Another transfer window, another profit

Keane wasn't ours

 

The rest was used to pay the debt. I THINK that's the real reason McGeady was sold. Debt.
I think Lenny WANTED to buy a Keane-type player, but the board told him no, and restricted him to players like Stokes.
Notice I said I THINK. My opinion. I'm not insinuating that I know why the board did what they did.

 

Wasnt a huge fan of McGeadys but I would have rathered kept him now that we never spent the money fs.

 

My thoughts are if we fail to win the league this year the issue that we spent considerably less than we brought in could see the board come under some bad pressure.

 

Well man, I was a big fan, and I'm telling you, don't feel bad, because he WANTED TO LEAVE anyway. He was tired of all the abuse in Scotland and wanted a new challenge. If we kept him, he wouldn't have been playing his best anyways.

 

I'll be * of if thats the case. 6 mill debt is manageable i believe plus we where told the McGeady money would be re-invested, maybe we where hoodwinked and the money we brought in from the other player sales was used to offset the debt. Even if we used 3 million of McGeady money to bring the debt down we should still have good a few million left, atleast enought to have brought and another RB and CB. The McGeady money issue wil be the stick to whack the board should we be struggling.

 

Surely before we sold a player Lennon also had a transfer budget of I'm guessing around 5 million to spend this has been totally overlooked by us all something just dosnt add up for me ?

 

IN
Date Player From Fee
1 July 2010 Charlie Mulgrew Aberdeen Bosman
2 July 2010 Cha Du Ri SC Freiburg Bosman
12 July 2010 Joe Ledley Cardiff City Bosman
16 July 2010 Daryl Murphy Sunderland £1.5 million
26 July 2010 Efraín Juárez UNAM Pumas £3 million
27 July 2010 Gary Hooper Scunthorpe 2.4 million
29 July 2010 Biram Kayal Maccabi Haifa £1.2 million
16 August 2010 Daniel Majstoro AEK Athens F.C. Bosman
18 August 2010 Emilio Izaguirre Motagua £500,000
24 August 2010 Fraser Forster Newcastle Un Loan
31 August 2010 Anthony Stokes Hibernian £1,200,000

Total 9.8m

OUT
12 July 2010 Daniel Lafferty Derry City Undisclosed
13 July 2010 Stephen McMan Middlesbrough £1.5 million
14 July 2010 Graham Carey Huddersfield Loan
15 July 2010 Artur Boruc Fiorentina £2.4 million
27 July 2010 Paul McGowan St. Mirren Loan
27 July 2010 Grant Gallagher Stranraer Bosman
2 August 2010 Simon Ferry Swindon Town £175,000
2 August 2010 Paul Caddis Swindon Town £175,000
13 August 2010 Aiden McGeady Spartak Moscow £10 million
13 August 2010 Cillian Sheridan CSKA Sofia £300,000
14 August 2010 Charlie Grant Dundee Undisclosed
17 August 2010 Darren O'Dea Ipswich Town Loan
18 August 2010 Ben Hutchinson Lincoln City Loan
20 August 2010 Morten Rass Mainz Loan
20 August 2010 Josh Thompson Rochdale Loan
27 August 2010 Marc-Antoine F West Brom £2.5 million
27 August 2010 Ryan Conroy Queen of South Loan

Total 17.05M Give or take a couple of worthless undisclosed fees.

I make that 7.25m whipped off Lenny because he didn't qualify for Europe or to go toward the debt.

 

Thats very disappointing, and you are also being a little generous in terms of juarez and murphy, considering Lennon himself said juarez was only 2mill and Murphy 1mill. This may come back to haunt us, especially our measly 600k or so investment in the defence.

 

Exactly mate. I was thinking about the huns and they have bought. They have pretty much spend what the sold. Celtic on the other hand seem to have alot of money that has went awol.

A few main tranfers

Boruc - £1.7 million
McManus - £1.5 million
McGeady - £10 million
Fortunes - £2.5 million

At least £15 million. Plus alot in wages.

Murphy - £1 million
Juarez - £2.5 million
Kayal - £1.25 million
Gary Hooper - £2.5 million
Izaguirre - £500k
Stokes - £1.25 million
Ledley,Cha, Danny, Mulgrew/Forster - Free/Loans.

At the most £10 million.

The numbers dont add up, and as you said there must have been a budget there before we sold a player. The only thing I can conclude from this would be the board wont spend anymore as we have a team capable of winning the SPL and dont need to spend more money if were not in Europe.

 

I think they were wanting to clear the debt mowbary caused now. They probs think it will pay off when UEFA bring in the new tranfer rules where a clubs spending will be measured by their revenue and debts.

Little forward thinking perhaps?

 

maybe a little too trusting of our board

then again maybe thats what it is, lenny may be waiting until january to see who he can get on pre-contract, wanted a bit in the bank in case he couldnt get anybody

a lot of knee-* reactions on here, lenny & co can only get who will come to celtic, we didnt get keane or bellamy, so we got stokes, * do for now and well now have at least one proper striker on the * pitch

 

'Marquee' Signing !!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh Well, another 'Transfer Window' gone by & another load of false promises !!!!!!!!!!!!
And we (or atleast I) believed the Celtic Board's tall promises of 'Marquee' signings (Maybe Anthony Stokes was that 'Marquee' signing they had promised) !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Same old, same old, but hey, we atleast have new players, some seem good, some I don't ken, unlike the 'Manky Mob', who have HEE HAW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Good Luck Lenny & the Bhoys !!!!!!!!! Season 2010-11 Scottish Champions !!!!!

PS: Dear Mr. Lawell, stop giving us false promises !!!!!!!!!!!

PPS: What do you think the bookies will offer for 'Huns to get nil points, in the CL group stages' !!!!!!!!!!!!! he he he............

 

id rather have 11 new players than to blow it all on a *marquee* signing.
False promises ??? the q+a sessions lawall and lennon had clearly stated "no keane or bellamy" if thats who you ment.

ps look at other threads mate there kinda the same

 

I'd say Jaurez is pretty marquee, plus the numerous other internationalists we've got.

 

i never felt that we needed a marquee signing what we did need was for us to sign another centre half last night someone with speed becauce as it stands any team who has passe up front will cause us big problems through the middle.

 

some people are just never happy, we got a lot of great signings and the board kept most of the mcgeady money to balance the books, seems right to me, why spend every last penny just for the sake of it

 

Spot on.

You mean the huns with Jelavic. we so needed a pacy CB to assist Dan.

Look on the bright side....we've got 347 midfielders

 

who made this promis exactly? From what I remember we were promised * ALL.

 

i think like a lot of people i was expecting a decent name to come in and take the number 7 jersery but i think as a team we are stronger and if lenny gets them playing as a team and scoring goals ill be happy..

on another not i was reading the gossip pages this morning and campbell has just made his debute for the toon reserves and he was being taunted for being fat. maybe we got a get out of jail free with that one.

also on the brightside with the ins and outs this window we dont look to have spent a lot if any so come january we will be able to freshen up the squad.

hail hail