Celtic FC Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2024/25

DavidLyons_ · 11-08-2020 1:04pm

weldoninhio wrote: »

St Mirren and Aberdeen postponed, Aberdeen would have most likely been rescheduled anyway. A full weeks training for the CL qualifiers with hopefully no injuries. Grand job. Nothing so serious as to throw the toys out of the pram.

I think we’ll be lucky to get away with the two games just being postponed. Hopefully we won’t have to forfeit the Champions League match.

We’ll be playing catch-up to the rest of the league in terms of points and fixture congestion and there is the suggestion that Sky will seek their money back for the St. Mirren game too.

Wouldn’t want to be Boli in the dressing room. He’s fcuked the club, his teammates and the support. Kilmarnock players couldn’t be too pleased with him either.

PauloMN · 11-08-2020 1:36pm

Should have his contract terminated immediately. No excuse for that behaviour and he has brought a huge amount of negative attention on the club.

And get rid of Griffiths asap as well please.

PauloMN · 11-08-2020 1:39pm

weldoninhio wrote: »

St Mirren and Aberdeen postponed, Aberdeen would have most likely been rescheduled anyway. A full weeks training for the CL qualifiers with hopefully no injuries. Grand job. Nothing so serious as to throw the toys out of the pram.

Just what we need 2 games into the 10IAR league season when we've already dropped points.

We need game time, not a week's training.

weldoninhio · 11-08-2020 1:41pm

DavidLyons_ wrote: »

I think we’ll be lucky to get away with the two games just being postponed. Hopefully we won’t have to forfeit the Champions League match.

We’ll be playing catch-up to the rest of the league in terms of points and fixture congestion and there is the suggestion that Sky will seek their money back for the St. Mirren game too.

Wouldn’t want to be Boli in the dressing room. He’s fcuked the club, his teammates and the support. Kilmarnock players couldn’t be too pleased with him either.

No chance the CL game will be pulled. We'll still play the same amount of league games as everyone else. We're 2 games in, not mid season. I'm sure he'll get stick for a few days, then it'll move onto someone else. People calling for him to be sacked are emotional wrecks.

pjohnson · 11-08-2020 1:50pm

Chris Sutton being an "emotional wreck"

There should be no way back for Bolingoli at Celtic now. If he knowingly went to Spain before the Kilmarnock game and broke quarantine rules he showed he really doesn’t give a sh## about his teammates, the manager and the support… Celtic should get rid immediately

Hard to disagree. Unless you dont give a shíte about the club, team, manager or the fans.

DavidLyons_ · 11-08-2020 1:53pm

weldoninhio wrote: »

No chance the CL game will be pulled. We'll still play the same amount of league games as everyone else. We're 2 games in, not mid season. I'm sure he'll get stick for a few days, then it'll move onto someone else. People calling for him to be sacked are emotional wrecks.

This is quite serious and the consequences for club could be horrendous.

His disregard for the club and his teammates is p!ss poor.

Even if we forget the brainless breach of Covid-19 regulations and it's own consequences, any player disrespectful enough to be causing a circumstance that has the club postponing matches etc. and being reprimanded by Nicola Sturgeon for any reason should be severely dealt with.

I kind of agree that impulsively sacking him might not be in the best interests of the club and could make a messy situation even worse for Celtic but one way or another this clown need to be jettisoned from the club (he's not good enough to wear the shirt in any event).

I'd say the likes of Lenny, Scott Brown, McGregor etc. are seething with the idiot.

MD1990 · 11-08-2020 1:54pm

pjohnson wrote: »

Chris Sutton being an "emotional wreck"

Hard to disagree. Unless you dont give a shíte about the club, team, manager or the fans.

If it was Edouard I doubt Sutton would be calling for him to be sacked.

A Dub in Glasgo · 11-08-2020 1:56pm

Neil Lennon on Bolingoli: “We gave players a couple of days off after Hamilton. We made it clear to players they were not to leave Glasgow. Boli took flight to Spain on Monday and kept it to himself.... we were livid, appalled.

“We have been bitterly let down by an individual. I didn’t want to hear his excuse. He has blanatly disregarded our instructions.”

“There’s anger and disappointment from the squad. It’s just simply not good enough and it’s disrupted our plans.”

It will be very difficult to imagine him (Bolingoli) being welcomed back into the dressing room in the future

This is a rogue who has gone off tangent and has done something very very selfish. We have been completely oblivious to this. I’m absolutely livid it’s a total betrayal of our trust."

pjohnson · 11-08-2020 1:59pm

A Dub in Glasgo wrote: »

Neil Lennon on Bolingoli: “We gave players a couple of days off after Hamilton. We made it clear to players they were not to leave Glasgow. Boli took flight to Spain on Monday and kept it to himself.... we were livid, appalled.

“We have been bitter let down by an individual. I didn’t want to hear his excuse. He has blanatly disregarded our instructions.”

“There’s anger and disappointment from the squad. It’s just simply not good enough and it’s disrupted our plans.”

“This is a rogue who has gone off tangent and has done something very very selfish. We have been completely oblivious to this. I’m absolutely livid it’s a total betrayal of our trust.”

Seems unlikely he'll laugh this off as bantz and appreciate the extra training Bolignoli got the team.

Wuff Wuff · 11-08-2020 2:09pm

Whits Bolignoli dain' Tam

DavidLyons_ · 11-08-2020 2:24pm

https://twitter.com/celticbible/status/1293169308512780288

Lenny is clearly beyond fuming here. And it should be noted - speaks very well as always.

Any player who may have an at risk or vulnerable loved one at home will quite rightly be fit to kill Bolingoli.

A selfish pr!ck who has fcuked his teammates and the supporters not to mention possibly derail the best laid plans for 10-in-a-row.

jacool · 11-08-2020 2:43pm

weldoninhio wrote: »

Untwist the panties. He made a mistake. Legally he's liable for a £480 fine and a talking to. He's been tested twice since he got back and was negative both times. Silly mistake, but no harm, no foul. Fine him a few weeks wages and get on with it.

weldoninhio wrote: »

St Mirren and Aberdeen postponed, Aberdeen would have most likely been rescheduled anyway. A full weeks training for the CL qualifiers with hopefully no injuries. Grand job. Nothing so serious as to throw the toys out of the pram.

weldoninhio wrote: »

No chance the CL game will be pulled. We'll still play the same amount of league games as everyone else. We're 2 games in, not mid season. I'm sure he'll get stick for a few days, then it'll move onto someone else. People calling for him to be sacked are emotional wrecks.

weldoninhio wrote: »

But when you are meant to be operating within a "footballing bubble" and you decide to hit a pub then you deserve what you get.

Spot the odd one out.

CrabRevolution · 11-08-2020 7:42pm

weldoninhio wrote: »

Untwist the panties. He made a mistake. Legally he's liable for a £480 fine and a talking to. He's been tested twice since he got back and was negative both times. Silly mistake, but no harm, no foul. Fine him a few weeks wages and get on with it.

Is it just me or has the usage of "mistake" changed in recent times? It was similar with the Barry Cowen affair. It seems any and all wrong doing is claimed to be an innocent mistake, even if it's done 100% intentionally and the person is fully aware what they're doing is wrong.

To me a mistake is trying to do the right thing but doing something wrong that you didn't intend on doing, or were unaware was the wrong thing to do; taking the wrong exit off a motorway, dialling a wrong number or misspelling an email. Even some criminal acts can be called mistakes if you're genuinely unaware it's against the law.

Unless he's blind, deaf and has no fingers to read Braille he can't possibly claim he's unaware of the rules regarding Covid-19 (from either Celtic,the SFA or the Scottish and UK Governments)and innocently thought going to Spain was alright. I'm not seeing where his "mistake" was considering everything he did (i.e. travel to Spain and back) was completely his intention. It was a wilful act of rulebreaking that he knew was wrong, and he should face severe consequences for it.

weldoninhio · 11-08-2020 10:18pm

jacool wrote: »

Spot the odd one out.

Bolingoli got what he deserved. 2 games have been postponed, although it’s extremely doubtful the Aberdeen one would have gone ahead In the first place. He’ll get his £480 fine from Nic and he’ll get a big fine from the club and possibly a suspension.

I don’t get the pantie wetting over it. If it was Edouard or McGregor or Christie the same lads in here close to tears would be massively downplaying it.

The_Kew_Tour · 11-08-2020 10:27pm

This season has just got interesting. I be fuming if I was Celtic fan right now.

If he was a part of costing ye 10 in a row........ oh the pain

martingriff · 12-08-2020 1:34am

Maybe I am a bit off but I have some blame for Celtic themselves. It is not like a player went to a pub before a game on a regular season. He was absent for 2 days and got on a plane to another country.

Given what is happening with the pandemic you would think Celtic would be making sure where all there players are.

US2 · 12-08-2020 2:59am

Could well be 11 points behind the next time we kick a ball in the league, assuming Rangers win their next 3 games.

~Rebel~ · 12-08-2020 3:07am

martingriff wrote: »

Maybe I am a bit off but I have some blame for Celtic themselves. It is not like a player went to a pub before a game on a regular season. He was absent for 2 days and got on a plane to another country.

Given what is happening with the pandemic you would think Celtic would be making sure where all there players are.

He was only gone one night, in post-game free time... how close an eye should they be keeping on grown men?

12-08-2020 8:23am

weldoninhio wrote: »

I don’t get the pantie wetting over it. If it was Edouard or McGregor or Christie the same lads in here close to tears would be massively downplaying it.

I can't recall too many times when the actions of a player has lead to a country's leader threatening to suspend the entire season.

And the second in command of the police comments on the matter.

Are these such common occurrences at Celtic that people criticising this incident are "panty wetters", have "twisted panties" and are (my favourite one) "emotional wrecks". Is it possible that the hysteria and OTT reaction is on your part?

weldoninhio · 12-08-2020 8:27am

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I can't recall too many times when the actions of a player has lead to a country's leader threatening to suspend the entire season.

And the second in command of the police comments on the matter.

Are these such common occurrences at Celtic that people criticising this incident are "panty wetters", have "twisted panties" and are (my favourite one) "emotional wrecks". Is it possible that the hysteria and OTT reaction is on your part?

It was one rogue player. Where was this uproar and pantywetting when an entire Rangers* second team played Dundee with 7 players tested, but not gotten results?? Or the threats to close the league when 8 Aberdeen players decided to go to a rammed pub?

Overblown by the media because it’s Celtic and helped along by the clubs own fans “outrage”.

pjohnson · 12-08-2020 8:49am

weldoninhio wrote: »

It was one rogue player. Where was this uproar and pantywetting when an entire Rangers* second team played Dundee with 7 players tested, but not gotten results?? Or the threats to close the league when 8 Aberdeen players decided to go to a rammed pub?

Overblown by the media because it’s Celtic and helped along by the clubs own fans “outrage”.

Obviously. The video above shows how delighted Neil is and not at all annoyed by Bolignoli. Clearly everyone but you is wrong!

weldoninhio · 12-08-2020 8:51am

pjohnson wrote: »

Obviously. The video above shows how delighted Neil is and not at all annoyed by Bolignoli. Clearly everyone but you is wrong!

Yeah, because if he’d come out and said ‘silly mistake, but no harm done’. The media and Celtic da’s wouldn’t have had a second sh1tfit

pjohnson · 12-08-2020 8:59am

weldoninhio wrote: »

Yeah, because if he’d come out and said ‘silly mistake, but no harm done’. The media and Celtic da’s wouldn’t have had a second sh1tfit

Ah so its a "silent" support Bolignoli will be recieving from everyone. Suuuure.

weldoninhio · 12-08-2020 9:07am

pjohnson wrote: »

Ah so its a "silent" support Bolignoli will be recieving from everyone. Suuuure.

He’ll be getting the pi55 ripped out of him mercilessly in the dressing room. Anyone that thinks he’s gonna be shunned is crazy tbh.

martingriff · 12-08-2020 10:20am

~Rebel~ wrote: »

He was only gone one night, in post-game free time... how close an eye should they be keeping on grown men?

With what is at stake with both the virus and suspension of sports and loss of earning for them and other less off clubs maybe a bit more then usually

12-08-2020 10:39am

weldoninhio wrote: »

It was one rogue player. Where was this uproar and pantywetting when an entire Rangers* second team played Dundee with 7 players tested, but not gotten results?? Or the threats to close the league when 8 Aberdeen players decided to go to a rammed pub?

Overblown by the media because it’s Celtic and helped along by the clubs own fans “outrage”.

Not just the media.

But Celtic FC.

And Celtic's manager.

And former players.

As well as fans, as you note.

You are making the argument that Celtic is full of "panty wetters wetting twisted panties". I don't think everyone is out of step with you. It was very obviously open to the club to say "one rogue player stepped out of line, his problem, what can we do, next question".

PauloMN · 12-08-2020 10:43am

weldoninhio wrote: »

It was one rogue player. Where was this uproar and pantywetting when an entire Rangers* second team played Dundee with 7 players tested, but not gotten results?? Or the threats to close the league when 8 Aberdeen players decided to go to a rammed pub?

Overblown by the media because it’s Celtic and helped along by the clubs own fans “outrage”.

Nonsense. There was uproar about the Aberdeen players, and rightly so. But Bolingoli left the country by plane, went to a high risk country, came back, told nobody and trained and played afterwards. That is gross misconduct imo and he should be ditched.

bobmalooka · 12-08-2020 12:04pm

In non boli bolingoli news;

Ajeti deal looks close to getting done, widely reported that he will sign on a permanent deal for £5m rather than the earlier reported loan with option to buy.

pjohnson · 12-08-2020 12:46pm

Bayo completes his loan to Toulouse.

DavidLyons_ · 12-08-2020 3:07pm

bobmalooka wrote: »

In non boli bolingoli news;

Ajeti deal looks close to getting done, widely reported that he will sign on a permanent deal for £5m rather than the earlier reported loan with option to buy.

Good. Now all we need is a new left centre back, a new left back and some back up for James Forrest......

As fans, let's forget about this Bolingoli sh!t and let the club sort him out. Come back against Dundee United on Saturday week nice and ready to drive on.

The only ones who can stop the 10 is ourselves and we've had our slip-ups nice an early.

Coillte_Bhoy · 12-08-2020 4:57pm

weldoninhio wrote: »

Yeah, because if he’d come out and said ‘silly mistake, but no harm done’. The media and Celtic da’s wouldn’t have had a second sh1tfit

The again maybe, just maybe NL is being totally genuine there, which i happen to believe.

TheCitizen · 12-08-2020 10:12pm

Boli is an idiot and we should sack him for gross negligence if we can and get him off the payroll. Only silver lining from this is the board may more likely go and buy a lb/lwb after we get shot of Boli. We needed a lb anyway. Boli has never been good enough.

US2 · 13-08-2020 11:33am

Duffy supposedly in talks with Celtic. Those EPL guys in the Ireland thread are going to be gutted

DavidLyons_ · 13-08-2020 11:37am

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-transfer-news/celtic-transfer-latest-shane-duffy-22513638

Sorry for linking to that rag. For those who don't want to give them the clicks...

https://tbrfootball.com/report-celtic-enter-race-for-brighton-defender-shane-duffy-loan-deal-has-been-discussed/

A long shot but Duffy would be great for us. Exactly what we'd need.

Bring him home Lenny!!

RoryMac · 13-08-2020 2:25pm

Ajeti signs on a 4 year deal

https://twitter.com/CelticFC/status/1293890881091756032?s=19

TheCitizen · 13-08-2020 3:42pm

US2 wrote: »

Duffy supposedly in talks with Celtic. Those EPL guys in the Ireland thread are going to be gutted

I will love it love it if he signs for us

Would be a great signing even if it's just the one year loan.

DavidLyons_ · 13-08-2020 4:04pm

https://twitter.com/graham1A/status/1292907652117405696

eire4 · 16-08-2020 7:03pm

DavidLyons_ wrote: »

https://twitter.com/graham1A/status/1292907652117405696

Brilliant stuff. LMAO. Seriously though we do need a centre back and Duffy would be an excellent signing I think. Would be delighted if this went through.

DavidLyons_ · 16-08-2020 7:09pm

eire4 wrote: »

Brilliant stuff. LMAO. Seriously though we do need a centre back and Duffy would be an excellent signing I think. Would be delighted if this went through.

Agreed. It’s gained a bit more weight over the past couple of days with us apparently being Shane’s preferred destination.

What a weapon he would be in both boxes for Lenny.

A fairly sh1te week for the club has ended quite well with Ajani coming in, definite moves to bring in reinforcements at the back and there will be no 11 point gap come the time we play United.

And of course Moussa!!! What a man.

henke · 16-08-2020 9:43pm

Decent result for us with Rangers dropping points today. Need to put the whole recent episode behind and hit the ground running next week.

DavidLyons_ · 18-08-2020 6:45pm

Team for this evening,

Barkas, Elhamed, Bitton, Jullien, Taylor, Brown, McGregor; Forrest, Christie, Elyounoussi, Edouard

Subs: Bain, Ajeti, Klimala, Rogic, Ntcham, Frimpong, Ajer

What??? No Bolingoli????

Strong starting eleven and bench. No problems with Bitton being in instead of Ajer.

paulie21 · 18-08-2020 6:48pm

Is it been shown anywhere?

DavidLyons_ · 18-08-2020 6:56pm

paulie21 wrote: »

Is it been shown anywhere?

Premier Sports 1.

RoryMac · 18-08-2020 7:37pm

DavidLyons_ wrote: »

Team for this evening,

Barkas, Elhamed, Bitton, Jullien, Taylor, Brown, McGregor; Forrest, Christie, Elyounoussi, Edouard

Subs: Bain, Ajeti, Klimala, Rogic, Ntcham, Frimpong, Ajer

What??? No Bolingoli????

Strong starting eleven and bench. No problems with Bitton being in instead of Ajer.

Not sure why we've changed the back 4 for a game like this, I think Bitton and Elhamed are solid enough but in a pressure game with a new keeper behind them I'd prefer a settled back 4.

Shouldn't be an issue against these though

DavidLyons_ · 18-08-2020 7:51pm

Yeees. Moi!!!

DavidLyons_ · 18-08-2020 7:52pm

RoryMac wrote: »

Not sure why we've changed the back 4 for a game like this, I think Bitton and Elhamed are solid enough but in a pressure game with a new keeper behind them I'd prefer a settled back 4.

Shouldn't be an issue against these though

True. But two very solid replacements. Frimpong is a little unlucky but Ajer needed a boot up the hole.

DavidLyons_ · 18-08-2020 8:03pm

2!!! Eddy.

Inevitable he was going to score. Already missed a couple of good chances. No way was he going to keep on missing them.

RoryMac · 18-08-2020 8:05pm

DavidLyons_ wrote: »

True. But two very solid replacements. Frimpong is a little unlucky but Ajer needed a boot up the hole.

Well doesn't look like it'll be an issue tonight!

Yeah Frimpong unlucky but I think Elhamed has been unfortunate not to play more games, he was excellent at the start of last year before he got injured

DavidLyons_ · 18-08-2020 8:19pm

3!! Comfortably through now and a good run out before the return to league action this weekend.

Hopefully Lenny makes some early substitutions and we don’t pick up any injuries.

DavidLyons_ · 18-08-2020 9:16pm

What a goal by Eddy. Good to see Ajeti and Klimala getting a chance now.

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