I notice that Celtic have activated the clause in Lee Naylors contracted re a 12-month extension.

Truly worrying news.

You only see 10 minutes of games anyway so you can put up with him.

aw fur fucks sake did he wear a poppy?

Why?

Erm because he is god awful.

Ok then lets get rid of him and have no left back at all then

Great news cos it means he's getting sold in January . The longer the contract the more cash we get for him to strengthen the squad.

Ah right so we cannot bring any new players in. I wasn't aware of that particular ruling.

Of course once that ruling is scrubbed, we should be going out and signing a left-back. It was quite unbelievable that we didn't do this in the summer.

Perhaps we should be glad that Naylor's deal has been extended (alongside the "sensational" Caldwell)?

Because were Strachan to proceed to form, he would punt them and furnish us with a still-crapper replacement garnered from an SPL rival.

Failing that he would spend big money on a foreign player and then behave bizarrely towards him until his confidence and patience was utterly shot.

On this last point I sadly report to the forum the untimely death of Regis Genaux at 35.

I have often cited Regis as the absolute paradigm case of Strachan's rampant ego driving away talented players.

For those who don't know, in the 90s Genaux was a Belgian international right back who rose to prominence as one of Standard Liege's heralded 'three musketeers' alongside two fellows named Leonard and Goossens. Big Ron Atkinson pulled off something of a coup in attracting him to unfashionable Coventry, before Chesney took over and events followed the pattern which has become so familiar to those of us who have watched his Celtic tenure through our fingers.

Namely, he was ignored for weeks at a time, frequently shunted from his proper position, then bombed out again without explanation.

For his part Genaux quickly tired of Chesney's poor management and cleared off to Serie A Udinese within months - although not before he issued a withering put down which was right on the money:

"[I'm glad to escape Chesney's xenophobic] Scottish mafia".

Strachan then replaced him - at great expense - with a lumbering Ukranian oaf named Yevtushok and then treated him exactly the same! Of course Gary McAllister, Paul Telfer, Eoin Jess and, most laughably of all, Strachan's son Gavin continued to enjoy favour.

Later the excellent centre half Gary Breen was the victim of Strachan's pigheadedness when he was deployed at right back for several seasons.

so get rid of one left back and get another. One left back in the whole squad. mmmmm methinks not as i think a wee bit of competition would kick Naylor up the arse and maybe raise his game. Wilson has been playing there the last wee while but he is no left back

i would have loved to see steve finnan signed.how benitez thinks dossena is the better player i just don't know

we probably couldn't afford his wages though

You are aware that we have had one left back in the squad for quite some time now, aren’t you?

I am suggesting that we bring in a quality left back or at least one that is better than Lee Naylor.

Maybe Harry Redknapp is still a fan.

Your ridiculous anti-Caldwell rants are looking more and more desperate as he continues to prove you spectacularly wrong.

A brilliant signing by Strachan.

When was Gary Breen excellent? I must have missed this.

Because they both play in two completely different positions.

He has hardly been a ‘brilliant’ singing. Of course, this season and the latter part of last season he has been impressive and deserves to be picked on merit, unlike other players. Prior to that however he was average at best, prone to too many mistakes and played his part in a defence that went a monster 15 months without keeping a clean sheet away from home.

Fortunately, he does seem to have settled and wiped the erratic side of his game out. Let’s hope this can continue.

One things for sure, it certainly cannot be easy playing alongside Stephen McManus.

He cost you nothing, which is where I am coming from, yet plays like a 2-3 million pound player. I very much doubt his wages are a huge strain on the club either.

It was a great bit of business by Strachan.

well he had a great first season, shit second, lets hope it one of those type of good season/bad season pattern things.....................................and we sell him in jan for a player thats actually good all the time

i thought they were both fullbacks.its where dossena has been playing when i've watched them

I agree though that playing with Stephen McManus must be a trial.
Kindof like being partnered up front by the awful Cillian Sheridan.

I think you are possibly the saddest little man I could imagine.

There can't be many anti-Strachan bigots left these days, but here you are trawling the internet trying to find as many things to "pin on" him as possible.

It's beyond belief that we are enjoying the best run of league titles in over 30years and you would like the man responsible for it hung, drawn and quartered.

The fact that you don't like him is now just growing tiresome. You bring nothing new to any debate. (Although a dead Belgian right back from the 90's is a twist I didn't see coming, so kudos for that one )

So he hasn't gone out and bought a left back! Big fookin deal! How do you know that he hasn't tried to bring plenty players that for one reason or another have turned us down? No need to answer that as I can do it for you. Ready? ........you don't know. End of.

If you truly believe that you would rather have MON and 2 in a row as opposed to Strachan and 3 in a row and counting, then you should not be supporting Celtic.

You're a d1ckhead of the highest order and your little band of followers on here are dwindling day by day.

Cillian is a player with a good future ahead of him IMHO. I watched him a lot in the youths and also in the reserves and he knows the way to goal.

I may be proved wrong but I think the boy has a bright future in the game either with us or away from Celtic Park.

McManus is having a poor spell at present but not an awful one. He is not performing near his best but hopefully that will improve.

He reminds me a bit of when Neil Mellor came into the Liverpool team. You knew he was having a few moments in the sun before finding his actual level elsewhere.

Sheridan looks like a poor man's Craig Beattie to me. With of course a better Irish name, so deserving of more of a chance from the Strachan hating bigots.

I was thinking the same thing on Saturday. He's more clumsy than Beattie which I didn't think was possible.

people need to remember that sheridan has only been playing soccer for about 2 years,he was a very promising gaelic footballer at home in cavan.how many people do you know could pick up a sport and be playing professionally not long after? as strachan said,his passport may say he's 19 but in soccer terms he's only a 17 year old

Oh well then. Better play him for a while then.

Doesn't matter if he's been playing Kabbadi professionally for the last 5 years - either he is good enough or he isn't. Jury would appear to be putting him in the last two. Can only be saved by Louis Walsh or the public.

Louis Walsh!!??

Don't get bey & glas started. Jeez, they will start a campaign to get him in to replace Strachan.

I've heard he is Celtic minded!

A Louis Walsh and Ronan Keating dream team. I can see Beyemystic salivating at the prospect.

is that the same Gary McAllister that then joined Liverpool and won 5 trophies

don't be stupid.he's learning his trade

Good for him.

I suggest he might be better trying joinery.

He's been at Celtic for over two years. You're seriously not trying to say that Celtic signed him when he'd basically never played the game, are you?

Better get the game cancelled at the weekend then, eh? Surely wee Chesney will be in too much of a state to motivate his players after this news.

Or would a minutes applause be more appropriate? Or, even better, would your mhob manage to stay silent for a whole minute this time?

he was at a schoolboy club in dublin called belvedere's for a year as far as i know

ah it'll be the old biscuit tin returning to parkhead then

can he play?

well he's allright at hurling...

will he cost much?

f**k all.

get him signed then!

I don't think Beyemystic gives a hoot about how Strachan is feeling. You've just instigated a battle between the two most powerful feelings in Beyemystic's emotional lexicon; namely, the hatred of Strachan and the desire to be upset about something.

He was quoted in an interview as saying he started playing at 12 or 13. Still pretty good to come that far in 6 or 7 years to be honest.

Not kidding wither but on the way out was talking about how thise were they type of games craig beattie was useful for. Big, strong and powerful and had a decent eye for goal, in Strachan's first season he almost had himself a regular start before getting injured. Im sure he scored 6 in the first 8 games or something along those lines

ya,but soccer for him would have been pretty much secondary .if he looks clumsy on a soccer pitch its because he still has the look of a footballer about him

stop saying soccer you nonce, the sport is called football.

not by people who come from countries that have their own codes of football you ignorant f**k

yes but this is scotland we don't care about your bush league mudbath sports.

football is the beautiful game

no ,this is the internet you muppet.the only mudbaths i see are when i watch scottish SOCCER,the championships are played off over the summer,to bigger crowds than st mirren get so where are you going with your bush leagues?

yes while football is played the world over and watched by billions these pishy little countries like ireland and australia and the u s of a think they can nick the term for there own daft games that no one outside there nations gives a toss about.

it laughable really.

ireland is around the same size as scotland.america and australia dwarf us both.pishy little countries?the term football has been around for centuries.in ireland we have gaelic,the australians aussie rules ,the yanks american football and what you have is called association football.not that laughable or hard to understand unless your brainless

former prison colonies and homes for exiled religious fanatics can't compare to the glory that is the united kingdom and it's wonderful game of football that civilised the poor savages worldwide.

That was quite good for you.