I was asked by Asaf Eyal to start a new thread on Celtic and I'm pleased to oblige.

I'm not interested in the rubbish that will probably be posted here from Rangers fans, if you want to post about us then take it to your own forum or come onto a Celtic forum. If admin could please delete any posts that are intended to incite other folk that would be appreciated

On Sunday we played against the team that was the blueprint of our club, Hibernians who are from Edinburgh.

We played pretty well in the first half without really troublng their goalkeeper much but took the lead just before half time. In the second half we had Aiden McGeady sent off with half an hour to go after he went down a bit too easily and deserved his second booking of the game. We managed to see out the rest of the game for a 1-0 win, with Artur Boruc pulling of a good few saves with one that can be classed as a truely world class save.

I am also delighted with our new left bac, Danny Fox, we seem to have filled the problem position we have had for years, the guy has a good delivery of corner kicks and has seldom wasted any since signing for us.

We also sold Massimo Donati yesterday to Bari of Italy, hopefully we can get a couple of players in before the transfer window closes at 5pm tomorrow

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Hi there !
which players come to celtic this summer , and which players left ?

Here you go

Players in

Daniel Fox £ 1,500,000 Coventry City
Landry N'Guemo On Loan Nancy
Marc-Antoine Fortune Undisclosed Nancy
Lukasz Zaluska Free Transfer Dundee United

Players out

Massimo Donati Undisclosed Bari
Simon Ferry On Loan Swindon Town
Ben Hutchinson On Loan Swindon Town
Jean-Joel Perrier Doumbe Released
Rocco Quinn Free Transfer Queen Of The South
Michael McGlinchey Released
Mark Millar On Loan Ujpesti Football Club
Cillian Sheridan On Loan Plymouth Argyle
Dianbobo Balde Released
Scott Cuthbert Undisclosed Swindon Town
Paul Hartley Free Transfer Bristol City
Shunsuke Nakamura Free Transfer Espanyol
Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink Released

thank you very much for the information, comrade tak1888
Who would you point out as Celtic's biggest stars these days? (it seems form the list you posted here that your had a better squad last year)
can you tell us about your activities & actions as supporters (certain groups etc.)

Thanks, Roy

The fan favourites at the lub just now are Scott Brown, Aiden McGeady and Artur Boruc.

Contrary to what has been being said from supporters of other clubs, on a whole we are anti rascist, anti nazi and anti fascist. We do have a lot of supporters who have very strong Irish Republican views, but we are not limited to these views only and we do not omitt anyone who doesn't have these views.

The Green Brigade have done a brilliant job at bringing colour and sound back into the stadiumwith their displays. From the very begining we have been a club and support that has welcomed people from different faiths and race. The Green Brigade have done various displays showing this.


We have a few smaller groups around the stadium but none are on the same scale as the Green Brigade when it comes to displays or sound. he other groups we have are, The Jungle Bhoys, The Rude Bhoys and the ShamrockBhoys.

And I'm sure a few of the St. Pauli people on here could also say a few things about what we are like

The only player there I think we may miss is Paul Hartley, both Naka and Hesselink became more passengers than of much a threat to other teams towards the end.

Well transfer window closed and it looks like we didn't bring anyone else in with a few players going out on loan

W actually signed a guy called Zheng Zhi who was released from Charlton Atheltic, this loos more of a marketing ploy to sell shirts in China than anything else.

I HATE MODERN FOOTBALL

do you think celtic will have now 12 million new supporters in china?

It will probably be something like the way it was with Nakamura, we will sell shirts over there plus rights to televised games, we have already had one failed attempt with a Chinese footballer in Du Wei, heres hoping the new guy does well on the football side and not just financial for the club.

i hope he will do well on the field (not against hapoel...) this is much more important than more chinese supporters, this is what i think about this whole thing going on in european teams signing chinese, korean, japanese players.

Do you still have Mcgeady? he's a real explosive winger.

I hope he does well too on the park bu sorry I hope he does really well against even Hapoel

To be honest when we signed Nakamura who did do exceptionally well for us apart from his last season wher he seened to be disinterested we did get a lot of Japanese people watching our games and buying merchandice bu I doubt that we will have 10% of them who will remain as Celtic Fans, with Asian supporters they tend to support the biggest names in their National sides more than they do the team they play for. In my opinion with Nakamura this was the case the people who wore Celtic tops wher more Nakamura fans than Celtic fans. And I see this being the case with the new guy too

Yes we still have McGeady, we never sold any of our players who would be classed as first team regulars, we loaned out players who are on the fringes of the first team

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Thank you very much for the information, friends !


can you post here some examples for this?

regarding the international break this weekend - Besides Samaras (who's team is in the same group as Israel.... ) do you have any international players?
Hapoel has Ben-Dayan, Yadin & Possibly Vermouth on our national team.

what are the examples you request, is it from the religious stuff or from Green Brigade displays?

As for international players, I don't think you will be troubled much by Samaras if he is picked for Greece.

We have numerous international players in our team, but i'm not too sure who has been selected for their national teams as I don't pay much attention to international football

how much did the chinese player cost to celtic? what role does he play?

unsuke Nakamura 25

He signed on a free transfer and from what I'm told he is a box to box midfielder

Zheng is the captain of the Chinese national side, which means that unlike our previous Chinese signing Du Wei, he is probably one of their best players, if not the best. He has J-League, English Premier and Championship experience, He was converted to midfield from defence and has even played as a stand-in striker on occasion. However, I agree that his signing probably has more to do with marketing our club in the East than for any particularly sound footballing reasons. I hope that he proves me wrong and turns out to be our best ever signing, but I have my doubts.

We had the opportunity during this transfer window to outstrip rangers, who are subject to heavy restrictions from their bankers due to the poor state of their finances. However, the rotten board of our PLC sees fit to tighten its own belt and rely on free or cheap transfers involving largely unknown players. One player who does look very good is Landry N'Guemo the Cameroon international midfielder who we've signed on loan.

Greetings, I will post more related to Celtic later, plus I have some political questions to ask of you on behalf of our fanzine editorial group.

Was Du Wei(r) not the Olympic captain of China?