Olivier Ntcham

Best part of a day and that's all you could come up with in that time? Maybe you could ask your 11 month old for help with your put downs.

 

I thought he just had a really short neck.

 

Don't see anyone hating on his ability tbf mate. More his attitude and application of his obvious talent. No point being class if you're not motivated to actually show it week in week out.

 

Lennon is playing him in the exact position and role he strives in.

He's a playmaker, he aint a defensive ball winner.

Some passing and runs from him the last two games. Keep this up and * will get his move.


Can see the change in his attitude (hard to tell at times as he is a stroppy looking guy by nature), everything we know about rodgers and what happened with Dembele last year, it's saying a lot that Lennon may have had a good influence on him here.

 

Took the goal well..although I wish we play against zander Clark every week.

What I wanted to see most was his reaction to scoring and his team mates reaction

And it's a far cry from Bale. I think he will be here for the season

 

Goal from Celtic Tv

 

Time for this * to get his finger out and explode onto the pitch!

 

Problem for him though is he isnt enough of a playmaker for Celtic. Rogic and Christie fit and in a full season probably give you 30 goals/assists from the 10 position. Ntcham probably would only get about half that.

He's a liability defensvely but very technical, strong and with good vision, ideal for us in the CL but domestically he just doesn't fit in - he's in the mould of all those Samaras, Jarosik, Donati, Fortune type players who have quality for the CL and European games but in the domestic League they lack the right type of ability to play against 10 man defences.

He'd probably flourish at a Porto, Lyon, Leipzig type team.

 

He's looked good under Lennon so far, a midfield of Mcgregor, Ntcham and Christie could be brilliant.

 

He’s here until at least January imo, so hopefully he knuckles down and shows us the player we know is there.

 

I know exactly what you want him to explode into.






Me first.

 

I'd flog him still, not for me.

Don't trust him one bit.

 

Well I'm glad you don't make that decision.

 

If our plan is to go 3-5-2 its our best midfield by a margin. No need for brown if theres 3 centre halfs.

 

I'd rather he went to the toilet first.

 

If he is at his best then he is a hard player to leave out in my opinion. At the end of last season I wouldn't have been bothered one bit if he was sold as he looked completely disinterested. Not sure what has been said between Lennon and him but so far it seems to have worked. If we get Ntcham back on top form, he is a major asset to have.

 

Lennon also hailed the recent form of Olivier Ntcham after a summer heart to heart with the French midfielder.

Ntcham angered his boss by publicly claiming he was too good for Scottish football and wanted to quit, but he has returned to form.


Lenny said: “I woudn’t say it was a kick up the backside. There was no dressing down. It was an open chat with Oli.

“I just said: ‘You’re a quality player, come and play’.

“It was about getting his head around the fact if there wasn’t any firm interest then this is a pretty good place to be.

“He’ll add to the quality we already have. He’s been training and playing very well so far.

He was quality when he came on the other night. He was a bit up and down last season, but when he’s on form he’s a real asset because he’s a class player.

“Oli’s all-round game is very good so all we want is consistency of performance.”