Chris Killen For Celtic

Chris Killen For Celtic

We might finally get to see another Kiwi in the Champions League.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/c/celtic/6706603.stm

Could be good for NZ football. Nice forum by the way. I followed the old Knights one and this one since it started. Really impressive. Just lay off Jeremy Christie!!

Is this true?

This has just been on TV One Midday News, so I don't know the accuracy of this, there is no independent confirmation.

Yeh i just spotted it on the BBC website this morning. But the article isnt exactly overflowing with details...

Just heard it on Newstalk ZB as well.

From The Scotsman:

Celtic set to sign Killen as Cardiff miss out

EWING GRAHAME

CELTIC'S rebuilding programme continued last night as they moved to snap up Hibernian striker Chris Killen on a Bosman free transfer.

The New Zealand international was the Edinburgh club's top scorer with 15 goals from 24 appearances before a snapped Achilles tendon in a Scottish Cup tie at Aberdeen in January ended his season.

Cardiff City seemed certain to land his signature yesterday but Celtic manager Gordon Strachan moved in at the last minute to bolster the champions' squad.

Killen, who has 13 goals and 21 caps for the Kiwis, was signed from Oldham Athletic by former Hibs manager Tony Mowbray in January of last year.

He passed a medical in Glasgow last night and his arrival, along with the �750,000 signing of Scott McDonald from Motherwell, is likely to place a question mark over the future of Celtic strikers Kenny Miller and Maciej Zurawski.

Killen said recently he would have been content to remain at Easter Road but was offered only a one-year contract while recuperating from his injury and now rejoins former team-mates Scott Brown, Derek Riordan and Gary Caldwell at Celtic.

He had been expected to join Cardiff City and spoke on Monday in glowing terms about the Welsh club.

Killen said: "I've spoken to Cardiff and hopefully everything will be sorted this week. I still have my medical to come, but we have agreed personal terms. I want to be part of exciting times there.

"I came to Cardiff a couple of months ago and met the manager, players and staff, and liked what I heard. I saw the plans for the new stadium and the training ground, I want to be a part of those ambitious plans."

However, the player has had a change of heart and is set to remain in Scotland.

Hard News2007-05-31 14:22:39

Oh well thats another one lost by the Nix.

Realistically Killen was never going to come home... too much of a point to prove in the UK.

Have you been to Glasgow ?      

wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy he wont get any  game time but a good move for nz footy.

Brilliant for NZ football, and of course he will get game time. He might also be able to convince that other Kiwi playing for Celtic (that really young one) to play for the All Whites.

Who was the other Kiwi in the Champions League, was it Wynton Rufer? If Arsenal don't win the Champions League hopefully Celtic will. And I think we should lay off Jeremy Christie aswell, if he reads some of the comments on yellowfever about him it would be enough to make any player lose their confidence.

Danny Hay played at the Bernabeau for Leeds, Wynton was long gone by the time it became a league rather than the European Cup.

Prolific scorer.

As long as Killen stays injury free he should get game time, its not easy to find a prolific goal scorer, Celtic havn't had one since larsson. Until he got injured he was outscoring any of Celtics other strikers. Yeh its hard to believe now that Danny Hay once played Champions League football. 

 
M. Zurawski

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CelticFC2007-05-31 18:17:23

He should go back to Port Vale

Cheers, Hard News.

Who cares mate. If he can't handle it as a professional sportsman then he shouldn't be there. This is nothing compared to other parts of the world we should have the right to criticize who we want, when we want.

Hibs might even make it to CL /further stages of UEFA if Celtic stopped signing our players on Bosmans!!!

he'll get game time...proven goalscorer in the comp should mean he'll get reasonable amounts


on the note of it being hard to think of Hay playing Champions League i agree, its almost unbelievable now, but, look at the club; Leeds is really going somewhere

He'll get game time - especially in the SPL, where he is a proven performer. he was leading the golden boot race half way thru the season before he got injured - and that was with Hibs players around him - I'm sure he can do at least as well with the kind of service he can get at Celtic Park.

Narrow escape for Killen too, by all accounts.

Killen scored 15 goals in the league in a shortened season for Hibs. Celtics top scorer was Vennegoor who has been capped by Holland and was a part of the Dutch squad which featured at the 2006 World Cup. A title-winner and Champions League semi-finalist with PSV, the striker finished Celtic's double-winning season as top scorer with 18 goals, despite being hampered by injury.

Killen will play in the Premier league eventually only a matter of time noe.

Just because he is a professional sportsman doesn't mean he can cope better than everyone else when people are far too critical of his performances. I mean, don't get me wrong, criticism is necessary in some areas, but the amount of criticism he gets is ridiculous. Hopefully, if he has read some of the forums on yellowfever, he wont lose confidence, but rather have a point to prove in the A-League.

http://tribalfootball.com/article.php?id=41969




looks like he'll get a better chance of game time

beatie is off to the dons.. old news.

itz really good that chris killen is playing in celtic so people could no a nzder boy iz playing in good team

http://web.mlsnet.com/pdf/mls/2007/gameguides/07/asg_notes.pdf

Got a WEBCAST GUYS!!!

Good work. Phil Style.

Yeah hopefully he does get a run, he hasn't really had a chance in their friendlies so far.