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OFFICAL CELTIC THREAD

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nation - scotland

year founded - 1888

status - professional

reputation - continental

chairman status - will listen to offers

favoured personnel - martin o'neil, henrik larsson, tommy burns, neil lennon

fierce rivals - rangers

other rivals - none

finances - secure

estimated value - £89m (loan debt £4.9m)

stadium - celtic park, glasgow

stadium capacity - 60355

training facilities - top training facilities

youth facilities - excellent youth facilities + youth academy

continental competition - european champions cup

media prediction - 1st

sqaud average age - 25

squad personality - very determined

captain - stephen mcmanus

Staff

chairman - brain quinn

ass man - garry pendrey

confidence

Board wants to win league by end of 2year plan

expects to reach group stages of champions cup

expect to win league this season

expect to win scottish cup this season

First team squad

gk-artur boruc

gk-mark brown

drl/wbr-mark wilson

drc/dm-gary caldwell

dlc-stephen mcmanus

dlc-darren o'dea

dc-bobo balde

dc-john kennedy

dc-steven pressley

dl/wbl-lee naylor

dm-evander sno

dm/mrc-massimo donati

amrc-scott brown

amrlc-shunsuke nakamura

amrc/fc-maciej zurawski

amlc-aiden mcgeady

amlc/fc-mike mcglinchey

amc-paul hartley

fc-scott mcdonald

st-chris killen

st-derek riordan

st-jan vennegoor of hesselink

IRL celtic are finding thereselves able to contend with europes top teams in search of the chamions league trophy. Can you do the same??

enjoy and have fun!!

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hi all i signed a certain derek boateng from beitar jerusalem for 600k and he is my top midfielder he scored 12 and had 15 assists up til chrimbo then i had to restart

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I've finally got the demo!!

Ins:

Jefferson Farfan - PSV £7.5m

Barry Robson - Dundee United £750k

Zander Diamond - Aberdeen £2.7m

Thiago Motta - Barcelona Loan

Decided not to sell anyone quite happy with a big squad at the moment. Struggling to score goals at first but have hit a bit of form with Zurawski and McDonald my top scorers. Hesselink is struggling big time. Still undecided with my back pairing but have gone with McManus and Diamond so far. My team looks like this:

-------Zurawski------------McDonald---------

--------------Hartley/McGeady---------------

Farfan/Robson-----------------Nakamura/Brown

----------------Donati/Motta-----------------

Naylor-McManus/Kennedy-Diamond/Caldwell-Wilson

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Originally posted by WhatIf???:

Out:

Killen

Jarosik

Sno

Zurawski

In:

Mezenga

Marin

Arshavin

Boateng

Maloney

Breno, Alex and Cabral coming in January.

Boruc

Kennedy

McManus

Caldwell

Naka

Massimo

Skoosh

Aideinho

Arshavin

Big Jan

McDonald

You do realise the demo ends at the end of December?

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Morning lads.

Picked up the game yesterday and have spent most of my time just looking at players and tactics.

Team

==========The Holy Goalie==========

Wilson Ignashevich Big Mick Wilson

==============Massimo--------------

-----------Naka --- Boateng---------

Arshavin=======Jan----------Aarilto

Bench...

Brown

Odea

JK

Stevenson

Sno

Brown

Kallon

Milosevic

Fortune

Trabelsi

McDonald

Just won my opening league game by beating Killie 4-0, Naylor, Jan Double and Aarilto debut strike.

Breno and Cabral on their way in January.

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yeah good morning, finally Celtic thread icon_smile.gif

i'm now in the middle of nowember, but in 3rd place icon_rolleyes.gif rangers kicks my ass everytime... my starting 11 looks

GK - Boruc

DL - L. Naylor

DR - M. Wilson

DC - S. Mcmanus

DC - S.Ignashevich

ML - Leto(loan)

MR - S. Nakamura

MC - M. Donati

MC - D. Biliyalitdenov

ST - D.Riordan

ST - Jan Vennegor of Hesselink

i'm thinking about new Striker and Left-back... Any suggestions ?

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I have Fortune and Stevenson covering Naylor, O'dea sometimes too. Naylor and Wilson have been immense for me.

Up front, Big Jan is a goal machine,

Arshavin=======Jan----------Aarilto

20 games in, that front three have combined for 37 goals.

In the league, played 16, won 15 drawn 1. Scored 43, conceded 3.

Champs league group with Milan, Valencia and Olympiakos. Played 6 won 5 lost 1. Just beat Valencia 5-0 in Valencia.

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Brought in Christopher Samba to take over from Wilson in rightback and he's been a runaway success.

I also got Yohann Gouffran from Caen who looks a good prospect and Marco Ruben has been banging in a good few goals for me.

Got Bruno on the way in January, I hope he'll change the perception that Brazilian defenders can't hack it in the SPL.

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Originally posted by Frankie 7:

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by WhatIf???:

I forgot to add I got Gourcoff grom Ac and Anderson from Man U on season long loans.

You have Wilson playing both right and left back for you ??? icon_biggrin.gif </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

MEant Naylor icon_biggrin.gif

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Right finally finsihed season did well enough and team played well .

Table

As you can see won the league at a stroll

Ins and Outs

Star buys Maloney ,Marica ,ignashevich,gosling

season info

Happy enough with all

Would like to make Knock outs in champs league next time around

Uefa cup run was good ,

Scottish cup pleased with ,

League cup unhappy at getting beat by Gers

squad

Hesslink and Marica outstanding together .

Nakamura amazing what a player .

ignashevich amazing solid rock outstanding on a free.

And to top it all off this happens icon_biggrin.gif

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Originally posted by morton2003:

Right finally finsihed season did well enough and team played well .

Table

As you can see won the league at a stroll

Ins and Outs

Star buys Maloney ,Marica ,ignashevich,gosling

season info

Happy enough with all

Would like to make Knock outs in champs league next time around

Uefa cup run was good ,

Scottish cup pleased with ,

League cup unhappy at getting beat by Gers

squad

Hesslink and Marica outstanding together .

Nakamura amazing what a player .

ignashevich amazing solid rock outstanding on a free.

And to top it all off this happens icon_biggrin.gif

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I see you managed to hold on to Kleberson for a whole week!

I kept on trying for Maloney, but Saint Martin wouldn't sell him!

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hi guys hows everyone doin just finished my second season and won the treble twice and have made some good signings

pedro oldoni 5m

stephen pienaar 5m

sol campbell 3.9m

and have been giving tomislav pavlov, rocco quinn and cillian sheridan runs in the first team

so I wsa wondering has anyone else made some good buys and gave any youth sqaud some games

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Finished my first season with Celtic lastnight.

My signings in the first season were:

Luka Modric (AM RLC; £3m, Dinamo)

Rodrigo Palacio (ST, £9m, Boca)

Mika Aarlito (AM LC, ST, £400k, TPS)

James McCarthy (M RC, £150k, Hamilton)

Loans In:

Sebastian Leto (end of season, Liverpool)

Justin Hoyte (end of season, Arsenal)

Mattheiu Flamini (end of season, Arsenal)

Major players out:

Evander Sno (£3m, Sampdoria)

Chris Killen (£4m, Stoke)

Jiri Jarosik (£4.5m, Birmingham)

Derek Riordan (£3m, Reading)

Start of season I had a record of 9 points from the first 7 league games with home defeats to Inverness CT and Falkirk particular low points and was 8th in the table. My big signing Rodrigo Palacio was out for 4 months with a hip injury and all in all my team were playing ****. I was playing an offensive flat 4-4-2 with slow tempo, short passing game. It wasn't working at all so decided to sack all my fancy settings in the tactics screen and go bog standard 4-4-2 diamond attacking, with big Hesselink as a target man (balls to head).

After that I won 23 games in a row in the league (a memorable 7-2 pumping of Hibs in there) ended only by an away defeat to Rangers after the title was already won. Hesselink had about 25 assists in those games, such a great target man. Scott McDonald scored 10 goals in 11 games in the league and when Palacio came back from injury he scored 24 goals in 23 games (30 in 33 starts in all competitions for the season). Both players (especially McDonald) missed a lot of chances as well, Hesselink and Modric (as well as Naka and McGeady) were creating a lot of chances in every game. The key to my success was the target man to Hesselink.. some games he wasn't winning the headers so my team just wasn't performing, when that happened I had to switch to a counter attacking game with balls to run on to (Palacio is fast).

My record was:

SPL - Champions (won before the split)

League Cup - Champions

Scottish Cup - Champions

Champions League - First Knockout Round (3-1 defeat to Porto)

Team for majority of season was:

GK - Boruc/Brown

DR - Hoyte/Wilson

DL - Naylor/Staughton

DC - Balde/O'Dea

DC - McManus

DMC - Donati

MR - Nakamura/Brown

ML - McGeady/Aarlito

AMC - Modric/Hartley

FC - Venegoor of Hesselink

FC - Palacio/McDonald

Signings rating:

Luka Modric - 10/10. He was cup tied for the Champions League, and even though I got a few good results (away win at Lazio, draw away to Real Madrid) in the group stage, the team was nowhere near as good without him. He got the most Man of the Match awards in the league and had second highest assists (to Hesselink) and was in the top 10 goal scorers as well. Paid £3m and he was worth £5.5million by the end of the season, has caused zero fuss in terms of requesting transfers or anything either (unlike Boruc and Nakamura who constantly want away).

Palacio - 9/10. 33 games, 30 goals, 18 assists. Can't ask for more than that! McDonald had a similar games to goals ratio during the 4 month injury he had, so he wasn't essential or anything. Palacio had two goals in the goals of the season awards, he seemed to miss the easy ones and score lots of great goals. It's frustrating but when he puts in a 25 yarder to beat Rangers at Ibrox, you forgive him icon_wink.gif

The other two (Aarlito and McCarthy) barely got a game, they're young and were cheap so no complaints. My loan signings were mixed, I got them as cover for injuries but McGeady and Donati never got injured the whole season and they almost never played. Hoyte played better than Wilson for the first three quarters of the season.. then all of a sudden Wilson's stats got crazy good and he became the best defender in the team.

Started my second season as well.

Players In:

Claudio Maldonado (DMC, Santos, £2.5m)

David (DC, Palmeiras, £6m)

Lino Marzoratti (DRC, Empoli/AC Milan, £3.5m)

Adrian Murcia (GK, Hercules, £65k)

Gilberto (ML, WBL, Hertha Berlin, Free)

Players Out:

Michael Staughton (£1.3m, Birmingham)

Aiden McGeady (£10m, Everton)

Macjiek Zurawski (£750k, Grasshoppers)

Rocco Quinn (£2m, Birmingham)

Team for second season:

GK - Boruc/Murcia

DR - Wilson/Marzoratti/Caddis

DL - Naylor/Santonocito

DC - O'Dea/McManus

DC - David/Marzoratti

DMC - Maldonando/Donati

MR - Brown/Nakamura/McCarthy

ML - Gilberto/Aarlito

AMC - Modric/Nakamura

FC - Palacio/McDonald

FC - Hesselink/Aarlito

Started well in the league, undefeated so far.. although had a 0-0 draw with Aberdeen at home. Beat Hibs away and Rangers at home though, so made a bit of distance with second and third already.

Qualified for Champions League Group Stage.

Biggest blow so far was losing Modric for 5 months to a hip injury.. but Nakamura has came in and did alright so far.

Palacio had scored something like 13 league goals in 7 games so far in the second season but still missing lots of chances which is frustrating in games where every chance counts (like home defeats to Bayern in CL despite more shots on target).

Also I used that 24 month installment thing to get most of the offers for players that I've reported. I had a £10million bid for Nakamura from Newcastle that way but he didn't want to leave, which is annoying because he's ALWAYS moaning. It's a pretty good way to get good money for squad players.

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Not many people playing as Celtic then!

I just finished the first transfer window in my third season. Second season went like this:

SPL: Champions

League Cup: Champions

Scottish Cup: Champions

Champions League: 1st Knockout Round (0-3 Barcelona)

Rangers pushed me much closer in all competitions this season because they made two brilliant signings - Scott Sinclair on loan from Chelsea (who is now a £11m wonderkid in their first team) and Enyeaema in goals (who they are now turning down £10m bids for).

My total transfer activity for 2008/2009 including January was:

In 2008/2009:

Claudio Maldonado (DMC, Santos, £2.5m)

David (DC, Palmeiras, £6m)

Lino Marzoratti (DRC, Empoli/AC Milan, £3.5m)

Adrian Murcia (GK, Hercules, £65k)

Gilberto (ML, WBL, Hertha Berlin, Free)

Guilherme (DL, WBL, Sao Paulo, £7.75m)

Patrik Lomski (AMLR, ST, TPS, Bosman)

Out 2008/2009:

Michael Staughton (£1.3m, Birmingham)

Aiden McGeady (£10m, Everton)

Macjiek Zurawski (£750k, Grasshoppers)

Rocco Quinn (£2m, Birmingham)

Simon Ferry (£2.5m, Sheff Utd)

Mika Aaritalo (£10m, Birmingham)

John Kennedy (£2.5m, Sheff Utd)

Paul Hartley (£1m, Reading)

Thomas Gravesan (£4m, Fenerbahce)

Squad

GK. Boruc/Brown/Murcia

DR. Wilson

DL. Guilherme/Naylor

DC. David/McManus

DC. Marazrotti/O'Dea

DM..Maldonado/Donati

MR. Brown/Nakamura

ML. Gilberto/Lomski

AMC. Modric/Nakamura

ST. Venegoor of Hesselink/Sheridan

ST. Palacio/McDonald

Started my third season now, have a youth talent in the team dubbed "the new Paul McStay" and the best talent of his generation, which was handy. Not many players sold because my team is very young, Guilherme is getting £12.5m+ bids from Man Utd, Roma and Juventus but isn't even complaining when I reject them. Boruc and Nakamura signed new contracts at the end of the season which was useful too.

In 2009/2010:

Mauro Zarate (ST, River, £4.2m)

Thiago (MRC, Barcelona, £1m)

Criag Cathcart (DC, Man Utd, Free)

Sergio Avila (AMLC, Chivas, £3.5m)

Cesar Villaluz (AMR, Cruz Azul, £4.2m)

+ 16 y/o Regens from Italy and Russia with potential to be as good as Maldonado and Guilherme

Out 2009/2010:

Diarmuid O'Carroll (AMC, FW, Morton, £1m)

Virgo, Caldwell, McGovern, McGlinchey, Blade, Pressley away on bosmans

Squad 2009/2010

GK. Boruc/Murcia

DR. Wilson/Caddis

DL. Guilherme/Naylor

DC. David/Marzarotti

DC. O'Dea/Cathcart

DMC. Maldonado/Donati

MR. Villaluz/Brown/McCarthy

ML.Avila/Gilberto

AMC. Modric/Nakamura

ST. Zarate/Palacio

ST. Hesselink/Sheridan

Qualified for Group Stages of CL with a 4-0 away win over Dynamo Kyiv (with the required close call 3-0 home defeat because my team weren't trying and I only had two team talk options icon_rolleyes.gif).

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Hi playing as Celtic in first season made the following signings:

In

Jelle Van Damme £750k

Mika Aaritalo £250k

Luka Modric £3.5m

Sergey Ignashevich Free

Out

Jarosik

Pressley

Team usually like this:

Boruc

Wilson Mc Manus Ignashevich Van Damme

Nakamura Modric Donati Mc Geady

JVOH Aaritalo

Donati very defensive and modric is playmaker.have mc geady and naka pushing forward, playing attacking,direct,quick football always pressing and hard tackling.problem is that we're very inconsistent beat barca at home 1-0 and then get beat by aberdeen 2-0 away. As well as this away from home im leaking goals too easily especially in CL.any suggestion?

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Are you still creating chances when you lose or just playing badly? I had very inconsistent results at first because teams kept hitting me on the break. So I changed to a diamond midfield - playing with a proper DMC (i.e not an arrow) really seems to help in the SPL.

Also playing direct and quick is better for counter attacking football imo, if you're playing attacking mentality (which you should in the SPL except at Ibrox) then you might want to slow it down at least to normal so you can pick teams apart patiently. In the CL away, go to defensive.. then direct and quick and turn counter attacking on and it might work better. For home games in the group stage your SPL strategy should work fine (as long as it works in league).

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yeah inconsistency is my main problem.i create dozens of chances,have maybe a goal ruled offside or disallowed a game!!my opponents never have goals disallowed deadly frustrating!do you think donati is good enough as a DMC?IMO hes pish very good going forward but doesnt cut it defensively tried to buy haestad in but he went to lazio!!

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He did the job for me in the SPL in the first season, but I signed Maldonado for only £2.5m the second season and he was much, much better than Donati. That fee was quite lucky though, Juventus unsettled him and made him want to move clubs, then signed him for £2.5m.. but the transfer was cancelled because of the 1 non-EU player a season limit.

I came in and bid for him right after the transfer was cancelled, they accepted the same amount and he moved to me right away! He's very loyal, scores a few important goals and the board and fans all said he was the best signing I made after Palacio. He had 7 stars in my scout reports and coach reports too.

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Can't get into my celtic game this year...duno why...can't find guys i really want to sign.

I reckon you can win the league without signing anyone and i refuse to pay 9m for jean II Makoun or sum1 just for the sake of it.

I need to change my mindset icon_confused.gif

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Just thought id display my team for people to see

GK - Boruc

DR - Wilson

DL - Van Damme (Anderlecht 600K)

DC - McManus©

DC - Goian (Steau Bucharest 1.3mil)

DMC - Donati

MR - Arshavin (Zenit Peterburg 5.5mil)

ML - Nakamura

AMC - Hartley (Not that good on paper top class)

FC - Dica (Steau Bucharest 2.8mil)

FC - Big Jan

Bench

GK - Kotenko (Levadia 250k)

DC - Pressley

DR/L - Doumbe

DC/DMC - Radoi (Steau Bucharest 1.7 mil)

AMRC - Brown

AMRL - McGeady

FC - McDonald

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In my first season with Celtic I managed to win the league by a point along with the League Cup. Also managed 3rd place in Champions League group and eventually eneded up in QF of Uefa Cup before being knocked out. Now well into my second season and after a shaky start, was knocked out of Champions League qualifying by Fenerbache, I'm storming the league and domestic cups. My team plays 4-4-2 and is as follows:

GK - Mark Brown

DR- Mark Wilson

LD- Jeremy Mathieu

CD- Stephen McManus

CD- Mirel Radoi

DM- Tymoschuk

ACM- Arashvin

LM- McGeady

RM- Scott Brown

FC- Scot Mcdonald

FC- either Sychev or Cavenaghi

Bench

GK - Oier Olazabal

CD - Darren O'Dea

DL - Michael Staunton

LM - Ross McCormack

DM - Hossam Ghaly

AM - Hartley

ST - Cillian Sheridan

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In my first season won the trebble and got to the quarter final of the champions leage playing Arsenal, Olypiacos and Ajax in the group stage.

First Knockout Round

First Leg: Celtic 3:0 Chelsea

Scorers: Hartlyx2 Dica

Second Leg: Chelsea 3:1 Celtic

Scorers: Lampardx2 Cole, Dica

Quarter Final

First Leg: Sevilla 3:1 Celtic

Scorers: Maresca Kanoutex2, Dica

Second Leg: Celtic 4:2 Sevilla

Scorers: Dicax3 Balde, Kanoutex2

Sevilla went through on away goals

Usual Starting Line-up

GK - Boruc

DR - Wilson/Doumbe

DL - Naylor/Van Damme

DC - McManus

DC - Goian/Pressley/Balde

DMC - Donati/Radoi

MR - Arshavin/Brown

ML - Nakamura/,McGeady

AMC - Hartley/Kahlenberg

FC - Dica/McDonald

FC - Jan VOH/Stancu

Vennegoor, Donati and Wilson very injury prone and out at least half of the season.

Rangers and Hibs also done well with Rangers 2nd in the league and reaching the semi-final of the EURO Cup and Hibs 3rd (1 point difference) and Fletcher scoring 30 league goals. Hibs also got to the finals of both cups.

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