15 Jun 2026 21:19:46
Ed.
I know you’re a McKenna fan, me not so much but is there anything stopping Celtic agreeing to sign him now on 1st July 2027?
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{Ed007's Note - Legally/contractually no.}
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15 Jun 2026 20:43:12
Would it have been difficult for Celtic to have signed Araujo and Sarrachi on day one of the window, announced 1 year extensions for Inheacho and maybe the Ox (not sure he did enough but quality) and maybe just maybe a decent midfielder to replace Engels, that would have lifted the mood and silenced the doubters like me and Weejoe.
Instead we have resorted to type and we are in for a long frustrating summer.
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15 Jun 2026 21:09:06
It’s Celtic so yes it’s difficult.
Personally from the 4 mentioned I only want Saracchi signed.
Araujo isn’t worth £8 million
Ox and Kelechi are finished. Kelechi needs 2 years of pre-season to get fit and even then he’s so slow he makes Calmac look like an Olympic sprinter.
No more projects, no more has beens, let’s sign some players reaching there prime and give MON the chance to make a mark in Europe.
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15 Jun 2026 20:33:03
Assuming the Board will look at cheaper options in the market, teams like Egypt or Morocco will have one or 2 gems which if our recruitment team did their homework, we could pick them up when the WC ends 🤔.
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15 Jun 2026 21:12:31
Celtic will not sign a player that has performed well at the World Cup.
Many reasons for that but mainly that other teams will get the deal done quickly and efficiently whilst we low ball.
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15 Jun 2026 23:55:34
Other teams will send a limousine to collect the player to bring to megotiations. we'll tell the player to get a taxi and if he signs we'll reimburse. burse tbe fare minus tax.
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15 Jun 2026 09:02:32
Our ex loanee Pusey has signed for Kolin for £5m.
He played 11 matches in the German top flight. Missed a run of games due to Injury. But played 90 mins in 5 out of the last 6 matches.
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15 Jun 2026 11:32:36
Never really got the chance with us. And for £5m he was hardly out of our price range.
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15 Jun 2026 11:49:17
Def a player there. He might have been a good option for us.
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15 Jun 2026 12:07:47
No btr than Trusty, not strOng enough on 1v1,Btr keeping Nawrocki.
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15 Jun 2026 13:04:21
Trusty isn't as good as ball player and he's not very strong against big strikers, gets bullied.
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15 Jun 2026 13:33:38
Same as pusey, granted he's bit faster but need a no nonsense big fast strong def the kind MoN used to sign.
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15 Jun 2026 14:57:15
Bit harsh to have that assessment on Pusey when he only played one game and it was at RB not at CB. Trusty we have seen enough of though. Hoping we move both him and the injury prone CCV on or at least get a good RCB in as he can't be relied upon to not get injured again and has been rotten in between his injuries.
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15 Jun 2026 15:30:43
We had three managers last season and none of them played him.
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15 Jun 2026 18:05:00
We had two right footedcb's who were better than Trusty and we sold one and the other is on loan.
We sell him or keep him as backup to Scales or we get right and left cb's in and sell Trusty.
He played well in the big games but in league games was caught out far too often.
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15 Jun 2026 20:32:12
Scales should be the back up, if we don’t sign 2 central defenders then I worry for next season.
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15 Jun 2026 23:00:57
A don’t know much about Pusey but trusty is a scare, hope we can punt him.
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15 Jun 2026 08:56:13
So a week or so ago I moaned and took some to task about negativity constantly put on posts and comments on other peoples posts.
Well transfer window is open, we have a manager in place, I guess now negativity is merited if things don’t progress as fans would like.
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15 Jun 2026 10:41:37
The thing is I won't be forgetting what happened last season or the other things leading up to it.
In my view Desmond is stopping out club progressing and his arrogance is driving a wedge between fans and turning fans away from the club.
I know you agree with me about Desmond. Where we differ is you are prepared to keep backing the club and hope it fixes itself but I don't think it will be fixed until he is removed as he has shown no sign that things will change.
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15 Jun 2026 12:13:23
Nicholson and McKay still in charge of recruitment, the best indicator of future behaviour is past behaviour, this is going to be another poor window and we will make more than we spend.
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15 Jun 2026 13:07:49
Jaa, I know you like a wind up but anybody with any sense knows that there was very good reason to moan about last season and the season before that.
The club have treated fans appallingly and that needs to change.
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15 Jun 2026 14:42:05
Me, wind up ….
More than good reason, I’m more talking about recent weeks and the demand for manager appts and players to be signed within days of season ending, it all seemed a bit mis timed and moaning for moaning sake …. however that period for me when people like me didn’t like it is over, we’re entering the real period of where signs of progress need to happen, theve said publicly now mon will be fully backed, players in most leagues will now have had an extended holiday, players might still have time off before pre season but surely knowing what pre season to turn up to will be in players minds, especially if they fancy a move,
I don’t expect Celtic to shift heaven and earth and would also expect business towards end of window- after cl game, but there’s core positions that we should be getting people in place, you’d like to think we have a few targets at wc but there’s plenty of top class players not there.
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15 Jun 2026 15:22:39
I expect us to sign players from lower level clubs.
Instead of Kasper HØGH for example we will sign Elias Filet.
Instead of signing two proper centre halves we will stick with the 3 average ones we have already
If Engels and Hatate go then I expect we ain’t signing players at their level to replace them.
I hope MON ditches the formation so we can sell all the wingers, not one is decent. (Jota, I expect will probably never return)
I really hope come August there is something to be positive about.
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14 Jun 2026 21:30:15
Does anyone think we should push the boat out to keep Maeda or are we resigned to loosing him.
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14 Jun 2026 22:38:54
I’d definitely keep him if we can persuade him to stay 100%.
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14 Jun 2026 22:58:36
he doesn't want to stay, time to cash in.
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15 Jun 2026 01:12:43
Let him go. Had the best of him. Get decent money. We moved on.
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15 Jun 2026 05:01:29
I'd definitely keep Daizen and just watched Sweden game n Lagerbelki should definitely have stayed with us, is this down to BR arrogance?
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15 Jun 2026 07:54:28
He wants to leave, honour his move away. At least he got stuck in and signed off in style.
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15 Jun 2026 07:55:47
BR did that to a few players who have turned out decent. Look at Oh. He would have scored for fun last season had we kept faith in him. The title would not have been a cliffhanger had we kept him and one of our right fitted centre backs.
Now the window is open, we will see how truthfully Wilsons words were, early signings.
I hope he doesn't think that Scarrachi and the Mexican right back returning would be the acceptable early signings because that would be their usual nonsense and demonstrate no ambition.
Both are welcome back but they need to demonstrate a plan to move the team forward with new blood and show that they have a plan, not just rinse and repeat.
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15 Jun 2026 08:51:10
I would only keep Maeda if he asked to stay. Refusing to sell him again and he repeats the form he showed for most of the season would be a disaster.
If he wants to stay and we get the end of the season Maeda, I would keep him in a heartbeat.
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15 Jun 2026 09:05:18
Rocky was another one BR didn't play. Is he still out player?
When he played he didn't do much wrong.
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15 Jun 2026 11:54:05
GT. He is still ours and did deserve a better chance as did Lagerbielka.
I genuinely think that 2 and Oh would have succeeded had they been given game time by the sulk.
Oh has now scored the winning goal in a WC game so his value is going up.
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14 Jun 2026 20:57:21
I hope those of us watching Holland v Japan stood up for the Japanese national anthem 😁. c'mon Daizen.
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14 Jun 2026 21:31:28
Im getting ready to sing da da da da Meada.
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14 Jun 2026 14:44:34
ED007 if you are about
Surely there is NO TRUTH in these stories about Efran Juarez being offered a coaching role and I cannot believe MON would accept being told to work with a coach he hardly knows.
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{Ed007's Note - I think it's all came from an interview where he said something like "Why shouldn't aim to manage a club Celtic's size" or something along those lines. I wouldn't pay too much attention to it, the to take over next year patter is a red herring for me.}
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14 Jun 2026 18:26:59
Cheers ED007
I did not think Martin would allow this Board to foist someone on him, as Martin like any coach needs people he has worked with and can trust.
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{Ed007's Note - Do you think MON picked Maloney and Fotheringham? Even if those 2 have agreed to stay on in their roles I'd still like to see someone else added to the main coaching staff, it's either a change or breath of fresh air needed in coaching or a major change in playing/starting personnel to break away from the slow monotonous football we've seen for too long in this squad across different managers & coaches
And we might need a replacement for Baby Strachan if he goes to WBA.}
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14 Jun 2026 19:16:17
Couldn’t agree more Ed, we got results last year, but I never saw anyone or team start to thrive from the coaching, I could be wrong ……. a thought -with McKenna on a sabbatical, will his coaches become available when he’s replaced, could we look to put them in place to help a possible future move for him.
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{Ed007's Note - We seen with Nancy that drastic changes mid-season doesn't work but who knows what could have happened if he had a full preseason and proper recruitment, that's the kind of progression we need a breakaway completely from the horseshoe of death.}
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14 Jun 2026 20:00:54
Even BR and MON both moaned about the across the field, back the other way, up the wing; back to the keeper and start again p**h.
Both have said they wanted the ball moved forward quicker but the players didn't do that, which suggests that is how they were being coached.
We got away with one last season, there is no way playing that way again will get us success again.
I agree Ed, if it is down to coaching we do need a change, a refresh.
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{Ed007's Note - I know some people will disagree but I put a lot of it on CalMac, he's the player that dictates the tempo etc for us and he spends far too much time passing it about as if he is 3rd CB, no matter what Celtic player in the defence or midfield has the ball McGregor's 5 yards away demanding the ball and pointing and when he gets the ball he just passes it on another 5 yards sideways or even back to the CB or FB he got it from.
If I was MON I would be asking Engels to give us another year - offer him a new deal and payrise with a promise/clause he can leave next summer - and tell him he is going to be the main man and we will build the midfield around him, he is by a country mile the best all round MF at the Club.
We simply can't go into next season with CalMac being the main lynchpin of the team.}
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14 Jun 2026 20:36:53
Ed I've said before the side and back passing from mgregor has a lot to do with our negative play on the park. even as a boy playing for a local team you were always taught to look up and play forward, i don't understand why coaches drill it into players involve the keeper by passing across there back line, imo you just create problems for yourself.
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{Ed007's Note - 👍🏻🍀
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14 Jun 2026 20:50:22
Would it be too much to expect for the manager to tell players what he wants with the threat of being withdrawn if not done. Get it that options may have limited that ability last season, but surely the manager calls the shots.
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{Ed007's Note - It's like wingers cutting inside all the time, is that on them or the manager? I'd rather leave it up to the player whether he wants to go inside or try and take his man on, it's a lot less predictable.}
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14 Jun 2026 21:20:33
Av said on numerous times that up against better players in Europe calmac gets constantly found out and low and behold my youngest daughter goes out and buys a Celtic top with McGregor on her back🤦♂️.
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15 Jun 2026 00:46:31
Maybe she knows better.
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15 Jun 2026 12:02:43
Ed, I think a few of us have said that. Play Engels where he was playing before we bought him. Let him dictate our play and maybe play CM forward.
Engels has so much quality and it is being wasted playing him where we do.
CM is the proverbial crab. He no longer has the ability to move forward at pace and break the defensive line, so he plays short one twos and then the ball goes out wide to wingers already covered or defenders who come backwards with the ball as they are closed down.
Jota did what he wanted as did Liel Abada, yet the wingers we have come inside and nothing happens. Hit the byline and it puts pressure on defenders heading backwards and gives strikers the opportunity to make their runs and hit space.
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{Ed007's Note - 👍🏻🍀
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15 Jun 2026 14:38:46
Calmac still has plenty of pace BUT he seldom uses it to go forward. On the odd occasion he does, he normally causes a panic in the opposition as they're not expecting it. That said, he should be playing further forward and as I fully expect Engels to be punted, I hope we're securing a strong DM who is a first team starter.
I've also said for ages our wingers need to vary their play more. Look back at our goals at the end of last season. Almost all of them came from a player hitting the byline and crossing.
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14 Jun 2026 12:54:13
76 bonafide friendly matches at the world cup before its watered down to the standard 32 teams. 76 matches to eliminate 16 teams most of whom will be minnows with no business at the WC.
I know many on here have zero interest in international football but for me i enjoy the big tournaments. That was up until this pish Fifa have conjured up.
Mid half water breaks for no reason other than to commercialize the competition is the final straw for me.
Them corrupt B'tards at FIFA are destroying the game for nothing more than the $$$.
Infantino and the rest of them can go do one.
The 2032 WC in Saudi says it all.
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14 Jun 2026 20:33:09
It’s who can give the most suitcases of money mate.
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14 Jun 2026 09:18:35
It’s strange that the club haven’t been updating us about player sales/ out of contract at the club?
Having to rely on players telling the fans themselves.
I see a lot of clubs often post updated of which players will be out of contract and who have been offered new deals at the end of a season. Celtic again not providing the information we require.
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14 Jun 2026 17:56:50
Because we are headed for a similar summer to least year.
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14 Jun 2026 08:04:28
Fabulous result for Scotland. Maybe this is the year…….
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14 Jun 2026 12:56:29
To win the cup itself?
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14 Jun 2026 17:22:04
Manager got away with it, first 20 mins we looked ok, should have maybe created more or scored a couple but after that we should have changed shape and dropped a striker, Steve Clark I’d say has a free pass in either of next 2 games to take a beating but he needs to compete in the other.
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