In a world where Oh Hyeon-gyu is worth £3.5m, Adam Idah is worth significantly more. The players were born 61 days apart and have made vastly different impacts at Celtic. Oh travelled to Europe as a 21-year-old and clearly took time to settle, but you could make youthful excuses for Adam, if his stay in Glasgow had not been so spectacularly successful.
Caveat: notices of interest in a player is not always carried through, but if Genk are keen, £3.5m is right in their sweet spot.
I enjoy international tournaments. The Olympics are great, the Euros are better and the World Cup is best. But is it not easier when you don’t have to worry about scores? You and I look at football through the lens of people who expect to win almost all the time. This presents a cognitive challenge when supporting anyone with a lower win profile.
So officially, “I’m not bothered” about results.
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TOM MCLAUGHLIN on 14TH JUNE 2024 6:21 PM
MORAVCIK
I trust you’ll put your knitting down to watch the game.
Tom,
Do you knit ?
Have you ever been in a knitting bee ?
Strange subject to bring to a Celtic blog, if you want to talk about knitting, maybe take yourself somewhere else.
Expected Germany to win tonight. Just not this easily, this early.
not an easy listen bsr
Tony Ralston struggling – but he’s not the only one
Penalty to Germany
‘I’ll be honest’ – hilarious from swally
Outside the box
Andrich is a bit of a hun!
We broke in numbers for the first time there but the midfielders breaking stopped at the halfway line and tried a long punt up to Adams- don’t think the German CBs have been troubled at all
This game is just like the normal type at Celtic Park. I wouldn`t be amazed if Germany don`t score a third goal.
Penalty and porteous off
Is that the guy who played for Hibs?
Pen and red- don’t think that would happen with a German defender- even if it’s technically right
Porteous should get arrested
“HOT SMOKED on 14TH JUNE 2024 8:39 PM
This game is just like the normal type at Celtic Park. I wouldn`t be amazed if Germany don`t score a third goal.”
Well, I`m not so sure Celtic would have been given a penalty for that !!
This could be embarrassing for Scotland.
Turns out that those of us who predicted 3:0 to Germany- were also too optimistic
Should have gone for the 0-0
Shocking lunge from porteous and where did scotland get this goalkeeper, the whole midfield is crap and there nothing going forward
Take no pleasure in saying it but I said earlier that it would be 3,4 or 5 .Now it may be more
Huge gulf in class
That was me. Didn’t expect it at the end of the first half!
This is a tough watch , we are miles behind in every respect
Deary me.Auld dour faced Clark should be hung for this embarrassment.At Glasgow Cross.Oops soryy,the Gibbet was broken by Celtic fans celebrating.”Hang him from the Reichstag”,was the cry,pesky Fenians.
Just shows you how crucial a good keeper and centre halves are in order to compete at the top level.
The guy in goal looks as good as Barkas and the centre halves can’t play with the ball at their feet.
When non alcoholic beer won’t cut it.
Should have started 5-4-1
Clarke got his tactics all wrong right from the start too much space in front of the defence and behind some kind of midfield line-up, not sure what it was. Would have been better with a more defensive midfield set-up with an occasional break. Completely out thought and outplayed by Germany, could hardly string two passes together. And as for Porteous, what was he even doing on the pitch, a disaster waiting to happen.
And it happened
Gene
Yip, is that panel blaming Calmac for the other goal 🫣
When we said we wanted toake history – not sure this is what we meant
Germany are the first team to score three goals in the first half of a Euros group stage game since France in 1984 when they notched the same number against Belgium.
Why is Tony Ralston getting the blame from Keane for their first goal? Why would you expect your right wing back to defend a shot from just outside the centre of the box? Tony got the blame because he was the only one who spotted the danger and tried to get there- leaving the spot he should be occupying in an organised defence
Prestonpans
Turned it over till the second half kicks off
A better GK saves first goal,McTominay nowhere near fit,cant get out our own half,Porteous reverts to Hibs stuff
As we have learnt in European competition, Callum McGregor is not good enough as the holding midfielder at this level.
The U.S. open is suddenly much more appealing .
Hanley on- Che Adams off- that’s Craig Levein type thinking
Well,got a lift back home.,Awrabest in the second haulf Scotland.
:-(:-(.
Ralston definitely struggling. Not the only one though.
If you leave their wife men in oceans of space even I could pick them out never mind Kroos