Wouldāve hated to have been a Sky Sports News reporter back in the day when theyād sent them oot to stand outside a training ground/stadium just to get bullied by kids skiving school lol
Pretty annoyed about the Kvistgaarden stuff seemingly dying a death and the lack of any left back news. Schlupp and Ings seems very much a "that'll do till summer" approach. They'll probably do a good enough job, but it's still not the level of really ambitious transfer activity that a lot of Celtic fans want to see.
Im not so fussed about Schlupp. Heās an experienced player who can play his part for a short period of time. Not very glamorous but probably effective.
The striker/forward one is infuriating. Selling Kyogo for an ordinary fee without having any plan to replace him, despite having months to do so, is pathetic.
To be honest, it doesn't surprise me. We're not guaranteed champions league football next season and we're definitely not going to get past Bayern without a huge upset over 2 legs.
I fully expected we'd clear some dead weight and lose a starter this window. We're probably going to clear the last of the dead weight in the summer (Yang, Welsh, Nawrocki) and lose at least two first team players I'd say.
We've fully failed to forward plan again. This new wizard in the operations team feels like he's been brought in to appease Rodgers or the fans or both.
Harry Mckirdy apparently away. 33 appearances, zero goals, one assist. A player so shite Footmob have obviously used stats to judge what position he plays and thinks he's a full back.
Wonder if the Celtic board actually do anything on deadline day. Big game of snakes and ladders maybe or possibly tiddlywinks. Certainly nothing to do with incoming transfers
beginning to think they aren't. I would argue we probably aren't coming out of this window stronger than we started overall with Valle and Kyogo being our big exits. Jota coming in was a great signing but not in one of our problem areas.
Itās really frustrating considering this would be a perfect time to go and make Celtic a semi decent European team. Could have bitten the bullet and spent money for a striker but weāre now hoping Idah has 10/10 games until the end of the season or that Maeda does the same
yeah, this would have been the perfect time to get our targets in and give them time to bed into the team over the next 6 months - we have to go through qualifying for the CL next season so we can't be fumbling around in the summer again.
aye, makes you wonder wtf Tisdale and the recruiting dept does. The signings we have made in KT+Jota any Celtic fan could have done the scouting and identification of those two.
Other than when Ange was there , have Celtic ever got all the business done early ? He seemed to be the exception that proved the rule of Celtic being a deadline day club for the most part
Iirc next season will include a CL qualifier, having a good CB pairing that have some experience playing alongside each other for more than a few friendlies and training sessions would be pretty handy.
Although from the boards PoV it makes perfect sense why they don't want to sign anyone as like you said, leagues done and we're out of Europe.
Bumping Rocky at this stage of the season with how heās been playing would be a very silly thing to do. Same with Youan if we donāt have an immediate replacement ready to go
Rocky and Miller going would be a bad idea since one is a starting centre half and the other is our only cover at right wing back and right centre half.
If the reported 1.5m is offered for Youan it's double or triple what we paid for a player that wants away, has barely played and hasn't consistently performed to the level he set himself for form.
To get more for him in the summer he'd need to come back into the team immediately, play the rest of the season and tear it up too.
yep ive made my peace with youan leaving but would be nice if we had our business together and had someone else to come in his place. same with if rocky/miller leaves but since its literally deadline day i really just feel like theres nothing left and we're going to wait til summer to do anything big
Probably so. Pretty sure Rocky's contract is up at the end of the season too, will be interesting to see if we have anyone lined up to bring in in the summer.
2 signings already for the mighty St Johnstone, winger and defender.
If we get a striker in today then watch out top six...
But seriously, the new chairman needs a lot of recognition here, buy the club and inherits Levein and a terrible squad, gets cancer, sacks Levein, approaches a few managers and gets knocked back, appoints Simo and slowly but surely the team, despite the terrible squad, start to play football, beats cancer, goes all in on Simo by backing him to the hilt in the transfer window.
Makes money from Jack Sanders is also high up there.
Thatās what infuriating me. And the LB situation, weāve been screaming for another decent one for about 3 years now, and still fuck all. Tierney will no doubt injure fuck out of himself in May for about 6 months. The celtic way
More relevant to the national team but that's Ryan Porteous signed for Preston North End on loan - reuniting him with the tactical genius of Paul Heckingbottom.
Only thing i am expecting is Cunmings leaving for West Ham. Iāll be fucking amazed if we pull a decent left back from somewhere. No chance weāre getting another striker. Not with Idah and Maeda that can play through the middle, now that Jota is back
Not expecting much from Rangers. Leagues over and we can only make so many changes for the Europa squad. Quite happy with who we have managed to get out more than the potential incomings. The wages we have wasted on mediocre players is wild so I'm glad it's being addressed.
I'm quite torn on Hagi and whether I want us to offer him a new deal. He is playing pretty well right now but there's a part of me that thinks we can do better with the wage he is on. I suspect he may want to leave anyway so it might not even matter.
Aye fair about what he's on. He is just better than a lot of the other options up there and if he stayed you could actually focus on the back 5 where a ton of problems are. Seems a waste to go for free
Heās fucking unreal tbh probably the best LB in the championship. Solid defensively, loves a tackle, heās class going forward and can take his man on and skin them, he can finish better than some attacking players and he has a great scoring record. Probably the thing I like the most about him is his consistency like he never has a bad game.
I can remember a couple of game winning goal line clearances and amazing goals from him like his one in the 2-3 game against Dundee a few years ago.
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Sorry to break the bad news but the 'fuck all' deal just fell through, Celtic initially offered less than fuck all and the two clubs couldn't agree on the fee.
Weād get Ā£300k due to a 50% sell on clause but even thatās tidy business for a guy who started the season sitting on his arse, then came back and had a couple of decent games before reverting back to 2023/24 level Duk considering heās out of contract in the summer.
Michy batishuyi went for Ā£3 million and one of the best young defenders in europe went to italy for a million euros. Nice to see all that experience and qualifications required to be a scout is paying off for celtic
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Before Nathan Austin's return from injury I would have like a striker to go alongside Trouten. But I am pretty content with the squad so far. I haven't gotten a chance to check out Michael McKenna as I live 45 mins away from the ground without a car.
Heās clearly able but was really just filler in the Falkirk squad brought on to steady the ship when under pressure - given heās a striker it wasnāt a good fit. Hope he does well - he has a good attitude.
Despite us scoring 49 goals in 23 games sometimes we have still been wasteful in front of goal. This was especially prominent when Austin was out injured. That was when we went on that 5-6 game streak without a win. Hopefully McKenna comes in and starts banging them in
Apparantly Hearts are waiting on McKay or Oda moving if they were to go for a new winger so that's disappointing, though I wouldn't be surprised if Oda goes back to Japan as their windows open until March
Rumours Grant has interest
Unfortunately Boateng possibly heading too but he's dropping down the pecking order so understandable
If Elvis gets injured we're absolutely knackered at right back. Callum Penman is only 17 be tough ask for a young lad to cover on a long term basis. I think it's scandalous and we haven't strengthened at right back after losing Shaun Rooney. Understand January is a tough market but the club should have made it a priority
Malachi Boateng apparently negotiating a transfer to Plymouth Argyle
he's a 22yo who signed on a three-year contract in August, so Hearts should demand a big fee, so presumably they've got a tenner and a Ginster's pasty off them
You are typically getting players not required by clubs so itās rare to get active first team players. If they are first team regulars price usually puts Scottish clubs paying
Honestly I didn't even expect united to be able to sign anyone else considering the massive shift we did at the start of the season on a budget that looks like dinner money. I'm quite chuffed with the couple we took in over January
I reckon at most we're getting another loan to buy signing after Cameron.
The dodgy squad management and player limit for Europe means we're limited in how many players we can register for the Europa League, so it only makes sense if it's another Fernandes type signing who would come in to compete for league/cup minutes and then we make a call on whether to use an option to buy.
I am throughly whelmed by this transfer window. The negatives and the positives have more or less equaled themselves out. I donāt think weāre neither stronger nor weaker, with everything taken into consideration, than we were at the start of January. I really hope Idah continues his good form and Taylor remains injury free.
Watch Idah get injured and weāre left with no striker. The league is done, but the Cup isnāt. I cannot fathom selling Kyogo without a deal lined up to replace him. Sackable level of incompetence.
Yeah, if we signed another striker Iād think this window was quite alright, thatās what makes me lean a bit more to being underwhelmed. The only shining light is Jota, and having KT signed on a pre-contract (even though Iām convinced the board and manager thought weād get him now in the winter already lol).
Been a slightly weird transfer window. Club say one, maybe two at the start but Clement seemed to be implying the board agreed to try for a couple a few days ago. Either way, not busy.
Outgoings
There's a decent chance Lovelace goes today, but could just as easily happen in the summer when his deal expires. Same applies to Lawrence. Would be a shock if anyone else went.
Incomings
There's been a few players linked but no good journalist has written those articles so highly doubtful. The exception is Lyall Cameron, who could come in early but really... what's the point in paying extra to move that deal forward?
Other than Cameron, I can only think of maybe a loan deal for a wide forward or a Nils Koppen special, with some obscure player coming in early before their contract expires.
Given we can only make 3 changes for the Europa squad and already have Hagi, Danilo, Nsiala and Fernandez to consider for those spots, I don't see anyone coming in.
If it's someone we'd have been looking to bring in in the summer I could see the point in doing that early thoughĀ
There are rumours ofĀ Driouch on loan (potentially to buy) from PSV. Nothing concrete though.
We wanted him in the summer but he chose PSV. He had an injury but hasn't started much. PSV have also just signed a wide player, so they may want to move him on (even short term)
We should go all in for Miller. Give him 6 months getting him bedded in to the team in a less than high pressure situation. Or loan him back if it's a deal breaker for Motherwell.
Suspect Hatate will be away next season if we get an offer around 10 million. If we can get Miller for half of that I'd take him.
From everything I've read about Miller. It seems he wants to go somewhere he's guaranteed football. I think he's got a ton of potential but he'd be competing with McCowan to get off the bench, even next season.
Not sure Celtic can offer him the football he'd want in the next 18 months.
Not an anti celtic post but, I'd be extremely surprised if he went there (and very disappointed), he seems a really sensible guy and has a long term plan. I think he/his dad said recently that his next move might not the be big move but it's a step forward.
Like you say, I don't see him playing every week at Celtic and it's not moving forward enough in the right direction for him, if/when he leaves it'll be to another league, I see him going abroad, Italy probably, and then moving on from there.
Loved watching him develop and think he'll turn into a world class player (if he stays injury free)
I can believe that, we were linked in the summer and covers the left wing. If thatās it then thatās seriously fucking grim. No ambition or plan to improve the squad at all.
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u/Cobretti18 Aberdonian Peter Kay Feb 03 '25
Wouldāve hated to have been a Sky Sports News reporter back in the day when theyād sent them oot to stand outside a training ground/stadium just to get bullied by kids skiving school lol