Aiden McGeady - Stay?/Go?/All McGeady Chat in Here

there have always been replacements or someone left, this is truly an end of an era and we havent got any new attacking players to show for it

 

No doesn't answer the question...

 

Andy Driver

 

Some fans have a mindset about aiden and no matter what he does he does they never change it.
5 good games theyre nowhere to be seen 1 bad game and the pitchforks are out.
Without him we as team are * clueless, other than maloney (whos always injured ) Aiden is the only player we have who can beat a man and put the opponents on the backfoot because of the direct way he plays, hes the only one who has any flair about him and the ability to change a game on his own, sure his shooting isnt great and his crossing isnt perfect ( not as bad as people make out though ) but hes the only player who has the balls to keep tryin even when hes recieving pelters from his own fans, he doesnt hide like others do who are more concerned with not making mistakes than trying to make something happen.
He deserves far more respect than what a section of our support give him not only because of what he gives us on the pitch but the loyalty he has shown to this club and its fans off it.

 

Aidens a cracking wee player and genuinely loves the club

but i think for the sake of his own career he has to move on, and Lenny will punt him in order to raise funds for his own signings

 

I don't want him to go and i don't think we will replace him especially if we go hunting in england. For all his faults he is still one of the best players in Scotland.

 

It's time for him to move on for the money getting talked about he's got to go. I'd take no less than £8m. He's been a brilliant player for the club but if we can get 2 or 3 good players in with the money raised it would benefit the team. Also would be great if we could keep him and find the money else where but that seems unlikely. McGeady is our most saleable asset am afraid

 

Fed up with this talk of him leaving. Does anybody actually want him?

If he does leave, the team will benefit in a big way. That's for sure.

 

i dont really think he does love celtic in all honesty.can never crack a smile tbh lol. i would take about 8 million and run haha.

 

The guys did all he can here and he sure as * aint improving anymore! Time for him to go and try else where. Fowk have mentiond his crossing, what they have got to remember hes running at speed into the corner with 2 sum times 3 players snapping away at his heels!

 

I agree, I think to grow as a footballer he needs to move on. I can see him coming back to the club later in his career when he's more a finished article.

 

In my opinion, Aiden hasn't fully developed yet. He still thinks, plays and acts like a promising kid - instead of a main man. This immaturity is disappointing considering the potential he showed when he was a teenager in the hoops.

His price tag like his ego is inflated beyond belief and he has for the last few seasons hindered the team and the club in many respects.

Aiden has been very lucky he's come along during a time when both Rangers and Celtic have been incredibly weak. If he was a player during the Rangers 9 in a row run - he'd have probably been sold for peanuts.

In my opinion, Aiden's not dissimilar to the likes of Joe Miller. Miller was a good young player at Aberdeen and then Celtic and he showed great potential but never truly developed and matured into the player we hoped for and subsequently disappeared into the football wilderness. In the early 90s Billy McNeill said of Miller (and Andy Walker, Gerry Creaney), "some of these players think they are good enough to be signed by Real Madrid and AC Milan but they have to get a grip on reality"

Aiden is the same, he has to get a grip on reality. He's a fairly average player who has flashes now and then of brilliance. He gets bullied out of games too easy, has poor upper body strength, lacks true imagination if the tricks aren't working and his final ball and shooting are below the standard of a supposed top class player.

Don't get me wrong, I like Aiden, I would love him to work on his many weaknesses and develop into a top player and show all those flashes of brilliance more frequently in a Celtic strip, but if I am being brutually honest I don't see it happening. I am not sure he has it in him, he's had a few years now in the first team and not really progressed much. maybe he's in the wrong position, maybe WGS and BTM were asking him to do things he shouldn't be doing - like chasing back and tackling...maybe he's best behind a front two...I don't know! One thing is for sure, he's been poor this last two years.

A move might be the best thing for him, if he moves on he might be in a team set up or with a coach that will develop him, but at CP right now we need better, stronger (mentally and physically) and more consistent players.

People ask how do you replace McGeady - er...Maloney, McCourt, McGinn...maybe sign Liam Lawrence who is keeping Aiden out of the Irish team...there are loads of options. Aiden is many things, but one thing he most definitely is not, is irreplaceable.

 

Reading through all these replies, it's easy to pick out the posters who have read my OP and the ones who haven't.

 

Paddy McCourt? Skilled player. But would never be a first team regular, because of his general level of fitness.
Niall McGinn? Pacy guy. But not even near McGeadys level.
Shaun Maloney - a good SPL player when fits. But I don't rate him as high as McGeady.
Liam Lawrence? Give me five clones on him, then we can compare. If he's that good, why do Stoke City want to switch him with Gary O'Neill or sell him to Celtic for £2m., when McGeady is rated £10m.?
This is blasphemy.
And don't use the Trap-argue. Except if you also thinks that Emile Heskey is the second best striker i England, and Artur Boruc isn't even the third best goalkeeper in Poland ...

I can't rule out that he gonna leave. Something indicates he wonna move on.
But he's still a prof. footballer under contract at Celtic. And he's still the best player in the league.
It would not only be bad business to force him out of the squad, it wouldn't neither be fair to a player who have showed loyality and heart for Celtic. Even when we was *, he tried to make the different. And when he's good his on the second level than any of his opponents.

Only few teams gonna offer us a good enough bid. Until then, he's a Celtic player and needs our backing.
Put on an £10m. offer, or a switch deal with a good player, then Celtic should be considering it. But until then, we should be glad to have a class player as him in Celtic, instead of trying to force him out of the club.

I support him fully, and hope he stays. It's a privilege to support a club that don't have to sell our best players. We should try to show ambitions and keep him if possible.

 

The OP has great points in it,i for one have no problem if he goes or stays for that matter

in the last 2 season's we have had to depend on this guy on many occasions and on other occasion has let us down,but stop and think, if there were players that are on the same calibre around him would his game improve?McGeady is a celtic fan and wanted to take celtic's problems on his shoulders,you seen that in his play.

I like this bhoy and would like to think he would improve,a change of team,a new direction could do him wonders, i know our managment has changed,could they get more out of him?who knows

this lad has talent,there is not many better than him in the spl, so what ever the outcome

good luck

 

We agree he's not improved to the level we had hoped for but one big question for you Marco...what do you think is his best position?

Also has the Scottish game with all it's baggage affected his development - ie...getting booed every game by the opposition simply because of his Irish Catholic background?

One thing I am sure of, if he goes, he will quickly replaced and forgotten. Much better players than Aiden (Dalglish, Nicholas etc) have disappeared over the horizon and the fans quickly adopted a new hero.

It would be great to get 8m plus smackers for him.

 

Yep, he is different and when it comes off it looks great...but his wastage of the ball at crosses and shots is pretty criminal for a so called top player.

I agree there is not many better than him in the spl but come on, the spl is hardly a league full of skilful players.

It disgusts me when I see Rangers dumpling players like Whittaker or Broadfoot nullifying Aiden. I know we shouldn't live in the past but the likes of Jinky or Bobby Lennox would have retired this Rangers back four a long time ago! The fact that Aiden has hardly had two decent games v a terrible Rangers in 5 years says it all really.

 

in my opinion there is alot of good players in the spl.and whittaker is not that bad scored alot of goals from defence

in my post i stated that if he went i would not curl in a ball and sobb
its six and two three's,if he stays or goes he will be on my teamsheet everyweek if he's here

 

They don't nullify him one on one. 9/10 times McGeady will beat any SPL full-back one on one. It's the doubling up that stifles him and intensifies his weak area of decision making. When he's doubled up he needs to suck those 2 defenders away from defending as much as he can, then he should off-load to a free team-mate since an overlap is created.

However, with his decision making skills he tends to try and beat the two and ends up losing our momentum.

As you said before though Loyd he still plays like a up and coming kid and needs to mature up fast if he's going to become the A-list match-winner that we all want him to be.

 

I feel that McGeady would be far more effective if he was played through the middle, behind the strikers (or striker) He has pace, flair and the energy to run all day yet he always runs into trouble when 2-3 players close in on him as he literally has nowhere to go, this is when he runs into trouble and misplaces passes or loses the ball. Playing him through the middle would allow him much more freedom to turn and run at players or to find someone else with a pass thus resulting in keeping possession and bringing other players into the game.

We don't have a Messi on our hands like some fans seem to think, we have a hard working, honest player with alot of skill who trys and trys hard but ultimatley doesn't have the required skill (or space on the pitch because he's being made to hug the touch line) to take 3 players out of the game and provide a killer pass or match winning shot.

Last point to make...maybe Aiden has realised this himself that out on the wing he is being wasted and that there's nothing more he can provide from there thus stunting his progress.

I'd imagine it would get tiresome for him but only one person really knows and that's the wee man himself.