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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Even across the pond the villany and hate of the toilet bowl drinkers is legendary
So much so it stops them being invested in, just because
‘you’d be the most hated person in the UK, you know nothing about football, you’d be some American idiot over there’
Look across the city……
In our time of need, we got the bunnet
And he flourished
feck the huns
and their stories….
meanwhile,
i came through cnetral station around 8pm last night, there was a lot of toursits, a group of yanks came off the largs trains, they all looked retired wealthy people, all wearing similar gaudy golfy type outfits, like the american scutts in the chewing the fat schteches,
but what peaked my quizzical eyebrow was one of them wearing a fecking MAGA cap, seriously,
anyways. another day closer.
i have often pondered, what does the kkk members wear under those hooded robes ,,,,,,,, maybe band uniforms.
CHAIRBHOY on 16TH JULY 2024 5:59 PM
“Why would anyone think that?“
Perhaps because you were saying we’d done exactly that yourself
SAINT STIVS on 16TH JULY 2024 6:47 PM
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,
*Oh I know he’s desperate for the Open tae be plated there, his grampa was thrown out of the fatherland for jookin the draft hmmm, he came to the klondyke ran a house of ill repute, made a scheidt load of money then returned back home only tae be stripped of his citizenship, seems like clone of opa.
Brendan can run two different strategies concurrently
What a guy!
CLUNKS on 16TH JULY 2024 6:48 PM
The Bunnet is Canadian and before pouring his well earned wealth intae us h made sure his mother and sister would be able to live in good standing in Arizona
stivs
kkk y-fronts?
Tontine
Yeah I know…
I was meaning to look at the difference in supporters and their expectations.
CHAIRBHOY
You cant have it both ways.
Give Brendan credit for changing course after sackings and new roles and appointments, then give him credit for his work with the strategy he’s tried to change.
I did expect and about face when we started signing young players this Summer but not this quickly and so soon after being so critical of the signing policy.
I expect more gymnastics over the next 6 weeks
My fond farewell to the England Men’s National Team Head Coach, Gareth Southgate, from the green side of Old Kilpatrick on the north bank of the Clyde –
So long and thanks for all your pish
CELTIC40ME @ 6:55 PM,
No I didn’t
And if I did you could show me exactly where couldn’t you?
Your arguments are getting more puerile with every passing turn.
When Paul jumps the shark, he knows he’s shark jumping…
Don’t take it so serious
And for goodness sake, don’t try to defend it…
Hail Hail
a question,
who realistically are clubs open to ffer for ex celtcs that will attract a sell on fee to us.and what value might they be ?
eddie at palace
kieren at arsenal
frimpong at leverkusen.
ajer at brentford.
jots at al alli al all
christie ?
could we earn more in sell ons than selling ?
If, as we’re often told on here, Celtic are a laughing stock and distrusted for their low-ball approach to making a bid for players, how do we reconcile the cognitive dissonance in seeing this approach being take towards us by Atalanta, who are also presented to us as the type of modern , ambitious, holistic creative and (insert any boastful adjective of choice) club that we should aspire to be.
saint stivs @ 6.50
Thats no the American toorists….
That’s the gowfers
I thought Frimpong might have interested the higher up English clubs as, for European football purposes, he is classed as a homegrown player.
Man City, for instance, struggle to meet the quota … and, to me, Kyle Walker doesn’t look like he’s got much left in the tank.
Hibs v Queens Park Premier Sports 7.45 if you’re bored
SETTING FREE THE BEARS FOR RES. 12 & OSCAR KNOX
It will always be this way
We do not control the media
And infact we have a hostile media, set to belittle and undermine our business
Problem is
“Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth”,
The media in this country are no friends of ours and continuously undermine our business strategy
Meanwhile, the huns can do no wrong
Despite being bankrupt and having to start again
No coffin was sent to the toiletbowl
It was always and will always be thus
Too many of our support buy into the lies the media spout, due to
“Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth”,
GREENGRAY1967
Condolences on the loss of your father.
Welcome to Celtic Viljami Sinasolo
https://www.celticfc.com/news/2024/july/16/welcome-to-celtic-viljami-sinisalo/
The Donald’s mother, Mary Anne Macleod was from the Isle of Lewis not Skye. She left for the US at 17-18
The Donald has visited her family home in Tong, Lewis, lot of family connections still there.
There are of course MacLeods on Skye, but we dont talk about them…
!!BADA BING!! @ 8:10 PM,
Great news, we are really squad building now…
“Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers said: “I am delighted to welcome Vil to Celtic. He is a keeper with real qualities and someone we have been aware of and monitored for some time.
“Clearly we have been looking to develop our goalkeeping team and we are really pleased to have secured one of the talented keepers we really wanted.”
Good luck Vil, long term Celt
Hail Hail
Clunks
It’s a given that the media will talk them up and talk us down
But I was referring to our own on here who describe Celtic as a disgrace and a laughing stock for negotiating in the same way every club and business does i.e. getting what you want at the lowest price you can cinch the deal and walking away when the price becomes too rich for your pockets.
Anyway – some thoughts on engerlund
gareth southgate is a gent
I like the players in the team
What some of the players in the team have championed is amazing
They have quality ; so much so that they’ve made serious progress in every recent championship
They have great players
Their great players can do amazing things
their great players can’t do what the big big team’s great players can do
their great players can’t manipulate and dominate a championship ( I’m thinking modric).
their great payers are isolated
My breakdown is –
they’re hamstrung between
english football history, culture, roy of the rovers, have a right go, fast and loud
and
the epl bloatfest has improved the footie, the footballer, the tactics, controlling the ball, game intelligence
to the pint that the the footballer has been coached out of the football
oops – to the point
Evening all.
Welcome Vil.
A wee bit of Dave Allen.
Dave Allen on Religion
https://youtu.be/jxo81Ok9Urk?si=CUWDc6Pkn–waa6X
Nite y’all
Early rise
HH
Brian
SFTB
“Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth”
This is the problem
we are constantly exposed to the SMSM pish and it leaches in
as Celtic keep their business to themselves
And the SMSM dont get briefed on what to say (and wouldnt say it anyways)
The lack of info and PR coming from Celtic is easy to subvert by continually talking pish
He is a keeper with real qualities and someone we have been aware of and monitored for some time.
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so we are expected to believe that the celtic analytics and sport scientist and football coaches actually work on this stuff and identify a conveyor belt of assets withou a director football.
aye right. everyone knows peter wanted this fella.
fool me with multi millions in pounds of sales every season and shame on you.
anyways he should have been signed the first day of the window, brendan hamsrung again with one hand tied behind his back and wearing a blindfold
telling the time by dave allen , belmontbrian – f amazing
JACKIEMAC on 16TH JULY 2024 8:28 PM
Good analysis. And I agree.
Gareth Southgate had to go. Ultimately he failed.
He failed because he used outdated, negative tactics.
If he had optimised his squad , employed modern attacking methodology things could have been so different for him.
They were very fortunate to get to the final, he never learned the lesson.
HH.
An Tearmann
Only seeing your question now, sorry. I suppose disappointment now but before the League started few would have thought Donegal would get to the semifinals.
Young team who will get better
Welcome to Celtic Viljami
Hope he gets some game time in USA ..might be better if he doesn’t play against Chelsea on 27th July though as it’s Unikeonpäivä……… and we all know what that means!,
No more remarks saying John Dutton was not a real person.His daughter,who haunts my dreams,I can assure you is very lively 😍
Rips my lovely crochet work to read people saying” The arrival of Bernardo and Idah,only keeps us as we were last season,they are not new additions,we still need to spend money”So the probable spend of £10 million does not count?.Everything is so wrong with that theory in so many ways,least of all the excellent chance to try before you buy.