wastecoatwilly Posted October 22, 2021 Share Posted October 22, 2021 It's great to see academy players getting their chance,there is always a hard balance to make between buying players and bringing them through the ranks. It's too easy for the Celtic fan base to right players off because of their own expectations of where the club should be. Ralston (22),Welsh(21),Montgomery(19) and Johnston(22) have a chance to contribute to a long season ahead. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drew Brees Posted October 22, 2021 Share Posted October 22, 2021 CELTIC boss Ange Postecoglou is set to add a second Japanese star during the January transfer window, according to reports. It is claimed that a January move for Daizen Maeda - a standout for the Celtic manager's former club Yokohama F. Marinos - is in the pipeline. Kyogo Furuhashi has made a huge impact since arriving at the club in the summer and the Times claims that Postecoglou is now hopeful of secuing a reunion with Maeda. Postecoglou is already on record as saying he will return to the J-League and the pacy Maeda - who can operate up front or off the left in a manner similar to Furuhahshi - seems tailor-made for Postecoglou's approach. The 24-year-old has scored 18 goals and earned three assists so far already this season and is making his way in international football - having scored for the Japan Olympic team in a 4-0 win over France at the Tokyo Games in July. The Times claims well-placed sources in Japan expect a deal taking him to the Hoops to follow for a man who has tasted European football before after spending the 2019-20 season with Maritimo. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gav-ffc Posted October 22, 2021 Share Posted October 22, 2021 2 hours ago, wastecoatwilly said: It's great to see academy players getting their chance,there is always a hard balance to make between buying players and bringing them through the ranks. It's too easy for the Celtic fan base to right players off because of their own expectations of where the club should be. Ralston (22),Welsh(21),Montgomery(19) and Johnston(22) have a chance to contribute to a long season ahead. I was at your game on Tuesday and Montgomery was the obvious weak link in the team and could sense the crowd getting on his back when he either went backwards with the ball or misplaced a pass ( was a few) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJF Posted October 22, 2021 Share Posted October 22, 2021 1 hour ago, Drew Brees said: CELTIC boss Ange Postecoglou is set to add a second Japanese star during the January transfer window, according to reports. It is claimed that a January move for Daizen Maeda - a standout for the Celtic manager's former club Yokohama F. Marinos - is in the pipeline. Kyogo Furuhashi has made a huge impact since arriving at the club in the summer and the Times claims that Postecoglou is now hopeful of secuing a reunion with Maeda. Postecoglou is already on record as saying he will return to the J-League and the pacy Maeda - who can operate up front or off the left in a manner similar to Furuhahshi - seems tailor-made for Postecoglou's approach. The 24-year-old has scored 18 goals and earned three assists so far already this season and is making his way in international football - having scored for the Japan Olympic team in a 4-0 win over France at the Tokyo Games in July. The Times claims well-placed sources in Japan expect a deal taking him to the Hoops to follow for a man who has tasted European football before after spending the 2019-20 season with Maritimo. He's only 24?! Looks about forty 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drew Brees Posted October 22, 2021 Share Posted October 22, 2021 (edited) 1 hour ago, AJF said: He's only 24?! Looks about forty Thought the same myself, must come from one of the rougher parts of Osaka. Edited October 22, 2021 by Drew Brees 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clown Job Posted October 23, 2021 Share Posted October 23, 2021 Aye, poor Neil eh? Lol wut? A statue. Behave We should arguably be building statues to this man, The rest of the article is pretty much everyone and everything is to blame for Lennon’s failures and not Lennon himself Lennon too over a Rodgers team that was all conquering domestically, nobody could touch us and turned that team into a pile of shite. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jinky67 Posted October 23, 2021 Share Posted October 23, 2021 Got a bit of momentum now, October on paper looked like our most difficult run of fixtures and if we can take 3 points on Wednesday that will be a pretty good return of points and we are right back in contention. Some amount of histrionics at the end of last month with folk turning on the manager but now we have players back and options back on our bench we are starting to look much more comfortable and hopefully these fans are getting back behind Ange again. Still every confidence the big man can deliver us some success. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Empty It Posted October 24, 2021 Share Posted October 24, 2021 Got a bit of momentum now, October on paper looked like our most difficult run of fixtures and if we can take 3 points on Wednesday that will be a pretty good return of points and we are right back in contention. Some amount of histrionics at the end of last month with folk turning on the manager but now we have players back and options back on our bench we are starting to look much more comfortable and hopefully these fans are getting back behind Ange again. Still every confidence the big man can deliver us some success. Motherwell, Aberdeen, St Johnstone and Livi are your most difficult run of fixtures.... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grangemouth Bairn Posted October 24, 2021 Share Posted October 24, 2021 3 hours ago, Empty It said: 9 hours ago, Jinky67 said: Got a bit of momentum now, October on paper looked like our most difficult run of fixtures and if we can take 3 points on Wednesday that will be a pretty good return of points and we are right back in contention. Some amount of histrionics at the end of last month with folk turning on the manager but now we have players back and options back on our bench we are starting to look much more comfortable and hopefully these fans are getting back behind Ange again. Still every confidence the big man can deliver us some success. Motherwell, Aberdeen, St Johnstone and Livi are your most difficult run of fixtures.... Surely a run that includes Hearts and Rangers are more difficult ? None of the above fixtures are traditionally problematic for Celtic (Livi away would have been a different proposition). You are also playing Hibs when they are horribly out of form. You were never out of contention tbh. I said from the start that your spending power vs the other teams always made you favourites. If you include the £6.5m agreed for Jota, then Ange has spent c.£20m - has another team even paid £1 in transfer fees this season ? You are back to having the type of monetary advantage you had when Ronny was the gaffer and he delivered 100% on league titles as I expect Postecoglu to do. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Empty It Posted October 24, 2021 Share Posted October 24, 2021 Surely a run that includes Hearts and Rangers are more difficult ? None of the above fixtures are traditionally problematic for Celtic (Livi away would have been a different proposition). You are also playing Hibs when they are horribly out of form. You were never out of contention tbh. I said from the start that your spending power vs the other teams always made you favourites. If you include the £6.5m agreed for Jota, then Ange has spent c.£20m - has another team even paid £1 in transfer fees this season ? You are back to having the type of monetary advantage you had when Ronny was the gaffer and he delivered 100% on league titles as I expect Postecoglu to do.They're hardest run of games and if you combine all their squad wages it doesn't come to 50% of Celtics [emoji23] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jinky67 Posted October 24, 2021 Share Posted October 24, 2021 (edited) 1 hour ago, Grangemouth Bairn said: Surely a run that includes Hearts and Rangers are more difficult ? None of the above fixtures are traditionally problematic for Celtic (Livi away would have been a different proposition). You are also playing Hibs when they are horribly out of form. You were never out of contention tbh. I said from the start that your spending power vs the other teams always made you favourites. If you include the £6.5m agreed for Jota, then Ange has spent c.£20m - has another team even paid £1 in transfer fees this season ? You are back to having the type of monetary advantage you had when Ronny was the gaffer and he delivered 100% on league titles as I expect Postecoglu to do. Traditionally we aren’t in 6th position coming into October either so when you factor in that 4 of our 5 fixtures in October were to be against clubs ahead of us in the league, 3 of those being away when we hadn’t won a domestic away fixture in 8 months, the volume of injuries we had and the pressure that was mounting then taking all of that into account it’s probably the most difficult run of fixtures we may see this season until the split. Bear in mind also in August playing Hearts away a newly promoted team was considered on here a banter loss, wins to Dundee and St Mirren were wins and big scores due to them being bottom of the league teams so shouldn’t be considered difficult fixtures which leaves us with the 1 remaining league match at Ibrox. Edited October 24, 2021 by Jinky67 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jinky67 Posted October 24, 2021 Share Posted October 24, 2021 5 hours ago, Empty It said: 11 hours ago, Jinky67 said: Got a bit of momentum now, October on paper looked like our most difficult run of fixtures and if we can take 3 points on Wednesday that will be a pretty good return of points and we are right back in contention. Some amount of histrionics at the end of last month with folk turning on the manager but now we have players back and options back on our bench we are starting to look much more comfortable and hopefully these fans are getting back behind Ange again. Still every confidence the big man can deliver us some success. Motherwell, Aberdeen, St Johnstone and Livi are your most difficult run of fixtures.... No as we played Livi in the middle of September. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Empty It Posted October 24, 2021 Share Posted October 24, 2021 No as we played Livi in the middle of September. [emoji2357]Apologies must've misread the fixtures either way the only difficult game Celtic should have domestically should be Rangers. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jinky67 Posted October 24, 2021 Share Posted October 24, 2021 (edited) 7 minutes ago, Empty It said: 14 minutes ago, Jinky67 said: No as we played Livi in the middle of September. Apologies must've misread the fixtures either way the only difficult game Celtic should have domestically should be Rangers. Should be yes however should be doesn’t factor in a lot of other mitigating circumstances. Should Hearts be top of the table after 10 games, half of which were draws? No they shouldn’t be based on previous seasons but here we are Edited October 24, 2021 by Jinky67 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grangemouth Bairn Posted October 24, 2021 Share Posted October 24, 2021 23 minutes ago, Jinky67 said: Traditionally we aren’t in 6th position coming into October either so when you factor in that 4 of our 5 fixtures in October were to be against clubs ahead of us in the league, 3 of those being away when we hadn’t won a domestic away fixture in 8 months, the volume of injuries we had and the pressure that was mounting then taking all of that into account it’s probably the most difficult run of fixtures we may see this season until the split. Bear in mind also in August playing Hearts away a newly promoted team was considered on here a banter loss, wins to Dundee and St Mirren were wins and big scores due to them being bottom of the league teams so shouldn’t be considered difficult fixtures which leaves us with the 1 remaining league match at Ibrox. Given your financial advantages, with the right manager there shouldn’t really be any difficult fixtures. Your 2nd choice right back and 4th choice left back cost £3m each. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clown Job Posted October 27, 2021 Share Posted October 27, 2021 Big Ange 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henrik's tongue Posted October 27, 2021 Share Posted October 27, 2021 (edited) 6 hours ago, Clown Job said: Big Ange Naw. Here’s Ange… With tits: Edited October 27, 2021 by Henrik's tongue 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigDoddyKane Posted November 1, 2021 Share Posted November 1, 2021 Is Dembele still injured? Under Ange hes going to have the best chance hes had to play if he can show in training hes good enough 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drew Brees Posted November 1, 2021 Share Posted November 1, 2021 1 hour ago, BigDoddyKane said: Is Dembele still injured? Under Ange hes going to have the best chance hes had to play if he can show in training hes good enough Out for the season. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wastecoatwilly Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 It's maybe a bit early to compare our front 3 with the 3 amigos but a nick name is coming. Suggestions on a post card,the 3 musketeers playing swashbuckling football or the 3 degrees scoring from all sorts of angles. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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