Celtic made the first significant spend of the Ange Postecoglou and Dom McKay era yesterday by splashing £3.5m on Israeli winger, Liel Abada. The 19-year-old has made 48 career starts and 19 substitute appearances in senior football, all for Maccabi Petah Tikva.
After Liam Shaw (20) and Osaze Urhoghide (21 this month) joined from Sheffield Wednesday for training compensation fees, Abada’s signing is further indication that Celtic are intent on developing a team, rather than attempting to buy finished articles (like the definitely finished Shane Duffy). Two years from now, we should see the benefits of this approach, but as you know, there is a lot of football to be played before then.
What can you tell about a player who has played as few games as Liel, all of them in Israel? Israeli football is not a backwater, it is strong enough to test a teenage talent but the volume written about 48 starts will be a short book. With added travel restrictions, we can be sure he has not been watched often.
We are in familiar territory in signing players after so few appearances. Virgil van Dijk made 63 starts before signing for Celtic. Since then, the window before players with speculative potential reach eye-watering prices has shrunk. If we left Liel another year, we may find his progressed stalled, or that he has moved out our price range. We are going to kiss a lot of frogs when shopping in this sector, which is OK.
I had hoped Leigh Griffiths would remain at Celtic this season and was pleased when he signed a new one-year deal earlier this month – what feels like a long time ago. For me, yesterday’s news that he will not face criminal proceedings does not restore his position as a Celtic player. Better for all that he finds a new club as soon as possible.
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the italian f.a. are banning teams from wearing green strips from next year in response to tv companies saying they clash with the pitch colour
i would think the scottish f.a. will be looking on that with glee and inviting sky and bbc to make similar complaints
though going by the state of some of the pitches in scotland it is brown strips that would need banned
Have we signed the Swedish centre back Starfelt(SP)?
I thought his medical was the final piece?
No?
Oh and welcome to our new Japanese striker.
He looks the part.
The future of midfielder Ryan Christie, who is out of contract in January, remains unclear and the Scotland international has attracted interest from Saudi Arabia.
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Brilliant.
Signings so far a bit meh….I want to see this guy playing 👍
Big Jimmy Where is the pub all the Bhoys are heading to.
Someone mentioned about the Huns paying £1 million for a player ,let’s all be positive on here forget about them ,our focus should be all things Celtic🪀🪀🪀🪀🪀🪀🪀🪀🪀
Timbhoy2 – The Shipbank in the saltmarket
D :)
Chairbhoy
“Kris Ajer was not an unknown quantity from an unfancied league, far from it – Martin Ødegaard, Kris’s contemporary, had every major Club looking at him.”
So long as we don’t have a shared workable definition of what constitutes Celtic’s Moneyball approach, we will never be able to assess its successes or failures. I provided mine- relatively unfancied young players from less overfished markets and Kris fits that definition on all 3 counts, especialy age. Denying this because Martin Odegaard was sought after seems a strange way to refute. We did not buy Martin Odegaard because Real and others were in for him. We did buy Kris because Real and others were not interested.
If you don’t define your terms, then you can just attribute all the successful projects to the “Tried, Tested and Traditional Pre-Lawwell” approach and all the duds whether they be Amido Balde or Freddie Lljungberg as Moneyball
This Japanese signing just shows that Lawwell is in the building and still in control of signings
We are still buying Duhan duds and Japanese projects just as we did with Nakamura and er Mizuno. I bet we get a Man City reserve next- it’s all so predictable
Why don’t we try the untapped markets and get a goalie from Goa, defenders from Djibouti, midfielders from Mongolia or Fijian forwards.
Me and my wife and my dug could run this better😉
I see the B Team and Ghirls team will be playing at Airdrie Stadium,Whats happened to Barrowfield I thought it was going to be upgraded or is it just spin,For being a Billionaire Dermot Desmond doesn’t seem to put much of his cash into our club,and the money Lawell has earned could have been reinvested into Barrowfield,The New Ticket ,Office Musiem etc.
SFTB – the dug would do all right on its own.
Deniabhoy
The dug is, unfortunately, imaginary.
The wife has a veto on them
Dont start on Dugs.
We will have talking Dugs on soon and they luv ya tae bits.
D :)
lol David66
mentioning Big Jimmys nemesis
ye old bank for ships.
https://www.theglasgowstory.com/image/?inum=TGSB00078
TB2 @ 11.44
Regarding the lack of facilities’ for the Women’s team / B team — surely that would have been a good use for the SG low interest rate cash that was on offer earlier in the year?
We didn’t need to use the cash directly for this but the extra liquidity would have helped to allow it to happen.
Short sighted again from the business brain that is PL.
SFTB – I am collecting our new Shiba Inu puppy at the end of this month.
A lovely medium-sized breed from Japan, and one of the most ancient breeds of dog in the world.
new article posted.