Maloney up for the challenges ahead http://celticfc.net/news/stories/news_220808160749.aspx His passion and experience will be big.
Derek Riordan has been banned from every nightclub in Edinburgh for 2yrs. now he really will be desperate to get a move out of Scotland...
I'm so sorry to see what happened to one of Scotland's biggest talents! He'd better have stayed at Easter Road.
i'm not sure that would have made much of a difference to his private life. although i agree that he would still have being playing first team football and may have even moved south which is probably his only hope of salvaging what was, in the beginning, a very promising career.
he verbally abused staff at Berlin in May. under Edinburgh's 'Unight Scheme' he was banned from all Edinburgh nightclubs for a year. he then tried to get into Espionage about a month later and the ban has now been extended to two years.
He's a pathetic waste of talent and I don't have the slighest bit of sympanthy for him. The sooner he is out the door the better.
There have been rumors in some of the less reputable publications that he's headed back to Hibs, but I still hope they are false.
Well the News is belting out another beauty, The king of kings swedish club has admitted that they would be willing to sell players, even Larsson to raise money after their league bid failed. There has been options, yet again bloody Aston Villa are mentioned there (is anyone else getting pissed at them constantly being linked to us via MoN? i mean i loved the guy but i hate Aston Villa as a whole being liked with everything Celtic.) anyways, could there be the chance that the Magnificent Seven would return?
Man U, Villareal, and Aalborg. All in all, not the worst group imaginable. Man U may bet he defending champs, but realistically, every team in that first pot would've been a world class one. Aalborg and Villareal are about as easy as could've realistically been hoped for. Sure, everyone wanted the Cypriots and the Belarussians in their group, but I fancy that a trip do Denmark as opposed to Belarustan will mean more supporters.
Well, I agree. Villareal surely is a good team (we know them from former times, but I think it could have come worse. Important is that we didn't get drawn into the Juve group.
yep. a group that we have a reasonable chance of progressing from. strange how we are having a run of facing the defending CL champions. none of the three will look forward to coming to Celtic Park. yet once again we have to hope that we can take something away from home in the CL. rumours persist that we will be a 4-5-1 team away from home with Aiden and Shaun out wide and Naka playing in a more forward central midfield role with two holding midfielders behind.
Celtic beat Man U 2-1 at Lincoln Financial Field in Philly in a friendly back in 2004, a game that i was at ... i hope i can replace "Lincoln Financial Field" with "Old Trafford" (because we'll win at home, right?), "friendly" with "CL clash", and "2004" with "2008".
think celtic will be capable of getting through. really group h is the only one that looks like a real group of death to me.
Naka has stated that he may seek a move back to Japan in January for both family reasons and for the sake of his international career. the long trips back and forth for qualifiers must be taking their toll. 18mths ago i'd have been worried at the thought of losing Naka and even now i'd still be sorry to see him leave but i feel with Aiden, Shaun, Samaras, Crosas and hopefully Mizuno, we'll have plenty of options and players that can pick a pass and show some creativity. i still hope he stays but if he leaves in the winter transfer window then i'll wish him all the best.
Losing Naka would be quite bad, but not nearly as devastating as it would have been like 2 years ago. It seemed the entire offense went through him, but now the attack is multi-faced. With the addition of Robson, we now have a quality man that can take dead balls. He's not quite Naka's level, but who is? Robson also adds a lot of pace and energy to the side, something Naka can't quite do (between age and injury, Naka seems pretty slow now). Might as well throw Koki in at some point and see what he can do, too.
you guys won't quite understand how good naka is until he's gone. I've seen celtic games with and without him its like another dimension he adds to their offensive game. Also, Koki Mizuno is thinking about leaving cause celtic fail to understand just how bloody good he is. He is brilliant and is being wasted at celtic. Ofcourse at the moment its cause of injury but he better get game time or celtic will be wasting such a good player and preventing him from improving. If he doesn't get game time by the January window I'd support him leaving celtic cause he deserves better. Or at least going on loan to a different club in holland or japan or somewhere cause he on paper deserves a place in the first Celtic side cause he's better than a lot of people give credit.
i go to every home game at Celtic Park. i know how good Naka is but if he wants to return to Japan then i'll be sad to see him go and thank him for some wonderful memories. the point i'm making is Naka and Aiden were our creative heartbeat but now we also have Shaun and a striker that can take people on and beat them(Samaras), along with Crosas and Koki means that we've got more options in that respect. no idea what this rant is for. Koki was progressing really well last season in the reserves. he's young and there was no way we could take him from the J-league and throw him into the SPL. Naka had been playing in Europe with Reggina so he had some sort of acclimatisation. Koki got that last season in the reserves. he was going to be more prominent this season and was getting time in pre-season with the first team that proves this before injury struck. he was integrating himself into the first team squad. however, a pre-season injury can be the worst kind as he loses that valuable time and it puts him behind the other players. he's getting back to fitness. it's very early in the season. as far as i'm aware Celtic have high hopes for Koki. where did you hear he was thinking about leaving?
These articles suggest he's not content. Scotlandonsunday & The Herald They're both articles about naka but at the bottom there's a small bit about Mizuno.
cheers. paper talk most probably. interesting to note in The Herald it even states that Mizuno wishes to remain in Scotland.
It's definetly paper talk, one moment he was really happy, the next he wants to go home? eh, naw! He will get his game, he just needs to work into it which I am 100% certain he knew he would and will.
sad to read that John Kennedy has gone down with an injury while on loan at Norwich. not his knee though, an ankle injury this time. still, it seems like the guy has no luck where injuries are involved. i still hope he can make it back to the top of his game but it appears more and more unlikely. ------------------ so the latest rumour from the rags to stir up trouble is an apparent falling out between GS and Aiden, hence why he's been on the bench for the last two matches. i doubt there is anything in this. it would seem to me that Aiden has been rested purely due to his level of performances so far this season which have been far lower than the standard that is expected of the current Scottish player of the year.