Celtic’s well publicised move for Korean international Cho gue-Sung has been the subject of much speculation over the last seven days or so.
After impressive performances in the Qatar World Cup, gue-Sung looks like he could be on the move with Celtic leading the chase to grab his signature.
With Giakoumakis future in doubt, it looks like Ange could be hedging his bets with a move for the hitman and it seems that BT Sports pundit, Allan Hutton, gives his seal of approval.
Speaking to Football Insider, Hutton said, “I have watched his games at the World Cup, I think he is a real threat. He is a presence up front. He is kind of like that Giakoumakis style player.
“The draw of coming to a league where you are winning trophies, playing European football, I think that is a massive draw in itself.
“The crowds that Celtic and Rangers pull in every week are massive, why would you not want to be part of that? At this moment in time Celtic are very strong so they are going in the right direction.
“The only way is up for them at this moment in time so that could be a big draw for a player like that.“
With the move being reported to cost any interested clubs €4m, the striker is well within Celtic’s budget and if he does have the prowess of Giakoumakis then Ange should take all steps to get him signed up.
- Celtic fan points out the obvious Scottish media anti-Celtic agenda that’s been on show this week
Celtic manager, Brendan Rodgers, was roundly hounded, criticised and lamented for his comments towards BBC reporter Jane Lewis last month.
Lewis took on a rather aggressive line of questioning towards the Celtic manager because he had the audacity to tell the truth about the narrative the Scottish media were painting about our club.
His ‘good girl’ comment made headline news across Scotland as the media tried to paint Rodgers as some sort of footballing dinosaur.
It really was a shameful episode in what has been a very predictable assault on our club by the SMSM.
And to prove just how anti-Celtic he broadcast media and their pundits are, popular Celtic account, Jungle Lion, points out just how biased they are after Ally McCoist’s comments this week.
What a superb point. The media in Scotland got themselves more upset about a throwaway comment that offended nobody than a comment made by a high profile ex-Rangers pundit who admitted he and 48,000 fans were about to break the Scottish Government’s new Hate Crime law on Sunday.
We all know what McCoist meant. The Rangers fans tried to flock to his defence but the Celtic fans have seen through McCoist’s ‘cheeky chappy’ persona for years.
McCoist and the media are fooling no one. Well, at least no one from Celtic Park anyway.
- ‘It’s actually embarrassing’ – Kris Boyd slammed for anti-Celtic comments
Kris Boyd has certainly been hitting the headlines and the ire of the Celtic fans this week.
After making a fool of himself over Kyogo Furuhashi’s penalty call in Celtic’s win over Livingston, the former EBT recipient was heavily criticised from all sections of the Celtic fans and fan media.
Boyd accused the Celtic striker of diving and it was comment that made him the focus of attention of his Sky Sport’s colleagues Chris Sutton and Robert Snodgrass.
Both pundits were unequivocal in their opinion that Kyogo was fouled and also criticised Boyd’s view on the incidient.
And Boyd should know better considering his diving history when he played for the old Rangers.
However, the Sky Sports pundit was the focus of Paul John Dykes’ criticism now as the award winning podcaster took aim at Boyd not just for his comments about Kyogo, but on just how unprofessional he is when analysing a game involving Celtic.
Dykes said (A Celtic State of Mind), “Chris (Sutton) has ripped Celtic. He ripped into Ange early doors. He ripped into Ronny Deila. I remember Craig Gordon was on his hitlist for a while as well.
“The thing about Chris Sutton, his intellectual ability to pull it off is there whereas you look at Kris Boyd and you think the guy’s not got it.
“I mean, see when I listen to an ex-footballer, by the way, I love a sense of humour, I love a wee bit of back and forth and all that. It adds entertainment to it. But at the heart of that, there needs to be knowledge, there needs to be insight.
“And from ex-professionals what I want is insight. I want a little bit that, personally as a football fan, I might not know.
“And I’m looking at it and hearing him and it’s actually embarrassing, it really is that someone like that is on their payroll.”
I can’t help but agree with Dykes. Boyd needs removed just not from Celtic games but from Sky altogether. I’m pretty sure there’s a job waiting for him in Superscoreboard as that seems to be the graveyard for ex-Oldco Rangers players.
- Ewen Cameron’s brilliant John Beaton tweet sums up what Celtic fans have known for years
John Beaton. The very mention of his name makes the Celtic fans cast suspicious glances whenever he is put in charge of one of our games.
Because we all know why. It’s not paranoia. It’s simply down to the fact that the SFA whistler’s leanings towards Rangers makes him ability to referee Celtic or Rangers impartially nigh on impossible.
We’ve witnessed some of Beaton’s outrageous decisions against Celtic time and time again not only in Glasgow Derby’s but in other regular run of the mill SPFL games as well.
And let’s not forget that Beaton also has a Rangers supporters club name after him. That’s correct. An SFA appointed referee has such a connection with the the Ibrox supporters that they’ve names a RSC after him.
Which is why when I saw radio DJ, Ewen Cameron, tweet about Beaton when he was appointed match ref for Ibrox on Sunday, I couldn’t help think that it just summed up how the Celtic fans feel about him.
It really is an incredible and damning indictment on our game’s credibility that our national association see fit to appoint a Rangers fan as ref for a title deciding Glasgow Derby.
I’m no conspiracy theorist because I know this isn’t a conspiracy. It’s as plain as the nose in your face what’s happening here and Celtic must do more to call this out.
Their silence on these matters is deafening and the Celtic supports are getting restless.
