Celtic FC Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2011/2012

Dempsey

And there's the brainfart by the referee!!

A Dub in Glasgo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUh07IG6wHA

blahfckingblah

delighted with the scoreline here maybe now the board will loosen up the purse strings.... doubtful

Dempsey

blahfckingblah wrote: »

delighted with the scoreline here maybe now the board will loosen up the purse strings.... doubtful

Beating HJK guarantees group stages of the Europa League minimum so the budgets will probably be revised for that.

I want a clean sheet here, Celtic should be holding onto the ball better despite being 1 man down.

Dempsey

excellent team goal there!! Well done Samaras!

A Dub in Glasgo

Lovely goal from Samaras

the realpigiron

Wanyama will be suspended for the first leg of the next qualifier I guess. he hasn't played well in either of these games v HJK anyway, Kayal will slot in there.

ColeTrain

Samaras
Well done Celtic.

blahfckingblah

Dempsey wrote: »

Beating HJK guarantees group stages of the Europa League minimum so the budgets will probably be revised for that.

I want a clean sheet here, Celtic should be holding onto the ball better despite being 1 man down.

didnt catch the first half any good? seems to be a lot of bookings

Edit: don't understand why Murphy gets a run over the other guys

Dempsey

blahfckingblah wrote: »

didnt catch the first half any good? seems to be a lot of bookings

Played well, retained possession very well but very poor finishing by several players in front of their goal.

The referee has been very fussing over contact/tackling by Celtic. Wanyama being sent off was ridiculous, should have gotten a final warning for it imo. He lacked common sense all through the match.

EDIT Murphy is in the shop window

A Dub in Glasgo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f1t__TrmzI

blahfckingblah

Dempsey wrote: »

Played well, retained possession very well but very poor finishing by several players in front of their goal.

The referee has been very fussing over contact/tackling by Celtic. Wanyama being sent off was ridiculous, should have gotten a final warning for it imo. He lacked common sense all through the match.

haha maybe its hugh dallas in one of these http://wikichill.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/disguise.jpg

A Dub in Glasgo

Very good win, pity about the sending off

Dempsey

So CFR Cluj, Helsingborg, Maribor, Hapoel Kiryat Shmona & Partizan Belgrade or AEL Limassol is who we can get in the draw on Friday. Hopefully we'll be up to speed by the time we play whoever we get

TheBuilder

Dempsey wrote: »

So wCFR Cluj, Helsingborg, Maribor, Hapoel Kiryat Shmona & Partizan Belgrade or AEL Limassol is who we can get in the draw on Friday. Hopefully we'll be up to speed by the time we play whoever we get

If Molde beat Basel, then it'll be them instead of Cluj in your draw.

A Dub in Glasgo

Helsinborg would be interesting

Jelle1880

Wouldn't mind it if you drew Partizan :pac:



edit: And now I've gone and jinxed them, they're 1-0 down

PauloMN

Just in to check the score bhoys..... YAAAAASSS!!!!!!! Clean sheet in away leg also..... wtf?!?!

Thanks ADIG for the goals also as always, nice to be able to see them in this thread when away. :-)

Lawrence1895

PauloMN wrote: »

Just in to check the score bhoys..... YAAAAASSS!!!!!!! Clean sheet in away leg also..... wtf?!?!

Thanks ADIG for the goals also as always, nice to be able to see them in this thread when away. :-)

I wouldn't complain to see that in the group stages

CSF

Dempsey wrote: »

So CFR Cluj, Helsingborg, Maribor, Hapoel Kiryat Shmona & Partizan Belgrade or AEL Limassol is who we can get in the draw on Friday. Hopefully we'll be up to speed by the time we play whoever we get

I reckon AEL Limassol are the one you would want to avoid. The Israeli or Slovenian teams probably the best option.

the realpigiron

A Dub in Glasgo wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUh07IG6wHA

Great little shimmy from Charlie there for the cross for Joe Ledley's goal. Mulgrew is maturing into an excellent versatile footballer. His attitude has been top class and is the key to his progression as a player.

Dempsey

Tis gas to see our left footed CB running down the right flank, cutting inside doing stepovers and sticking the ball onto someone running to the backpost.

His transformation from very average LB to quality CB is nothing short of amazing.

CSF wrote: »

I reckon AEL Limassol are the one you would want to avoid. The Israeli or Slovenian teams probably the best option.

We played in Israel in recent years, the weather there is something that would be a problem for our players, same would go for AEL.

Helsingborg would suit us best all things considered. Wouldnt mind a crack at Maribor either. CFR Cluj are not great but the travelling required makes it a tie I'd like to avoid.

Eirebear

Dempsey wrote: »

Tis gas to see our left footed CB running down the right flank, cutting inside doing stepovers and sticking the ball onto someone running to the backpost.

His transformation from very average LB to quality CB is nothing short of amazing.

CSF wrote: »

I reckon AEL Limassol are the one you would want to avoid. The Israeli or Slovenian teams probably the best option.

We played in Israel in recent years, the weather there is something that would be a problem for our players, same would go for AEL.

Helsingborg would suit us best all things considered. Wouldnt mind a crack at Maribor either. CFR Cluj are not great but the travelling required makes it a tie I'd like to avoid.

Meh. It's a 4 hour flight direct to cluj. No big deal.(and unlike myself, I doubt Celtic will need to sleep in luton airport!)

Dempsey

Eirebear wrote: »

Meh. It's a 4 hour flight direct to cluj. No big deal.(and unlike myself, I doubt Celtic will need to sleep in luton airport!)

Thought it would be longer/more awkward to get there for some reason. How do you know that there are direct flights to Cluj from Luton? Were you out there?

Still though, I'd rather the least amount of travelling possible and the most similar climate to Scotland for the next round.

A Dub in Glasgo

Celtic will charter a plane for the trip. That is what they did for the Helsinki trip as there are no direct flights from Glasgow

Eirebear

Dempsey wrote: »

Eirebear wrote: »

Meh. It's a 4 hour flight direct to cluj. No big deal.(and unlike myself, I doubt Celtic will need to sleep in luton airport!)

Thought it would be longer/more awkward to get there for some reason. How do you know that there are direct flights to Cluj from Luton? Were you out there?

Still though, I'd rather the least amount of travelling possible and the most similar climate to Scotland for the next round.

Yeah, been to Romania a few times and flew back from cluj to luton the last time we went.

Dempsey

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/19168321

Neil Lennon revealed guaranteed European football until December may allow Celtic to expand their squad.

Now with 8 more European matches to play, Celtic will now go after some players. Interesting to see who they can get now.

the realpigiron

Dempsey wrote: »

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/19168321

Neil Lennon revealed guaranteed European football until December may allow Celtic to expand their squad.

Now with 8 more European matches to play, Celtic will now go after some players. Interesting to see who they can get now.

I was reading that, good to see. I thought the original decision was to wait and see if Celtic qualify for the CL Group stages, which would only leave a few days to sign players. But all the better to sign players before that because if they leave it too late there'll be feck all left.

I'd imagine the sale of Ki would finance a couple of signings before we find out if it's CL or EL football this season. Big difference in the money between the CL and the EL I believe.

Dempsey

Celtic would have 3 budgets projected for this season and at board level, they'd just have to wait for the results to happen before they could sanction budget increase. The big budget increase will lie with actually qualifying for the UCL as the Europa League is mostly about extra gate receipts whereas UCL involves gate receipts and massive tv revenue.

Also, we dont have to blow the entire budget increase in this transfer window, we could wait to use it early next summer in an attempt to improve our chance of qualifying for the UCL again. I rather not see panic buys, we've had enough of those in recent years and use the money wisely to help qualify for next years tournament, build the Scottish coefficient so that we can be budgeting for Europa League group stages at a minimum from the start of the summer rather than having to wait until the 2nd week of August.

Fairly sure that if Ki gets an Olympic medal he will become exempt from military service and that will increase his price tag and also Celtic's desire to keep him long term. I think Celtic always wanted to sell him as long as he has military service hanging over him. From Lennon's comments in recent days, he doesnt know how it affects his contract if he was drafted directly after the Olympics for example.

Dempsey

http://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/season=2013/draws/index.html

The draw is starting....

EDIT

Basel v Cluj
Helsingborg v Celtic
BATE v Hapoel
AEL v Anderlecht
Dinamo v Maribor


I think the majority of Celtic fans wanted to get Helsingborg. Its gonna be a tough match, much tougher than HJK but we should win. They are 6th this season, 17 games in which is dangerous because they could turn their entire focus onto these games rather than be distracted with a title challenge & UCL games.

premierstone

Happy with that, great chance to make the group stages, they have been struggling this year and have already had a change of management aswell I think. Second leg at home is good aswell.

RoryMac

Yeah probably the best draw we could have hoped for, not that it will be easy but no concerns over travelling etc

the realpigiron

Away leg first should help. We have a good chance of qualifying from this. Is Henrik Larsson on the coaching staff there? I know he finished his playing career with Helsingborg, it's his home town club.

RoryMac

the realpigiron wrote: »

Away leg first should help. We have a good chance of qualifying from this. Is Henrik Larsson on the coaching staff there? I know he finished his playing career with Helsingborg, it's his home town club.

No he's managing Landskrona in the 2nd division but Helsingborg do have a statue of Larsson outside their stadium

Lawrence1895

Celtic should be able to do it. An away goal and then a decent win at Parkhead would do me fine

NIMAN

Anyone showing the game v Real Madrid tomorrow?

RoryMac

NIMAN wrote: »

Anyone showing the game v Real Madrid tomorrow?

Saw someone on twitter mention ITV4 as showing the game, haven't checked the listings so not 100%

Broxi_Bear_Eire

RoryMac wrote: »

NIMAN wrote: »

Anyone showing the game v Real Madrid tomorrow?

Saw someone on twitter mention ITV4 as showing the game, haven't checked the listings so not 100%

Yep had a look at the listings it's on ITV4 at 6.45

eire4

I like the fact we have the first leg on the road this time. Plus by the time the game comes around we will have had the Real Madrid game plus another league game under our belts so hopefully we will be into something of decent flow sharpness wise for the tie.

Given the total lack of tv money compared to the bigger leagues that we get if we were able to win this tie and make the group stages of the champions league that would make a massive difference for us financially.

Dempsey

UCL group stages alone will result in ~20-25% increase in turnover compared to the ~£60-65m turnover projected for last season.

Dempsey

Samaras, Lustig, Forrest, McCourt and Brown will not be involved in the match tomorrow as they havent travelled to Philly. Also Kayal is observing Ramadan so between that and abit of jet lag he wont be near 100%. Callum McGregor and Marcus Fraser have travelled according the CFC website

Dempsey

No military service for Ki Sung-Yueng!

NIMAN

So if I'm doing a bet, can I do Madrid -6 goals then!

Dempsey

NIMAN wrote: »

So if I'm doing a bet, can I do Madrid -6 goals then!

I'd say the fact that we are nearer full fitness than they are will help us alot, 3 r 4 i'd say. Hopefully Lennon doesnt try that 3-5-2 again, if he does it will be 6!

the realpigiron

Celtic should've sent a 2nd string team to Philadelphia to play R Madrid. A meaningless game. Hopefully we'll meet them in the CL this season.

the realpigiron

NIMAN wrote: »

So if I'm doing a bet, can I do Madrid -6 goals then!

Yeah go ahead bud.

Dempsey

the realpigiron wrote: »

Celtic should've sent a 2nd string team to Philadelphia to play R Madrid. A meaningless game. Hopefully we'll meet them in the CL this season.

Its 2nd string enough tbh. The management and the players are still on a steep learning curve. We should be able to learn something from playing top european opposition, even if its a friendly and we've a slight fitness advantage.

eire4

Dempsey wrote: »

I'd say the fact that we are nearer full fitness than they are will help us alot, 3 r 4 i'd say. Hopefully Lennon doesnt try that 3-5-2 again, if he does it will be 6!

Good experience for our young lads to play against Real Madrid tomorrow even if it is only a friendly. Could get a bit scary scoreline wise though. Real Madrid just tore AC Milan apart 5-1.

Dempsey

Beram Kayal ‏@beramangela

Good morning everybody.looking forward the game with the best club ever Real Madrid.

Beram Kayal ‏@beramangela

Good luck for my team �� Enjoy the play ⚽

Again, either bad english or he's not starting this match. I dont expect him to play a full 90mins whilst fasting during the daytime as he cant possibly be anywhere near his best.

Dempsey

CELTIC (4-4-2) Zaluska; Matthews, K. Wilson, Mulgrew, Izaguirre; McGeouch, Kayal, Ledley, Commons; Stokes, Murphy
Subs: Forster, Rogne, Hooper, McGregor, Fraser

I'd like to see good performances from Wilson & Murphy. A few other have to prove their doubters wrong aswell.