Lennon Miller (18) How much would you pay?

[Espiritosanto]

To us punters what the club pays for any player doesn't affect us not I any roads.
I hope we sign him I think in time he can break through but if it's 4mill plus or 9mill plus I won't lose any sleep over it.

I’m the same mate!!no skin off my teeth…I’m saying celtic will not pay 7-10 million for any Scottish player…or will they pay 7-10 then lend him out to another Scottish or English club for experience ain’t gonny happen,,,a personally like Lennon miller….

 

[MartiMac]

I remember folk saying Ferguson wasn't good enough,now a respected player in a far better league with bigger clubs looking at him.Celtic will make a cunt of it again and offer peanuts or maybe offer nothing at all.All the best to the lad watever he chooses.

 

[The Shamrock]

Honest answer? I don't know because I haven't watched him play very much.

I'm going to annoy some of you by saying I don't know why we want to buy a kid who plays for Motherwell.

I think most players in the SPFL are nowhere near good enough to play for a side that's trying to make progress in the CL. Maybe he is good but maybe he's just made to look good because it is, after all, the SPFL.

I know we've had Greg Taylor who has been immense for us but how often was he castigated for not being CL material? And don't even get me started on Turnbull. I never thought he was Celtic class and it turned out he wasn't! Luke McCowan is a decent player but he has still to set the heather on fire, especially in Europe.

Having a pile of Scots lads at the club is fine but not at the expense of bringing in more talented players. I want Celtic to shoot for the moon and pick out several stars on the way.

 

[tommybhoy8881]

I think if he was Swedish or french etc and we seen the exact same footage of him then maybe we would all want him and we would pay decent amount
The fact that he’s Scottish will defo play a negative part sadly
Lewis Ferguson has been fantastic in Italy and now worth 20 million at least and look at Mcginn
Mcstay lambert brown mcgregor to name a few have all been our main midfielders since the 90s onwards and have all been Scottish
i would pay over the odds for him but I would give Motherwell what he’s worth in the current market and that’s anything between 6 to 10 million
Brown was nearly 5 million 18 years ago
Perfect replacement for McGregor in the next few years

 

[Magnificent 7]

Once again all this highlights to me is our own failure in youth development....why are we having to look at other clubs young talent in our own country.

I hear the argument constantly about the B league etc and that's fair enough ....but I have to say we do not give any of our young players any real opportunity of development or hope of making it in to the first team.

Brendan and a few before him bang on about Calmac Jamesy and Raldo as great examples...but they are looking more like a throwback to the past with every season that passes by.

The reality is Brendan like Ange before him is not promoting our own talent.....you can't tell me that we can't have at least one youth player on the bench every week especially given the increase in substitute numbers.

Ben Doak is a perfect example ....we only gave this bhoy a chance when we knew he was for the off.

How many games have we been winning by 4 or more in the league ....surely we need to be giving some young players a run out during that time....I've seen enough of McArdle Bonnar Frame Anderson & Murray to suggest they would merit some minutes to gain experience and feel they have a chance of a future with Celtic.

The life blood of Celtic has always had a core of our own in the ranks. Unless we address this it will become extinct ....stop the excuses and give our youth a chance.

 

[Gary67]

Once again all this highlights to me is our own failure in youth development....why are we having to look at other clubs young talent in our own country.

I hear the argument constantly about the B league etc and that's fair enough ....but I have to say we do not give any of our young players any real opportunity of development or hope of making it in to the first team.

Brendan and a few before him bang on about Calmac Jamesy and Raldo as great examples...but they are looking more like a throwback to the past with every season that passes by.

The reality is Brendan like Ange before him is not promoting our own talent.....you can't tell me that we can't have at least one youth player on the bench every week especially given the increase in substitute numbers.

Ben Doak is a perfect example ....we only gave this bhoy a chance when we knew he was for the off.

How many games have we been winning by 4 or more in the league ....surely we need to be giving some young players a run out during that time....I've seen enough of McArdle Bonnar Frame Anderson & Murray to suggest they would merit some minutes to gain experience and feel they have a chance of a future with Celtic.

The life blood of Celtic has always had a core of our own in the ranks. Unless we address this it will become extinct ....stop the excuses and give our youth a chance.

Youth development at Celtic is a box ticking exercise to maintain a UEFA licence. If we were serious about it we would have brought in the best youth coaches from across the continent to coach and develop the youngsters and not give coaching roles to ex players with no track record. We certainly would have binned the Head of Academy who has been in position for 15 years or so where we've produced 3 players of note.

 

[Magnificent 7]

Youth development at Celtic is a box ticking exercise to maintain a UEFA licence. If we were serious about it we would have brought in the best youth coaches from across the continent to coach and develop the youngsters and not give coaching roles to ex players with no track record. We certainly would have binned the Head of Academy who has been in position for 15 years or so where we've produced 3 players of note.

Doesn't make any sense to piss away so much money on projects in the transfer market when we don't see the best of our own as projects regardless of the calibre of McCart McManus Hayes McNally and the 25 other coaches in our development set up.
If your a good fitbaw player you will stand out ....surely we can't just pay lip service to the future...that's just nuts.
Complete overhaul of youth development required if that's the case .....I'll say it again where Is this new Football Doctor and what exactly is he doing ??

 

[Winter]

I remember folk saying Ferguson wasn't good enough,now a respected player in a far better league with bigger clubs looking at him.Celtic will make a cunt of it again and offer peanuts or maybe offer nothing at all.All the best to the lad watever he chooses.

On Ferguson mt, I wasn't one of them I always thought he could cut it, would've helped him had he not been played out of position often but that just showed versatility.
Gilmour is another who's now Italian league winner written off by many mostly Celtic fans for the obvious reasons but it's easy to forget regardless of how good players are here in Scotland, moving to the EPL is another level altogether where everyone is a top rate player, I see Mctominey and how he's not played as a DMF which he never was , apart from man utd know better than everyone else obviously.
Set free of those shackles, originally for Scotland and suddenly were looking at a world class AMF who scores for fun internationally and in a top 5 league.

Too much is made imo of " he played for Celtic, played for sevco , he's not all that" by our own fans when they really should be getting thr plaudits they deserve.

 

[Winter]

If we were to sign Lennon Miller, and I don't think we will, then it won't be to loan back out for a season. If he was to sign it would be as a first team squad player for Celtic, playing around 30+ games for us. If we were to say to him we'll buy you then loan you out why would sign? He'll have offers to go straight into the first teams both down south and abroad. Whilst we are run by footballing dinosaurs there are many teams across the continent who are totally driven by data when it comes to signings, Lennon Miller is in the top 10% in Europe on all measurable matrices for 18 year old midfielders.
I doubt we've even approached Motherwell but we should do it now and if a deal can be done, do it. If not, wish the boy all the best and move on.

Aye bang on mt, for Miller I he signed , and personally I think it could happen but it won't be to be loaned out.
Why would he want any of that?
If he couldn't break into the side as it is what would make him believe he could in a seasons time when by then we've reinforced again?
He's going to be all in or not at all , the former I hope, for how much I could care less, it affects my life in no way whatsoever if Celtic spent £20 million on him , we will spend thereabouts or more anyway , just give Motherwell £15 million plus 30% sell on clause and in doing so we positively effect the sale value of other Scottish players .
Actually perhaps the rainjuirs, being the bigger and richest most succesful klub could set the precedent, seeeing as they've not set any since formation.
Though they will likely have to sell their squad just to sign their B team to pro contracts

 

[50 Shades of Green]

If anyone thinks Lennon M wouldn't break into our midfield, then what chance has he got down South of breaking into one of they teams mids..

Buy him and try him, thats what we should be doing (if Brendan wants him that is).

 

[Shadow2]

Given the noises that have been coming from his camp for a long while now (including from his auld man) the boy will only go to a club that offers him first team football, not mere inclusion in the first team squad/sub appearances and the like, but as a regular first team starter.

Not seen enough of him to comment on his worth BUT the bottom line is if Celtic/BR don't see him starting every week then we could bid £20m and it wouldn't make any difference....the boy wants to play regular first team football not to sit on a bench getting 20mins here and there and if that's all that's on offer for him at Celtic then he ain't signing with us!

 

[Fisiani]

Lennon Millar would well be an asset to Celtic.
We could lose Reo Hatate and so we need another midfielder.
I'd love to see him join us.

 

[Winter]

I don’t know what it is with Celtic and young Scottish talent we don’t give young ones a game
Lennon miller is better off going to Italy than join us unless he’s promised game time and not last ten min of a game every few weeks

Really good point tommybhoy we have equally or more talented youngsters at the club who can't get near our first team.

 

[Bridie Bhoy]

Really good point tommybhoy we have equally or more talented youngsters at the club who can't get near our first team.

I'm not sure we could honestly say we have equally or more talented youngsters than Lennon Miller at Celtic. I agree that we don't give them a chance and believe we should have 1 or 2 subs out of the 9 for the best youth prospects in most league games.

I think McCardle is probably more talented but that is just a small part of what is required to play at the top (and I think he will). But he has only been allowed a few minutes cameo in a nothing at stake game whereas Miller has played 76 first team games for Motherwell and been their best player for most of these games.

I think him and Watson from Killie are the best young players in the Premiership not at Parkhead. I truly believe Miller can be mentored by CalMac as Broony helped him become the legend he is now. But he will also contribute significantly from day 1 and has proven himself at being skillful and offering a toughness in the middle of the park that we do not currently possess.

For clarity, I wanted to buy him last summer and lend him back to Motherwell for last season. If we buy him now then we won't be loaning him out now he has another season's development under his belt.

 

[Gary67]

Lennon Miller the stand out player for Scotland against Liechtenstein. Playing as the more attacking of the central midfield duo.

 

[tommybhoy8881]

I rate miller more than gilmour at that age
Billy is good but highly over rated
I would buy miller he’s the best young midfielder in the league and will go to Italy one day for big money hopefully after a few seasons in the hoops

 

[tommybhoy8881]

after the 80s when loads of players from around the world started to join Celtic we have always had one stand out midfielder that was Scottish and hopefully that stays the same as it’s important
If miller was English the board would pay for him that’s the sad thing
But I wouldn’t blame miller if he said no as we are terrible with young Scottish talent

 

[Richybhoy]

When was the last time (if ever) a teenager held down a regular starting place in the Celtic midfield?

 

[AllyBhoy]

When was the last time (if ever) a teenager held down a regular starting place in the Celtic midfield?

Problem as far as I can see with youth academy, coaches not good enough to bring the young bhoys to the level required. Needs a complete overhaul of staff and coaches.

 

[AllyBhoy]

Lennon Miller the stand out player for Scotland against Liechtenstein. Playing as the more attacking of the central midfield duo.

Good young player Gary . He want Land with us