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

US2

A good 40 min interview here with Henrik and Sky yesterday .Talks about celtic and career in general.

The_Fitz

Big night tonight.

Forster

Ajer Jullien Jozo

Forrest Brown Christie McGregor Taylor

Eddy Griff

Maybe Elyounoussi in for Griff and play a 4-2-3-1. Frimpers in for Jozo.

Pogue eile

The_Fitz wrote: »

Big night tonight.

Forster

Ajer Jullien Jozo

Forrest Brown Christie McGregor Taylor

Eddy Griff

Maybe Elyounoussi in for Griff and play a 4-2-3-1. Frimpers in for Jozo.

Is Brown available?

rockatansky

Nervous about tonight, we need to be attacking hard right from the kickoff.

eire4

The_Fitz wrote: »

Big night tonight.

Forster

Ajer Jullien Jozo

Forrest Brown Christie McGregor Taylor

Eddy Griff

Maybe Elyounoussi in for Griff and play a 4-2-3-1. Frimpers in for Jozo.

Christie is suspended for tonight so he won't be involved at all. Most likely with Ntcham also injured and out tonight we will see Rogic playing in front of McGregor and Brown.

US2

Confident about tonight let's just hope we dont try sit back after scoring the first.

DavidLyons_

Playing well at the moment. Would like to see a bit more from Eddy.

DavidLyons_

Going alright. Would prefer if we have a cushion of a goal going into the latter stages of this though.

rockatansky

Hopefully we dominate more in the 2nd half.

We're starting to get more into it going forward but looking a bit shaky at the back.

Rogic to score.

piplip87

Absolutely shocking call from the ref there.

rockatansky

piplip87 wrote: »

Absolutely shocking call from the ref there.

Even worse from Jozo.

PauloMN

Simunovic brutal stuff. He's been poor all game.

A Dub in Glasgo

Unbelievable defending for that goal - schoolboy football would do better

PauloMN

A Dub in Glasgo wrote: »

Unbelievable defending for that goal - schoolboy football would do better

Even more frustrating when we've had so many chances over the two legs and not taken them.

RoryMac

Not looking like getting back into this at the minute, on the ropes and need to start putting a few passes together

piplip87

RoryMac wrote: »

Not looking like getting back into this at the minute, on the ropes and need to start putting a few passes together

There putting together passes in our own half ... No attacking intent since we went down

PauloMN

They are all over us. Hard to believe this is CP.

RoryMac

How come Christie got sent off last week but nothing there for a deliberate handball.

Cool as f**k from Édouard

DavidLyons_

YEEEESSS. Classy from Eddy.

RoryMac

F**k sake, brutal stuff.

Game over

DavidLyons_

****ing hell

PauloMN

Deserve to go out. Absolute amateur hour stuff.

A Dub in Glasgo

Naive stuff tonight, we are out

RoryMac

Embarrassing stuff

DavidLyons_

Jaysus. Bad night alright. Was a winnable tie. The team will be kicking themselves.

rockatansky

Ah well, I guess we're all supposed to be happy that we've 40 million sitting in the bank doing nothing.

PauloMN

Lol. Kudos Copenhagen, well played, absolutely owned us.

RoryMac

DavidLyons_ wrote: »

Jaysus. Bad night alright. Was a winnable tie. The team will be kicking themselves.

Yeah no excuses for going out like this. Couldn't have asked for a better tie in the knockout stages and blew it. Comedy defending yet again in a european game

PauloMN

rockatansky wrote: »

Ah well, I guess we're all supposed to be happy that we've 40 million sitting in the bank doing nothing.

Copenhagen's squad cost less than ours. Money not the issue there tonight.

RoryMac

Jozo's contract up at the end of the season, what's the thoughts on a new contract or getting rid?

For me he hasn't done enough for a new deal and not just because of tonight but that's an example of how poor he can be. He is far too injury prone and hasn't really made himself a key player despite being here for years

SomethingElse

RoryMac wrote: »

Jozo's contract up at the end of the season, what's the thoughts on a new contract or getting rid?

For me he hasn't done enough for a new deal and not just because of tonight but that's an example of how poor he can be. He is far too injury prone and hasn't really made himself a key player despite being here for years

I would have been in favour of keeping him until recently, but we can't afford another meltdown in a big game like tonight.

A Dub in Glasgo

RoryMac wrote: »

Jozo's contract up at the end of the season, what's the thoughts on a new contract

No chance on a display like tonight

RoryMac

A Dub in Glasgo wrote: »

No chance on a display like tonight

Even before tonight I just don't think he has done enough to get a new deal which I'm sure would be on good money, constant injuries, can't play on plastic pitches and always looks prone to a howler.

rockatansky

PauloMN wrote: »

Copenhagen's squad cost less than ours. Money not the issue there tonight.

So we don't need a new centre half then?

PauloMN

Agree with sentiments above. Tonight just confirmed it. He's not good enough at this level, injured a lot and can't play on half the pitches in Scotland! Time to move him on.

Doctor Jimbob

PauloMN wrote: »

Copenhagen's squad cost less than ours. Money not the issue there tonight.

Seriously?

Money isn't the only issue, but we could have given ourselves a much better chance of going through tonight by spending a bit more instead of leaving money in the bank.

PauloMN

Doctor Jimbob wrote: »

Seriously?

Money isn't the only issue, but we could have given ourselves a much better chance of going through tonight by spending a bit more instead of leaving money in the bank.

How much more? Twice? Three times? Laughable to just revert back to money when we perform like that. We had chance upon chance which we didn't take. Edouard aside from the penalty was ineffective, and he wasn't the only one. The attitude was awful and we collapsed when we went behind. That was a shambolic performance, esp at home, and bleating on about money is missing the real issues.

Let's do what Copenhagen do and spend less, it clearly works.

rockatansky

PauloMN wrote: »

How much more? Twice? Three times? Laughable to just revert back to money when we perform like that. We had chance upon chance which we didn't take. Edouard aside from the penalty was ineffective, and he wasn't the only one. The attitude was awful and we collapsed when we went behind. That was a shambolic performance, esp at home, and bleating on about money is missing the real issues.

Let's do what Copenhagen do and spend less, it clearly works.

The need to strengthen at the back with quality was clearly identified at the January transfer window, unless you were happy seeing Scott Brown playing in a back 3??

But eff all was done about it.

You say you agree Jozo not having his contract renewed, but why wait until the end of the season when we play our most critical games to see him out. He clearly was not interested with being on the pitch, and that's cost us.

Attitude or no attitude with this group of players we are at our level, last 32 of the Europa League at best. Until we start spending and bring in some real quality we have to accept that fact.

RoryMac

rockatansky wrote: »

The need to strengthen at the back with quality was clearly identified at the January transfer window, unless you were happy seeing Scott Brown playing in a back 3??

But eff all was done about it.

You say you agree Jozo not having his contract renewed, but why wait until the end of the season when we play our most critical games to see him out. He clearly was not interested with being on the pitch, and that's cost us.

Attitude or no attitude with this group of players we are at our level, last 32 of the Europa League at best. Until we start spending and bring in some real quality we have to accept that fact.

Last 32 is around about our level at present but that makes this result all the more disappointing, we were up against Copenhagen who we should be beating, the level of investment in our squad is way above there's but over the 2 legs we couldn't match them for determination.

Maybe further investment in Jan might've helped but I'd have the switching between a back 4 & 5 and 2 up front a bigger issue last night.

bobbysands81

RoryMac wrote: »

Last 32 is around about our level at present but that makes this result all the more disappointing, we were up against Copenhagen who we should be beating, the level of investment in our squad is way above there's but over the 2 legs we couldn't match them for determination.

Maybe further investment in Jan might've helped but I'd have the switching between a back 4 & 5 and 2 up front a bigger issue last night.

We were the better team over the two legs but we lost, these things happen.

All that matters to me is 9-in-a-row and then 10. Europe is a bonus. It’s all about 10.

RoryMac

bobbysands81 wrote: »

We were the better team over the two legs but we lost, these things happen.

All that matters to me is 9-in-a-row and then 10. Europe is a bonus. It’s all about 10.

Debatable that we were the better team over the 2 legs, we created a lot of chances in the first leg and could've wrapped it up over there but they had our number last night.

The league and getting 10 is obviously the big prize but it shouldn't need to be one over the other

Pogue eile

Last night was very dissapointing and I must admit I didnt see it coming. Jozo was terrible, but their centre halfs were just as bad, worse even, and we werent clinical enough to take advantage of it.

As I said last night in a vacum was dissapointing but bigger picture it was a very good campaign and getting out of that group is most definitely progress, if we can wrap up the 10 in a row while making incremental progress in Europe then I'll take that and just suck up last night, I'm also sure that losing to a side like Copenhagen/Cluj will give Lenny plenty of ammunition when he goes looking for funds in the Summer, hopefully it doesn't fall on deaf ears.

TheCitizen

PauloMN wrote: »

How much more? Twice? Three times? Laughable to just revert back to money when we perform like that. We had chance upon chance which we didn't take. Edouard aside from the penalty was ineffective, and he wasn't the only one. The attitude was awful and we collapsed when we went behind. That was a shambolic performance, esp at home, and bleating on about money is missing the real issues.

Let's do what Copenhagen do and spend less, it clearly works.

I disagree. I think we could have got another cb in January. It was clear that the manager was interested in moving to 3-5-2 for a lot of games and that being the case another cb was needed.

We get away with it in the SPL but at this level Jozo in particular is completely out of his depth, that error for their first crucial goal was something you wouldn't expect a 12 year old defender to do, to turn inside towards your goal when under pressure. Basic schoolkid stuff. So when we had the funds which we clearly do, another cb should have been signed and then Jozo would be back up in case of injuries or for rotation for SPL games.

We are fiscally way too conservative and it bites you in the ass in the end especially in Europe.

Anyway we're out. Must get the team concentrating fully on the league in particular. Last night concentration was poor all over the pitch, we had the beating of Copenhagen but poor concentration, poor finishing and perhaps complacency which is infuriating did for us. Sloppy was the word for it. Need to shape up just to ensure we win the league, plenty to focus the minds no excuses.

TheCitizen

Pogue eile wrote: »

Last night was very dissapointing and I must admit I didnt see it coming. Jozo was terrible, but their centre halfs were just as bad, worse even, and we werent clinical enough to take advantage of it.

As I said last night in a vacum was dissapointing but bigger picture it was a very good campaign and getting out of that group is most definitely progress, if we can wrap up the 10 in a row while making incremental progress in Europe then I'll take that and just suck up last night, I'm also sure that losing to a side like Copenhagen/Cluj will give Lenny plenty of ammunition when he goes looking for funds in the Summer, hopefully it doesn't fall on deaf ears.

Hopefully is right. I like to think of myself as an optimist, but the board tend to be way too conservative. The ambition doesn't appear to be there at board level to build a team that can make real inroads in European competition. They're happy enough to keep winning domestically and see Europe as a cash cow for playing in but not really even attempting at competing in.

caddy16

Lolza

henke

Well if any Rangers fans were enjoying going further than Celtic in Europe that joy was short-lived. Odds against them ending the campaign with a trophy.

Doctor Jimbob

Well that's cheered me up a bit after Thursday.

RoryMac

henke wrote: »

Well if any Rangers fans were enjoying going further than Celtic in Europe that joy was short-lived. Odds against them ending the campaign with a trophy.

https://twitter.com/celticbible/status/1233686865833811970?s=19

rockatansky

Full strength 352 today, Griff and Edouard up front.

Hopefully thoughts of Thursday are now fully behind everyone and the team are well up for this.

4-0.

TheCitizen

Another great weekend

https://streamable.com/u0glz

We've won 34 Cup ties in a row now. Records tumbling all over the place with Lenny's Celtic