Youāre completely livid at having been shown up regarding your adulation of Lennon.
If you think journeymen championship and EPL players canāt play football, you know even less than I thought.
I also said hard men. Not āhard menā
Iām livid? I didnāt even reply to you. Your Derek McInnes suggestion and your tough journeymen suggestions are frankly ridiculous and donāt merit discussion. We should sign Shane Duffy and see how he gets on. 
Iād say Southampton will still look for around Ā£10m for Elyounoussi which I donāt think heās worth for Celtic.
Heās 26 and has another two years left so they will probably be able to find a suitor. He cost them the bones of Ā£20m too.
I think if Oostenede donāt take the option on Hendry then he should have the pre season to impress. No Julien, Ajer and Bitton possibly off. Letās see what heās made of.
We could possibly be needing six or seven defenders this summer 
Ah yeah I wouldnāt be paying Ā£10m for him but half that and heād be a good buy. Iām not sure thereās a huge market for him though. Outside of England itās a big fee and he hasnāt featured for them so they might struggle to sell. They might just hold onto him though rather than take a big loss.
Yeah Hendry should be given a chance if he wants to come back.
Joining Torino it looks like.
CELTIC are considering summer swoops for Hibs striker Kevin Nisbet and former Hearts left-back Aaron Hickey.
SunSport understands both players have been presented to incoming Hoops boss Eddie Howe as potential signing targets.
Scotland hitman Nisbet, 24, is rated at Ā£3million while 18-year-old Hickey ā now with Bologna in Italy ā would cost upwards of Ā£4m.
Those fees wonāt scare off Celts, though, who are preparing to bankroll a big-money spree to back Howe when he arrives.
Nisbet, who was at Celts as a kid, has a queue of admirers after a sensational debut season in the Premiership which has seen him score 18 goals.
In January we revealed he had handed in a transfer request after Birmingham City had a Ā£3.1m package rejected.
Since then Nisbet has broken into Steve Clarkeās Scotland squad and made his international debut against the Faroe Islands in March.
Heās got an outside chance of being in Clarkeās Euros squad.
Celts are eager to make signings early in the window ahead of the Champions League qualifiers.
Odsonne Edouard looks sure to move with Albian Ajeti and Leigh Griffiths having unclear futures.
The Parkhead side were thwarted in attempts to land Hickey 12 months ago.
The left-back opted for a Ā£1.5m move to Serie A when he left Tynecastle.
Letās get Lennon back in like you advocated last time
The real problem you have is you think Celtic are European aristocrats. They should be a decent jobbing European side, but with disinterested owners who donāt need to sports wash, they simply arenāt going to attract anything other than a journeyman EPL manager (Eddie Howe) and journeyman level EPL players.
Itās a sad fact.
Nisbet is a good player . Quick and direct .
Who is eyeing these players at Celtic ?? Is there someone sourcing players before a manager appointed or is there a manager appointed ??
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All unclear these days at CP. Highly doubt it would be Howe thoughā¦
Agree on Nisbet, never going to be the overall answer but certainly better than punting on players that have never heard of the SPFL before for the same price. The Hickey one seems a bit more far fetched, he didnāt seen to play much this season, was available for a fraction of that last year and of course was at Celtic as a kid
Canāt see Hickey being wanted or wanting to come. Doig seems the more likely young Scottish left back.
Doig is a great prospect IMO, maybe not starting material now but well worth Celtic going for.
Iād get shot of Taylor, I think heās so limited. Iād have a lot more faith in Bolingoli as while heās more erratic there looks like there could be something there to work on at the training ground.
Not all that sold on Nisbett. Any upgrade on Griffiths or Ajeti? Probably not. Heās like a servicable backup but so are the other two.
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ASTON VILLA are lining up a Ā£7million summer swoop for Celtic star David Turnbull.
The Premier League outfit have had the PFA Scotland Young Player of the Year watched several times this season.
Villa boss Dean Smith is poised to make his move for the Hoops ace after receiving a number of glowing reports on the 21-year-old Euros squad star.
Heās made a goalscoring midfielder a priority with on-loan Ross Barkley returning to Chelsea and the real possibility of main man Jack Grealish moving on.
Villa exploited the Scottish market to great effect when buying John McGinn from Hibs in a cut-price deal in 2018.
They feel Turnbull would offer similar value for money.
The youngster, who moved to Parkhead last summer from Motherwell for Ā£2.7m, has been one of the few Hoops players to emerge with any credit from a disastrous season.
Celtic will fight to keep hold of Turnbull, who was named in the Scotland squad for the Euros.
Skipper Scott Brown has quit Celts for Aberdeen and four loan players are returning to their parent clubs.
Others are also likely to leave.
Celtic stand to bank a profit of just Ā£5.5m on Odsonne Edouard this summer ā if their Ā£20m price tag is met.
Record Sport understands that - despite wildly fluctuating reports - the sell-on clause in the deal which took the clubās record signing to Parkhead from PSG three years ago is a whopping 50 per cent of the difference between that Ā£9m transfer and his next move.
Brendan Rodgersā Leicester City lead the race for the Hoops star and are poised to test the water with a bid of around Ā£15m for the Frenchman.
But the Parkhead giants are set to dig their heels in for a minimum Ā£20m with Arsenal, Newcastle and Aston Villa also keen on taking the 23-year-old striker to the Premier League.
Interest remains in Italy too with AC Milan and Napoli long time admirers of Edouard who was last night named in the France U21 squad for the final stage of their European U21 Championship campaign which resumes on May 31.
However, a source directly involved in Edouardās switch from Paris Saint-Germain to Celtic Park three years ago has told Record Sport that even if the Ā£20m valuation is met that would leave the Hoops just over Ā£5m in profit.
Thatās because the sell-on clause requires the Hoops to hand PSG half of the profit on his next transfer fee.
That, of course, would be bolstered by any future sell-on the Hoops themselves insert in his next transfer.
But itās a significant drop from the windfall Celtic could have been looking at had they cashed in on their record signing 12 months ago after he fired them to 9 in a row.
Despite a new manager arriving in the coming weeks, with Eddie Howe waiting in the wings, Parkhead powerbrokers have accepted Edouard will move on this summer as his contract enters its final 12 months.
Leicester boss Rodgers, who took the player to Celtic initially on loan in 2017 before making the deal permanent a year later, is at the front of the queue.
But the Foxes will need to up the ante if they are to land a player who has struck 85 goals in 168 appearances for the Hoops as well as 17 goals for France U21s.
In-demand Gabon international Aaron Boupendza has sparked an interest from Celtic
The Hatayspor striker has netted 22 goals in the Super Lig this term as his side mount a surprise top six charge.
Newspaper Milliyet report that the star man has a number of suitors including Fenerbahce and Galatasaray but the Parkhead side are currently leading the pack.
They claim that a ā¬6.5million bid has been knocked back with negotiations still on-going with the managerless side.
The report further notes that it would be the 24-year-oldās preference to remain in Turkey having only completed a move from Bordeaux 12 months ago.
Boupendza has mainly played as a striker alongside Mama Diouf but can play anywhere along the front three
Among those is talisman Odsonne Edouard as he approaches the final 12 months of his contract.
With Eddie Howe still the frontrunner for the hot seat the only summer arrival so far is Liam Shaw, who has agreed a pre-contract agreement to leave Sheffield Wednesday.
Be as well hold on for him next season of we canāt get 20m for him.
Celtic have decided to terminate the contract of Olivier Ntcham a year early, Football Insider can exclusively reveal.
The 25-year-old has been at Marseille since January on a loan-to-buy deal that led to Andre Villas-Boas quitting as manager.
A Celtic source has now told Football Insider that the club have no plans to welcome Ntcham back into the fold and have made the shock decision to let him go for nothing.
The Frenchman has been told he will be a free agent from next month as the Scottish giants sever all ties.
Celtic have exploited a contract loophole in the four-year contract Ntcham signed in November 2018.
The Hoops announced during his second season in Glasgow that the midfielder had signed a new contract that runs until the summer of 2022.
However, Celtic have the option to terminate the last year and absolve themselves of the requirement to pay the playerās wages.
The manager-less club have opted to do so, and it means that Ntcham will be able to join a new club on a free transfer this summer.
He has just completed a troubled loan at Marseille, who had an option to buy him at the end of the season for a fee of Ā£4.5million.
But they have chosen not to do so as he has made just three starts among six appearances for Marseille since his January arrival.
The exit of Ntcham will baffle many supporters who have admired a genuine talent since he joined from Manchester City in July 2017 for Ā£4.5million.
He has made 147 appearances for Celtic, which have yielded 24 goals and 13 assists from midfield.
I think weāre seeing Brexit having an impact on the Scottish transfer market already. Watford are bidding for both Doig and Ferguson. Think theyāll have an increased interest in the Scottish market as a feeder league.
If hes on the rumoured circa 30k a week and given hes done nothing in 18 months, along with his questionable attitude it has to be weighed up against what sort of fee we are likely to get now. Probably just as easy cutting ties for both parties. Hopefully this means Howe is now pulling the strings, working away in the background
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Agree with both of your points/hopes there. Celtic have had too many players who look disinterested this year. 30k a week is heavy wood, especially if itās dead.
Would you lads take McGeady on a 1 year deal on a freebie?
I would, I think he would still be very good on a domestic level. We only have Forrest and Johnston at the moment as wingers and they are both injury prone so we need depth, could also play as a no 10.
Obviously Iād want two wingers in addition to McGeady.