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

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-34910377

Scotland's public spending watchdog has found no evidence of fraud or corruption in Celtic's purchase of land for their Lennoxtown training complex.

Complaints were made to Audit Scotland over the 2006 deal between NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (GGC) and Celtic.

No doubt some quarters in Scotland wanted to see if they could get some mud to stick to Celtic but failed miserably. Alot of failures by public bodies in Scotland is a recurring theme though

Is tonights game on TV?

Something fundamentally wrong with the way these players are being managed and Deila isnt good enough to fix the problem. I would have a lack of confidence in the board if Deila gets another season playing like this.

Brutal from griffiths

Experience like Carlton Cole??

Disgraceful corner, terrible from Allan

Embarrassing, infuriating stuff

What happened with Mulgrew ??

Ya Charlie M just texted me, said he didn't want to strangle Allan on the pitch and pick up a red.
So headed for the dressing room to wait for him.

I know it was near the end of the game, but as the players approached the box their heads were noticeably down. There was no enthusiasm. Mulgrew who'd only been on a few minutes , was possibly the most obvious

PauloMN wrote: »

That's all very well if progress is being made but we have regressed rather than progressed. Our European season has been nothing short of an embarrassment this season. The lack of competition in the league also hides how poor we are. We need to be preparing for the fact that we'll have competition back in the league from next season and build from where we are. It will take Rangers a few seasons to build but this current Celtic team would certainly not be title certs with any decent domestic opponents.

Deila has lost the dressing room imo, that has been very clear to me for the last few months. The team have no idea how to hold on to a lead. I fully expect them to concede in every game and multiple times in European games. The heads were down against Ajax. FFS Ajax at home! It's not long ago we were beating the likes of Barca at home.

Sorry I don't buy this long term project stuff, certainly not when things are going backwards. 2 points from 5 games, potentially 6 in the Europa League is a disgrace.

Well I guess we will just have to agree to disagree then. Personally I am 100% behind Delia and the team.


I do not feel we have regressed. We are about the same level as we were last season. The difference being last season we were very strong defensively but struggled going forward. This season we have sold our best defender and lost 2 other 2 starters from last seasons back line. To not expect us to struggle defensively by comparison with last season is not realistic. Especially when the player signed as Van Dijk's replacement has only just got fit and is still working his way into things on the field.


In terms of lack of compettion in our own league. Sure we are far and away the best team. Hardly our fault. Maybe we should actually be praising the players and staff for that fact. Unlike others who cheated financially to gain advantage on the field we stuck at it within our means and as a result are reaping the rewards on the field. I will give great credit in particular to Aberdeen and Hearts who have improved tremendously and to some of the smaller provincial clubs who have done well. The league overall is in a better state as a result. But again for me instead of dismissing our current domestic dominance as irrelevant I praise it as we put ourselves in this position and have earned this and I for one am enjoying it.


I also disagree with your dressing room comments. We have shown well almost every time we have suffered a significant setback on the field. Hardly the sign of losing the dressing room from a manager. Might Delia not see eye to eye with some of the players he inherited sure maybe that is the case but thats normal after a change of manager.




Finally I think a lot or people have a choice to make. Much is made of lack of progress in Europe. Sure I am very disappointed by our European results in recent seasons. But the reality is we simply do not have the finances to compete at a champions league group stage level on an every year basis and expect to get results there. That is the reality of where we are financially and it will remain so for the foreseeable future. The best Celtic can hope for in Europe is to be able to build up a group of players like Lennon did and have the kind of run we did in 2012. But when that does happen the same thing will happen again our best players will be sold and we will have to start again. Its not fun and I wish things were different but we simply are dependant on bringing in our own academy players and finding and developing young raw talent from abroad to sell on at a profit in a few years because of the pathetic financial market we are based in. So some can choose to ignore the financial realities and dismiss our domestic dominance even though we have earned that ourselves or they can face up to the harsh reality of where we are financially and recognise the realities of that in terms of what we can do on the field in Europe.

Stokes complaining on social media about not being on the bench for the game against Inverness.

https://twitter.com/stoksey10?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Finished 3-1 to Celtic with goals from McGregor, Griffiths and an own goal from Devine. The Sky pundits and ICT complaining about a handball from Cole for the own goal and managing to miss that the 2 defenders took Cole out and would have been a penalty if it had not gone in

Dempsey wrote: »

100% behind Deila? Explain where the pressing game has gone?

I can understand people defending him but 100% behind him?? No doubts in anything? There is alot of explaining to be done by comments like that imo

To answer your questions in order:


Yes I am 100% behind Delia. You are always going to have a hard time pressing high up the field when you have the kind of defensive issues we currently have after losing and selling 3 of our 4 key back starters from last season. No no doubts.

weldoninhio wrote: »

Didn't Deila sign their, so far, terrible replacements?? He's out of his depth. Time to go, get a new man in. Let him use Jan to strengthen and go from there, hopefully ready for the qualifiers next summer.

Yes Delia signed Boyata and Simunovic. I would disagree that they are terrible. For me they have only just started to play together in recent games due to Simunovic's injury issues for the first couple of months of the season and they have shown promise but time will tell how they will do. Kelvin Wilson had his struggles when he came first and turned out to be a good signing.
Delia far from being out of his depth is a good fit for the circumstances we find ourselves in where we are dependant on bringing through some of our own academy players and finding some young and or raw players from elsewhere and working with them to develop them to the point where they can be sold for significant profit within 2-3 years.
There is no question the financial constraints we find ourselves having to operate within are very frustrating but that is the reality and all things consdiered I think we are doing well and in good shape going forward.

TheCitizen wrote: »

This is cloud cuckoo land stuff. Deila is learning on the job and he's a slow learner. He probably will get another crack at CL qualification next summer but that's only 'cos we have no competition in Scotland and he can pick up another trophy or two. When it comes to Europe - the only place we are challenged- he has been utterly clueless so far, completely out of his depth. In my view the board are taking a massive gamble in sticking by him in the hopes that he gets to grips with the job enough to get us to punch our weight and qualify. A third year on the trot without CL funding will be very costly.

Well from your initial insulting dismissal of someone with a different opinion to yourself I will assume we will just have to agree to disagree.


I will agree that Delia is learning on the job though. Just like the type of young raw players we sign and hope to be able to develop into attractive players we can sell at a significant profit we are in the same market manager wise.
As others are your very dismissive of our domestic success. Personally I am not and am enjoying the kind of dominance and success we are enjoying domestically which we have earned as a club through our own good management over a long period on and off the field. I am also hopeful that we can go one step further then last season domestically and win a treble. Something only done 3 times before in Celtic's history and not since 2001 under Martin O'Neill. We were very unlucky not to get the treble last season. Really only a woeful call against Inverness in the semi-final denied us but also showed how hard it is to win a domestic treble.
In terms of Europe yes Delia has yet to show he can be a success at that level. But just as with the kind of players we can afford our current financial limitations mean we simply cannot afford to go out and get the kind of players and managers that could all but guarantee champions league group stage football every year. That is our reality. With Delia I believe he deserves more time to build a complete side that is able to function with the vision he has for the game and I believe he is capable of doing that and building a team that can get to the group stages of the champions league.

weldoninhio wrote: »

Simunovic looks like he could improve. Boyata is a bombscare. Janko can't get a game. Cifti is about as useful as having a wheelie bin up top. Scepovic was less useful than that. Mackay-Steven and Armstrong look half the players they were. All Ronny signings.

Can you name one player who has made a sustained improvement under him??

Craig Gordon, Leigh Griffiths, Nir Biton, Kieran Tierney.


I still hold out hope for Boyata and Simunovic too early to say how they will do yet for me. Janko looked pretty good when he played before he got injured. Good potential there. MacKay-Steven and Armstrong were good last season and have indeed not reached that level consistently this season so far. Hopefully that will change as they both have a lot of up side. Scepovic agreed just not someone who never seemed to want to even be at Celtic. Ciftic no doubt about it has struggled badly so far.