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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They surely must play every team at least once at Hampden or it gives an unfair advantage to the teams who play them at Hampden and not Ibrox. Why are clubs not complaining about this?
new article posted.
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