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Tremendous talent. Can't see them allowing him to come here, but like your thinking.

we got our fingers burned a little by AA not cutting it in the higher division, so maybe they just didn't see a Prem player. I liked him, but they might be right. Even on a free it int a good deal if he cant play at the this level. Thought he was a better option than Lallana though!

No idea. If the papers say so, then perhaps we did and perhaps we have more than £15m available to spend. Excellent. We have signed Downes since then, so who knows how the budget was impacted.

Trabzonspor have score one goal in three games. They will be back with a better offer. Not sure it will be as much as we want, but he's their target.

We know we have got £15m to spend...plus whatever we get for Onuachu and ABK, assuming those deals get done. Whether that's enough to sign a talented attacker, I am not sure.

When decent championship layers are going for £25m, it does not surprise me that we have struggled to bring in that creative talent. We just don't seem to have the funds. Obviously we don't want to just sign a player unless we think they will cut it, but if we had no money I thought we might take O'Hare on a free. There is still time to strengthen.

I don't know how good Szmodics is, but perhaps our scouts have determined that he won't cut it in the top flight. You do understand them. We are looking for top quality players, but have limited funds available to spend. That makes it very difficult to bring in players. We have tried to sign MOR and Carvalho...and for all we know several others, but just haven't been able to tempt the selling clubs...yet. Our options are currently Onuachu, AA and Mara. Not ideal. Wasn't Downes our top priority? We haven't failed, completely. We have signed BBD and McCarthy. Again, far from ideal, but we have signed them. I think we will bring in three more players before the window closes. Wish we had them in right now, but that's the way it is.

Oh dear. I hope it's not too serious. I know he doesn't have too many fans on here, but I'm sure we all wish him well. Got to ask, why on earth are Hoffenheim revealing this kind of detail though. Is it not private medical information?

Missing out on Carvalho could be a bigger loss than MOR. Asprilla is still available, but who wants to get involved in that mess, and not sure we can afford him either.

Kevin Phillips.

I agree. My only concern is that Trabzonspor have spent about €10m (net) this summer already, which is similar to what they spent (net) last season. Net spend was roughly €0 the summer before that and about €12m the season before that.

Perhaps not, but still looking forward to seeing those three players. A little continuity early on might not be the worst thing. Three more will come in before the window closes is my guess.

Still at Braga. Just turned 28. Looks like clubs are passing on him.Linked with Marseilles, who just sold Vitinha (who they bought for €32m - I seem to recall there were some on here that fancied him, but he flopped) to Genoa for €16m. You wonder if that's bollocks though. Are they really going back to that well? Doubt we are interested. We will want someone already in the UK, on loan, that can hit the ground running.

Perhaps we bid, discovered they wanted double our offer, so moved on to Carvalho, discovering similar. Rather than 'waste' time, as some on here suggest, maybe we've been very efficient. With greater funds at our disposal, we can obviously recalibrate. Doesn't mean we will bid again. We just might not value the player in the same ballpark as Celtic. We shall see.

out of interest, who would you like us to sign to fill the central striker position?

Fergie wasn't regarded as a good man manager, was he? More of an authoritarian, and with the history/strength to allow him to bin players. Must be a nightmare managing multimillionaire young players. I just wondered if RM ought to carry some blame for not being able to take ABK on the journey. Or is it just a case of the player always being the issue.

Was going to raise the man management issue. Is it always the player that is the problem or can the manager ever be criticised for failing to get the best out of a player?

Forrest had the same issue, losing Samba, Spence, Garner, Davis and Grabban when they came up, but €195m if spending helped fill the gaps. They survived. Just! Worth noting that they spent just €7m in transfer fees to get them up. This is why it's so hard to compare transfer dealings between clubs. Everyone is at different points in their three year rolling financial cycles.

Unusual link. Perhaps Forrest get him and we take Omar Richards off their hands? Can't see it happening. Ryan Fraser seems to be our main left wing/wingback target and I think we all know that will happen eventually. It's worth noting that we have another three years of Ryan Manning.

We are spending what we can within the financial constraints to create the best possible side. What other alternative strategy might there have been? I struggle to understand what would be different if we had `totally ignored the possibility of relegation'? Thats a genuine question. Interested to understand what other paths/choices were available?

Yep, much prefer this flavour. We get to see if THB and Downes can `do it' in the prem for starters. The summer window has been fun so far. Plenty of links, a few signing and other bids and in general, all the talk has been about how we can strengthen, not how much weaker we are each week. Pretty much the only negative has been the KWP situation (unless not signing O'Riley has got you down). Such a shame we couldn't get him to sign a new deal (not unexpected) as it would have given us another huge lift. Looking forward to one or two more coming in. Simon Banza still hasn't signed for anyone...

I personally don't know the cost of Lamborghinis, but a quick google will have the list price. Is there a website with the list price for Celtic players?

We have made unsuccessful bids for a couple of players. Isn't that a clear indication that we wanna bring someone new in?

I'd of thought our transfer budget is based purely on available finances. We will spend every available penny to try and stay up, but there simply aren't a huge number of those pennies due to previous expenditure and company losses etc. I don't think there is £60m available and we have decided to spend £30m because we are strong candidates to go down. There is likely £60m (or some other figure) available and we will spend £60m.

He's a good fit, but won't West Ham want to keep him for depth? Even if he doesn't start, he'd be on the bench and one injury and he's first choice.