25 Aug 2020 20:21:54
Further to Turnbull i've heard the following

Brighton do not want to sell duffy to west ham or west Brom. they don't want to improve a rival

They do want to sell him however for around 5m
Duffy wants a year up here but sees his longer term future in EPL and so the loan option works for us and Duffy BUT CFC PLC do not like the idea of 30k per week and a 2m. loan fee . that's 3.5 m out and nowt coming in

Ironically, celtic would sign him for 4m and pay him 35k per week ( 3 year deal with extension for a 4th year ( that Celtic could trigger)

I'm told that Duffy is in a bit of a bind. He could end up in championship with promotion chasing club which will resolve the issue. a potential loan to purchase option with Watford.

IF celtic can move the dial on the year loan fee from 2m to 1m or get Brighton to share the wages, then we get him for the year

This is FAR from done and could unravel very quickly.

1.) 25 Aug 2020
25 Aug 2020 20:37:52
Lubo, I hope you're right with the latter option. He's only 3rd or 4th best CB at Brighton. He isn't feckin Van Dijk or Ramos and I don't understand why so many Celtic fans are creaming their panties about him. He's decent but nothing more than that and if he wasn't Irish most fans would be tellin him to get te feck. HH.

2.) 25 Aug 2020
25 Aug 2020 20:37:56
Buy him for 5 m, pay 30 grand a week and say he can leave next year for 5m.

3.) 25 Aug 2020
25 Aug 2020 21:16:23
Even if Duffy does sign,
Celtic still need a left footed CB.
If we played a back 3 of. Jullian. Duffy. Ajar.
I don’t see that working.
Jullian or Duffy wouldn’t be suited to the right side of a 3 man defence.
And Ajar has shown he is not suited to the left side of a 3 man defence.

4.) 26 Aug 2020
25 Aug 2020 22:38:37
I'll admit not seen a great deal of Duffy, but seen enough that I won't be too upset if deal is not agreed.

Be happy if we sign him permanently to add more a bit of steel and experience to our squad, but think it would be madness to pay a £2 million plus loan fee for 1 season.

We've been crying out for a left sided CB for a while now. Ajer is the best we have atm but clearly struggles in that role and feel we are doing him a disservice constantly playing him there.

Liked the sound of young American left sided CB Mackenzie that was rumoured a while ago. Already capped and able to play LB as well supposedly. Gutted there has been no mention of him since.

5.) 26 Aug 2020
25 Aug 2020 23:14:20
Why pay him so much?, give him the same as Julien or Ajer are on, or tell him to jog on, he is not an outstanding centre back, if he can't get in the Brighton first team regularly, if he wants to come here, tell him to take a wage cut, . We are getting too strung up on this ten in a row, talking about bringing in shameless mercenaries, without progress in Europe, ten in a row is meaningless, bring in some young talented centre back with potential, develop him, progress the team, to become a European level teamm, forget ten in a row, make the goal European achievement.

6.) 26 Aug 2020
25 Aug 2020 23:39:10
I thought that but heard Jim Duffy say this is one of biggest myths in football. He named many of best partnerships ever and all right footed. He also mentioned many of those playing on left side that are right footed including VVD.

7.) 26 Aug 2020
26 Aug 2020 05:11:41
It’s interesting what Duffy has to say,
He did mention the Best Partnerships and VVD,
But these players who are stuck on the wrong side are not the Best,
And they’re certainly not a VVD.

8.) 26 Aug 2020
26 Aug 2020 12:30:07
Duffy does not want a long term deal in Scotland
Brighton want to sell
Celtic went to buy ideally
Celtic will loan but won't shell out 3.5m for the privilege

This all comes down to Duffy. if he can give us 3 years. they it's on

If not. well it'll be championship in England with a loan purchase option

Unless Brighton reduce loan fee which they wont.

9.) 26 Aug 2020
26 Aug 2020 18:19:17
Aindoh, getting good new players in to play in the SPL Is very difficult . We have found in the past that poor players will sign with no problems . Telling the like of Duffy to take your offer, or to jump on his bike, will mean Duffy and others will regard us as a club, not interested in signing at all.