[Official TC Thread] Celtic 25/26 Summer transfer window: Stage: Something Stinks and it's not happylosses' sweaty baws

* I feel old! I was 15 at the start of that 97/98 season

 

Ben Doak closing in on £20m move to Bournemouth under Uefa solidarity regs celtic are due a cut approx 3.5% so another £700k into the bank account.

If Matt completes his move to Juventus we are also due 10% of that also!

 

That’s how I feel now at 35

 

Stage: Paris riots
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Was gonna save this until the end of the window but I’ll post it now anyway



The recruitment team giving Brendan a list of potential players







And the club going ahead regardless

 

I genuinely believe that Brendan Rogers is leaving and the board are aware of this. Hence the reason there is no serious movement in the transfer market. There is no other way to make sense of this shambles that we are living through just now.

 

even if rodgers has decided to move on next summer thats no excuse not to strengthen the team

 

Is the MOR deal a cut of the profit or the entire fee. These deals generally only focus on the profit for sell on clauses so I can't see us standing to benefit much on the MOR one as I don't think Brighton will be turning in much of a profit on it. Still all in all we could be making around 6m on three sell on clauses which is nearly double what we have spent this summer.

 

I’ll get the gilets jaunes

 

Brendan Rodgers said on Thursday he was "hopeful" of adding to his Celtic squad.

Six days earlier, the manager had said there was "no news" when pressed on the chances of new additions. A week before, he had voiced frustration about a lack of movement in the market.

It is understandable that the Northern Irishman might find the constant queries a little trying.

And his patience cracked in the aftermath of Friday's routine 4-1 Premier Sports Cup win over Falkirk. "I don't know" was one repeated Rodgers' reply to questions in a testy BBC Scotland interview.

As former Celtic goalkeeper Pat Bonner said on Sportsound of his agitation and the line of questioning: "It's just that time of year."

The time when windows are soon shutting. When Champions League play-offs are looming. When fans - and managers, perhaps - want signings to hang their hopes on for the months ahead.

But how did the exchange unfold? What business have Celtic done so far? And where could they still use some fresh faces




BBC Scotland's Alasdair Lamont had interviewed Rodgers pre-match and reconvened with him afterwards.

Once the discussion about the victory was done, talk turned to transfers and, in particular, whether any signings might arrive in time for Wednesday's crucial visit of Kairat Almaty.

You've had to name a squad for the Champions League deadline, but you are allowed to name a further two players before the game. Do you see any likelihood of there being players to add to that squad?

Rodgers: I don't know. I've just come out here after the game, so we'll wait and see. We've named the squad and we'll wait and see what happens before the game. If not, that's the squad we're going with.

Can you be optimistic about it? There must be things in the pipeline that I guess you think could go one way or another.

Rodgers: Okay, so let me repeat what I said. I've just finished the game. I haven't told you anything before the game and during the 90-odd minutes of the game.

"I don't know anything. I don't know anything. So there might be or there might not be. So we have the team that we have."

Okay. Cheers Brendan.

 

Aye this season, last season broke our transfer record twice, spent the most we ever have in a season and we were saying the same. The difference is, this season we’re * spot on saying it.

Can’t help to feel it’s like * it, same thing whatever we do, we should do it while having loads of money.

 

Rodgers made sure that’s the narrative himself, very obviously so, he wants to put the pressure on for us to back him.


He’ll play the role of good manager, full club united with the same vision. But he made his point on that already, and very carefully. Right after the game he has been playing along though. He’s calculated as * Rodgers, and that’s a compliment not a criticism that.

 

The only pressure he could put on the board is to threaten leaking content concerning transfer operations out to the public. Denigrate the * in the boardroom enough that the fans protest.

 

Only problem I see with that is he isn’t * stupid

 

It's the only way he can actually get at the board.

 

If our top targets are Balishkawa, Strelec and Irving then we are absolutely *.

Not one of them are worth a punt nevermind improving a starting line up.

* shocking state of our scouting dept if ANY of these duffers are signed.

 

Aye folk have already gave up knowing we will fix all the problem areas (arguments can be made about literally every position bar goalkeeper) and are just merely accepting below the bare minimum now, of a winger and a striker -pref 2 wingers but feel most would just accept one at this stage.

Which is exactly what this stinking * * board want, batter you down to the point of accepting even less than the bare minimum.
But by *, even that basic level of transfer better be of the highest quality.
It simply has to be a winger and a striker that walks in and takes the first team position by storm. It can't be pints, projects, journeymen *

But it * will be.

This has to be the worst summer window I've ever witnessed.
Fundamentally we are absolutely worse than last season and the fans have now accepted that and are simply begging for us to address just two positions now. Even then, those two positions and we would STILL be worse off than last season.

It's not even a debate, it's factual, we are a worse side than last season.

How Rodgers or the club paint this up is gonna be some PR stunt.

Weaker at left back (no cover), CB stood still (arguably the loss of Nawrocki weakens the overall depth), right back stood still. Cm stood still. Nygren is an addition but he's not adding quality in a way (yet) that takes us up a level. Re, weaker by a long shot, Kuhn not replaced. Lw weaker without Jota fit and no depth outside of moving Maeda back there.
St, weaker. Kyogo gone and Maeda out left, idah no doubt worse than he was last season. And that's taking some going. Osmand not to be seen Kenny has attitude, but not sure cuts the grade. Shin unknown.

Madness how much weaker we are and the club are content with this

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Interesting that the much hyped Kvistgaarden has found himself on the bench for Norwich's opening 2 league games. Maybe he wasn't all that after all.

 

Hooper flopped there to be fair.



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Tbf to Hooper Norwich played 1 up top and signed van wofswinkel as their no.1 for like £10million. And played a very defensive system