Should Celtic buy Foreign or British players

Do you think we'll ever have a foreign captain?

James Kelly, Dan Doyle, Sandy McMahon, Willie Orr, James Hay, Jim Young, Alec McNair, Willie Cringan, Charlie Shaw. Willie McStay, Jimmy McStay, Bobby Hogg, Willie Lyon, John McPhail

Sean Fallon

Jock Stein, Bobby Evans

Bertie Peacock

Duncan Mackay, Billy McNeil, Kenny Dalglish, Danny McGrain, Roy Aitken, Paul McStay, Tom Boyd, Paul Lambert, Jackie McNamara

Neil Lennon

Stephen McManus, Scott Brown

 

Forrest played if you're talking about the 1-1 game. McGeady played in the other one.

 

Even if McGeady's Irish, he's not really a foreign player, especially to Celtic. Unusual for there not to be any Scottish players though.

 

There's always one...

Anyway, I'd prefer a fully foreign team, no Brits.

 

For every Kevin Doyle quoted at £3m - which we didn't pursue - there is a Kris Commons for £350,000.

For the people keen to labour the point that the English Leagues are over-rated and over-valued, it is a vast generalisation. While the likes of Henderson, Rodwell, Downing, Young etc cost the earth, the likes of Forster, Matthews, Commons, Wilson and Hooper were over-looked by Premier League clubs, and Celtic took a chance and were rewarded in both performance and financial terms.

When buying abroad, for every Wanyama there is a Rafael, and for every Boruc there is a Gravesen. Some work, some don't.

 

Should be a Norn Irish flag by Peacock's name

 

why is that then?

 

I think that Celtic should really work on bringing in and developing more homegrown talent.

But obviously a mix of foreign and UK/Irish players is what is best for the club.

 

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It was the robbie keane debut game and yes McGeady did play but technically he isn't a scottish player.

 

Nationality doesn't matter.

 

He had said that by "all foreign" he meant no Scots or Irish.

 

We should be buying the best players available to the club, it's as simple as that for me. If that means the guy is British, then fine, if it means the guy is a foreign player, then fine. We shouldn't be looking at it one way or the other. There would be plenty examples to back up reasons for either to be fair.

 

Not sure if this has been said before.

In the Champions league you must have a certain amount of "Home Grown" players in the 25 man squad.

However "Home Grown" does not have to mean Scottish players, or even players that have been developed by Celtic.

So as long as we take the best home grown talent from within the SPFL, as well as growing our own talent, in order to meet this quota, I'll be happy.

 

Celtic should sign only the best players available (realistically) whether they are British or foreign.

Ideally, obviously it is always good to have a good few British players.

 

nationality has nothing to do with being homegrown, Bahrudin Atajic and Leonardo Fasan for example, are classed as homegrown at Celtic despite being Bosniak/Swedish and Italian respectively.

 

Naylor was good signing there was even talk of him getting in the England team at the time and Pearson was not that bad nore were McCourt or Fox.

 

Steven Pressley also did fine when he was here.

 

We ahould sign the best players available no matter where they are from

 

Would yous swap Mouyokolo, Izaguirre, Lustig, Biton and Rogic for Pressley, Naylor, Fox, Pearson and McCourt?