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Nope, hes dead

Im just kind of glad we didnt spunk half a mil on a 3rd choice goalie.

Wait,did Paulo just call somebody a virgin??

Apparently thats Bain now signed on loan, kind of glad its just a loan signing for now.

So you lose your goalkeeper and top goalscorer for a midfielder? Even more of a strange one after binning Stokes.

Hopefully thats our interest in Carson ended. Why pay nearly half a million for a guy who may never play for the club.

Lived in Aberdeen for a few years, its fine if a dull grey souless existence is your sort of thing. The new stadium will compliment Aberdeen rather nicely imo.

Given isnt a bad shout, I know hes retired but didnt stop bigger budget teams like Arsenal and Chelsea coaxing Lehman and Hedman (ffs) out of retirement. Think it was mainly because their keepers got injured outwith the transfer window but Given would probably love to come back if he can get a sniff of a game and it shouldnt unsettle De vries either.

If true Brendan out. Boruc player/manager.

Only a couple of our players are arguably in that bracket. Mainly because they have put in some decent performances in the champions league. Carson on the other hand has been hanging around League 1 football in England. I dont think we value him enough as much as you do since you lot aren't quite out of relegation contention yet so wouldnt want to risk selling your goalkeeper who appears to be having a purple patch in his relatively underwhelming career. Its not us living in a ‘ La la fantasy world’.

Apparently we have had a 200 grand bid turned down for Carson, dont see the point in signing a mediocre keeper on a permenant deal when Gordon could be back by the end of the season, especially when hes not exactly a young prospect. He would end up being Mark Brown mark II. Hopefully a loan deal will suffice, preferably polish and resides near Bournemouth...

Incoming....

Waiting for Boruc to do a duet imo.

Musonda confirmed on an 18th month deal. Marvellous.

Boruc has liked a celtic instagram post today I see...

Theres always one c*nt whos too bitter and thick to throw the towel in

Not a bad name for the new stadium going by the 2014 referendum and Aberdeens shitebaggery.

I pretty much said that in a post earlier, the main young beneficiaries of this are unlikely to be that of international qualitiy I agree. Yeah Queens deserve slight recognition but lets face it Celtic picked him up at 14. We had had Andrew Robertson until he was 15 but We wouldn't be taking much credit (if any at all) really for him. Im not a supporter of the colt idea so Im not scraping any barrel to justify it, I only started speaking in this thread as somebody said we didnt produce players. I would probably be more inclined to watch a Colt side than a reserve side if Celtic weren't playing that day but I cant see many turning up. Your not the first person on here to mistake me for a colt supporter but such is the anger against people are looking to vent their disdain they are just arguing against points Im not making. Such is the anger it is causing I dont really want to see it go ahead if it means fans chucking their season books.

Aberdeen regularly getting 20,000 is more hilarious.

Reserve league was sh*t, when I worked offshore I used to go to Airdrie the odd time to watch Celtic. Crowds were tiny and the tempo of the game was crap.

I take your point about Watt but we had Mcgeady since he was 14 ffs, and took him from an 'amateur' club. We developed him.

Just going off spending power is looking at it way too simplistically. The better the team the harder it is to get in to, which is why first team football elsewhere is benefical a lot of the time first. A lot of it though is down to the current manager who must bite the bullet and give the player proper game time. No disagreement however over it being self interest though. The likes of those two got us nearly 3 million I think. Not so funny now. I also for got the likes of Mcgeady,watt and Kennedy.

Does he? Hes not of the sweeper keeper variety which is why he got punted from Man city. Also his wages will be astronomical. Were getting Boruc back and thats that.

Im saying players will have more of a chance of getting in to the team if they are able to play competitive football at a young age whilst being trained and monitored by their own staff. How much of a benefit this is to the national team is very much debateable and if it pisses off lower league fans that much it really isnt worth the risk. The main benefit I would say is to the players who in the past stay on at Celtic too long with a couple of sub apperances if their lucky to their name. They are usually about 20/21 and leave with little professional game time, chances of them making it to a Scotland team are pretty slim but at least they would now have a seasons worth of senior football to their name. This Doesn't really benefit Scottish football as a whole just them and the next club they are going to. Not really worth the furore this is causing for me.