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Ah, so when you said you “leaked” the info you meant “made up”

So with flow stating that the trialist isn’t who we think it is (benteke) where did this name come from in the first place?

According to Burrows it’s not him.

Maybe an explanation.

Never say never, but unless we had a motherwell fan who had come into a bunch of money and truly had the club at heart, I don’t see that happening, or working. Source: we tried it and it didn’t work.

Jobs for the boys.

Frear?

I read somewhere he’s getting his op tomorrow.

Exactly this. Regardless of how minor the knee thing might seem to us, he hasn’t had a single injury issue in his short career and now has to have an operation on his knee for something he didn’t even know was there. He was a few minutes from guaranteed millions and now he needs to somehow focus on just being able to play this year. Seeing the Tanner situation play out can’t be encouraging either (Tanners injury may have been more serious, but he had issues arising from the op). I think he will get through this fine, and from the outside it seems the club is well equipped to support him through it, and he seems like a mature 19 year old. One question I have coming out of this is do clubs do these scans on healthy players to catch issues early, and if not, should they?

Not sure why anything that was said means he’s finished. He seems to be making progress, and the club says he’s close to full training, which only puts him a couple of weeks behind the rest fitness wise. Whether he gets his form and confidence back, and whether it affects his ability to play at the top level once fully fit, no one on here can possibly know at this point. So to say he’s done strikes me as being negative for no reason. Im proud to support a club that takes this kind of approach, taking care of a player who was injured on our watch. It is the right thing to do.

He’s not doing full training, but is making progress in that direction. Burrows said as much. He started running on grass just before the end of last season, and is kicking a ball now, so some progress, but after being out for nearly a year and a half it’s going to take time.

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That would be a crazy good outcome from this whole saga if he signed it.

And if we had all found out about the accepted bid from the papers first, and not the club, everybody would have been pissing their pants about lack of communication.

Mainly just shots at MFC for not knowing about the injury, or knowing but keeping it secret from “the boy”, and being tinpot because we don’t do comprehensive medicals at the end of every season. They definitely don’t know who he is and aren’t bothered in the slightest that they didn’t sign him, and are not spending their day being all knowing medical professionals on twitter.

Its going to be near impossible to offer him a new extended contract when he now knows exactly what he could have got elsewhere, and he was a bawhair away from getting it. Pretty sure like most 19 year olds he’d have had that money spent in his head already.

Im happy Celtic released a level headed account of things, but I’m sure their weirdo fans will find ways to read between the lines though. It also seems that most of the in the know folk actually know fuck all. It looks like if this transfer saga hadn’t started, Turnbull would have done pre season and played games with no knowledge of a potential knee problem, but now that something has been seen in the medical it can’t be unseen and we need to do something about it. so it looks like Turnbull may have dodged a bullet, and now just needs preventative work, when it could have been far worse at a later date. He will probably be gutted that the deal didn’t go through, but he’ll get his move soon enough. However, this is a bigger blow to us since there’s no way we sell him for what we wanted, since there’s little or no chance that someone is going to take him in January if he’s only just back from his op, then there’s only a year left and our negotiating position is weaker. kind of shit, but not really anything we can do about it. So let’s hope someone buys Kipre for 15m.

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Yep, if you listen to the commentary of the Livingston game backwards it all but confirms this.

A lot of assumptions being made here based on no credible information or quotes from anyone. Particularly since we now know the papers regularly just lift shite off of forums and twitter. If the “medical issue” is going to require an operation or him being out for months, there is no way Celtic take on that risk. Particularly since he won’t be going anywhere any time soon. If it is a relatively small issue then any discussions are probably about structuring the payments/add ons or insurance technicalities. It is also possible that this is all 100% bollocks too.

If he’s injured now, we just wait and sell him when he’s fit. (again, if true) this is a real test of whether the club can stand its ground or not.

If the above is true, and not just the papers printing something they read in a forum, I don’t see why we need to negotiate at this point. There is no rush to sell.

Right now I just want the money so we can all take turns diving into it. Like Hastie, he’s young enough and talented enough to recover from a couple of lucrative years in an OF reserve team if that’s what happens.

I was living in England at the time, so I’m interested to know what the general reception was at the time we signed Shaun McSkimming. He was our record signing at that point, right?

We need to ban the off-season.