Transfer Rumours The 2015 Summer Transfer Window Thread

All dick heads....

 

Yeah gotta agree there, espescially those ITK ****ers, they really piss me off...

 

True, they do, but with much more TV money etc for CL teams in the group stages, even if Celtic don't get through, they could easily get themselves £20 million+ in prize money. So, I don't think they'd sell their best player and risk losing so much income.

 

I always though Man U would be back in contact with us this summer, but I also thought it would be with a bunch of flowers & a thank you card for the exceptional footballer Morgan Schneiderlin, not to piss us off again!

 

With Staplewood completed, my reading is that we're very profitable, and the PL TV money is soon to jump again. Might turn a combined profit of 75-100m over this and the preceding two seasons.

Regarding what that money is earmarked for, no one knows. Not a popular opinion, I know, but my suspicion all along is that we're being prepped for a sale in the next couple years. It could also be a down payment on a new stadium or expansion of SMS (though the board has stated otherwise).

Re: Fran. The 13-14 books show more than just that 20m outstanding as debt to KL...I don't believe any money other than the 30ish mil in the Championship has been converted to equity.

 

It runs much deeper than that. It would have given him time to build a rapport with Fonte and immerse himself in the squad.
Might give us a 7/8 game head start more than a 3. People pay over the odds to get players early all the time, sometimes it's a good decision as Utd are finding with Depay

 

We will be sold within 5yrs I agree.

 

Celtic wouldn't have accepted it. They did the same with Forster.

 

Any if you're referring to my post above, I make it clear im not a doubter in the board but just underwhelmed by our dealings so far. The two are not mutually exclusive.

 

Do you know why we waited so long to sign Clasie? Was it purely because we were waiting for Morgan to go?

 

They might have done before the Summer started? Would have given them time to replace a player they knew they would be losing either way

 

Exactly that.

 

Collins and other Celtic staff kept banging on about VVD not going until they know their CL fate. So doubt it.

 

But it does happen all the time. If clubs took hands off warnings literally, we'd be a title challenging outfit...

 

Lol I'm sure I'll be shot down for this, but that's pretty poor - everyone knew Morgan was going this summer, we should have got Clasie in early as possible, surely?

 

We did it with Morgan.

 

We did a "you can go in one year" with Morgan. That's a flimsy hands-off

 

Celtic are saying hands off until after we know our CL fate. That is even more flimsy.

 

Everything was agreed before hand tho.

 

But that only reinforces my point. If it's so flimsy, why not try to push it?!