He was untouchable against Dundee, but since then I felt he was already set on his move same as Edouard who were both terrible against Rangers. 

Ange had no choice to play them though due to depth and rotation issues. 

I think Giakoumakis could be a real coup for Celtic, Just hope he isn't a one season wonder. To score 28 goals in one of the worst teams in the Eredivisie is an insane stat.

Jota is an interesting loan signing, he gives some depth to Abada and Furuhashi on the wings, Hope K. Dembele can push for first team games as well as that would add some more depth.  

I think Ange is 3 signings away from completing a rebuild on the bare bones squad he had when he came in. Probably need another CB to cover Welsh. Just as I type this looks like they are about to announce another signing.!!


Edit: Cameron Carter-Vickers on loan from Tottenham. American International CB, played 26 games for Bournemouth last season in the Championship. Mixed reviews on him but Hopefully Ange can get to him!!

Left it late!! announced two minutes before deadline.

Edouard to Crystal Palace for £15m.

I know its only one game but based of the old firm outing he doesn't appear to be prem quality

imagine scoring 26 from 30 games in the Eredivise, winning golden boot and your team still gets relegated that's insane lol

Them lads on the talkceltic thread seemed to be pretty pissed at the board rather than Ange regards performances. Wonder how long that will last.

As for 442 alumni I see Scubaroo in that thread and Grazorblade plus 2 Greek Australians pissing off all and sundry. Mono perhaps for one of them?

I've only watched him this season. Seems like a decent player but I don't think he is a loss to Celtic. Kyogo seems a much better fit as the striker option for Ange's tactical setup. 

Makes the stats even more impressive.

If he manages to mention South Melbourne whilst slagging off the A-League in a single sentence you'll know its him.

Not me .... is this a reddit thing? Ill check it out.

HAhahahahah No even the Scottish press are sick of hearing about South Melbourne by now....  Amazing that they never mention the Aleague though?

That's two sentences BTW lol

Imagine what he can do now with a gaffa that speaks the same language?

Isn't that racist?

Greeks daring to speak to each other in public? Not sure Pauline, what do you think?

The FFA was called racist for not signing Beisla as NT coach because he didn't speak the same language.

Now you're suggesting that it's important.

Why is this instance different?

No the FFA was criticized as being STUPID for not bringing Bielsa in as NT coach but that's besides the point. The casual racism aspect was pretty much expected from an organization (and ALL that support it) that had championed apartheid based on ancestral ethnicity and obviously still does.

Put aside your rather feeble attempts at anti-Hellenic baiting for moment and re-read my post.
Greek player, plays in Holland under coach who would have communicated to him in English and scores a bag.
Same kid now playing for an Irish monoethnic social club in Scotland has a coach who speaks the same language thus can relay instructions a lot more efficiently - therefore should score a bigger bag of goals. 

That seems logical to me. I hope he does well. Indeed, Celtic have had a very good signing window. Only lacking a really tough holding midfielder for my liking but maybe McCarthy will get fit. Over 100 games at Everton so he must be ok although I can’t ever recall watching him play.

Its not apparent how much of these signings are Ange's choices though. I think Giakoumakis is a decent up top partner for Kyogo, is a hungry scrappy goal-sneaky kind of lad and will do extremely well against 90% of the Scottish Premiership teams.... Eduorde, to me, seemed like he just gets in the way so surprised to see him go to EPL? He really only seemed to have a decent game against AZ this year every other match seems to go missing.
Dont know much about the American with the double barrel machine gun name (pardon the pun) on loan from Spurs that Ds mentioned previously. Any ideas?

Don’t know much about the American either. The other signings have a bit of information about them though, particularly on the Celtic FB pages

English born. Was Once highly regarded in the Spurs academy system, might've even played a few games for them in the EPL in his early days. But has gone the way many Americans/Australians do in Europe and struggle to really kick on during the 20-23 year old age bracket. Been farmed out on-loan the last few season mainly in the Championship with Sheffield United (before they were promoted), Swansea and Bournemouth. Played regularly everywhere he has gone. Just hasn't really progressed probably as much as he was hyped up to. (Mainly by Americans.)

Celtic were in for him a few months ago on-loan but, Tottenham wanted to sell him, however no one wanted him out-right. So without any suitors Celtic approached for him again and Spurs pretty much had no choice lol.

Will he be better than Starfeldt, or Starlord as I think he should be nicknamed?

if memory serves me correct south melbourne have a long and good history of scottish players and managers, just returning the favour I guess, 

In fairness to American players lately in that age bracket, CCV sorta an outlier in terms of players not kicking on. Pulisic, Reyna at Dortmund, Richards at Bayern now on loan at Hoffenheim, McKennie at Juventus, Adams at Leipzig, Dest at Barca, Konrad at Marseille, Weah at Lille, Aaronsonn at Salzburg and some others all in that age group or even younger and solidly in good teams in top 5 leagues (minus Aaronson). 

there was hope CCV would join that group but he’s been left behind and pretty far out of the US depth chart going into WCQs. Most US fans think Celtic a good spot for him, been decent at all those Championship clubs. Had plenty of opportunities to make his way at Spurs and clearly not at that level. 

Hehehe yeah absolutely.... 

imagine what ange could do with this scotland team... Robertson and Tierney as wingbacks and Billy Gimour + McGregor... he would have a ball coaching them.

'Lately' being the key word there. CCV turns 24 at the end of the year, it was only really Pulisic at 22 who was the real outlier 4-5 years ago when he burst onto the scene. 
When the US failed to qualify for the WC I think this coincided with the likes of  Boyd, McKennie, Richards, Konrad, Dest, Reyna coming through representing this new generation post 2018. Before that it was pretty bleak, and I vaguely remember on some American forums they were pretty buoyant about CCV's future because there wasn't really anyone else bar Pulisic.

The US are having a real emergence, if anything its way overdue too. Heaps of quality coming through the MLS nowadays.

Hoping for Ange's sake CCV can kick on!

Shankly, Ferguson and Stein combined could not make that shower of shite any use.

Got McGinn too who is an excellent player, was Aston villa's best the last few years after Grealish. Then McTominay also. Just really lack a RB/RWB, CB and CF. 

Did you see Tierney and Robertson’s defending at both goals this morning?

I reckon Ange has had a pretty good window. You'd have to say nearly all the signings add something to the team and have the ability to play his way.

Couple of weeks to work with the non-internationals... would not be surprised if they're flying shortly. Didn't deserve to lose against Rangers.