Sky Sports reports that Celtic have agreed terms with Benfica for Paulo Bernardo and with Aston Villa for goalkeeper Viljami Sinisalo are both encouraging. Both players are 22 years old and well within the ‘young prospect’ category. News of Kasper Schmeichel’s impending arrival caused concerns that Brendan had navigated away from our developmental strategy.
Sinisalo is a full Finland cap and made 50 appearances for third-tier Exeter City last term. That’s too much of a gap to bridge to Champions League level, but enough to establish the player’s credentials.
We are unlikely to learn the full details of the deal with Benfica for Paulo in the short term. After successful experience with both clubs with Jota, Benfica will surely want a large cut of any resale value for a player who is already a regular in the Celtic team.
We are still filling in the gaps created at the end of last season but these deals would represent solid progress before the start of the season.
This morning’s news that Gareth Soutgate has resigned as England manager will remind you that last year a leading Scottish newspaper, found someone prepared to say Michael Beale was “nailed on” to become England manager and that he could lead them to World Cup glory. This is the world in which we try to achieve objective football comment.
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that is celtic , runn by bean counters, any reasonable club with all that money in the bank would accept Juve offer now and let matt go from his hell in glasgow
Mr Taximan
Are you a hun? :-))
A purely speculative essay.sources please for every number you type
Are many of Celtics transfer dealing carried out in the back of your taxi,dont think so.
There is enough speculation/? in your post before your ‘for arguements sake’ diversion to ifs buts and maybe as to how Celtic carry out transfer business.
HH
Reggie
““Day one, he met us in Newton Abbot at 5am in the morning in the gym and he was the first one in, he showed what he is all about as a person and human being”
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FFS- in the gym at 5 am
The boy will be too knackered to keep goal at 3 pm- he’ll be sleeping by the 2nd half😀
Did Caldwell give us the heids up ?
SETTING FREE THE BEARS FOR RES. 12 & OSCAR KNOX on 16TH JULY 2024 3:44 PM
If we sign a few first team players hopefully we’ll be 3 up by then…
5am in finland is actually 7am so it is just the time difference kicking in, and jet lag.
Thank you to each and every one of you for your lovely comments re my dads passing and being brought up in Celtic! Really enjoyed reading about Spurs match that Big Jimmy failed to win!!!!! Over 90000 at a friendly, wow!
Jimmy, My youngest son Tyler (12) has a similar record. 14 matches so far (12 last season) with 12 wins and 2 draws, one of which was Athletico Madrid so not bad! Hopefully he will keep his fantastic unbeaten record this season. We will sadly miss Flag day as its my dads months mind
That’s the things about development players – you hope they develop into first teamers sooner rather than later. With Bernardo we should be signing a guy who is a first team pick, not a bit part player.
The second season does need to show that sort of progress, like it did with Edouard, Frimpong, Ajer and O’Riley
GREENGRAY1967 on 16TH JULY 2024 3:56 PM
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Cheers mate.
MON the TYLER BHOY !
HH.
GREENGRAY1967 on 16TH JULY 2024 3:56 PM
Sorry for your loss. May your Dad RIP
I asked a Dalek what the capital of Devon was.
he said
EXETER MATE!! EXETER MATE!!
Hope everyone’s having a good time on The Glesga fair.
Just a wee note… if your thinking of going to Saturn don’t bother…..mate of mine went a few weeks ago and found he couldn’t even walk on the surface, what a sad excuse of a planet ! ……Fekin Saturn !!
Have we signed ambdy yet ?
BOURNESOUPRECIPE on 16TH JULY 2024 1:47 PM
Just got arrested in Asda, Toryglen.
I forgot to pay for helium balloons at the self checkout! daft me! Police came, held me for a while, then they let me go!
The Big Jimmy jokes book 👍
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😂😂😂
My mate worked in a helium factory; spoke very highly of it
I went to a TRAMPOLINE Club last night……I didn’t get in……… as the place was JUMPIN !
LOL
HH
Jokes about helium go over my head.
All the good jokes Argon
But that was a Noble attempt
He He He
Assuming O’Reilly goes; this is the team and subs if the league was to start right now
Schmeichel ( Finnish lad)
Johnston (Ralston) CCV(Lagerbielke) Scales (Nawrocki) Taylor ( )
Bernardo ( ) McGregor (Iwata) Hatate (Holm )
Kuhn (Forrest) Kyogo ( ) Maeda (Palma)
My biggest fear last year was injury to O’Reilly as we had no back up. Now we have a bigger issue. I have Holm in there but Rodgers didn’t seem to fancy him last year. Striker and left back have been discussed but RM has been bugging me for a while
There are some Noble gases I can’t get on with.
I think I may be Xenon-phobic
Some people think filling animals with helium is wrong…
I don’t judge. Whatever floats your goat.
Strangely
Saturn is made up of a mixture of Hydrogen and Helium….
So my mate says !!
McPhailbhoy
Was there much disappointment bout the town after Sundays showing?
Bad goal to loose
Poor 2nd half shooting imo
Well we got further than i thought we would
HH
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GSm-XS0W4AAABoT?format=jpg&name=large
Welcome to Viljami Sinisalo.
Why are some folks getting all excited at Matt O’Riley being on the flight to USA?
Why wouldn’t he be?
The £6m loan-to-buy price for Paulo Bernardo is pure media fiction. Neither Celtic nor Benfica disclosed the fee at any time.
As the player was under contract to Benfica until 2027, there was no rush for Celtic to sign him until this week, prior to heading off to America.
It made no sense for Celtic to sign him early and thereby pay him thousands of pounds a week to go on holiday during the close season.
All this nonsense about Celtic trying to negotiate £6m down to half of that is the media covering their arses to justify their earlier false claims.
If that were the case, Benfica would have been within their legal rights to cancel the loan-to-buy option and sell him to the highest bidder.
Are we to believe Celtic told Benfica — We’re not paying the 6 million. It’s too much.
And Benfica said — Aye ok. Much can you afford?
Pure fantasy.
Good evening all from the Victoria Bar. I’ve got a great joke for you bhoys. The hun.
I thank you.
Have the celts arrived yet
Jeez with all the terrible things going on in the world atm……….they’re still bleeting over engerlund.
Tbh they are not very good for all of the entitlement
Any news re. Adam ?
HH
Timforlife
https://thecelticstar.com/photo-adam-idahs-cryptic-instagram-post-amid-celtic-links/
“News of Kasper Schmeichel’s impending arrival caused concerns that Brendan had navigated away from our developmental strategy.”
Why would anyone think that? Player development is the heart-blood of a Club like Celtic…
Getting a quality experienced keeper with a high potential understudy is just very good recruitment 101
Maybe some ate learning something about Brendan Rodgers
Heard he can walk and chew gum anaw’
Who knew eh!!
Great to see Bernardo signed
BTW Oor Matt’s going nowhere…
Hail Hail ~ More Celts are here!!
he is an american idiot.
what famous wealthy scots descendants are in usa ? john dutton ? trump ? hamish carnegie , he supports dunfermline right ?
| Wealthy Scots in the US wanted to buy Rangers
Scott Galloway, speaking on the Diary Of A CEO podcast:
“I got together the wealthiest, most famous Scottish people in the US, about 14 of us, and said lets go buy Rangers FC.
“I had it all figured out, then a friend of mine who is a famous Scottish historian said ‘you’d be the most hated person in the UK, you know nothing about football, you’d be some American idiot over there’ and I was like yeah you’re right.”
“I had it all figured out, then a friend of mine who is a famous Scottish historian
who proffesor devine ?
If he was that keen, but fearful of the PR all he had to do was speak to the Daily Record, who would go on to brand the spiv who eventually bought them for a quid as a “billionaire”.
What a lot of tosh.
SAINT STIVS on 16TH JULY 2024 6:25 PM
“I had it all figured out, then a friend of mine who is a famous Scottish historian
who proffesor devine ?
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That’s exactly who I thought. A couple of hours still, I think, until we land in Washington (figuratively speaking) 😁. 38c there 😎
SAINT STIVS on 16TH JULY 2024 6:22 PM
he is an american idiot. what famous wealthy scots descendants are in usa ? john dutton ? trump ? hamish carnegie , he supports dunfermline right ?
*well carnegie is still well revered as a philanthropist, dutton isnae a real person lol, as for tangerine heid, he NEVER mentions his scattish roots but seemingly is proud of his 3rd reich ones
TT..AU CONTAIRE.
the donalds lackeys were never done promoting his old mammies mcleaod roots on the isle of skye, i think you can event rent the former family bothy up there.
he also owns that golf course up north and turnburry,
owns is a lose term, for the accountants.
is joohn dutton not real, ffs, i have been watching that documentary about yellowstone an awe, was his ancesters not ulstur scutts.