The Cynic Weekly – 28.01.2026
The Cynic | A Celtic FC Podcast
Christopher Gallagher
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🗓️ 28 January 2026
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Barry is joined by Stuart and Gall as they sit down and discuss the current state of play at Celtic.
We discuss the draw with Hearts and what that means for our push for the league, as well as the key incidents from the game.
We cover all the recent transfer links and what we think Celtic will do between now and the end of the window.
We talk about the strengths and weaknesses of the squad and look ahead to the game against Utrecht in the Europa League.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Cynic Weekly on Wednesday the 28th of January 2026. |
| 0:27.9 | I'm your host Barry Galaher. |
| 0:29.7 | And as always, I'm joined by my good friend, Stuart Dugan. |
| 0:32.0 | Stuart, how the hell are you? |
| 0:33.3 | Good, Barry. |
| 0:34.0 | How are you? |
| 0:35.1 | Very well, thanks. |
| 0:36.3 | I didn't mean to back that one back to you straight away. I know you put me off guard. I panicked. It was like on Saturday when anyone passed the ball and he thought, I don't want it. Just get rid. Kick it long. Kick it long. Apologies. And also joining us this week is our gallant leader, Christopher Galaher. |
| 0:56.3 | Gail, thank you for being a panelist this week. |
| 0:58.2 | Thank you. |
| 0:58.7 | Thank you for inviting me. |
| 1:00.8 | It's always good to step into the guest panel spot. |
| 1:05.0 | It was, of course, Sunday. |
| 1:06.4 | The game was Stuart, not Saturday. |
| 1:09.0 | I was just building on the bit that it was a bad touch. Yeah. Riddled with errors. I mean, that's the beginning of this podcast, a bad touch. Off to a bad start. Thank you, Barry, though. It's a pleasure to be here. No, I'm died to dab you. So we'll get straight into our opening question. GAL will come to you first. So as we know, |
| 1:30.9 | the transfer window seems to be an open for an eternity. It's amazing how an action can make it |
| 1:38.1 | feel longer. But how many players do you think we need in to make you more confident of winning the league? And then the second part of the question is how many players do you think we need in to make you more confident of winning the league |
| 1:45.2 | and then the second part of the question is how many do you actually think we will get |
| 1:49.5 | this has been a question I've been stewing on this all afternoon |
| 1:53.2 | it's it's one where I think there's a number of different answers |
| 1:58.1 | obviously the window I think I think Celtic will do answers. Obviously, the window, I think, I think Celtic |
| 2:01.6 | will do business as the kind of window closes down. So, you know, we've got the game on Sunday, |
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