers added in time for this tie, instead itās just Abada who was a last second addition and barely trained before the game.
We should have acted earlier, none of the guys we signed so far were involved in international tournaments this summer.
Disagree entirely. Duffy or Laxalt arenāt bad players - who knows what a proper manager who unearth from them. If a loan player does well for us, they leave - thatās the issue. Is Edouard the only loan player weāve been able to sign permanently? Generally it leaves a big gap to fill and no income from their departure to work it. We simply have to move away from them. How many loanees do the likes of PSV, Ajax, Benfica etc do?
The Duffy loan cost us a fortune last year. The likes of Elyonoussi, Laxalt and Forster the same, we were basically loaning expensive cast offs. That should not be our market. Look at the likes of Klimala, Hendry, Shved and Bayo. They may not have worked out but we probably broke even more or less on them. Thatās the avenue to go, no more plugging gaps with expensive loans. Letās try and sign emerging talent that gives some sort of forward planning.
Loans are a cheap stop gap option for the board.
They are basically the modern day supporters clubs that previously would have kept onside with the board for small perks such as interviews, meet and greets and ticket favours/ preferential treatment. Soup takers in other words