Cameron Carter-Vickers.

Totally disagree. Julien was an excellent centre back and a leader. He was a threat at set pieces and will be a massive boost for us when he comes back.

 

If only we had the same type of money the huns seem to have had over the last few years......wait a minute

 

In Jullien's first season I thought he was great at dealing with opposition crosses and high balls too. Last season, well it was a mess front to back, but a big tall * who could nullify how half the teams in our league attack us.

 

I know all the chat is about getting jota signed up but I think we need to get ccv bought too he has been brilliant

 

With Starfelt slowly but surely fitting in, Welsh emerging as a good talent and Julien due back, it would be madness NOT to make CCV deal permanent and actually settle in to next season with 4 viable CB options.

Would be the first time in many a year that we would be able to end the season and restart a new season with a solid and steady 4 CB options to go in to the early UCL games - planning for the fact we may need to do some qualifications.

With it so easily within our grasp, getting CCV tied down would make perfect sense for once.



As would the aforementioned Jota deal. Again, being able to go in to next season early on with an established left and right wing options would be brilliant for once.

 

The board will push non-urgent deals til the summer after next year's season book money is in.

I can see Jota being signed but I suspect they'll push back signing CCV.

We've never spent £15m in a January before and I don't think this will be the time we see it either.

 

I would be incredibly surprised if the Celtic board budgeted for anything like 15m for January. It's just not how clubs budget's work. You set it out at the start of the season and we spent almost 20m in the summer on transfer fees alone.

At a push, they might do the Jota deal as our main January transfer, but I don't see us spending 15 million.

 

In that case then, wouldn't we have already budgeted for Jota at this stage?

With the option to buy, that money is coming out the clubs pocket either now, January, or June.
Either way, it's in this season's/years accounts. So I'm assuming we budgeted for this in the summers figures (not saying we automatically add it to the summer spend, but it will be within the seasons budget).

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If we had a competent board I would optimistic of that. History tells us though...

 

Together they will cost the same total we spent collectively on Barkas and Ajeti. It’s a no-brainer, even for this shower of a board.

 

We have Jota and ccv till end of the season and the board will wait till end of the season to buy them and think we need attacking midfielders and striker in January .

 

I think we are at a stage where its who will be starting alongside CCV for the second half of the season. But i have our order as:

CCV
Jullien
Starfelt
Welsh
Bitton
Scales

 

Is there any need to push this one through at January window?? He is here for a year, so we should just wait. Won’t cost any more at seasons end, only thing is if he really kicks on second half of season, he may turn his snout up at us and have some takers in England lined up

 

Totally agree. Given the heavy workload of games we face every season we need 4 what you could call senior center backs and I would say Jullien, Starfelt, CCV and Welsh would fit that for me right now with Dane Murray as the emerging prospect who maybe gets some game time when an opportunity arises. Personally from what I have seen of CCV I would be happy to see us take up the option to buy him on a permanent deal.

 

Jullien could be * though, he's only played 15 games since March 2020 and only in 2 short spells from early August till early September and then Late November till late December 2020. So been fit and training and playing for about 2 months of the last 20 months.

 

Aye, this board cannot be trusted to make the right decision, regardless if it makes business sense or not. It made business sense to get rid of Lennon last Xmas when we still had a chance of winning the 10. It made business sense to sign McGinn. It would make business sense to go into Champions League qualifiers not needing half a team.

 

He should be made a priority for a permanent deal. At 23 he'll be coming into his peak years and that would be great to have a still improving but already competent centre back for a couple of seasons.