Transfer Talk

Pukki is quite obviously a better football player than Eero Markkanen. But that doesn't really matter, because if Markkanen is brought in, he won't be playing in a similar role as Pukki. As a target type Markkanen will be able to contribute more to Celtic than Pukki did, even if he's not an equally good football player.

Like I explained on the last page, Markkanen was bought by Real Madrid not because of his current level but because of his potential. He was obviously a risky purchase, but if a 197cm player starts training seriously in his 20s and then rockets from the Finnish 3rd level into one of Sweden's biggest clubs in just two years and becomes even a top 10 striker in the Swedish league in this time frame, then the question we're asking is not how good is he now but how good can he be in two, three or four years. This is the question Zidane was asking when he had Markkanen bought.

And this is the question Celtic should be asking if they are interested in Markkanen. Don't expect a Champions League group stage level player now. Right now you cxpect a decent SPL player, but one who has genuine potential of developing into another Peter Crouch.

 

That makes me shudder

 

Has he every done anything since he moved to Anzi all them years ago :smiley-laughing002:

 

seeing tht were interested in jeff hendrick of derby...not seen much of him tbh but another midfielder? cb lb and st is where we should be focusing on

 

Crouch was a great player, look at his record in Europe and internationally. Criminally underrated footballer.

 

Monaco paid 12 mil for him, unless they're trying to get him off the wage bill and he's willing to take a cut it's very unlikely.

Probably not as unlikely as us signing players from Man united and City though so * it, #BringLacinaHome

We can flip a picture of Paradise and tell him all the tricolours are ivory coast flags.

 

Where did you see this buddy

 

I agree he is underrated a bit, but those records are helped mostly by scoring against weaker teams

 

I think there's a lot of potential there with Hendrick. He's probably on decent wages at Derby though.

 

Would we stand a chance of getting Fabian Schär as Van Dijk's eventual replacement?

 

Sure he signed for a mid level German team

 

No.

 

Yes, 100%. He seems a good guy too - always comes across as being very humble, imo. Probably my favourite English striker of recent times (not that that's saying much at all).

 

Yeah, apparently he signed for Hoffenheim. Gutter.