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Scottish Prem 18/19

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MetalMickie said:
Fair comment regarding Rodgers' record in the transfer market.

Will be interesting to see how he goes with a bigger budget available to him as, apparently, one of the reasons for his being unsettled at Celtic was not being able to compete with an English Championship club for John McGinn.
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we messed Hibs about for weeks with McGinn as we thought we were the only club in for him. Villa came along and offered more, Celtic matched their offer, in the end it was the player's choice, and he chose Villa. am glad he did, because Christie would not have got near the first team if McGinn had joined.

Rodgers took the huff about it, and refused to let Boyata leave when Fulham offered a crazy 9m for him. the result of that strop is that Boyata will leave for nothing in May.
 
rudebhoy said:
we messed Hibs about for weeks with McGinn as we thought we were the only club in for him. Villa came along and offered more, Celtic matched their offer, in the end it was the player's choice, and he chose Villa. am glad he did, because Christie would not have got near the first team if McGinn had joined.

Rodgers took the huff about it, and refused to let Boyata leave when Fulham offered a crazy 9m for him. the result of that strop is that Boyata will leave for nothing in May.
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McGinn went for the wages on offer from Villa.
 
MetalMickie said:
McGinn went for the wages on offer from Villa.
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Celtic could easily have matched McGinn wage demands. Where Celtic went wrong was they automatically expected John McGinn to sign for them. They hot caught napping expecting the grandson of a director to just say where do I sign.
 
Jacko_G said:
Celtic could easily have matched McGinn wage demands. Where Celtic went wrong was they automatically expected John McGinn to sign for them. They hot caught napping expecting the grandson of a director to just say where do I sign.
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But it very soon became clear that Villa were offering him more.

If, as you say, Celtic could have met his demands why didn't they?

Would it have made him the highest paid player?
 
MetalMickie said:
But it very soon became clear that Villa were offering him more.

If, as you say, Celtic could have met his demands why didn't they?

Would it have made him the highest paid player?
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They got gazzumped. That is why, they thought he was in the bag/done deal. He is a "Celtic man". They thought he'd sit about waiting till Hibs agreed to let him join Celtic on the cheap.

Celtic only have themselves to blame in not signing McGinn.
 
Jacko_G said:
They got gazzumped. That is why, they thought he was in the bag/done deal. He is a "Celtic man". They thought he'd sit about waiting till Hibs agreed to let him join Celtic on the cheap.

Celtic only have themselves to blame in not signing McGinn.
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Whatever the reason it is, as you say, Celtic who have themselves to blame.

Not Rodgers, hence him being more open to Leicester's approach.
 
rudebhoy said:
we messed Hibs about for weeks with McGinn as we thought we were the only club in for him. Villa came along and offered more, Celtic matched their offer, in the end it was the player's choice, and he chose Villa. am glad he did, because Christie would not have got near the first team if McGinn had joined.

Rodgers took the huff about it, and refused to let Boyata leave when Fulham offered a crazy 9m for him. the result of that strop is that Boyata will leave for nothing in May.
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Couldn't believe it when we offered that much for Boyata and to be honest was glad it didn't come off. Not sure what he would have brought and would be another player on huge money in a championship team come September.
 
rudebhoy said:
Great result for Lenny last night. Think Rodgers' strategy of playing out from the back will be getting ditched right enough!
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Eh, did not watch it but reports say Hearts bossed the first half then went down to 10 men just before the break.
Got an equaliser then lost a 92 minute goal.
The result was good for Celtic, I'll give you that.:love:
 
HughJars said:
They are historically a bigger club, and a bigger stadium, but they're a league down from the comparable standard he was playing in. So, a step down ken?
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The Scottish PL is nowhere near to being comparable to the EPL.

The majority of the clubs, including McGinn's previous club, would struggle to survive in the Championship in England.
 
HughJars said:
They are historically a bigger club, and a bigger stadium, but they're a league down from the comparable standard he was playing in. So, a step down ken?
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The Scottish Prem is not a comparable standard to the English Prem - it’s already a push to compare it to the Championship as I think bar the top two and maybe Aberdeen the rest of the league would struggle in tbe Championship and right now Celtic would be the only club to survive in the Prem.
 
Liverpoolphil said:
The Scottish Prem is not a comparable standard to the English Prem - it’s already a push to compare it to the Championship as I think bar the top two and maybe Aberdeen the rest of the league would struggle in tbe Championship and right now Celtic would be the only club to survive in the Prem.
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I think perhaps you give Aberdeen, Rangers and possibly Hibs/Hearts too little credit and Fulham, Huddersfield and possibly Cardiff/Southampton too much.
 
In recent years I have witnessed several players who were reasonably well regarded in the SPL prove to be totally out of their depth in the English Championship.

Greg Stewart, Andrew Shinnie and Adam Rooney.
 
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