Celtic FC Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2019/2020

ActingDanClark

Cracker!

TheCitizen

https://www.reddit.com/r/ScottishFootball/comments/exno4f/patter/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x

Big Sutton gets it spot on

DavidLyons_

TheCitizen wrote: »

https://www.reddit.com/r/ScottishFootball/comments/exno4f/patter/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x

Big Sutton gets it spot on

Hahahaha. Strachan p1ssing himself.

Morelos missus has done more to try to stop the little wretch cheating than the SFA or any Scottish ref.

Pogue eile

rockatansky wrote: »

Very concerning alright, as evident on Wednesday when Jozo was taken off and Brown was moved back.

Lawwell is living in hope that we scrape the league with little or no further investment when it's clearly needed. Lennon is never going to question this so will continue to tow the party line.

Did Lennon not already leave over this very situation, where has this notion of Lennon being a yes man come from, he is far from a yes man I can tell you.

eire4

rockatansky wrote: »

Stephen Welsh put in a great performance today.

He certainly can be proud of his first competitive start for us no question and considering our lack of depth at center back right now that is promising.

eire4

Pogue eile wrote: »

Did Lennon not already leave over this very situation, where has this notion of Lennon being a yes man come from, he is far from a yes man I can tell you.

Whatever Neil Lennon may be a "yes" man he most certainly is not in any way shape or form.

eire4

First off credit it where it is due there was some really superb defensive performances there from Hamilton. The amount of times they got last ditch blocks and tackles in in and around their box was quite something. Not a great performance from us but we kept going and the subs were the key especially Christie. In the end look again at how good the cross from Christie was for our second goal and the finish from Jullien was of a quality any center forward would be proud of and that is what it took for us to finally break Hamilton down so credit to them they really made us earn that 3 points.

On the other side at the risk of sounding like a broken record but here we go once again another game on a plastic pitch that was crap to watch as the players struggled all game to deal with the bounce and flight of the ball off the plastic. I absolutely hate these pitches as they destroy the game from a quality standpoint. I wish they were banned at the top level.

DavidLyons_

The club have asked sky sports to conduct an investigation into the Morelos interview they heavily promoted and broadcast yesterday (recorded on Friday before the lies about his car being hilariously exposed).

Seems to have turned out that the translation they used differed enormously from what he actually said - particularly in relation to him being subjected to racist abuse. The insinuation being that Celtic fans hurled racist abuse at him when, in fact, they didn’t.

Ironic really when you consider only the rangers have had part of their ground closed this season due to the racist and sectarian behavior of their supporters.

Can’t wait to see the outcome of whether it was The rangers or sky that provided the translation.

Interesting timing that Jim Traynor is finally getting slated by some within the Scottish mainstream media (Michael Stewart and Graham Spiers).

DavidLyons_

Michael Stewart doing our game tonight on BT. Him and Chris Sutton could be comedy gold if they get stuck into McCoist.

I’ve said it before, it’s a tragedy that sky have exclusive rights to Scottish football from next season.

Edit:
Team: Forster; Simunovic, Jullien, Ajer; Forrest, Brown, Ntcham, McGregor, Taylor; Griffiths, Edouard

Subs: Bain, Welsh, Bolingoli, Rogic, Christie, Elyounoussi, Klimala

Great bench and the likes of Frimpong, Elhamed, Soro and Hayes all to come back in too.

RoryMac

Apology from Sky but no clarification on where they got the translation from

https://twitter.com/SkySportsNews/status/1225128303507447810?s=19

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Edouard goal

Motherwell 0-1 Celtic

https://streamable.com/ktr2o

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Great work from McGregor and goal from Griffiths to make it 0-2

https://streamable.com/scndy

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What a miss from Ntcham

henke

Great goal from McGregor and good play from Forrest.

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Great goal from McGregor and Edouard scores from a FK again

McGregor 0-3
https://streamable.com/vqzbc

Edouard 0-4
https://streamable.com/svq6f

henke

Brilliant free kick. What a player he is turning out to be.

PauloMN

He is ridiculously good, enjoy him while he's here, he's not going to be around for long! Another Scottish transfer record coming soon.

Great performance tonight, couple of moments where the concentration dropped but also some scintillating play. Griffiths has upped his game no end in the past month, close to his best imo. McGregor absolutely brilliant tonight also.

RoryMac

Only caught the 2nd half be some of the attacking play was outstanding, one touch passes, back heels. Really on a great run of form at the minute and with players coming back from injury we look well set up to keep opening the gap

DavidLyons_

PauloMN wrote: »

He is ridiculously good, enjoy him while he's here, he's not going to be around for long! Another Scottish transfer record coming soon.

Great performance tonight, couple of moments where the concentration dropped but also some scintillating play. Griffiths has upped his game no end in the past month, close to his best imo. McGregor absolutely brilliant tonight also.

What a brilliant second half performance. Eddy is far and away the best player on Scotland. Skill, pace, vision, unselfish, great dead ball and unbelievable finisher.

Sadly he’ll be in demand across Europe this summer. Absolutely agree, big money is going to change hands for this bhoy.

Happy for Griff. He’s starting to look like his old self. Terrific goal from McGregor too.

PauloMN

That 3rd goal was a real team goal, all started from Ntcham playing offensively when it would have been easy to just pass it back. Then some lovely play from Forrest and obviously McGregor.

Agree with Sutton, we're looking at the best player since Larsson in Edouard.

henke

PauloMN wrote: »

That 3rd goal was a real team goal, all started from Ntcham playing offensively when it would have been easy to just pass it back. Then some lovely play from Forrest and obviously McGregor.

Agree with Sutton, we're looking at the best player since Larsson in Edouard.

Just listening to him there. Hard to argue with it. His quality is so evident.

US2

Good to be hitting this kind of confident form with Europa league coming back soon, this could be a great year

caddy16

PauloMN wrote: »

That 3rd goal was a real team goal, all started from Ntcham playing offensively when it would have been easy to just pass it back. Then some lovely play from Forrest and obviously McGregor.

Agree with Sutton, we're looking at the best player since Larsson in Edouard.

Most important bit of business this summer is keeping him for one more year.

rockatansky

Great result this evening, one game I was most concerned about.

A few performances weren't great, Ajer, Julien and Forrest with some very poor passing.

Get Eddy onto a new contract asap.

Would like to see some players rested for this weekends game, league is top priority over an overstretch trying for a quadruple trebble. We have the depth in the squad so hopefully a few more get a decent run out.

DavidLyons_

https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/11927058/alfredo-morelos-apology-correction-and-full-transcript-of-sky-sports-news-interview

http://www.celticfc.net/news/17507

Good stuff from the club. Will be very, very interesting to see who the source of the translation is.

Can't stand the gobsh!te, but Morelos has been badly treated in all this too.

eire4

Superb performance last night on what looked on paper a tricky game away against a Motherwell side having a good season. The second half in particular was superb could easily have been 6 or more in the end. But 4-0 on the road against third place is a very good night indeed. Some superb performances all over but especially from McGregor in midfield and Edouard up front.

Ragnar Lothbrok

There definitely seems to have been a big improvement in attitude and determination since the defeat to Rangers. Standard of play has been much better and effort levels are now 100%.

Maybe the defeat to them was a blessing in disguise. I was almost starting to worry that they might pose a serious challenge in the league, but thankfully the turn of the New Year has put those worries to bed.

Yeah, obviously it's not over yet, but I feel much better than I did a few weeks ago

eire4

No question there has been a notable uptick in form and I think the change in the teams shape is only part of that. The focus and attitude seems much stronger now.

Kingdom Bhoy

Clyde match definitely on today.

DavidLyons_

Good run out for the fringe players today. Pity Klimala didn’t stick his chance away.

Away to St. Johnstone in the next round. Not a terrible draw.

eire4

How I hate plastic pitches. I know the weather conditions yesterday were horrendous but once again as a spectacle that was hard viewing. But we have to deal with it and it was a professional performance so credit to the players for that in such dreadful conditions both pitch and weather wise.
It was good as well that we were able to give a rest to about half the team. Given the heavy game load at the moment that was important too.

ActingDanClark

Jackie Mac namara seriously ill in hospital with "bleed on the brain", collapsed at home
https://twitter.com/JohnHartson10/status/1226911216209145856?s=19

Broxi_Bear_Eire

ActingDanClark wrote: »

Jackie Mac namara seriously ill in hospital with "bleed on the brain", collapsed at home
https://twitter.com/JohnHartson10/status/1226911216209145856?s=19

Thoughts with him and his family. Hopefully he will make a full recovery

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2-0 so far

Ntcham
https://streamable.com/ctbsh

Julien (from a corner!)
https://streamable.com/mthp9

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Fantastic goal from McGregor to make it 3-0

https://streamable.com/1mcvj

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Christie makes it 4, great work again from Taylor

https://streamable.com/ccxhu

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Simunovic makes it 5 (another from a corner!)

https://streamable.com/6h1or

RoryMac

Here we go 10 in a row

Pogue eile

Oh what a night!! Credit to all the players and Neil Lennon in particular, Celtic on fire at the moment, Europa game cant come soon enough!!

Oh and Morelos making a tit of himself again the icing on top!

A Dub in Glasgo

Great night for Celtic

TheCitizen

What a week this has been:)

TheCitizen

Goals from corners. That was something that stopped happening under Brendan Rodgers.

henke

Unreal night. Couldn't have gone much better since the break. Celtic on form and Rangers are having one hell of a collapse.

RoryMac

henke wrote: »

Unreal night. Couldn't have gone much better since the break. Celtic on form and Rangers are having one hell of a collapse.

Absolutely, our form has been amazing since the break, not just the results but the performances. We've come through some tough away games and opened a good lead and a huge goal difference between us and Rangers.

Massive credit due to Lennon and the players

polarbearhead

I remember Rugby Park being Celtic’s title graveyard a couple of times in the 90s. Great times

PauloMN

Gerrard couldn't even bring himself to say "Celtic" in his post-match interview, when mentioning the relentlessness of "others". That's always a good sign!

DavidLyons_

Not to get carried away. Leagues are not won in February and there's plenty of football yet to be played. But that is some wonderful karma for that classless, disingenuous tool's antics on 29th December.

Braga and Hearts in the next rounds of the cups and a 10 point gap in the league.
Are they turning on him yet?

DavidLyons_

#LET'SGO #WELCOMETOTHEPARTY

https://twitter.com/Rogic67_/status/1227707900497473537?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1227707900497473537&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fs9e.github.io%2Fiframe%2Ftwitter.min.html%231227707900497473537

Dempsey

Lennon has shown his experience since Gerrard's moment, and so has all the senior Celtic players. Hard to see how anyone matches celtics experience over a campaign, they are relentless at the moment

eire4

PauloMN wrote: »

Gerrard couldn't even bring himself to say "Celtic" in his post-match interview, when mentioning the relentlessness of "others". That's always a good sign!

It was pathetic really that he could not even say the name Celtic. The best bit of the interview for me though was all the Kilmarnock players cheering in the background obviously watching replays of their goals. Hilarious.