Aiden McGeady and Scott Brown

I cant believe that people are doubting McGeadys talent. The guy has the capability to be a brilliant player. Last season before he got injured he was brilliant, our best player by far. Ok, the CL games last year he was disappointing. But this year if he improves on that he will be a fantastic player.

If you look back to when he first came into the team he didnt track back. That has been sorted, his tracking back is now very good. Before he didnt mix it up at all with opposing player. With varying degrees of success he has improved this also.

Someone else mentioned Ronaldo at Man Utd 1-2 seasons ago. Not comparing them as Ronaldo is coming close to the complete player, but Ronaldo wasnt always as good as he was. He had to work at dif parts of his game and has got gradually better. The same can happen with Aiden.

You have to remeber, when he was coming through his boys clubs, he was the main man in each team. Every manager basically told the players to give him the ball and he would score ( I know because I know lots of people who played against him, and have spoke to people that played in his teams ). He thought it would just click in the 1st team but it hasnt happnd that way and he has had to change his menatlity.

Every1 screams out 4 a player that will take the ball and run at other teams. We have 1 and he gets slated for not doing the easy thing all the time. We cant have it both ways here. Give him another 2 seasons, he will improve and imo, become a fantastic player. He playd very well against Milan in Milan and at CP. he has shown that his group stage games werent the way that he always plays in CL games.

And as for Riordan playing infront of him, forget it. Riordan is a good striker, not a LM or winger. He cant beat a man and he has no pace (something Aiden has improved on since coming in2 the 1st team). When we are not near or in the opponents box Riordan is useless out on the left.

Cmon Aiden, prove them all wrong.

 

You have got to be laughin

McGeady has been shockin, leadin to bhoys like Riordan (who is a better finisher) being given more opportunities.

McGeady is the classic flatter to deceive.

Final ball is shockin.

He had the best two goal scorers on GB in Sutton an Hartson, how ,many bhoys would score more than these bhoys!

 

Maybe the fact that he signed a new 5 year contract in february means that he's committed to Celtic and Celtic dont have to sell due to the strong position which means that any club that would have an interest would have to pay a huge transfer fee.

Wilmhellsson is average and McGeady will become a very strong first team player. He's learning to become the complete midfielder under Strachan. I remember C. Ronaldo getting the very same critisisms from Man United supporters 2 seasons ago, now look at him, it has all clicked for him

 

Great point, Riordan is a better finisher. So would u play VOH left wing? No, u would keep him upfront where u need a good finisher. I cant believe u would call for Riordan to play on the left in front of McGeady because he is a better finisher. Being a good fifnisher is not the main atribute needed to play on the left!

McGeady final ball is poor a lot of the time, this has improved though. Sutton has been out of the Celtic team for two full seaseons. So he was 19 when Sutton left. How can u possibly judge how good he is on how he performed two years ago.

Go and have a long discussion with yourself!

 

McGeady/Ronaldo, *, haha.... When Ronaldo was poor he was still 10 times better than McGeady. Oh and BTW Riordan scored most of his goals on the left wing for Hibernian. I'm not giving McGeady a hard time, but i'm not gonna get carried away with the lad. He is not even as good as Brian McLaughlin was, remember him, he couldn't cut it at Celtic, remember the hype over Simon Donnelly, I have fears McGeady will end up the same as them. Lets compare him to them not Ronaldo.

I can't understand how people can say Wilhelmsson is average and then go on about how great McGeady is. Maybe i will wear my tinted sun spects next time I watch him.

 

McGeady cant win leagues on his own he has no power in his long passes or shots. he has skill but he needs somone ther with him with power i.e. donati or brown.

 

Nobody compares McGeady to Ronaldo. McGeady is just in a similar situation Ronaldo used to be 2 years ago. McGeady doesn't play what he is capable of.

On the other hand many users praise Brown. Will he get the same abuse if he ain't the new celtic maradona?

 

No1 can win the league on their own, and Nakamura has less power and strentgh than McGeady, even WGS says Naka is a luxury player sometimes he can do nothing for 90 mins then score so i wouldnt say Mcgeady isnt good because he has no power

 

Im comparing them in terms of development and the critisisms they get/got for the type of players they are. Never said McGeady will become better than Ronaldo but he can get all the parts of his game running the way he wants, he'll be a very good celtic player.

Wilhelmsson is average, get over it.

 

I already did get over your lack of judgement, don't be cheeky.

 

McGeady is average.Time some people on here got over that.You say HE WILL be a Celtic player how do you know that?

From what i have heard McGeady thinks he is already a class act and his attitude is one were i feel he needs to be brought down a peg or two.He is not willing to work on his final ball because he believes it is already good enough which it most certainly is not.

 

now how the * do you know that?

has he telt you stop talkin pish as if yer gd pals with him and know him and his * mindset!

 

I'm worried that this is McGeady's make or break season at Celtic. As Ronaldo at Man U, he's got to come up with some end product from all the tricks. Ronaldo has done that with devastating effect. If McGeady can get a small part of that then we'll have a decent player. Too often he beats a couple of players really well and instead of feeding the strikers tries to beat another man and gets tackled. He has also gone missing big time in Europe. It's like working with just one flank. We really need someone in the squad to push him to perform as once Maloney was sold i don't think he played at all last season.

 

No,but Neil Lennon did,which is just as good

 

they linked up well today for scott browns goal

 

Did he play well? I didn't get to see the game.

 

said on the radio he was man of the match

 

Well, he is wearing a Celtic jersey most weeks that he plays

You've made an assumption there with his attitude. Now watching GS critisise him and dropping him then watching McGeady do things that he never did before (e.g. Tracking back and increasing his physique) and he won his place back afterwards. Now that is the attitude of a player that was brought back to earth and applied himself better.

Getting the final ball right and releasing passes earlier are the next things for him to focus on and by the game against Basel he seems to trying to address these two flaws in his game. He is looking to better himself and I think he will get there.

Very much C.Ronaldo got the same flack 2 seasons ago. Man United supporters argued that he'll just not get it together but he did and he's been brilliant for them once he learned when to pass and when to go with it. More experience and listening to his manager has done it for him I think McGeady is going through something similar and he will get it together also.

 

what do people think now were qaurter the way through the season?

 

If we are looking at Aiden and Scott comparitively, its been a funny old season for both of them.
We started off with Brown being Immense, and the best player on the past week in-week out, and Aiden being sloppy and inconsistent.
The last half dozen games has seen Brown, while not being bad, just seem a bit burnt out, and Aiden being outstanding.

Ive been told by a reliable source that Strachan actually got Aiden a personal specialist in who has been working specifically on his muscles. You can see he is MUCH leaner these days, and instead of beating men with tricks, he is doing it with raw pace. Hes becoming a more complete player, but he still has a way to go.