Brendan Fraudgers!

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#merge

 

If Rodgers leaves I'm not spending anymore money until lawell is away. It's isn't alot... about £500 a season but still if enough people do it we can make a change. The fat * spent more on his bonus than we spent on any player this window for * sake. No ambition and seemingly no plan outside of making scotland a 2 team league again.

 

As I said in another thread we need a change at the top as this board are only happy making Celtic a domestic success and have no ambition when it comes to Europe.
But also the board seem to not match Brendan Rogers ambition for the club and now think he has taken the club as far as he can with the finance available to him .

 

His wage is double our best player. No other * club is like that. Mental.

 

I work for a betting chain and the night before the story broke of Rodgers to Leicester their was guys putting big bets on him to move their reason I know is when it comes to large bets like that with huge liability you need to phone head office

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BR: We're delighted to get Toljan in. He's what I like in a full-back in terms of athleticism.


BR on the transfer window: "It's been very good. We've strengthened in key areas and we signed Scott Brown, which was very important."

BR on #STJCEL: "Our strategy is to work as hard as we didon Wednesday and then our quality can shine through.

BR on Tom Rogic: "Unfortunately, he will be out for up to six weeks. He's seen a knee specialist in London but we'll be without him for a while.

BR on the league: "It's an advantage but it's not a huge advantage. There's still a long way to go so we'll be focused for the upcoming games."

 

Brendan must not care about getting CB-s in. I mean all those * loans, and none of them a CB.

 

Did BR gets his all weather training dome?

 

Toss up between this and a winger. He chose winger.

 

WITH the January transfer window now closed, Brendan Rodgers reflected positively on the incomings and outgoings within his squad. New Bhoys Oliver Burke and Timoth Weah have already made a positive impact, Ivory Coast striker Bayo is training with the squad, while defender Jeremy Toljan has arrived from Borussia Dortmund. And the manager was also delighted to secure Scott Brown’s services for the next two years.

Speaking after deadline day, the manager said: “I think what we’ve done over the course of this window has been to bring players in now, and the strategy within the club is to protect the future of the club. We’ve brought in young talented players that have qualities, but it’s important that they continue to play and that’s been the case with them.

“Young Maryan will continue his first-team football where he’s playing in Ukraine through to April, and then the plan will be to come back to here. He’ll train with the squad and adapt to life here at Celtic and in the city. Come the summer, he’ll be fit and raring to go.”

Young Americans, Manny Perez and Andrew Gutman, are also back out on loan in the United States before returning to Celtic.

Meanwhile, Scott Brown’s new deal sees the Celtic skipper remain at Paradise until 2021, which is something Brendan Rodgers considers just as important as brining new faces in.

The manager added: “The transfer window has been very good, we’ve brought in players in key areas that we wanted to. We signed Scott Brown, which is equally important, if not more so. Scott signing for another two years is a huge boost for the squad and for the club. As I say, the club has looked at for the now and also for the future, so it’s been a productive window.

"I’ve been relaxed on it (Scott Brown's signing). We’ve just tried to give him respect on it. It’s not something that we wanted to rush him on, especially at the beginning. But obviously as time goes on, then I think that he was aware that he needed to make a decision.

“He felt the need to be here and the want to be here, but he obviously has to listen to other opportunities, especially when they’re attractive. He’s 34 at the end of this season, so we give him that respect. But we’re delighted that he’s signed. You’ve saw in the last couple of games, that he’s got his fitness back and he’s played very well.”

 

If loan deals stand accused of being a sticking plaster solution to a long-term problem, Brendan Rodgers believes there is a sweetener that comes with it; Celtic have exposure to players they would normally be significantly priced out of competing for

Jeremy Toljan joined an increasing list at Celtic this week. The Borussia Dortmund right-back is now among five players at the Parkhead side who are there on short-term deals from parent clubs.

Filip Benkovic, Timothy Weah, Oliver Burke and Daniel Arzani are the others but while it might seem a myopic approach given the hole they will leave at the end of the season, Rodgers has maintained that while he is wary of overindulging in loan deals it nevertheless offers a route to keeping the standard high without endangering the financial structure of the club.

As the perennial hunt for affordable quality in problematic positions will surely return this summer, it is difficult not to view the January window and the late acquisition of Toljan as symptomatic of Celtic’s issues in the market.

Unearthing suitable players at the right price is a challenge that has grown with each bloated window. Celtic’s strategy is clear but finding the right fit is not quite so straightforward.

“The availability of that type is not as easy as people think. ‘Just go and get a right back’, okay, but to get one above that level there will always be a premium to come to a cub like Celtic,” said Rodgers. “So that is the dilemma. You bring in on a short-term loan a boy like this who we couldn’t buy, although there might be a possibility at the end of it. It’s always that Catch-22.

“Here there is always going to be that notion – and I’ve been here two and a half years – that you are always going to be in a rebuilding phase. That’s the reality, where it’s at.

“You’re going to have a group of loans of quality that with all due respect you can’t afford, you’ve got a group of core players that are here and then you are looking to them bring young players into it. It’s a constant. It’s a cycle. A couple of years cycle, players progress, they develop then they move on and it’s recycling it again and finding the ways to maintain the standards while you’re doing it.

We had tracked Jeremy a while back but we couldn’t get him. There was no hunger from them [Dortmund] to want to do anything. He is a player that the recruitment team were aware of for some time but we felt it was outside of our reach and there was no desire from them to let him out in the summer. He is one that we have known about but probably didn’t think that we could get and thankfully the club has been able to do an agreement and the boy has made a sacrifice as well.

Weah signed a new contract with PSG immediately before boarding the place for Glasgow and West Brom are unlikely to write off the £15m they paid for Burke. Benkovic had barely unpacked his boots at Leicester than he was on the road to Glasgow and Toljan still has unfinished business in the Bundesliga.


But still, Rodgers, has alluded to the fact that in a general sense a positive loan deal can provide a decent sales pitch for players who may well find themselves in a position further down the line for an opportunity to move on a permanent deal with Celtic.

“I’m not against loans if they are high-quality loans,” said Rodgers. “You are advertising your club because maybe at some point – maybe not directly after, but at some point in the future – you can bring that player in because they have loved it so much.

So you’d rather have them here to see that quality and let them feel it than not have them. It’s just a balancing act really because you can’t have too many loans because it disrupts it.”

And while the attitude of players who are not on permanent contracts with the club could be questioned, Rodgers believes the flip side of that is that players know they need to showcase what they have got if they wish to continue the upward trajectory of their career.

“There is a reason why they come here, the stature of the club, but they also know they can come and develop and play under pressure,” he said. “And if they show that and they come in here in the model that the club has, as young players, if they prove themselves here they’re always going to be in the shop window elsewhere. Then they get their offers of 70, 80, 90 grand a week. That’s impossible for Celtic to compete with.

“I am comfortable with the core group that we have here and the types of profile of the boys we have brought in. They are good guys, humble guys. They want to come in and work and work well and they know that if they want to do well in their careers they have to do well here.”

 

Basically, we are signing Roberts in the summer.

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We've got about a million wingers but..

 

Attack is the best form of defence.

Plus Rodgers doesn't know about it yet, so it's fine.

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We are voluntarily taking away playing time for our own players, to develop someone else's. That's stupid.

 

In terms of Toljan it isn’t Lustig isn’t the player he was and Ralston is out for around 8 weeks. Burke and Weah are needed as we only had Edouard as a striker.

 

Ralston out for 8 weeks?? Although, Toljan is a loan I do not mind so much. We only needed Burke OR Weah, not both. Bayo was signed.

 

Aye I was just wondering about Johnston, he looks really promising but that must be him hardly getting much game time at all now?

Oh yeah and Bayo looks like he's going to be a riot.

Is Miller back?

But I'm thinking the Leicester rumours are someone trolling cause anyone could phone up a bookie and say £1m on Rodgers going to Foxes. I have no doubt about him leaving without a years notice. I think if the summer window is good he'll definitely try and win the next two titles. Two decent defenders and we should be strong enough.

We'll have a very good idea of how we're fixed while Benkovic is out.

Oh ffs I just read that, what happened to him? I didn't even see Bekovic getting injured and now Ralston *, didn't even think anyone was far enough up the pitch to injure him. Not brilliant news but as you say with the Dortmund guy it should be alright.