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

Mirror reporting that we're in talks with Neil Danns

http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/transfer-news/Celtic-to-beat-Rangers-to-Crystal-Palace-free-agent-Neill-Danns-article751200.html

SomethingElse wrote: »

Mirror reporting that we're in talks with Neil Danns

http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/transfer-news/Celtic-to-beat-Rangers-to-Crystal-Palace-free-agent-Neill-Danns-article751200.html

Never heard of him - is he any good?

williamsons an 18 yr old winger we signed fom crystal palace! won't become official til july though

Cant see us getting Kranjcar but he'd be an impressive signing, cant see Brown wanting to go to Turkey just to make Kenny Miller happy.

bobbysands81 wrote: »

I see Burspaspor claim they've come to an agreement with Brown, they just need to agree a fee with Celtic now.

We'll have enough to buy Kranjcar out of it anyway, those Turks are loaded

How many windows has a rumour about Jeffren going to Celtic happened? 4? 5? I remember us being linked to him since before we got Crosas.

seafood dunleavy wrote: »

Don't see why they have to put the games on at those times for the first few weeks when there's no Premiership matches on. 2 or 3 o clock would be much better especially for the support travelling to Aberdeen.

Personally, I don't mind the early kick off for Aberdeen, means getting an earlier train home and back down the road at a more reasonable time.

TheBuilder wrote: »

Jeffren is part of the Alexei Sanchez to Barcelona deal mate, him plus 40 million which is 80% done according to SSN.

I really can't see Krancjar moving to Celtic when he won't be playing in the CL, I think its just papers churning out past rumours as usual.

Jeffren won't be part of that deal according to the latest reports.

What a waste of talent he was

Be great to see Kranjcar join us. I can't see the Jeffren move really happenin though. Kranjcar might be bit of a long shot too but I'd say there is more chance of it than the Jeffren move.

Dempsey wrote: »

How many windows has a rumour about Jeffren going to Celtic happened? 4? 5? I remember us being linked to him since before we got Crosas.

Considering he's being linked with Liverpool and Celtic, it's fairly unlikely Celtic are remotely in the running to take him.

Raskolnikov wrote: »

Considering he's being linked with Liverpool and Celtic, it's fairly unlikely Celtic are remotely in the running to take him.

You'd be a terrible statistician mate, a 50/50 chance would never be deemed to be "fairly unlikely" or "remotely".

Anyone read this? Well worth a read!!!

It's a submission from the Rangers Supporters Trust in relation to the new and ill advised "anti-sectarian" law.

They actually do make a few valid points in it such as shying away from the definition of "sectarian" and that apart from Bombs, death threats, bullets being sent to Lenny and players etc... (which they hilariously try and "even out" by adding Donald Findlay to the list of folk targetted!) there's been very little violence at games and the media have blown the rest completely out of proportion (McCoist having a pop at Lenny).

http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/s4/committees/justice/inquiries/OBFTCBill/OB7.pdf

Anyone read Kevin Myers in the Indo today?

Sounds like someone has kidnapped him and replaced him with a Celtic fan!

Here's his article:

IT was good of the UVF thugs of East Belfast to give me a cue with which to follow my Fenian column of yesterday (which, as it happens I had started before the unprovoked attack on the Short Strand). For we should be clear about this; the culture of the Billy-Boy tribal bigot predates the emergence of Fenianism as a powerful force amongst the Catholic working classes of Belfast and Glasgow.

Paradoxically, the rabble-rousing leaders of these drunken louts have usually been teetotal clergymen, such as Roaring Hanna and Ian Paisley. The compulsory Sunday closing of pubs was once a primary element of their identity -- provided that their own drinking clubs were allowed to remain open. Logic is never the strong point of any strongly held tribal identity, but particularly so for these people, who have remained locked in a historical enigma wherein they are 'British', though living in Ireland, and generally lawless though they 'loyally' support the Crown, and sober in their general political aspiration, though usually enough drunk at the time.

They have a church, too. In their illiterate and incoherent scheme of things, Calvary is probably a collective for horses and maybe Gethsemane is something mysterious that happens in a sperm-bank. No, their real religion is Rangers Football Club.

Glasgow Rangers is the sporting icon for loyalist bigots. The club's own words are irreproachably neutral. It is law-abiding. It is patriotically British. Its outward message is of harmony and ecumenism. But to the large thug element amongst the Rangers fans the key to their identity is almost like the Third Secret of Fatima. It is this: NO FENIANS here.

There is a congenial, indeed government-backed myth, in both Scotland and in Ireland, that "one side is bad as another": that Sinn Fein-IRA are pretty much the same as the UDA/UVF. This is simply untrue. There is no republican equivalent to the Romper Rooms of the UDA, wherein men were routinely beaten to a pulp by loyalist thugs, and from which both the term and the practice became celebrated. And then there was Lenny Murphy and his merry gang, the Shankill Butchers, who for years in the mid-1970s abducted, tortured and murdered Catholics -- usually by cutting their victims' throats.

This culture did not emerge simply as a response to IRA violence. It was there already. It was feckless, violent, drunken, lost, lumpen proletarians for whom a perverted tribal identity conjoined with a Godlessly Calvinist sense of superiority, even as they stewed in their ghettoes of suffocating illiteracy and economic failure. But they were nonetheless elevated by the insane delusion that they are the chosen people, who have been deprived of their birthright by some vast conspiracy between the Catholic Church and the British government.

This psychiatric condition affects almost an entire under-caste, thereby placing their minds and aspirations almost beyond ordinary analysis.

This Sunday, it will be 45 years since their hero, Gusty Spence, murdered the teenage barman Peter Ward and seriously wounded William Doyle in the Malvern Street shootings. Thus the Troubles got under way. (Nineteen years later, the Catholic barrister who had defended Spence at his trial, also called William Doyle, was shot dead by the IRA for the hideous crime of being a judge. And so it goes.)

Now we know: these Troubles of ours haven't gone away, you know. And they're at it again in East Belfast, with a lost tribe of illiterate, paranoid barbarians wandering the bleak landscape of their own brutal imaginations, about no purpose that any one of them could possibly explain. Except they probably know this is a period of rather enjoyable violence, before the much-loved Orange marches -- plus riots, with luck -- can begin.

And next comes Rangers' first match of the season, to be followed by a night of paralytic alcoholism, and rounded off, no doubt, with a complete short-term memory lapse. (This is called "culture", by the way.)

For once, let history be our guide. Our political classes must not be swayed by the violence of these cretins.