Squad - Who Stays? Who Goes?

Sack that tannoy announcer guy as well. "Make some noise for the bhoys" Whats the point of that when there's no * allowed in the stadium. * idiot.

 

I'd bin them all apart from McGregor and James Forrest. Not particularly realistic, but this squad is rotten to the core. Lennon is crap but the attitude of most of these wage thiefs is a disgrace.

 

Sorry, I'd keep Turnbull as well.

 

Disease has set in - everyone’s infected by it.

There’s a strong argument to sell up lock-stock and start again.

 

Barkas

Ajer

Soro
McGregor
Turnbull
Johnston (think he will come good)

Ajeti
Griffiths naw 100% sure

The rest can go

 

Out
Lennon, Kennedy, Strachan and the rest of this coaching set up.
Nick Hammond

In
Director of Football
Head Coach
Head Coaches own team

Out
Hazard (on loan to get first team experience)
Elhamed
Laxalt
Duffy
Bitton
Hendry
Welsh (out on loan to an SPL or league 1 team to see if he has what it takes)
Taylor (if anyone will take him)
Ajer (as he won’t sign a new deal)
Brown (retire)
Christie
Ntcham (long overdue)
Rogic (long overdue)
Moi
Shved
Dembele
Harper
Okoflex
Bayo
Edouard
Klimala (on loan to get game time)

If anyone will take them
Barkas unless drastic improvement
Ralston
Griffiths
Ajeti unless drastic improvement

Keep
Bain (no one will take him and he can be a cheap back up keeper)
Julien
Hjede
Soro
Turnbull
Connell
Robertson
CalMac (unless he wants to go)
Forrest (unless he wants to go)
Johnston

IN
GK x 1 or 2
RB x 2 (FT and prospect)
LB x2 (FT and prospect)
CB x3 (FT rotational)
DCM x 1 (compliment/ rotate with Soro)
CM x 1 (box to box starter)
AM x1 (someone who can actually open up a defence)
LW x1 (first team ready)
RWx1 (first team ready)
ST x 2 or 3 (varying types but at least one who can hold the ball up and bring others into the game.)

 

The size of the rebuild needed gives me the fear.

Frimpong's already away. Edouard, Ajer and Ntcham all certain to leave in the summer. Christie (hopefully) and Rogic will likely be away. Think McGregor might think this is his last chance to move on to a good standard of club in England or Europe. Moi's loan ends and he's our top scorer. I'm highly sceptical that if a new manager comes in that he would want to keep someone like Griffiths around. None of the 3 keepers are up to the required standard. Brown should retire.

We need the youth players to step up big time and even then we'd need to sign about 8 players at least. A sensible manager would be using these 3 months of meaningless games to blood in young players 1 or 2 at a time to see if they can make the step up next year but our manager continues to play Duffy , who won't be here next year and is utter dog meat, ahead of Welsh so I have no hopes of that actually happening.

 

Keep:
GoalKeeper - Barkas
Defender - Julien, Ajer, Welsh, Taylor, Elhamed
Midfielder - Soro, Turnbull, Rogic, Mikey, Connell, McGregor, Forrest, Henderson
Striker - Ajeti, Klimala

Sell/Release:
GoalKeeper - Bain, Hazard
Defender - Duffy, Ralston, Laxalt, O'Connor, Boli, Hendry, Gutman, perez
Midfielder - Bitton, Brown, Christie, Ntcham, Ely, Shved
Striker - Griffiths, Edouard, Bayo

Promote up:
GoalKeeper - Doohan
Defender - Hjelde
Midfielder - Robertson, Dembele
Striker - Afolabi


Other youth players need loaned out and or kept where they are and a proper coaching team to develop them on and if there is still no * dev league get them setup in mini tournaments every other week.
I would love to Keep Dembele, really wish he would be open to staying.

As per always, we can only have a 25 man squad for Europe, so we should be aiming to utilise that with as good a calibre as we can with some of them being fringe players and also a few extra scattered in for cup games etc.

Going forward we would need...

Required:
Goalkeeper - Backup to challenge Barkas for the number one spot. NOT an actual backup calibre keeper like Bain or Zaluska was, but someone of the same pedigree as Barkas at leas to properly push each other, work with each other to be the best at the club.
Defender - Basically we have enough to make a starting backline, we however need more. If Elhames stays we need a RB to push him and a LB to literally be the number one LB in the club/country. Also need 2 more CB, if Hjelde does well at County this half of the season I would be open to keeping him around the first team and just going for 1 CB of the Julien/Ajer calibre. Giving us Julien, Ajer, A.Nother, Welsh, Hjelde.
Midfielder - Soro, Turnbull, McGregor is the midfield three we should build around, backup to them should be Connell, Henderson and Robertson. However they are not all ready to be featuring as much as they would be needed, so another in of a Ntcham calibre when he first signed. Loan out Henderson if that happens.
Striker - Afolabi to be 4th choice, Ajeti and Klimala have shown enough that they can play for us, but we need to replace the top end striker of Dembele and Edouard. giving us 1 world class striker (relative) 2 squad and more than capable and a prospect.
Wide players - assuming a new manager likes the idea of 2 up top and 3 in the middle, we don't NEED wide men, but Forrest, Dembele and Mikey can provide that. Rogic is your number 10, with option of Dembele, Mikey, Robertson, Turnbull all able to fill in.

All in - Gk x1, CB x2, RB x1, LB x1, CM x1, ST x 1


Can't see us bringing that many in, but it would be nice. Outgoing from above could see £40million come in the door though. Not the wildest notion to ask for that to be spent on 7 players to come in - average £5-6million a player purchased, but with wages saved from the 19 to be chucked out the door, the club would still be in an overall profit on player transactions.
A signal of intent like that with a DoF and a proper coaching setup (no 3 guys and a laptop), with new kit hype etc and a proposed date of fans returning to stadium, you would get some good faith back from the fans and people willing to buy in to it again.

Failure to make these sort of changes, or attempt them with some serious evidence of doing so, will see the fans withdraw financial support and * any chance of streamlining the football department while bettering it.

 

Look, I've shat one most of the squad of late. Especially the new signings this season (Barkas especially)

However, with a manager who gives a *, has some professional standards, fresh modern ideas and a brain for football tactics. This squad in theory needs very little done to it.

That is of course assuming we actually don't have a large an exodus as we all think we will.

 

Everyone saying keep soro McGregor Turnbull,these 3 have been playing through this run of games aswell

 

These three were the catalyst in December, surely if we have learnt anything from Lennon being manager, is he destroys any sense of ability and play in a player.

I'd back these three for the future with a decent manager in charge, happily.

 

New manager decides

 

Forrest ??? Why ? his frailty ( to put it kindly) is part of the problem. Last played .... ?

He has played 400 ( usually half hearted ) minutes this season at 2000 quid a minute


Scott Brown is pilloried but this passenger gets a free ride. No guts, no heart.

 

jullien,soro,mc gregor,turnbull,rogic,forrest are the only ones id keep edouard and ajer too but they will be sold.alarm bells should be ringing with anyone interested in celtic at the insane task ahead .lawwell has checked out bad enough the complete balls hes made of this season he quite clearly doesnt give a * what happens once his paycheck stops.where is the plan for next season!!

 

Cant believe ppl are wanting barkas kept, hes brutal.

Keep turnbull, soro, after that i honesty dont really care who goes!

 

Keep:

Ajer
McGregor
Jullien
Turnbull
Soro
Forrest
Johnston

Brown is done.

The rest have all proved themselves to be unreliable shitebags. The attitude of many of them has been * unforgivable this season. I dont give a * if we had Neil Lennon or Pep Guardiola as manager these cowardly * have let us down big time. They are all professional footballers and grown adults, for people to let them hide behind Neil Lennon and blame it all on the manager is * ridiculous.

 

The word 'overhaul' is used on here on a regular basis; overhaul the board, the youth system, the coaching staff, the squad. The latter is one thing that is very rarely overhauled, by Celtic or any other club. With that in mind, here's what I think our squad is likely to look like nest season, given that certain players definitely want away:

GK:
Barkas
Hazard
Possible new signing

RB:
New signing
Lee O'Connor

CB:
Jullien
Ajer (may very well leave, but don't be surprised if he sticks about for another season)
Welsh
New signing

LB:
Taylor
New signing

CM:
McGregor
Turnbull
Soro
Hopefully a new signing
Bitton (for his versatility)
Connell
Brown (just to have him around, maybe in a player-coach role)

WINGERS:
Forrest
MJ
New signing (Sinclair type signing hopefully)
Shved (maybe...)

STRIKERS:
Ajeti
Griff
Klimala (would loan to a top flight side)
New signing


That's six or seven new signings. Some will probably be loans. Most will hopefully improve the starting XI. I expect those who stay to improve drastically under a new manager, provided we appoint someone fit for the job (i.e. not John Kennedy).

 

Fine and well saying get rid of this, that the other but, we have put the likes of Barkas, Taylor etc. on long contract's, so we are saddled with these rejects.

 

Think we need to retain a core but build upon it

Keep:
GoalKeeper - Hazard (develop but need a new #1)
Defender - Julien, Ajer, Welsh, Taylor
Midfielder - Soro, Turnbull, Christie, Johnston, McGregor, Forrest, Henderson, Ely
Striker - Ajeti, Klimala, Griffiths

 

Pretty much agree other than:

Ely will be gone surely? Probably Ajer too. I'd add Robertson and Ralston to have something known to build from and take it from there.

I like Griff but I think his time is up here too.