Celtic bid £1.5m for Fraser Forster

Clearly not worth it then, don't buy him.

 

We wont sell him for £1.5m, so I guess you will have to look elsewhere.
The major flaws you point out are things that all young keepers have problems with and come with matches and age, Man Citee tried to offload Joe Hart like 3 years ago for the same reasons now he is Englands no 1, Ben Foster had the same problems at Man Utd, they sold him and after regular games is now rated at about £10m

 

Think the Key thing with they transfers is that they were being sold to another English team, English players prices arent inflated around the world just in English to English transfers because there is the most money in this league and you dont sell cheap to your competitors. Simple business sense, i'd take the money was average in scotland and it continually gets critisiced so what makes you think he can be anything down here?

 

I agree, I would perfer we went for a more experianced keeper but it seems the club are wanting to do a deal for this guy.

 

Could have the guy Manure are after, young, not English and a snip at £17million

 

They will be better off looking in the Championship it move there level, Leeds are selling Kasper fo £1.25m

 

sold him to Leicester

 

kasper is overrated....

he was always better outfield than in net.

I think graysons realised hes ****e and got rid, hes not even worth 0.5 mil

ive scored past him loads at school many soft ones aswell, in tiny nets from range


yes i went school with him and he is a cock, up his own arse, ive megged him more than once haha

 

Celtic probably can't afford more than £1.5m, I agree with most on here - £3m is a very reasonable asking price. If Craig Gordon was worth £7m (£10m with add-ons) then Forster is good value at £3m.

 

How do you come to that conclusion? Gordon was proven at International level and set the SPL alight, Forster was average in the SPL and has never represented England at any level

 

Gordon was proven in the SPL / International, hence why he went for x3 the price I'd like to get for Forster. Asking a third of the cost isn't excessive.

And setting the SPL alight is like setting League One in England alight, which Forster has done. The standards are similar if you take Rangers and Celtic out of the equation.

 

£1.5m is a ridiculous offer. If we only had Krul on the books I'd happily spend £3-4m on Forster as a number 2. This shouldn't even be considered.

 

Well IMO it is excessive, when a player who has shown he is an average player in a so called **** league is only regarded as a third of the price of someone who proved himself against the top countries in the world. If Forster set league one alight then why didn't he do it in the SPL if it is the same level, contradicting yourself there.

 

I didn't see enough of him to really know how well he performed last season, that's why I said about when he was at Norwich.

 

Fair enough mate, i just don't think he has all this potential some seem to think he has and i would be willing to take the first decent offer that comes our way, i've watched him for two seasons in League one then the SPL and he is slow at getting across his line, he doesn't command his area and he doesn't instill the confidence that i would like to see. Imo i don't see how he can make the step up rather than Krul who is already proven to be better at a higher level than him.

 

I agree about Krul, prior to last season I thought he wouldn't make it. But he showed enough last season to show that he's ahead of Forster in the pecking order and may be our #1 next season. He's still got his flaws, but considering how few games he's played in any first team he's got great potential.

 

Neil Lennon confirm their bid has been rejected.

 

1.5 million is nothing. We couldn't buy a player anyone here would consider buying for that low price, so what's even the point of cashing in at this point? Considering he's a young LOCAL keeper who has done as well as possible with every opportunity he's been given the past two seasons, why is everyone looking to give up on him all of a sudden? Loan him out to a Championship or EPL side this year, and re-evaluate again next summer after he's faced the level of competition everyone seems to want to take his performances/statistics seriously. Do you want to look back in a couple years time and say "there's a great Geordie footballer that got away for next-to-nothing"?

Also, what's to say that if Krul does reach the potential everyone suddenly thinks he's capable of, that he won't become another of the players who say they want the challenge of Champions League football and leaves for greener pastures?