12 Apr 2025 23:26:58
Folks puting our defense as a priority for recruitment. I disagree. To win leagues you need to score goals, Celtic have scored 50% more goals than us this season. I would argue with a different and succesful front 5 or 6 players our defence would be good enough for a SPL title. i'm not saying we don't need better defenders but our woes are lack of goals/ good chances in tight games. We need to put the odds in our favour every game to get the 3 points 90% of the time home and away.
13 Apr 2025 00:10:59
Sorry but don't agree, recently we have went 2 goals down and that allows the opposition to just sit in and get us on the counter. stop them scoring, having the best defence we can have will allow us to play rather than panic and force the play which leads to mistakes and frustration.
13 Apr 2025 00:21:10
We need better leadership n every position mate.
How many get n the Celtic team realistically.
I'd go
schmeichel
Johnston
CCV
Souttar
Schlupp
Raskin
McGregor
Hatate
Cerny (not ours)
Maeda
Jota.
13 Apr 2025 06:28:50
We need to prioritise a right back that's going to be tav's longterm replacement, a left sided centre half to partner big john souttar and i feel we'll sell yilmaz, so we need another left back signed ?Then we look at midfield where lyall cameron is coming in and we need to sign a class attacking goalscoring midfielder, who can break the lines with the killer pass?Then our wide positions where we need a right winger and a left winger because i don't think we'll sign cerny ☹️On the left we need another winger to fight with cortes for that position ?Up top, i honestly do think we'll sign a striker, as one of dessers, igamane or danilo i feel will be sold ? That's my take/ opinion on what we need anyway guys ?.
13 Apr 2025 07:00:13
Always build from the back how many goals did we let in during 55?
Souness smith etc… did they not always build from the back?
13 Apr 2025 07:53:02
It appears we have agreement here we need a new goalkeeper a new back four, a new midfield trio, and a new front three. That will give us a chance to go for SPL.
13 Apr 2025 08:32:09
Agree storm, a solid foundation at the back is a must, then we strengthen further forward.
13 Apr 2025 08:44:24
Fair point Coops, either Kasanwirjo and Sterling could've replaced Tav, but both are a magnet for injury unfortunately, Yilmaz for me is hot n cold and always linked away, agreed RW, LW, I like Dessers as u know, Danilo needs a run to see what he has tried to give us but injury has done him, Igamane has all the tools to succeed, out of the 3 it's anyone's guess. Some tinkering in and out across the board bud?.
13 Apr 2025 08:52:11
If we still have jefte and butland starting next year going to really struggle to make any sort of impact.
13 Apr 2025 08:53:38
Correct storm, both smith and souness most definitely built from the back mate ?.
13 Apr 2025 09:18:34
It's an interesting debate.
I think the biggest issue with our club is the distance between our backline and front line.
For the most part our back line has been Souttar and Proper - neither of whom are comfortable holding a high line, so sit back
Likewise our main striker has been Dessers who isn't comfortable dropping deep and likes to play in behind defenses.
This leaves a massive space in the midfield which means teams can sit deep, bypass the midfield and find themselves comfortable creating chances.
13 Apr 2025 09:58:02
Attack wins games, defences win titles.
5 and 6 nil wins are nowhere near as important in a successful team as 1-0 wins and we've not been a team who looked capable of winning the tight games 1-0 for a long time.
You only have to look back as far as the 54 season. Our success was built on the most miserly defence in the league.
Do we need better forward players? Absolutely. But do we move forward having better forward players playing in front of Butland, Tav, Souttar, Proper, Balogun, Yilmaz and Jefte next season? Nope, none of them, perhaps excluding Souttar, are good enough.
13 Apr 2025 10:05:19
Ehl do u think this to be the case even when we played with the 10? Surely that's the hole point of the 10, to link middle to front.
13 Apr 2025 10:16:05
celtics ugly right back is a shirker, gets up and down the park ok as long as nobody has a dig at him .
13 Apr 2025 10:24:50
Yoursperx so 11 different player, what I'm really wanting to know from you is why is a tim so interested in Rangers? you another that lives Rangers 24/ 7.
13 Apr 2025 10:29:13
That lot's midfield score plenty of goals whereas ours doesn't. That's a big difference when your attackers are struggling.
13 Apr 2025 10:36:13
Paul, others need to go along with those two.
13 Apr 2025 10:39:09
I'd say we need 6 starters with the team we have the now.
Souttar
Raskin and dio
Igamane and cerny
All start for me next season.
But they won't all be here and that's the problem we have. If Kasanwirjo is here still then that's my starter at rb.
13 Apr 2025 10:40:01
Stevie, the whole ten thing is a bit of a red herring to be honest.
Teams in Scotland are happy to let us play with one or even two tens as they are happy to sit deep and let their midfield shield them.
If we don't have pace to threaten in behind or a striker who can play on tight spaces then it's pretty redundant - we effectively either need to pass back or sideways or play an aimless ball into the box.
Our problem comes when we turn the ball over as one ball over our midfield causes panic.
13 Apr 2025 11:17:17
Agree with the number of players required but do wonder where we are getting the money, can't see the 49rs spending huge amounts without selling the likes of raskin and igamane, hope koppens got a good few lined up, it's going to be the most interesting summer we have had in a long time.
13 Apr 2025 12:14:29
I never seen This reply mate I just seen the rant at the top and thought was wee bit aimed. So sorry if my reply to u above is rude.
Personally I don't like a 10 for us in Scotland or Europe.
In Europe we're playing, normally, superior teams and should play with 3 cms.
In Scotland teams crowd the mf and so again we should play with 3 cm's.
Ur correct in pointing out, since the end of 442, teams winning trophies have played with 3 cm's
I was only asking, is this not the point of the 10. That was all.
13 Apr 2025 12:56:23
We need a rb to start the season, not a long term replacement.