[Albion] Shane Duffy risks losing his place in the Ireland team...

Mustafa said:

Let's be honest, it is a silly move for his international ambitions.

... but he's already achieved anything it's possible to achieve for Ireland.

So if it's more important to him to win silverware with one of his boyhood clubs, then that's fair enough really.

That all said, they'll probably still pick him for every game.

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Bozza said:

...as he's now playing at pub football level.

Gary Breen isn't impressed by Duffy's move north of the border and feels it could have negative impact on his career.

Celtic new boy Shane Duffy has been warned he risks losing his place in the Ireland team because he’s playing in Scotland.

The defender scored on his debut for the Hoops at Ross County but former Republic of Ireland star Gary Breen has concerns over his level.

Breen - who earned 63 caps for his country - believes Duffy will get into double figures for goals this season because of who he is up against, but insists he won’t be tested at all.

And he’s sensationally claimed that not a single striker in the Scottish Premiership would get into an English Premier League team.

He told Off The Ball: “If he doesn't score double figures, I'll be amazed."​

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/shane-duffy-fired-celtic-warning-22674379

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dangull said:

Before the Premier league took off, Celtic were good enough to reach a UEFA Cup final in 2003 beating Blackburn and Liverpool along the way. Rangers achieved the same feat in 2008

It seems to me we have have become quite arrogant since we have been pumped with loads of money.

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vagabond said:

You must be young “before the Premier League took off in 2003”.

I can assure you the PL was massive in the 90s.

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dangull said:

Yeah, but it took a few years before the financial gap widened.

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beorhthelm said:

will be tested more at Celtic than on the bench at Brighton.

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Bevendean Hillbilly said:

I’ll bet that Graham Potter makes them all sit there doing Soduko and algebra tests with all his fancy arsed sports psychology mumbo jumbo. That’s likely why Big Shane has fecked off to Glasgow. He’s shit at sums and ink blot tests.

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Swansman said:

With consistent CL play and good youth academies the difference would not have to be as big as it is, but both Rangers and Celtic decided to self-destruct (to different extent) instead.

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dangull said:

Rangers self destruction was from their boardroom spending money they couldn't pay back. Celtic's disappointing results in Europe comes from a lack of competition in their league in my opinion.

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ATFC Seagull said:

From an Irish perspective I've said this from day one. Especially in light of how we played in the two recent nations league games, we need Duffy to have the two games of his life next month if we're going to the Euros.

His preparation for those games will have been Ross County, St Mirren, Livingstone, a Europa League side (could be quite a decent one actually), Hibs and St Johnstone.

If he'd gone to West Ham or West Brom, he'd have been preparing by playing against some of the top strikers in the world. You know with Duffy you're going to get an absolute beast physically and a 100% attitude. Just need him to be as sharp as possible.

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