Transfer Talk

Just paper talk no media have a clue on our targets or anything so will link us with players the huns are interested and spin it that they beat us to them.

 

I suspect this is the case but being honest I would take Dykes as another option upfront as long as Eddy was staying. If Bayo moved on I think he would provide a decent option upfront and be able to create space for Griff or Eddy at a low cost. He always seemed to cause Jullien problems who seemed able to cope with good strikers in the Europa League which makes me think he has something about him. I doubt he will go for the £2mn being mentioned in the papers.

 

Dykes had 1 and half good games against Celtic, hun logic means he must be an exceptional signing like hastie, Jones et al

 

Hes just another daly, sandaza, killen.
Not celtic class.

 

* sake, trying to link us with Dykes. Tragic, he’s no where near the quality we would look at surely?

Our transfer policy should be to sign young future superstars from the top academies.

That’s the way forward now, no more bargain basement hunting wasting £10m on 5 duds just so we might sell one of them for £10m. That policy has been shown to be inferior.

Go and buy 20 year olds from top academies for £10m, enjoy their quality for a few years and sell them for £30m.

 

That's a ridiculous statement we can't just go spending 10 million to top academies on players the odd one potentially yeah. But we won't do that our markets we should be targeting are Eastern Europe, etc our young players in English and French academies we pick up for not much

 

Complete bollocks which has shown to be wrong in recent years.

Folk love to forget the millions wasted on Kouassi, Shved, Bayo etc. as though it doesn’t count.

The best academies are producing quality players every year. We should be getting them in on loan like we did with Edouard and if they are quality we should be rattling down the £10m. You get the money back and more when they’re sold on.

If the plan is to keep Edouard one more year then the objective this season should be to loan in a potential replacement from a top academy and if it goes well buy them at the end of the season. It worked perfectly with Dembele -> Edouard.

But naw, let’s sign a bargain basement guy playing in Finland or a lower league somewhere and hope they come good, and dismiss the £2m as nothing when it doesn’t work.

Then we can all wonder why we aren’t as good as Ajax.

 

Wanyama
Dembele
VVD
Bitton
EL Hamed
Frimpong
Ajer
Griff

And so much more all under 2 million so it's a myth there is plenty out there who have worked. As the list above proves so why waste 10 million when if your scouting and youth development is right you don't have too.

 

Club really needs to get this transfer window right,no * about,if they want to bring in projects no problem if there in the background working there way into the team,abit like frimpong did,we need 2 or 3 signing on top of the projects though,guys who will improve the starting 11

 

Agree with this I know we ended up winning the league but I do feel we took a risk in January not strengthening the first team and just buying two guys for the future. It worked out for us this time but has backfired before, normally just before crucial qualifiers.

There are some interesting models out there like Salzburg have FC Liefering who they loan a lot of their project players To develop then when they sell their top players there is someone there to replace them and then supplement with the odd quality signing like Dabour, Haaland, etc. I know they were part of the Red Bull set up but still a good model. Could we not look at a partner model with a team in an Eastern, Central European League and sign players put them there to develop and either bring them back if good enough or sell them on if not.

Another interesting model is the Right to Dream Academy who invested in Nordsjaelland in Denmark taking a controlling stake and send their promising players there before they move on.

Not one for us but could we set up a relationship with an African Academy and a Eastern or Central European Team (Slovakia, Hungry, Romania, Balkans) where the players that are good enough from the academy and promising players we sign are loaned there or signed by that team go there for a season then we have a first option to buy?

I like the idea of the B team in lower leagues here but the standard of opposition will still be poor so hard to judge how good the young guys will be.

 

Loads more, during the 9
Lustig-free
Forster-£2m
Gordon - free
Armstrong - £2m
Christie - 500k
Rogic- 400k
Bain-free
El Hamed 1.6m

If you just buy young players at £9m a pop most of the time you will likely get * value. Weah cost Lille €10m, and while I thought he was decent he would not have improved our squad to the level needed. Teams have also paid £14m for Oli Burke.

 

Nonsense, complete straw man ignoring the millions wasted on absolute *.

No one is saying the team should only be made of £10m players but anyone saying they want Edouard sold for £20m-£30m replaced with a £2m punt is talking out their *. Are you Lyndon Dykes ?

 

Dykes is a pork chop, no where near Celtic standard.

 

Dykes would be an abysmal signing..

Plays decent on a brutal pitch but has the touch of a donkey and is a hammer thrower..

 

* is an abomination of a footballer, fair play to Livi for wanting 2m, hope they get it but if we are the ones paying that its a travesty up there with signing Jack Hendry, both * players who look semi decent in an extremely poor outfit. Hope the huns get him tbf

 

Also on the debate above, you spend big you tend to get better... Eddy, Jullien, we spent big and got real quality that makes a difference straight away, not only in the league but in Europe which is where we should be striving to improve, while its good to bring in 1-2m players to develop we do tend to ignore spending that little more on quality and buy too many 1-2m players which are very hit and miss. Look at our recent/potential big money buys, Eddy, Ntcham, Jullien, Sinclair, Paddy Roberts, FF, Elynoussi, they all did/are/were capable of taking us onto another level in Europe and cement our domestic dominance, also they will probably bring us higher fees in the future particularly with Eddy & Ntcham, buy for 2m, sell for 10 if they work out, or buy for 7m and sell for 30m... Spend big, make bigger.

As said its good to bring in players from different countries and aim to develop, players like Van Dijk, Wanyama, Ajer, have proved to be profitable and given us great service, but for every one of those you get a, Scepovic, Bangura, Jack Hendry, Cifcti and unless he sticks his finger out Bayo. If we bring the balance to spending real good money (5-7m) on 1/2 players to properly enhance our squad then bring in a couple of 1/2m players to develop we will get much further in Europe, instead we will probably just buy Scott Mckenna for 2-3m and cry.

 

Talking * our team has no players we spent 10 million on

FORSTER: 2 MILLON
FRIMPONG/EL HAMED: 2 MILLION or LESS
AJER: 500K
JULLIEN: 7 MILLION
TAYLOR: UNDISCLOSED
BROWN: 4.4 MILLION
MCGREGOR: FREE
CHRISTIE: 500K
FORREST: FREE
GRIFFITHS: 1.8 MILLION
EDOUARD: 9 MILLION

SUBS:
GORDON: FREE
BITTON: 820K
ROGIC: 400K
NTCHAM: 4.5 MILLION
JOHNSTON: FREE
KILMALA 3.5 MILLION


ONLY 4 OF OUR BEST 11 OVER 2 MILLION WE PAID AND MOST OF BENCH LOOK AT ALL OUR SIGNINGS UNDER 2 MILLION MORE HAVE WORKED THAN HAVEN'T.

OVER 2 MILLION IS NO GUARANTEE ITS WORKS ITS DOWN TO SCOUTING.

AND NO I'M NOT DYKES YA BANGER HES F***ING DUGMEAT. GREAT RESPONSE FROM YOU THOUGH.

I THINK YOU'LL FIND ALOT MORE OF OUR CHEAPER SIGNINGS WORK

 

Dykes is a livi/hun level axe thrower of a player.
Nowhere near good enough to be at Celtic.

It would be like signing killen ffs

 

Ladies and gentlemen, we got him.

Seriously though, calm down buddy, that was embarrassing.

 

You're the embarrassing one clearly let's get you to run club just spend 10 million on every 20 year old. End up like the dead club see you have no decent arguement to back up your claims

And I'm embarrassing you're the embarrassing one for those comments just spend 10 million on every 20 year old

Can't believe we never paid it for frimpong Can't be any good by your logic