[Link] Bolo Zenden

Celtic are considering a surprise move for Bolo Zenden after the free agent trained with Neil Lennon's squad on Saturday. Lennon is keen to add experience to his squad and has turned to Zenden, who has been without a club since leaving Sunderland at the end of last season.

The 35-year-old former Holland international flew into Glasgow on Friday and Lennon and his coaching team plan to assess him over the coming days.

Celtic have previously failed in bids to land Sol Campbell, Jimmy Bullard, David James and Craig Bellamy, which shows Lennon's desire to supplement his squad with seasoned performers.

Zenden has also played for Barcelona, Chelsea, Liverpool, Middlesbrough and Marseille. Although he spent the majority of his career as at attacking midfielder, it is thought he could also provide cover at left back if he can prove his fitness and ability levels to Lennon.

He was previously linked with Nottingham Forest during Steve McClaren's spell in charge of the Championship club.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/nov/05/celtic-neil-lennon-bolo-zenden?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+theguardian%2Ffootball%2Frss+%28Football%29

 

can he play in central defence then no thanks

 

Still a very good player but not what we need.

 

Could be a decent squad player IMO.

 

no harm in looking.

 

Not what we're really looking for as we have plenty of decent players in his posistion... However he could add a good wee bit of experience and competition!

Talking of free agents i wish we'd took back big jan voh... Could have been the short term answer to the target man we're crying out for, but psv snapped him up the other day!

 

In CM? Not really we have 2 fit CMs for tomorrow.

 

He would bring experience, but would he get a game? I think this just reeks of Freddie Ljungberg all over again. He'd be getting decent wages if he came here and would probably be playing like 4 or 5 times in the remaining games we've got.

I'd rather we put his wages towards bringing in what we actually need; an experienced target man and an experienced central defender to play alongside either Rogne or Mulgrew.

 

I take your point! Would be a good short term fix!
Should never have let juarez go out on loan though, he would have covered there well!

 

Couldn't have said it better myself!

 

Agreed with Shane, just another Ljungberg.

 

I'd far rather the money went elsewhere... but then again, I've been saying that for three seasons now and we still haven't coughed up the dough for a good defense!!!

 

Agreed with Shane, just another Ljungberg.

 

NO just another ljungberg

 

Sounds like another Freddy Lungberg signing

 

Signing players like this is the reason we haven't won the league for 4 years. If he does sign I expect to see no one else in January.

 

FFS naw. Fed up of Celtic bringing in these guys that used to be decent but are getting to the end of things. We aren't a * retirement home

 

A year or two ago aye now - no thanks no what we need.

 

Nope, another Roy Keane, Olivier Kapo, Freddy Lljungberg, Ian Wright, Dion Dublin.

 

Another Ljungberg and Kapo. Enough with these * and utterly pointless signings.