QuoteNot named in squad for tonights CL qualifier (though he did travel with them). Hasnt played any pre-season games due to the injury he picked up, though Im sure the risk of injury / getting cup tied may also be a factor in scuppering any deal.
ye not really great but a lot better than stayin at celtic. i can't see any prem club going for him(one that could afford the luxury)
Not named in squad for tonights CL qualifier (though he did travel with them). Hasnt played any pre-season games due to the injury he picked up, though Im sure the risk of injury / getting cup tied may also be a factor in scuppering any deal.
I thought you were off the drink Ronnie?
"No, I drink to help me mind my own business....can I get you one? (c) Ronnie Drew
Sounds like he was fit, and Lennon wanted to play him, but the men upstairs wouldn't let him. A deal must be close, surely.
Celtic sure could have used him tonight though -- they clearly lacked imagination or an outlet.
EDIT: Lennon has said he has a back injury, so who knows?
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Pulled a muscle trying to lift his gameOriginally Posted by irishfan86
Best post in this thread so far.
lol lol - brilliant postPulled a muscle trying to lift his game
if only aidens performances in an Ireland shirt could put the same smile on my face
Villa would be a great move for him. He'd be playing against better full backs and if he does well then his confidence would be sky high which should benefit us.
If Villa sell Milner and get McGeady, Keane and Ireland in return then they should be over the moon.
Fair doos mate he has went stale at Celtic playing against the same teams 4 teams a year an 3 or 4 of the same players doubling up on you but to say he has no end product is just a myth that everybody thinks, he is always the top assist maker in the SPL every year and if we had some better strikers he would be into the 30 odd assist category. The problem I feel with Ireland is that yous usually play 1 up top and hes usually hitting the ball into an empty penalty area because hes the only one who has pace in your team if he gets selected to get up there with him.
I'm sick sick of defending McGeady on here to yous, but I will say again If you have have any chance of getting to Poland and Ukraine yous need to try and accommodate this guy. We missed him badly the other night when Lennon got told not to play him against Braga, he might not have set the heather alight if he played but he would sure as hell would have took the baw and ran 30-40yards with it to take the pressure of us which we badly needed.
Lets see what he can do against Lyon today in the Emirates Cup. Sky Sports 1 at 1:30 pm for yous EPL lovers by the way.
http://sport.stv.tv/football/scottis...ltics-mcgeady/
Offer tabled for Celtic's McGeady
A "big bid" has been tabled for Aiden McGeady, according to Neil Lennon, with Spartak Moscow believed to be the club behind the offer.
Neil Lennon has confirmed Celtic have received a “big bid” for winger Aiden McGeady, with Russian club Spartak Moscow believed to be the interested party. The Republic of Ireland international has been subject to recent interest from Spartak and has also been linked with a move to Aston Villa.
Speaking ahead of his team's participation in the Emirates Cup this weekend, Lennon was pressed on the future of McGeady, who sat out the 3-0 Champions League third qualifying round defeat to Braga earlier in the week through injury.
Spartak's technical director Evgeniy Smolencev is understood to have been in Glasgow during the week discussing an offer for the 24-year-old with Celtic officials. Whether Smolencev left having presented a formal bid for McGeady remains unclear but, in the meantime, McGeady is yet to be approached for his thoughts on moving away from Glasgow.
When asked whether there had been an offer from Spartak, Lennon replied: “You know he is, you know he is subject of a bid from Moscow,” before adding: “But he's here, he's still with us and he'll take part in this competition.
“I'm talking like he's gone, which is not the case at all. But there has been a big bid from a club on the table. There is strong interest, not just from Moscow. We believe there's interest from other clubs as well.
“He's a big player for us and he has been for a number of seasons now. He was very important to me in the run-in last season. He's a talented player, very talented player.
“But every player has his price, sometimes we can't stand in the way of that. If it's right for the club, the offer, and right for the player, then it's hard to stop these things going through.”
Whether McGeady would be tempted to switch to the Russian capital remains to be seen, with Aston Villa's potential interest likely to hold greater appeal. Nonetheless, his current manager believes he will flourish wherever he finds himself in the future.
“I think he would do well anywhere,” said Lennon. “He's a top quality player and has been for a number of years since he come onto the scene in 2005. He's a player who works really hard at his game and tries to get better at everything he does.”
We've talked about this and i still cant believe he would want to go play in Russia.
No Somos muchos pero estamos locos.
Celtic winger Aiden McGeady says he does not fancy a switch to Spartak Moscow.
http://sport.stv.tv/football/scottis...nt-want-to-go/
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Govorit' po-Russki in 10 easy steps:
Left, Right- Nalyeva, Naprava
Yellow, Red- Zholtaya, Krasnaya
First time- Bistriy
Shoot- Pitiy
How many times?- Skolko?
It's over- Konyets
Do you know your history?- Panimayetye istoria?
Celtic Euro bid- Nyevski Prospekt
How about: Help Ive been kidnapped!
Or: Now the whole team wants to stay at my house when we play Russia.
No Somos muchos pero estamos locos.
Seriously, get a grip. The stick Aiden gets amongst our own supporters (Celtic) either at Celtic Park or on the message boards makes the few gripes or generally disappointed type posts in this thread pale in to insignificance.
Aiden is an undoubtedly talented player (I would say 85%-90% of posters would agree with that on here) However in his 30 odd caps to date, hardly any of those performances stand out for me. Some of them were ok, some of them quite decent and many of them quickly forgettable.
I agree with you that the "no end product" line is to easy to trot out and that he does in fact create a hell of a lot of chances (not sure of his stats for Ireland) but he does waste alot also. His shooting is dyabolical and needs to drastically improve. McGeady should be scoring 10-12 goals a season in the SPL (hes been scoring an average of 5 or 6 including the odd pen).
I am a McGeady fan, he can have great vision but for whatever reason that only comes out on occasion. Partly due to the fact that for the last few seasons or so he has been Celtics talisman, the guy the other 10 players look to in order to create something, that type of pressure can make you change your game and not necessarily for the better.
Not sure if you actually watch Ireland games but we play 4-4-2, have done for as long as I can remember (apart from the odd away game). McGeady is not actually that fast, nothing that a Robbie or Duffer couldnt keep up with anyway. If you think McGeady is breaking away at electric pace with the rest of the team struggling to get up and support him you are deluding yourself.
The guy should be a great player for Ireland, it saddens me to say it but I think he should move this transfer window and try at a higher level (though there doesnt seem to be a massive amount of interest in him) he has gone stale at Celtic. He has now been given ample opportunity to settle in to the international squad, its time he started delivering a few MOTM peformances, assists and may be even the odd goal or two.
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I thought you were off the drink Ronnie?
"No, I drink to help me mind my own business....can I get you one? (c) Ronnie Drew
It pretty much depends on the milner move at this stage. If Milner goes, Villa will get him. And since AV aren't in the Champions League, there's no worry about him being cuptied there anyway.
He won't be going to Russia anyway. And the signs are that City will push through the Milner move this week, so Aiden could be leaving the bhoys fairly lively
Celtic should just hold out for as much cash as possible for AMcG and take the money and run!
ORA summed it up at the top of this page.
As for his Ireland career, it could only improve by a change of scenery, probably to a better league.....
Well the alternative seems to be the Aston area of Birmingham, so can you blame him for picking the lesser of two evils :P
In all seriousness I think a lot of people on here are underestimating the strength and financial power of the Russian League. Russian clubs have won European competitions twice in the last 5 years (CSKA Moscow 05 and Zenit 08 in the UEFA Cup) only the Spanish (3 UEFAs, 2CLs) have won more in that time (although England and Italy have also had 2 European competition winners in that time), this is a far stronger record than other countries (esp. France, Portugal, Holland and to some extent Germany) despite having less clubs in each competition due to lower coefficients and playing a summer season.
Some big players from other European countries have started playing in the Russian Premier League - Fernando Mieria (Portgual), Danny (Portugal), Rosina (Italy), Lazovic (Serbia) all play at Zenit; Krasic (Serbia), Tosic (Serbia) and Honda (Japan) all play for CSKA Moscow; Martins (Nigeria) and Ansaldi (Argentina) play for Rubin; Jiranek (Czech) and Stranzl (Austria) play for Spartak and Wilkshire (Australia), Voronin (Ukraine) and Kuranyi (Germany) all play for Dinamo Moscow. All these players have played for their countries and all would command a place in a mid-table Premier League or La Liga squad at the very least.
Also Russian clubs can pay above and beyond the developed football markets, Kuranyi is earning €18 million over 3 years, and only has to pay around 5% on that.
yeah the russian league is defo not beneath mcgeady. good enough move for him
It sounds more like a location issue and there is another offer, but a lesser one for Celtic.
Last edited by The Fly; 02/08/2010 at 9:26 PM.
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