Gary Hooper
So we were linked with him once before I believe... decent return in the Championship but I haven't seen him. Thoughts? He's got a decent name at least.
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Really don't know what to make of this. Suppose only time will tell. It's often the unflattering signings that do the best.
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I hope we sign him, he's the kind of Championship player that could move up to the Premier League and do well because he's a decent player aswell as scoring goals. A skinny Scott McDonald with pace.
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I liked him at the start but the more i think about him having to make a 'decision' between boro and Celtic turns me right off.
Middlesbrough or Celtic? ffs Anyone with half a braincell would see that they're not even on the same level.
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Aye any Celtic fan but if your English like him then it's different then your talking about possibly playing in the Premiership if they got promotion where he would always wanted to have played or playing in the SPL with a few European games a season.Originally Posted by Irish_And_Proud
"What these players have to realise, is that when you put on the Celtic jersey you're not playing for a football team, you're playing for a community and a cause"
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I hope to fuck it dosn't come to this. Why spend £2.5 on this when we could pay a bit more to get Skippy back.
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oh dear
Good cop and bad cop have left for the day :
i'm a different kind of cop !
Vic Mackey
The Shield 2003
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Excellent insight Harry. Skippy is a proven player at Celtic, Hooper is not.oh dear
We Are All Georgios Samaras
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Hooper is a proven player in the Championship and McDonald isnt thoughHooper scored 20 goals for the team that finished 20th in the League he's a good player and a good goalscorer, better than McDonald.
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Thomas Gravesen was proven in the EPL yet didn't make it here. Some players just aren't suited to playing here, Skippy was. Not saying Hooper won't be, I don't know a thing about him tbh.
Last edited by Galway Bhoy; 09-07-2010 at 05:14 PM.
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Gravesen was fine up here just not played in the right position, we didnt play a formation that he could play in but he was still a good player. Hooper is a striker only plays up front so there would be no problem. Players like Gravesen, Jarosik and Juninho only never became good for us because were we played them they all played in the Petrov position before but we wanted them to play out wide or in the middle of a 4-4-2 it didnt have anything to do with them not being able to adjust to the spl.
"What these players have to realise, is that when you put on the Celtic jersey you're not playing for a football team, you're playing for a community and a cause"
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Thats excatly what I thought when it emerged that Gary Hooper(who?) was linked with us........ no thanksoh dear
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Good point, I was just using him as an example. tbh, I'd rather Hooper to Skippy, a fresh start is what's needed. But I'd rather we hadn't sold Skippy in the first place, but what can you do when you have (or had, fortunately) a clown acting as your manager.
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I don't know much about Hooper myself mate, but as for Gravesen, if Strachan would have built the team around him, I think he would have ran riot up here.
Once again, WGS stubbornness got in the way, and he demanded that Gravesen sit back and dictate play from behind the ball, something Gravesen was not great at, and also something it looked like he refused to do, hence his downfall then departure.
"Celtic is important to me in as much as it's one of the only constants in my life over the years. I have changed and become various things but it is the one constant. Religion, friendships have come and gone, likes and dislikes have come and gone, but Celtic has remained." - Billy Connolly
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Aye I agree with that because he looked hard it seemed people thought he was a solid tackling midfielder but he was more of a playmaker, he had good skill on the ball, was clever and had a good range of passing and he scored goals but we wanted him to protect the defence like the new Lennon
"What these players have to realise, is that when you put on the Celtic jersey you're not playing for a football team, you're playing for a community and a cause"
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Spot on. For 3 seasons straight we kept buying CM's who played best in a 3 man midfield and Gravesen is one of the best examples.
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