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Unbearably tight managerial market, Kalju Nomme upset
Just when I forgot football was unpredictable, Estonians, Kalju Nomme, won in Montenegro to progress…
Bookings, injuries, tactics, fitness. Tomorrow night’s about everything apart from the result
I was away last week and missed the Rennes game, so I have that ‘Can’t…
Right back challenge
We can convince ourselves we have players who can fill the right back role, and…
Lennon luxury of sharpening next week
These games all seem simple the morning after they are completed, but that only happens…
Expect the manager and team to both be ready
It is time for our seasonal reminder: the first competitive fixture of a new season…
Olivier is only explaining the facts
There’s a good half dozen players I would expect to be agitating for a move…
Not all Celtic heroes wear hoops
In 1994, when the Bank of Scotland told Celtic they would not pay wages the…
Mbombo should be lower risk signing
With a raft of defenders leaving the club this summer, the rebuilding process has picked…
Compper, Boyata’s strike and Brendan’s recruitment
In 1998, MSV Duisburg sold Celtic 33-year-old Lubomir Moravcik. Yesterday, Celtic returned the favour by…
Celtic well below peak condition, Hibs and Best of the Rest title
With one week before Champions League qualification gets underway, Celtic play their third and final…
Substantially unlike Celtic
The statement from Bolton Wanderers joint administrator that Celtic agreed to pay “substantially more than…
Martin O’Neill: what went right?
If there is a hierarchy of Celtic royalty – those most of us would feel…
Shadow of Prodan, Jullien a different type of project
From what I see in photographs, Christopher Jullien, who completed his transfer to Celtic this…
Football bites you in the bum if you are not ready
I was a bit surprised so few first team players participated in the opening preseason…
Late developer Jullien, Turnbull and medicals
Toulouse central defender, Christopher Jullien, looks set to become Celtic’s first confirmed signing of the…
West Brom-Celtic row: it’s about Rekeem Harper, not Oli Burke
There is a subtext to the unedifying comments by West Bromwich Albion technical director, Luke…
We knew KT bids were coming
We have known bids would arrive for Kieran Tierney since shortly after he made his…
Transfer ‘saga’, David Murray vices, warlords and dafties
Signing players is easy, just ask anyone who has never done it. The selling club…
Better for both parties that Lustig moved on
Modest understatement: we got our money’s worth for the wages paid to Mikael Lustig, who…
Background on Shkendija and Kalju, Turnbull, another that got away
If Celtic overcome FK Sarajevo in the Champions League first qualification round they will face…
Sarajevo recent European history
Celtic will face FK Sarajevo in the first Champions League qualification round. Ties are subject…
Lowdown on Celtic’s potential Champions League opponents
Uefa were kind to Celtic with the Champions League first qualification round groupings. None of…
When close season is no more than a 3-week taper
If you are a distance runner, you will know that a three-week ‘taper’, when you…
Managerial appointments
Middlesbrough finished a point off the play-offs in the English Championship last season, which was…
Lustig, love and money
I think we all like Mikael Lustig. This week the defender spoke to the Norwegian…